Walt Disney and Evolution: A Study in Ambiguity

Editor's note : December 15 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of filmmaker Walt Disney. Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West is author of the new book Walt Disney and Live-Action , which explores the meaning and making of Walt Disney's live-action features. In this article, he explores the role of evolution in Disney's work.

Like many artists and intellectuals of his era, Walt Disney was smitten by the theory of evolution. Perhaps the most striking example of this was the "Rite o...