A Cloud of Ink
A blogger writes:
Apparently, Expelled wasn’t bad enough. Creationists are putting out yet another pseudo-documentary about evolution, The Voyage That Shook the World. But this time it looks like they’re being subtler. Althought the trailer for the film comments Darwin’s ideas still being controversial, there’s not much there that would give one the impression that the film was anti-evolution. However, with very little effort, you can find out that the film was produced by Creation Ministries International. And according to PZ Myers, they’re also using the same old tricks employed in Expelled:
They got several Darwin experts (Peter Bowler, Sandra Herbert, and Janet Browne) to appear in the “documentary” by concealing their motives. And then they admit to cherry-picking the interviews to put together their story.
Talk about cherry-picking… PZ Meyers failed to mention that those ‘deceived’ did not actually have their words twisted by editing to misrepresent their views. The film is lacking in bias. Its makers wanted a level playing field — which they are usually denied — so they could ask honest questions of that-which-must-not-be-questioned.
Seems the Darwinists can dish it out but they can’t take it. William Dembski writes:
Boo-Hoo: Documentary Makers Didn’t Tell Us They Think Darwinism Is a Crock
“John Lynch whines that “noted historians”* weren’t properly informed that a documentary for which they were interviewed (The Voyage That Shook the World) would take an anti-Darwinist line. Lynch is outraged: the documentary makers are guilty of “lies” and “deception.” Would a charge of fraud hold up in court? I suspect the documentary makers simply withheld information. Is that wrong? The BBC, for instance, didn’t inform me that a documentary they were making about ID was to be called “A War on Science,” and that I would be portrayed as one of the “bad people” trying to “destroy science.”I was, to be sure, displeased with this outcome, but I recognize that this is the way the game is played. The other side has been dishing it out for a long time, but has a hard time of it when the tables are turned.*Would Lynch have been okay with the documentary if the historians in question had instead merely been “mediocre historians” or “historians whose reliability regarding Darwinism is questionable”?
When you think about it, Voyage that Shook the World is actually a documentary made by skeptics. These guys should welcome such analysis of their beliefs, er, facts.
It seems that rather than deal publicly with these questions, atheists resort to ridicule and ad hominems. When caught out, they pump the water full of ink like a terrified octopus.
The movie’s website is here.
Here’s a longer trailer that was made before the doco was finished:
