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Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films
circletimessquare writes "The New York Times is reporting that a number of Imax theatres are passing on science-themed films that might provoke controversy among a handful of religious fundamentalists. Films that are having their distribution impacted include '"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.'"
According to the article, religious people had little affect. Imax cancelled these films, an editor theorizes it could be because religious people might get upset at these films (what? we don't get upset at Discovery channel...sigh), and VOILA! We get a full-fledged Slashdot peanut gallery bashing us "religious fundamentalists".
Sigh.
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Religion is a mental illness.
Your post is the world's greatest proof of reincarnation; no one could get that dumb in just one lifetime. Your ineffective imitation of good posting style only serves to illuminate your lack of substance, good taste, and decency.
Thanks for your contribution, but if I had wanted to hear from somebody with your IQ, I'd be at my local supermarket talking to the vegetables. Generally, there is nothing wrong with having nothing worthwhile to say - unless you insist on saying it. Reading your post makes blindness a wonderful thing to look forward to. How true is Stanislaw J. Lec's famous remark: "Every now and then you meet someone whose ignorance is encyclopedic."
You light up a room when you leave it. No doubt your life is so dull, that you can actually write your diary one week in advance. Do yourself and everyone else a favor: take a fatal overdose of your medication. Maybe you wouldn't be such a Jerk-In-The-Box if you had enough brains to find water after falling down a well; if your weren't so fat that all the restaurants in town have signs that say: "Maximum Occupancy: 80 Patrons OR You.", or if your face wasn't the strongest form of natural contraception available. Nah, of course you would.
In closing, I offer these heartfelt words: Go suck on a frozen pineapple, asshole.
Christianity is just another middle-eastern religion, so what makes them anymore different than Al Quaeda. Oh, I forgot, Jesus was a sheepherder where Allah was a goatherder. Which just proves to me that bestialists are idiots, and are genetically predisposed to sticking their noses up other folks bung-holes. Why don't you yahoos pay more mind to parenting your ill-bred offspring instead of stupid craap like sci-fi movies? The world would be a way better place if you'd teach them right from wrong, and it wouldn't hurt for you to actually read the bible, instead of some closet homo/pedophile minister/priest, or coke snorting drunkard president teaching you what to believe.If you can't understand its meaning without a teacher,well,all I can say is the best thing you can do is order an eternities worth of asbestos underwear, because you aren't going to heaven.And yes, I did judge you, just as you judge others,but I can do that, because I'm not baptist,they are all going to hell because they aren't doing it right. :-)
Ya know, it's cool and all to be the guy that hates Christians, but what kind of a hissy-fit would people be throwing if IMAX decided to show, for example, "Amazing Grace" (http://www.monergismbooks.com/amazing2112.html) or some other "fundie" film? Science doesn't always have the answer. It might not be clear why we're against abortion; then again, nobody really understood why some people were so hesitant to board the Hindenburg.
They prbibly didn't show the films because they were religious themselves. Like any of you would have shown the passion of the christ in a theater you owned. quit being intolerent.
IMAX theaters in science museums shouldn't show creationism, as it's not science.
How can you just toss creationism out as "not science," By doing so you are as closed minded as the fundamentalists. The nature of science is for presentation of the facts and interpreting them. Just because creationists have different theories and interpretations doesn't discount them completely.
One of the good things about having an alternative theory is that it will bring out the gaps in the current theory, and force us to answer the open questions and create a more complete answer.
Rather than looking at creationism as a waste, try to learn from it. What evidence do they have that can't be explained by the current evolutionary theory? What are the gaps in the current theory they try to explain? Then work on solving those problems and create a more robust theory of evolution. Religion feeds on doubt. Once a theory is mature enough and has sufficient evidence, even the church can't deny it.
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Christianity (and all other religions) are superstitions that enslave people by keeping them wallowing in ignorance.
Until religion can eradicated, mankind will continue to wallow in ignorance.
Dubya and his retard neo-con republicrat lemmings are perfect examples of the stupidity of mankind in general.
God died. Get over it. Grow up..
Yes, those know-nothing religious fanatics sure are STUPID!
Come on, just because I profess to know Jesus? If only all that time in the science museum were able to OPEN some minds... I'm an engineer. I've been to other countries, spoken other languages, protested wars, and read Marx and Nietche. Just think about the PEOPLE you're disabusing.
Insightful? Really?
If there is a problem with the content of the films that causes the theatre to lean away from screening it then perhaps they're making a prudent business decision. The question then becomes who are these folks who are CENSORING OUR EDUTAINMENT? It's all those DARWIN NUTS down at the MUSEUM!
Sounds silly, right?
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I'd make a snide comment but I'm laughing too hard.
You sound as if fear, uncertainty and doubt are bad things.
