Randy Olson, filmmaker & marine biologist
Filmmaker and former biologist Dr. Randy Olson’s documentary film (84 minutes) probes the great communications struggle around evolution vs. intelligent design being waged in today’s mainstream media. Olson’s humorous, enlightening and sometimes sobering journey includes in-depth interviews with top experts on intelligent design, school board members, and lawyers, and footage from an evening with evolutionists who gather for a game of poker and evolution debate.
THURSDAY, March 12, 2009 – NOON
TUCKER FORUM – 85 GANNETT HALL
Missouri School of Journalism
Randy Olson got his Ph.D. from Harvard University in ecology, but has become a well-known film maker of both serious interviews with a wide variety of scientists and fishermen and a series of humorous film shorts that are educational and irreverent. He is a lecturer at the University of Southern California and leads an organization known as Shifting Baselines, that educates the public about the tremendous changes in natural communities that have occurred, to an extent that current generations cannot understand just how biologically rich the world was just a few generations ago.