Posted on 06/09/2003 6:07:51 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
In the years that BreakPoint has been on the radio, I've had some strong words about our nation's public television broadcasting system, PBS. Two years ago, for example, I criticized PBS's airing of a deeply flawed series on the theory of evolution. That series was inaccurate and one-sided, leaving out any mention of the scientific evidence that supported the theory of intelligent design.
But today I've got good news about PBS to report. And this is news where you can make a real difference.
Over the past few weeks, here and there around the country, some PBS stations have been broadcasting the one-hour science documentary "Unlocking the Mystery of Life." This program tells the story of the biological theory of intelligent design. Using interviews with scientists and philosophers, computer animation, and location footage -- from such sites as the Galapagos Islands -- "Unlocking the Mystery of Life" describes the emergence of an alternative theory to strictly naturalistic evolution.
Naturalistic evolution, you see, credits all the amazing diversity and complexity of life solely to mindless natural causes, and that's how PBS science programs usually explain biology. That's "usually" as in "the sun usually goes down at night." You'd search fruitlessly if you tried to find PBS presenting the scientific case for a different viewpoint than Darwinian. And so airing "Unlocking the Mystery" points to a significant breakthrough.
The documentary tells such a good scientific story that, earlier this year, PBS made the program available to all of its national affiliates. Local stations could download the program from a satellite link, and -- if they so decided -- put it into their schedules.
Stations in Oklahoma and Michigan have already done so, and in a couple of days, PBS affiliates in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and Texas will broadcast the program as well. You can contact BreakPoint (1-877-3-CALLBP) for the days and times of these broadcasts.
Airing "Unlocking the Mystery" on taxpayer-supported public television is great news for intellectual freedom and openness in science. Most Americans learn about new developments in science from TV -- shows like the long-running PBS series NOVA. A well produced TV documentary can take complicated scientific theories and make them accessible and easy to understand -- even fun to watch. For young people, science that might be boring in the classroom becomes fascinating when presented imaginatively on television.
But TV can also exclude scientific ideas if they're deemed too controversial or likely to upset the scientific establishment. Challenges to Darwinian evolution have been seen just that way, religiously motivated and therefore suspect. But science suffers as a result, because there is plenty of evidence that does challenge Darwinism, and the public needs to hear both sides.
So here's what you can do. Call your local PBS station if it hasn't scheduled "Unlocking the Mystery," and encourage it to show the program. Send them an e-mail. If they've already shown it, let them know you appreciate their willingness to present alternatives to Darwinian evolution -- and that you'd like to see more of such programming in the future.
Doesn't ID fall into this category?
How does one prove what created matter?
Putting words in Mamzelle's mouth is a non-non.
Haven't seen a Darwinist yet who didn't make lots of leaps of faith. I had to laugh because so much of evolutionism is "and then a miracle happened." Only, it comes out "and then a million years took care of that little inconvenience."
Evolution is a marvelous descriptive tool for the classification and understanding of the interrelatedness of life. A useful paradigm, if you will. But the conclusions drawn are so laughable, so outlandish! "Splitting from chimps." Yeah, of course, we split all the time. I don't so much argue that creationism is scientific--I don't have to. I have no interest in such a thing. Evolutionism porports to be scientific, and it is not. It's time for the Darwinists to redefine themselves as a religion, or a philosophical ideology like existentialism.
I am not defending ID so it was silly to demand that I do - if you ask a silly question, ask not "will it go round in circles". I am just arguing against close-minded knee-jerk evolutionists.
BTW: it is "will it go round in circles" not "does it"
Now I would like to "fly high like a bird up in the sly"
BTW: your opinion is well put and does not include emotion statements (like "I'm right and you're wrong")
No. The Big Bang theory starts after matter was created (at least as I have seen it presented). It is a starting point but it does not explain what happened two seconds before the Big Bang. A starting point - but not the beginning. Where did the matter come from?
And we have yet to figure out EXACTLY how it ALL started
You are starting to see the light.
but NO where, and I MEAN NO WHERE, does the big bang theory say, then "a miracle happened", or "goddidit", no where in the theory of the big bang will you find either of those 2 phrases, you may see "we don't know yet", but no where will you see "goddidit" or "a miracle happened".
So. You think saying "duh, I don't know" covers up the fact that a supernatural miracle is needed for the Big Bang to be a complete origin theory. Sorry, does not work that way. Just because you choose to ignore it – that does not mean it is not there.
Sure it is, but some small changes to DNA have dramatic implications to form and function. Also, the rate of change in a species is determined by selection as well as mutation. Mutation can remain constant, but if selection does not favor change, you get a reletively static form.
It does give one pause. There are two species of elephants alive today, and even the mammoths are relatively recently extinct. I'd count them as contemporary with mankind.
And look how many horses there are--common horse, donkeys, zebras...those species can even cross-breed for infertile offspring. Camels in SAmerica, and in Africa.
How come man is so lonely?
Printing that out to give to my wife. Been telling her that for years. Now I have proof!
Seriously, thanks for the kind words. What part of MS was your dad from?
MM
You are not a very good mind reader so maybe you should give it up.
My point - easy: be open minded. Don't buy the evolutionist BS that their theory is scientifically provable. I don't fear the supernatural because history shows often today's supernatural is tomorrow's natural. I am not so arrogant as to believe that science is currently in possession of all or almost all of the knowledge in the universe. 500 years ago - science thought they were pretty smart but 500 years later we find they know very little and were wrong about a lot of things - to me that means 500 years from now they will say our science knew very little and was wrong about a lot of things.
Three. Turns out the African Elephant actually comprises two distinct species (or something like that).
We killed off our closest relatives.
I'm sorry, but you lost me there. Evolutionists do not claim the theory is "scientifically provable" -- there ain't no such animal. Evolutionists do claim, however, that a preponderance of the evidence supports evolution.
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