Americans are too backward for a new feature film on Darwin and natural selection

I agree whole-heartedly with this assessment of the situation by Gawker:

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/QWk-XDzdPn8/darwin-flick-degraded-by-backward-american-ways



Americans are, sadly, a dream deferred. We pretend that we're the next generation of human social evolution, but, really, we're not. That's why we're arguing and griping over a movie about evolution.

Despite the fact that On The Origin of Species has won a Toronto film festival award and debuts in Britain this week, U.S. distributors have declined to take up the flick, which chronicles scientist Charles Darwin's crusade to bring modern science, common sense and progress into all of our lives. And, yes, diehard Christians are to blame:

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, which stars Paul Bettany and his wife, Jennifer Connelly, 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".

The movie, made by filmmaker Jeremy Thomas, concerns Darwin's own personal struggle within his scientific efforts, yet, for some reason, Americans are holding up the flick's release. Because, you know, over a century after evolution's discovery, England's offspring can't wrap their heads around a little thing called progress.

It's sad, really, for we always make hay over the fact that we're highly-evolved politically, yet, in reality, we're a bunch of backward brutes who can't see things from a different angle. Disgraceful, really...

they just couldn't get a US distributor. Every other country opted in - but not us.

The stupidity is simply mind-boggling.

This is just beyond belief. We've got to do something about the ignorance in this country.

is here to stay for a while, I'm afraid. :(

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We need a scorecard to tell one Hitler from the other and we need to start numbering them.

Saddam had twelve doubles. Seems like old Adolf put The Boys From Brazil into action after all!

Seriously. The USA are fucked. Those people are allowed to vote.
Maybe that's the ticket: pray or vote (don't do both).

2000 years of failure. Jesus coming back? Right. On a white horse from the clouds. Sure. That sounds so much more logical then evolution. :sarcasm:

How can these idiots claim something is a silly theory, when they believe in dragons and deities!? Pathetic.