Review of God's Not Dead (2014) by Integrity — 08 Jan 2015

I have several genuine tertiary degrees to Ph.D., in various fields from science to philosophy. I am therefore fairly adequately informed in the major points of the endless debate, mainstream Christianity vs. atheism, after five full decades of professional practice. In my opinion, then, this film may be well intended, but is too AMATEURISH, although it may serve as a teenagers’ starter.

Quite apart from the heavy BIAS apparent in the caricature of the professor, the evidently unanimous verdict of the student body, and the professor’s highly contrived dying conversion, this film fails completely in its prime objective of presenting a viable case for a belief in the Christians’ God, Nor is it fair in presenting the atheist case at its best. For example, leaving aside the latter, the courageous young apologist never picks up on the important point that the oft quoted assertion of Professor Stephen Hawking that the universe was self evolving since the law of gravity has always existed merely adopts the atheists’ hoary appeal to a god of the gaps in the form, physics and mathematics of the gaps!

The sooner that all parties to this paramount debate accept that there must be some First Cause, albeit inaccessible to humans bound by space and time, the better.