So being able to create visuals for the real stuff was super exciting to me.

And obviously the challenge came in, well, how do we take this big book and condense it in a way that is clear to the audience,

it's kind to the audience, is interesting to the audience and has the visual spectacle that would, you know,

inspire and encourage and make it easy for someone

to sit through the entire thing.

ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Well, we have NASA's Artemis II mission launching today in what promises to be the start of a

permanent presence on the moon. We've also got movies coming out about alien life elsewhere in the

universe, and even the U.S. government is getting in on that action. It's the perfect time to be

asking the big questions about life and the universe in a really big way. Welcome to Idea the Future.

I'm your host, Andrew McDermid. Today I welcome to the show Eric Esau, director of the story of

everything, a cinematic exploration of the scientific evidence for a mind behind the universe.

This is a film that brings the arguments of Dr. Stephen Meyer's book, Return of the

God Hypothesis, to Life through stunning footage and cutting-edge animation, as well as engaging

interviews with over 20 scientists and scholars, including, of course, Dr. Stephen Meyer himself.

Here's a portion of the trailer so you can get a feel for just how it looks and feels.

Today, I'm going to tell you a story which may seem very strange.

Galileo, Kepler, Newton.

Each tried to explain events in the history of the universe.

Has the universe always been here?

Or is it finite?

Is there something else that would lay these questions to rest?

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