Sarah Salviander@sarahsalviander
Finally got to see this movie! It's gorgeous, with high production values, and it ably makes the case from two sides - physics and biology - that what we see in the natural world is best explained by a transcendent Intelligence.
I learned some new things watching this movie. I knew the late great astronomer Allan Sandage was Christian, but I didn't know that he, like me, was a non-believer who had been led to God by his scientific work. I also didn't realize the extent to which some scientists objected to Lemaitre's big bang model because it resonated too much with Genesis 1:1. This point is both exciting and depressing. Exciting, because it emphasized even more how scientists in the last century, as modern physics was heating up, understood the theological implications of the big bang. Depressing, because so many Christians still think the big bang is an atheist conspiracy. 😕
I was featured more than I thought in the first part of the movie. Kind of weird seeing myself on a big screen, but I got over that pretty fast. It was fun seeing who else they brought in for this movie, and it was an impressive cast.
It's important that we continue to present our case this way when we can - beautifully, compellingly, with striking visuals and music. That's what makes something memorable - it's the way humans are wired.