Hi All,
What's happening in the United States? A recent article in the New
York Times (two paragraphs quoted below) said that IMAX theaters in
the US are afraid to show science films that mention the theory of
evolution. They don't want to upset Christian fundamentalists,
especially in the South.
How ridiculous is the United States becoming? This is beginning to
get scary.
Tim Fox
Chinese Culture University
Quote:
People who follow trends at commercial and institutional Imax
theaters say that in recent years, religious controversy has
adversely affected the distribution of a number of films,
including "Cosmic Voyage," which depicts the universe in dimensions
running from the scale of subatomic particles to clusters of
galaxies; "Galápagos," about the islands where Darwin theorized
about evolution; and "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," an underwater epic
about the bizarre creatures that flourish in the hot, sulfurous
emanations from vents in the ocean floor.
"Volcanoes," released in 2003 and sponsored in part by the National
Science Foundation and Rutgers University, has been turned down at
about a dozen science centers, mostly in the South, said Dr. Richard
Lutz, the Rutgers oceanographer who was chief scientist for the
film. He said theater officials rejected the film because of its
brief references to evolution, in particular to the possibility that
life on Earth originated at the undersea vents.
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