New Darwin Film Blocked in USA

by Larry O'Hanlon | September 17, 2009

I'm a sucker for a good historical drama. And here's one about one of my all-time heroes that is coming to screens everywhere -- except in the U.S.A., that is.

The film Creation is about Charles Darwin and his discovery of biological evolution by means of natural selection. It's also about his dear wife Emma, who was deeply religious and concerned about the implications of her husband's theory. From what little I see in the trailer, it looks historically accurate (and I know more than a little about this, having read and studied a great deal about Charles Darwin over the last three decades).

From what I've just read in this article (which includes the movie trailer), America's religious fundamentalists are using intimidation to keep this perfectly benign movie from Americans. If this is true (I'll be checking on this), then I find it a bit ironic, since it was just last year that the religious right foisted on us a deeply dishonest feature length anti-science film (I'll not give it the honor of naming it here). ... Continue reading at the link below.

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