Documentary
Rating: 10/10
I’ve watched this at least 5 times now, and many sections many more times than that. This is the best, most succinct, most content-dense, anti-evolution presentation I’ve ever seen.
That said, my first go-through didn’t
leave me all that impressed. I was watching it while doing some paperwork, not
giving it my full attention, and what I saw just seemed to be a bunch of
interviews, lots of talking heads. It didn’t seem all that interesting.
But when I gave it another go and
actually paid attention…. Whoah!
What the folks at Creation
Ministries International have done here is, in one hour and a half presentation,
boiled down all their very best arguments into the shortest possible form.
That’s why I’ve watched it so many times already – I had to keep stopping,
rewinding, and then listening to sections again, because so much of what these
interviewees say in just a sentence or two is something that others have
written articles and even whole books on.
For example, here’s a line from Dr.
Donald Batten: “The survival of the fittest does not explain the arrival of the
fittest.”
At first listen, this struck me as
a great turn of a phrase, and it certainly is. But let’s hit the pause button
and just think about all that’s being said here in just this one line. Survival
of the fittest (AKA natural selection) is supposed to explain how species adapt
and change: those with advantageous mutations will prosper, while those without
will eventually die off. But survival of the fittest is a selective process – it picks the best out of the group. How then,
does it work before there is a group to pick the best and brightest from? Natural
selection is a key mechanism for evolution, but it doesn’t offer any
explanation for how animals come to be in the first place! This one, short,
ever so quotable line, points out a gigantic problem with evolutionary theory!
In addition to Dr. Batten, the documentary features 14 other PhD
scientists, and together they highlight, as the title puts it, Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels. They cover
a wide range of problems, grouped under categories like the Fossil Record,
Genetics, Natural Selection, Cosmology and Radiometric Dating. I really can’t
say enough nice things about it: from beginning to end this is brilliant, and
as good an introduction to the problems with Evolutionary theory as you will
ever find. The Dove foundation said, “If we could award Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels more than five Doves, our best rating,
we would!” and I echo the sentiment. You can buy it Amazon.com by clicking here.
