Evolution: Parts Six and Seven (Minds Big Bang / What About God)
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Actor: Liam Neeson (narrator)Brand: PBS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
DVD Reviews of Evolution: Parts Six and Seven (Minds Big Bang / What About God)
DVD Review: The amazing evolution, capabilities and and self imposed limitations of the human mind
Summary: 5 Stars
In the first part of this brilliant documentary we are taken to archaeological and cave explorations around the world in search of the answer to what happened 40 thousand years ago that caused a sudden development in the human mind evident in changes in the way humans lived. The development and importance of language is emphasized. One central theme is that it is not biological evolution alone that explains humans' adaptation and survival as a species. Cultural evolution created by human intelligence has an equally important role.
The second part of the documentary is especially interesting , it is yet another amazing demonstration of the never ending controversy between Darwinian evolutionists and Intelligent Design Creationists. This time the battle scenes are Wheaton College and Jefferson High School in the USA. The documentary approaches the issue unbiased; it tells the story without taking sides. It is amazing to see how the most intelligent species on the planet ; humans can be caught up in dogmatic irrational thinking that refutes scientific method of thought. The fundamentalist Christian belief that creation by God took place in 6 days as described in the Bible not as Charles Darwin explained in his book named The Origin of the Species 200 years ago is a dogma that some people are brainwashed with since early childhood. In the documentary we see that even if these people become scientists in adult life and are exposed to scientific evidence that contradicts their religious beliefs about evolution they still hold on to their dogmas. Scientific evidence is not enough to change the irrational beliefs formed early in childhood as a result of fundamentalist religious education. Only a few of them are able to question the dogma and accept the possibility that perhaps Darwin may be right. As seen in this documentary the fundementalists try to dock the first amendment of the American Constitution that stipulates the separation of church and state by claiming that Intelligent Design is not a religious teaching but another scientific theory that should be taught alongside Darwin's theories in schools. However, their intentions are religious. I recommend that you also watch the documentary named " Judgement day : Intelligent Design on Trial " which clearly demonstrates underlying hidden motives of Creationists.
It is ridiculous to equate the study of and belief in Darwin's theories with atheism. A person can believe in God and Darwin's theory of evolution simultaneously. He / she does not have to believe the 6 day creation dogma with no scientific basis to be a believer in God. Perhaps God designed evolution the way Darwin described it. Perhaps not. The only way to find out if Darwin was right or wrong is through scientific research. Not by refuting the scientific method and replacing it with some kind of religious dogma. Darwin's theory of evolution does not imply that God had no role in evolution, just that God's role is not the way Creationists describe it. It is amazing that the human mind which developed so much that it made humans the most intelligent species on Earth can be so conditioned in early childhood that it becomes a self imposed under achiever of its intellectual potential.
The mentality that has been trying to replace Darwin's theory of Evolution with Intelligent Design since the beginning of the 20th century is the same mentality that convicted Galileo hundreds of years ago for claiming that it is the Earth that revolves around the sun not the other way around as claimed by the church.
I don't know if fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Moslems around the world who hate one another so much realize that they are 100 % in agreement on this issue. It is not in just the USA and not just in the Christian world that Darwin gets regularly attacked and Intelligent Design tryes to take hold of education. For example just a few weeks ago as I am writing these lines the following things happened in Turkey, a Moslem country with a secular State : anti- Darwinist Islamist Creationists made a move against Darwin in Turkey ; the monthly magazine of a government sponsored Turkish Scientific Research Organization in Turkey put Darwin's picture on the cover of the March 2009 issue and devoted 16 pages to him in commemoration of Darwin's 200th birth year. Immediately after this, the director of the organization purged the editor from the organization and had Darwin erased from the cover of the magazine. His justification was that the current situation in Turkey was too sensitive to tolerate Darwin on the cover of the magazine. For many days after this event a strong reaction continued from the secular organizations and press in Turkey and internationally. Some Turkish secular organizations conducted protest demonstrations demanding the resignation of the directors of the government sponsored Scientific Research Organization who they claimed were Islamist Creationists. The directors backed down and denied they had anything against Darwin. But the editor of the magazine who was purged subsequently claimed that the directors were lying, that she was told that she was fired for putting Darwin's picture on the cover of the magazine and that she would take the matter to court. Several days later under severe pressure from the Turkish secular community the editor was reinstated.
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