PBS Offers Intelligent Design Documentary

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According to Illustra Media, the Public Broadcasting System uploaded the film Unlocking the Mystery of Life to its satellite this past Sunday. For the next three years, it will be available for member stations to download and broadcast. In addition, PBS is offering the film on their Shop PBS website under Science/Biology videos (page 4).

The film, released a little over a year ago, has been called a definitive presentation of the Intelligent Design movement. With interviews and evidences from eight PhD scientists, it presents strictly scientific (not religious) arguments that challenge Darwinian evolution, and show instead that intelligent design is a superior explanation for the complexity of life, particularly of DNA and molecular machines. The film has been well received not only across America but in Russia and other countries. Many public school teachers are using the material in science classrooms without fear of controversies over creationism or religion in the science classroom, because the material is scientific, not religious, in all its arguments and evidences, and presents reputable scientists who are well qualified in their fields: Dean Kenyon, Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, Steven Meyer, William Dembski, Scott Minnich, Jed Macosko, and Paul Nelson, with a couple of brief appearances by Phillip E. Johnson, the "founder" of the Intelligent Design movement.

Check with your local PBS Station to find out when they plan to air it. If it is not on their schedule, call or write and encourage them to show the film. Why should television partly supported by public tax funds present only a one-sided view on this subject, so foundational to all people believe and think? We applaud PBS's move, but it is only partial penance for the Evolution series and decades of biased reporting on evolution.

This is a wonderful film, beautifully edited and shot on many locations, including the Galápagos Islands, and scored to original music by Mark Lewis. People are not only buying it for themselves, but buying extra copies to show to friends and co-workers. Unlocking the Mystery of Life available here on our Products page in VHS and DVD formats. The film is about an hour long and includes vivid computer graphics of DNA in action. The DVD version includes an extra half-hour of bonus features, including answers to 14 frequently-asked questions about intelligent design, answered by the scientists who appear in the film.

This is a must-see video. Get it, and get it around.

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Intelligent Design Gets a Powerful New Media Boost 03/09/2002
Exclusive Over 600 guests gave a standing ovation Saturday March 9 at the premiere of a new film by Illustra Media, Unlocking the Mystery of Life. This 67-minute documentary is in many ways a definitive portrayal of the Intelligent Design movement that is sweeping the country. Intelligent Design is a non-religious, non-sectarian, strictly scientific view of origins with both negative and positive arguments: negative, that Darwinism is insufficient to explain the complexity of life, and positive, that intelligent design, or information, is a fundamental entity that must be taken into consideration in explanations of the origin of complex, specified structures like DNA. The film features interviews with a Who's Who of the Intelligent Design movement: Phillip Johnson, Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, Stephen Meyer, Dean Kenyon, William Dembski, and others, who explain the issues and arguments for intelligent design as the key to unlocking the mystery of life. The film also features nearly 20 minutes of award-quality computer animation of molecular machines, manufacturing plants, and storage libraries of elaborate information - DNA and proteins at work in the cell, climaxing with a dazzling view of DNA transcription and translation.
In his keynote address, Dr. Paul Nelson (who appears in the film), gave reasons for optimism. He said that Time Magazine, usually solidly Darwinian, admitted just last week that these Intelligent Design scientists may be onto something. U.S. News and World Report is also coming out with a piece on I.D. And Stephen Meyer, who also appears in the film, could not be at the premiere because he was on his way to Ohio (see next headline), armed with copies of the film to give to the school board members. Nelson said that scientists should not arbitrarily rule design off the table. "Keeping science from discovering something that might be true is like having a pair of spectacles that distorts your vision," he said. "It does profound harm to science." He described how Ronald Numbers, evolutionist, once told him that design might be true, but science is a game, with the rule that scientists cannot even consider the possibility of design; "that's just the way it is," he said. (See this quote by Richard Lewontin for comparison.) Yet design is already commonly considered in archaeology, cryptography, forensics, and SETI, so why not in biology? Apparently this arbitrary rule has become a national controversy. Intelligent Design, says Nelson, is finally removing a "rule of the game" that is hindering science. If the reaction of the crowd at the premiere luncheon was any indication, Unlocking the Mystery of Life has launched a well-aimed smart weapon at the citadels of Darwinism.

We highly recommend this film. Copies are just now becoming available for $20. Visit IllustraMedia.com and order it. View it, and pass it around. Share it with your teachers, your co-workers, your church. You will have no embarrassment showing this high-quality, beautiful, amazing film to anyone, even the most ardent evolutionist.

