What a shoddy, second-rate piece of work. A favourite joke among the film-making community is the 'Lord Privy Seal'. Amateurs and novices in the making of documentaries can't resist illustrating every significant word in the commentary by cutting to a picture of it. The Lord Privy Seal is an antiquated title in Britain's heraldic tradition. The joke imagines a low-grade film director who illustrates it by cutting to a picture of a Lord, then a privy, and then a seal. Mathis' film is positively barking with Lord Privy Seals. We get an otherwise pointless cut to Nikita Krushchev hammering the table (to illustrate something like 'emotional outburst'). There are similarly clunking and artless cuts to a guillotine, fist fights, and above all to the Berlin wall and Nazi gas chambers and concentration camps.Yep, I've seen the trailer - it's a stinker.
The release of the movie indicates a change of tack by the ID crowd. Having re-clothed Creationism in an attempt to circumvent the constitutional restrictions on religious education in schools, they lost the battle to have ID taught alongside Darwinism in science classes and have now started portraying the teaching of ID as a free speech issue, claiming their supporters are being persecuted and excluded by evil Darwinists.
It won't work, guys. Give it up!
