Duelity: Creationist and Darwinist Origin Stories Animated

Pro­duced at the Van­cou­ver Film School, this split-screen ani­ma­tion tells the sto­ry of Earth’ s ori­gins from a cre­ation­ist and Darwinist/evolutionist point of view. To make things more inter­est­ing (spoil­er: stop read­ing now if you want to main­tain the ele­ment of sur­prise), the sci­en­tif­ic sto­ry is told using reli­gious lan­guage, where­as the Bib­li­cal ver­sion is told as if it were the sci­en­tif­ic one. The slight­ly con­fus­ing con­clu­sion (its’ a zinger) shows how the lan­guage we use to present ideas influ­ences their per­cep­tion. And the iron­ic use of info­graph­ics tops off this visu­al and lin­guis­tic exper­i­ment.

On the home­page of the project, you can watch the videos sep­a­rate­ly and down­load them. Also, the YouTube chan­nel of Van­cou­ver Film School is always worth a vis­it.

By pro­fes­sion, Matthias Rasch­er teach­es Eng­lish and His­to­ry at a High School in north­ern Bavaria, Ger­many. In his free time he scours the web for good links and posts the best finds on Twit­ter.


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  • RandomReason says:

    It’s not con­fus­ing — it’s the­o­log­i­cal apolo­get­ics intend­ed to a) pro­mote the false notion that all sci­ence has done is to con­firm the Bib­li­cal nar­ra­tive, which after 1,000’s of years of lit­er­al­ism, they now pre­tend was “metaphor­i­cal” all along, and b) pro­mote a strained mash­ing togeth­er of real­i­ty and myth, in order to claim that sci­ence and reli­gion are com­pat­i­ble.

    You have been had.

  • Holly says:

    Touche!!

  • Naman says:

    Add the Qur’an­ic ver­sion, and it will be per­fect. The Qur’an talks about the big bang, expan­sion of the uni­verse, and six long peri­ods or six epochs that took for uni­verse to be cre­at­ed, then God cre­at­ed from earth­’s ele­ments, includ­ing water, earth, dust, clay, etc a Human.

    If they make this, it would be amaz­ing.

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