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The Case for a Creator

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Pretty good video.
Lee goes around and interviews various people regarding the arguments for the existence of God. I have to admit that the does good job, and the arguments are short, concise, clear, and convincing. Some philosophical arguments are very old, while scientific (i.e. irreducible complexity) is newer.
I wonder greatly WHY nobody celebrated on the idea of "irreducible complexity" before Behe? It seems SO obvious!! When you listen to it, you say... 'it seems like I always knew it, it's so obvious'.

IF you wearing pink glasses of naturalistic dogmatism -
THEN avoid this video, since it may disturb you.

IF you open to see what's up with this "intelligent design movement" -
THEN watch it with no preconceived assumptions and you may actually come to know about God.

IF you are a believer -
THEN watch this video to build up your faith.

This is an excellent video. It is extremely easy to watch and to comprehend. In college, we are taught about Darwin evolution as if it was true and scientific. However, if you look at the complexity of the human body from individual cells to organs to functions of different body parts, it is very difficult to believe that the body was a result of a "random" process and evolving from simple one celled organisms.

I watched in this video to see the scientific evidence for or against intelligent design and I was amazed how much the scientific evidence supports intelligent design. This video logically discusses how the various fields of science supports and confirms intelligent design. The idea of "irreducible complexity" explains how even simple living cells cannot be a result of a random process. There is such beautiful design, complexity and architecture in every aspect of the human body from muscles to blood cells to bone to skin that challenges the theory of a random chance of events. Even something as simple as the disc within the spine has such intricate engineering and perfect architecture that it clearly points to an incredible creator.

I highly recommend this video to anyone- the skeptic, the agnostic, the atheist and also the Christians. I was looking for something scientific and something logical and this video fulfills both. Enjoy.

Looking at some of the "poor" reviews given here, it smacks me that they are not critical reviews of the documentary, they are lash-outs against intelligent design from people who are angered by its mere notion. People of such bias are not going to be convinced of intelligent design no matter what evidence is presented to them. So much for objectivity.

Since when is a documentary required to present opposing view points? If you watch a National Geographic documentary about zebras, there is no opposing viewpoint. What is wrong with a documentary with the purpose of making a case for the existence of something doing just that- making a case? If you are looking for countering perspective, there is nothing stopping you from doing so from other resources. It is not Lee Strobel's burden to do that for you. He presents his viewpoint, and there is nothing wrong with that. The title is afterall, "The CASE for a Creator".

So, keeping the review objective, this documentary evaluated as any documentary should be without regard to the subject matter, is exemplary. The points are well thought out, well presented, and convincing. The format is exceptional, complex thoughts and ideas are easy to follow, and the graphics and videography are state-of-the-art.

Whether or not the viewer has a bias against intelligent design should not be the basis of an objective review. This video was interesting, informative, and entertaining, and definitely worth the time to watch.

To jump on the subjectivity bandwagon, I will close with this final thought: It takes as much faith to believe in the absence of an intelligent designer as it does to believe in one.

This is a very good video that offers a quick overview of many of intelligent design theory's main arguments. It creates a powerful case, but doesn't bog you down in the details (which for those interested are available in more depth on Illusta Media's other videos). Very sharp, well-presented, and succinct. I like Steve Meyer's statements and choice of words, which pack a whallop. And he hits the nail on the head by noting the difference between an argument that has a religious motivation, and an argument that has a religious implication in its conclusion. Evolutionists are always confusing the two. The arguments presented in The Case for a Creator are weighty, and only those with an anti-God bias will take exception to the observational evidence presented that strongly implies a creator. The difficulty that evolutionists will have with this video is the temptation of closed-mindedness to new ideas, because change is difficult to accept. It can even be seen in the negative Amazon.com reviews this video has received - how evolutionists must resort to the logical fallacy of ad-hominem attacks, by claiming the video is faith-based, rather than scientifically refuting any of the points presented. But no evolutionist has ever proffered any good observational evidence that proves that life WAS NOT designed. And herein lies the problem: Things really look an awful lot like they were designed. Even the brilliant late Francis Crick stated that biologists must continually remind themselves that what they see was not designed. Why did he say this? Because everything looks like it was designed! Piltdown man is a good example of how the evolutionary paradigm blinds observers to where the evidence is really leading. And just as it took a long time for people to get over their belief that the world was flat or that life can spontaneously spring from rotten meat, this video exposes how evolutionists will go down fighting to the end to prop up their crumbling theory. Even to the point of clinging to logic-defying arguments, such as the concept of multiple universes, which this video exposes as a last-ditch effort to rescue chance from the overwhelming odds against it. True story - a biology prof at Macomb County College in Michigan is currently teaching his malleable freshman class that "evolution is fact because it has never been disproven," and if you don't believe in evolution, then you don't believe in science. It's understandable, yet sad, that evolutionists must resort to the logical fallacy of negative proof in order to ramrod evolutionary belief into the minds of future scientists.

