THEME SONG: We never thought we'd find a place
where we belong, Don't have to stand alone,
we'll never let you fall.
Don't need permission to decide what you believe.
Ooh!
I said jump, down on Jump Street.
Your friends will be there when your back is to the wall.
You'll find you need us because there's no one else to call.
When it was hopeless, a decision's what you need.
You better be ready to, be ready to jump, 21 Jump Street.
-If somebody barbecued 200 biology books in my school,
they'd have been voted class president.
-You find something funny about books being burned, Hanson.
-No, but let's face it, Captain.
Ain't like somebody OD'd.
-Somebody doesn't always have to OD, Hanson.
-Well, I didn't say they did.
-Fine.
-You get a chance to look at the file?
-Yes.
Larchmont High.
It's on the edge of the County.
No drug problems, girls still wear skirts.
And their favorite movie was "Footloose."
-And 30% fundamentalist.
-So what's the big stink?
-There's a science teacher over there
who wants to teach Creationism.
He might be stirring things up.
How well do you know the Bible, Hanson?
-Went to Sunday School till I was 14.
-Good, study up.
I want you to go in as a thumper.
Get next to whoever's behind the book burning.
-Sure.
-5,992 years.
According to Genesis, that's how long ago God created the Earth.
A few days later, he created property taxes.
[laughter]
-So what about the rock formations
they found in Greenland?
I read somewhere they're almost four billion years old.
-It's science fiction, Randy.
-They've also found some human fossils
that go back two million years.
Homo habilis.
-Hey, maybe you're the homo.
-Guys.
-Maybe the Bible's got a few typos.
So why don't you read it and find out.
-Yeah.
-Look, I'm just asking a question.
-And it's a good one.
What we have here are two theorems diametrically opposed.
The Bible and Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
If one stands, the other falls.
Principal Garner, Miss Wallace, welcome.
-Carry on, Jim.
-So what about those rocks?
-Randy, ask yourself this.
How can anyone know what with the certainty of truth
that any rock is four billion years old?
-I don't know.
How do they do it?
-Geologists measure the rate of radioactive decay
in a rock's isotopic structure.
You think I'm making this up.
What the geologists make up are the actual ages of the rocks,
because they're all based on the assumption of evolution.
-On the contrary, radioactive half-life measurement
is only one of the methods used to test the Earth's age
and history.
Scientists can verify it by checking against the stratified
Earth layers as well as the hydrogen-helium ratio
of the sun.
-But you still have a theory supporting
other theories, Miss Wallace.
-Mr. Crawford?
-Evolutionary theory has withstood 100 years
of close scrutiny by scientists around the world.
It's as much a fact of life as gravity.
-Look at these children.
You deny them the joy of knowing that they
were created by Almighty God.
PRINCIPAL GARNER: Please.
I can't allow this to continue.
-Created on the sixth day in his image,
male and female, and God blessed them.
-Mr. Crawford, that's enough.
-And God saw everything that he had made,
and behold it was good.
-Jim!
-Mr. Garner.
Anyone who believes in evolution doesn't need a teacher.
They need a Bible.
[background approval sounds]
-That'll be all for today.
Mr. Crawford, thank you.
Miss Wallace.
-Where are you taking him?
-Back to the Garden of Eden.
-Hey!
Uh--
[yells and grunts]
-No, no, guys.
Randy, let him go.
-Let him go.
Let him go!
PRINCIPAL GARNER: Jim.
You want to teach creation?
Please take a job at a parochial school.
It's the students here who need the enlightenment.
-That's not the point.
I got to tell you.
You're going to push yourself right out the door.
The School Board's been all over me
after this business with the biology books.
I was as appalled by the act as you were.
-I know.
But I didn't make a point of saying
that the text was a threat to mankind.
-Don't trivialize my opinions.
I said it was factually misleading and spiritually
nonexistent.
-And you knew what effect that statement would have.
-I do not condone the burning of books.
-But you may well have inspired it!
Teaching creation is against the law.
I don't have to agree with it.
But I have to uphold it.
-What can I do?
How can I teach what I don't believe?
