Trailer for new Creationist movie, A Matter of Faith

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Lafiel said:
I love how sexist the content of the movie appears to be based on that trailer.. "we must protect my DAUGHTER from having a quality education!"
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But the weaker sex couldn't possibly resist the spell of the secu-radical commie professor enclave without their help.
 
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku! said:
thos professorphobia shit is so weird
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It's really strange, right?

Why not just send your child to a non public college? I love this idea that this debate needs to be challenged in public schools.

Of course, that isn't what this is actually about. It's shameless, blatant pandering to a group of people who will eat this shit up. As has been said earlier, I'm sure this guy is laughing all the way to the bank.
 
They're shitting out these movies as fast as they can, guess they better strike the iron while it's hot.
 
Aylinato said:
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"
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In "God's Not Dead," the story conveniently gets around atheists not believing in God by having two of the atheists actually believe in God but are just huge jerks who pretend not to because they're secular fools (the protagonist actually wins the debate by saying "How can you hate God if God's not real :smug:" and the professor goes OH YOU'RE RIGHT). The other atheist is portrayed as cartoonishly evil and therefore beyond redemption.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
In "God's Not Dead," the story conveniently gets around atheists not believing in God by having two of the atheists actually believe in God but are just huge jerks who pretend not to because they're secular fools (the protagonist actually wins the debate by saying "How can you hate God if God's not real :smug:" and the professor goes OH YOU'RE RIGHT). The other atheist is portrayed as cartoonishly evil and therefore beyond redemption.
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I cant wait for this movie to answer the part in the trailer where the mean professor says WAS THE BIBLE WRITTEN BY MAN and the guy says YES IT WAS and the mean professor says THEN HOW DOES THAT MAKE IT THE WORD OF GOD?
 
EmCeeGramr said:
In "God's Not Dead," the story conveniently gets around atheists not believing in God by having two of the atheists actually believe in God but are just huge jerks who pretend not to because they're secular fools (the protagonist actually wins the debate by saying "How can you hate God if God's not real :smug:" and the professor goes OH YOU'RE RIGHT). The other atheist is portrayed as cartoonishly evil and therefore beyond redemption.
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they know their audience enough to barely turn a profit on these junkbin movies :(
 
happypup said:
Yeah, I don't understand it much either, but the big thing to realize, is that, for the most part they don't actually look at the evidence, they don't see the fossil progression of hominoid skulls as a progression towards humanity, they either see a sharp line somewhere, and everything before that is not human, and everything after is human, but where that line varies from person to person, with most of them willfully unaware of the dozens, even hundreds of different organisms that show a relatively smooth progression of humanness over time, the gap where there line fits seems pretty large.
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I guess if you're of a religious conviction something like evolution and thus the nature of what exactly is 'human' and what separates us from the animals must be a hard thing to take to task. I guess I just never consider that we're anything other than the most successful species on Earth. Don't get it twisted though, I appreciate and am in awe of everything we have accomplished as a species but I take no issue with the notion that all life is meaningful and I don't need to have been made in God's image to feel secure enough in this world.

BLACKLAC said:
Thanks for the link NathanCX.
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No worries man.
 
NathanCX said:
I guess if you're of a religious conviction something like evolution and thus the nature of what exactly is 'human' and what separates us from the animals must be a hard thing to take to task. I guess I just never consider that we're anything other than the most successful species on Earth. Don't get it twisted though, I appreciate and am in awe of everything we have accomplished as a species but I take no issue with the notion that all life is meaningful and I don't need to have been made in God's image to feel secure enough in this world.


No worries man.
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Yeah, the way I see it, the thing that makes man special is our ability to aggregate knowledge. The difference between humans and chimps genetically is about 10 mb worth of information. Our entire genome fits on a cd. Our aggregate knowledge is practically (as in in practice) uncountable. What makes us different from chimps has little to do with biology and almost everything to do with or capacity to gather and store information.

Also we are far from the most successful species on earth. There are billions upon billions of e-coli for every human. Without the bacteria in our guts we would all die, those 'bugs' would do alright though.
 
They're inching so closely to being parodies now.
 
CrimsonCommie said:
This reminds me of the Warning label that my Alabama high school biology book had in it:

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I don't necessarily see anything technically wrong with this but they should put a label like this on the theory of relativity and every other theory in every other science book in their district :p

Or they could save ink and just remind kids that science is man's best and most careful estimate as to how things work based on what we can observe, and then they wouldn't need to bother with silly labels like that, I suppose.
 
CadetMahoney said:
How much do you think this will make at the box office?
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Enough to have the next craptastic religious movie approved for production by studio execs. This genre might become a thing if it keeps traction. Just imagine the goldmine of selling these movies to evangelicals who want to preach with their dollar...GAF...we need to make a movie about the war on Christmas. WHO'S WITH ME?!?
 
The Lamp said:
I don't necessarily see anything technically wrong with this but they should put a label like this on the theory of relativity and every other theory in every other science book in their district :p.
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That would be hilarious, if every text book had to come with 10 different disclaimer stickers.