If I don't want people to watch something that I believe is false, then what's wrong? Yeah, there should be more people discussing things and sharing views, without the pitch-forks, etc., but what went wrong in this scenario?
"Blasphemous", wouldn't have been the best theological word, but I don't think that that's the issue here. I see you focusing on that word, but I think that you are really upset at other aspects of the situation.
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Yeah, sure, but kind of petty to point out. How many novels have you published? ;-)
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"Insightful"??? Only on Slashduh, folks! Only on Slashduh.
You American hyper-religious nutjobs are all equally annoying, regardless of whether your fundamentalist beliefs make you think there's a devil and he is a fallen angel with horns in his forehead, or that he is a politician who can't pronounce "nuclear".
Well they ["the few people with extreme religious views"] control the presidency, both houses of congress, most of the press and pretty soon the supreme court.
That's simply not anywhere near true, it's laughable paranoia, and itäs Flamebait, not Insightful.
We kicked the taliban out of afghanistan but implemented one of our own.
Idiot.
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I am a fundamentalist Bible-believing Christian, but that doesn't mean that I checked my intelligence at the door.
No, no, that is what that means. With no real evidence, you decided that a really old book contains the absolute truth about everything. If anything contradicts that book it simply must be wrong no matter what. No matter how good the evidence.
intelligence (n-tl'-jns) pronunciation n.
1. The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.
2. The faculty of thought and reason.
I'd say you are sorely lacking in both of these.
Everything seemed to be going so nice
'till the end of all beings punched right through the ice
And when you consider that faith is the total absence of facts, the depravity of some people becomes even clearer.
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Obviously the ancient greeks had their heads on straight, but the bible was written by jews. That's your problem.
You'd be amazed how many fundies go straight into a planetarium show about the Hubble Space Telescope - in a SCIENCE MUSEUM - and are SHOCKED that it mentions that the Unverse is around 15 billion years old. Then there was the one who complained to the local paper that the show about the Moon mentioned lots of theories about where the Moon came from, but didn't mention how God did it. The frustrating thing is that when we get complaints, we still have to be *civil* to our customers, not call them idiots, respect their beliefs, and somehow still defend your decision to run such programming. And it's hard explain your side of the argument while the guy making the complaint just keeps walking out the door with the rest of the audience. It might be natural for us in the science museum profession to want to hide away from the controversy and hope it goes away, but that won't make it get any better. This is a really, sad and frightening trend.
Speaking for "fundies" here, they aren't shocked that you mentioned that the universe is 15 billion years old, but rather that you tout unproven theories like they are fact. Christians want their voice to be heard and Creationism and Evolution to both be presented with all of the correct facts and theories given as free speech in the schools, but this is not allowed in America. Your job would not be so frustrating if you simply treated your theory as it is - a theory. It's equally as frustrating on the other side of the fence - but for a different reason - Creationism is not given a single chance to be heard in the schools. And yet how many thousands of Christians are there who are on the front lines of scientific research, pioneering new breakthroughs in science? The truth is painful, my friend.Who moved my sig?
People, like Bush, that are stupid enough to be a christian hate knowledge. They want everyone to be as stupid as themselves. I don't know I would go so far as to say they want us dead, but past experience with the christian church has proven that they will go to that extreme. They've kill millions of us already.
I am absolutely disgusted by religion. It's an anathema to progress. It holds back society...are we before a new Dark Ages?
(I am also deeply sad about the turn the American society has taken. As a European, what once was the bright light for all humanity is now something to think about, if not totally avoid.)
You missed swan-fucking and random limb-birthing. Nice country you guy have there... that bullshit has gone on long enough, what aren't the rational people leaving so the thumpers can finish driinge the country into the ground? Sometimes you have to cut your losses...
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Except a heliocentric solar system has been proven. Evolution has not.
OOoh i was really close to thinking "ok, he's got a point...", but the last sentance changed my mind: "You can't ignore terrorist Christians just like you can't ignore terrorist Muslims."
Did I miss some event in the world? When did the term 'christian' and 'terrorist' come together in the same context as blowing yourself up on a bus filled with hapless commuters, or launching daily qassam rockets at kindergarten schools?
Evolution/Gay-Marrige/Abortion etc is all just polite-talk that excercises all our rights. We can sit and whine about which side is imposing its will. We can even yell and scream, threaten, and bad mouth each other. But, your not about to kill me other over it, and I'm not about to kill you for not accepting my view.
In this light, 'liberal extremist' and 'right wing conservative' is more humourous than dangerous. And that is a far cry from the idea of 'christian terrorists' being on the same scale as 'muslim terrorists'.
That is exactly the kind of 'dumping on religous oriented ppl' that I was talking about. Your closing comments only furthered my point.
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Aren't almost all terrorists religious fundamentalists? Maybe it's not such a bad form of prejudice after all.