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The BBC's documentary series Planet Earth and Planet Earth 2 featured incredible footage,

brilliant storytelling, David Attenborough's stunning narration.

It also featured a stark and noticeable contrast between the materialist worldview

assumed throughout and the wonder, the awe, even the attitude of worship inspired by what they

had captured on camera. Throughout the series, the writers assumed that all of what they showed was

nothing but an accident. And yet at the same time, the sense that nature is wondrous and chanted,

even, shall I say, intelligently designed basically creeps into every line, every shot even into the

musical score. Well, in a new nature documentary produced for Netflix and partnership with the BBC,

that contrast is even more obvious. The film is called Our Universe. It's narrated by Morgan

Freeman and has an intriguing and daring premise. The story of physics and cosmology, how the universe

came to be and how it works, can be told in terms of biology or the lives of the creatures who

depend on that universe. Now, to pull this off, the producers combined eye-popping CGI of

nebula igniting stars, elements forged in the heart of the sun, molten proto-planets colliding

to form our solar system, along with footage of Cheetah's chimpanzees, bears, sea turtles,

elephants, and penguins. The whole point is to tell the story from a secular scientific perspective

of how the origins and constants of our universe make life possible and feed and preserve every living

creature. The series explains how energy, time, the seasons, the periodic table, the water cycle,

gravity itself are all crucial to living things. It shows the deep connections between a vast and

apparently sterile cosmos and the beautiful blue life abundant dot that humans call home.

And it does all of this with the same unmistakable sense of all reverence, even thankfulness as planet

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