Yes, and I think the director/screenwriter of this movie is completely aware of that; and that that was exactly one of the major points that the movie wants to address. That's also why the director wrote and incorporated Toby's poem into the movie:
Junk the ancient rules of thought
by which our predecessors fought
Their clashing minds did throw a spark
that scorched the world and wreaked the dark
Let no science fix our path
if only numbers make its math
Our brains will run, we'll surely see,
on some sweeter philosophy
Until beneath a quiet sky
atop the rubble we will stand
and finally demystify
the message in fate's reprimand:
Even an atomic blast
can't rub the future from the past
If with incinerated grace
we still become the human race.
The "ancient rules of thought" being the traditional, competitive,
binary "scientific" thinking that Mr. Zimit represented.
Notice how in the first two experiments, where the focus lied on competition, on "Us vs. Them" and on producing the best offspring, the tables and chairs in the classroom were positioned opposite eachother (bunker selection vs. non-bunker selection); but in the third experiment, where the focus lied on including everybody, because "nobody is better than anybody else", the tables and chairs were positioned inside one "all-encompassing" circle (and everybody contributed to a livable post-apocalyptical society, not just the ones with the best technical qualifications or the ones who are fertile/procreative or the ones who were inside the bunker), and
the bombs didn't fall.
What the movie tries to accomplish, is challenging the viewer to think and to look for a different kind of solution (one that deviates from/transcends the traditional binary, scapegoat-searching, "us vs. them" sheep-mentality approaches) for a crisis scenario in which people are prone to fall in the trap of being pitted against eachother.
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Joe Satriani - "Always With Me, Always With You"
http://youtu.be/VI57QHL6ge0
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