The Revisionaries

4/5/2020

I really can't imagine how either side of the creationism issue ended up happy with this film. On the scientific side, they must believe that Mr. McElroy was treated with kid gloves. Mostly his beliefs that the world is 6,000 years old and that evolution doesn't exist is presented and allowed to stand or fall on its own merits. (No one asks him, for example, how the two penguins walked thousands of miles in time to jump onto the ark with the dinosaurs and the incestuous handful of humans} Perhaps the earth was not only younger than science believes but smaller also. And on the Creationists' side, they must have been disappointed that a light would be pointed at their efforts, perhaps making their further editing of history and science more difficult when the textbooks come up for revisi