Teaching Origins Objectively (5+ Hour Extended Version)

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In May 2005, the Kansas Board of Education conducted 4 days of hearings on science standards designed to promote the teaching of evolution and origins objectively. Twenty-three experts testified as to the scientific validity of the evolution controversy that is important not only to science, but to religion, ethics, morals and government. This documentary covers the highlights of the over 20 hours of recorded testimony of expert witnesses from around the world.

Teaching Origins Objectively (5+ Hour Extended Version) Review

This DVD is long (two hours), and there is an even longer (five-hour) one available. Two hours is enough, I think, to appreciate the main points of the controversy surrounding teaching origins in public schools, using the evaluation regarding same in the state of Kansas.

This DVD covers a series of public hearings, taking place over a number of days, during which twenty different experts came to testify regarding the advisability of including Intelligent Design (ID) in the public school curriculum. The presenters ranged from university professors to a freelance media representative from Turkey. All presenters were advocating the inclusion of such material.

Prosecution (cross examination) was done by an attorney, counsel for a group self-identified as a scientific group (which, having been trained as a scientist myself, I question highly). Nevertheless, more often than not, his questions served as springboards into salient and succinct points made by the presenters. His own presentation was an hour and forty-five minutes long, however, only a portion is covered in this DVD. It was a ridiculous display of harassment and yelling toward the board (which was treated most respectfully by all the other presenters), and in the end, he breached rules by refusing to subject his own presentation to questions of any kind. Unbelievable that such intimidation tacts are tolerated; however, the chilling effect on the controversy is pervasive, as I learned myself during some twelve years in higher education, both as a student (from the undergraduate through the doctoral levels) and as a faculty member.

Mustafa Akyol was the Freelance Writer for Turkish and U.S. Media, a Muslim, and he pointed out that this debate in Kansas was of interest beyond the state, even beyond the United States to the world. In response to a question by one of the panelists (of the Board of Education in Kansas), he referred to a quote: In China, it is possible to question Darwin, but not to question the government; in the United States it is possible to question the government, but not to question Darwin. This contrast summarizes a key problem with neo-Darwinian evolution as currently advanced in educational institutions -- particularly public educational institutions, up to the highest level.

The hypothesis of neo-Darwinian evolution is embraced as a religion (by definition) and is advanced with intimidation tactics that kill the heart of what true science -- indeed, true objective inquiry -- is about!

This is not entertainment, it is serious debate on a critical issue that has untold bearing on the very way that vast multitudes are being taught to think about a core question ("From where do we come?") Both sides could benefit from watching this DVD, providing that both sides do so objectively.

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