Southern IMAX theaters refusing to show film due to Evolution reference.

Posted by Les on Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 10:38 AM. Read 3043 times. Tags: , , ,
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Southern American states are growing progressively more fundamentalist to the extent that some IMAX theater operators are refusing to show a documentary called Volcanoes of the Deep Sea because it contains a reference to the theory of Evolution and they’re worried it’ll offend the Fundies.

“We’ve got to pick a film that’s going to sell in our area. If it’s not going to sell, we’re not going to take it,“ said Lisa Buzzelli, director of an IMAX theater in Charleston that is not showing the movie. “Many people here believe in creationism, not evolution.“

The film, “Volcanoes of the Deep Sea,“ makes a connection between human DNA and microbes inside undersea volcanoes.

Given the film’s description at the official site I’d imagine there’s a lot of references to Evolution in the documentary seeing as it’s all about studying the high concentrations of unique life forms found in and around undersea volcanic vents.

It’s a shame that the theater operators aren’t even going to give folks a chance to decide if they want to see the film or not and are just caving into the pressure from the religious nutcases before it’s even applied. Have they really become that much of a majority that there’s no hope of turning any profit in showing the film in those areas? If so it makes for a scary thought that there are that many willfully ignorant people running around in this country.

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LuckyJohn19 Australia Posted on 09/29/2006 at 12:24 AM

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GR: ... we agree a lot on the issue of gay marriage as well.

Consi will be pleased. wink

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I’ve discovered that it all boils down to brain wiring: your brain is wired to worship magic or it isn’t, either it’s wired to utilize logic or it isn’t, either it’s analytical of myths or it isn’t.

Godless Raven Canada Posted on 09/29/2006 at 01:33 AM

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In fact I like you folks so much, I’m willing to go wake my wife up and tell her we are done, because I’m going to marry Johnny Depp. That’s how much I support it. smile

I’ll do it…I’m one “double dare” away folks.  smile

Shelley United States Posted on 09/29/2006 at 05:24 AM

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Consgi: I didn’t realize you were a scientist.  I thought you were a psychologist.

LOL  LOL

Yes, well. There’s psychology and then there’s psychology.

Seriously, though. Some people with a doctorate in psychology do just research—On everything from the psychology of decision-making under uncertainty (for which psychologist Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel prize in Economics), how memories are retrieved (Tulving), to the relationship between the brain and behavior (neuro-psychology). It was even a psychologist who invented the correlation coefficient (Karl Pearson).

So, yeah. Despite the pseudo-psych crap promulgated by those who got their degree at Spaced-Out U, and the wooly therapy stuff that gets attributed to psychology only because some clinicians think that their ‘clinical experience’ trumps the empirical evidence, some of us do some form of actual research.

I’d also agree that some clinicians get into the work trying to sort out their own head-stuff. Avoid these like the plague.

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LuckyJohn19 Australia Posted on 09/29/2006 at 10:19 AM

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Shelley: ... what did I miss?

Some months ago LH posted as GOD and did it very well and I was quite disappointed when I found out it was just him.  wink
During some of his spiel he mentioned that he’d enjoyed making Norway and its crinkly bits (the fjords).
And I may be totally wrong.  smile

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Consigliere United States Posted on 09/29/2006 at 10:35 AM

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Shelley:

Notice my criticism was directed at clinicians, not researchers.

LJ:

One would think that I was going to be pleased.  That is unless you’ve been reading other threads in which there was written that GR believes that the first President Bush conspired to kill Kennedy.  That was followed in short order by a number of consecutive posts regarding some type of conspiracy for the collapse of the twin towers.

Let the record reflect that he affiliated himself with a position that I articulated.  I have not, nor can it be inferred that I in any way endorse such positions.  In fact, I recommend against engaging conspiracy theorists as regards their particluar brand of lunancy.  Unless you want to flame for fun.

GR:

That allergy is untreatable.

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