No Dinosaurs in Heaven

Date: 10/24/2011
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Location: Rosenthal Library Auditorium BRL 230
Time: 7PM Monday October 24th (Doors open at 6:30 PM)
Free and open to the Public

Documentary Film Screening followed by Discussion and Question & Answer Session with Eugenie Scott (National Center for Science Education Executive Director) and Director/Producer Greta Schiller.

No Dinosaurs in Heaven is a film essay that examines the hijacking of science education by religious fundamentalists, threatening the separation of church and state and dangerously undermining scientific literacy. The documentary weaves together two strands: an examination of the problem posed by creationists who earn science education degrees only to advocate anti-scientific beliefs in the classroom; and a visually stunning raft trip down the Grand Canyon, led by Dr. Eugenie Scott, that debunks creationist explanations for its formation. These two strands expose the fallacies in the “debate,” manufactured by anti-science forces, that creationism is a valid scientific alternative to evolution.

Emmy Award-winning director (Before Stonewall, Paris Was a Woman) and science educator Greta Schiller uses her own experience — with a graduate school biology professor who refused to teach evolution — to expose the insidious effect that so-called “creationist science” has had on science education. No Dinosaurs in Heaven intelligently argues that public education must steadfastly resist the encroachment of religion in the form of anti-evolution creationism, and that science literacy is crucial to a healthy democracy.

More Information: http://www.nodinos.com/

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