Re: NOVA on Dover

Gee, I can't help but feel the omission of the name and scientific
credentials of the co-author of the book they were trying to debunk
kind of biased, don't you think? A scientist who authoried a
pioneering book supporting evolution, but upon further studies became
the only critic of his own work, having found it flawed by further
research.

Sadly, those of us who have serious doubts as to the legitimacy of the
"science" of evolution have to put up with zealots who threaten people
and generally cast doubt on the whole of "creationists" or
"intelligent design" or "scientific evolution". Whatever it is
called, it doesn't alter the science. Either it stands on it's own
or it doesn't. But completely closing one's mind to one side (or the
other) accomplishes nothing. Remember, scientists have historically
been proven completely wrong about many theories thought to be
certain.

I am somewhat embarrassed by some of the creationists' representation,
and some of the more heavy handed techniques employed to get people to
see the other side of the issue. But that does not alter the very
real science behind the creationist view. I do think it is sad
that those who claim to be "objective" and using the scientific
methods go to such great lengths to suppress any other view, too.
But in the long view, it make little difference. No one's life is
hinging on the belief in evolution. (Unless you count the entirely
different matter of eternal life, which I am NOT considering.)

BTW, as for that so called "transitional" form, it looked a LOT like a
flounder to me. Scientist once told us that Lucy was the
transitional form, then some hollow boned reptile that was supposed to
preceed birds. All their so-called transitional forms have been
shown to be false so far. I suspect this fish thing will too, in
time. And how about all those "transitions of the horse seen in
science textbooks"? They were all found to co-exist in the Labrea
tar pits. LOL Pretty fast "evolution" that, eh?.

Just because someone calls themselves a creationist, it dosn't
necessarily mean a 6-day, fundamentalist Christian, either. But the
opposition likes to portray it that wan and they tried it again in
this Nova program, deliberately choosing inarticulate proponents of
creationism, and rather more articulate opponents.

But again, the tell-tale tipoff that this was just another attempt to
suppress any other view except evolution, was the omission of one of
the authors of the book they were trying to ridicule. That cannot
possibly be seen by anyone as fair and even-handed. Ask yourself, why
in the world would this man's name be completely omitted as an co-
author of the book, "Of Pandas and People". One can come to no other
conclusion but that the show didn't want people to know who wrote it
and how qualfied he was to do so.

SD



On Nov 17, 6:09 am, Alexander <alexanderhud...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For us Brits and other furryners that haven't had the opportunity to
see the documentary yet here's a link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html

It's in convenient bite size pieces so you can pick it up and put it
down whenever you like. Should warn people though, DI is right it's
incredibly biased - it walks through the trial, makes the arguments
for evolution quite clearly, succintly demonstrates how the parents
bringing the case were vilified and sent hate mail as well as exposing
ID as a religious argument ... oh no wait, that's not bias, that's
accurate reporting - mea culpa.

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