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EVOLUTION ON FILM

A Darwin Tribute Film Festival

Friday 13 & Saturday 14 February 2009

Friday 13 February - 8.15 p.m. Randy Olson introduced his 2006 film "Flock of Dodos: the evolution-intelligent design circus" (PG,85 mins)

Saturday 14 February - 3.00 p.m. Evolution/Creation Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Michael Akam FRS

Panellists were:

  • Dr Randy Olson
  • Dr Rob Asher (Palaeontologist and Curator of Mammals of the Museum of Zoology)
  • Revd Professor Michael Reiss (expert in science education, recently stepped down from the Royal Society)
  • Professor Robert Foley, Professor of Human Evolution, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies
  • Dr David Rosevear (Chairman of the Creation Science Movement)
  • Revd Angela Tilby

Saturday 14 February 8.00 p.m. "Inherit the Wind" (U, 128 mins) directed by Stanley Kramer in 1960

The Darwin Tribute Film Festival was sponsored by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge