Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’

Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.

The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.

However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.

Anita Singh, “Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’”
telegraph.co.uk, September 11, 02009

What’s worse: the fact that so many Americans are so uneducated they’ll believe anything they hear in church, or the fact that movie and other media distributors are so timid they’ll anticipate the morbid demands of religious extremists to suppress anything that will undermine the cretinous fairy tales they use to manipulate their illiterate countrymen?