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The other night I stumbled across “A Flock of Dodos” on the Showtime
cable network, a somewhat overly whimsical documentary on “intelligent
design” that I still recommend heartily. It is directed by Randy Olson
who received a PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard while studying
under Stephen Jay Gould. Olson changed careers in the mid 1990s and
became a documentary film-maker with Michael Moore as his most obvious
influence. Using himself as a central figure, Olson interviews both
sides of the debate seeking to make it entertaining to a mass audience.
He largely succeeds although nobody is better at this than Michael Moore
obviously.