-The same way that I can go against my heart
and ask you to.
You need to find a way.
Don't make me have to suspend you, Jim.
-The relationship I have with my students
is something I hold very dear to me, Jack.
It's why I teach.
-Hi.
-How are you doing?
-You're new here, aren't you?
-Yeah.
-I saw you stand up to the principal in biology class.
That was pretty brave.
-Yeah, well, I don't need nobody shoving monkey science
down my throat.
-For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.
-What's your name?
-Cameron Crawford.
-Tom Halstrom.
Crawford?
You related to--
-He's my father.
-I thought it was real cool the way
your father stood up to Mr. Garner today.
-He's going to be speaking at the Church meeting tonight.
Are you going to go?
-Sure.
My father'd drag me there even if I didn't want to.
-How about you, Tom?
-Oh, yes, wouldn't miss it.
-Miracles don't come very often.
Most of us never get to witness one.
We accept the truth of God's miracles not with our eyes
but with faith in our hearts.
CONGREGATION: Amen.
But our town is different.
God has chosen to let us see the miracle of his kindness.
I know a lot of you have come from different churches
to rejoice in our miracle.
So I would like to ask Brother James and his son, Cameron,
to step up.
[applause]
-Thank you.
Every day, every man, woman, and child among us
must make compromises.
Some of them are reasonable.
They help us to get along with our fellow man.
Some are not so reasonable, but we say to ourselves
it keeps the peace.
So be it.
And sometimes, to keep the peace,
we compromise the Word of God.
-Never, Brother.
-Sad but true, Brother.
But what happens when we compromise God's truth?
-Hell, Brother.
-Don't speak for God, Brother.
He bends over backwards to keep us away from those fires.
It was my doing.
I was in my own personal hell, because I
compromised the Word of God.
And God gave me a miracle to open my eyes.
Over the Christmas holidays, my son, Cameron,
was skating on Renner's Pond when the ice broke open
and swallowed him up.
45 minutes, my boy was trapped beneath the ice
before they pulled him out deader
than the blood below my feet.
I have here the signed medical report that shows him DOA.
Dead On Arrival at County Hospital.
I would like to tell you that I prayed to the Lord
to save my son.
But I knew you couldn't bring back the dead.
-You don't know everything, do you, Brother?
-I certainly don't.
Because for a moment, I forgot about a miracle
like this that happened on Calvary.
And just like the Resurrection, the Lord
showed to me that only he has the power to create life.
CONGREGATION: Praise the Lord.
-And at that moment, my little boy opened his eyes
and came back to me.
Because only God can create life.
[cheers and applause]
-So I have pledged to correct this abomination of God's truth
called evolution, and teach the true story of Creation
to my students.
[applause]
-Where you from, Tom?
-Jacksonville, Florida, sir.
-It's a nice part of the country.
-Yes, it is.
-You belong to any church organizations
back in Jacksonville?
-Tuesday evening Bible study and the Church sports league.
Yeah.
-We got a church league.
Maybe you could join.
-Sounds good.
-Let me ask you something, Tom.
In that Bible study group, what translation of the Scriptures
did you read?
-King James.
-Good.
-Can I ask you a question, Mr. Crawford?
-Please.
-Why won't they teach us the Bible in school?
-That's a good question.
I think it has to do with fear.
Man knows that his heart can play tricks on him.
So he's learned not to trust his feelings.
He needs facts, facts that can be proven
without the danger of a faulty heart.
Not everyone knows that believing in the Lord
requires a great deal of faith.
We witness God's miracles daily, and yet, we
talk ourselves out of believing them.
So people turn away from the Bible,
because God's words can only be proven in the heart.
But evolution, see they believe that can be proven in the mind.
Personally, I believe it's been proven
with another part of the anatomy.
-You know, your father's a good man.
-He's a great man.
-Got a tough fight on his hands though.
A lot of people just don't want the church in school.
-A lot of people do.
-Yeah.
I'd like to have been with those guys who
were burning the monkey books, though.
-Burning books is wrong.
-Fuck, it wasn't nothing but trying
to keep the devil out of school.
