NOVA has produced a documentary on the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial that took place two years ago [Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial]. The complete show will be available on the website [Watch Online] after November 14th. In the Toronto area we can watch it on WTVS Detroit (channel 163) on Tuesday Nov. 13th at 8pm or on WCTS Seattle (channel 164) at 11pm our time. Most people probably don't get these channels because they're part of a special timeshifting package. I find that WNED Buffalo, the regular PBS channel in this area, often doesn't show the documentaries I want to watch on PBS. It doesn't broadcast NOVA documentaries, for example. I assume they're too expensive.
Here's the trailer. The show looks really cool even if ultimately the trial will have very little effect on the creationist movement and may even have strengthened it.
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ReplyDeleteI checked the WNED program guide at:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wned.org/tv/searchRes.asp?keywordPBS=nova&channel=-1
They run all episodes on their HD channel so, program cost shouldn't be the issue. The regular channel is showing all NOVA episodes as airing except for Judgment Day.
Obviously they have some problem with airing Judgment Day on their channel that reaches the largest audience and the problem isn't cost. Hmm, I wonder what it could be, I'll bet on fear of offending fundies who donate to the station.
"[U]ltimately the trial will have very little effect on the creationist movement and may even have strengthened it."
ReplyDeleteEh? Whatever would lead you to that conclusion?
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ReplyDeleteEh? Whatever would lead you to that conclusion?
The first part of my conclusion is that the trial will have little effect on the creationist movement.
I base that conclusion on observations and history. There were several trials in the 1980's with the same result and the movement is still going strong. I hear there are more and more states trying to introduce creationism into the schools in spite of the court case.
Imagine that the IDiots had won in Dover. Would the evolutionist movement have been destroyed? Of course not.
This isn't about winning a court case. It's a fight for the hearts and minds of Americans. Losing a trial with all its negative publicity has the effect of rallying the troops. It also confirms the creationist self-image as a persecuted majority being tricked by the liberal atheists. That helps the cause enormously.
We all know, don't we, that the fight between science and religion isn't going to be decided by lawyers? Let's imagine that the composition of the Supreme Court changes and teaching of creationism becomes legal. Will that mean that evolution is wrong and creationism is right?
I often wonder what the evolutionist side would do if they lost a court case in the Supreme Court. With all their eggs in that basket, it could be a disaster.
I find that WNED Buffalo, the regular PBS channel in this area, often doesn't show the documentaries I want to watch on PBS. It doesn't broadcast NOVA documentaries, for example. I assume they're too expensive.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like WNED will show the Nova Kitzmiller documentary, two weeks late. According to their schedule they are airing it on Tuesday Nov. 27 at 8pm.