Walt Disney’s Views on Evolution

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On this classic ID The Future from our archive, Dr. John West, author of Walt Disney and Live Action: The Disney Studio’s Live-Action Features of the 1950s and 60s, talks about Walt Disney’s life-long fascination with evolution. By exploring various messages embedded in Disney’s theme parks and animated features, from the Magic Skyway created for the 1964 World’s Fair to the 1948 animated film Fantasia, we see Disney’s recurring contemplation of evolution. Source

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1:23.1	This is John West, Associate Director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
1:29.7	As some of you know already, I've had a lifelong interest in Walt Disney. I even wrote a book
1:35.2	about him called Walt Disney and Live Action. It's the only book that focuses solely on Walt
1:40.5	Disney's live action films and television features. If you're interested, you can get it at
1:45.4	Amazon.com. Like many of you, I also like the Disney theme parks. In fact, I recently visited
1:52.6	Disneyland with my family. One of the things we did while we were there was take the train ride
1:57.5	around the park that goes through Prime Evil World. Primival World features
2:01.9	giant robotic dinosaurs, including a fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex. Primeval World has always
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