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... but won't change any opinions of any atheist who has studied even a slight bit of evolution.

I decided to see a Christian movie, even though I'm atheist, to test my convictions. Would this be the movie to change my life? To convert me? Well, no. Frankly, I was completely disgusted by the intellectual dishonesty and emotional manipulation displayed throughout the movie.

Let's start with dishonesty; humans come from monkeys? No self- respecting 3rd grade biology teacher would teach that, never mind those at college level. Then that whole debate; the biology teacher sucked and staved off into abiogenesis and Big Bang and even Freud (everyone who has read even a bit on psychology knows Freud, while an interesting guy, was wrong on lots of topics) - all of which are not part of the debate topic which was about EVOLUTION vs. creationism; I could come up with better arguments than the biology teacher and I dropped biology from my high school course. Really, where was the debate leader to steer the father, the teacher and the ex-teacher back on topic? Because he sucked too! Then we have the emotional manipulation. The movie consistently portrays Christians as the good versus atheists as the evil. The girl was hardworking and studious, while her roommate and most of the students in this non-Christian environment were portrayed as party-goer slackers. The Christian boyfriend was protective of her, notifying her of the other explicitly non-religious dude who just wanted to get into her pants. Then there is the perfect family of concerned father and supportive diligent wifely mother. Contrast with the egotistical self-absorbed attitude of the aforementioned biology teacher. Even the ex-teacher is portrayed as a sympathetic guy who only became embittered because the evil atheist biology teacher got him fired. Apparently, in this movie you cannot be a decent person unless you're Christian.

Now, if you're a fundamental hardcore Christian, I'm sure you will lick up every drop of this feel-good movie. Because it DOES have all those warm fuzzy feelings of a family reunited in the end, an ex- teacher who gets over his bitterness, and a tentative romance. But everyone else can see the falseness behind that sugar-coat, not to mention the -at times- cringe worthy lines the actors spoke (I mean, at times I thought 'No real person speaks like that!').

So, all in all, it does its job pandering to its fundamentalist audience, but I think that, instead of a flick aimed at attacking the evil atheists, Christian propaganda might have been better served with a movie that is more polished, more honest, and intelllectually more engaging than this, if it seriously wants to win new souls.

I watched this movie out of pure morbid curiosity, as I watched it I began to question whether this was a Christian film or not... I mean it has to be because the disgusting lack of understanding of evolution, but then again, it portrays Christians as diabolical, manipulative, and ignorant as all get out... It starts out with a girl going to a biology class (why would a evolution denier study biology?), the professor seems warm and charming and respectable. Of course the portrayal of his understanding of evolution is off, but then again it was written by people who deny evolution. The plot then twists and turns for a good long while, with the girl being a typical college student more or less with weird shenanigans and chasing boys. It is peppered with really creepy scenes of the girls parents, and predatory boys just looking to, pardon the expression, "get their dick wet". It starts to get to some substance when the father of the girl looks up the nice professors name and finds him to be an evolutionist, oh the horror. The father decides he should talk to this Kaman guy and give him the once over for teaching his daughter, a BIOLOGY major, evolution. When he approaches the professor he chastises him for leading his daughter astray and questions the professors beliefs. The professor is very nice about it saying that if the bible helps the father then that is all that matters, the professor says that evolution helps in and that is all that matters. The father won't accept this and continues to berate the professor. When the professor comes up with what I think is a fair proposal to have a debate on the subject the Christian father freaks out and backs down. Big surprise. Then it gets weirder, and even more aggressive, with a student journalist creeping on the poor girl who just needs some space to find herself. He becomes aggressive in his pushing Christianity on her, and his bad mouthing of the nice professor. They try to paint the professor in a weird light trying to make him look evil, but actually portrays him as a reasonable and good person.

In the end if you want the run around of this whole movie it could be summed up in one interaction between a random student and the Christian journalist. The random student and the girl are discussing how people came from "apes", which again betrays the authors poor understanding of evolution. The creepy Christian journalist boy, again creepin on the girl stalking her, pushes his way into the conversation and then gives his incredible reasoning as to why we did not come from apes and I quote. Christian Journalist: "Does your mom look like an ape?" Random Student: "What?" CJ, aggressively I might add, "I'll take that as a no, does your grandma look like an ape?" This continues in a really mean way. I mean seriously, are you trying to make christians look like a bunch of ignorant bullies? If this is how you want your religion to be portrayed, that's fine, I guess... but man,I wouldn't want this movie associated with my religion and defending my beliefs.

In the end this movie feels more like a pro-evolution/anti-Christianity (especially with the speech made by the professor at the end) which is why i couldn't give it only 1 star. I mean really, it does a pretty good job of painting a disgusting picture of Christianity, their ignorance and their intolerance.

A poor production pandering to narrow minded views on Creation. A disservice to Christianity itself.

Nothing but wishful thinking, pseudo-scientific claims. The person who wrote this clearly does not understand the theory of evolution, and then proceeds to straw man currently accepted scientific models.

Anyone whose taken a 6th grade biology course can quickly see through the propaganda and lies this film portrays.

