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Let’s Mock ‘The Genesis Code’ out of Existence

That bright star is Jesus, shining over a museum of science.

Two nights ago Sharron Angle visited Iowa, not to campaign for president, but to attend a screening of the film, “The Genesis Code.” What pray tell is “The Genesis Code”? I’m glad you asked.

If you’ve taken the time to watch the above clip, I’ll kindly give you a moment to wipe the vomit off your mouth because I know exactly how you feel—how could they insinuate that anything other than creationism could be true?

As a tea-partier this movie’s existence offends me in its nature. And to throw fuel on the fire, Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate who unsuccessfully ran against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last year, attended a showing of “The Genesis Code” in Iowa two days ago.

Politico called the film “a Christian movie about balancing faith and science in contemporary America.” I call it bullarky. The only manna about this movie is the opportunity to say “The Genesis Chode,” a fun play on words first experienced with “The Da Vinci Chode.”

The heretical movie is about a college journalist assigned to profile the school’s hot, popular “hockey superstar” who, coincidentally, happens to be too cool for Christ. The young college journalist, however, having eyes for the athletic atheist, encourages him to pray for his dying mother. He rejects this idea because it’s stupid, or at least that’s what science says, so the journalist sets out to prove “that what science teaches us about creation and the Story as told in Genesis are both true and in perfect accord!”

This is where shit hits the fan.

I saw a video today on CNN about a gorilla walking around like a human. You know what this made me think? Attar from “Planet of the Apes” is looking good these days. You know what I didn’t think? That this has anything to do with evolution and neither should “The Genesis Code.”

In all seriousness, whether with you agree with this movie’s message or not you couldn’t possibly enjoy it. The movie, which cost $5 million to make and stars former Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson and somehow two Academy Award winners, might have the worst writing, graphics and directing ever.

Example dialogue:
“Is that your girl?” “No, not this one. She’s a Christian.”
“Kerry, we live in the postmodern world.”
“Science and the six days of Genesis are in complete accord!” This last quote is followed by a picture of Einstein because nothing gets more science than Einstein.

This movie actually offends me, not because of it’s message, which in all honesty could be worse, but because it’s so fucking awful—awful in delivery and awful in purpose. I’m not sure if this movie is trying to bring together agnostics with Christians or mild Christians with extreme Christians or if this is the creationist white flag finally declaring that their logic is wildly unfounded and will never be accepted without a picture of Einstein slapped over it.

If the latter is the case then I’m sad to see creationism go, because with it goes the idea that brontosauruses were on the Ark. Say what you want about creationism, but that much is true.

  1. January 29, 2011 at 12:59 am, Mgibson said:

    this is the stupidest movie review ever! all it is is name calling! Dont know who reads this or how I stumbled upon it but its terrible writing and really doesn’t have a point. I haven’t seen this movie, but after this review I’d like to. Among other reasons, I’d like to see it because if any piece of writing this bad tells me not to do something, I’d rather do the opposite…

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  2. January 29, 2011 at 1:09 am, Anonymous said:

    “Science and the six days of Genesis are in complete accord!”

    Does the Sun still revolves around the Earth? This film is nothing but a religious propaganda.

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  3. January 29, 2011 at 1:09 am, Anonymous said:

    “Science and the six days of Genesis are in complete accord!”

    Does the Sun still revolves around the Earth? This film is nothing but a religious propaganda.

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  4. January 29, 2011 at 2:26 am, Anonymous said:

    I was actually considering this an honest critique of the movie until the “f bomb” got dropped. I learned in junior high that people who have no argument, will either speak louder or add a lot of swear words. Why don’t you just come out and say you are afraid of the movie, because it makes you think about how you were brainwashed. Yes, I saw the movie. It was no block buster, but it was as good as most Hollywood movies. I would give it somewhere between 3-4 stars or thumbs up or whatever. However, if you are afraid to think out of the box, don’t bother.

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  5. January 30, 2011 at 1:18 am, Uraninite said:

    Boo hoo this movie offends you. All you liberals are a joke. Hollywood pumps out garbage all the time and you write this pathetic “review” because you”re offended. Go praise your buddah ya whiney liberal.

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    • January 30, 2011 at 4:17 am, Maty Aksenton said:

      Well, nobody has the right to not be offended. I haven’t watched the movie, but knowing the atrocious track record of creationism and the invariable intellectual trainwreckery of its proponents, I highly doubt this one will make much difference. And what makes you think the reviewer is a “liberal”? What does the rejection of anti-scientific garbage has to do with one political philosophy or another? There is no liberal, conservative, left-wing or right-wing science. There is only good science and bad science. Creationism is neither of the two.

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      • February 05, 2011 at 3:19 am, Ginny said:

        that’s because Creationism is above that sort of thing.

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    • February 05, 2011 at 10:53 am, Docwyoming said:

      how can you take this review seriously?

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    • February 05, 2011 at 10:53 am, Docwyoming said:

      how can you take this review seriously?

