Unlocking the Mystery of Life
Unlocking the Mystery of Life
| 05 May 2003 (USA)
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Unlocking the Mystery of Life represents a unique programming opportunity for local stations. Its broadcast release coincides with the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history-James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery that the DNA molecule carries hereditary information in the form of a code that many scientists have likened to computer software or a written language. This discovery (announced on April 25,1953) sparked a scientific revolution. But it also left a fundamental question unanswered. Where did the information in DNA come from? How did the software in the cell arise? Unlocking the Mystery of Life explores these questions through the stories of a growing number of scientists who no longer believe that natural selection or chemistry, alone, can explain life's origin. Instead, they think that the microscopic world of the cell provides evidence of purpose and design in nature.

Reviews
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
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.
youngdebraa I truly enjoyed and appreciated this DVD. It answered so many questions I had regarding "evolution". I have to say that it is difficult to argue their "facts" as 21st century technology has been able to uncover DNA and cell structure. This is something Darwin couldn't even conceive. At the time Darwin thought a single cell was the center of life, but we have come far. I suggest you take a look at this film if you have any questions about evolution or natural selection. I recommend you see this film if you don't have any questions, you will when you're done watching. It's truly a eye and mind opener. For the record, religion and God are never mentioned.
amy_smiles247 As a continual student of science, I feel that this video is essential for every high school classroom and every university level biology class. As Behe points out within the film, to have grown up only learning the evidence that supports one theory is to be taught only half of the truth, and when an educated person realizes such a tragedy has occurred, it is insulting to intelligence. Not only does this film point out several different arguments to the Darwinian theory of evolution, it uses Darwin's Origin of Species to show that Darwin himself would have agreed with intelligent design had he known what scientists know now.As a questioner of evolution myself, I feel it is a shame that so many highly educated scientists accept it as truth without learning the details of any sort of opposition to it. (To level the playing field, and perhaps give more weight to what I say, I feel the same about Christianity.) This production adequately supports an argument and leaves room for a viewer's interpretation of the facts, not forcing on anyone what these scientists have come to believe, but educating them as to the basis behind the idea.
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.
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