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Compromise would be so easy…Conviction is so costly.

Taylor Mitchell desperately needs his scholarship to stay in school. Physics Professor, Dr. Heinlein, insists that Taylor abandon his “mythological religious approach” to creation and base his thinking on “fact and the scientific method.” Taylor’s final grade will depend on his fulfillment of Dr. Heinlein’s assignment – a scientifically sound paper on evolution.

His professor’s constant harassment about this “unscientific view of creation” has wearied Taylor. Is this truly a Test of Faith or an “assignment on reality?” Is Professor Heinlein’s claim true, that “faith is an obstacle, an enemy to clear scientific thinking?”

How would you approach this test? Will Taylor pass? Would you?

When I checked it out about a dozen reviews had been added. The reviewers? None other than Theodore Bronson, Fader McGee, Reverend Nehemiah Scudder, John Rico, Hugh Farnham, Patty Paiwonski, Alex Hergensheimer, V. Michael Smith, and this one reviewer by Simon D. Gester:

What a truly remarkababel piece of cinema! I was in a froth of fervent ecstacy! And ever since I have given up Ecstasy, the evil of the world has become all the clearer to me! Demonic forces in the form of filthy, evil Doktor Heinlein, played by the dastardly David Robey and his pointy goatee are personified with passion. I wonder how anyone could merely PLAY the part of evil like this man does without BEING evil! He obviously read the works, if you can call them that, of the anti-Christian Robert A. Heinlein; may his body rot in the ground. Hiding behind the ideas of thinking for yourself, Heinlein was directly attacking the Christain faith. While I have never read any of the works of Heinlein (my fingers would burst into flames) I am assured that this is the case. While the cinematography has something to be desired, these actors do a wonderful job of working with what they have got. And I am so glad to see Kirk Cameron back on the screen! His role as an angst driven teen in Growing Pains is so far away from this poor maligned teen forced to think outside what he is normally comfortable with. Evolution! Rage and cheer at the struggles of the hero! Cheer with him as he rails against the attempts to make him, forcefully, accept the ideas of evolution. Creation remains triumphant in this great movie!

I can see it now: Roger dumps that other guy and changes the name of the show to “Ebert and Gester At The Movies.”

UPDATE: Oh, Bummer. I visited the site and they pulled all the reviews.

I guess my review from “John Thomas” won’t make it …