Some southern IMAX theaters decline to screen evolution-related film

[formerrepuke]

IMAX theaters in several Southern cities have decided not to show a film on volcanoes out of concern that its references to evolution might offend those with fundamental religious beliefs. The film, "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," makes a connection between human DNA and microbes inside undersea volcanoes.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/23/volcano.movie.ap

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Well, I guess they have that option

I hate to say it. (Note: I refuse to say "right")

I think it's a bad decision. What's frightening about it is it only energizes the religious extremist minority.

[Career Prole]

2. Goldurnit! They're sayin' we come from fire and brimstone now!

That's worse'n monkeys! :evilgrin:

[OneTwentyoNine]

3. Guess the fundy crowd didn't go for Dante's Peak did they?? n/t

[rockedthevoteinMA]

4. Huh? What sort of sense did they use to come to this conclusion?

I didn't know it was mandated for everyone to attend a screening at the IMAX. :wtf:

[DBoon]

6. Making an individual decision to not show

isn't the same as a theater refusing to show at all.

The folks who object to "evolutionary doctrine" are preventing everyone else from viewing the movie.

[ladjf]

8. Dollars and cents.

[China_cat]

5. They're refusing to show it here in Charleston (SC)

[ladjf]

7. They've evolved their programming rules.

There is no argument as stupid as the Evolution argument. Why?
Because existence is totally based on the continuous evolvement of events, each preceded by a causative event and followed by result events. Evidence of this truth is literally everywhere. There are no entities that are the results of evolving events. Darwin's descriptions of Evolution of the species is a simple, clear example of a sub-set of the Evolutions of Existence.

The Universe and everything in it is continually evolving.

[TWiley]

9. Screw those with fundamental religious beliefs.

They go around offending everyone else anyway.

Count me in for a ticket. An IMAX movie about Volcano's has got to be good.

[onenote]

10. movies -- the devil's tool

I'm amazed they allow movies at all...

Heck, it wasn't that long ago that there were laws requiring movies to be "licensed" and prohibiting them from being shown if they were "sacreligious." Really.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?COURT=US&VOL=343&INVOL=495

Provisions of the New York Education Law which forbid the commercial showing of any motion picture film without a license and authorize denial of a license on a censor's conclusion that a film is "sacrilegious," held void as a prior restraint on freedom of speech and of the press under the First Amendment, made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 497-506.

onenote

[Az]

11. Well if they are afraid of protests then give them protests

If a science museum refuses to present science then perhaps those that support science need to remind them what science is about. This is perfect for activism. They could create a lot of bad publicity for them with a protest proclaiming them an antiscience museum.