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The new Darwin film

From this review and several other things I have seen of it, The Creation looks to be a pretty sympathetic treatment of Darwin’s life and work. It’s a pity it’s based on a false premise: that Darwin was motivated by the death of his daughter Annie to become irreligious, or that Emma became religious because of it. Darwin’s religion had faded well before his daughter’s death, and he finally abandoned his Christianity well after it, and Emma was always a conservative and orthodox Christian.

But Paul Bettany is my choice for playing Darwin as a young man. He’s absolutely perfect.

3 Comments

  1. I love that the actor who played Maturin in Master and Commander now gets to play Darwin.

  2. John Monfries John Monfries

    Is it coming to Australia, do you know?

    And is there some way of getting rid of the “Automatically Generated” video trailer for a creationist film on Darwin that emerges just under your post? Maybe there is not, but it is irritating to see rubbish being advertised here.

    • John Wilkins John Wilkins

      I haven’t heard, but I would think so.

      As to the other, I cannot block ads without an outlay. Let me look into it. I don’t see them because I have an ad blocker in my browser.
      Late note: Okay, I paid the money to block ads for one year. Let me know if they still appear.

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