Money is more important than scientific truth, the owners of IMAX theaters in several cities in the southern US have decided.
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Money is more important than scientific truth, that's how the owners of IMAX theaters decided in several cities in the southern USA. This is a film about volcanoes, but the reference to evolution in it could, according to the theater owners, offend those with fundamentalist religious beliefs. This is how the news agencies deliver.
"We have to choose what is going to sell and this film is not going to sell, so we are not going to take it," says Lisa Bocelli, manager of the IMAX theater in Charleston who decided not to show the film. "Many people here believe in creationism, not evolution." The movie "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" links human DNA with that of bacteria found inside underwater volcanoes.
IMAX theaters in Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas refused to show the film, said Pietro Serapiglia, who is distributing the film for Stephen Lowe, the film's producer in Montreal, Canada. "It only happened in the south," he said.
Critics are concerned that banning films that mention evolution will result in the cancellation of production of such films in the future. "This may limit the creative approach of directors to address the subject of evolution," says Joe Damichis, vice president of marketing for the California Science Center in Los Angeles and former manager of the IMAX theater. "The reference to evolution will disappear". expressed his concern.
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