I am Dr. Grant. I am a paleontologist. I endorse this video.

and the truth is we are the only specks that are conscious of this, in a sea of specks that make us somewhat remarkable specks

Bill Nye is such an embarrassment. How he stays relevant IS one of the great unsolved mysteries of the universe.

There are entire galaxies that have never once had a single thought but you and I, mere specks, can think God's thoughts after Him. I think, Mr. Nye, that we are more significant than specks. It's not size that matters. It's ability.

Aside from the obligatory time template that folks like Denton have to follow in order to practice in their respective fields, a very comprehensive and well put together piece that SCREAMS designer to any objective viewer. Bravo to all involved.

I'm surprised there's no mention of the astonishing information storage properties of water recently discovered by scientists such as Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier.

Great follow-up to The Privileged Planet. Michael Denton adds great perspectives to the basics introduced in the first movie.

That Nye guy, what a barrel of laughs. Always full of sunshine and hope. Almost makes you wanna go out and eat your gun. It's no wonder the masses gravitate towards humanism. Ohhh wait.....no they don't.

Notice something? The people who believe that God put all the pieces together produce such beautiful material. The guys on the other side mainly spew unfounded claims with so much anger and venom a lot of times.

"I suck!" You said it.

I love videos like this. It's such an awesome reminder of God's intelligence, wisdom and love for us all -- even for those who revile and hate Him.

I think God had us in mind when he made the rules of the universe and spoke it into existence. It is no accident he gave us a mind capable of discovering his laws, and placed us in a location within the universe where these laws can be observed, and which also is the only location where creatures like us are possible. And life is too complicated to arise by itself even in the perfect location, life comes from life, that is, from God. One day soon science will progress to the point where it will become obvious to all that we could not have come into existence by accident, and that God is the only possible answer. I like science because it gives us insight into the glory of God.

The theory of "Evolution" and its allied hypotheses of "Abiogenesis" are the most fiendishly elaborate lies ever perpetrated on mankind.

This is more like it Discovery News, bravo!

This needs to be shared and shared and shared. How cool is this. Thanking everyone who took part in the making of this documentary.... And most of all... PRAISE BE TO THE LORD GOD OF ALL CREATION. AMEM

The fool says in his heart, ”There is no God!”

Awesome! Thanks!

An amazing video! An amazing story concerning the first life on the Earth! Thank you!

This video is absolutely amazing, only because we serve an amazing God. It's not about the ongoing debate betwixt science and religion. It is far deeper than all that. Information given here reinstates and I add reassures us just how unique the universe is, the planet we call earth (and home) is, and especially how "scientifically special" we humans are. But hey, dear friends, don't take my word for it...please, look at, listen, and observe this video for yourselves.

Excellent :)

Rick Swindell: Wonderful film. I think science will catch up with what the Bible teaches more and more as time goes on.

I got this documentary on DVD for my birthday. I have to say, it opened my mind! Sure, it promotes Intelligent Design Theory, but I do keep an open mind when it comes to subjects of God. Thank you for sharing this documentary! Keep up the good work!

We must be so extra ordinarily remarkable species to have been created this universe for. That must have a lot to do with our souls and not just our bodies.

How can they believe that this is coincidence!

Blessed be the name of the Lord who made everything right

Excellent presentation. Looking forward to reading Douglas Axe's "Undeniable."

bill nye is not another grain of sand, he is packed full of information. that is the difference between life an nonlife,

“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'" - Douglas Adams

Bill Nye is "out of spec."

Awesome! Inspiring! I love it.

How perfect is our God...no dummy! :) some of my very favourite verses... ~By wisdom the Lord laid the earth's foundations By understanding he set the heavens in place By his knowledge ( root word "science") the mountains were formed ( tectonic cycle) and the clouds let drop their dew ( water cycle)"~ Pr 3:19-20 He gives us acces to the same wisdom, understanding and scientific knowledge, as implied in Pr 24:3-4 ~Through wisdom a house is built through understanding it is established Through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures~ Praise the eternal GOD and Father and Jesus Christ our Lord!