"Gravity is a theory, not a fact"
"Atoms are theory, not a fact"
"Quantum mechanics is a theory, not a fact"

Scientists should actually lobby to have stickers and disclaimers for every theory, and the multitude of disclaimers would basically just drown out the "controversy" over evolution.
 
The Lamp said:
I don't necessarily see anything technically wrong with this but they should put a label like this on the theory of relativity and every other theory in every other science book in their district :p

Or they could save ink and just remind kids that science is man's best and most careful estimate as to how things work based on what we can observe, and then they wouldn't need to bother with silly labels like that, I suppose.
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Well it is actually incorrect language. Evolution is a fact, the Theory of Evolution (mostly known now as the Modern Evolutionary synthesis) is a theory (go figure). However most people use the word evolution to mean the theory, and not the observed measurable biological process the word evolution describes.

We have a term musical theory, but we don't talk about how music is just a theory. The word theory here is used the same way it is used in evolutionary theory.
 
The Lamp said:
I don't necessarily see anything technically wrong with this but they should put a label like this on the theory of relativity and every other theory in every other science book in their district :p
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That label is very technically wrong. They are butchering terms and presenting misinformation in a single sentence.

(The occurrence of) evolution is a fact (observed and demonstrable), and the theory of evolution is the best explanation for it (and a very robust one at that). Additionally, the theory of evolution does not make any claims with respect to the origin of life, something instead covered in the field of abiogenesis.

That label sucks.

Edit: beaten like an atheist professor denying the Word of God.
 
winjet81 said:
I'm surprised that Harry Anderson, a well-respected magician, is part of this kind of movie.
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lol...One of the megachurches in my country is run by a magician. He's the pastor of the church and his wife is his assistant, both in the church and at his magic shows.
 
happypup said:
Yeah, the way I see it, the thing that makes man special is our ability to aggregate knowledge. The difference between humans and chimps genetically is about 10 mb worth of information. Our entire genome fits on a cd. Our aggregate knowledge is practically (as in in practice) uncountable. What makes us different from chimps has little to do with biology and almost everything to do with or capacity to gather and store information.

Also we are far from the most successful species on earth. There are billions upon billions of e-coli for every human. Without the bacteria in our guts we would all die, those 'bugs' would do alright though.
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I guess my point of success was hugely contentious, I've often been told/heard that the Tardigrade is the most successful organism as it can exist in the most extreme conditions, including space and survive without food or water for 10 years.

Fascinating world we live in, let alone Universe. Makes me feel sorry for people who want to do backflips around science to prove a preconceived notion.
 
Tawpgun said:
Good lord she is hot.

Reminds me of Alexandra Daddario from Texas Chainsaw.

Oh, but the movie looks like garbo
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It's weird how even though Alexandra Daddario was in Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Percy Jackson & the Olympians AND Texas Chainsaw 3D, I still think she's gotta be less desperate for roles than someone who would appear in A Matter of Faith.
 
I love how likeable and mild-mannered the professor is in the beginning of the trailer, but the father is so horrified.

I also liked this line:

"THIS GUY STANDS AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT WE BELIEVE IN."

Yeah. A lot of people do that, no matter what you believe in. What, did you think everyone was exactly the same?
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
I'm trying to figure out how to make money from doing this. What would Dean Cain do?
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If reddit can bankroll a NASCAR driver, surely a GAF can bankroll Jesus Man!, Lionel Mandrake Goes to Hell So That You Don't Have To, the premiere Christian movie review site on the internet.

Or at least get you enough views to get picked by a comedy site, there are significantly less funny people than you making decent coin writing comedy.
 
happypup said:
Well it is actually incorrect language. Evolution is a fact, the Theory of Evolution (mostly known now as the Modern Evolutionary synthesis) is a theory (go figure). However most people use the word evolution to mean the theory, and not the observed measurable biological process the word evolution describes.

We have a term musical theory, but we don't talk about how music is just a theory. The word theory here is used the same way it is used in evolutionary theory.
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Mario said:
That label is very technically wrong. They are butchering terms and presenting misinformation in a single sentence.

(The occurrence of) evolution is a fact (observed and demonstrable), and the theory of evolution is the best explanation for it (and a very robust one at that). Additionally, the theory of evolution does not make any claims with respect to the origin of life, something instead covered in the field of abiogenesis.

That label sucks.

Edit: beaten like an atheist professor denying the Word of God.
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This I knew, I just figured they were talking about the theory of evolution, not the fact that things evolve.

Though you're right. Abiogenesis is a different field technically and they're wrong to confuse the two.
 
Spine_Ripper said:
Enough to have the next craptastic religious movie approved for production by studio execs. This genre might become a thing if it keeps traction. Just imagine the goldmine of selling these movies to evangelicals who want to preach with their dollar...GAF...we need to make a movie about the war on Christmas. WHO'S WITH ME?!?
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These movies follow a formula. There must always be a professor. I think the next film should have a professor trying to make the kids gay and actually teach them TOLERANCE.
 
Someone should make one of these movies, market it in exactly the same way, sell it to evangelical audiences, but have the professor win the debate at the end, causing them all to lose their faith. Possibly with a murderous rampage, now that they don't have God to keep them behaving.
 
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