This new documentary examines what many consider to be the most powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution—the Cambrian fossil record. The Cambrian explosion has been called the most spectacular event in the history of life, for in a moment of geological time complex animals first appeared on earth fully formed, without evidence of any evolutionary ancestors. Now, the producers of Club favorites, The Privileged Planet and Unlocking the Mystery of Life complete their Intelligent Design trilogy with Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record.
Of the Cambrian explosion, palentologist Stephen Jay Gould says, "The fossil record had caused Darwin more grief than joy. Nothing distressed him more than the Cambrian explosion." Charles Darwin realized that the fossil evidence did not support his theory of gradual, step-by-step evolutionary development. He had envisioned the evolution of life through a multitude of small, undirected steps. He hoped that future generations of scientists would make the discoveries necessary to validate his ideas.
Today, after more than 150 years of exploration, fossil evidence of slow, incremental biological change has yet to be excavated. Instead, we find a picture of the rapid appearance of fully developed, complex organisms during the outset of the Cambrian geological era. Early in the Cambrian period compound eyes, articulated limbs, sophisticated sensory organs, and skeletons burst into existence seemingly out of nowhere. This remarkable explosion of life is best explained by the existence of a transcendent intelligence.
Darwin's Dilemma explores the Cambrian explosion and the scientific controversy that stills surrounds it. Where are the missing transitional forms that Darwin’s theory requires? Can any undirected evolutionary process explain the origins of animals?
Filmed on four continents, this fascinating documentary examines some of the most important fossil discoveries ever made… and, with them, a mystery deeper than Darwin ever imagined. For the Cambrian explosion was actually an explosion of biological information: assembly instructions in DNA and embryonic blueprints that directed the development of the first complex organisms that embody almost all the major animal body plans that exist today. Darwin's Dilemma delivers information that points unmistakably to foresight, purpose, and intelligent design.
Elizabeth Kamenar
I wanted to order additional copies to give to relatives and local schools. I have a B.A. in Biology, an M.D., am board certified in Neuropathology/Anatomic Pathology and in Neurology. So I know little something about science. I think this is the best educational DVD on evolution. It pokes a big hole in the "old fashion" Darwinian theory of evolution. It's clear there is no scientific data to prove that there was any slow, gradual trial and error step-wise evolution from simpler life forms to the beginning of complex life forms that suddenly appeared out of nowhere during the Cambrian period. The THEORY of Intelligent Design seems scientifically more valid than Darwin's unproven THEORY of evolution.
Elizabeth Kamenar