Just ask your dad.
-My father said those vandals should be thrown in jail.
-Hey, take a look.
-Is that Cindy?
-Yeah.
I used to walk by here all the time.
-Man, she's good-looking!
You know, she was giving you the big eyeball.
-Me?
No.
She liked you.
-Oh, no, no, no, no.
It was you.
-You know, I never even talked to her before today.
I used to walk by here every night just
to watch her in the window.
Before today, I didn't even think she knew my name.
-Yeah, well, she knows it now.
-Now that I'm a miracle boy.
-What was it like?
-When I was under the ice, and everything
was whooshing, crazy all around me,
I kept thinking I'm just a baby.
And I've never done anything.
And that ice water started numbing me all over.
Everything slowed down.
I started thinking about all the things I wanted to do.
When I was dead, none of it mattered.
I could see the light.
felt good And it felt good and warm to be in the light.
And God sent me back.
I didn't want to go.
But it's part of God's plan, so I accept it.
-How do you know what's part of God's plan?
-At first, I kept asking myself why would God choose me?
I wasn't happy about it.
But when people saw that God brought me back from the dead,
they started turning back to the Lord.
My father told me I couldn't shirk
the responsibility of being God's messenger.
-You know, when my father died, all
I kept thinking was I want to get inside him.
I want to help him through it.
I wanted to know if he was scared or in pain.
I wanted God or somebody to tell me why,
to make some sense of it for me.
God never spoke.
God can speak to you, Tom, through me.
Because I've been dead.
And God sent me back.
When I entered light, I was glowing in God's love.
There was no pain, no sadness.
I know your father felt that too.
-So what do you got?
TOM: Nothing.
-Nothing?
-I got a school full of kids who don't
want to be taught evolution.
And a teacher who doesn't want to teach it.
-We knew that going in, Hanson.
-Can I ask you a question?
You know, uh, kind of on the personal side.
-You can ask.
-Do you believe in God and Adam and Eve and all that stuff?
-I believe in God, most of the time.
I also believe that human life evolved,
just like Darwin said it did.
-All Crawford wants is to teach what he believes.
I mean [scoffs], seems like it should be OK.
-It's out of your hands, Hanson.
Unless you want to repetition the Supreme Court.
What brought all this on?
-I don't know.
Cameron, I guess.
You know, he's this miracle boy.
-[SKEPTICALLY] Miracle boy?
-Well, he came back from the dead.
Ain't that a miracle?
-What do you think?
-Could be a miracle.
Could be some very good doctors.
Maybe just wasn't his time.
But he came back.
When was the last time you met someone
who was already dead once?
I know, this sounds crazy, Captain,
but ever since my dad died, I've been cursing to God one
minute and begging him the next, just
to tell me my father was OK.
And then, all of a sudden, this weird kid
comes back from the dead and tells me my father is OK.
And I kind of believe him.
-Maybe you found religion.
-Maybe.
-Just remember, you're in there to find an arsonist.
[school bell]
-Well, as soon as Principal Garner and Miss Wallace
get settled, I guess we can begin.
Oh, Miss Wallace, I feel I owe you an apology.
-You do?
-Yes, I realize that teaching evolution
is the law of the land and I'm going to do it.
In fact, I've even brought along a visual aid.
Class, I'd like you to meet your Uncle Harry.
[laughter]
By the way Darwin had it figured,
man's origins go back to the tree shrews
some 60 million years ago.
Uncle Harry and then man developed the upright position
by grasping tree trunks with both feet fore and hind limb.
-Excuse me.
Is this really necessary, Jim?
-Well, you're not ashamed of your heritage,
are you Mr. Garner?
-Why don't you come with me?
You just had to do it, didn't you, Jim?
-I'm doing what I feel I have to do.
Moral decay, drugs, alcohol.
These tragedies stem from our children growing up
without faith in God or themselves.
-So what's your solution?
Make it mandatory that the students
believe in your God with your steps to Heaven?
-If that's what it takes.
Somebody has got to try to save these kids,
make things right for them.
I think I can.
-Jim, you are a gifted teacher.
