NOVA will be airing a four-part special fiction program, Origins, tonight and tomorrow on PBS. "Guaranteed free of supernatural causes."

OK, so the program description didn't say that exactly; but nothing they'll be 'exploring' has anything to do with God, or reality. PBS will air four hours of things that never happened. Hour 1 promises to give viewers "a spectacular glimpse of the tumultuous first billion years of Planet Earth--a time of continuous catastrophe." Hour 2 "zeroes in on the mystery of exactly how [life] happened." Hour 3: Where are the Aliens? (And we all know for a fact they haven't found any, so why ask the question.) Hour 4 will focus on the mythical Big Bang and purportedly be "as close as we can get to a 'photograph' of the primordial universe."

Origins will broadcast during tomorrow's highly anticipated (and highly broadcasted) presidential debate between Kerry and Bush. Although PBS' own Jim Lehrer ("News Hour") will be moderating the debate, PBS is running Origins instead of live debate coverage. Make of it what you will.