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Originally Posted by AGDee
It's about a society where people are being genetically engineered and the genetically engineered people are considered far superior to "naturals". The "naturals" essentially become like untouchables but one is trying to pass as a genetically engineered person because he wants to be an astronaut and only the genetically engineered people get to join the space program. It's fascinating and scary...
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I watched it last night. I really enjoyed it. I'll have to buy this one so I can watch it again. At the beginning though, it quoted a book from the bible. I think it was the book of Ecclesiates as I can remember. I wasn't wearing my glasses so it was hard to see. After that, there was another quote from some guy. I can't remember exactly what it said, but something to the fact of God not wanting these genetic changes, all the way to Mother Nature wanting us to change human life or something like that. I mentioned something about this in another thread in regards to evolution. Some people think the earth is only 50,000 years old because a 4.5 billion year old earth doesn't match the bible. Well, neither do dinosaurs, but they were here at one time. That's a fact not a theory. The way I see it is, I look to my religious tradition in regards to a moral life. Neither science nor faith contradict the other. I think if someone appreciates the essence of each, they can enrich each other in a person's life. I think science and faith should exist in separate realms. The reason why is because science uses logic and experimental methods to measure and describe the material world. We also have to recognize the fact that science yields knowledge about the workings of molecules, machines, mitosis, physics, momentum ect ect. I always hear people say that we're trying to play God, kind of what the movie presented. Yes, if things go too far. I mean c'mon, think about it, science has no moral valence. The way I see it, it's neutral. DNA technology can make a cure for cancer or produce a weapon of bioterrorism lol lol. Seriously, I think it's only a person's application of science that takes on a moral dimension. I think an aetheist creates his or her own moral precepts in the absence of God. A believer such as myself, looks to religious texts for guidance in what's right and what's wrong. This is why I don't think the bible and science need to be compared. I wasn't a big fan of those quotes being used together in the movie.
I thought the movie was awesome, and knowing me I'll watch it again and again. I was laughing so hard at the part when they were kids. The part when they were spacing out the planets in scaled distances from the sun. That part reminded me of when I was like 10 or 11, I bought a ton of the glow in the dark stars and planets and placed them on my ceiling. I scaled the planets the way they would appear if they were the same distance from the sun on my ceiling in my room rather than in space. I even made an astroid belt between Mars and Jupiter just like they did in the movie. I remember buying so many of those glow in the dark packets that when I would turn off the light for bed time, I could actually see everything in my room, it was that bright in there. The glowing never lost it's glow. It was so much of it, that it used itself as a light source.
Great movie though. Thanks for that AGDee.
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