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Unlocking The Mystery Of Life refers back to Darwin's writings of one hundred fifty years ago and leads us through recent discoveries of the complexity of cell functions and components. Along the way we have Dr. Dean Kenyon who in the 1960's had written the definitive work on the chemical version of evolution, that has been widely used in colleges and graduate schools. Kenyon's textbook was "Biochemical Predestination". Given the scientific discoveries in molecular biology and genetics of the last twenty years, Dr. Dean Kenyon and other scientists in this video (Stephen Meyer, Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, Scott Minnich, Paul Nelson, and William Dembski) have completely discarded Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

Two examples of Darwin Theory's failure given in the video are the thousands of different complex molecular machines that interrelate in the cell's manufacturing processes as well as the detailed programming instructions for those machines.

The video uses computer-generated animation showing the building of these machines from amino acids into proteins, and finally the particular machine structure and function itself. The machine example in the video is a relatively simple one: the bacteria flagellum - specifically, the "outboard motor" assembly that runs the 100 thousand RPM tail of the bacteria.

The "modern" Darwin scientist counter argument of "co-option" is also addressed...

Good information but...
"Unlocking the Mystery of Life," is the first video from the creationist perspective that is on par with the production values of most of the evolutionly slanted programs one might find on PBS or the Discovery Channel.

The video is divided basically into two segments dealing mostly with Michael Behe's Irreducible Complexity argument and William Demski's Design Inference arguments. Each segment making it's own case for the Intelligent Design movement. There are many other Scientists that also contribute to the debate including Stephen Meyer, Jonathan Wells, and Dean Kenyon to name a few.

The video contains a wealth of information about the history of Darwinian evolution, some of the problems with chemical evolution, and the origin of information rich systems found in all life forms.

The only issue I have with the video is that they ignore what I can guess is the main complaint Neo-Darwinists would have to the information presented. Neo-Darwinists believe in the RNA world and that self replicating RNA is the basis for all other forms of life. If they had addressed the formation of self replicating RNA by natural processes and demonstrated how difficult and improbable that would be, this vidoev would be a death nail into the coffin of the origin of life psuedo scientists.

The DVD has some extra feature including a question and answer section in which the featured scientists answer questions related to evolution and intelligent design.

Factual, careful, artful exposition of intelligent design
Having followed the intelligent design movement since its inception, most of the material in this video was not new to me. However, the depictions are apt and really awe-inspiring--especially those in the last one third of the video. When you see a computer simulation of specified complexity at the molecular level, it sticks in your consciousness. Sheer dumb luck could not have done this.

I have seen this presentation three times. Each time I am impressed with the comments of the experts and the care in which the challenging material is presented. The subject is approached in a calm and scientific manner. The audio clips are long enough to explain tough concepts. Especially telling is the interview with Dr. Dean Kenyon, a pretigious scientist and author who eventually gave up on chance and necessity as the parents of human life--and this after defending it in a well-received volume called "Biochemical Predestination." He marvels at the nature of life and argues that a mindless universe could not have generated it.

In an age awash with stupid, pointless, and sensational vidiocy, this video presentation stands out as a unique and important achievement for the young intelligent design movement. One can learn much from it about some things that truly matter.

When I showed "Unlocking the Mystery of Life" to my class at Denver Seminary, the students spontaneously applauded at the end. Just to add an emotive comment, it gives me goosebumps.

But please don't just view this, read about the intelligent design movement: Phillip Johnson, "Darwin on Trial," William Dembski, "Intelligent Design," Thomas Woodward, "Doubts About Darwin," and many others.

Douglas Groothuis