This means that seven decades of leftist anti-religious secularism is FAILING!
WOOOHOOOO!!!! Finally people are seeing the evolutionist has no clothes.
This is a topic I can never really see both sides of.
If I run a theater, I'm in business of selling entertainment to the public. I don't care what color they are, I don't care what policital party they belong to, I don't care what religion they are.
I do care that they come to my theater, buy my concessions, and not abuse my equipment. I NEVER want to alienate anyone, in any way, for any reason.
I want to sell tickets. Tickets pay for my retirement, put food on my table, and buy things for me and my family.
What IDIOT would use his business to intentionally alienate his customer base? Why not simply take half of the night's proceeds and burn them in the street?
Of course, the IMAX theaters are going to show ONLY movies that draw people in to see their show, that present absolutely no controversy, and appeal to as broad of a base as humanly possible. IMAX theaters are expensive, the films are expensive and the ticket prices are premium.
Would you rather show "The North Pole Express in 3D", or a show on "Darwin"? One will appeal to just about everyone, the other will alienate a percentage of your audience. If they don't see your show tonight, will they visit again next week?
"... Fear of protests by those objecting to films that contradict the Biblical account..."
Awww comeon. How about some honesty here. They don't want to lose money on a film that a particular region won't view.
Enough with the pitchfork carrying rabble excuse.
Evolutionary biology is not "leftist anti-religious secularism", but thanks for playing. My congratulations on managing to get three "strikes" in a single sentence, though, that's pretty impressive.
I'm no marketer, but I thought things that created controversy generally drew crowds.
Sorry to disappoit you but, once they take science out of the theater, nothing remains but leftist Hollywood pablum. I take it you're pretty easy to snooker?
Oh no! Somehow, "the" fundamentalists have mysteriously gotten the right to vote, and to be counted as citizens of the U.S. of A.
And they're using these ill-gotten powers to put pressure on public institutions!
Who allowed this?
Will they need to be rounded up into camps, or should we just rescind their citizenship?
Of course, whatever we do, we must force them to spend any money they have on IMAX movies that they don't want to see.
" This means that seven decades of leftist anti-religious secularism is FAILING!"
COME ON!! Science is not a religion and it is not a god it is not even a leftist thing. Science is, at its core, a method. It is a four step process, nothing more, nothing less.
I’m sure most people covered this in High School, but apparently many were not listening, so for their benefit, here is science in a nutshell.
1. Observe something. Make notes about what you see.
2. Formulate a hypothesis. In other words, make up an assumption to explain what you see.
3. Use your hypothesis to predict something else.
4. Run tests to see if your hypothesis holds true and have others repeat them
That’s it. It is not good, not bad, and really very simple. In fact, we do this in our head everyday.
1. I see a lot of traffic and there are people running across the street.
2. I hypothesize that running across the street is safe.
3. I predict that if they can run across the street and not get hit, I can too.
4. I run across the street and do not get hit
But my hypothesis has not withstood the test of peer review. Something working once does not mean it will work in every case. So I ask my friend, also a “scientist”, to run across the street. He protests, something about too much traffic. I insist that my hypothesis has been tested and urge him to just do it.
He runs across and gets creamed by a passing truck. My hypothesis was proven false.
Now there are two key points here.
1. A hypothesis can work once but fail when tried again later. In fact, it might pass the test a million times, but if it fails even once, it is proven false. Therefore, the goal of the scientific method is not to prove your hypothesis true which is impossible, it is to prove it false.
2. No matter how many times you test something; there is always the possibility that it will be proven false later. In science, nothing is true; everything is a hypothesis, a theory or a law.
There are levels of acceptance in science each one stronger then the last.
* A hypothesis is basically an educated guess.
* A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested many, many times by many, many people using the scientific method without a single case of its being proven false occurring.
* A law is a theory that has been tested so damn many times that hardly anyone even bothers any more.
Since each level of acceptance has received more and more scrutiny, the “scientific community” becomes increasingly more hesitant to accept claims that somebody has proven something false as it moves from hypothesis to theory to law.
If you say “I have proven that hypothesis false” you will hardly get a shrug.
If you say “I have proven that theory false” you better be ready and able to prove it again and again and show others exactly how you did it so they can do it too, because people will be very hesitant to accept it.
If you say, “I have proven that law false”, hold on to your hats and glasses, because hell is about to break loose in the scientific community. It does not happen often, but it does happen, and when you can prove it, it is accepted.
That is the fundamental difference between science and Christianity and why there is no such thing as “Christian Science”.
To a scientist, everything is conditional, nothing is absolutely true and everything is open for questioning.
To a Christian, there is One truth and it is not open to doubt.
Evolution, postulated as random occurences over a very long span of time, is just too speculative as a theory. But combine "intelligent design" with the mechanics of evolution, and it is possible that sufficient proteins could be built up to form the basis of the very first DNA unit, and from there, proceed to more complex DNA combinations and recombinations, still occurring at a relatively slow rate, but producing viable life forms that represent a niche in the overall ecology of a particular environment. All this time, "intelligent design" keeps being introduced to guide and define the various permutations of each of these life forms.
Hey, you believe in your magic, I'll believe in mine.
The bible is being rejected by more and more Americans, so it is just a matter of time till creaetoids have no voice of protest. Evolutionists are hardly in fear, in fact...Yawn.
Around here they show IMAX in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, and in the Smithsonian exhibit on Man, there is a constantly-paying 20 minute film showing how we evolved from a furry little mammal. This is presented as fact and science. I no longer let my kids watch it, having sat though it once and seen the agenda in play.
Your National Museum = Your tax dollars at work.
This means that seven decades of leftist anti-religious secularism is FAILING!
I don't know what Evolution which is a scientific theory has to do with leftist anti-religious secularism.
But touting this a good news is typical creationist distortion.
Here are the actual Gallup results they are talking about
The poll of 1,028 teenagers ages 13-17 found that 38 percent don't believe in evolution, believing instead that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so." Another 43 percent believe that humans "developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided" the process. All total, 81 percent believe that God was somehow involved. Only 18 percent believe that evolution took place without God playing a role.
So you are still talking about big majority 61-38% who believe in evolution over the fundamentalist Biblical view
and it gets better
Compare that to the adults
Adults actually are somewhat more likely not to believe in evolution. In a Gallup poll of adults last November, 45 percent said they believed in creationism while 38 percent believed that God guided the process of evolution. Only 13 percent of adults said they believed that evolution occurred without God's guidance.
So it's the Creationoids who are actually losing ground.
Lookit that! It's been moved to the Smoky backroom. Apparently it's not a scientific topic to criticize evolution.
Goedel said he could not believe the theory of evolution because it relies on chance and in Goedel's world there is nothing happening by accident or stupidity.
"This means that seven decades of leftist anti-religious secularism is FAILING!"
It is for this reason that I fear that in the end it will be forced upon us by the ACLU and the Liberal Supreme Court.
Me and my children LOVE going to se IMAX movies in 3-D. If you never have seen one then I urge you to go- the technology is amazing.
Polar Express in 3D was great- I imagine it would suck in a regular theatre. The Titanic in 3D (including underwater shots) was great too
Yawn. Nothing here but creationist foaming at the mouth.
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