Judgment day [videorecording] : intelligent design on trial / produced by Joseph McMaster, Gary Johnstone, Vanessa Tovell ; written by Joseph McMaster ; directed by Gary Johnstone, Joseph McMaster ; a production by NOVA and Vulcan Productions, Inc. ; in association with The Big Table Film Company.
Lewis Hancock, Nigel Whitney, Richard Laing, James Jordan, Debora Weston, Glenn Wragg, Jay Benedict, Jeff Harding. Narrator: Jay O. Sanders. Originally broadcast on Nov. 13, 2007 as an episode of the PBS television program, Nova. Copyright date on credit frame: 2007; copyright date on container: 2008. DVD-ROM features: Teaching materials (PDF); access to the Nova website.
Contents:
Darwin in the classroom -- Evolution or intervention? -- Taking stands -- Darwin and the human genome -- Dover divided -- The bacterial flagellum -- The smoking gun -- The wedge -- The verdict and its aftermath.
Summary:
"Judgment day: intelligent design on trial" captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design--the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply, and both parents and teachers filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state. ... Featuring trial reenactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants and expert scientists, this program presents the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District."--Container.
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