I have just watched the first part of a new three part documentary from a Christian perspective arguing that it is possible to believe in evolution and in God. Because of the bias of the documentary (no atheist or agnostic scientists were featured although they were frequently referred to), the makers had no success networking it in the UK (it may network in the US), but it will be available to purchase as a dvd from July 3 and will eventually be streamed online.
It is very beautifully edited by the Farady Institute (which received funding from the Templeton Foundation) with some wonderful visually poetic shots.
However, I was disheartened to hear Katherine Blundell, Professor of Physics at Oxford University, argue in the documentary that science is not able to go further than one second after the Big Bang. Science can't just give up like that! If it hadn't been for the work Stephen Hawking and his colleagues, science would not have known that it could go up to one second after. Don't give up!
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Interesting that science can't explain anything after the first second of the big bang. The fact that that's a little known fact perhaps goes to show how there is a kind of naivety to our faith in science. Though it may be safe to assume that there is a scientific explanation that we haven't sussed out yet.
On another note, be wary of beautiful filmmaking in a documentary. Remember Leni Riefenstahl!
Science has nothing to do with faith. Science is about evidence.
The thing about Leni Riefenstahl is that the incredibly aesthetic film, Das Blaue Licht, was heavily influenced by German Romanticism. People feel uncomfortbale saying that because of what Leni went on to do. The Triumph of the Will, which I could never watch all the way through because it is so psychologically violent and ugly (that's the point, it is not beautiful, it is ugly), has nothing to do with the German Romantic school.
Hypnotic "avant-garde" shapes and colours have also been exploited by fascists. There is an "avant-garde" sequence at the end of Metropolis, made in 1927. Hitler loved that film.
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