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  6. January 30, 2011 at 4:05 pm, Timotheus said:

    Whoa, why all the anger, why all the hate? Why all the cursing and swearing?

    Who told you that brontosauruses were on the Ark?

    Go back and reread Genesis, there’s no mention of brontosauruses on the ark.

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  7. January 30, 2011 at 4:05 pm, Timotheus said:

    Whoa, why all the anger, why all the hate? Why all the cursing and swearing?

    Who told you that brontosauruses were on the Ark?

    Go back and reread Genesis, there’s no mention of brontosauruses on the ark.

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    • February 01, 2011 at 11:56 pm, Colleen Stufflebeem said:

      Check out the Creation Museum in Kentucky—Brontosauruses everywhere. They said it, not me.

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      • February 02, 2011 at 10:38 pm, Timotheus said:

        Not all “Creationists” agree with each other.

        Check out The Gap Theory, Old Earth Creationists, New Earth Creationists, Theistic Evolution, Catastrophism, etc.

        Georges Lemaitre was the Roman Catholic priest who came up with his “hypothesis of the primeval atom” which we call The Big Bang Theory today.

        Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Isaac Newton had no problem with “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

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      • February 05, 2011 at 3:17 am, Ginny said:

        The Holy Bible didn’t say anything about dinosaurs, ninny.

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  8. January 30, 2011 at 4:07 pm, Tsmith said:

    You can’t really write a review for a movie you haven’t seen. I have seen it and it really isn’t all that bad. Is it amazing? No, but it isn’t painfully bad either. Personally, I give it a respectful 2/4 stars.

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  9. January 30, 2011 at 4:07 pm, Tsmith said:

    You can’t really write a review for a movie you haven’t seen. I have seen it and it really isn’t all that bad. Is it amazing? No, but it isn’t painfully bad either. Personally, I give it a respectful 2/4 stars.

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  10. January 31, 2011 at 1:57 am, Anonymous said:

    I think it was pointed out on SNL a few years ago that a sort of compromise had been worked out between creationists and evolutionists, in so far as textbooks go anyway. Dinosaurs could stay, but from now on they would be referred to as “Jesus horses’.

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  11. February 03, 2011 at 4:20 am, Philliptcho said:

    This review is the only thing that should be mocked out of existence.

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  12. February 07, 2011 at 11:52 pm, john charles webb jr. said:

    We are “INTELLIGENT DESIGN”

    OPERATING WITHIN

    A “DARWINIAN CONTEXT”

    PLEASE EXCUSE ME

    WHILE I GO “BEAT OFF”

    AND THEN PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS .

    SOMETIMES I THINK THAT “GOD IS AN A**HOLE.
    .

    .

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  13. February 17, 2011 at 10:08 pm, Wesley said:

    I’m a Christian. But I view the young earth theory as silly, see evolution as compatible with scripture, voted Democrat in the last election, am a film-buff and view most “Christian” movies as poorly produced, love Mumford & Sons, and believe that Jesus really is who He said He was. He radically transformed my life and for that I’ll be forever grateful. Many, many scientists, philosophers and intellectuals throughout history with bigger IQ’s than any of us commenting have reconciled their faith with reason. Let’s avoid stereotypes, name-calling and attempting serious conversation in tweets following a badly written movie review of a relatively low-budget that probably was poorly made.

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  14. February 24, 2011 at 7:03 pm, pjmj70 said:

    Colleen Stufflebeem… someday I hope you can meet the Saviour, the Christ, the Son of the true and living God, the Creator of everything including you and all you enjoy. In the end, this is who this movie is about. Whatever it is that you truly disliked about this film, and I suspect it’s the message, it’s the message that in the end we must not fail to get. We’re all doomed sinners. There is no way to escape our eternal punishment except through coming to Christ, his death on the cross in our place, and surrendering our wrecked lives to him. There is NO other hope for us. Until this happens, movies of this sort, the Bible, Christians, creation, the whole nine yards will not make sense to you. You’ll tend to react pretty much the way you did. Not a surprise.

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  15. February 24, 2011 at 7:03 pm, pjmj70 said:

    Colleen Stufflebeem… someday I hope you can meet the Saviour, the Christ, the Son of the true and living God, the Creator of everything including you and all you enjoy. In the end, this is who this movie is about. Whatever it is that you truly disliked about this film, and I suspect it’s the message, it’s the message that in the end we must not fail to get. We’re all doomed sinners. There is no way to escape our eternal punishment except through coming to Christ, his death on the cross in our place, and surrendering our wrecked lives to him. There is NO other hope for us. Until this happens, movies of this sort, the Bible, Christians, creation, the whole nine yards will not make sense to you. You’ll tend to react pretty much the way you did. Not a surprise.

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  16. August 21, 2012 at 6:55 pm, Patrick Lavell said:

    You are a lost soul and I will pray for you. My heart aches for the way our culture thinks we are the almighty end and nothing could be further from the truth. The truth from the false……we all find it either now or when we make peace during our last dying breath.

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