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Jan 21 11 7:52 PM
cjh5801 wrote:I was going to post a response earlier saying that I didn't think the movie was that hard to understand
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Andrew Kidd wrote: atenolol wrote: His critique--He believed in evolution and thought 2001 simply brought anti-evolution in the back door under the sci-fi gloss of an alien intervention.Speaking as a committed defender of evolution-as were Kubrick and Clarke-I couldn't disagree more. The monolith is just one point in human development, and natural selection is what has driven the rest of its evolution.MISSION TO MARS on the other hand...as Evilskippy would say, AAAAACCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!
atenolol wrote: His critique--He believed in evolution and thought 2001 simply brought anti-evolution in the back door under the sci-fi gloss of an alien intervention.
Jan 22 11 12:02 PM
cjh5801 wrote:Time mirror = Seeing the remaining years of your life pass you by?
Jan 22 11 2:09 PM
atenolol wrote:Andrew Kidd wrote: atenolol wrote: His critique--He believed in evolution and thought 2001 simply brought anti-evolution in the back door under the sci-fi gloss of an alien intervention.Speaking as a committed defender of evolution-as were Kubrick and Clarke-I couldn't disagree more. The monolith is just one point in human development, and natural selection is what has driven the rest of its evolution.MISSION TO MARS on the other hand...as Evilskippy would say, AAAAACCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!Well, just to defend my old professor--How many alien interventions are necessary? I don't think it is in dispute that the movie implies that human development was subject to alien manipulation."committed defender of evolution as were Kubrick and Clarke"But the movie they made does drag in aliens to supplement human evolution regardless of their private beliefs. If, for example, Cecil B DeMille was proved to have been an agnostic, it would hardly make THE TEN COMMANDMENTS a picture made from an agnostic point of view.By the way, as I said, I found the movie to be great, myself. In retrospect, though, my professor had a valid point.
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cjh5801 wrote: "Intervention by a superior intellect in human development, whether God, or the gods, or aliens, is mysticism"Or husbandry. As has been mentioned, humans have intervened in the development of other animals. Dogs, cattle, and fowl, for example. That isn't mysticism, and it doesn't negate evolution. It wouldn't be possible without the same genetic properties that drive evolution.The idea that humans may have been helped along the path by aliens is no more mystic than animal husbandry. It may not be flattering, and it certainly isn't probable (it's a science fiction movie, after all), but it isn't mysticism.
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