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New TV Show Takes Attacks Creation

Sun, 10/09/2005 - 00:06 — Daniel

Commander in Chief is one of this year's most-popular new shows, and it clearly has a political and social agenda behind it. The series follows a woman vice-president and her pursuit of presidency of the United States of America. Clearly, the series is one of many yet-to-come attempts to adapt Americans to the idea of a woman vice president. No doubt in preparations for Hilary Clinton's expected run in the years ahead. Within the first fifteen minutes of the premiere episode, a character makes a blatant attack on creation science and equates it with book-burning and invading third-world countries. Rod Martin has some excellent thoughts and even the video clip in his blog. I recommend that you read it and see the clip for yourself.

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Tue, 10/11/2005 - 03:06 — John Cornish (not verified)

Hmm...I've actually watched

Hmm...I've actually watched the first two weeks of the show, and personally thought it was really good. I didn't even catch the part that he was talking about. I think perhaps he took it a little far. Templeton isn't portrayed as a Christian at all. He's portrayed as a power-hungry, manipulative politician, and the female president is portrayed as an independent, non-partisan, rubbing-both-sides-the-wrong-way leader. I thought it was an interesting concept.

Tue, 10/11/2005 - 15:44 — John Cornish (not verified)

Yeah, I see your point. My

Yeah, I see your point. My thinking is that of all the 16 million people watching the show, no one left that show thinking that they were making an anti-creation statement. I don't think anyone probably even remembered it. Like I said, I never caught it. It was basically just a liberal describing a conservative agenda as part of the storyline. From the character's liberal point of view, those things were negatives about the person he was describing. Now on the other hand, Jon Stewart's jab at Ken Ham, Ken Hovind and company on "The Daily Show" a couple of weeks ago was blatantly anti-creation. I used to watch that show pretty regularly, but that and a couple of other things were the last straw for me, and I'll never watch it again.

Tue, 10/11/2005 - 13:40 — Daniel

But why lump teaching

But why lump teaching Creation science in the classroom with book-burning and invasion of third-world countries? Rod's approach is slightly ... optimistic. But I do also agree that it's interesting to see liberals getting scared of the truth and having to resort to sideways bashes like this to make their point.