sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote: > I've been waiting for Chris Green to post this here, as he did on the History > of Psychology list, but as he doesn't seem to be going to, allow me.
Believe it or not, I tried to do exactly that yesterday afternoon, but had run out of posts for the day. Here's what I attempted to post: We are all, by now, used to the idea that there are a lot of people in the US who find Darwin's theory of evolution anathema to their firmly held religious beliefs. But the new feature film about the impact that the 1851 death of Darwin's daughter, Annie, had on both his own religious beliefs and his scientific work has apparently been unable to even find a distributor in the US and, so, will probably never be seen in the major theaters there. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6173399/Charles-Darwin-film-too-controversial-for-religious-America.html (Thanks to new York grad student Eric Oosenbrug for pointing this article out to me.) I would have thought that the revenues from major coastal cities alone would have been enough to entice a distributor to pick it up, but (apparently) the anticipated backlash (boycotts, etc.), presumably against other movies or products sold by the same company, has caused them to decline one of the major releases of the year. Quizzical. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
