 | The new documentary film "Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus" will have an advance screening on Monday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. |
The evolution vs. intelligent design controversy will be examined in a film screening and panel discussion on Monday, Feb. 13, sponsored by Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.
A new documentary film titled "Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus" will be screened at 7 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Seating is limited.
The film takes a new angle in its exploration of the conflict over public school science standards in Kansas and Dover, Pennsylvania, by focusing on tactics and which side is winning or losing the public relations battle.
Following the 84-minute movie, there will be a panel discussion moderated by Michael J. Donoghue, director of the Peabody Museum and the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The speakers will be "Flock of Dodos" director Randy Olson; John Hare, the Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at the Divinity School; Richard Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Peabody Museum curator of vertebrate zoology; and Carl Zimmer, science writer and winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2004 Science Journalism Award.
Olson, a filmmaker and marine biologist who hails from Kansas, believes that mainstream science is losing the fight for public opinion because most scientists aren't adept at public relations. Using the dodo as a metaphor, he warns that scientists "are running the risk of extinction" because the conservatives are way ahead of them in understanding the media and how it operates.
In the documentary, Olson shows how tactics employed by intelligent design proponents make the concept attractive to people. Academics and environmentalists, according to Olson, "don't understand the fact that we live in a society where the facts alone are not sufficient. Science absolutely requires two elements -- you do the science and then you communicate it. Science really neglects the communications side."
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