Basketball-Sized Light Appears
She recalls childhood encounter with glowing intelligence.
Jun 20, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 15 segments
The physics of a living universe - with Oxford trained Jude Currivan PhD MSc Dr Jude Currivan, (PhD MSc CMA), is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, and author. She has an master's in physics…
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I'm just curious, given that you've been involved with Darwin recently, do you think Darwin was aware of the potential moral hazards of what he was proposing and the way, you know, it was, I would say, misused by certain political regimes?
Was he aware of that at the time, do you know?

I suspect he had an inkling because it was pretty contentious at the time, and people were already starting to make sort of social commentary about how they didn't want their grandfathers and grandmothers to be apes.
Right.

You know, so there's a whole social aspect of that, which was rebutted by the gentleman known as Darwin's Rottweiler [laughs]
Mm-hmm

And of course, the other side of it was that although Darwin, I think, was deeply spiritual, the folks who really took that work forward tended to be materialists.

And so when neo-Darwinism came along with-- which neo-Darwinism just means new Darwinism, but it, all it was was genetics added because, of course, Darwin in 1860s had no notion of how the adaptations actually work through by generation.

And so when genetics were beginning to be discovered, that became the, the new version of Darwinism.

But it still was founded and based, and its investigations followed a materialist, reductionist perspective.
Mm.

And even before that, we were getting the idea that, you know, Darwinism's all about competition and nature in red in tooth and claw and, you know, all the social hierarchies that are all Darwinian.
Mm.

And he was a-- I think he was an amazing scientist because he followed the evidence authentically, and he stopped when he had no more evidence.
Mm.

He understood how adaptation worked in terms of the case studies that he came across-
Mm
... consequence.
I'm just curious, given that you've been involved with Darwin recently, do you think Darwin was aware of the potential moral hazards of what he was proposing and the way, you know, it was, I would say, misused by certain political regimes?
Was he aware of that at the time, do you know?

I suspect he had an inkling because it was pretty contentious at the time, and people were already starting to make sort of social commentary about how they didn't want their grandfathers and grandmothers to be apes.
Right.

You know, so there's a whole social aspect of that, which was rebutted by the gentleman known as Darwin's Rottweiler [laughs]
Mm-hmm

And of course, the other side of it was that although Darwin, I think, was deeply spiritual, the folks who really took that work forward tended to be materialists.

And so when neo-Darwinism came along with-- which neo-Darwinism just means new Darwinism, but it, all it was was genetics added because, of course, Darwin in 1860s had no notion of how the adaptations actually work through by generation.

And so when genetics were beginning to be discovered, that became the, the new version of Darwinism.

But it still was founded and based, and its investigations followed a materialist, reductionist perspective.
Mm.

And even before that, we were getting the idea that, you know, Darwinism's all about competition and nature in red in tooth and claw and, you know, all the social hierarchies that are all Darwinian.
Mm.

And he was a-- I think he was an amazing scientist because he followed the evidence authentically, and he stopped when he had no more evidence.
Mm.

He understood how adaptation worked in terms of the case studies that he came across-
Mm
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