Peabody Award for evolution trial film - April 03, 2008
Congratulations to the team behind a documentary about the Tammy Kitzmiller vs Dover Area School District evolution teaching case, which has just won one of this year’s Peabody awards for journalism (press release, praise from blogs).
“The centerpiece of this thoughtful, topical edition of NOVA was the recreation, verbatim, of key testimony and argument from a six-week trial in Pennsylvania that served as a crash course in modern evolutionary theory, the evidence for evolution and the nature of science,” says the award citation.
A group of parents led by Kitzmiller took school authorities to court over the teaching of intelligent design as a science. They won.
In reviewing the documentary last year, Nature’s Adam Rutherford noted, “Judgment Day is just the sort of thoughtful programming that celebrates how sensible people — faithful and otherwise — can use science and reason to combat fundamentalism.”
He seems to have rather annoyed the creationist Discovery Institute in the process...