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]

This is just the Left replaceing the mythology they don't like with a mythology they can control

Yup. Anything that dumbs down the population is good for the left.

[f.Christian]

waj ...

/uncontrollable shuddering>


238 posted on 05/02/2003 2:34 PM PDT by whattajoke


fC ...

Evolution is intellectual epilepsy ... fits // stupor // stutter !

[f.Christian]

With Rights ... comes Responsibilities --- irresponsibility --- whacks // criminals - psychos !

[Dimensio]

Interrelated mechanisms that confound scientists so much that they still can't deal with something simple like cancer.

So? This doesn't prove that there is an intelligent force at work in cancer, this just means that human intelligence and capability is limited.

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.

Argument from incredulity here. You seem to be asserting that humans should be able to grasp any process or structure that is not 'intelligently designed' by a higher intelligence, but you've not presented reason why this is so.

[Dimensio]

But...but...but social Darwinism and ... and ... and ... Socialism! They're so obviously interrelated, and the failure of social darwinism proves that evolution is bunk!

Or in more 'intelligent' terms, "I don't like the consequences of the misapplication of a biological theory in a completely non-biological field, therefore the biological theory must be false"

[bondserv]

So? This doesn't prove that there is an intelligent force at work in cancer, this just means that human intelligence and capability is limited.

My point is that humans have the ability to apply intelligence to a problem and with years of intensive research and experimentation continue to fail with cancer. For some reason evolutionists believe that mother nature can resolve these anomalies with time. Time and mother nature have no intelligence!

Show me where mother nature, outside of life, has created a structure that provides a specific function that combats the chaos of the universe.

The Biblical explanation of origins and the creation of the universe makes perfect sense. Our earth has a multitude of destructive systems that only when taken in their totality could create the perfect balance for a sustainable environment that supports life.

There is no evidence that even approaches explaining how nature could carefully orchestrate destructive systems that can together create the balance that is needed to sustain life.

Try looking into the degrees and percentages of the systems that are required to maintain a life supporting environment. Then consider, in our short life spans, how the comet Shumaker Levy 9 impacted Jupiter, a planet within our small solar system, of which a similar impact on earth would have ended all life.

Evolution stands upon very shaky ground when you consider the present observable evidence. Small changes and adaptations within a species, YES, transitional's taking billions of years to come to fruition, NO!

The Bible's got this one right folks.

[bondserv]

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.

Darwinism leads to socialism. The educated elite ("fittest") people feel sorry for the poor victims of "survival of the fittest". False compassion brought on by the brutality of the Darwin's world. We are smarter; therefore you need our help.

Capitalism thrives on the "playing field leveling" freedom of individual determination without restriction from "the more fit" which is made possible by laws and justice. There is nothing more motivating to a simple man, than having the unencumbered freedom to have a stake in his own destiny.

Case in point U.S.A. vs. Europe.

[Dimensio]

My point is that humans have the ability to apply intelligence to a problem and with years of intensive research and experimentation continue to fail with cancer

Yes, because humans haven't yet figured out a means of developing a technology that can effectively and safely destroy cancer 100% of the time. That doesn't prove anything with respect to intelligent design.

For some reason evolutionists believe that mother nature can resolve these anomalies with time.

What, cancer? I've never heard anyone make such a silly claim. I think that you're introducing irrelevant information into your argument.

Time and mother nature have no intelligence!

The modifier 'mother' implies something that isn't there, so I prefer to call it 'nature', but you are right in that time and nature have no intelligence (nature itself has no inherent overall intelligence even if certain components within are intelligent). Again, your point?

Show me where mother nature, outside of life, has created a structure that provides a specific function that combats the chaos of the universe.

This question really doesn't have any meaning. Planets managed to 'organize' themselves into rather stable orbits around stars, if that works, but I really don't know what it is that you're asking.

The Biblical explanation of origins and the creation of the universe makes perfect sense.

Perfect sense with respect to what? Why specifically the Biblical account? Why not the account of some other religion?

Our earth has a multitude of destructive systems that only when taken in their totality could create the perfect balance for a sustainable environment that supports life.

Please be specific.

There is no evidence that even approaches explaining how nature could carefully orchestrate destructive systems that can together create the balance that is needed to sustain life.

You're making the faulty assumption that nature 'created' this planet specifically to sustain life. More likely, life arose on this planet because it was able to come about and thrive on this planet.

Try looking into the degrees and percentages of the systems that are required to maintain a life supporting environment.

I have. I've also heard bizarre false assertions regarding these variables such as claims that the if the earth were just a little closer to the sun that we would all "burn" and that if it were just a little farther that we would all "freeze". Once again, you're claiming that you don't see how it is possible for it to have happened without divine intervention and assuming divine intervention.

