PBS Offers Intelligent Design Documentary

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

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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.

 

 

[Dimensio]

Aw, come on Andrew. I went over this earlier:

Yeah, and it was pointed out that it was mindless silliness attacking a strawman.

[f.Christian]

Evorevolutionism ...

To: f.Christian

g3 ...

The central point of science is the discovery of causes and effects and materialist evolution denies it. It proposes random events as the engine of the transformation of species.


ag ...


You do realize, I hope, that you're claiming modern physics is also unscientific? Randomness is the basis of quantum mechanics, in essence. We've long since gotten past deterministic cause and effect - we now look at probability as the tool for measuring the physical world. Try again.

Drew Garrett


39 posted on 04/23/2003 3:52 PM PDT by agarrett

fC ...

all evo SPIN --- flips --- web (( rags // dust ))!

[AndrewC]

For example, the earth has gone around the sun, is inference, but it is a pretty good inference based on current observations and the fact that people that lived before us describe the days and years as having the same properties as days and years dor today.

All the information required to make the inference is available to me. I had the same information years ago that the earth acted in a particular way. The inference would be that it has always been the same and would always be the same. That is not what you equated. The evidence that the earth goes around the sun is present today as it was yesterday. It is inferred that it will be the same tomorrow.

[Axolotl]

The only mindless silliness is life magically appearing out of nothing, all on its own, and then branching into all known life today...

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

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Well, I've noticed that socialists tend to be far more in favor of evolution than capitalists.  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.  Kind of arrogant, I'd say - especially since there are problems with the evolution of info.  Not to mention that any experimentation done in the realm of evolution has an extreme bias in favor of ID.

[AndrewC]

Yes, and that may never be known for sure, as it occurred only once...

Well, you may wish to analyze your statement and your grounds for making that statement.

[Galatians513]

My 14 year old would object. He loves biology, and is currently taking advanced placement courses. He of course owns this video, and is truly amazed at the lengths some will go to NOT see what is right in front of them.

Well, I was thinking 'kids' were 12 and under...;)

It really is a good video. The animated depiction of the cellular processes is truly amazing. Science is definitely a means to view God's handiwork!

[Dimensio]

The only mindless silliness is life magically appearing out of nothing, all on its own...

Evolution has nothing to do with how the first life forms came into being. That you would equate such with evolution merely demonstrates your complete ignorance of the subject.

[Axolotl]

There is such a thing as historical inference...but I don't think we are really disagreeing...talking past one another perhaps.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Then if evolution is not random, the arguments are very much in favor of ID.

[Dimensio]

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.

Could you be more specific, or are you just going to assert this without evidence?

[Axolotl]

I am a capitalist and an evolutionary biologist....

[Not Insane]

Medved, is that you?

[Aric2000]

Here we go again, with the you believes this, but it was wrong.

YEP, it was wrong, that is why it was changed.

We believed through the evidence at hand that the dinosaurs were cold blooded and therefore were related to reptiles, so, reptiles, EG: scales. But guess what, further evidence came to light that dinosaurs were indeed warm blooded, and other evidence came to light that PROVED that this ASSUMPTION was wrong.

You see that is the problem with creationists fighting evolution this way. The theory of Evolution EVOLVES, as more facts come to light, the basic premise has NEVER been disproven, so the theory grows and changes as new facts are dug up. Quite literally dug up.

This is like saying we were freinds with Saddam for years, we can't attack him now.

Get a grip.

[Axolotl]

You're right, it may have occurred more than once, but all living things are descended from one living thing, so if life arose more than once, it is extinct or has not been found.

[Not Insane]

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

You've seen it then?

[general_re]

I had the same information years ago that the earth acted in a particular way.

Did you have the same information 10,000 years ago, or do you merely infer that the earth orbited the sun 10,000 years ago? ;)

[Not Insane]

"The earth is flat, the sun goes around it and Darwin was wrong...a triple crown for ignorance..."

Well, as knowledge increases, it has been changed thusly:

"The earth is flat, the sun goes around it and Darwin was right...a triple crown for ignorance...

[Axolotl]

mutations are random...which ones leave more descendants than others is not random, but it doesn't involve intelligence to decide which ones leave more desecendants...some are better suited to the conditions of life so they leave more descendants.