aYoomanBean
Or maybe it's anti-Christian propaganda. The acting was fine with me, the visuals okay... but the content was ridiculous. So ridiculous, with the non-Christian side portrayed so unfairly, that I can't believe the intentions behind the film were honest. It's disgusting.If you want to learn something, watch a science documentary or a real debate. If you're looking for a feel-good movie with a near-total disregard for reality, you've found it.The atheist professor implies that eggs are "simpler life forms" than chickens and that's why they came first. He says that the 1500m trackster in his class would have won the 1896 and 1904 Olympics because people were evolving to be faster. The "good Christian boy" of the film asks the main character if she believes the world came to be through evolution. And the "debate" hasn't even started yet...
Landenbrook
I cannot stand this movie. As a Christian myself I have my issues with Creationism. Even the Catholic faith support evolution, bla, bla, bla. Why I believe this movie is dangerous because it is cleverly done. It doesn't ultimately try to discredit Evolution. No, one could deal with facts. But it actually gives the impression that Creationism and Evolution have the same fact base and hence are equally "valid" since there would be ultimately no evidence for any of the two would have created life on earth - since nobody could witness. But Evolution has been able to deliver a full explanation. There will be most likely some details still wrong, but I believe (*please note this word here*) that it will be ultimately sorted out. Creationism only provides god as the ultimo ratio. No, these two approaches are not comparable. Btw, I thought the acting wasn't good neither.
almanzotheartist
I see that a lot of reviewers either find the film to represent the debate fairly, who confuse what a scientific theory is and who is buying into the premise of this movie.Therefore, I will compromise a list of the lies this movie brings forward:To begin with, the whole premise of this movie is built around the supposed claim that evolution says anything of the origins of life. The fact is, it doesn't. Evolution only deals with how life evolves and changes. As such, there is nothing in the theory of evolution itself that makes any claims on the existence of a god. Many evolutionary scientists believe in a god, it's not relevant to the theory.Big bang theory is physics, not evolution.Same can be said by abiogenetics. I won't get into detail about this,but abiogenetics is the field that deals with how life might have appaired. Again, not directly refuting any gods existence even if it's correct.Evolution does not claim that we are decentant from apes. Evolution categorizes us as a subtype of ape, with chimpanzees and apes as our closest relatives with a common anchestor. That's completely different than to claim that we decent from apes.Radio metric dating is not used to determine the age of the planet. Many different fields have approached the same question, including geology, physics, astronomics and so on. All come to the same conclusion based on different methods, all arrive at the same conclusion. Carbon dating is only used to measure the age of dead biological material using the half life of the Carbon isotope C14 as it's baseline.Evolution has never claimed that one animal will ever give birth to a completely different animal. It's rather fascinating that they use dogs as an example, some breeds of dogs has grown so far apart that it's more reasonable to talk of subspecies instead of different breeds. The definition of a new species is just that: Common anchestry between two populations that has grown so different that they can't produce offspring that is capable of reproducing.Lastly, and most importantly: The word theory is not a mere hypothesis. A scientific theory is not a hypothesis, but a logical conclusion based on scientific data gathered where none of it's predictions are shown to be wrong.If the main character ever got to be a pharmacist, she would have to rely on evolutionary theory, as a lot of modern medicine relies on it. Evolutionary theory is saving lives as we speak.So the entire movie is based upon either blatant lies about, or a complete misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. In addition, the acting is horrible and unconvincing, the characters are unrelateable and the whole story is condencending. Both the main characters father and the journalist students comes of as arrogant and unpleasant and are cast as far from sympathetic.
