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Mardi, août 3rd, 2010
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Movie Title: Judgment Day - Intelligent Design on Trial
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This is a very nicely done DVD outlining the case of Kitzmiller et. al. v. Dover School Board. If you are reading this, you doubtless know the gist of the case: a handful of maverick school-board members decide to disapprove of the “standard” biology textbook (the “Dragonfly” book by Miller and Levine, which has been used for quite a while). Instead, they wnt to teach a more “intelligent-design-friendly” text and….a logal battle ensues.

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This DVD is a very engaging recount of the trial’s action. The most memorable part of the film - and what sets it apart from other films that profile the case - is that this one reenacts pieces of the case, using actors to read from the actual transcript. In other words, we actually get to watch the moment when Ken Miller (the co-author of the “Dragonfly book”) tears the very Christian lawyer from the Thomas Moore Law Center to shreds over his “just a thoery” remark. It really happened, and now, we get to see it brought back to life. If you value science, you will find this as entertaining as I did.

While the film’s goal is to primarily profile the case, it also serves as a great explanation and defense of evolution. We hear, for instance, about what makes evolution falsifiable, and some of the most recent ‘tests’ it has undergone (with flying colors). We get the cursory tour of genetics and how it operates as the fundamental mechanism of evolutionary theory.

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But most of all, this film is about the trial. The passion of both sides is well captured through interviews with many of the participants: we hear both from board members and plaintiffs, the Thomas Moore Law Center and the ACLU. I do not want to say, hosever, that this film is balanced. (It is a pro-science program, and as such, it is very pro-evolution). It is helpful, though, to be able to put faces to names, and hear each person’s perspective from their own mouths.

In the end, of course, creationism did what it does best: it lost out to science. In so many words, an astute philosopher named Barbara Forrest was able to demonstrate with conclusive evidence that Intelligent Design actually IS creationism revamped. Thus, the creationists’ whole case was blown. But the emotion that surrounds this issue will doubtless be around for some time, resurfacing (and hopefully losing) many more times before it dies.

And this is a really good film to remind us all that it is battle very much alive.

While it’s obvious that Nova has a bias toward science, I think the documentary did a good job of giving air time to those on both sides of the issue in this documentary on the Dover trial on Evolution vs Intelligent Design. They did dramatize court room testimony, but it was taken from court transcripts so I would assume the dialog to be fairly accurate. It was clear about halfway through that many of the opponents to the theory of Evolution had very little understanding of what a scientific theory is. They mentioned this in the documentary, but I wish that they would have given it a bit more time as I believe this is one of those fundamental misunderstandings that some have with science and how it works. Science is simply the best means we have for finding out the truth. So if Nova is bias toward science, you could say that they are simply bias toward the truth.
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