I’m going to sit down shortly with my kids and watch the new Cosmos series on Fox. Here at ENV, we’ll have more to say about Seth MacFarlane’s revival of the Carl Sagan vehicle for scientific materialism after we’ve seen it. In the meantime, you may wish to have access to the antidote handy before grappling with the ailment itself.

For that, you couldn’t do better than Illustra Media’s series of stunning video documentaries on the theme of intelligent design in cosmology and biology. Most of these are actually viewable immediately as Amazon instant videos. The single most relevant film is The Privileged Planet, but don’t forget The Case for a Creator, Darwin’s Dilemma, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Flight and Metamorphosis. Find them on the Illustra website or, as I said, on Amazon.