EnhanceTV Religious Studies Highlights RSS Feed http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvhighlights/?category=61 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:24:41 1000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=104711 A medical bungle blinded Ron McCallum hours after his birth. Ron has an extraordinary story to tell and this engaging profile reveals his open, tolerant and idiosyncratic philosophy of life. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=144422 In 2004, the board of the public school in Dover, Pennsylvania ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students suggesting that that is an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design - the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and therefore must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply. Later, parents opposed to intelligent design filed a lawsuit in US federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state. Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial follows the federal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District and features trial re-enactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants, including expert scientists and Dover parents, teachers, and town officials. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=144424 The bible called them plagues, but we call them natural disasters. They are actually one of the same. And the biblical plagues are coming back. The first episode examines the first biblical plague of Egypt, the Nile waters turning into blood, and how the plague has returned in the form of toxic algal blooms. Each episode of this series analyses the individual biblical plague from a historical and theological perspective, and explains the connection to modern natural events. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=144359 These days apocalyptic thinking is common and pervasive. Are we at the end of the world...? It's a question humans have asked throughout the ages. In our own time too, many people fear we're on the brink of apocalypse. In a provocative episode of Compass we meet a self-proclaimed prophet of the Apocalypse, American Pentecostal Pastor Ron Weinland, who believes he has been sent by God to announce the end of the world in 3 years time! http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=105864 It is said that about 70% of marriages do not survive the death of a child. This is the story of one that has. Out of Darkness is an emotional and compelling look at the Verity family, how they stayed together following the death of their three-year-old daughter India, and the vastly different ways they learnt to cope and heal from this unthinkable tragedy.