If you have never seen the 1965 movie “The Flight of the Phoenix”, you are missing one of the best, most enduring movies from when Hollywood still produced good movies. (Skip the remake from 2004 and watch the much-better original version with an all-star cast.) Why is this movie so powerful? Why does it still resonate with viewers decades later? Because it deals with themes of survival and human interaction and cooperation. Most of all, it depicts the seemingly impossible, accomplished by image-bearers of God. In other words, the characters are able to astonishingly do what they do precisely because they are made in the image of God. When we reject the theology of divine image-bearing, we limit the potentially of mankind. Worse yet, we open the door to the horrors of euthanasia, infanticide and abortion. Gen 1:26-27 are some of the most powerful yet neglected words in the Bible. A review of the film is here. (As a degreed aerospace engineer, this movie firmly resounded with me.)