The 2009 Star Trek movie was brilliantly done, and worth watching over and over. For someone who's never watched anything Trek, it's a nice high quality introduction to the characters. Use the movie to make them fall in love with the characters before exposing them to the melodrama of the 60s show. Once someone is hooked, they can watch just about anything Trek... even Deep Sleep 9!

I don't understand why the theory of intelligent design is offensive to science. We have so many "grasping at straws" theories about how it all started, including being "planted here" by aliens. Why is it offensive to believe that a God had a hand in creating everything? Forget about religion for a minute... religion is merely man's attempt to understand God anyway. Just because none of us have seen God doesn't mean he's not there. I personally have never seen a big bang, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. And if the big bang did happen, it doesn't mean that God didn't have a hand in making it happen. The Bible is merely man's best authoritative document dealing with God. It is not, however, a legal or scientific final word on the topic of God. It is a man written document describing man's understanding of who God is. It isn't even the only authoritative document on the topic. Much is not known about the beginning. What is known is theory and conjecture. I say, don't discount God as a possibility in the processes. He makes more sense then aliens or chance.