Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (2006)

Director:

Randy Olson

Writer:

Randy Olson (writer)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Evolutionary Ecologist, Randy Olson, tries to find out just who is the real "Flock of Dodos"

Plot:

Filmmaker and evolutionary biologist Randy Olson tries to figure out if it is the Darwinists or Intelligent Design supporters who will become a flock of dodos.

Plot Keywords:

Dodos | Evolution | Intelligent Design

Cast

Michael Behe	...	Intelligent Design Supporter (as Michael Behe Ph.D.)
John Calvert	...	Intelligent Design Supporter
Jack Cashill	...	Intelligent Design Supporter
Tom Givnish	...	Evolutionist
Randy Olson	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Erik Alden
Dr. David Bottjer	...	Evolutionist
Carol Brown
Jeff Brown
John L. Burch
Dr. John Angus Campbell	...	Intelligent Designer
Ty Carlisle
Dr. Steve Case	...	Evolutionist
Dr. Michael Donoghue	...	Evolutionist
Ron Etter	...	Evolutionist
Dr. Daphne Fautin	...	Evolutionist
Sue Gamble	...	Moderate Republican
Thomas Givnish	...	Evolutionist
Dr. James Handen	...	Evolutionist
Dr. William Harris	...	Intelligent Designer
Ed Leydecker
Dr. Karel Liem	...	Evolutionist
Dr. Donal Manahan	...	Evolutionist
Kathy Martin	...	Conservative Repbulican
Bob Muller	...	Evolutionist
Steven Orzack	...	Evolutionist
Dr. Jane Pickering	...	Evolutionist
Pastor Edward Rowand
Mark Skinner	...	Evolutionist
Bill Wagon	...	Democrat
Dr. Jonathan Wells	...	Intelligent Designer

Directed by
Randy Olson

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Randy Olson		writer

Produced by
Ty Carlisle	....	producer
Thomas Chan	....	co-producer
Julie Janata	....	executive producer
Ed Leydecker	....	co-producer
Peter LoGreco	....	co-producer
Steven Miller	....	executive producer
Randy Olson	....	producer
Stevo Polyi	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Amotz Plessner

Cinematography by
Shane Seley
Joseph Trinh

Film Editing by
Pascal Leister

Art Direction by
Ryan Mitchell

Art Department
Gary Reisman	....	graphic artist

Sound Department
Thomas Chan	....	sound
Jillinda Palmer	....	sound editor
Jake Gideon Posner	....	voiceover recordist
B. Tennyson Sebastian III	....	sound mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Scott Degraw	....	assistant camera
Matt Hawley	....	assistant camera
Zach Jones	....	assistant camera
Peter LoGreco	....	assistant camera
Joseph Trinh	....	assistant camera
Ray Woodhouse	....	assistant camera

Animation Department
Tom Sito	....	animation director
Jonathan Archambault	....	digital ink & paint (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Ty Carlisle	....	assistant editor
Joe Faissal	....	on-line editor
Laura Jans	....	colorist
Judd H. Maslansky	....	assistant editor
Randy Olson	....	assistant editor
J. Bretton Truett	....	on-line editor

Music Department
Robin Urdang	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Peter D. Coogan	....	stock footage researcher
Jeff Dowd	....	producer's representative
Ryan Mitchell	....	publicity art director
Muffy Moose	....	head dodo
Tuan Chau-Minh Nguyen	....	researcher
Tuan Nguyen	....	stock footage researcher
Michael Sebastian	....	production assistant (as Mike Sebastian)
Jean Sievers	....	publicist

Production Companies

• Prairie Starfish Productions
• Shifting Baselines

Distributors

• Shifting Baselines (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Talking Evolution Productions

MPAA:

Rated PG for some thematic elements and brief mild language.

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo (RCA Sound System) | Dolby

Certification:

USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Dover, Pennsylvania, USA

Company:

Prairie Starfish Productions

And which dodo wrote this movie?

It never ceases to amaze me how evolutionists posture themselves as the great intellectual victims in America. Hey, wake up, you won! In fact, YOU WON BIG, so stop whining. Forget for a moment that you are crusading for a theory which has scant little verifiable evidence for where its advocates want to take it, or as a general explanation of the development of life on earth. It's like one of the great scams of the last century. In the home of the free and the land of the brave you get to teach unimpeded and unquestioned a theory with gaping holes and little actual factual support as an explanation for the development of life. Congratulations!

And what the school district wanted to do in the Dover case was so insignificant, that is, inform kids that another theory existed. Oh my goodness, what happened to the opportunity to form your own opinion? If John Scopes were alive today he'd be fired for teaching that Darwinism might just not be right. Heresy!! It's like the Dark Ages all over again, except this time the left is in control. Isn't the free expression of reasoned belief and opinion what PBS and the ACLU are supposed to stand for, or does that only apply to beliefs without Christian support? The only thing I agree with Bush on (and I voted Dem the last two presidential elections) is that both theories have some factual basis, neither have complete validation, and both are appropriate for the classroom where neither can scientifically prove itself to be the definitive answer.

This movie and the even more intellectually dishonest NOVA "documentary" (I gag at the use of that word with the NOVA "effort", my tax dollars at work) assume that Darwin's theories have been conclusively proved to be correct as an explanation for the development of life on earth, and that if you were just smart enough and didn't let your mind be clouded by the religious nonsense you'd see the truth too. Unfortunately, that just AIN'T TRUE. The Inconvenient Truth (ignored by these position papers) is that there are as many issues with Darwin's theories as there are with the intelligent design theory. The dishonesty of this movie (and the NOVA "effort") in appearing to show the creationist view, but simply as a set up to the Darwinist response, is so contrived as to suggest the weakness of the Darwinist position. This one does the intellectual dishonesty in a particularly coy, pseudo self-effacing manner, making it in its own way even more dishonest. And they always have to throw in the personal stuff, just to show how all the creationists are Nazis and the anti-creationists just humble little folks (who nonetheless would like to impress their unsupported beliefs on your kids). I'm sure there are personal issues both ways, but you won't see it here or on NOVA. Let's have an intelligent debate on this issue, not the propaganda machine. Be professional journalists and grow up guys.