New Charles Darwin film is 'too controversial' for religious American audiences

[Fish]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...audiences.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-America.html

Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.
The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.


However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.

[Shearwater]

On the whole, it still amazes me (to put it mildly) why so many people are so viciously opposed to a 19th century theory that is in no way contradictory to religious writing. These people simply want to argue.
It's not about 'God'. It's all about people.

Thank something or somebody I simply can make no statement about that I'm an agnostic.

Perhaps its the title of Darwins original book which gives people in the US pause.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.


I guess the supporters of Darwin think themselves 'favoured'. The book is racist if applied to Human Beings, no?

[August]

The only stink about the movie is what I read here. If one looks hard enough they'll find somebody that objects to anything, but how much of this reflects true American sentiment and how much is the producers trying to generate controversy in order to sell the movie.

Bloody fanatics, its just a movie, if you don't want to watch it don't, don't force people not to watch it.

[Shearwater]

I guess we all have the 20th century at the back of our minds with all the devastating effects of social Darwinism. That's nothing to blame the man for. We have to make a clear distinction between Darwin's idea and social Darwinism, despite the name. The latter one is what people made of it. People will always make stupid and grossly simplified deductions of great ideas and then confuse their own ideas with the original thought. In other words: They read something into these ideas that was never there. It has happened to Christianity, it has happened to Darwinism. The consequences have always been deplorable.

Perhaps its the title of Darwins original book which gives people in the US pause.

Only if they are really thick.
Its a book about biology, in biology race is a specific term in use at the time for taxonomic classification
Perhaps the same people who it would give pause to would read an article about zoology that used the word Legion and think it was either something to do with the Roman Army or the Demon of Gadarene

Not one answer to the question...

I guess the supporters of Darwin think themselves 'favoured'. The book is racist if applied to Human Beings, no?

[antikristuseke]

Yes we did, you just ignored it because it does not fit your twisted agenda.

I will try to keep this simple.

Short answer: No
Long answer: ******* No

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

Perhaps its the title of Darwins original book which gives people in the US pause.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.


I guess the supporters of Darwin think themselves 'favoured'. The book is racist if applied to Human Beings, no?

Castlebravo, you are being a right **** posting this tired old pratt. In the context in which races is used in that books title it means the same as species. Language usage has just changed over the years allso, you should read the damned thing so you would'nt come off quite so ignorant making claims about Darwins supposed racism. In short, I am tired of creationists and other dimwits pulling this **** trying to badmouth a naturist, because a)It is just such a cheap and low tactic and b)Even if the man was a racist it has no bearing on his theories validity. Evolution is real, the Earth is older than 10,000 years, we are in orbit around the Sun, the Earth is not flat and storks do not deliver babies. The bible/koran/torah/any other holy book is mistaken, get over it you ignorant ****s.

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