And now for something about a movie that hasn’t even hit the box office yet.
A British movie about Charles Darwin has opened the Toronto film festival to acclaim, leading to world-wide distribution. Well, almost worldwide. One country is notable by its absence in the queue for Creation – the USA.
It seems the majority of US citizens do not believe the theory of evolution. A ‘Christian’ movie review website described Darwin as “a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder”. The review goes on to claim that Darwin’s “half-baked theory” directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led to “atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering”.
Phew. That’s pretty harsh stuff against a man who was a scientific celebrity in his time and received the Royal Society’s Royal Medal for his work. But of course, he was British, not American.
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