The only reason you should watch this is for amusement of how illiterate society can be, other than that don't waste your time on this.

To summarize, the people who wrote this are the same ones who believe the Earth to be 6,000 years, so watch at your own risk.

This is most absolute rubbish propaganda film through Regret having paid £4 pounds to watch it, mislead by the resume. It's not a debate it's propaganda AVOID IT

This movie not only had horrible acting but ultimately was created as propaganda for the creationists it badly represents science and does not accurately portray the issue. Believing in young earth creationism is basically a denial of all of science evolution has the DNA evidence and the fossil record and more evidence. Basic geology and radiometric dating show the earth is indeed 4.5 billions of years old. The science side in this movie was portrayed as if science doesn't have any evidence so ultimately making this film creationist propaganda. I watched this expecting the same old regurgitation of the same refuted creationism arguments but they didn't even do that they just made science look like it is a bunch of guess work.what is sad is there are people out there that deny the massive amounts of scientific evidence supporting evolution, the age of the earth, the big bang etc... Overall a sad pathetic movie that ultimately was created to get people to believe in pseudoscience.

Clearly a film made by believers for those of faith. Since the majority of reviews here are from those who do not understand or knows God's love - I can see this story will not resonate with them. So, for those who have discover God's love and, hopefully, your love for Him then this be above science.

My undergrad degree is chemistry so there is some that I disagree with, like time/evolution presentation. For those seeking an evangelistic tool "Risen" or God's Not Dead" would be better... The first is a "what if" scenario and the latter presents facts. If you are witnessing to a literary person, I recommend the novel: "The Other Side Of Courage."

Oddly, an atheist friend taunted me into watching "A Matter Of Faith" and I recommend it to only those seeking inspirational entertainment. Non-believers clearly can't see or 'forgive' the concept of the story. I would have thought the film's title alone would discourage Humanists, hence minimizing the review slams presented here.

A Matter of Faith is a frustrating propaganda piece...and thats mostly what it is. Aside from being an awful film its just Creationist propaganda. The odd thing is is that the Creationists in the film seem more like the villains of the film. The film is about a young girl named Rachel who goes to collage and takes a Biology class in which the professor (Kaman) played by Harry Anderson. He teaches evolution like in a Biology class. Rachel's father gets upset because Evolution is taught and confronts Kaman. Kaman is far more likable in this discussion and film. However Rachael's father wants a creation alternative taught. He wants to interrupt the school system to support his beliefs. He wanted for his daughter to go to a Christian school but she did not. Fine. Shes an adult. She can go to what school she wants. So the message of the film is to not think for yourself or is it that certain parts of science is bad?

The film leads into a straw man debate in which the creations actually cheat and destroy the debate by switching debaters in the middle of the debate. How were these supposed to be the good guys? This is a film about a girl who goes out to the world and getting an education but the film thinks that is a bad thing. A Matter of Faith is an awful film in every way. Its a terrible propaganda film of the worst kind.

As stated in the movie, science is supposed to be based on observation; yet the beginning of the human race was never observed. So called scientific proof is based on data after the fact, which ultimately depends on interpretation. Absolute proof is humanly impossible, because there is always the possibility of an unknown factor; therefore, only someone who knows everything can absolutely prove anything. Science is the pursuit of knowledge, which implies a lack of knowledge, and something that is not completely known is based on faith. So everything we know, such as the theory of evolution or creationism, is ultimately based on belief (and evolution boils down to the belief that God either does not exist or did not do everything that He claimed). According to the Bible, every plant or animal produces after it's own kind meaning: i.e., apes produce apes, and humans produce humans, which is self evident. If I told an evolutionist, "hey, I saw an ape produce a human", they would laugh at me; yet, that is basically what they are saying whether they want to admit it or not. God had the Bible describe creation, because only He observed it, and only His account is credible. According to the Bible, Eve was the mother of all living, Eve was made from Adam's rib, Adam was made from dirt, and God made Time, Space, and Mass (these events could have never been deduced from the "rock record"). According to the Bible, the earth was created before the sun, moon, and stars, so the earth is unique and was not formed the way it is imagined retrospectively by science. According to the Bible, the earth was created with age (not a ball of fire under Adam's feet on the 6th day), the trees were fully grown (baring fruit). And according to Biblical genealogy, we are only about 150 generations from Adam, which does amount to approximately 6,000 years (6 days of creation representing 6,000 years, "a day for a 1000 years" 2 Peter 3:8).

God Awful

this was one of the worst garbage movies I've ever seen in my entire life. it manipulates and tries to force feed the viewer with lies. don't watch it unless u cant think for yourself and need to validate your faith with false statements and a feel good atmosphere.

if you do watch it, be prepared to almost cringe at times because of the way christians are portrayed as good vs the evil atheists, its enough to almost make you vomit. i assume that there are some hardcore Christian fundamentalists who would enjoy this movie, but for the common man you should avoid it at all costs.

