Dover — The Movie
Ed over at Dispatches points us to this information indicating that Paramount Pictures is going to be making a movie about the recent trial in Dover, Pennsylvania. Their hope is to match the quality of Inherit the Wind (which I admittedly have not seen, but really want to).
It could be quite a movie.
There’s William Buckingham and his outrageous statements like
This country wasn’t founded on Muslim beliefs or evolution. This country was founded on Christianity, and our students should be taught as such.
There’s William Buckingham and Alan Bonsell who are (or were) being investigated for perjury for bald-faced lying about having no religious intentions and claiming they knew nothing about how the district received copies of a creationist textbook. (Buckingham raised the money in church, wrote a check to Bonsell’s father, who then “anonymously donated” the books to the district).
There’s Judge Jones overwhelming smackdown on intelligent design.
There’s Michael Behe getting ripped to shreds on the witness stand.
There’s the entire school board getting voted out of office.
And my person favorite, the discovery of the transitional fossil Cdesign propoentists in the creationist movement, as the publishers of the ID book did a find and replace on the word creation to change it to design.
Yep, it would make an excellent movie. My only problem is that since I followed the trial so closely, I might be too harsh on the movie if it took too much artistic license in its portrayal.
Did you happen to catch the clip that the Daily Show did on Dover? It was a clip hosted by Samantha Bee titled, “Until Hell Freezes Dover”…you can still watch it off their website. Loves the Daily Show
I hadn’t seen that. It was pretty funny. I especially liked the pastor who said computers were bringing on the end times, and then linked that to needing a social security card to do anything, which was surely a mark of the beast…
everything is so wrong about everything. buckingham should have never said what he said, i’m sure he now knows that. the deal is though that the intent was to get the school district new books that exposed both creationism and evolution, neither of them are factual, they are both theories, whats wrong with including both. i’m sure many would agree with that, but honestly there is nothing wrong with that idea, until the intent is to spread the idea of christianity, which was never it. really the above state was the only one out of line, and i will agree with anyone who says that statement is absurd. but the intentions were not to spread christianity, they were to let theories be theories, and to get the school new books. i don’t see how where the money was raised has anything to do with the intent. the church raises money for homeless people, does that mean they’re trying to make them all christians? i am excited to see the movie and how they satanify bonsell and buckingham.