Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.14 $; site siemens.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!siemens!steve From: steve@siemens.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH (super-s Message-ID: <24700005@siemens.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:45:00 EST Article-I.D.: siemens.24700005 Posted: Fri Mar 1 12:45:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 05:14:19 EST References: <491@ahuta.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:ahuta:-49100:siemens:24700005:000:807 Nf-From: siemens!steve Mar 1 12:45:00 1985 Five Million Years to Earth is a HORRIBLE film!! It's one of those schlock things where the scientist sees something inexplicable, dreams up a ridiculous (i.e. almost totally unsupported by evidence) explanation for it, and this explanation is taken as fact for the rest of the movie. Movies like this spread more wrong ideas about science than creationism! (well, maybe I'm exaggerating a little...) If it were about the occult it would be a pseudo-science fiction film. Perhaps it should be called an anti-science fiction film? In fact, the more I think about this, the more I like the connection with creationism. The 'science' in a movie like this is very much like the 'science' in creationism -- based on nonunderstanding of what science is really about, based on jumping to conclusions, etc.