Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; Fls203; A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Evolutionists Should Acknowledge Creation
- Episode Number
- Fls203
- Producing Organization
- Southern Educational Communications Association
- South Carolina Educational Television Network
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-b56d21s99b
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- Description
- Episode Description
- I retreat from any formulation of tonight's exchange, Mr. Buckley begins, "that suggests that everyone on the other side should embrace creation. Not everyone on the affirmative side embraces creation. What we contend is that everyone should acknowledge creation as an alternative explanation for cosmic and biological happenings now thought by so many as naturalist in provenance and momentum." Mr. Lynn replies that "none of us on this team have any doubt that we have all been created somehow. Where we disagree with Mr. Buckley and his colleagues is on the relationships between evolution and our current situation." And we're off on a profound debate that ranges from the molecule to the cosmos, with distinctions that may be surprising to the layman (e.g., from Ms. Scott, between evolution and Darwinism: "Darwinism is evolution through natural selection")-and quite a lot of fun along the way: Mr. Berlinski: "The gravamen of your argument is the chordate." Mr. Kinsley: "Are people familiar with chordates?" DB: "Vertebrates. That's us." Ms. Scott: "No, chordates are the group in which vertebrates belong." Mr. Miller: "We're all chordates here, Mike."
- Series Description
- The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
- Date
- 1997-12-04
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Evolution; creation
- Rights
- Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Lynn, Barry W.
Guest: Ruse, Michael
Guest: Berlinski, David
Guest: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Guest: Johnson, Phillip E.
Guest: Behe, Michael J.
Guest: Scott, Eugenie Carol
Guest: Miller, Kenneth R. (Kenneth Raymond)
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Moderator: Kinsley, Michael E.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.1428 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 2:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; Fls203; A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Evolutionists Should Acknowledge Creation ,” 1997-12-04, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 30, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-b56d21s99b.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; Fls203; A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Evolutionists Should Acknowledge Creation .” 1997-12-04. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 30, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-b56d21s99b>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; Fls203; A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Evolutionists Should Acknowledge Creation . Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-b56d21s99b