Earlier this week, I had a pingback  from Michael Barton’s very interesting website entitled The Dispersal of Darwin.  On his site I read about Michael’s recent trip to Cambridge, England, and on one of his posts from England he mentioned a new film that is coming out in September about Charles Darwin.

The new film is entitled Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin.  The movie is based upon Randal Keyne’s (great-great grandson of Darwin) book, Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution.  The book, and the film focus on Darwin the person, and his relationships with wife (Emma), and their ten children, and the intertwining of his ideas on the origin of the species.  In particular the film shows Darwin “as not only a world-renowned scientists, but a dedicated family man struggling to accept his daughter’s death.  Darwin is torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place.  He finds himself caught in a battle between faith and reason, love and truth.”

The film will be first shown at the Toronto Film Festival on September 10th, and the film will be released on September 25 in the UK.  I am not sure when it will be released in the USA or other parts of the world.  If you do know, please leave a note in the comments.

If you are a science teacher, you will enjoy the website, and I think the film will be a great resource for teaching about evolution, and exploring the creation-evolution-intelligent design arguments.  Here are two resources for you; first an image and link to the interactive website for the film; and second, a video anticipating the arrival of the film.

Website: Creation---the true story of Charles Darwin