Banned IMAX movies
If you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, you may not be able to watch IMAX movies like Volacoes of the deep sea, Cosmic Voyage and Galapagos in the IMAX theater at a ’science center’ near you. Several IMAX theaters in the south decided not to screen Volcanoes as it mentions evolution and proposes that life on earth may have started in the ocean around the volcanic vents. These theaters are predictably in Texas, Georgia and Carolinas. The operators didn’t want to screen the movie because most of their audience believes in creationism and would get offended by the mention of evolution.
Same reasoning applies to other two movies: ‘Cosmic voyage’, which talks about big bang as the beginning of the universe and ‘Galapagos’, which of course is about Darwin and evolution.
I just can’t believe that there are so many people who reject evolution in the face of ample evidence that supports it. On the other hand, there is no real evidence for creationism except that it is written in the bible. Interesting, eh?!
Thanks, Amit for the link to CNN story
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yeah, thats true, one of our instructors when I was a TA for her, actually stated a disclaimer during the biology-evolution class that those who did not believe in evolution, she did ont want to hurt their feelings!! And you wont believe it, the class was for evolutionary biology!
Anywyas, I have seen Cosmic Voyage and Galapagos in here a long time back.
Thanks. I always want to see (and read) what “they” dont want me to see.