Proteus was a very interesting film to me, and really opened up the possibility of relating art to science. In the film, a biologist, Haeckel studies and records many small organisms known as radiolarians. These are single celled organisms that live in the ocean, which have by skeletal structures that are mesmerizingly symmetrical and beautiful. Haeckel was able to relate these beautiful creates to Biology by drawing them, which I thought was the most interesting part of his work. Art and Science sound like polar opposites, yet Haeckel was using Art to communicate scientific ideas related to our understanding of the natural world. This film did make me think differently about the relationship between art and science. Art and science are more interconnected than I previously thought, for example precision and accuracy are equally important in both. This film also highlighted how Art can be a form of communication of scientific ideas. One of the main issues in the film that I noticed was how Haeckel related God to Science. At the time, this would likely have been very controversial. For example Charle’s Darwin’s “Origin of Species” which was one of the first and most important books talking about evolution was banned in multiple places during the time. I personally now think that Christianity and Evolution can be talking about hand and hand, and that nowadays there is no problem between Christianity and these scientific theories.