A poor production pandering to narrow minded views on Creation. A disservice to Christianity itself.

I watched this movie out of pure morbid curiosity, as I watched it I began to question whether this was a Christian film or not... I mean it has to be because the disgusting lack of understanding of evolution, but then again, it portrays Christians as diabolical, manipulative, and ignorant as all get out... It starts out with a girl going to a biology class (why would a evolution denier study biology?), the professor seems warm and charming and respectable. Of course the portrayal of his understanding of evolution is off, but then again it was written by people who deny evolution. The plot then twists and turns for a good long while, with the girl being a typical college student more or less with weird shenanigans and chasing boys. It is peppered with really creepy scenes of the girls parents, and predatory boys just looking to, pardon the expression, "get their dick wet". It starts to get to some substance when the father of the girl looks up the nice professors name and finds him to be an evolutionist, oh the horror. The father decides he should talk to this Kaman guy and give him the once over for teaching his daughter, a BIOLOGY major, evolution. When he approaches the professor he chastises him for leading his daughter astray and questions the professors beliefs. The professor is very nice about it saying that if the bible helps the father then that is all that matters, the professor says that evolution helps in and that is all that matters. The father won't accept this and continues to berate the professor. When the professor comes up with what I think is a fair proposal to have a debate on the subject the Christian father freaks out and backs down. Big surprise. Then it gets weirder, and even more aggressive, with a student journalist creeping on the poor girl who just needs some space to find herself. He becomes aggressive in his pushing Christianity on her, and his bad mouthing of the nice professor. They try to paint the professor in a weird light trying to make him look evil, but actually portrays him as a reasonable and good person.

In the end if you want the run around of this whole movie it could be summed up in one interaction between a random student and the Christian journalist. The random student and the girl are discussing how people came from "apes", which again betrays the authors poor understanding of evolution. The creepy Christian journalist boy, again creepin on the girl stalking her, pushes his way into the conversation and then gives his incredible reasoning as to why we did not come from apes and I quote. Christian Journalist: "Does your mom look like an ape?" Random Student: "What?" CJ, aggressively I might add, "I'll take that as a no, does your grandma look like an ape?" This continues in a really mean way. I mean seriously, are you trying to make christians look like a bunch of ignorant bullies? If this is how you want your religion to be portrayed, that's fine, I guess... but man,I wouldn't want this movie associated with my religion and defending my beliefs.

In the end this movie feels more like a pro-evolution/anti-Christianity (especially with the speech made by the professor at the end) which is why i couldn't give it only 1 star. I mean really, it does a pretty good job of painting a disgusting picture of Christianity, their ignorance and their intolerance.

+++ WARNING: THERE BE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +++

In this limited-release movie (read "movie shown where invited") the daughter Rachel goes off to college and takes a biology class with a professor who has the temerity to teach biology instead of religion in his Biology class. Rachel is confused by knowledge; she has never heard of this story of evolution before.

Rachel's father Stephen is very upset that Rachel seems to be moving away from religion. He goes to see Rachel's biology professor, concerned with the brainwashing going on in the biology class and Stephen ends up agreeing to debate the Professor on campus in an evolution/creation debate.

In the meantime Rachel is experiencing her own conflicts on campus with nonbelievers. Nonbelievers are universally portrayed as insincere, egotists, treacherous, and negatively worldly. Rachel is surrounded by people she cannot trust, people who are not at they appear to be, and boys who have a hidden agendas, unspoken sexual plans for Rachel.

Throughout Rachel's college struggles, the question postulated in her Biology class "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" continues to plague her. It's a truly vexing question for Rachel. Fortunately, rescuing apologist friend Evan offers Rachel a convincing solution to this conundrum. The chicken came first. Because, according to Evan, Life does not come from non-life...like that egg. An egg is non- life, apparently. (But later on I know that that unborn chicken will be classified as LIFE by the pro- Lifers.) Rachel is very comforted by this call to faith because the "call to critical thinking" was bewildering.

The film climaxes with what some people might consider a very stirring Christian sermon at the campus debate. Not a single bit of moderation of the debate, not a single bit of actual debating, not a single bit of true science offered by the biology teacher. And not a single mention of the fact that debating evolution and creation is an odd debate because evolution is a theory of change, not abiogenesis or the age of the earth or the big bang. But it is, rather, an emotional, triumphant music-laden call to faith and a comforting retreat from academia.

If you are looking for an emotional and sweet film to support your faith you will love this film.

If you are turned off by saccharine, false logic, and apologist baloney, this film will bore and annoy you.