(September 14, 2013 at 3:29 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: Is there actualy a single movie out there, which has a plot that tries to push an agenda, that is any good?
None off the top of my head, but I figure that there are some. It really just depends on how prominent the agenda is. The more prominent it is, the more likely that the differing points of view will have to be made very simple and very extreme. Apply the old Hollywood villain/hero formula and you get a film that will entertain those on one side of the issue and be unwatchable for those on the other.
The trailer for that movie sounds like a number of the ideas and discussions that have floated around these forums and which get discussed in much more depth on places like Youtube, where there is an endless stream of pro/anti-god/atheism content. Why pay to watch a movie you've seen over and over for free?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
