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I recently saw the video, it was very good. Not for kids, because it is too technical. Evolutionists argue that amino acids randomly combined to form proteins and then cells. As I understand it from the film, cells require the information provided by DNA to convert amino acids into proteins. Thus the information HAD to exist first, which makes the evolutionary theory impossible.

"Evolutionists argue that amino acids randomly combined to form proteins and then cells. "

No they don't...the first replicating forms were probably RNA based, and did not have proteins. RNA has self-catalyzing properties and many RNA structures (e.g. ribosomes) are truly ancient.

Evolutionists argue that amino acids randomly combined to form proteins and then cells.

I'm not a biologist, but I don't believe that evolution has anything to do with how cells are formed. It's more about how cells (or multicellular organisims) reproduce (specifically that they reproduce imperfectly). I believe that you are confusing evolution with abiogenesis, but evolution does not depend upon abiogenesis. Evolution only deals with existing life forms, it has no application when life is not present, so the formation of the first life forms from "non-life" is not a part of evolution.

Then there's the confusion between DNA and RNA, but someone else addressed that.

Not for kids, because it is too technical.

My 14 year old would object. He loves biology, and is currently taking advanced placement courses. He of course owns this video, and is truly amazed at the lengths some will go to NOT see what is right in front of them.

Evolutionists argue that amino acids randomly combined to form proteins and then cells.

Abiogenesis is still speculative. DNA first appears in the fossil record about 3.5 billion years ago. No evidence has been found to directly explain how DNA came about.

Evolution of species, on the other hand, is well explained by DNA mutation and natural selection -- the diversification from the first single cell organisims then, through the dinosaurs, to the modern primates and mankind. The fossil record and contemporaneous observations prove beyond a reasonable doubt that DNA evolution is the explanation. Even the Catholic Church has made peace with natural evolution, deciding instead that God directly bestows a special status on each human individual.

The religious assualt on an natural explanation for the yet unknown methods of abiogenesis is this: "I can't understand how it could happen, therefore it is impossible." You can see right off that basing arguments of impossibility on the intellectual abilities of fundamentalists probably isn't going to get you very far in the discovery of reality.

Evolutionists argue that amino acids randomly combined to form proteins and then cells.

I thought that Evolutionists argue that higher life forms evolve from lower or less developed life forms. How the whole process got started is less germain than how species came to be in their present forms.

The theory that amino acids randomly combined to form proteins and then cells would be called something else. What...I am not sure.

Thus the information HAD to exist first, which makes the evolutionary theory impossible.

Correct. Evos tell us that matter and its motion are all there is. They completely missed or forgot about information. Probably the former.