Oh, America, what happened to you?
Sep. 16th, 2009 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
almostwittyBBC Films co-produces a film about the life of Charles Darwin. Starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connolly, it looks at how Darwin’s theory on the Origin of Species impacts on his personal life, and his relationship with his religious wife.
So, a scientist battling between religion and evolution. What’s so bad about that?
Well, the film can’t be released in the United States because it can’t find a distributor. Even though it’s found one everywhere else.
I’m fairly sure there’s a Biblical quote somewhere about looking at other viewpoints and having an open mind…
Mirrored from almost witty.
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Date: 2009-09-16 01:36 pm (UTC)About the same chance as you would have of surviving diving into the heart of a sun in a huge, black space ship running on an automted sequence called - cheerily enough - "sun dive". ;p
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Date: 2009-09-16 01:41 pm (UTC)Seriously, the film will be out on DVD, watch to download etc. so I'm sure you can see it then. Much harder to picket and demonstrate against a digital release after all!
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Date: 2009-09-16 02:10 pm (UTC)I can just imagine Eris throwing her hands up in horror and yelling at America, "Think for yourselves, dammit!" ;p
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Date: 2009-09-16 04:26 pm (UTC)About two to the power of two-hundred-and-sixty-seven-thousand, seven-hundred-and-nine to one against.
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Date: 2009-09-16 04:51 pm (UTC);D
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Date: 2009-09-17 01:52 pm (UTC)Sure add me if you like, although I don't post very much right now due to too much mork and not enough free time to spod/blog left over. *pouts*
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Date: 2009-09-16 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-16 12:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-16 12:47 pm (UTC)The great/terrible thing about America is that they don't half SHOUT about everything. We Brits just get on with it ;)
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Date: 2009-09-16 01:40 pm (UTC)America isn't that religious per se, it's just that the Religious
RightReich are a very powerly,veryrediculously well-funded lobbying block that can exert a vast amount of influence when they want to, because God is on their side and they can do whatever the fuck they like. ><no subject
Date: 2009-09-16 12:39 pm (UTC)That poll cannot be correct. SERIOUSLY.
I won't rant about this new breed of pie-eyed christian.. bu they aren't dealing with a full deck.
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Date: 2009-09-16 12:44 pm (UTC)Of course, it might also mean that of the 41% who didn't believe in the theory of Evolution, 5% might have said Creationism, 10% might have said Intelligent Design, which leaves 26% as Don't Know.
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Date: 2009-09-16 12:51 pm (UTC)That said I'd like to see that film. It also saddens me that people use this theory to divide. That was not its purpose, and so many have used it thus for so long. Mostly because (in my opinion) they do not understand or comprehend what they are encountering.
Still there are none so blind as those who will not see.
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Date: 2009-09-16 01:01 pm (UTC)"Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,018 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Feb. 6-7, 2009, as part of Gallup Poll Daily tracking."
of course, as we all know, polls can easily be fiddled to give the results you want just by asking the right questions (back when the BBC really *did* inform and entertain. At the same time)
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Date: 2009-09-16 12:59 pm (UTC)You could, of course, watch Labyrinth and feel vaguely guilty.
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Date: 2009-09-16 04:44 pm (UTC)there's a section of highway i pass nearly every day here that is NOTHING but church after church after church. you'd think the crime rate would be near non-existent, you know, because church folk are just SO moral.
i better stop. religion is a very sore subject with me.
....by the way, i think they'll find a distributor soon enough. if enough people talk about it.
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Date: 2009-09-19 10:53 am (UTC)'dismissing evolution as "a silly theory with a serious lack of evidence to support it despite over a century of trying".'
Unlike Christianity which is a silly theory with a serious lack of evidence to support it despite over *two millenia* of trying.
I think Darwin's followers have a few more years to go before they looks as ridiculous as the herded god-botherers.