God, Creation and ‘The Story of Everything’: A new documentary claims that modern science has reality all wrong.

Wall Street Journal ^ | 04/18/2026 | Peter Robinson

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The most striking feature of “The Story of Everything,” the science documentary that will appear in theaters on April 30, is the sheer nerve of the thing. First it claims that modern science has reality all wrong—and then that we know this because of science itself. By the end of the film’s 97 minutes, you’ll likely find yourself concluding those claims aren’t wrong.

The film opens with 19th-century figures who gave science a purely materialist view of reality. Clips of contemporary scientists show this view remains dominant today. “Science,” biologist Richard Dawkins says, “has now achieved an emancipation” from the idea of a “Creator.” “Existence,” physicist Lawrence Krauss announces, is “a cosmic accident.” Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reduces the notion of a Creator to a quaint absurdity.

As “The Story of Everything” demonstrates, these scientists haven’t been paying attention.

The documentary presents three basic scientific findings over the past century. The Big Bang comes first. A hundred years ago Einstein himself held to the then-standard belief that the universe had no beginning. Astronomical observations forced him to change his mind.

In the 1960s Stephen Hawking demonstrated the Big Bang in theory, while Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson had detected the background radiation that proved decisive evidence of the event.

If the Big Bang produced the universe, what produced the Big Bang? “Any entity capable of causing the universe,” says narrator Stephen Meyer, a philosopher of science, “must be external to, or separate from, the universe itself. It must . . . transcend time and space.” In discovering the Big Bang, in other words, science itself has walked us to the doorstep of what philosophers called the Prime Mover.

“The Story of Everything” then turns to the discovery in recent decades of fine-tuning.

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TOPICS: History; Religion; Science; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: creation; design; evolution

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FINE TUNING: The universe possesses a long list of properties, each of which must be just so. If gravity were infinitesimally stronger, all matter would have collapsed back in on itself. But if gravity were infinitesimally weaker, stars and galaxies would never have formed. To support life, Earth itself must lie just the right distance from the sun, project just the right magnetic field, possess just the right gravity to hold in place an atmosphere of just the right density, and on and on.

The most arresting argument against materialism arrives with the third scientific finding the documentary presents, the discovery of the astonishing complexity of even the simplest forms of life. One lowly bacterium possesses a flagellum—a tiny tail or rotor. The flagellum comprises more than 30 distinct parts, so similar to those of an outboard motor that biologists speak of the flagellum’s propeller, drive shaft and so forth. How could such a structure possibly have evolved its way into existence one random mutation at a time?

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Sadly, the materialist only scientist believes that reason the bacterial flagellar motor got here is that it evolved. The reasoning in philosophical terms is colloquially termed “begging the question” They assume evolution has and is always happening, and is true, therefore that is how the motor got here. Without any evidence of any transitional forms...very unscientific y’all.

There a lot more unique biological structures or systems just as complicated. Replication of a cell with the 4D dance of the genome and associated enzymes is a good example. Any college level textbook on the cell will give a decent account of the complexity of that system.

To avoid confusion, “begging the question”, does NOT equal “begging to have the question asked” as many will assume.

QED and IMHO.

[TexasFreeper2009]

If life can just happen by chance, then surely scientists can recreate life on purpose..

and yet they cant.

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A scientist told God that with just a handful of dirt, some water, and electricity; he could create life. God said “Okay, show me.”

The scientist picked up a handful of dirt.

“Oh hey now - get your OWN dirt!” God exclaimed.