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Creationism vs Imax

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cquark

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Some IMAX theatres, mostly in the South, are refusing to show films that discuss cosmology or geology out of fear of fundamentalist protests. Films like Galapagos, Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, and Cosmic Voyage are among those affected. Many of these IMAX theatres are housed in science museums, so I find it outrageous that they're avoiding scientificly accurate films because they briefly hint at evolution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/national/19imax.html
 
Nah...Fund-A-Mentals aren't affecting our society at all...nope...no way.


They're worse than the political correctness wackos.

Carol Murray, director of marketing for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, said the museum decided not to offer the movie after showing it to a sample audience, a practice often followed by managers of Imax theaters. Ms. Murray said 137 people participated in the survey, and while some thought it was well done, "some people said it was blasphemous."

In their written comments, she explained, they made statements like "I really hate it when the theory of evolution is presented as fact," or "I don't agree with their presentation of human existence."
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Fvcking idiots.
 
The people operating those theatres need to grow a spine.

Anyway, protests usually just amount to free publicity so it is a win-win situation.
 
Originally posted by: K1052
The people operating those theatres need to grow a spine.
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And maybe, just maybe, with a little larger budget for fetal stem cell research, we'll literally be able to accomplish this.

And for the righties, we'll be able to grow actual brains. :shocked:

 
Forget 'em. Let them block out everything true in the world. But don't waste time funding their universities with government money or put scientific facilities in their districts if they dont' want science. Let them live in ignorance and poverty.
 
Originally posted by: Infohawk
Forget 'em. Let them block out everything true in the world. But don't waste time funding their universities with government money or put scientific facilities in their districts if they dont' want science. Let them live in ignorance and poverty.
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Perhaps the sheep can all herd together and get the flock outta here...form their own United States of Christ or something.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Perhaps the sheep can all herd together and get the flock outta here...form their own United States of Christ or something.
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Kind of like the Quakers all over again, can dream.
 
The people who dismiss evolution and geology generally have no problem trusting their lives to science when it comes to medical care. Since all branches of science base their theories and practices on the same basic principles and methods, it seems pretty foolish to reject some of them based solely on ancient mythology that predates science.
 
Originally posted by: Infohawk
Forget 'em. Let them block out everything true in the world. But don't waste time funding their universities with government money or put scientific facilities in their districts if they dont' want science. Let them live in ignorance and poverty.
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:thumbsup: That's my opinion. If they don't want it, they don't have to have it. Give federal funding to the research universities where it'll be better spent.
 
who needs science when the rapture is just around the corner...

even though the bible never really describes a rapture, it just says that they will be caught up with god. they are already preoccupied, so caught up in him is just a babystep away.
 
In the US. out of some 480,000 scientists with first-hand knowledge of the current state of research on Evolutionary Biology, only an estimated 700 reject evolution in favor of Intelligent Design (ID).

The numbers

(By the way, this site is an outstanding source for counterarguments against almost any anti-evolution or pro-creationist statement you might run into.)

What the general public fails to understand is that among relevant scientists, Evolution is about as close to being unanimously supported as any theory in all of science. Yet we have a President who proclaims that "there's controversy in the scientific community" concerning Evolution.

I particulary like this quotation from the same site, countering the claim that scientists are pressured into following pro-Evolution dogma:

"The pressures that science imposes do not weaken the validity of evolution -- quite the contrary. Scientists are rewarded more for finding new things, not for supporting established principles. Thus, they tend to look more for novelties and for results that would overturn common beliefs. If a scientist found evidence that falsified evolution, he or she would be guaranteed world prestige and fame."
 
Originally posted by: K1052
The people operating those theatres need to grow a spine.

Anyway, protests usually just amount to free publicity so it is a win-win situation.
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:thumbsup:
Originally posted by: shira
And maybe, just maybe, with a little larger budget for fetal stem cell research, we'll literally be able to accomplish this.

And for the righties, we'll be able to grow actual brains. :shocked:
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And for you, we can develop a :cookie: tree to keep up with demand.

The bigotry in this forum is growing off the charts. Maybe I need to develop some anti-atheist names to throw around so I can play in the sand box with the rest of the third graders here.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Nah...Fund-A-Mentals aren't affecting our society at all...nope...no way.


They're worse than the political correctness wackos.

Carol Murray, director of marketing for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, said the museum decided not to offer the movie after showing it to a sample audience, a practice often followed by managers of Imax theaters. Ms. Murray said 137 people participated in the survey, and while some thought it was well done, "some people said it was blasphemous."

In their written comments, she explained, they made statements like "I really hate it when the theory of evolution is presented as fact," or "I don't agree with their presentation of human existence."
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Fvcking idiots.
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No sh!t because evolution doesn't fvcking = abiogenesis. These people sicken me. It's one thing to not agree with a certain theory or w.e because it doesn't agree with your views, buit if they don't know what it is in the first place, then we have a problem.
 
What's the point of this discussion? I think fundie protests of these IMAX films are ridiculously stupid, but how would you fix this "problem"? Pass a law forcing the theaters to show the films? Strap fundies into the seats with their eyelids strapped open? :roll:

Yaknow, you people b!tch about the stupidest things, and usually with nothing but hatred, prejudice, and bigotry in your words. No better than the fundie idiots you would condemn.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
What's the point of this discussion? I think fundie protests of these IMAX films are ridiculously stupid, but how would you fix this "problem"? Pass a law forcing the theaters to show the films? Strap fundies into the seats with their eyelids strapped open? :roll:

Yaknow, you people b!tch about the stupidest things, and usually with nothing but hatred, prejudice, and bigotry in your words. No better than the fundie idiots you would condemn.
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:beer:
 
Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
So it's ok for the fundies to screw it up for everybody?
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Pretty sure the theater owners are the ones not showing the movie. Why don't you go protest them not showing it if you care so much?
 
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