Icons Of Evolution

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Summary: The best video on this subject
Review: There are many conflicting views on the subject of evolution. This video encourages you to think critically and explores new research and the most common arguments presented in the high school and college textbooks-the "icons" of evolution. What a radical idea-presenting both sides of the argument! Sure to ruffle a few feathers. Artfully done and wrapped around a good story.

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Summary: Poisoning the Wells
Review: This is a fine video that explores icons of the cult of Darwin and the fanatical attempts of the neo-Darwinians to suppress all challenges to their quaint little belief. I deduct one star because it is too short. There are so many other important frauds and deceptions in need of being addressed that permeate this amazing movement that seeks to convince rational people, through a series of "just so stories", that they somehow descended from rocks. These cry out to be addressed in a format such as this. At the very least I would have liked a little more on the Darwinist attempt to disguise the macro-stasis evident in the fossil record. That fine point aside, this is an approachable treatment of how the Darwinists reach has now exceeded their grasp and how by simply asking questions, people are beginning to see that the Emperor of Evolution has no clothes.

In addition to exposing some of the more outrageous Darwinist frauds, this video provides a good treatment of the coercive nature of the neo-Darwinian establishment. It documents how Darwinists behave as they lose the minds and hearts of the people and therefore must stoop to using raw power and might to keep the growing number of dissident academics on the reservation. Watch this video and be astonished by the patronizing nonsense offered up as justification for Darwinist intellectual bullying. Finally, As a bonus, by reading all the "reviews" by "Clairvoyant One Star Warriors" who clearly didn't watch one minute of this documentary, one can see the condescending and patronizing attitudes of those who, having failed to win the debate with the Intelligent Design movement, seek now to suppress it.

Notes on the film:

The music is acceptable for those who have grown weary of everything having to sound like some foul MTV Mu-sick video.

The production quality is high and on par with the best of the documentary makers craft.

The film is suitable for Middle School through High School students though undergraduate College students can use it as a springboard for college level research.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is an excellent addition to the book! Perfect for classroom use and those wanting to know contemporary critiques of textbook Darwinian theory. Artfully assembled, it is a pleasure just to watch. I especially like the motion & audio throughout the section on the Cambrian explosion.

This shows, quickly and throroughly, why Darwinian evolution is scientifically troubled. Watch the sister film "Unlocking the Mystery of Life" to see why many of the scientists in this film think that the theory of intelligent design is a better explanation for life's origins.

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Summary: Another Nail In Evolution's Coffin
Review: Using Mr. Dehart, former biology teacher in Burlington, WA., whose using peer-reviewed materials that question evolution, as a backdrop and using many materials based loosely on Johnathan Well's book "Icons of Evolution", the DVD takes the viewer along certian ideas and questionable tactics in the evolution controversy. Though the paying field is stacked in the favor of those who question evolution, the show's purpose is to balance against the dogma so often taught and viewed in schools and on TV.

First, one clearly identifies teh paralells between the "Scope trial" and Mr. Dehart's position, the difference is that now the fundamentalists are the Darwinian Evolutionists. Topics discussed are the proper role of a high school science tecaher and thena cursory look at some of the "Icons of Evolution" such as Haekel's drawings, the fruit fly, and Cambrian explosion. The propducers did an outstanding job in presenting the Cambrian Explosion.

The DVD is of high quality and many of the supports of teaching material critical of evolution are scienctists who themselves are peer-reviewed, college professors in their fields.

The only fault is that the DVD is only 51 minutes and the special features could have been better. This DVD should have been longer further dealing with other "Icons of Evolution."

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Summary: For once, an objective view on critical thinking
Review: What is so refreshing about this DVD is that it does not push a religious or "Creationist" front, as so many that strives to contradict Evolution do. Rather than approaching the debate with advocates for Creationism, it approaches the debate with advocates for Evolution (and most of them staunch evolutionists) who are willing to admit that there are some holes.

