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Lets teach religion -- all religion -- in schools Dan Dennett 2006-07-18 /talks/dan_dennett_let_s_teach_religion_all_religion_in_schools Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 Its wonderful to be back. 很高兴能再次站在这里 I love this wonderful gathering. 我非常喜欢这样的集会 And you must be wondering, What on earth? 你一定会想：怎么搞的？ Have they put up the wrong slide? 投影是不是打错了？ No, no. 当然不是 Look at this magnificent beast, 看看这头漂亮的动物，你不禁会问一个问题--谁设计了它？ and ask the question: Who designed it? 我们这里是TED This is TED; this is Technology, Entertainment, Design, 是【科技，娱乐，设计】的缩写。但是现在屏幕上是一只奶牛。 and theres a dairy cow. Its a quite wonderfully designed animal. 奶牛的构造其实是很精彩的 And I was thinking, how do I introduce this? 我在想，我怎样介绍这个东西？ And I thought, well, maybe that old doggerel by Joyce Kilmer, 我想起了乔尔斯.基尔默的一首打油诗， you know: Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree. “诗词歌赋傻子写，花草树木上帝造。” And you might say, Well, God designed the cow. 你可能会说：“那么，是上帝设计了奶牛。” But, of course, God got a lot of help. 但是，当然了，上帝也得到了很多帮助。 This is the ancestor of cattle. 这是牛的祖先 This is the aurochs. 叫做非洲大羚羊。 And it was designed by natural selection, 它是由“自然选择”设计的， the process of natural selection, over many millions of years. 历经数百万年进化而来 And then it became domesticated, thousands of years ago. 人类在数千年前驯化了它们 And human beings became its stewards, 变成了它们的监护者 and, without even knowing what they were doing, 但人类对自己的行为并不知情， they gradually redesigned it and redesigned it and redesigned it. 人们逐渐对这个物种进行不断地重新设计，重新设计，重新设计。 And then more recently, they really began to do reverse engineering on this beast 近期，人类真正开始在奶牛上开展类似于“逆向工程”的研究 and figure out just what the parts were, how they worked 希望能认识它全身的各个器官以及其运作方式 and how they might be optimized -- how they might be made better. 找出优化的方法--让它们变得更好 Now, why am I talking about cows? 到底为什么我要提到奶牛呢？ Because I want to say that much t