Wednesday, August 24, 2011

New Anti-Creationism Campaign Being Launched

Film maker Greta Schiller, working with the National Center for Science Education and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is launching the "Celebrate Science" campaign beginning Aug. 28 in Tallahassee, Florida.  A press release issued Monday announced that the Campaign will feature a new film, "No Dinosaurs In Heaven," in cities around the country.  The release says that the film:
explores the problem of creationists who earn science degrees in order to sneak their anti-science beliefs into the classroom. As a stunning visual counterpoint, Dr. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education leads a raft trip down the Grand Canyon, where the creationist and evolutionary explanations of this natural wonder are juxtaposed.The film moves from the Grand Canyon to the American Museum of Natural History to actual middle school science classes in New York City, where public school teachers find themselves on the front lines of this struggle.