 

 

[LiteKeeper]

I have a copy of this vvideo, and have almost worn it out from watching it so much!!!!!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Stalin was as much of an anti-darwinist as Hitler was anti-homosexual. Which is to say, only as it served his purposes.

Go back and listen to his rhetoric. It is based on Marx's "Das Kapital" which in turn, was heavily influenced by Darwin.

Stalin talked often of social evolution.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Nothing new, but in order to gain credibility, the evolutionists are going to have to use non-ID tools only. Which brings up a conundrum. They can't, because there is no such animal.

[Not Insane]

"Everyone is now catastrophist.
huh? "

The evidence supports catastrophic change as opposed to gradual change. To the lay person, I think the first inkling of this was when talk of dinosours becoming extinct due to a comet or meteor became widespread. Do you remember the explanation before that?

[RomanCatholicProlifer]

ask Rene' Descartes if he used math science, or pure logic when he proved, using logic, that God does exist. If that bores you, try Pascal or Leibnitz, a few more guys who were into mathematics....just a little.

[Axolotl]

Correct, then when you have a perfectly reasonable explanation supported by a wealth of evidence ("see, the eye could evolve like this and in fact has done so more than once?"), they move on...well, then THIS next thing is too complex.

And on it goes 150 years hence.

[Not Insane]

"Wooooooooooooo-hoo, time to change your meds! "

You disagree, then?

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

But my entire point was that socialists tend more towards the Darwinian point of view, while capitalists do not.

[Doctor Stochastic]

When I see anything complex, I assume somebody made it, until I can prove otherwise.

Why do you assume somebody made it? Perhaps you could show something that is not "made." If everything is "made" the concept loses all explanatory value.

[Not Insane]

"Oh please, don't damn evolution because nutjobs abuse it."

I'm not. I was answering a question.

[Dimensio]

We see an old car rusting in a field and assume it was manufactured. Why? Because we know the manufacturer (it's a Chevy) We see a weed growing out of the engine block of that car, a weed that is FAR more complex in one of it's cells than the entire car and we assume it came about accidentally (no designer). Why? Because we don't know the designer.

Well, given that I can study the engineering development of an automobile, I've got more documentation on the design of the car than you can provide for the weed.

Well, some of us DO know the Designer and actually have a PERSONAL relationship with Him.

Perhaps you could point out how I might test for the existence of this designer? A phone number or e-mail address, perhaps?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Neither one of them has anything to say about HOW...

More accurately: Neither one of them has anything to say.

[f.Christian]

Good News For The Day

‘But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.’ (Matthew 6:33)

"Once there was a change in our family situation. Our pet dog passed away and we salved our grief by acquiring a new one-a blue cattle pup. He was intelligent and very mischievous. We had a lot of fun with him. while he was small, he would amuse us by trying to catch his own tail and bite it. He would spy the tip of his tail out of the corner of his eye, and, readying himself, lunge at it, as if hunting prey. But of course, the more he pounced, the more his tail moved out of his reach. The only way a dog can really have its tail is to allow it to be an attachment to its main body."

"The... tail comes along just fine---when it is not its owner's preoccupation."

"Jesus advises us that though there are many good and important things, only one can be most important-the kingdom of God and his righteousness. First things must come first. All of life, with its experiences, decisions and relationships, needs to be evaluated in light of the highest ideal."

"When God is given pride of place, the machinery of existence operates at its best."

[Aric2000]

Excuse me, capitalism and free enterprise is darwinism at it's best.

If you build a product that someone wants, then you make money and enjoy life, but if you blow it and create something that no one wants, your company dies and ceases to exist.

Capitalism is the economic theory of darwinism.

[Dimensio]

Why don't you figure out the probability of chaosing our way to the number of varying life forms present on earth. Think winning the lottery is hard?

Ooh, the argument from misapplied statistics. Always a fun one.

Though the original statement posed to you did contain an error. It is impossible to "prove" anything scientifically.

[Rocky]

Thanks for this post. I love this place. Where else can you keep abreast of all the important happenings?

[Not Insane]

"I think that you need to take the NOT off the front of your nick. "

I must admit that the personal insults are more subtle on this thread than on many others.

The results are the same, however.

[Dimensio]

ID cannot be proven to be false.

Then ID is not scientific.

[Axolotl]

The evidence supports catastrophic change as opposed to gradual change.

Not really...there have been important events (such as meteor impacts)and there has been much discussion about variation in rates of change, but these are subtleties.