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[Damian.]

"A Rich Christiano Film"

The universe is trolling us.

 

[Hale-XF11]

this is the creepiest bowl-cut chin-strap combo on a guy... ever.

aka, the bicycle helmet

 

[Hilbert]

So who's gonna take one for the team this time and write a review...

I love creationism, it's a hobby of mine. I might go see what dreck they are selling.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

Why does this keep happening.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

Every movie that the director has made sounds pretty bad:

Time Changer: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160126/

The trailer is...something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzdeLDeU9w0

 

[Wilsongt]

Most real science teachers teach we evolved from apes.

Um...

 

[CrimsonCommie]

This reminds me of the Warning label that my Alabama high school biology book had in it:

 

[Tugatrix]

Personally, it was just nice hearing a different view point and having a class debate about it. Maybe that particular subject was really popular back then, i remember my biology teacher enjoying bringing up discussions like that.

There are no different viewpoints, evolution is a fact of which the NeoDarwinism is the best explanation for the facts and is accept by the scientists religious or non religious

This Creationism vs Evolution debate only happens in US on the western world

 

[MisterGrey3000]

Shouldn't this film, and the people who hold these beliefs be going after abiogenesis? The theory of evolution doesn't really explain how life arose. It only talks about what happens after it comes about.
.

 

[Funky Papa]

Title is apt.

 

[The Omega Man]

The key is that black man that claims to be out of the game, he's going to show at the final scene where the debate is taking place ala Pacino's "scent of a woman" exactly when creationists think they lost and he is going to drop the christian equivalent of the "Chewbacca Defense" and everybody will insta-convert to people of faith, hug and kiss.

 

[ReplacementPelican]

This reminds me of the Warning label that my Alabama high school biology book had in it:

The world weeps for the future of America.

 

[snacknuts]

This looks like a parody video. But it's not.

 

[tuffy]

Personally, it was just nice hearing a different view point and having a class debate about it. Maybe that particular subject was really popular back then, i remember my biology teacher enjoying bringing up discussions like that.

It's the old "irreducible complexity" argument, and it's wrong.

 

[Plywood]

God Bless USAmerica

 

[markot]

Why aren't there atheist movies where a professor turns a kid away from God?

 

[Darksol]

I like how she cringed with confusion and digust when the professor was showing how eggs come from rubber chickens.

 

[adj_noun]

The guy's an evolutionist.

Oh, man. His tone.

edit: EVOLUTIONARY LIES FROM THE TEXTBOOKS

HE'S OUT OF THE GAME

TEARS. TEARS, FROM MY EYES.

 

[Silas Lang]

I can't believe that this movie is supposed to come out in theaters. Looks like an abc family movie or something based on the trailer. Also, movie should be titled, A Matter of Ignorance.

 

[WillyFive]

Why aren't there atheist movies where a professor turns a kid away from God?

They like to teach kids science instead of making obvious propaganda films for a debate that shouldn't be happening.

 

[Wilsongt]

I can't believe that this movie is supposed to come out in theaters. Looks like an abc family movie or something based on the trailer. Also, movie should be titled, A Matter of Ignorance.

Hey, if "Heaven is For Real" and "God's Not Dead" came out in theaters, why can't this?

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Paging Lionel Mandrake.

Me too. In a chain letter.

Waiting for Lionel Madrake review.

I'm trying to figure out how to make money from doing this. What would Dean Cain do?

 

[udiie]

i knew this would end with a debate

 

[stufte]

Why aren't there atheist movies where a professor turns a kid away from God?

You mean EVERY MOVIE?

This movie is just trying to counter the lies, man!

 

[Wiktor]

This looks like something Onion would make.

 

[Einbroch]

Wait, is this for or against creationism? Because that trailer confused me.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

Because there's a ton of money in that market.

Ah of course, it's the modern day indulgence.

 

[Aiii]

Shouldn't this film, and the people who hold these beliefs be going after abiogenesis? The theory of evolution doesn't really explain how life arose. It only talks about what happens after it comes about.
.

The reason Creationists don't like Evolution is because it disproves one of their basic beliefs: That Man was created in the image of God.

 

[happypup]

'uses Evolution to determine the origin of life'...

Evolutionary biology teaches the origins of life as opposed to the diversity and constant change of life? Even the supposed experts in this films don't know jack shit.

Okay then.

