Re: Horizon: A War on Science

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:51:27 -0000, "Donald"
<donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"John Brockbank" <wagley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I missed the last ten minutes of the programme, but frankly I thought it
>> total propaganda in favour of the creationists. Showing a hand throwing
>> dice and a voiceover saying that 'evolutionists think everything happened
>> randomly' is a disgrace in a programme supposed to be about science. It
>> is a pity that the BBC will not put on a short series about Evolution; no
>> doubt they would say that if people want education they should go to
>> school, the BBC wants viewers.
>
>The voice over didn't actually say that. The only time the word random was
>used was when discussing the random mutations that can occur when genetic
>material is passed on from one generation to the next.
>
>The programme started out with the IC position and finished with the
>evolutionist one, concluding along the way that IC is anything but science.
>It's a pity you missed the last ten minutes. As I said earlier, Behe's face
>as he recited his claims (and by the time of the interview, these claims has
>been long since completely discredited) was a picture - he knew he was
>talking rubbish and knew the audience knew he was talking rubbish.
>Priceless.

I thought the program fair because is actually gave more time to IC to
make their arguments, it was not the programs fault that it only took
a few minutes to show the holes in their arguments.

--
Alan "Ferrit" Ferris

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