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The final film in Illustra Media's long-planned Intelligent Design trilogy, Darwin's Dilemma, is scheduled for release September 15, 2009 and is currently available for pre-order at ARN at a special introductory price.

This documentary will examine what many consider to be the most powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution-the Cambrian fossil evidence. Charles Darwin realized that the fossil evidence did not support his theory of gradual, step-by-step evolutionary development. He hoped that future generations of scientists would make the discoveries necessary to validate his ideas. Today, after more than 150 years of exploration fossil evidence of slow, incremental biological change has yet to be excavated. Instead, we find a picture of the rapid appearance of fully developed, complex organisms during the outset of the Cambrian geological era. Organisms that embody almost all of the major animal body plans that exist today. This remarkable explosion of life is best explained by the existence of a transcendent intelligence.

Filmed on four continents, this fascinating documentary examines some of the most important fossil discoveries ever made... and, with them, a mystery deeper than Darwin ever imagined. The Cambrian explosion was actually an explosion of biological information: assembly instructions in DNA and embryonic blueprints that directed the development of the first complex animals...information that points unmistakably to foresight, purpose and intelligent design.

Darwin's Dilemma is a high-quality documentary that includes interviews with world-class paleontologists Simon Conway Morris and James Valentine, as well as leading intelligent design theorists and scientists Paul Nelson, Jonathan Wells, Stephen C. Meyer, Paul Chien, Doug Axe, and Richard Sternberg.

Several messages come through loud and clear in the documentary:

1. Paleontologists freely admit the Cambrian Explosion evidence presents a problem for Darwin's theory

2. The fantastic animations communicate visually the complexity of the Cambrian creatures

3. The complexity graphs shown make it abundantly clear that Darwin's predictions do not match the evidence and in fact the evidence is almost the complete opposite

4. The relative time frame of the biological big bang (2 minutes late in the 24 hour clock of earth history) make it virtually impossible for random mutations and natural selection to produce the complexity and information content found in the Cambrian in such a late and short time frame

5. Even Chinese scientists are turning against Darwin's theory based on the Cambrian Explosion evidence found in their own country (which is some of the best)

As with the first two Illustra Media ID documentaries, Unlocking the Mystery of Life and The Privileged Planet, Darwin's Dilemma is full of high quality animations to help the viewer visualize the amazing complexity and design of the Cambrian creatures. You can watch a trailer for Darwin's Dilemma is here.