Flight: The Genius of Birds

In the best sense of the word, FLIGHT is not so much an argument for intelligent design, as it is a picturesque, graceful tribute to the genius of birds, to honest sense and level-headedness. Let me name anything heavier-than-air that flies, and I'd expect you to show me an instrument designed and engineered--and here's the key--by someone capable of design and engineering.

Helicopters are made of materials found on earth. How long, one might suppose, would those elements need be blown about by wind and sea and time and chance before a helicopter emerged?

FLIGHT says little more than that. But in making the obvious more obvious, it reaches beyond blueprint to visual beauty, beyond execution to emotional ecstasy. Who among us hasn't wanted to fly? Flight's investigation of birds will both amaze and uplift. One cannot ask for more. The film puts our heads on alert and our hearts on the wing.

In February of 1969, a stunning, larger-than-life Boeing 747 rose on its maiden voyage into the sky above Seattle. No one watching its magnificent ascent or its poetic descent on its first glide path believed they were witnessing a mutation of assemblage. Find the current 747 online Wikipedia entry and note the key words of the outline: proposal, design, production, and development. These are not the monikers of accident and chance, whether for the 747 or the starling.

I am grateful to FLIGHT and its makers. It answers questions and dispels nonsense of all kinds. More, it inspires. Beauty and truth always do.

What an incredible film! The grandeur and design of God has never been so clearly evident as in a bird's feather. My husband and I were astounded by the intricate mechanisms and intricate details that enable a bird to fly . . . and we were equally impressed with the film Flight: The Genius of Birds. We can't wait to share it with the rest of our family.

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The photography is outstanding, making the video mesmerizing. We couldn't take our eyes off it. The film focused on only a few bird species in detail, which included the hummingbird, the arctic tern, and the starling. Each species has amazing features to ponder. We found the starling flocks containing many thousands of birds especially fascinating.

The details about the hummingbirds were super. How those little hearts could beat so fast, somewhere around 1200 beats per minute (going to have to watch it again soon) boggled me. The speaker said many birds' heart rates are over 500 beats per minute. I know how uncomfortable it feels when my heart approaches 150/min during a bout of atrial fibrillation, but the little guys and gals at the hummer feeder seem perfectly calm and content as they lap the extra concentrated nectar I make for them.

The evidence for intelligent design was clear and compelling. Birds are not glorified, flying lizards. The metabolism, musculature and skeletal systems of birds are perfectly adapted for flight. How all the required features for flight could develop by a long series of fortuitous accidents guided by natural selection requires blind faith, for there is no empirical evidence that birds evolved from some unidentified ancestor.

The presenters compared some human engineering accomplishments of well-designed flying machines, including a tiny, hummingbird like drone to the amazing designs found in birds. The design features in birds are far more elegant and effective that those designed by men. They talked about how evolutionary biologists insist students regard all the design features seen in organisms as development by mutation and natural selection over a nearly infinite span of time. The mantra is that "anything" is possible given enough time. A probability becomes a possibility, and that becomes a certainty. But when, the numbers are crunched, the probabilities are pooh-poohed by evolutionists because they are convinced with perfect faith that the universe and life was inevitable.

Evolutionists have speculated endlessly over the origin of birds, but birds are so unlike terrestrial creatures, that evolutionists cannot agree among themselves how it all happened. However, they insist with perfect faith that birds must have evolved from some dinosaur or lizard. The required structural and metabolic changes required to make such a transformation are outside the scope of science, yet evolutionists fill textbooks with ad hoc explanations how such transmutations might have occurred and then considered it virtual and incontrovertible fact.

The film referred to the development of the egg embryo without burdening the viewer with additional technical information concerning molecular biology and related fields. It did mention that the various cell types moved into their proper place as the bird embryo developed. Evolutionists say 97% of a species' DNA is junk because it doesn't code for protein. Clearly, most of a species' genome is involved in development, regulation, and other functions necessary to produce a viable organism.

I know crusading evolutionists are going to give this video a 1-star rating and put it down as stupid and made by ignorant creationists, but that goes with the territory. While atheists generally make up about 10% of the population, they often make up 50% of the reviews on Amazon--trying to stuff the ballot box. I've noticed that any book or film dealing with origins, evidence for God, or intelligent design is attacked by the same crew.

Enjoy the film. It is delightful and informative.

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This very colorful, informative, well-documented film is all about birds, focusing on a few examples including hummingbirds, starlets, and arctic terns. It also covers the design of the wing, feathers, and the muscle and bone structure, showing in excellent animation how birds are designed to fly as well as their development. At the end it covers some evolution theories as well as design arguments. Highly recommended.

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