Wait. All of this time have creationists really been angry at Abiogenesis and not Evolution?

depends on the type of creationism. For the most part though the basic definition of evolution is universally accepted (change of allelic frequencies in a population over subsequent generations). They either have qualms with its use in explaining the diversity of life, or that it is not a sufficient explanation by itself. Others believe evolution once started is sufficient to explain life's diversity, but have a problem with abiogenesis (really only the non supernatural kind if you want to be pedantic) and that instead there were two or more acts of special creation that started the process (one for humans, one or more for everything else).

 

[Einbroch]

The reason Creationists don't like Evolution is because it disproves one of their basic beliefs: That Man was created in the image of God.

Could that not have been God's plan all along? I mean, he's God, he can see the end game.

 

[Karsticles]

I'm catholic. However I still say that statement would assume that there is a god in the first place. So if I was an atheist I would say "god cannot be dead if god never existed in the first place"

Is it really that hard to research the phrase and see its origins? The word "dead" isn't meant literally in Nietzsche's text, and it's really obvious to anyone who has taken 5 minutes to Google the source text.

 

[Wilsongt]

Wait, is this for or against creationism? Because that trailer confused me.

For. It's on the Answers for Genesis Youtube page, which is where Ken Ham dragged himself from.

Could that not have been God's plan all along? I mean, he's God, he can see the end game.

Then why we still got gays?

 

[Oppo]

It's the old "irreducible complexity" argument, and it's wrong.

that's my favourite one.

I was assigned to defend creationism in science class way back in high school (an assignment which I loathed). I flabbergasted the class with the Watchmaker's Dilemma. Then after I "won", I basically took a minute to explain why everything I said was wrong. It cost me a date with my hot christian lab partner but goddammit (ha!) it was worth it.

 

[Foffy]

Motherfucker, this is awful.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Is there some sort of organised anti-intellectual push at the moment in Christian filmmaking? Between this and a wide-eyed, raving Kevin Sorbo...

 

[Ri'Orius]

Could that not have been God's plan all along? I mean, he's God, he can see the end game.

Not magical enough for the hardcore Christians.

 

[Emerson]

I'M OUT OF THE GAME

best part of that whole thing

 

[JB1981]

oh my gooooooooood

 

[K.Sabot]

"A Rich Christiano Film"

That is just too perfect.

 

[Freezie KO]

Religious viewpoints should be taught, but in a philosophy class not a science class.

I look forward to the day when religious viewpoints are taught in a history class.

 

[Einbroch]

"A Rich Christiano Film"

Too good.

 

[happypup]

that's my favourite one.

I was assigned to defend creationism in science class way back in high school (an assignment which I loathed). I flabbergasted the class with the Watchmaker's Dilemma. Then after I "won", I basically took a minute to explain why everything I said was wrong. It cost me a date with my hot christian lab partner but goddammit (ha!) it was worth it.

well to be fair, if a structure was found in nature that couldn't have evolved, then evolution couldn't be used to explain it.

 

[AliceInJam]

Wow, that was really really tough to watch..."HE'S AN EVOLUTIONIST!" Dun dun dun!!! lol

 

[NekoFever]

I'm catholic. However I still say that statement would assume that there is a god in the first place. So if I was an atheist I would say "god cannot be dead if god never existed in the first place"

Somehow I don't think Nietzsche was being literal.

 

[Silas Lang]

Hey, if "Heaven is For Real" and "God's Not Dead" came out in theaters, why can't this?

I don't pay too much attention to movies these days, so I was just surpirsed at how ridiculous it looked. Never seen nor heard of the movies you listed. I'm guessing they look just as bad?

 

[Pelydr]

Dont you guys hate it when your daughter tries to learn things?

 

[adj_noun]

Be sure to stick around after the credits for the secret "Satan burying the fossils" scene.

 

[War Peaceman]

The way the music changes when it says 'the guy's an evolutionist' is just perfect. This looks incredible 'I'M OUT OF THE GAME'.

 

[Wilsongt]

I don't pay too much attention to movies these days, so I was just surpirsed at how ridiculous it looked. Never seen nor heard of the movies you listed. I'm guessing they look just as bad?

Well, Heaven is For Real is based on a four year old's account of heaven while he was having surgery, and God's Not Dead is the same basic premise as this movie except it is arguing that God exists vs evolution is a lie.

 

[Dennis]

Gonna catch it in 3D IMAX