IMAX Volcano movie pulled, fear of creationist backlash!

[alva]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Yup, that's trifle. However, it's certainly not the first time (nor the last) that a similar trifle thing is happening. I think the trend does show that your religious nutjobs gain in prominence, not only in politics, but in society as well. And it's something you Yanks would better be careful about now, before it's too late.

England has had to deal with it too...hmmm, I see what you're saying.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Whoha


If they are being passed on then they are inherently superior to anything that doesn't get passed on.

Someone who's never heard of the Habsburgs or watched 'Deliverance' .

[Az]

molly, you know that he's perfectly right, biologically?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Azazel
molly, you know that he's perfectly right, biologically?

Tell that to Carlos II.

" Charles II of Spain, the most grotesque monarch of the 17th century, was a travesty of a king. Generations of royal intermarriage had culminated in Charles, a creature so defective in mind and body as to be scarcely even a man. He was born in 1661, the product of his father's old age, and his brief life consisted chiefly of a passage from prolonged infancy to premature senility. He was not weaned until he was five, could not walk until he was 10 and was considered too feeble for the rigours of education.

In Charles the famous Habsburg chin reached such massive proportions that he was unable to chew, and his tongue was so large he was barely able to speak. Lame, epileptic, bald at the age of 35, Charles suffered one further disability, politically more significant than all the rest: he was impotent.

The Spanish King inability to produce an heir was common knowledge throughout Europe, and a subject of most intense concern. "


Not so much a gene pool as a mucky puddle.

http://website.lineone.net/~johnbidmead/Spain.htm

http://www.pwestern.f9.co.uk/maximilia/index3h.htm

[GePap]

Originally posted by Patroklos


You know how to run a farm Gepap

I know how to get those who do to farm for me

[Whoha]

so he didn't pass on his genes and is superior how?

[trev]

Many churches which teach creationism also encourage early marriage and larger families, so a creationist who has 4 children by an average age of 25 will easily outbreed the atheist who has 1 child by an average age of 35. Creationists do believe in the survival of the fittest and the odds look good for their survival, less sure about those who believe in evolutionism, they will easily be outbred. Maybe superior ideology and theology is encoded in superior genes!!!???

[Whaleboy]

Don't you just hate it when you can't tell when people are either trying too hard to be funny or not hard enough to be serious?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by trev
Many churches which teach creationism also encourage early marriage and larger families, so a creationist who has 4 children by an average age of 25 will easily outbreed the atheist who has 1 child by an average age of 35. Creationists do believe in the survival of the fittest and the odds look good for their survival, less sure about those who believe in evolutionism, they will easily be outbred. Maybe superior ideology and theology is encoded in superior genes!!!???

Of course, were any of this true, we'd have already seen the extinction of atheists (I'll ignore youre misuse of the term "evolutionists" to be synonymous with it, since that isn't the case). However, there has been a steady increase in the percentage of people in the world who are atheist. Which is, of course, because religious dogma isn't an inherited trait.

[Boris Godunov]

Oh, and as an update, the Fort Worth theater that had refused to show it has reversed course and is now going to show it.

[Dinner]

Boris don't tell them that! They are conviced that these handful of theaters represent the whole of the US market so if you enlighten them with the truth their whole world view will colapse.

[Ramo]

molly, you know that he's perfectly right, biologically?

Not really. Biology doesn't say that successful genes are good. Good and bad are concepts that we can impose on human genetics arbitrarily.

[Guynemer]

Christ on a pogo stick.

Now the museum here in Columbus is starting to get complaints from fundies about the movie.

[Elok]

Geez, people, get your facts straight before you complain. It's not just some silly evolution thing that's getting this film dismissed. Just listen to the narration: "building pressure...eruption...spurting fluid everywhere."

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Ramo

molly, you know that he's perfectly right, biologically?

Not really. Biology doesn't say that successful genes are good. Good and bad are concepts that we can impose on human genetics arbitrarily.

In the context of biology, saying "good genes" generally isn't interpreted as a normative statement but as referring to the survival value of the gene.