Teach.
-I'll tell you what, Miss Wallace.
If you would like to debate in an open forum
on the scientific merits of both creationism and evolution,
I'd welcome it.
-Any time.
-That is not the issue here, Jim, and you know it.
It's against the law to teach religion in a public school.
If you insist on teaching creationism,
I will have no choice but to remove you
from your teaching post.
-There's a PTA meeting tonight in the gym.
I can guarantee you that won't be their attitude.
-If I return you to your classroom,
are you going to teach evolution?
-I can only teach what I can believe.
-Then you're suspended, Jim.
-Well, we'll see who has his job in the end, Jack.
-You yanked Mr. Crawford out of class today.
I want to know why the best teacher in this damn school
got pulled out of his class and fired.
AUDIENCE: Me too!
AUDIENCE: For illegally teaching the Bible
to children who don't want to learn it.
-Calm down.
Yes Mr. Crawford was removed from his class today,
but he wasn't fired.
He's been temporarily suspended, pending
a hearing with the Board of Education.
-How come it took three months to fix the heater,
but you got a new shipment of science books in three days?
-So now, I have to have evolution
shoved down my son's throat.
-Evolutionary theory can coexist with God.
I-- I don't understand why you're afraid of accepting--
-Accept nothing.
I do not want my children thinking they are apes.
-Anybody who says God didn't create Heaven and Earth
is crazy.
-Why don't you keep Heaven and leave Earth for the rest of us?
-Biological origins play a very small part
in the science curriculum.
Frankly, I prefer the creation of Genesis.
So I teach it to my children at home.
-Mr. Garner, would you mind if I spoke a few words?
-OK, Jim, but please, keep it peaceful?
For those of you who don't know him,
this is Mr. James Crawford.
[applause]
-How are you this evening?
-Why don't you stick to teaching science?
-I plan to.
But I also have no intentions of teaching your children atheism.
AUDIENCE: Hallelujah.
Amen.
-Mr. Crawford, we've discussed this already.
I know we did, Mr. Garner.
But I think even you would have to admit that God's will holds
the right of way over school policy.
-It's illegal, Mr. Crawford.
You're breaking the law.
-Well, we're just going to have to change the law.
And with God's help, we will bring the Almighty back
into the classroom.
-Not on my taxes.
-The children must be served.
I think it's only fitting that we quiet our angry voices,
and let the wisdom of the child speak.
-Yeah, let him speak.
-I'd like to ask my son Cameron to stand up and speak his mind.
AUDIENCE: Hallelujah!
[applause]
-I had another life before God took me away.
Now that I'm back from the dead, I'm different.
I'm not like the other kids in school.
So I don't think I should speak for them.
But I have a new friend, someone who just moved here.
And I know the Lord wants to hear from him.
Tom Halstrom?
Tom?
-Hi.
I'm new here.
Today's my first day in Mr. Crawford's class.
He's a good teacher.
I like what he had to say.
I ain't never seen no miracle before.
But you got one in this town.
AUDIENCE: Right on, Brother, Amen.
-And I say if God's giving us a message, we better hear it.
AUDIENCE: Praise Hallelujah.
-I didn't come here to listen to Brother Halstrom testify.
I want to know who burned the new science textbooks.
-I did.
-No, I did.
-I did.
-I was there too.
-So was I.
-It was me.
-No, I was there.
-[cacophony of admissions]
[doorknob rattling]
[breaking glass]
[school bell]
-Good morning.
I'm sorry I'm late.
I had some un-- where is everyone today?
-There's some notes on your desk, there.
-Josh, take your seat.
I just came to give you this.
-So you're all being kept out of class by your parents.
It's just until the next chapter.
-Great.
So this is how you're being taught to resolve conflicts.
You just ignore it.
You ignore i and pray to God that it goes away.
Josh, you're excused.
OK Let's get into exactly how accurate ancient fossil records
are.
-[WHISPERED] Hi.
-Hi.
Protesting biology class too?
-Well, my dad is.
OK.
Me and my friend Shannon thought maybe you and your friend Tom
might want to come over to my house tonight.
