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Science anyone? Anyone?
PostedApril 18, 2008
Doug
from Huntsville, AL
Boring. That's the first word that comes to mind about this movie.
If you're interested in an actual scientific debate, this is not the movie for you. If you want to buy into a conspiracy theory that the scientists of the world are somehow colluding against religious believers; well, then, this is probably your movie (but I still think you'll find it boring).
Honestly; I wonder if I could get my money back. I would gladly return any memories I have of this movie. I would probably pay to have the memories extracted. An hour and a half of this movie and all I got was dumber.
The premise is that there exists a conspiracy to suppress an allegedly legitimate scientific theory called "Intelligent Design." Do the movie makers demonstrate this by showing solid science evidence behind intelligent design and show evolutionary biologists unable to legitimately criticize it? No. Instead they focus on the (lack of) religious beliefs of some prominent biologists (Dawkins, Myers et. al). I note they did not interview Ken Miller: maybe because he is too pious and too eloquent an evolution proponent.
No doubt the most offensive aspect of this movie is its clumsy association of "Darwinism" to the holocaust. Nice. Apparently design proponents not only can't persuade scientists their arguments are legit--they have to resort to denigrating scientists to make a point. Do they think I'm too dumb to decide for myself if a hypothesis has merit?
This movie does represent a interesting approach to the scientific method. If the producers of the movie get their way, we'll no longer have to wait for legitimate scientific discourse, peer-reviewed experimental results, and verification/reproduction of experiments to guide our scientific understanding of the world. Instead, ideologues will create propaganda to influence politicians to require teaching students ideas which experts in the field vehemently disagree with. I'm particularly looking forward to a thorough revision of the Theory of Gravity (intelligent suction maybe)--physicists have been getting off too easy while biologists take all the heat. But look at the bright side: after a couple hundred years of this "new" approach to education, maybe we can have the Renaissance all over again!
Short version: invest your 1.5 hours on the internet and see if there is any real science behind intelligent design, and skip this movie.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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