I, Origins: Jimmy Darmody whacks Intelligent Design

It's a movie about an atheist scientist that in the end chooses "spiritual thinking" over science and logical reasoning. His lifelong grief over his ex-lover leaves him with an emotional void. Religion/spirituality can fill that void and in the third act he is attempting to reconcile his need for spirituality with his adherence to logic. He does this by deluding himself into seeing a correlation in his own iris research where there wasn't one. Even when the image test results show no correlation he calls himself foolish. He then immediately sees her scared of the elevator and is like "fuck it, I'm on board." The two scenes being sequential are meant to show his inner conflict and that he, almost willfully, lets his emotions seduce his logic. In the end he gains his emotional comfort at the loss of his scientific integrity.

I was at least happy that it strayed from the normal 4 outcomes of the science vs. religion story. Usually it's just one is right, both are right, or neither is right. This film is just about why and how some people, even the most unlikely, can still believe in religious nonsense.