Then we could study the Bible together.
-You'd really want to do that?
-Sure.
I want you to teach me tonight.
-Yeah.
Sure.
I'll-- I'll find Tom and see if he can go.
-It'll be great.
-So how come you don't have a note?
-Hey, I'm just here to learn.
Nobody says I got to believe it, right?
-Thank you.
-Do you believe in God?
-[laughs] Tom.
Scientists can believe in God every bit as passionately
as you or Mr. Crawford or the Pope.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
-So why don't you tell people that?
-Because I shouldn't have to state my religious beliefs
in order to keep a monkey out of my house.
-You got a point.
DOUG: [PREACHER IMITATION] Hallelujah, brothers
and sisters.
What if I could prove it to you that beyond a shadow of doubt
that God really existed?
-How you going to prove it?
-I can prove it.
-He's come by my house, give me a call, what?
-I can prove it.
-Prove it.
-OK.
-When I was a little kid, I was all alone in the bathroom.
-Oh, I don't want to get into this.
-No, no, just listen.
Got the mirror in front of me, and the mirror behind me
on the door.
And I'm looking at the reflection
of the reflection of the reflection, you know.
And I'm counting to see how many there are.
When I get to, like, the 33rd reflection,
way in the back, and there's this little guy,
and he's waving back.
It's true.
-Thank you, Doug.
You-- you've helped me tremendously.
-[SHOUTING] Hanson!
-I got another story.
-Go away.
-Well, you wanted--
-What?
More undisputable truth, Doug?
-Hey, I'm on a mission from God.
-You call this a report, Hanson?
B&E, arson, destruction of public property,
vandalism, harassment.
No suspects.
-I told you it was a weird situation.
-It looks very clear to me.
-Well, what do you want me to do?
Lie to you?
-No.
I would like you to make an arrest.
-Yeah?
Well, we're going to need a whole lot of back-up.
-What does that mean?
-The whole town confessed.
-The whole town.
-Yes.
They all stood up, and any one of them could have done it.
-Are you trying to solve this case, Hanson?
-Yes.
Can I ask you a question?
-[slams hand down] Sure.
-Most of this community believes in creation.
Shouldn't they be allowed to decide for themselves
what they want to teach?
Even the President wants to put prayer back in school.
-Look.
They want to change the law, that's fine.
But they're not going to do it by burning books.
Nor with mob fanaticism.
-You got a point.
-Look.
I know you're having a hard time, Hanson.
Keep at it.
[doorbell]
-I'm not walking into an ambush, am I?
-[scoffs] Come on.
-This is my fault.
I really want to apologize.
-I want to talk to you.
And I want you to let me go straight
through without stopping me.
-I know.
Get off the soapbox and come on back--
-Straight through.
More than half of your students were kept out of class today.
Besides what's happened to my home--
-I'm going to find out who was responsible for--
-Straight through, Jim.
Fights are breaking out.
Parents are threatening each other.
And no one is learning.
And it's only going to get worse.
All because of a single two week section of biology.
-No.
No, this goes far, far beyond one single issue, LeeAnn.
The town is behind me.
I've just come from a meeting.
We are going to boycott store owners that carry pornography.
-Great, let's add censorship to the list.
-We're going to vote out members of the school board
that stand against us.
-What?
The will of the people?
-We owe the children that much, LeeAnn.
And I owe God at least this much.
-Jim, what happened to you?
-I was cheating my family and myself and God.
God took my son away from me to get me on the path.
You can't know what that was like.
[knocking]
-Hi guys.
-Hi.
-Come on in.
-Hi guys.
-Hello.
-You want some drinks?
Some potato chips?
-Eh.
-I'll have some soda.
CINDY: You're sure you don't want something stronger, Cam?
-How about you, Tom?
-I'll have the same, thanks.
[soda opened]
-Cindy?
Where are your parents?
-Oh, they're at the movies.
They'll be back later.
It's I told them you were coming over for Bible study.
-I brought my Bible.
-Oh, good.
Let me see it.
You know, my father gave me a different Bible.
