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Author | Topic: Creationists take their fight to the really big screen. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
IMAX theaters in the Southern States, including those in Science Museums, are coming under attack for using the E-word (evolution).
quote: Gives a completely new meaning to the phrase, Popular Science. Apart from the other implications of this topic, and apart from private IMAX theaters, how could one apply pressure against a ‘Science Museum’ presenting selective science? {Note from Adminnemooseus: The full title of the cited film is Volcanoes of the Deep Sea.} {Shortened display form of URL, to restore page width to normal. Also added note. - Adminnemooseus} This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 03-23-2005 07:29 PM
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
I believe that capitulation to demands as a mean to reduce controversy is prone to backfiring and resulting in continued political pressure.
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
quote: I suppose there might be groups other then creationists opposed to a film referring to the ToE. Since you claim, it is an economic issue, it would have to a significantly large group to be an issue. What precisely is the large group of individuals in the south that is non-creationist and also has a bone to pick with the ToE? I can think of several groups that would meet one of the conditions, but I can’t think of a group outside of the Creationists that represents what we have been told in the article. We also have the article with says it is speaking about Creationinsts.
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
quote: If there is not a threatened boycott, or black-balling of the film, why would there be any financial impact? If there was no organized opposition, why wouldn’t those people who would go to the film go anyway? Lastly, if the sole issue is economics and conveying science is no big deal, then they should be showing Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, leading into Star Wars. edit. Another broken quote. This message has been edited by Trae, 03-24-2005 03:43 PM
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
I found the following:
quote: So this seems more based on a sample audience than actual unsolicited complaints. This was a question I wondered about.
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
quote: I’m not sure films are the best examples here. I’m not aware of controversal films being tied to museums before. I think controversial exhibits affecting museums would make a better example. The thread is more about Science Museums not showing these films than other IMAX theaters.
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
quote:My impression was that the life forming in these areas was a significant theme of the film. I don’t know if it deals with abiogenesis, but if a film is about how the life is different in one environment than other environments then the constraint to stay away from ‘evolution’ seems rather ridiculous to me.
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
Excellent points. It’ll be great when someone here sees, or someone on the web actually posts what the film says.
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
Agreed Holmes,
While controversy in art museums have likely created policy precedence, I suspect the problem is significantly worse with Evolution being attacked in science. For instance, a museum might cave into pressure and still minimize the impact. There’s a huge difference between a museum saying this exhibit isn’t appropriate and no controversial religious material is appropriate. While the museum here hasn’t gone that far, by not clarifying the position they’re setting themselves up for future conflict. It is now a reasonable expectation for the people in that area to believe that evolution shouldn’t be presented matter-of-factly. This would seem to leave as the two main options. Not mentioning Evolution at all or going into more depth about evolution. As if those people are saying, Oh don’t just mention Evolution. Please explain what a theory is, explain the theory to us, then go though all the misconceptions, then prove to us that the distracters are wrong. Obviously, the problem really isn’t how it is being presented, but that it is being presented as accepted.
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
Cool. Thanks.
While there is a link to 'trailers' it only reveals a Coming Soon note. Shame. So it seems that there are two films on this topic.
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Trae Member (Idle past 4336 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
Science entertainment is one of my trigger buttons. I constantly find myself tuning to the Discovery or History channel, finding assumptions in the presentation, then tuning to a rerun of something like the X-Files.
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