There is no evidence that even approaches explaining how nature could carefully orchestrate destructive systems that can together create the balance that is needed to sustain life.

And your point is what, that some divine entity has prevented coments from slamming into Earth?

Evolution stands upon very shaky ground when you consider the present observable evidence.

Only if you're afraid of research and you cling to bogus probability studies.

The Bible's got this one right folks.

Once again, even if you utterly disproved evolution, how would this prove the Bible correct?

[Dimensio]

Darwinism leads to socialism.

Only to an idiot.

The educated elite ("fittest") people feel sorry for the poor victims of "survival of the fittest". False compassion brought on by the brutality of the Darwin's world. We are smarter; therefore you need our help.

Given that these conditions will arise regardless of whether or not evolution occurs, I don't see how this creates a logical link to evolution and socialism.

[jennyp]

My point is that humans have the ability to apply intelligence to a problem and with years of intensive research and experimentation continue to fail with cancer. For some reason evolutionists believe that mother nature can resolve these anomalies with time. Time and mother nature have no intelligence!

Heh, Mother Nature begs to differ with you!

Lucky discovery uncovers cancer-proof mouse

A cancer-proof mouse, which can survive being injected with any number of cancer cells, has been discovered by US scientists. The discovery of the resistant mouse could pave the way for future gene or drug therapies if the mechanism by which it fights cancer can be understood

Researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina have now bred a colony of 700 cancer-proof mice from the resistant male they stumbled across while doing other experiments. ...

(Don't worry - maybe this astoundingly beneficial spontaneous mutation represents a "loss of information", whatever that's supposed to mean! :-)

[jennyp]

Why not just admit that there are problems with, for example, the evolution of information,

There's no problem with information increasing, however you define or measure an organism's "information". Creationists who argue this are confusing the two different "information theories". And there are, in fact, known beneficial mutations that do represent increases in information, regardless of which popular creationist measurement you use.

or that they cannot successfully test the validity evolution without using ID tools?

This claim is more pernicious & dangerous. Every experiment ever conducted about anything in the natural world has always been intelligently designed. It's in the nature of an experiment. An experiment is designed to keep certain aspects of a phenomenon fixed, or else varied in a regular way, in order to isolate those natural causes of that phenomenon so they can be studied & measured.

You cannot have an experiment without such a control. Otherwise it's just observation. (One could even say that organized & recorded observation itself requires a form of ID.) But when you use this argument to defend your religious belief against science, you'd have to destroy the very underpinning of science itself! That's what's so dangerous about what you're trying to do here.

Are you really willing to destroy the basis of all science just to save your particular religious belief? If so, I judge that as an evil decision.

[PatrickHenry]

Darwinism leads to socialism. The educated elite ("fittest") people feel sorry for the poor victims of "survival of the fittest". False compassion brought on by the brutality of the Darwin's world. We are smarter; therefore you need our help.

[Note to admin. moderator: You may get some abuse button hits on this one. I understand. The stuff I post sometimes makes people think, and that's most offensive. If you delete this post, I'll understand.]

The impulse to help out the poor and the unsuccessful has nothing to do with Darwin, and it is nowhere to be found in the theory of evolution. But there most definitely is a doctrine that does indeed teach that the poor and the unsuccessful should be helped. A doctrine that has, many times in the past, led its followers into living a communal life. A doctrine that even today often exhibits hostility to wealth. Can you guess that that doctrine is? Hint -- it's not evolution.

[Dataman]

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.

But but but... The FR evo thugs tell us there is no scientific evidence for anything but flat-foreheaded darwinism!

[Dataman]

Thus the information HAD to exist first, which makes the evolutionary theory impossible.

Correct. Evos tell us that matter and its motion are all there is. They completely missed or forgot about information. Probably the former.

[Dataman]

To: PatrickHenry

Idiots on parade. Again. And again. And Again.

4 posted on 05/02/2003 12:40 PM CDT by balrog666

No need to announce yourselves. We know you're here.

[Dataman]

Supernaturalists are funny, except when they're spending our money to promote their sillyness [sic].

Did you actually read the article? Let me help:

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:

[Dataman]

Evolution is a science, and I am a scientist who studies it.

I'll bet you're a cold, calculating, dispassionate, strictly scientific scientist.

Who's the moron here?

Oops! I lost that bet!

[Dataman]

Well, if evolution were anything like the strawman that you presented

I see it's time to start the ubiquitous strawman labeling.

[Dataman]

Evolution is occuring in microbial poplations [sic] my lab 20 feet away, in tubes, as I speak.

Let us all know when the microbes become something else.

[Dataman]

mindless silliness attacking a strawman.

Strawman #2.