I'd like you to see it.
Come on upstairs.
I keep it by my bed.
We'll be right back.
-You know, I thought it was real cool when you stood up
to speak in front of all those people the other night.
-Well, I was very nervous.
-You know what?
Cindy's sister's away at college.
Do you want to see her room?
It's real private.
-I'd like to, but-- but I'm in training for a fight.
-And who're you going to fight?
-Satan.
-Cameron, what's your favorite story from the Bible?
-Daniel in the lion's den.
-I like Samson and Delilah.
You know, I think it's real interesting that there's so
many love stories in the Bible.
-It's to ward us away from temptation.
-Haven't you ever been tempted?
I've seen you walk by my window 20 times in one
night, watching me get ready for bed.
-I did not.
-It's OK.
I like it.
-You do?
-Not with everybody.
But you're special.
You came back from the dead.
That kind of makes you like Jesus.
It wouldn't be wrong for you to touch me, would it?
-Kevin, what is wrong?
You haven't said a word since we left Cindy's.
-My hand is dirty.
-What are you talking about?
Your hand's clean as a whistle.
-I never touched a girl before.
How can I be a vessel of the Lord when I'm unclean?
-Cameron.
It's OK.
-It's not OK!
I've offended God.
He brought me back to teach the path of righteousness.
And I've descended into hell.
-Cameron, you're only human.
You haven't done anything wrong.
-I betrayed the Lord.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass,
and a rod for the fool's back.
-Be you kind on to another, tender-hearted,
forgiving one another, even as God has forgiven you.
[splash] [second splash]
TOM: This is crazy.
The water's freezing!
-And whosoever toucheth her bed, shall wash his clothes
and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even.
-It's going to be a tough fight, but I
think we're off to a good start.
-We're going to do it, Jim.
-In two hours, the whole town will be there.
-Hey, Tom.
Come on in.
-Hi, Mr. Crawford.
-Cameron's upstairs.
-Um, I came to see you.
-OK.
Should we go into the study?
-Sure.
Sir, this whole thing has gone too far.
-What do you mean?
-Everybody's using Cameron as a marching song.
And it's not fair to him.
-Tom, maybe you're a little too young to understand this,
but what's happening in this town is good.
Cameron has inspired a lot of people
to stand up and fight for the truth.
-What about Cameron's truth?
-I'm afraid I'm not following you.
-He's 16 years old.
He's supposed to be thinking about girls
and playing baseball, not leading some crusade.
-Tom, this might be difficult for a boy your age
to understand, but God has a bigger plan for my son.
-Does he or do you?
-I don't think that's a very fair thing to say to me, Tom.
-You're using him, Mr. Crawford.
-I'm sorry you feel that way.
Maybe when you're a little older.
-I'm 23 years old.
-I see.
So just exactly what is your business here, Officer Hanson?
-I'm here as Cameron's friend.
Last night, he was baptizing himself in Renner's Pond,
because he felt unclean for touching a girl.
He's not unclean.
He's normal.
Do you see what you're doing to him?
-Officer Hanson, I think you better leave.
-I'd like to see Cameron.
-I really wish you wouldn't.
-But he's still my friend.
-Oh my god, what are you doing?
You crazy?
-You cannot know the mysteries of God.
I have seen them.
-This has to stop.
-I have to purify myself for the rapture.
-No!
They're using you.
You don't have to do this.
-It's God's will.
That's why he made the miracle.
-It's no miracle.
It's happened before.
-No, it never happened.
-Yes, it has!
You're lucky to be alive.
Enjoy it.
You don't have to be a saint.
-Tom, I want you to leave this house.
-Look at your son's hand, Mr. Crawford.
-I said get out!
We've been told that teaching the word of God
is against the law.
CROWD: It's you against the law.
-Not God's law.
MR. CRAWFORD: No, she's right.
It is against the law, and so we've got to change it.
CROWD: Amen!
-The President of the United States wants the law changed.
And many righteous Americans stand behind it.
CROWD: Like us!
MR. CRAWFORD: We can repetition the Supreme Court
and join the fight to revoke this heresy.
