PBS Offers Intelligent Design Documentary

CREATION - Evolution Headlines ^ | 04/28/2003 | Illustra Media/CREATION - Evolution Headlines

[Remedy]

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.

 

 

[Dataman]

No magic required...that's the point...

You say no magic is required. Miracles are reqired for evolution, however.

[Dataman]

I've never met an evolutionist argument yet that didn't start with the assumption that the basic arguments for it are true and beyond argument.

Worth repeating.

[Dataman]

Evolution has nothing to do with how the first life forms came into being.

And a building has nothing to do with its foundation.

We all know that the attempt to separate abiogenesis from evolution is only for purposes of removing an insurmountable difficulty (a violation of the law of biogenesis) which actually supports special creation.

[Dataman]

The religious assualt on an natural explanation for the yet unknown methods of abiogenesis is this: "I can't understand how it could happen, therefore it is impossible."

Actually the evos can't even explain how it happened nor can they provide sufficient evidence. Evidence is so entirely lacking, that sometimes they have to manufacture it.

[Dataman]

This happens a lot with the pseudo religious mythical believing masses.

Well, Mr. pseudo religious mythical believer, why don't you tell us all about your particular belief in a roll-your-own messiah who will be appearing in the next few years? The charge of hypocrisy seems to be in order.

[Dataman]

fulfill their strawman purpose of it

Strawman #3.

their only interest is in tearing down their own strawman

Strawman #4.

Dimensio, the big problem with the theory of evo is that it is not convincing.
It is not convincing because the evidence does not fit the theory well.
It is not convincing because laws of nature have to be violated.
It is not convincing because its supporters deliberately ignore and suppress evidence.
It is not convincing because supporters cannot defend their own assertions.

Apparrently it is not entirely convincing to PBS either, which, in spite of its overwhelming evolutionary bias, has produced the non-religious program you evos must classify as religious in order to discredit it.

[Dataman]

I like to ask them "Who designed the designer?" Suddenly something extraordinarily complex doesn't need to be designed

That question is not a difficult one. So I'll assume you are asking it. Short answer:

If God created time and the universe, He must have existed outside of time and the universe. Although everything in the universe must have a cause/beginning, God is the Causer and Sustainer of the universe and therefore the Uncaused Cause.

[metacognative]

Darwinism has been tried as an explanation for specieation.
New DNA information cannot come from mistakes. Just as a socialist business cannot survive with continual losses.
New capitalist businesses arise from entrepreneurs.
What brings a whale from a land mammal, or a bird lung from the reptile respiratory system....Mind!

[stanz]

Darwinism has been tried as an explanation for specieation. New DNA information cannot come from mistakes. Just as a socialist business cannot survive with continual losses. New capitalist businesses arise from entrepreneurs. What brings a whale from a land mammal, or a bird lung from the reptile respiratory system....Mind!

That says it all!

[PatrickHenry]

New capitalist businesses arise from entrepreneurs.

That's true. The rest of your post is hopeless. Truly hopeless. No way to begin cleaning up such a mess. But have a nice day.

[jlogajan]

New DNA information cannot come from mistakes.

I assume you mean that order cannot arise out of disorder.

Can you explain how a well structured snowflake crystal can arise out of the chaotic randomness of water vapor?

[jlogajan]

"Can you explain how a well structured snowflake crystal can arise out of the chaotic randomness of water vapor?"

God is an amazing chemist.

Sweet! God has to intervene in the production of every snowflake. This is the creationist's idea of science. ha ha ha

[bondserv]

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.

Pick up a Bible and read proverbs. Christianity's only suggestion is to help Widows, Orphans and Invalids, whose dignity will not be tainted by taking an extended hand out.

All other individuals must work or not eat, consider the ant, do not be a drunkard, do not be lazy...

Individual responsibility is clearly the major theme of the Bible, and the founding fathers picked up on that theme. In other words get off the government/church assistance program or face the consequences. A Christian concept institutionalized. Many Catholics like Chris Matthews, the Pope, the Kennedy’s have a "help the poor" attitude, that have transformed the north east into a welfare haven.

Your perception of Christianity has been addled by a liberal segment of the Church. Jesus didn't have a place to lay his head, but His hard working, financially well off friends were able to put him up and feed Him (To whom he brought great wisdom, and healing, of which was clearly exhausting work). It's the pursuit of riches (Greed) that you refer to, not hostility to wealth.

P.S. Individual accountability and a personal relationship with Jesus is also critical to one's extended future (eternity).

[Dataman]

Just try to remember that what you imagine -- that is, "make-believe" -- does not necessarily have any bearing on reality whatsoever.

Exactly. That means the the newfound propaganda tool of the evolutionists, computer animation, lends nothing except imagination.

[bondserv]

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

Let me make it simple, we live in a sustained environment. Think of a usable swimming pool, without continuous maintenance it would be unusable.

Imagine letting your pool go for billions of years. NOT!

[Dimensio]

We all know that the attempt to separate abiogenesis from evolution is only for purposes of removing an insurmountable difficulty (a violation of the law of biogenesis) which actually supports special creation.

No, evolution has nothing to do with abiogenesis because evolution deals with EXISTING life forms. This has been explained so many times and in so many ways that the only reason for you to bring it up is because you are being deliberately dishonest regarding the nature of evolution. Your argument is as stupid as claiming that gravitational theory is weakened because it cannot explain the ultimate origins of matter.

[Dimensio]

"mindless silliness attacking a strawman."

Strawman #2.

Attacking the improbability of life forming from non-life oart of evolution is attacking a strawman because evolution has nothing to do with how the first life forms came into existence. Of course, your response to my comments has already proven my point.