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Apparently a movie about Charles Darwin is 'too controversial' for American audiences.

Fuck this shit. Can I have a new country, now? Please?

And in case that by itself wasn't enough to make your blood boil, here's a quote from the article:

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.

What. The fuck.

That said, why is it that "special screenings" have been set up for Christian groups even in the UK? It's a fucking movie, you fucking morons. It's a fucking movie about a person, not a documentary about his scientific work. Even if his theories were in some way controversial (which, um, no - not to anyone with a functioning brain and a third of an education they're not), it's a fucking movie.

...I just went from "sleepy comfy Sunday" to "raging bitch oh-god-my-blood-pressure" in the space of five minutes. :P

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That's exactly the thing. Religion and science only have to conflict when people are so single-minded that they can't possibly conceive of a way to think just the slightest bit outside the box, or are just so detail-obsessed that they have to have absolutely everything handed to them in one tiny little perfect package. That's not how life works. At all.

And yes, I suspect these idiots probably would take Die Hard seriously as a realistic portrayal of... er... something. Blegh.

Did you hear Kirk Cameron and some writer have re-written Darwin's book to "fix the inaccuracies?" Because I'm going to take Mike Seaver's scientific prowess for fact over Darwin.

The mind, it boggles.