The Atheist Movie Journal

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Finally some internal shots!

After so much shooting outside, having to configure the iris, filters and so forth, nothing like a totally light and atmosphere manipulatable internal shot.

These are flash back scenes Jeremy is having while in his apartment. Craig Graham was very kind to support us by allowing us to use his apartment.




The epiphany of the evening (: a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. Webster's Dictionary.) was Laura discovering for the first time that she had been brainwashed in believing her eyes were brown when in all reality, they are green. It was a shock for the whole cast/crew.
Click on the eye to look deep inside it. Window to Laura's soul...

This eye made me think for a minute, back to a fantastic book I read last year entitled "Darwin's Black Box", by Michael Behe. Mr. Behe is every atheist's nightmare, and they try very, very hard to discredit him as a scientist, but the facts are in: he is a professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University and taken very seriously by his colleges. Point is, he coined an interesting phrase, "irreducibly complex". What this means is that biological systems are much too complex to have evolved from simpler predecessors. A classic illustration he gives is a mouse trap. You look at a mouse trap and you see all of its components. The board, the spring, the bait holder and so forth. The mouse trap works as a whole. If you are to take one part out of it, the whole mechanism fails. Without the spring, for example, it's not a mouse trap anymore. Well, how could these parts have "evolved", little by little, by time and chance, and lots of time and chance, to get it working perfectly? Which came first? In a living organism, which came first, the lungs or the veins? All biological systems are much too complex to have evolved, yet this is taught in classrooms as science and not a "not yet proven" theory. Yes, I know this is a bit controversial, but the human eye is one of the most irreducibly complex biological systems in the universe. One part cannot work without the other, or have "arrived" in a functional sense without the other. Just by looking deep into this picture, I am amazed at how intrinsically and wonderfully made Laura's eye is. It keeps me in awe.

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