Ali and I watched “March of the Penguins” this summer and we both found it to be an affectionate, educational and interesting film. I totally recommend it as maybe a 3rd or 4th date sort of film.
While we personally did not find it to be a representation of why abortion is bad or subtly supportive of intelligent design theory, according to the New York Times, there are many who found it as a Christian tale.
On the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com, an opponent of abortion wrote that the movie “verified the beauty of life and the rightness of protecting it.”
bq. At a conference for young Republicans, the editor of National Review urged participants to see the movie because it promoted monogamy. A widely circulated Christian magazine said it made “a strong case for intelligent design.”
I’m pretty sure that this isn’t what the directors had in mind when making it, and as Laura Kim, a VP over at Warner Independent put it:
“You know what? They’re just birds.”
Regardless, I would like to get into the intelligent design debate a bit more. I’m not quite sure what, exactly, Intelligent Design supports. If it’s that something is out there responsible for evolution, then how is that competing with science and evolutionary thought? Evolutionary thought doesn’t really go into the realm of if God or whomever else is responsible for it all. If it can’t be measured or quantified or proven, then there’s not much room for science to go into the realms of religion or philosophy.
Part of the intelligent design debate uses the analogy of a person stumbling across and rock and a pocket-watch. The rock belongs in nature, but the pocket-watch is too intricate and obviously looks like there was an “intelligent design” involved in its development.
I question that logic, but in general, I also want to ask about the scientific procedure involved in intelligent design. How does one test this? How is God or any “Designer” qualified and quantified?
I really want to know more, so any essays or articles about this issue would much appreciated.