Week 3and4, John Maynard Smith

I didn't find this film interesting at all only because I had adifficult time understanding Mr. Smith and also the topic of Evolution does not interest me much. He did state that after reading Darwin'spieces in school, he changed his beliefs in religion and he states thatit was an "escape from religion because he felt it did not allow him tofollow his thoughts to the end." He is content to be an atheist because it allows him to explore beyond the situations without involving any aspect of religion and putting his own theory andknowledge to examples such as Game Theory, Natural Selection and design. He applies Game Theory to genes and the growth of plants toapply it to humans. For example he used the example of frequencydependency selection in which an average of men and women are pairedand are expected to have an average of children in their lifetime. Theidea that the selection in favor of something depends on the frequencyof the population is a bit confusing only because he is comparing thegrowth of plants to apply it to humans.

Okay, I finally was able to view the film and I finally understood what John Maynard Smith is talking about evolution. Duhh........I found him so honest and so intellectual about his response in regards to the evolution theory. I also liked the way that he admitted that he did not know the answers to specifc questions and I praise him for not making it seem that he knew it all just because he is a well known scientist.