So my mom's boyfriend brought this video over today by Lee Strobel called The Case for the Creator. There's also two more but the creator was the one we watched. If you haven't heard of him, Lee Strobel is the guy who used to be an athiest, went out to find proof that there was no God, and ended up becoming a Christian in the process. He wrote a book called The Case for Christ, which my mom actually got me awhile ago but I could never read because it was too boring.
Anyway, the movie brings science into religion and proves Darwin's theory of evolution to be false, and says such complex and diversified creatures could not have come into existence through random selection. Then it talks about the universe and how small the chance of life being formed is. And then about how cells are so complex and have many different parts that have to be working together at once, that this can't have happened at random either, that something had to have designed it, aka GOD.
I, myself, am agnostic and actually what brought on him bringing the movie over was me asking them about their beliefs the other day. The conversation, like most about religion as far as my experience goes, was mostly me making rational points and asking questions they weren't able to answer. So, although not proud to say, I will admit I was a bit frusterated with this movie because I don't know enough on the topic to have any oposing thing to say. Which is annoying when my mother, who is very... how should I say... Well I'll put it this way, in our argument, out of me, her boyfriend, and her, her input was not exactly on the same level, i guess. Well, blatantly, she didn't have anything good to say. So it's annoying when we watch this movie and I know in my head she's throwing up her hands going, "I'm convinced!", and afterwards she's so impressed and "Wowww, I liked itttttt, I learned a lotttttt..." Some things might be unexplainable, but that doesn't automatically lead to GOD.
Anyway, my struggle at the moment is that in watching the movie I was trying to be open-minded, throw anything at me, I want to see all sides of the issue in order to make the most educated decision possible. I think, though, that I didn't believe such evidence even existed to contradict my side, so seeing it I was somewhat unmoved that I didn't have anything to say when I normally would. Not saying this is the way that I want to react to the new information, but being a fair observer this is definitely the way I took it. Which is extremely frusterating, when I want so much to be non-judgemental and take in both sides equally, leave out all pre-made opinions and prejudices I might have, and just take in the information.
So now, putting all of that aside, I'm curious if anyone else has seen the video, or any of the videos, or read the book, and what is your opinion? Not to be biased again, but I'm most interested to know if anyone has any information that does contradict what the movie explains? Also, if anyone just has any comments or anything in the matter I would LOVE to hear!!!=) Thankss
