The Story of Everything is one of the most important films to hit theaters in years. It’s also one of the most beautiful films about science that you might ever see.
On this episode, Dave Hanegraaff is joined by biologist Doug Axe, one of the film’s key figures, to unpack what it argues, why it matters, and what it means when scientists themselves are being confronted by evidence they can’t explain away no matter how desperate they might be to disprove the reality of God.
It’s a conversation for skeptics, seekers, and anyone who’s ever wondered if the universe is really just blind accident or an intricately woven tapestry that science alone cannot explain—but can illuminate.
The path to truth leads through beauty.
The Story of Everything is a film about science that ends with a crescendo of beauty, beauty, beauty.
Please see related resources by authors featured in the film below:
Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed by Douglas Ax
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(Timestamps below.)
0:00 — Intro / How Douglas Axe got involved with The Story of Everything film
3:00 — Undeniable—how biology confirms our intuition that life is designed
7:00 — The two competing stories or narratives about reality
10:00 — The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe
15:00 — The price advocates of Intelligent Design have had to pay over the course of their scientific careers
16:30 — Surprising rebirth of the belief in God—is that happening in the sciences?
19:00 — The key concepts behind The Story of Everything
21:00— Why does it matter if the universe had a beginning or not?
22:30 — Why are so many scientists desperate to disprove the reality of God
25:00 — The multiverse theory is evidence of desperation
28:35 — Materialism and free-will cannot coexist
29:30 — Was there a first cell?
30:50 — What does Darwinian evolution explain well?
33:15 — Why is the discovery of information such as DNA such a big deal?
35:40— The power of visual representations in a film like The Story of Everything to help non-experts understand science
37:00 — Intellectual honesty and the search for truth
39:55 — What is specified complexity?
41:40 — Why specified complexity infers design
43:00 — The constraints of time for evolutionary theories
45:10 — The hard problem of consciousness
51:30 — The beauty principle—“it’s so beautiful it must be true”
54:50 — Would the discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe contradict Christianity?
We are living through one of the most disorienting periods in human history—leaving many to wonder: What is reality? As artificial intelligence accelerates and institutional trust erodes, our shared sense of what is real continues to crumble.
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