CROWD: Hallelujah!
-But it'll take years.
By then, my children will think they're monkeys.
-Yeah, we got to do something now.
-Yeah, what about our children?
They need Jesus too.
CROWD: Hallelujah!
Absolutely, brother.
-We can't turn our backs on our own children
while waiting to revoke an immoral and unjust law.
CROWD: You're going too far!
MR. CRAWFORD: This nation was founded
by men willing to face that injustice
at their own personal peril.
I believe God sent us this miracle
to give us the courage to stand up and fight for the Bible.
CROWD: Hallelujah!
[cheers]
MR. CRAWFORD: Our children can go into the school library
and check out this book, which teaches them to lie, cheat,
back-talk and curse.
But you won't find one single copy of the Holy Bible
in that same library.
-We need the Bible.
CROWD: Yeah!
-We ought to go down to the school
and burn the rest of those blasphemous science books.
CROWD: Yeah!
-Over my dead body!
-That can be arranged.
[cheers and cacophony]
-That's enough.
You people could be arrested for this.
Look, I don't know whether it's right or wrong to teach
religion in schools.
But right now, you can't because it's against the law.
CROWD: Right.
CROWD: Who is he?
-So is burning books.
-Who do you think you are?
CROWD: Yeah!
-I'm a police officer.
CROWD: A what?
-I've been put here undercover to stop the burning of books.
CROWD: We don't want police.
-This stops now.
CROWD: We want religion.
-We got a miracle that says differently.
Judas [inaudible].
-There was no miracle.
-You're talking blasphemy, Officer.
The Lord sent us a miracle to prove
that he is the creator of life.
-The Lord told you that?
-The proof is right before us.
-So the miracle was your sign from God.
-Absolutely.
-And what made it a miracle?
-He raised my son from the dead.
-And that doesn't happen very often?
-When is the last time God raised the dead.
-So you're saying God doesn't throw these miracles around all
the time?
-It tends to cheapen them, Miss Wallace.
-Would you call it a one in a million chance?
-No, I'd call it more like one in a billion.
-Well, I hate to disappoint you, but God
has done it three times this winter.
-Liar.
MISS WALLACE: Got the proof right here.
One schoolboy in Texas was pulled from a frozen river,
dead for 25 minutes.
Another baby in Virginia, pulled dead from a swimming pool.
Both are alive today.
-That has nothing to do with this.
-It's a miracle, Mr. Crawford, but a miracle of science.
Jim, you're a scientist.
You know this.
These children experienced hypothermia.
Their organs were partially frozen,
and the doctors were able to revive them.
-No!
-You don't have to believe me.
Just read!
CROWD: [boos]
MISS WALLACE: There are thousands
of miracles for all of us to learn.
-The Lord has sent us a miracle.
My son is the proof.
CAMERON: I am the miracle and the light.
-[gasps]
CROWD: Don't jump!
CROWD: Let him jump.
He's blessed.
CAMERON: I came back once before, and can do it again.
-Cameron!
-I have the message.
Don't turn your backs.
-Tell him he's not a miracle.
Tell him.
-Cameron, come on down, son.
You don't have to prove anything.
Come on down.
-Don't.
I'm not afraid.
TOM: Tell him, Crawford.
Tell him!
-I am innocent before thee, oh King.
-Tell him he's got a right to be a person, not your holy symbol.
Tell him it's OK to be himself.
-Please, son.
-God chose me to carry the word.
-Don't let him fall, Crawford.
Tell him it's OK.
He doesn't have to be a miracle.
-Cameron, listen to me.
I was wrong.
-God picked me.
-I was wrong!
-Don't say that.
-Cameron, please.
Come down.
I need you to be my son.
Cameron, please.
CROWD: [murmurings]
CROWD: Listen to your father.
-This is the history of the heavens and the earth
when they were created and the day the Lord Got
made the earth and the heavens.
Before any plant of the field was in the ground,
and before any herb of the field had grown.
For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth.
And there was no man to till the ground.
But a mist went up from the earth
and watered the whole face of the ground.
The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
And he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
And man became a living being.