An episode from KTEH's Uncommon Knowledge series: "Darwin under the Microscope: Questioning Darwinism". Dr. Genie Scott goes toe to toe with creationist Dr. William Dembski. Air date: 12/7/2001
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I think my favorite thing about Dembski is that no matter when a given video of him is dated, it always looks like it's 1982.
What's up with the editing? Dembski goes on and on, but any time Genie gets on a roll it's time for a cheesy cut. Is it sexism or soft-balling?
What this shows is that when you get two people having a discussion with an audience that knows next to nothing about the subject, something as dumb as intelligent design can be made to appear somewhat reasonable.
That editing job was terrible.