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I was listening to a Christian radio show today. And during one of their commercials they were promoting some event that was to be taking place soon. And the background music to the commercial was the theme from 2001: A Space Odyessy.
Possibly not the "theme", but the famous song from the intro.
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Isn't it "Thus Spake Zarathustra" which is even more ironic? I don't know, Nietzche is always quoted as saying "God is Dead" but I don't even know if it was a sympathetic character. I doubt he went around carving it into desks with a compass stylus.
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*still hopelessly confused* I've seen that movie, got confused, and I have no idea what you're talking about. Someone please explain it too me in small words.
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I'm not really sure. It is such a confusing movie. It does talk about evolution, I guess. Because the movie starts with apes inventing tools and progresses onwards. I never really got it. It is a good movie though.
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That scene with the apes is clarified in the novel. Aliens sent the monolith which somehow kickstarted the development of intelligence in the apes who then evolved into humans.
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Because the aliens consider "Mind" to be the greatest thing in the universe, so do all they can to encourage it.
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The irony is that Clark's alien trigger is very similar to a lot of Theistic evolution beliefs.
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Maybe "funny" would've been a more appropriate title for the thread. I found it pretty amusing.
Steve, AC is pretty much correct. That song is the background to apes discovering the monolith and that being their first push towards evolving into humans.
I don't know anyone that can seperate that song from that scene in the movie, so it was funny hearing it as the background to a christian radio show.
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So you were listening to a Christian radio show, and they played a clip of music that had happened to be used once in a movie that had a scene featuring evolution.
Yeah, that's ironic. Like rain on your wedding day.
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