Charles Birch

well i was a bit different because it was really i sort of thought evolution must be true because in all the science and i was studying science at university biological sciences um plant science and uh it's very evolutionary especially early on so i thought so how's this go together and It wasn't until I was actually doing my postgraduate work, actually, when I started to really get my mind around this and started to think about it.

One of the first things was there was a professor at the university, Professor Charles Birch, and he was a very entertaining sort of a guy.

He did lunchtime lectures.

And can you believe students would go along and listen to one of the lecturers give a, you know, it wasn't compulsory.

It's not science.

It's actually a belief system.

Here's from the professor of zoology saying this.

And I think, oh, wow.