It’s the new political correctness – science is now considered too controversial for America. A movie about the most important scientist of the 19th century and one of the most important scientists ever has failed to find a U.S. distributor.
The film has sparked fierce debate on US Christian websites, with a typical comment dismissing evolution as “a silly theory with a serious lack of evidence to support it despite over a century of trying”.
Jeremy Thomas, the Oscar-winning producer of Creation, said he was astonished that such attitudes exist 150 years after On The Origin of Species was published.
“That’s what we’re up against. In 2009. It’s amazing,” he said.
“The film has no distributor in America. It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it’s because of what the film is about. People have been saying this is the best film they’ve seen all year, yet nobody in the US has picked it up.
“It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. There’s still a great belief that He made the world in six days. It’s quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the US, outside of New York and LA, religion rules.
I’m not sure who has deemed this film too controversial. So, even films based on real historical figures should not be allowed to pollute other people’s minds. Seriously, what is happening in this country? Is our discourse now being controlled by angry, loud nuts?
Despite what some people want you to believe, evolution is not a scientific controversy. It’s the central principle of modern biology. Let me put this another way – modern advances in biology would not be possible without an understanding of the principles of evolution. Evolution is only a religious and political controversy – creationists can’t win through science, so they’re taking their case to politics. It won’t work – creationism isn’t science and the Bible is not a science textbook. The only thing the anti-science activists are hurting is American competitiveness.
For more information and creationists an.d their propaganda, this is the best place to start: The Index of Creationist Claims.