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Evolution on film? Cut! - Some U.S. theaters bow to creationists
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 21, 2005 07:42pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 01:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The fight over evolution has reached the big, big screen.
A number of IMAX theaters in the United States, including some in science museums, are refusing to exhibit movies that mention evolution - or the Big Bang, or the geology of the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of the world and its creatures.
People who follow trends at commercial and institutional IMAX theaters say that in recent years, religious controversy has adversely affected the distribution of a number of films, including "Cosmic Voyage," which depicts the universe in dimensions running from the scale of subatomic particles to clusters of galaxies; "Galapagos," about the islands where Darwin developed his theory of evolution; and "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," about the bizarre creatures that flourish in the hot, sulfurous emanations from vents in the ocean floor.
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