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.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I don't get it. Why is that ironic?
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
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.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
*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.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
I never saw 2001, is it particularly supportive of an atheistic worldview?
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
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.
Posted by AC (Member # 7909) on :
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.
Posted by AC (Member # 7909) on :
Because the aliens consider "Mind" to be the greatest thing in the universe, so do all they can to encourage it.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I guess I should read it then. I do have a copy of it.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
Hmm. Was the book written before or after it was discovered that apes do use tools?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
The irony is that Clark's alien trigger is very similar to a lot of Theistic evolution beliefs. Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
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.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
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. Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
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