DARWIN’S DILEMMA WILL BE RELEASED ON DVD SEPT. 15
By: Staff
Discovery Institute
September 9, 2009
One of the most spectacular events in the history of life, the Cambrian explosion, is brought to life through stunning animation in the new documentary Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Explosion released by Illustra Media September 15, 2009.Visit website and view trailer
This major documentary, the third in Illustra’s internationally-acclaimed intelligent design series, probes one of the great mysteries of science, the Cambrian explosion, when in a moment of geological time complex animals first appeared on earth fully formed, without evidence of any evolutionary ancestors.
Charles Darwin viewed this as an inexplicable mystery. He had envisioned the evolution of life through a multitude of small, undirected steps. Yet, the fossil record reveals no such pattern of gradual development. Instead, early in the Cambrian period compound eyes, articulated limbs, sophisticated sensory organs and skeletons burst into existence seemingly out of nowhere.
“The big question that the Cambrian Explosion poses is where does all that new information come from?” says Dr. Stephen Meyer, a scientist featured in the documentary and author of the book Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design. “We know that new information can only come from intelligence, and so the burst of genetic information during the Cambrian era provides compelling evidence that animal life is the product of intelligent design rather than a blind undirected process like natural selection.”
Darwin’s Dilemma recreates the prehistoric world of the Cambrian era with state-of-the-art computer animation, and features interviews with numerous scientists, including leading evolutionary paleontologists Simon Conway Morris of Cambridge University and James Valentine of the University of California at Berkeley, marine biologist Paul Chien of the University of San Francisco, and evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg, a Research Collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History. The film forms the conclusion of a trilogy of science documentaries by Illustra Media that includes the previous acclaimed films Unlocking the Mystery of Life and The Privileged Planet.
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Alguns cientistas que aparecem neste vídeo:
Simon Conway Morris is Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge and one of the world’s leading evolutionary paleontologists. He is noted in particular for his contributions to the understanding of the Cambrian Explosion and the fossils found in the Burgess Shale. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (United Kingdom) in 1990, he also has been awarded the Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (United States). Dr. Conway Morris is author of the noted books The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals (1998) and Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (2003). His views about the extent as well as the limits of Neo-Darwinism can be found in his article “Darwin was right. Up to a point.”
James Valentine is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Museum of Paleontology and the Center for Integrative Genomics. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the Cambrian Explosion, and is the author of numerous technical articles on the subject, as well as author of the books On the Origin of Phyla and Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere, co-author of Evolution and Evolving, and editor of Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolution.
Paul Chien is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco. A marine biologist, Dr. Chien received his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California at Irvine, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Dr. Chien’s work has been published in over fifty technical journals, and he has spoken internationally, and on numerous occasions, from Brazil to mainland China—where he has also been involved in cooperative research programs. Dr. Chien has done research in the renowned fossil beds of Chengjiang, China.
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NOTA IMPERTINENTE DESTE BLOGGER:
O neodarwinismo, oops, Claudio Angelo, da Folha de São Paulo, prefere Síntese Evolutiva Moderna, não explica a origem da grande quantidade de informação genética necessária para a diversidade e complexidade de vida nesta explosão de vida. Nossos autores de livros didáticos intencionalmente omitem a abordagem deste evento porque Darwin fica numa 'fria' no contexto de justificação teórica.
Alô MEC/SEMTEC/PNLEM não dá mais para engabelar os nossos estudantes: eles têm acesso a essas informaçãoes na internet.
Fui, nem sei por que, pensando no que uma grande explosão de 550 milhões de anos atrás pode fazer com uma teoria científica limitada do século 19 já nos seus estertores heurísticos no século 21, pedindo a revisão ou simplesmente o seu descarte.
Que venga la nueva teoría de evolución: a SÍNTESE EVOLUTIVA AMPLIADA que não será, enm poder ser, selecionista.
