This was an incredibly hackneyed piece of propaganda.
It begins with some weird scene about a little girl finding a coin or something and a bigger boy separates her from her money, after which the girl runs crying to Daddy.
It immediately jumps to a scene where the father is throwing a reception for his daughter because she's going to college. I've never heard such a thing happen. Most real parents give their college-bound kid a set of car keys and see them off.
Then on to the main event: Daddy's little girl gets face-to-face with a college professor with an alternative point of view, along with some fairly sketchy friends.
Daddy gets wind that his little princess is having her young earth creation worldview challenged, and goes to confront the professor...and ends up challenged to a public debate. Something else that never happens, as most professors would in reality just give the angry parent some non-committal answer and then have them ejected.
Enter the white knight, the perfectly coiffed white boy with a neatly trimmed bit of perfunctory facial hair. Somehow, as a journalism student, he gets to interview Daddy and then reveals he and Daddy are on the same team. Meanwhile, he meets the girl and finds her cute, while she's pissed that he's aiding and abetting her public embarrassment by helping her dad.
Fast forward to the debate. In all honesty the 2016 debates between Trump and Hillary Clinton were better moderated. The judge from "Night Court" and Daddy spout talking points at each other...THEN Trivette from "Walker Texas Ranger" arrives in the guise of a former colleague of the evolutionist who comes in and layeth down a creationist smacketh-down and follows up by asking the guy that had him fired to forgive him for holding bitterness.
The end scene? The "white knight" student takes Daddy's little girl to a scenic spot by a stream...at which point the opening scene is finally explained. This was the spot where the little girl finds the coin and has it stolen...and the "white knight" just happened to be the boy who stole the coin. Somehow this was also the catalyst for his religious conversion, and the white knight leaves with the princess for what will be apparently the first of many dates.
TL; DR: Bad script, sorry acting, cardboard characters delivering propaganda.
It begins with some weird scene about a little girl finding a coin or something and a bigger boy separates her from her money, after which the girl runs crying to Daddy.
It immediately jumps to a scene where the father is throwing a reception for his daughter because she's going to college. I've never heard such a thing happen. Most real parents give their college-bound kid a set of car keys and see them off.
Then on to the main event: Daddy's little girl gets face-to-face with a college professor with an alternative point of view, along with some fairly sketchy friends.
Daddy gets wind that his little princess is having her young earth creation worldview challenged, and goes to confront the professor...and ends up challenged to a public debate. Something else that never happens, as most professors would in reality just give the angry parent some non-committal answer and then have them ejected.
Enter the white knight, the perfectly coiffed white boy with a neatly trimmed bit of perfunctory facial hair. Somehow, as a journalism student, he gets to interview Daddy and then reveals he and Daddy are on the same team. Meanwhile, he meets the girl and finds her cute, while she's pissed that he's aiding and abetting her public embarrassment by helping her dad.
Fast forward to the debate. In all honesty the 2016 debates between Trump and Hillary Clinton were better moderated. The judge from "Night Court" and Daddy spout talking points at each other...THEN Trivette from "Walker Texas Ranger" arrives in the guise of a former colleague of the evolutionist who comes in and layeth down a creationist smacketh-down and follows up by asking the guy that had him fired to forgive him for holding bitterness.
The end scene? The "white knight" student takes Daddy's little girl to a scenic spot by a stream...at which point the opening scene is finally explained. This was the spot where the little girl finds the coin and has it stolen...and the "white knight" just happened to be the boy who stole the coin. Somehow this was also the catalyst for his religious conversion, and the white knight leaves with the princess for what will be apparently the first of many dates.
TL; DR: Bad script, sorry acting, cardboard characters delivering propaganda.