This is a very solid presentation of the scientific support for the Christian faith. I have not seen all of Lee Strobel's videos yet, but this is very well done indeed. (I liked it so much, I purchased the 3 pack he has made available.) The gentleman started out an atheist, as many of us do, but when his wife turned to the faith, he thought he would give it a serious examination. And what he found out was that the Christian faith is not at all without support; indeed, the more one examines, the less foundation there seems for atheistic theories and perspectives. So Mr. Strobel became a Christian, as his wife! So his quest is here presented: we see Lee going to various universities and colleges, interviewing and researching. Not overly sophisticated, yet not without depth either; this is a video that will please the general audience. Highly recommended.

As one who strongly supports Creation Science, this movie is amazing. It covers a wide spectrum of scientific evidence and scenarios, as well as puts it in an order that is easy and exciting to follow. Based on a man's true experiences with the controversy, he guides the viewer through his journey from humanistic materialism to belief in a Creator. Excellent!

The conversion of someone from an dogmatically entrenched point of view to a radically new one is always interesting. This is what you'll find in the DVD and book.
Lee Stobel's search for the truth on evolution that he dearly embraced for so many decades is captured in this autobiography. His testimonial statement on exactly where he was and what seat in the science lab where he absorbed and committed to the teaching about evolution shows the impact that science classes have on nearly all youth. Lee's academic and acclaimed professional accomplishments in journalism prepared him to seek the truth. His progressive search resulted in a recanting of evolution from the withering of facts that evolution had falsely propported. The overwhelming discoveries of science that extend from microbiology to astrophysics drew him closer to the conclusion of intelligent design. The other academic and scientific contributors and their explainations of intelligent design pose the same positive approach to seeking academic freedom and thought of all the evidence available for scientific scrutiny. Closed and open minded watchers will be perplexed at the stale debate for evolution. Intelligent design wins.

This video has some overlap with the other excellent videos from Illustra Media, "The Privileged Planet" and "The Mystery of Life". This video is different because of the personal story of Lee Strobel, former atheist and writer for the Chicago Tribune. It starts with Lee's decision for atheism finallized by the Miller experiment in which amino acids were created in a lab. In a section called "the Negative Evidence", Lee debunks this and other faulty experiments and evidences that appear to support Darwinism. Lee finds that the reasons that he became an atheist do not stand on a solid foundation.

Then he takes a look at the "Positive Evidence", which is used in the Intelligent Design argument to indicate the necessity for a cosmic designer. One memorable example is an illustration that has a ruler spanning the length of the universe. The claim is that atomic gravity is set with such precision that if it were to strengthen or weaken one inch on this ruler (comparing length of the ruler to strength of gravity), the atom would either collapse on itself or split apart. So what made physics like named in this example, so precise? These arguments need more expansion and examination before they can be brought to conclusion. Lee includes the best argument to date for design, which appears to be the existence of cellular function, complexity, specificity and irreducible complexity. (To those unfamiliar with these terms, this video has an introductory use of most of them)

Overall, it is a little less technical that Illustra's other films, but its purpose is to delve into the human side via personal story. Lee Strobel concludes with how these findings in science are significant to each one of us.

What I LOVE about this video is that it provides amazing (and in my view, irrefutable) evidence that points to a Divine Creator. For so long, it has seemed that the Darwinian theory has been the stronger argument (even though it is erroneous and full of holes, some of which even Darwin himself was aware of)... but this blows the whole thing wide open!

For anyone who is interested in studying Christian apologetics or to just have some solid evidence to support your belief and/or faith in God, please check out this video. I have been very encouraged by what I learned and the path that led Lee Strobel (a former atheist) to belief in God... to the point that his whole mission in life is now to help others do the same.

This is GREAT video for any of you who are proponents of Darwin's theories... because if you TRULY value keeping an open mind, this is the compelling "other side of the argument" that you don't often hear. I hope that you'll choose to watch this and to come to your own conclusions afterward.

We are hosting a home group and our first topic is Creation. This is a great video on the logic behind believing in creation. Quite frankly, it clarifies the lack of logic of believing on non creation. We added the privileged planet, miracle of life, god of wonders and icons of evolution to the study. All good stuff. As a scientist in the IT area, it is refreshing to see new views and information around creation that aren't full of evolution dogma.