March 20, 2005
The rise and rise of American Theocracy
Creationists take their fight to the really big screen
In several US states, Imax cinemas - including some at science museums - are refusing to show movies that mention the subject or suggest that Earth's origins do not conform with biblical descriptions.
"Volcanoes," released in 2003 and sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation and Rutgers University, has been turned down at about a dozen science centers, mostly in the South...
Carol Murray, director of marketing for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, said the museum decided not to offer the movie after showing it to a sample audience, a practice often followed by managers of Imax theaters. Ms. Murray said 137 people participated in the survey, and while some thought it was well done, "some people said it was blasphemous".
James Cameron, the director of 'Aliens of the Deep', put it best:
It seems to be a new phenomenon, obviously symptomatic of our shift away from empiricism in science to faith-based science
It's one thing to aim for the lowest common denominator, but this is setting the bar pretty low.
Speaking of making things worse, it's pretty obvious that the Guardian article is a just a bloody poor re-write of the NY Times story.
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