''The Big Question'' is a five-part science documentary television series broadcast in the United Kingdom on the Five channel, beginning January 2004 and continuing into 2005. In the North American market, it has been re-released on the Discovery Science network. Each half-hour episode is hosted by a renowned authority, and examines the following provocative questions: * Part 1 – "How Did the Universe Begin?" presented by Stephen Hawking * Part 2 – "How Did Life Begin?" presented by

Harry Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery ...

* Part 3 – "Why Are We Here?" presented by Richard Dawkins * Part 4 – "Why Am I Me?" presented by Susan Greenfield * Part 5 – "How Will It All End?" presented by Ian Stewart The series attracted controversy and criticism from

creationists Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of Creation myth, divine creation.#Gunn 2004, Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The ''Concise Oxford Dictionary'' say ...

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