A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano

[theHandpuppet]

UNfurkingbelievable!!! The American "Dark Ages" are in full swing, folks!

New York Times

A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano
By CORNELIA DEAN

Published: March 19, 2005


The fight over evolution has reached the big, big screen.

Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject - or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures.

The number of theaters rejecting such films is small, people in the industry say - perhaps a dozen or fewer, most in the South. But because only a few dozen Imax theaters routinely show science documentaries, the decisions of a few can have a big impact on a film's bottom line - or a producer's decision to make a documentary in the first place.

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[varun]

1. National Geographic watch out...

...what will be next? The "Theory" that Earth goes around the Sun or the "Theory" that the Earth is spherical?

[The Animator]

2. I think said Imax theatres will end up losing money this way.

Especially the ones in science museums. Ostensibly one goes to a science museum to, oh I don't know... learn about science. If what you learn at this museum doesn't fit into your neat little world veiw, tough shit. Either you ignore what you've learned, or you adapt the new information into your world veiw. You're not going to be able to make the whole of the scientific community conform to what you beleive. It would be the height of irony if,in order to get to some of these theatres you had to pass by the evolution exhibit.

Odds are, those who would be offended by this aren't going to be spending much time in a science museum anyway.

[NYdemocrat089]

3. If they don't like it, don't watch it!

"fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures."

WTF is up with these people? If you disgree with the movie don't watch it!

[ryan_cats]

4. WTF? God forbid we should see science.

What are they afraid of?

[theHandpuppet]

5. Kicking!

The fundies are coming, the fundies are coming!