Bill Nye, what a delusional mind!

Thank you

It's great that it's realized all these "coincidences" lead to the conclusion there's no coincidence at all - it's purposeful, by a Creator. So once that's known, lose the millions and billions of years bit. The Earth and universe are young, generated in 6 days by the hand of the same Creator. Very powerful, transcendent, outside of space and time.

Great stuff

Awesome... marvelous Creator.

why was this speck at the start producing such high amplitude waves?

Loved It❤

Are humans an accident? Well, according to my mother, yes...

شكرا على الفيديو ..عمل ممتاز..😊

I’m worthless Hahahhahahah genius

Indeed god has made world with" balance" everything has a purpose and fits into each other..its not a random universe but a universe with" meaning and purpose"

That opening with Nye really hits home the agenda of the atheists. This is the guy that Hollywood uses to teach kids "science". He tells us we are nothing.

I don't have enough faith to be an atheist

A great video! When the sub in spanish?

God ought to get an Oscar for this one, absolutely amazing and profound. Well done Discovery!

Very cool! : )

I was watching this & listening, then, @ 3:19 as Dr. Denton was being introduced, the background song just BLEW ME AWAY! I couldn’t concentrate on the video anymore, I just was captured by that GORGEOUS PIECE OF MUSIC! Please, does ANYONE know what’s the Title?? It lasts until 7:38....please help! I’m stuck in a wonderful loop!

Check your privilege humans.

This is what saddens me the most, it is when people commit suicide. They fail to realize how lucky they are to be born a human, i understand that life is hard, the world is not fair, but, we are a privileged species, the entire universe, down to the atoms, is fine tuned for us as a species, to exist. We can think, we can communicate, we can laugh, we can cry, we can socialize, we can do so many things other animals can't do. We can appreciate life. Yet, due to certain circumstances, tens of thousands of people commit suicide every year.

Well, that was encouraging . . .

It really depends from which perspective you look at it; life could be a consequence of the conditions that exist in the universe... or you could put life first and then it seems like the conditions are just exactly right ("made") for life. There could also exist a parallel universe, where life flourishes under extreme hot conditions with sulfur as key element - here it also depends, how you define "life". This documentary defines life based on our biological processes, and the ones we know on earth, but why not imagine an organism that uses a completely different set of characteristics. It just when you think of the women you married... you think about all your decisions in life, and they ways you went - they had to be exactly like this, if you didn´t went to this school, went to this city etc.. you wouldn´t have met your wife - but was your life and all the coincidences made just for her? Or was your wife more a consequence of the decisions you made? This life is just one possibility, there may be/could have been lots of other universes with other physicals laws, that also bring life, defined as a "biological" process that self-sustains or replicates, and thinks, or does whatever..

Excellent content, as usual, from the Discovery Institute. Well done and thank you.

We have to be fair and recognize that giving up atheism/materialism is painfully difficult for some people. This belief system has been a part of their lives, and in some cases, their science training for years. They also see pain, disease, suffering and death around them...and grave injustice. Into that conflicting scenario there is now a flood of new science in every discipline pointing to fine tuning and obvious intelligent design. At no point in science history has there been such an attack against atheist materialism. Thousands of world scientists are being dragged into the realization of a conscious Universe against their will. Every year the lists of fine tuning get longer and longer, making atheism untenable. Have some pity on these people. It’s not like they EXPECTED God to actually come from science. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

Everyone applaud Bill Nye for revealing the meaning of life.

The problem with all these arguments is that it requires that the things it postulates to have possibly been different. All these properties of nature that make life possible could have the properties they have simply because of determinism. You guys really need to somehow prove that these things were not predetermined since the beginning of the universe or some argument like that.

Yup, a real spectacle

Excellent video showing only some of the evidence for design that is needed in order for large multi-cellular beings like ourselves to even exist. We are NOT ordinary specks, on ordinary specks, on ordinary specks, on ordinary specks, etc. One must be perfectly blind not to see this design & specialness, or purposefully refusing to acknowledge it.

