March 20, 2005

Evolution and the big - really big - screen

The NY Times has a disturbing article regarding Evolution and Imax:
A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano
The fight over evolution has reached the big, big screen.

Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject - or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures.

The number of theaters rejecting such films is small, people in the industry say - perhaps a dozen or fewer, most in the South. But because only a few dozen Imax theaters routinely show science documentaries, the decisions of a few can have a big impact on a film's bottom line - or a producer's decision to make a documentary in the first place.
Time traveling back to 1930's rural South - now that's a topic for Imax to cover... I have zero issue with spiritual practice but science is science people. Posted by DaveH at March 20, 2005 12:26 PM | TrackBack
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