Judgment day : intelligent design on trial

DVD

Judgment day : intelligent design on trial / produced by Joseph McMaster, Gary Johnstone, Vanessa Tovell ; directed by Gary Johnstone, Joseph McMaster ; written by Joseph McMaster ; a production by NOVA and Vulcan Productions, Inc. in association with the Big Table Film Company.

Vulcan Productions. (Added Author). Big Table Film Company. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Judgment day: intelligent design on trial" captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design--the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply, and both parents and teachers filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state. ... Featuring trial reenactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants and expert scientists, this program presents the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District."--Container.

Record details

ISBN: 1593757190
ISBN: 9781593757199
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Widescreen ed.
Publisher: [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, �2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Copyright date on credit frame: 2007; copyright date on container: 2008.

Originally broadcast on Nov. 13, 2007 as an episode of the PBS television program, NOVA.

DVD-ROM features: Teaching materials (PDF).
Formatted Contents Note:: Darwin in the classroom -- Evolution or intervention? -- Taking stands -- Darwin and the human genome -- Dover divided -- The bacterial flagellum -- The smoking gun -- The wedge -- The verdict and its aftermath.
Creation/Production Credits Note:: Editor, Jonathan Sahula.
Participant or Performer Note:: Narrator: Jay O. Sanders.
System Details Note:: DVD.
Language Note:: Closed-captioned.