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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.'"
I'd make a snide comment but I'm laughing too hard.
And when you consider that faith is the total absence of facts, the depravity of some people becomes even clearer.
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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?