Intelligent Design Film to Premiere at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History...

Intelligent Design Film to Premiere at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural
History Sept. 29

Intelligent Design Author Will Also Speak at OU

NORMAN, Okla., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The debate over Darwin
rages on in America's heartland as intelligent design comes to the Sam Noble
Oklahoma Museum of Natural History September 29th with the Southwestern debut
of Darwin's Dilemma, a new film on the challenges to evolution in the fossil
record. To view a trailer and clips from the film please visit
www.darwinsdilemma.org.

Darwin's Dilemma will be screened at Kerr Auditorium in the Sam Noble Oklahoma
Museum of Natural History, with a post-film discussion featuring two leading
intelligent design scientists, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, author of Signature in
the Cell, and Dr. Jonathan Wells, biologist and author of Icons of Evolution.

The film is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma IDEA (Intelligent Design
and Evolution Awareness) Club, as is an additional talk by Dr. Meyer, who will
present his new book Signature in the Cell: DNA and Evidence for Intelligent
Design in a free lecture on September 28th in Meacham Auditorium at University
of Oklahoma. In his new book, Dr. Meyer shows that the digital code embedded
in DNA powerfully points to a designing intelligence and helps unravel a
mystery that Darwin never addressed: how did the very first life begin?

Darwin's Dilemma explores one of the great mysteries in the history of life:
The sudden appearance of dozens of major complex animal types in the fossil
record without any trace of the gradual transitional steps predicted by
Darwin. Frequently described as "the Cambrian Explosion," the development of
these new animal types required a massive increase in genetic information.

The film, shot on location at fossil digs in China and Canada, traces Darwin's
own study of the fossil record and recreates the prehistoric world of the
Cambrian era with state-of-the-art computer animation. Darwin's Dilemma also
features interviews with leading evolutionary paleontologists such as Simon
Conway Morris of Cambridge University and James Valentine of the University of
California at Berkeley, as well as Dr. Meyer, Dr. Wells, and other intelligent
design proponents.

SOURCE Discovery Institute

Anika Smith, Discovery Institute, +1-206-292-0401 ext. 155,
asmith@discovery.org