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Posted by Burt Humburg on June 1, 2005 04:00 PM
As noted in comments, creationists are hoping to have PBS play The Privileged Planet after the SI showing. PT has done some investigating and can report the following, straight from the PBS administration: PBS affiliates have been offered the opportunity to broadcast Privileged Planet starting 1 June 2005 and lasting for three years.
Individual PBS affiliate stations have great discretion in setting programming schedules and it is to them that you should direct your inquiries on this matter. You may find your local PBS station’s address at PBS.org.
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Posted by Ed Darrell on June 2, 2005 03:58 AM (e) (s)
By the way, here is a review of the film by a sympathetic guy who got a copy of the DVD from Jonathan Witt: http://www.dmobley.com/archives/2005/04/evolution_and_t.html
Has anyone Fisked the claims of the film, or the book? I was interested in the claim that total eclipses occur only on Earth in our solar system — partly because it assumes every eclipse is total and that the Moon is perfectly positioned to cover all of the Sun every time, which is not so; and partly because I seem to recall a chart in a newspaper in the past couple of years tracing the route of an eclipse on another planet in our solar system, which I had assumed at the time was total by the way the diagram showed the shadow on the planet’s surface (hey, you don’t need a big moon to blot out the Sun once you’re past Mars, right?)
If your local PBS station shows the thing, shouldn’t there be a balancing out with five or six hours of real science?
Comment #33190
Posted by lamuella on June 2, 2005 08:44 AM (e) (s)
I think total eclipses are more common on Earth, because we have a disproportionately large moon, but I don’t think they only happen here.
Comment #33192
Posted by Aureola Nominee, FCD on June 2, 2005 08:50 AM (e) (s)
A nice page on extraterrestrial eclipses:
Comment #33231
Posted by David M. on June 2, 2005 03:00 PM (e) (s)
Just a note: The Privileged Planet doesn’t claim total solar eclipses only occur on earth. It claims that nowhere else in the solar system are there total solar eclipses where the very outer layer of the sun’s atmosphere is still visible.
If you guys are really interested in pointing out problems with the book/film, you might want to try reading the book or watching the film for yourselves. If I remember correctly the documentary mentions that Guillermo Gonzalez’s calculations regarding these eclipses have been published in a peer reviewed journal, and if anyone really cares the reference can probably be found without too much difficulty. It’s probably not a terribly difficult thing to calculate, if you know what you’re doing.
Comment #33494
Posted by 'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank on June 3, 2005 06:35 PM (e) (s)
Just a note: The Privileged Planet doesn’t claim total solar eclipses only occur on earth. It claims that nowhere else in the solar system are there total solar eclipses where the very outer layer of the sun’s atmosphere is still visible.
Wowwwwwwww. Truly an awesome god, huh.
Comment #34146
Posted by a Creationist Troll, apparently on June 7, 2005 05:06 PM (e) (s)
Flank: Thus you (along with most PT’ers) haven’t read the book, and so don’t understand the significance of this.
I’ve written about PvM’s analysis of the book on my blogsite.
Comment #34173
Posted by 'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank on June 7, 2005 07:11 PM (e) (s)
Flank: Thus you (along with most PT’ers) haven’t read the book, and so don’t understand the significance of this.
Nor do you or Gonzalez. Unless you both claim the ability to read the mind of God.
When, exactly, did you recieve this divine gift?
No WONDER everyone thinks fundies are arrogant self-righteous holier-than-thou (literally) pride-filled pricks. <shrug>
Does God know that you are running around using his name in vain?
Comment #34296
Posted by tristram on June 8, 2005 11:36 AM (e) (s)
Perhaps PBS will air it during Pledge Month, sandwiched between Andrew Weil and the coffee enemas specials they like to run then.
Comment #33155
Posted by PvM on June 1, 2005 09:24 PM (e) (s)
Time to send out some letters. Thanks for the update. Without Denyse, who knows what they would have gotten away with ;-)