| stof said: Stein is a smart man, though I find his political and religious views are pretty far from mine. But one major issue I took from that trailer was the following line. " The article (the one that promoted creationism) would not have been an issue if we were living in the time of Galileo or Einstein, but we live in a different era, an era of darwin and in such an era those who challange the status quo seldom go unpunished"
Does he really want to use Galileo as an example of a more understanding time!? A man who was sentenced to house arrest for advocating that the Earth revolved around the Sun? His book was banned and he was ordered to abjure his ideas. If the movie is going to do things like compare Galileo's legal persecution by an all powerful church favourably to Dr. Sternberg's falling out with the scientific community for promoting ideas with little to know basis in the scientific process... Then I'm inclined to think the movie might make some other dramatic missteps in logic and bias. |
He is very likely making a joke. Sort of a wink to those who know the point he's really trying to make.
