I joined GL to watch a free movie on campus this evening. It was "Flock of Dodos," which is about Darwin's evolution and Intelligent Design. Well, for people like me who grew up with Darwin's evolution, the idea of Intelligent Design sounds ridiculous. And this movie makes fun of it with a very good sense of humor. Though it deals with academic theme (Well, in terms of evolution. Intelligent Design is not scientific at all), it is hilarious! You have a good laugh from it.
One very good thing that the movie pointed out is a huge gap between scientific scholars and ordinary people. Because intelligent scholars are not sincere to teach ordinary people with understandable words about evolution (the movie says biologists tend to simply ignore Intelligent Design, and they don't try to face it), ordinary people are easily inclined to things which are not necessarily scientifically proved but much easier to understand. Yeah, that makes sense. And the mass media is a source of trouble. They keep providing fragmented information without analyses to wide range of people. Well, so true.
The movie was followed by a discussion. The facilitator was one of anthropology professors this university. He looked an interesting, approachable person to me who is not familiar with anthropology at all. His explanations and answers were easy to understand and full of humor. That was fun overall!