Yet Another Stupid Religious Movie? You betcha!
Wow. That... that makes God's Not Dead look like an intelligent theological argument.
Ah, scientific fallacies ("humans evolved from apes", "all life evolves from simpler life"), mixed with more than a hint of sexism (and ageism, if you want to dig into it), where the daughter's impressionable woman-brain must be fixed by her caring father and some other guys who know better than her.
...Either I'm missing something or I get a feeling that both assumptions above have underlying context for this expression. o_O
It's a trailer.
I will bet all of my bitcoins that that is exactly what it is. Welcome to the wonderful world of the religious right in the U.S.
...I'm totally lost in the context and in the...train of thought here. xD
Right there in the trailer were a couple common tells for the creationist/evolution-deniers.
1. Strawman liberal college professor. -- This is a crowd favorite for these people. Hallmarks: Scientific field, dismissive/condescending, &c.
2. "Evolution means people come from apes." -- The most often repeated fundamental misunderstanding; not understanding the concept of parallel evolution or development over time. More bluntly, the idea that things happen in longer timespans than their own lifetimes or the 6,000 years dating from when some bronze-age goatherds thought the world began.
3. Presenting science as an actively anti-religious force attempting to convert good Christian children. -- They phrase all of their arguments this way; if it isn't science trying to convert Christians, it's teh gayz, or communism, or... &c. I honestly think that it's part of a fundamental insecurity in the evangelical mindset. They understand debate and reasoning only in the context of all-or-nothing conversion, and from there assume that everyone else is the same way.
4. The heroic everyman Christian father who's just looking out for his daughter and protecting his way of life from the evil college professors who are trying to brainwash his children, and who is willing to take them on in their own area of expertise (structured debate) despite repeatedly expressing his unfamiliarity with it (to drive the point home). Either he confounds the professor with the power of faith or he pulls a Pyrrhic defeat and all of the good Christians are happy together.
Stuff like that. These films pop up every year or three and they all follow the exact same formula.
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