Michael Denton should be knighted.

Thanks for the Turkish subtitles

Design, design, everywhere design.

thank God that theres someone out there like you guys who promote the truth, im muslim and you really strengthen my belief in God everytime u post something new

The life giving Light

I just watched 'The Privileged Planet'. The comments sent me here.

I love my wife, I don''t think she is speck !!

Pena que não há legendas para o Português do Brasil

Am I the only person on earth that is not a species of animal I am a human being Animals are species

Wow! This documentary is not only informative. It's beautiful! The irony of the opening scene, with a 'humanistic' gathering giggling approvingly at a frantic proclamation of the insignificance of humans and the meaninglessness of existence, is a nice comic touch. You'd think they're actors playing crazy roles. Unfortunately, they are just being themselves...

The link for tickets just comes up ERROR

I am m. Grant. . I endorse this video.

Bill Nye: "I suck."

How about a book that gives more details ?

"The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork." Psalm 19:1. Natural laws are fixed and must be followed. There must be then a creator of these laws. God has a wonderful purpose for mankind and the earth which is created to sustain all earthly life.

Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made every living thing from water? Then will they not believe?! The Holy Quran Chapter 21, verse 30.

OK, so there's an intelligent designer. Now what? Where do we go from there? How do we actually find the designer and establish a dialog? How does it make living my life better, or even different? Will we all find the same designer? These are the unanswered questions that, for me, makes the ID proposals I've seen like a solution looking for a problem. If one lives fully in the richness of the presence, there is no need for a deeper meaning.

God is the greatist and one.

Fine tuning of the Universe by Intelligent Design is 1 in 10^ 120. Fine tuning of the Universe by Evolution is 1 in 10^ Random Chance

I wonder! When you know all these things and inspite of this knowledge support natural way of the emergence of life and brain!!! Either you dont want to accept facts or you are involved in some "scientific" structure.

Humans fitting well in their environment is no more miraculous than a river fitting the shape of the landscape PERFECTLY or planets just happening to be in PERFECT orbits! These things would have been perfect... no matter what. because those things fit the environment, not the other way around. If the land were differently shaped, the water would just move and change course to perfectly fit that instead. If gravity were different, rocks that flew out into space long ago would have stayed instead and formed other planets at other perfect orbits, or else these ones would have flown out and others that fell into the sun wouldn't have and would be in perfect orbits... And if chemistry were different, humans would just be different to fit it too. If water didn't do evaporative cooling, then life would either develop different chemistry that doesn't break down in higher heats (this actually already exists, plenty of bacteria can survive even boiling temperatures), or else flourish in colder regions more readily where this was less of a liability. If ice didn't float, then things simply wouldn't live in lakes... they'd live in oceans at latitudes where they don't freeze at all, or only tend to hang out in tropical climates. Etc. etc. etc. If there were less oxygen, there would simply be more anaerobic life. That could happen tomorrow, and life would adapt just fine. Humans have better intelligence than other animals, yes. And falcons fly faster than any other animal. Humans suck at that. Humans are squishy, bad at fighting and lifting stuff, slow, we freeze to death really easily, we require far more calories than other things do our size, and so on. ANY species could pick some things it is best at and call itself "privileged" That's mis-using the word "privileged."

"If the Univers was created specifically to support life, where's all this life? The life on Earth is the only life we know! Were is the rest? The Universe should be full of life!" Maybe it is? Maybe everything is alive (conscious). "Mind and matter are inseparable, in the sense that everything is permeated with meaning. The whole idea of the somasignificant or signasomatic is that at no stage are mind and matter ever separated. There are differelt levels of mind. Even the electron is informed with a certain level of mind". - David Bohm, "Quantum Implications" p. 443

"even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world" Ephesians 1:4 (ESV)

I think this is a good advert for a multiverse. But why?

