Posted on 04/28/2008 12:01:40 PM PDT by Delacon
What award are you referring to?
What's the "Judeo-Christian religion?" I ask this in all sincerity as a practicing Jew. I've never heard of such a thing.
At least, all the enlightened folk who aren’t stupid, right?
Your rejection of the idea of education makes my point in more ways than I think you know. If you reject scholarship and learning, you are out of step with Western values.
Mr. Derbyshire, typically, if you go back a long way with someone, you ask THEM about why they did something. You don't write an insulting screed about it for publication.
So excuse me, Mr. Derbyshire, if I look on you as being less than honest.
Yeah, that's all Western civilisation is based on.
Schmuck.
That’s quite an over-wrought, shrieking hitpiece on a film he hasn’t seen.
Good grief.
“Someone who believes that the world was created in seven days six thousand years ago...”
I don’t think that is what Mr. Stein’s movie portrayed at all. I also don’t think you can lump all creationists into such a category.
I am amazed at how intolerant people can be, even on “our side of the aisle.”
True, it was only number 9 on the list this past weekend.
LOL
Unfortunately they will have to pay Yoko. You see the fair use rule doesn’t apply. This is a for-profit movie. The copy right rules are clear. They know it too. That’s why the licenced the other songs. They also stole graphics.
Since you did not see the movie, how do you know it is intellectually bereft?
More likely a Razzie.
They will not even recover the cost of production and promotion. Not to mention defending against separate copyright suits by EMI and Yoko. This Thursday will likely see the end of the thousand theater distribution.
#10 It has made a little over S5,000,000. It will have no overseas market at all. It won't do a million this week and then it's done. This movie was 90 minutes long and showed in over 1000 theatres. A movie print can cost $10,000.00. Even if they got a bargain at $5,000. That's still $5,000,000 before marketing and other costs.
America has the most creationists in the world. They don't exist in any numbers in Europe or Asia.
#10 It has made a little over S5,000,000. It will have no overseas market at all. It won't do a million this week and then it's done. This movie was 90 minutes long and showed in over 1000 theatres. A movie print can cost $10,000.00. Even if they got a bargain at $5,000. That's still $5,000,000 before marketing and other costs.
America has the most creationists in the world. They don't exist in any numbers in Europe or Asia.
It is a mistake to deify scientists. They are absolutely as vulnerable to fallibility as the rest of us. We were told by an Eminence that we would be experiencing multiple Katrina's because of global warming.
1) They are vulnerable to greed and fraud, and lust for acclaim and power--look at Al Gore's minions of corrupt PhDs. "grant grubbing", etc.
2) They are hugely vulnerable to professional vanity, which is what I suspect this movie is really about. They keep forgetting that they're being paid to focus on the provable and accountable.
3) Evo is a "belief system" and should simply be treated as a reasonable theory. It is presently taught as dogma.
Is it simply arrogance on your, and most others’, parts that you assume that those questioning the methodology and the evidence of evolution are
“rejecting scholarship and learning”?
Seriously, this ASSumption is ridiculous, and tends to show how close minded YOU are.
On the other note, Western Civ AND the foundations of modern science were only made possible by the assumptions of the Judeo-Christian, Abrahamic God of the old and new testament.
As much as we republicans like to think of ourselves as small government types, never forget that NR is a pro-statist magazine. Sure, it leans conservative on many issues but it’s always rooting for the government.
The crowning achievement of Western Civ isn’t our scientific theories, it’s our concept of individual inalienable rights.
As for science being free of God, well, Stalin and Hitler had scientists working for them. Science, in the end, is an abstraction that demands proof or the questions continue. Derby’s full of assertions. He demands you “believe” and not question.
Science doesn’t require belief because science should provide the empirical belief. As for religion, who can empirically prove they love anything?
Derby, as all atheists, is a damaged man.
Actually, I thought the article was a spoof.
Yours truly,
The Woim
Um, okay. Not sure what that has to do with anything.
I've discussed the ID controversy we have in the U.S. with my niece who lived in Paris for several years and now lives in London. She said there just isn't the controvery in Europe. The scientific community in Europe is apparently much more tolerant of opposing ideas.
Next time, check your facts before posting.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm
After only 2 weeks, it's already the 15th-highest grossing documentary of all time. It's pulled in nearly $3 million in each of it's first 2 weekends, with almost no drop-off, which compares favorably with all the top-grossing documentaries. In fact, the opening weekend was the 3rd highest grossing documentary of all time.
And just to add a little pleasant schadenfreude to the mix, the highly-touted cultural-decadence-promoting "Shine a Light," the only other currently-screening documentary, is $1.2 million behind "Expelled" despite being in release for twice as many weeks.
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