I tried to watch this with an open mind, yet realized early-on it had the same merit as a Jonestown Koolaid commercial. Aside from a poignant speech at the very end of the movie, the majority of the movie was a feeble sales pitch for a dwindling cult following. Truthfully, I've watched Sci-Fi movies where the characters provide details that suspend belief long enough to buy into the storyline. Here, the crappy acting really promoted no interest in the fantasy characters that the movie is partly based on. The audience is expected to abandon intelligence and reason in order to blindly adopt a weakly developed character (or character amalgamation) I think the purpose of making this terrible movie was to try to enlist new members to a rapidly dwindling cult using hollow logic and citing mythical situations as "proof" to support their weak indoctrination attempt.

"A Matter of Faith" Watched on: Pureflix

The Rule of 90 minutes (my rule for movies that are less than 90 minutes is they are not as good as movies longer than 90 minutes) : 1hr 29min

Do I personally recommend this film: 80% Christian themed: 100% Acting: 40% Writing: 70% Cinematography: 60% Total: 70%

Tigger warning: Adult Situations, Collage boys trying to "make a move" on collage girls, Adult child talking back to parents

If this movie we're getting a letter grade it would get a "-C." I do personally recommend it for all audiences.

A personal note: This movie is like many others that have come before it. The writing is pretty good, but the acting could be way better.

Summary: Jordan (Jordan Trovillion) is going away to college where she's about to learn about evolution. Her parents come to visit when her dad (Stephen Whitaker) learns of the curriculum. He confronts to professor and is somehow going to be in a debate of evolution vs creationism.

Like God's Not Dead that came out that same year it makes college look like a bad place for Christians to go, independent thought is evil and that faith can win in a straw man argument. The only difference is that it attacks evolutionary sciences instead of atheism. What they fail to realize is 1) people need to college to get better jobs 2) Creationism is a joke 3) Critical thinking is more relevant in today's society than faith alone & 4) Those of us who actually went to college know that science (even when it has nothing to do with evolution) is part of General Ed requirements. Question: did the people involved with the making of this film actually go to college?

PROS

+ Excellent script and actors.

+ Very well-made production.

+ Generally good defense of the Christian faith.

+ Beautiful display of forgiveness through the fired Christian professor. His conclusion, that everyone should be allowed to form his opinion, is sadly so true.

CONS

• The movie employs as so often the false dichotomy that either the planet earth and everything on it is very young, or everything is very old. This false dilemma, often employed by Catholics, is particularly more successful in undermining the Christian faith, than the more obvious opposition through evolution is. Satan is very smart, and while Evolution is the smoke screen, the true deceit occurs by employing this false dilemma which pushes many off from becoming Christians.

Satan is expert in employing false dilemmas as seen throughout history (Arminianism vs. Calvinism; Reformed vs. Catholics and the list goes on). One evil is more obvious, the other much more sublime.

In the case of this movie, both Old Earth Creationism (OEC) and Young Earth Creationism (YEC) miss the mark - and only deepen the split by assuming two extreme and unbiblical positions. The Bible actually teaches us what I would coin as Old Earth-Young Creation (OEYC) - with the foundation of the earth pre-existing since an unknown time, being furnished in ~ 5500 BC in a spontaneous and divine act within 6 literal days with the first animals, humans and plants, while engineering the existing waters the HOLY SPIRIT was hovering over, into an intelligently designed water cycle.

Genesis starts with an existing Earth, which was 'void' (or 'a desolation', 'desert', 'without form'). This earth is now covered by the first worldwide flood (before Noah's flood which is technically the second-, and as promised the last flood) and the HOLY SPIRIT is hovering over the deep waters, before THEOS speaks anything into being in Gen 1:3. Neither the creation of those deep waters nor of the earth's mantle is found anywhere in the first chapters of Genesis, and we should abstain from injecting something so fundamental into the biblical account.

The most common argument against the 'gap' is the claim that the first 2 verses are a summary of the following verses 3-31. But this argument falls instantly flat, when pondering why THEOS would flood an earth He created just hours, or -if really considering a summary- 6 days ago. Even the most biased and stubborn person has to acknowledge at this point that such a work order of THEOS would be ridiculous.

There is no way around the fact that the first two verses of Genesis show the state of the earth immediately before Day 1 of the creation account. But we have no information about the time THEOS created the planet Earth itself. Nor is this relevant for the history of humanity. Our task is to preach the Evangelium and to fulfill the Great Commission, and this was thankfully the very beautiful conclusion of the debate - away from debating and down to the essentials of the Good Message.

• The scene with a Christian smashing eggs on someone's head is obviously very problematic, but she at least learns her lesson and gets back on the straight path.

• Although the movie is very great, it is hard to grasp how a Christian movie could have been filmed on a precisely Catholic college. Aquinas C. Was the main location for filming and is a private Roman Catholic liberal arts college.

• Another location for filming is a Calvinist church.

• One featured song by Hillsong.

Not only is it an inaccurate representation of the scientific theory of evolution, which is supported by all evidence uncovered (genetic, anatomical, and geological/fossil), but it also attempts to continue the division between science and religion, which ultimately damages both. Terrible. Watch only if you understand that it is inaccurate, or if you just want something to laugh at. Even then, it might be too boring to get through.