Product Details

• Actors: Na
• Directors: Steve Murray
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Exploration Films
• DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002J1RZG0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,158 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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DARWIN:VOYAGE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD - DVD Movie

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41 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disingenuous warping of facts, May 9, 2010

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A. Kannankeril "kannan" (Redmond, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Darwin: The Voyage That Shook the World (DVD)

I watched this movie in an attempt to gain a deeper insight into Darwin's thought processes as he made the most momentous journey of his life.

As it progressed through various amateurish reenactments, I found myself shaking my head in disbelief - the presentation was progressively building a case for discourse on the existence of intelligent design based on supposed flaws in Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Their evidence comprised by a set of unverified statements and a set of massively edited panel of experts who words seemed spliced to suggest that the very foundation of evolution was at question. What is conspicuous in the presentation is remarkable absence of references to any published books or peer-reviewed journals supporting their claims.

I eagerly awaited the end of the movie and found what I expected, this piece of fiction masquerading as a documentary was produced by "Creation Ministries International". Google them out and come to your own conclusion on their standing as impartial evaluators of the truth.

The one good thing that I can say about the "movie" is that if you are a deeply religious believer and disturbed by arguments calling into question what your faith has ingrained into you, this DVD will help soothe the conflict in your mind. To hell with science, you want to hear the argument from your side of the aisle, people who believe as you do. Show this DVD to everyone you know who suffers from the same problem, that soothing is the one positive I can envision coming of this endeavour.

31 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing, February 14, 2010

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Joseph W. Mullens - See all my reviews

This review is from: Darwin: The Voyage That Shook the World (DVD)

This video was fascinating, well made, but disturbing; I give it one star because I abhor propaganda. After watching this, I found it was a product of the "Creation Ministries". This documentary, among other distortions, cast aspersions on things like geologic time, which there is ample and overwhelming evidence. Just because there are a few events like an ice-age era breech of an ice dam that can carve out a canyon in a number of hours, or that earthquakes can push up mountains by a few centimeters does this question the overall slow pace of geologic change (continents drift by centimeters per year, but continents are separated by thousands of kilometers). If you look at their website, they try to claim that the formation of coal could happen within the time-frame of genesis. The makers of this video apparently believe in a literal interpretation of the bible and genesis. It seems to me that many of the interviewed scientist were quoted out of context.

Some scientists, like Matti Leisola, make some rather bold claims that are unsubstantiated in this documentary, and are left unexplained and undefended. Mutated organisms don't just die in the lab as Leisola suggests (though I may be missing his scope/context). If you spray a bunch of mosquitoes with DDT, some of them will live. If you breed successive generations from the resistant ones, the mosquitoes won't notice the DDT. If you DNA sequence them, you will see genetic differences, mutations; adaptations that help them survive their environment. The rate of genetic mutation is something that can be measured and quantified in the lab.

This documentary has many valid points, but they're too colored by their biblical agenda.

1.0 out of 5 stars Sneaky, January 26, 2012

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chopin1 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Darwin: The Voyage That Shook the World (DVD)

I picked this up at the library because I was interested in learning more about the history of Darwin. I saw this DVD and thought it might be good. When I got home I examined the DVD case more thoroughly and the first thing I noticed was it says Creation Ministries International at the bottom. After watching the video, it is clearly a video of religious propoganda designed to keep people confused & blind to everything except religion. If you're truly interested in learning about evolution, don't waste your time here. As an atheist, I am suspicious of the ethics of religious people in general & even I was suprised at the lengths they went to to trick the general public into watching their propoganda.