This film does a nice job of providing evidence that the Earth/Universe is not necessarily a random accident. The whole point of this DVD (and others like it) is to provide alternate viewpoints for people who believe that everything we experience and see in life is the result of accident and blind forces. It presents that perspective in a very non-offensive (to people who tend to react negatively to this type of thing) way. You are allowed to draw your own conclusions. The authors clearly believe in Intelligent Design. The question for anyone watching is "Based on what I've seen, is it possible that perspective is true, or at least has some merit." If so, you should go on to examine other, similar DVDs (check out Lee Strobel). For full disclosure, I do believe in Intelligent Design (after reading about the matter for a couple of years). I think it takes a lot more 'faith' to believe that all the universe and life is the result of 'accidents' that have odds so impossibly remote, you'd never accept them if it were a different subject. I highly recommend this.

For the record I am a university science student (biology) so my views are clear- This movie is based on an Intelligent Design book of the same name (and thus is entirely separate from legitimate scientific films). Check the sources (authors of the book for starters). The fields Richards studied were Philosophy and Theology. Each is a member of the Discovery Institute, which is a Christian think tank, and its purpose is well know just by observing its web presence. "How our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery."Regardless of your opinions, for as much as opinion matters in science, don't fool yourself into thinking the purpose here is anything but indoctrination and anti-evolution. If you agree with ID then you'll probably love this movie. If you have an interest in seeing something based on science you might like the films made by PBS such as Evolution, information is easy enough to find with a search engine.Essentially know what you're watching. Want pretty pictures, selective sound bites, and some misleading 'facts' then have at this film. If you wish to gain some understanding of what we've learned about the universe around us look elsewhere.

This documentary was excellent! It never ceases to amaze me how wonderfully complex and finely tuned our universe is ... and how unlikely it is that it would provide the conditions necessary in which complex life could arise. To those who reduce this documentary, as well as the Intelligent Design movement, down to nothing more than a pseudo science ... please provide your arguments AGAINST the observations/claims in this documentary ... rather than merely cutting it down in your language. The various scientists and scholars that were interviewed throughout the course of this documentary (Guillermo Gonzalez - Ph.D. in Astronomy, Jay W. Richards - Ph.D., Dennis Danielson - Ph.D., Seth Shostak - Ph.D. in Astronomy, Charles A. Beichman - Ph.D.'s in Physics and Astronomy, Bijan Nemati - Ph.D. in Physics, Kevin Grazier - Ph.D. in Physics, Don Brownlee - Ph.D. in Astronomy, Paul Davies - Ph.D. in Physics, Robin Collins - Ph.D. in Philosophy) gave scientific facts, as well as their interpretation of those scientific facts, to produce their conclusions. Please leave a detailed rebuttal to their conclusions or your empty criticisms of their conclusions will be reduced to nothing more than anger and contempt towards the possibility that the Intelligent Design movement might be right after all. Thank you.

This movie presents quite a lot of real science, and leaves it to the viewer to draw a conclusion, regarding whether the immensely precise laws of physics, and how they combine on the Earth to allow us to live, are best explained by intelligent design OR by one of the several theories of evolution.For one scientific point (among many), evolution cannot explain how the multiple components of the eye, which must make electro-chemical changes in picoseconds, could have evolved by minor or major mutations, since the creature is blind IF any one of those components is not present or does not function exactly as it has to. If the creature is blind, it will die, since it cannot get help to eat from another of its own kind, because they would ALL be blind, therefore that species would all die off. Even Darwin admitted that the eye cannot be explained by evolution. We now know much more about how fantastic the components of the eye are, and evolution STILL does not have an explanation for the eye. Intelligent design is the best explanation for the eye.There are a number of other irreducibly complex structures like the eye, as well as the incredibly complex electro-chemical factory in every cell, and NONE of these can be explained by evolution.Darwin also admitted that the fossil record does not support evolution; it actually supports intelligent design; but he thought that fossils of "intermediate" species would be found. With millions more fossils now found, NONE of them is an intermediate species; there are no "missing links".I suggest that, with an open mind, seeking the truth, you read "The Case for a Creator", in which a journalist talks with the experts on microbiology, astrophysics, and other sciences, and carefully examines arguments for both evolution and intelligent design.