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13 Sep 2009 10:09 pm
America vs Darwin
A celebrated new movie about one the world's greatest scientists cannot find a distributor in the US:
Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian
perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as "a
racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder".
His "half-baked theory" directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led
to "atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering",
the site stated. 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.
Those of us who keep expecting some kind of sanity to return on the American right are probably forgetting what is now motivating the base Rove built.
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