Flight: The Genius of Birds [Blu-ray]

Flight
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...

Highly recommended
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.

Beauty and Function: Design, not Darwinism
"Flight" gives is a case for intelligent design from avian abilities. It is well-narrated (overall), brilliantly photographed, and philosophically compelling. However, the argument itself deserved more development. Nevertheless, please watch it yourself, with an unbeliever, and with your family. Darwinism has no clue how to explain flight and other features unique to birds. It's "just so" story is far inferior intellectual than that of intelligent design. Here is an example.

1. A 747 is obviously designed. Not because we know where they are built, but because of their nature: complex and specified for flight.
2. Hummingbirds are far more complex than a 747 (or any humanly-made airplane) and are, of course, specified for flight (and complex feeding through their amazing tongue, etc.).
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3. Therefore (a), by a fortiori, the hummingbird is designed.
4. Therefore (b), the hummingbird is not the result of mere unintelligent causation (natural selection and...

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