A Matter of Faith

2014
3.7| 1h28m| en
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A Christian girl, Rachel Whitaker (Jordan Trovillion) goes off to college for her freshman year and begins to be influenced by her popular Biology professor (Harry Anderson) who teaches that evolution is the answer to the origins of life. When Rachel’s father, Stephen Whitaker (Jay Pickett) senses something changing with his daughter, he begins to examine the situation and what he discovers catches him completely off guard. Now very concerned about Rachel drifting away from her Christian faith, he tries to do something about it!

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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
josephwalker-51629 As stated in the movie, science is supposed to be based on observation; yet the beginning of the human race was never observed. So called scientific proof is based on data after the fact, which ultimately depends on interpretation. Absolute proof is humanly impossible, because there is always the possibility of an unknown factor; therefore, only someone who knows everything can absolutely prove anything. Science is the pursuit of knowledge, which implies a lack of knowledge, and something that is not completely known is based on faith. So everything we know, such as the theory of evolution or creationism, is ultimately based on belief (and evolution boils down to the belief that God either does not exist or did not do everything that He claimed). According to the Bible, every plant or animal produces after it's own kind meaning: i.e., apes produce apes, and humans produce humans, which is self evident. If I told an evolutionist, "hey, I saw an ape produce a human", they would laugh at me; yet, that is basically what they are saying whether they want to admit it or not. God had the Bible describe creation, because only He observed it, and only His account is credible. According to the Bible, Eve was the mother of all living, Eve was made from Adam's rib, Adam was made from dirt, and God made Time, Space, and Mass (these events could have never been deduced from the "rock record"). According to the Bible, the earth was created before the sun, moon, and stars, so the earth is unique and was not formed the way it is imagined retrospectively by science. According to the Bible, the earth was created with age (not a ball of fire under Adam's feet on the 6th day), the trees were fully grown (baring fruit). And according to Biblical genealogy, we are only about 150 generations from Adam, which does amount to approximately 6,000 years (6 days of creation representing 6,000 years, "a day for a 1000 years" 2 Peter 3:8).
laandt Like most of the reviewers here, it is m opinion that this is nothing but creationist propaganda - and terrible propaganda at that. The acting isn't as terrible as many made for Sy-Fy movies, but it's pretty bad. The portrayal of science in this movie is awful. They completely misrepresent the evolution argument (that's pretty common for creationists). It really makes one wonder just how fragile creationists think their beliefs are that they need to prevent other views from being taught to their children.
mhkezie First of all I'd like to say to the people saying that this movie does not teach true evolution, the movie does not need to he correct with evolution because as the movie is pointing out is evolution does not exist. We are a race of people who can't even travel the entire universe but yet man tries to say they know how it was created? They say it happened because of a big bang, how do you know that a bang isn't just the process of which God achieved this feat in? This movie does what its supposed to and make unbelievers rethink their situation. The people who are so cruelly dissing this movie are clearly just unbelievers themselves.But the bigger question is this,you who believe there is no God then what is the point of your life? Are you not just waiting to cease to exist? Who cares what mark you leave on the world you cease to exist you wont even know you left a mark. If there was no God no creator that would make life pointless. People only use the excuse there is no God so they can live life whatever way they want to. Believing in God gets you to heaven, believing in science gets you to a inevitable outcome of ceasing to exist because you don't believe there is a heaven. So can you all Tell me if your not a scientist yourself why do you follow this belief? I pray that all who read this will find God through Jesus. In Jesus name amen
chandlerklebs Possible spoiler alert if you haven't seen the movie yet.I watched this movie and it felt like what happened near the end was a sermon instead of a debate. The creationist guy who finished the debate for the other guy was basically saying that we should believe in creationism not because it's true but because we need a god to have rules and to be accountable to.If you believe in an all powerful god who can create the world in six days, then let him fight his battles. When you try to defend him, you imply that he is too weak to do it himself.To be clear, I am not all that well versed in evolution. I was raised in Christianity with creationism as the only thing I knew. However, something tells me that this movie is not at all an accurate representation of evolution. I have read some books and watched videos about evolution. If I understand correctly, evolution is not an explanation of the origin of life but how life has evolved over time.But more importantly. One could theoretically still accept evolution and believe in a god. Similarly, one could be a creationist and believe in a god that is NOT the same one as the Christian god. The world is full of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, atheists, and agnostics. There is no such dichotomy of Evolution vs Creationism for the simple reason that there are infinite different types of creationism and/or theories for how life began. Indeed, one need not believe life had an origin at all.While I don't particularly like this movie all that much, I do think it is valuable because movies like this represent what Christians believe. It is for this reason that atheists like me still sometimes like to watch Christian movies. I may disagree with everything about Christianity but I would hate to misrepresent them. My main complaint though is that Christians nearly always misrepresent non-Christians. This can't be helped however because they simply often don't know what the rest of the world believes.