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The Voyage That Shook the World (2009)
another creationist ramble
I have just finished reading "The Origin" and since I am about to deliver a presentation on Darwin's take on the origin of language I have been looking for video material on the theory of evolution and Darwin's legacy. After watching Richard Dawkins' brilliant documentary under the title of "The genius of Charles Darwin" I have also stumbled upon this other film which was supposedly celebrating the 150th anniversary of the most important publication the world has ever seen. Eager as I was to learn yet another thing about Darwin and the theory I approached the film with burning enthusiasm only to be severely disappointed. Throughout watching I felt that something was completely out of place partially because the film proved to have no concept at all. But more importantly, the things all these people were talking about had almost nothing to do with the ideas Darwin presented back in 1859 or anything concerning his life that I have read so far. The few things that were related to the facts regarding the theory and Darwin's life were completely distorted. It took me the entire film to understand it was creationist rubbish simply because I was expecting to see something remotely truthful and supported with scientific facts. Finally, the title of the film is misleading, as are the untruthful accreditations and obviously manipulated and misused statements of the majority of the people in the film. I guess without the misleading title no one would feel like watching, so no wonder I have just only now stumbled upon it instead of being made familiar with the film couple of months ago when real scientists were celebrating Darwin.