Watch The Charles Darwin Bits As Featured On The Video Game 'Assassin's Creed Syndicate'

"I am used to people challenging my ideas. In fact, I live for it....the cut and thrust of spirited debate. Lately, however, attacks against my reputation have taken a darker turn." - Charles Darwin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Charles Darwin, the English geologist and naturalist who is most well-known for his contributions to the theory of evolution, is coming alive in an upcoming video game scheduled to be released on the 23rd of October this year. Darwin may not be the main character nor focus of the game but based on footage from the game that was put on YouTube, several missions in the game will involve the bearded scientist. The video game is called Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the ninth installment in the popular Assassin's Creed game series. It will hit shelves for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on October 23 and on November 29 for the PC.

In the footage uploaded on YouTube by the gaming channel outsidexbox, the protagonists are seen searching for and finding Darwin at his London home, tending to his flower garden. They then assist Darwin in several missions that include eliminating one of Darwin's rivals, retrieving a controversial but very valuable fossil, and getting rid of a stash of poisonous plants that endanger Londoners. 

Watch Darwin in action in Assassin's Creed Syndicate below:

Bill Nye Is 'Unstoppable' In A New Book About Harnessing Science To Change The World

In November of last year, science educator Bill Nye released a book called Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation. The book was inspired by Nye's controversial debate with Ken Ham in February of the same year. Ham is a Christian evangelist most well-known for his being a young earth creationist. Young earth creationism (YEC) is the belief that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and that dinosaurs used to live alongside mankind. In said book, Nye tackled topics that are often the cause of heated arguments between believers of evolution and believers of Biblical creation. If you haven't read the book, a look into the book's Table of Contents should give you an idea as to its content. Chapters have titles like Creation and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Fossil Records and Explosions, Antibiotic Drug Resistance - Evolution Strikes Back, and Life's Cosmic Imperative. It's a really good book. Anyone who claims to love science should have a copy on his/her book shelf (or Kindle).

Exactly a year after Undeniable's publication in November 4, 2014, another book of Nye's is going to be published this coming 10th of November. It's called Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World. Not much is known about the contents of the new book but based on its title and blurb, it's going to be about making the world a better place for man and nature through applied science. The book is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It will also be available on Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million, Indiebound, Walmart, and iBooks.

The cover art for Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World: