fireblazer666 this looked AMAZING... I was watching this in the hopes of getting a good grasp on protein synthesis and DNA/RNA replication... I was watching it with intrigue (just skipping through to animations and explanations).... I got to thinking THIS IS JUST WHAT I NEEDED.... and then POW!!!!! it tries to say that the only logical explanation for DNA to exist is intelligent design... no wonder I've never heard of any of the scientists in this film... complete tripe.BASICALLY this film says "since we can't figure out a scientific and empirically devised reason for life's origin, it must have been Intelligent Design" -my words.... preposterous!! you can't explain something logically... so you decided to explain it with complete lack of logic... it's in effect the lazy mans way of explaining something.COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY UNSCIENTIFIC, but hey, some neat animations...

janice2112 This is film really like a great documentary, except instead of having all that really hard to learn science and stuff. All you really have to do is believe. Just believe, and like Tinkerbell coming back to life, Bible stories AKA Creationism AKA Creation Science now renamed ID (Intelligent Design) can live again! But what I really liked best was finding out that I am made up of millions of tiny little machines called cells, I'm just like Lt. Commander Data!But seriously, this film is one big propaganda piece. Ten years ago the ID community was bashing scientists over the head with irreducible complexity. When Evolutionary Scientists didn't have a ready answer and took the time necessary to actually investigate ID's claims, the ID community started to shout that they had 'finally beaten Darwin' and that 'God is in the Details', this is when the nonsense really got under way. Church groups set up museums with paintings showing Biblical era men riding dinosaurs implying not only that dinosaurs are only recently extinct but that any theory showing the Earth is more than a few thousand years old is open to debate and is a matter of opinion not just science. Serious sounding articles were published explaining how Noah had put dinosaur eggs on the his Ark instead of grown Dinosaurs to save room, but that most of the eggs went bad during the flood as an explanation as to why Dinosaurs are extinct.Both of the above examples show why ID cannot be allowed in the classroom and shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone. ID, because of its use of a supernatural agency to explain any unknown part of a theory, any ID theory is unfalsifiable, untestable and completely useless in a scientific setting. Come forward eight years from when this film was made... Science has investigated the claims of ID and found them seriously wanting. The claims of ID aren't falsifiable and as such are a unverifiable belief, no reputable biologist gives ID any credence.The court (Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District) ruled that ID is Creation Science repackaged and that as such ID is a matter of faith not science and cannot be allowed in the classroom.Religious Universities are the only place that ID based biology class work is accepted.The main point of this film is to try to make inference analogous to deduction, basically like this; Cells are like tiny machines, machines are designed by an intelligence, cells must have been designed by someone with intelligence. Then they assure you that they are not talking about God as a designer because that wouldn't be scientific (wink, wink) but that a cell didn't design itself and nobody knows who did it. Honestly, I saw reasoning as well thought out a Monty Python movie; A witch won't sink in water so she must be floating, a duck doesn't sink in water because they float, so if someone weighs the same as a duck they're a witch.

pussyfart_au Excellent! That is if you enjoy filling young impressionable minds with lies and logical fallacies! Get this film if you want to learn how to lie to the mass public. On a more serious note. If you really want to learn something go to your local library and pick up a biology book and flip to the evolution by natural selection section. This will provide you with real facts. Creation or ID as the liars would like you to think it's named, has no (read it, Zero) supporting facts. What wonderful world we live in where evangelical fundamentals from American can spread their crap to other countries with such ease. Go lie to yourselves instead of to innocent children.

coolasclyde Excellent source of information for the theory of intelligent design (ID). The video provides clear and easy to understand arguments for ID and points out the gaps in evolutionary theory that cannot account for the origin-of-life on earth. The video includes interviews with leading scientists and scholars from various fields of expertise. The video also provides some historical information about Charles Darwin and his journey on the HMS Beagle. It is packed with beautiful scenes of wildlife that make it entertaining as well as educational. The bonus features include a question and answer section, library references, web links, and biographical sketches about each scientist/scholar. This is a must have for all of those who are interested the origin-of-life argument and those that declare to follow the evidence wherever it leads. I would strongly recommend this for all adults and students at the high school level and above.