Bay of Fundie

“Judgment Day” is nigh! As I mentioned briefly a couple of months ago, Nova will air a special two-hour episode devoted to the 2004 creationism trial in Dover, PA. Here’s how the Nova website describes this episode:

In this program, NOVA captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in one of the latest battles over teaching evolution in public schools. Featuring trial reenactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants, including expert scientists and Dover parents, teachers, and town officials, “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial” follows the celebrated federal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District.
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NOVA presents the arguments by lawyers and expert witnesses in riveting detail and provides an eye-opening crash course on questions such as “What is evolution?” and “Is intelligent design a scientifically valid alternative?”
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U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III ultimately decided for the plaintiffs, writing in his decision that intelligent design “cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.”

The program is scheduled for November 13, 2007. That means the program is already in your Tivo’s program listings (you have a Tivo of course!), so you can go schedule it right now, before you forget!

For the technologically impoverished (who watch live TV), you can go to the Nova website to find out when and where you’ll be able to see it.

Don’t miss this. It ought to be good. (BTW, next week’s Nova is about Sputnik. That one looks good, too!)

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