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Duane Gish is a scientist.
Duane Gish是一位科学家
My Masters degree is chemistry from UCLA
我有加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校化学硕士学位
and my doctorate is in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.
还有加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校生物化学博士学位
After I finished my doctorate I went to Cornell University Medical College for three years where I worked with...
读完博士后，我去康奈尔大学医学院工作了3年，和我一起工作的是……
He's also a creationist, and believes that the world was created in six days,
他还是位神创论者，相信世界是在6天内创造出来的
just as it says in the Bible according to God's plan, and therefore the whole Theory of Evolution he thinks must be wrong.
正如《圣经》里所讲的“神旨”一样，因此整个进化论在他看来就是谬误

Evolution has no plan, no purpose, it's a random process.
进化没有计划，没有目的，只是随机的过程
Creationists believe that all animals were made fully formed by God
神创论者认为所有动物都完全由上帝创造
One main line of attack is the rarity of transitional forms.
反驳这一观点的主要武器只能是罕见的过渡型物种
If you cannot show how a fish evolved into a tetrapod then, they argue, evolution never happened at all.
如果不能说明鱼进化成四足动物的过程，他们就会振振有辞，指出进化根本就没有发生过
The fossil record is enormously better now than it was in Darwin's time, but it hasn't solved Darwin's problem.
现在的化石记录比达尔文那个年代多得多，但是仍然没能解答达尔文的问题
In our museum today we have about a quarter of a million different fossil species.
如今我们的博物馆中差不多有25万块化石
If evolution's true, tens of thousands of those things should be of obvious intermediates,
如果进化论是对的，那么其中总该有几种是过渡生物吧
but they're not there. Every major type of creature appears fully formed, no ancestors and no transition form.
可是一块也没有，每一类主要生物看起来都已完全成形，没有祖先，也没有过渡类型
The irritation for palaeontologists was that no one had yet unearthed a transitional form between fish and our earliest ancestor with legs.
让古生物学家们恼火的是至今没有人挖出鱼和我们长出腿的早期祖先之间的过渡型物种
One just had to be found, and then, for a brief moment, it seemed one had been, when in 1938 a miracle happened.
它必须被找到，接着，只是一眨眼的功夫，它似乎现身了，这个奇迹发生于1938年。

词汇解析

1.the rarity of 稀少；罕见
The rarity of hair colour will dictate the price.
头发颜色的稀少程度决定它的价格。

2.evolve into 进化成
How did animals the size of a goat evolve into the largest creatures on Earth?
山羊般大小的动物是如何进化成地球上最大的生物的？

3.the irritation for 刺激；恼怒
Another source of irritation for Austrians is the song Edelweiss.
另一个惹恼奥地利人的原因是《雪绒花》这首歌。

视频及简介

19世纪，英国生物学家赫胥黎在研究了尼安德特人的头骨以后，认为是一个具有猿脸的头骨，但决不是人与猿之间的中间缺环。这就告诉我们，人与猿之间的亲缘关系，似乎还应该有一环。1891年发现直立猿人（爪哇猿人）的骨胳，证明这个缺环确实是存在的。可是，日本的人类学家认为爪哇猿人尚不是真正的中间缺环。那么，在猿与人之间到底应该是什么样的一环呢？在埃塞俄比亚发现的早期人科动物化石，很可能是过渡物种。这一发现，弥补了原始人类进化中的一个“缺环”。