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wasn't there recently another case of an otherwise liberal-minded actor being shocked to discover that they were working on an evangelical film? (apparently they either don't read the script to the end, or aren't given the full script, or..?) let's happily assume Harry Anderson was similarly foozled
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wow.

what a bunch of chimps.....
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I don't know, you guys, maybe evolution wins this time.
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I think that happened to Kate Mulgrew too -- the documentary "The Principle" according to Wikipedia.
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@2:

See @5. It's a lot harder for people in a documentary, because there is no script to give a sense of the direction the film is going to take, and it's pretty easy for documentarians to ask questions that may seem reasonable on the surface, but when selectively edited with other interviews, can project a completely different point-of-view than the person may actually hold.
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After watching the trailer, I'm not certain that I believe in the evolution of the human species anymore either.
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Snore!
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Since Harry Anderson's career has centered around him being a flim-flam man, that is actually a brilliant bit of casting.

I mean, the producers are probably out of there fucking minds, but at least they did something right on the project.
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I applied for admission at Wheaton Collage but I couldn't find enough photos of Wil Wheaton to make it happen.
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What burns me about this (besides the horrible script, acting and music) is that, even in the short trailer, they use the line "origin of life" several times. In fact, the theory of evolution makes no claims about the origin of life, only the origin of species. I've never understood why christians are reluctant to see the hand of god working through evolution. It's like seeing god's works happening in real time! But for some reason they prefer to believe that god is magic. Or a genie. Folds his arms and blinks and BLAMMO! a chicken.
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@11: The "evolution" they argue against is almost always not Darwin's, it's some straw man they conjured up because their pastor told them evolution is bad.
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@10 - you beat me to it!

@11 - I suspect many Christians are not premillennial literalists (literalists of the KJV translation that is). However for the Christians who do strongly object, it's because it requires so much literary license and interpretation that the remaining 'interpretation' to which they cling so strongly and desperately are called into question.

This is gonna be another money-loser like the Atlas Shrugged movies, watched only by kids who are semi-coerced by their fundy parents.
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A sad commentary on this National Day of Reason (http://nationaldayofreason.org). Thanks for letting us know the stupid continues (lack of surprise).
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What's with the ape costume hand on the movie poster? Does Rachel turn out to be a Furry? 'cause this would make the description lines about Rachel's father "sensing something changing with his daughter" and "what he discovers catches him completely off guard" turn out to be a whole lot more interesting.
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Hey, which Biology teacher did you get? Did you get that one weird one that teaches evolution? Oooh, wow, bad luck. Out of ALL the science teachers in the entire college, you landed a course with the ONE that teaches evolution. Stay strong, bro.
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You know why Fundamentalists don't believe in evolution?

... Because it didn't happen to them.
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Work is work. You'd be surprised how many well known actors do religious films. It pays the bills. No one will see them.
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"And this time .. (chambers round in rifle) .. it's Biblical."
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The stupid is strong in these people.
21
Maybe Rachel and a hot young local boy can clean up a barn just outside town and put on a renegade biology class all their own!
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Poor Harry Anderson. He deserves better.
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"Dear Lord, I need your help. I've spent the last eighteen years giving my daughter a good, Christian home and making sure she had a good, Christian education, and now one semester in college is going to undo it all!!!!!!!"
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Haven't we had this film before? I vaguely recall being trapped somewhere and having to listen to (though I don't recall seeing any of it) some film about debating in which some unheard-of college, its team anchored by Mr Cameron (this might have been before he had proven himself to be a Christian extremist), draws the pro-life side for a debate on abortion against Harvard, much to the chagrin of the extremely pro-choice young woman who could normally debate circles around him. Despite the debacle of Mr Cameron's convincing his teammate to try the "I had an abortion and regret it terribly" lie, to which the other side responded by pointing out the trick's being suggested in a book written by Mr Cameron's mentor, Mr Cameron's final speech was so stirring that the Supreme Court justice with the casting vote, despite announcing that she wasn't ready to overturn Roe-v-Wade, gave Kenmont the win.

One would think that would have gone right into the Holmes-Sun-Earth file, but no.
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@26, see my link @24. Or anything from that era. He had a fun magic/comedy act. Not prop comedy. Although, speaking of guys who showed up on SNL back then, Joel Hodgson did great, original prop-based comedy back then too...probably some of that on YouTube as well.
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Darwin's balls! Why must these people insist on proving that they are, personally, incapable of a little simple evolution?
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What's kind of sad is despite the biology professor being the 'bad guy' in this film he's still making more sense than the 'good guy'.
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Um Dan I think you mean geocentrism. Heliocentrism is the one that's true.
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The sense of urgency this trailer creates is way out of proportion with the subject matter. Also I'm gonna try and give them the benefit of the doubt here but I'm pretty sure they intentionally made and used a rip-off version of "Nara" by E.S. Posthumus.
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I see Ken Ham is already (early May 2014) recommending this movie at Answers in Genesis.

The plot is VERY predictable, I guess. Jordan plays the sweet innocent “Christian” (i.e. fundamentalist) girl who goes to college. Shock, horror: In biology classes they actually teach science instead of Genesis 1. Our sweet young fundamentalist has her innocent mind poisoned by some Richard Dawkins-clone who “teaches that evolution is the answer to the origins of life”. (Of course, a REAL professor would know that the origins of life as such — abiogenesis — is a separate scientific issue and not a matter of “evolution” as such, but don’t expect any scientific sophistication in the script.)

The trailer includes a Sympathetic Young Christian Man who tries to reach out to the endangered Sweet Young Girl (SYG) and tell her that “life comes from life”. She thinks the overweight Dawkins clone may have some good arguments, though. Oh no! Her salvation is in danger!

The Concerned Christian Father of the SYG realizes that her biology professor is (unspeakable horror!) an EVOLUTIONIST, which goes down about as well as if he were to discover that she is learning about modern politics from an unabashed neo-Nazi. Imagine, the course plan doesn’t mention “Biblical creationism” as an alternative! (The fact that it doesn’t cover any other tribal myth and origin legend either is of course quite unproblematic, but the Hebrew version MUST BE IN THERE!)

From the trailer it would seem that the Concerned Father is adviced by a God-Fearing Afro-American that he must get his SYG out of college as soon as possible, before her mind is hopelessly corrupted. The God-Fearing Afro-American, for one, would never teach “evolutionary lies” from any goddarn textbooks! So there!

However, the Concerned Father instead manages to set up a huge public debate where he will defend all that is Good and True and Right and Biblical, whereas the Richard Dawkins clone will deliver his vile atheist propaganda.

The SYG will apparently find her father’s actions embarrassing, but I think we can rest assured that during the public debate, this loving, God-fearing man will deliver devastating arguments and completely defeat the arrogant Dawkins-clone evolutionist. No doubt the SYG will revert to being a nice little fundamentalist again, and probably end up kissing the handsome Christian Boy who told her that “life comes from life”. (Maybe they will carry out practical experiments to prove that themselves — but only within the confines of an honorable Christian marriage, of course. Probably won’t happen in the movie as such. Just let them kiss and have Daddy rejoice that his SYG has found a good young Christian man to be with.)

There! I hope I didn’t spoil the ending for anyone, especially since I have honestly only seen the trailer.
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I was recovering from an anxiety attack and then I found out that H.D.A. was taking a bath in a sewer.

I need to hide, he was my hero.

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