"Expelled" Movie Comments (Part 2: Evidence for a Creator)

by Bernie Dehler, 5-2-08

In the Expelled movie, famous atheist scientist Richard Dawkins is asked "what if you're wrong, and face God on judgment day... what will you have to say to God?" Richard said he would say the same thing that famous (deceased) Bertrand Russell once said, that God didn't provide enough evidence for God's existence, or that God was hiding himself too well.

That's a good topic... is God hidden? Even before modern science, people marveled at creation, and inferred an obvious designer for this creation (Paley's watch-maker analogy; Cicero actually came up with this first at about 70 BC). The Expelled movie makes the point that this is still the case with modern science. Because of micro-machines in the cell, the complexity of a cell is mind-boggling. Not just the info encoded in DNA, but the marvelous processes that the cell carries out, in manufacturing. It looks like a real manufacturing plant within the cell, with special micro-machines reading DNA, converting DNA into amino acid sequences, delivering molecules where they are needed, things coming and going through special "ports" in the cell lining, etc. In fact, Harvard has a great online video that will show all this 'miraculous' machinery at work (click here to see it; video is called "Inner Life"). They have some structures in there that appear to hold onto others, walking along tubes with what appear to be two feet, delivering molecules to their destination. (The Discovery Institute also sells an awesome graphic presentation of DNA operation that I highly recommend for your personal library; click here for more info). How it all works is still a mystery to scientists.

Is God hidden to scientists? Apparently not. One of the most brilliant scientists I heard (and read about) is Francis Collins (click here for his book), who came to Christ later in life (he was raised as an atheist). Proof that God is available to everyone, even scientists!
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Series on the movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed"
Website: http://www.expelledthemovie.com/