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Author Topic:   Media coverage of the evolution controversy
Syamsu 
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Message 16 of 31 (181940)
01-30-2005 9:54 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Aximili23
01-29-2005 11:19 PM


I think it's more interesting the way creation vs evolution is handled in movies and novels. My impression is that on the whole Hollywood is on the side of the creationists. Evolution is mostly associated with extreme violence, criminality, meaninglessness, purposelessness, immorality, chaos etc. Creation is associated with God, marriage, family, order, peace, love, purpose etc.
Survival seems to be a more common theme in movies nowadays, which is closely associate to darwinism, which often get's a mention. There seems to be less emotionality / stupidity of characters as before in those kinds of survival movies, when they're faced with lifethreatening danger, which is a shame. The focus is more on clever people how to technically survive, and also on teamwork a lot. See the difference between the Towering Inferno, and a modern survival movie like Deep Impact. In the Towering Inferno it is much exaggerated manly man, and womanly woman, and in Deep Impact it is more about a bunch of nerds really.
It would be fun to have some actual quotes of evolution and creation in movies. I remember the X-men, Fight Club ofhand as talking about evolution, selection. A novel that vaguely talks about evolution vs creation is "survival of the fittest" by Jonathan Kellerman. A threatened boy more or less chooses between religion and science, and chooses science. There's also a short history of eugenics especially as it relates to psychology in that novel.
So if Hollywood at all promotes evolution, it strikes me as unnatural and teachery ("survival of the fittest",Kellerman), or alternative (Fight Club, X-men). But they don't seem to promote evolution as mainstream, or standard. It is of course impossible when you have a book like "the selfish gene",Dawkins widely circulating among creative people, to have evolution theory be associated with anything good in a Hollywood movie.
regards,
Mohammad Nor Syamsu

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