Enter Life - The Best Science has to Offer?

I took my family to Washington, DC last week.  We stopped in at the Smithsonian's popular Museum of Natural History.  Right off from the rotunda with the elephant centerpiece is the 1st floor room marked "Early Life".  Going through that arch and to the right is small amphitheater that hosts a looping six minute flick, Enter Life made in 1982 by animation film producer and fem-symp Faith Hubley. 

The cartoon was playing on our last visit five years ago, but this time I had a video camera with me.  The quality is not very good, but trust me the source material playing on the Smithsonian's 1980's vintage projector was not much to work with.  You may have to turn up the sound.  (Don't fret, the early interjection by a screaming child lasts only 2 seconds.)

Now you would think that the scientists in the most powerful nation in the history of mankind could do a little better than using a 25 year-old cartoon to explain to the visitors of the Smithsonian how life came to be on planet earth.  But, this apparently remains their best effort that public tax dollars and the donations of anti-creationists will buy.  (We should note that in a like manner the Federal Reserve System uses comic books to paper over with the public how they steal from us through the powers of fiat money and fractional reserve banking. We will also note that the supplied link to the New York Fed is .org not .gov.)

Seriously, if skeptics who scoff at Creationism were to apply their same powers of logic and reasoning to this "imaginative glimpse at how life on earth may have begun", would they not also have to laugh at what currently passes for a scientific explanation of life?

My two favorite parts of the cartoon: 

Broken down amino acids find themselves in a sphere that for an unexplained reason divides into two like units -- thus life begins...

The time clock spins through a few hundred million years, as if churning through a sufficient number of years will eventually cover enough time to allow for a momentary suspension of the known laws of physics and chemistry such that life could spontaneously develop out of inert matter.

I will give filmmaker Faith Hubley credit though for at least using one scientific advisor in the production of her film, a PhD geologist with an AB from Duke no less.  This is one more scientific advisor than Al Gore used to make An Inconvenient Truth.

(Endnote: Looking at Hubley's other film credits, I am going to guess she may not have gotten the memo before producing The Big Bang and other Creation Myths (1981).  I'll further guess that she was drinking the Kool-Aid of the day in her 1978 flick Whither Weather)