PBS’s big fall series will be an eight part show on evolution, and the Nation’s public broadcaster is girding itself against the expected reaction from the offal-throwing chimpanzees of the religious right.
Why is PBS worried about a show on what should be a non-controversial subject? After all, Senator Helms doesn’t screech when a narrator talks about evolution on “Nature”.
The difference, according to PBS, is that this series is going to go deep on human evolution, a subject most other natural series have skirted.
The [series'] website will be what Benyo describes as a “vetted portal” for reliable, scientific, seminal information about evolution. It is being designed with extra safeguards to help it withstand hacker attacks and expanded capacity “so we’re not brought down by 100,000 people logging on at once,” she said.
Just what we needed to worry about, script kiddies for Christ… .
