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.

 

 

[PatrickHenry]

Interesting - except for one minor detail. Most of the Robber Barons started in the early to mid part of the 19th century. Darwinism didn't come about until somewhat later. A good case could be made that Darwin was more influenced by the Robber Barons than vice versa.

There is a fact which seriously conflicts with your position. Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published in 1859. Also, notwithstanding your say-so, there is zero evidence that Darwin was influenced by the Robber Barons. Zero. Of course, if you have some evidence to support your position, I shall be pleased to consider it. If not, perhaps you might want to re-think your position about the relationship between Evolution and socialism.

[bondserv]

Hello Dimensio,

It still comes down to evolutionists believing that billions of years of accidents are hugely more intelligent than all of the scientists in history.

Scientists are not even close to being able to recreate the massive amounts of sophisticated chemical messaging that continually takes place in our bodies. Interrelated mechanisms that confound scientists so much that they still can't deal with something simple like cancer.

There are thousands of highly intelligent scientists in Universities, at Pharmaceuticals and doing private investigative research. And billions of years of unintelligent events are supposed to be more capable of creating chemical experiments with billions of successes just to produce a simple organism.

Baffling!

[Lurking Libertarian]

Baffling placemarker.

[PatrickHenry]

It still comes down to evolutionists believing that billions of years of accidents are hugely more intelligent than all of the scientists in history.

It's not entirely clear to me what you're saying, but anyway, yes, nature most certainly can accomplish more than we can with all of our technology. One simple example -- all the construction companies in the world, with all the dynamite and all the bulldozers in the world, can't duplicate the Rocky Mountain range. What of it?

[bondserv]

One simple example -- all the construction companies in the world, with all the dynamite and all the bulldozers in the world, can't duplicate the Rocky Mountain range. What of it?

You chose a highly destructive creative example. You know, the tornado in the junkyard thingy. 747 or viola, a Navajo cliff dwelling with four hundred evenly spaced chiseled steps.

I wonder if we could drill or bunker bust down deep enough to create a man made volcano?

[Aric2000]

Please see post 212

Thanks

[Aric2000]

Also see post 223.

Thanks

[PatrickHenry]

You chose a highly destructive creative example.

It was sufficient to make the point. Nature has time on its side, and with time, nature can accomplish things -- naturally -- that we cannot duplicate. Like evolution.

[Aric2000]

I love that stuff, I think that is why I liked the Matrix so much.

Anyway, we could really go into solipsism if we wanted to, because I find that very interesting, but it does freak some people out.

And I am NOT a materialist.

Thanks

[xm177e2]

scored to original music by Mark Lewis

If you can't convice with facts, get some musicians... BARF.

To go to the Galapagos and argue against evolution... shows just how ignorant these I.D.orks are.

God cares so much about the finches that he's going to make them into different species, just so they can have the privilege of eating different foods (and filling different evolutionary niches)? I doubt it. Evolution is reality, get used to it.

[xm177e2]

The theory of evolution is just that - a theory.

And the theory of Intelligent Design is crap

[bondserv]

So nature is an intelligent designer, because it created an intelligent being called man?

[PatrickHenry]

So nature is an intelligent designer, because it created an intelligent being called man?

Say whaaaa?

[metacognative]

Speak for yourself..want to buy stock in my Blind Watchmaker company?

[metacognative]

Socialism and darwinism have both been proven not to work in the real world

[metacognative]

Have you seen this video you're criticizing? Or are you in ignorance?

[PatrickHenry]

Socialism and darwinism have both been proven not to work in the real world

Correct about socialism. But tell me, where has what you call "darwinism" been unsuccessfully tried? Please be specific.

[Aric2000]

And actually, Darwinism and socialism have absolutely NOTHING in common.

Now, if you had said Capitalism and Darwinism, I would have said, yes, they work on somewhat the same principle, survival of the fittest. And they actually both work quite well.

Darwinism for BILLIONS of years, capitalism for thousands.

[PatrickHenry]

Socialism is literally the opposite of "survival of the fittest" because socialism punishes excellence and rewards incompetence. Anyone who thinks socialism and the theory of evolution are somehow related demonstrates a total lack of understanding both concepts.

[Sentis]

This is just the Left replaceing the mythology they don't like with a mythology they can control ID is as bad science as Creationist nonsense.