Topic: “Evolution: The Grand Experiment” Episode Two: Living Fossils (53 min)
About the author:
Dr. Carl Werner, MD graduated from the University of Missouri with distinction in biology (summa cum laude). He received his doctoral degree in medicine at the age of 23 and practices emergency medicine in St Louis. In his sophomore year of college, Dr. Carl Werner was challenged by a fellow classmate with these words: “I bet you can’t prove evolution.” Disturbed by his classmate’s somewhat poignant criticisms of the theory, Dr. Werner (a biology major at the time) pondered this conversation for some time. He, along with his wife, Debbie, travelled to seven countries over 14 years to visit museums and fossil dig sites and interview fossil experts to author Evolution: the Grand Experiment Vol. 1 and Living Fossils; Evolution the Grand Experiment Vol. 2.
In this DVD:
Did dinosaurs live with modern plants (apple trees, sassafras trees, roses, and rhododendrons) and modern animals (ducks, dogs, possums, and humans) thousands of years ago, as the account of creation suggests? Or did dinosaurs live at a remote time, millions of years ago, with other extinct, strange, and unusual animals, as the story of evolutionism suggests? Dr. Carl Werner traveled 160,000 miles to find the answer, visiting 10 dinosaur dig sites and 60 natural history museums. To his surprise, he found examples of all of the major plant divisions and all of the major animal phyla groups living today, fossilized alongside the dinosaurs.
The biggest discovery Dr. Werner made was that some of the most important fossils were not displayed in any of the museums he visited. Have natural history museums withheld these critical fossils from their public displays, fossils that would place the conjecture of evolution in jeopardy? This DVD has the feel of a PBS documentary, with British narrator Andres Williams, and contains spectacular underwater footage of Dr. Werner diving at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea, plus footage from dinosaur dig sites in Europe and North America.
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