Could have been a great video and then somebody had to throw music in there what were you thinking

Bill Nye, is a dingle berry

a biologist remarking on astrophysics? more evidence, please

Nye is a pseudo scientist

"As Krauss says, it would be amazing to find ourselves in a world in which we couldn't live." That presupposes that such worlds exist, or are probable (does anyone know of any?). Maybe it's life itself - consciousness AKA God - that creates worlds (physical playgrounds) it can live in for its own pleasure, and not the other way around? What would be the point in creating something useless? The fact that life generally feels meaningful and joyful is something that's rarely considered. But it's the key to understanding a lot of things. ;)

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” Werner Heisenberg

i have known about fine tuning for quite some time - but Dr. Denton focuses on the earth itself and packs a ton of facts about our privileged state that when collected together, and combined with the impossibility of life spontaneously coming from the fabled organic soup, really packs a punch and is a wonderful argument for design, Of course there are even more examples of this. i am truly sadden that people believe they are here with no creator, and resort to outrageous multiverse theories to try and explain it all away - why would anyone want to do that. The answer is obvious, it is not about science, it is about continuing to teach generation after generation that they are, as Bill Nye rants in the beginning "prologue",, "an insignificant spec and pathetic." i think Mr. Nye and the lot of these pseudo-scientists like him have done more harm to this country and this world than any other philosophy (their religion)., By being as presumptuous to use their notoriety to push that we are here for no particular reason and that their is no need for intelligence are poisoning the minds of so many young people and hinders science and society in very deep ways.

Privileged indeed we are. and fortunate too!. Lucky that the cosmic garden centre was open just at the time that the intelligent designer needed to populate the earth with the plants needed for us to thrive. A billion years earlier and and the earth would have been too hot and inhospitable. A billion years later and the sun would have blown away all the oxygen and water that we need. The next time that ID decides to make a new universe just for us, maybe he/she should should design it so that it is habitable on more than just a speck on a speck on a speck ..., and for much longer than a brief moment of a brief moment that our species has been around (on a cosmic time scale). If that proves too difficult, why not design us to adapt to the environment that we find ourselves in? What? We are designed that way? Wow! Well maybe the universe is not designed around us after all. Maybe we just adapted to the way it is.

Bill Nye is an intellectual speck.

Google, the Northern Cross, by Aquilla Fleetwood, youtube!

Humanity can see something of God Almighty in all his creation.

Of course, we know where the grand design of the universe comes from , yet we resist the logical conclusion. Thus the real problem is not intellectual but moral. We are privileged, yes but refuse to give credit to Him from whom it came. The hardest thing for each of us to deal with is the recognition that we are evil, and that is what makes us blind. Which is the reason why the forerunner of Christ called up people to repent. Without repentance we cannot see the truth, even if it stares us in the face.

Without God there would be nothing except God. xo

Why is it so wrong to excuse an intelligent designer? How arrogant to dismiss higher intelligence than ourselves. Humility always brings joy in discovery. "Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools".

"Allah is He Who has created the heavens and the earth and sends down water (rain) from the sky, and thereby brought forth fruits as provision for you; and He has made the ships to be of service to you, that they may sail through the sea by His Command; and He has made rivers (also) to be of service to you. And He has made the sun and the moon, both constantly pursuing their courses, to be of service to you; and He has made the night and the day, to be of service to you." (The Holy Quran Chapter 14, verses 32 and 33) "And He has subjected to you the night and the day, the sun and the moon; and the stars are subjected by His Command. Surely, in this are proofs for people who understand." (The Holy Quran Chapter 16, verse 12) "And has subjected to you all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth; it is all as a favour and kindness from Him. Verily, in it are signs for a people who think deeply." (The Holy Quran Chapter 45, verse 13)

It is so sad. A footage of Bill Nye opens this video. He says how small we are - no problem with that. But when you look at his face and people cheering and laughing in background, you wonder how can anyone feel jovial about that? No, I am not asking people to go into depression. But response to Bill Nye and his own expressions seem to clear what now nears us is a society that will abhor moral principles. Because any society that does not aim to higher standard and feels joyous in being speck will never have a higher standard of ethics and morals. NEVER.

Nye- a sad, blind little man