The Voyage That Shook the World

"Planned to coincide with the 2009 Darwin celebrations, CMI’s high quality big-budget documentary movie, The Voyage That Shook the World, has now been released for international broadcast (the DVD version will be available later in the year). Produced by our subsidiary, Fathom Media,1 using both inhouse and consultant professionals of a high level of experience and expertise, the film is framed around a retracing of Darwin’s voyage on HMS Beagle. The primary purpose of this 52-min high-definition ‘docu-movie’ is to move the creation/evolution debate into the secular mainstream and to break down some of the seemingly impenetrable barriers of evolutionary prejudice. "The Voyage has been produced with world TV networks in mind and their viewing audiences of millions. Follow-up DVD sales to believers to use with their non-Christian connections could then add greatly to the numbers potentially reached.
"One veteran TV producer has said, ‘You can’t tell people what to think, but you can tell them what to think about.’ Using this maxim, we have created a thought-provoking documentary designed to communicate and appeal to secular as well as Christian audiences—to crack open the mindset that ‘everyone knows’ that Charles Darwin was right about evolution, that all the facts support it, and so on.
"In walking that fine line while crafting the film, we had to beware of leaning too far in either direction. To be avoided, for example, was allowing it to be too-readily written off as pitting “blind faith” against science. On the other hand, we did not want it to be a watered-down mush that offered no real challenge to secularists to rethink anything. At the same time, too, it could not simply be a ‘middle ground’, giving comfort to those who push for a compromising idea that blends a little from evolutionism and a little from Christianity. And of course, while an overt preaching of the Gospel would preclude it from getting to where we wanted it to go, we wanted not the slightest hint of being ashamed of God and His Word."
Historians Janet Browne, Peter Bowler, and Sandra Herbert later said they were "duped" into participating, not being told it was a creationist film.