This DVD does not provide any answers. Rather, it begs creative and critical thought, a needed quality in today's world of gloss and mind-numbing entertainment. The piece stays true to the "scientific method" of questioning and testing rather than simple avocation of a theory. Rather than accepting inconsistencies, this piece simply asking the participant to execute logical scientific process and look at all options. It acknowledges the fact that Evolution still does not explain everything, nor does it provide a 100% solid foundation as a guiding principal for the explanation of life on this earth. It begs the viewer to look, as a true scientist would, at all current theories and to begin the critical thinking process again from a new viewpoint of objectivity rather than political fence-straddling.

There is real content here so the producers resisted the urge (as so many today do NOT) to gloss over everything with audio/video eye-candy. This is a logical film that is infinitely accessible and informative. Format, flow, and images are clear and straight forward, with impressive computer graphics and appropriate audio tracks strive to do more than giving me an "experience". I won't be showing this to friends for the great graphics or the smooth soundtrack - I will share it with them for discussion.

I would highly recommend this DVD to anyone who is fascinated by the questions of who are we, where are from, and where are we going. I would also recommend this to any school curriculum program, especially high school science - I can't help but wonder how much further we could have learned the principles of science, debate, and presentation, if we would have simply viewed this when I was in high school. It begs the point of fostering open discussion and personal questioning.

Given this aspect, it would also be highly appropriate to any university as well, this primarily because it simply asks us to open our eyes to all possibilities rather than blindly following an "ism". This DVD has no "camp" and does not pretend to accept anything other than inquiry.

I have always personally believed that the educational process was to make creative thinkers rather than automated encyclopedias of information - this DVD treats me like a thinker rather than a sheep - a nice change.

Whenever I find myself or my family simply accepting anything that doesn't really make since, this film will be spinning in the DVD player as a wake-up call. I want my children to be leaders, not followers.

Rating:
Summary: For once, an objective view on critical thinking
Review: What is so refreshing about this DVD is that it does not push a religious or "Creationist" front, as so many that strives to contradict Evolution do. Rather than approaching the debate with advocates for Creationism, it approaches the debate with advocates for Evolution (and most of them staunch evolutionists) who are willing to admit that there are some holes.

This DVD does not provide any answers. Rather, it begs creative and critical thought, a needed quality in today's world of gloss and mind-numbing entertainment. The piece stays true to the "scientific method" of questioning and testing rather than simple avocation of a theory. Rather than accepting inconsistencies, this piece simply asking the participant to execute logical scientific process and look at all options. It acknowledges the fact that Evolution still does not explain everything, nor does it provide a 100% solid foundation as a guiding principal for the explanation of life on this earth. It begs the viewer to look, as a true scientist would, at all current theories and to begin the critical thinking process again from a new viewpoint of objectivity rather than political fence-straddling.

There is real content here so the producers resisted the urge (as so many today do NOT) to gloss over everything with audio/video eye-candy. This is a logical film that is infinitely accessible and informative. Format, flow, and images are clear and straight forward, with impressive computer graphics and appropriate audio tracks strive to do more than giving me an "experience". I won't be showing this to friends for the great graphics or the smooth soundtrack - I will share it with them for discussion.

I would highly recommend this DVD to anyone who is fascinated by the questions of who are we, where are from, and where are we going. I would also recommend this to any school curriculum program, especially high school science - I can't help but wonder how much further we could have learned the principles of science, debate, and presentation, if we would have simply viewed this when I was in high school. It begs the point of fostering open discussion and personal questioning.

Given this aspect, it would also be highly appropriate to any university as well, this primarily because it simply asks us to open our eyes to all possibilities rather than blindly following an "ism". This DVD has no "camp" and does not pretend to accept anything other than inquiry.

I have always personally believed that the educational process was to make creative thinkers rather than automated encyclopedias of information - this DVD treats me like a thinker rather than a sheep - a nice change.

Whenever I find myself or my family simply accepting anything that doesn't really make since, this film will be spinning in the DVD player as a wake-up call. I want my children to be leaders, not followers.