Unlocking the Mystery of Life is a 2002 intelligent design

Intelligent design

Intelligent design is the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." It is a form of creationism and a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for...

 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 promoted and produced by the Illustra Media, a branch of the Discovery Institute

Discovery Institute

The Discovery Institute is a non-profit public policy think tank based in Seattle, Washington, best known for its advocacy of intelligent design...

, and Focus on the Family

Focus on the Family

Focus on the Family is an American evangelical Christian tax-exempt non-profit organization founded in 1977 by psychologist James Dobson, and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Focus on the Family is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s...

. The film's script was written by Stephen C. Meyer

Stephen C. Meyer

Stephen C. Meyer is an American scholar, philosopher and advocate for intelligent design. He helped found the Center for Science and Culture of the Discovery Institute , which is the main organisation behind the intelligent design movement. Before joining the DI, Meyer was a professor at...

, who is director of the Center for Science and Culture

Center for Science and Culture

The Center for Science and Culture , formerly known as the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture , is part of the Discovery Institute, a conservative Christian think tank in the United States...

 at the Discovery Institute, and it includes fellows of the institute such as Jonathan Wells and Michael Behe

Michael Behe

Michael J. Behe is an American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate. He currently serves as professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and as a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture...

 arguing for intelligent design and against evolution

Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

.

It is promoted by Focus on the Family and Campus Crusade for Christ

Campus Crusade for Christ

Campus Crusade for Christ is an interdenominational Christian organization that promotes evangelism and discipleship in more than 190 countries...

 is providing a free copy to every school in Australia. In 2005, Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

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 PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 member station KNME

KNME

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 originally declined to air the program because "The funders of this program have a clear and specific agenda that they openly promote" and the station did not want to take sides. However, it was later aired.

The program is widely criticized by scientists for its promotion of intelligent design.

External links

• Unlocking the Mystery of Life from Illustra Media