Movieguide.org, which asks its audience to donate to help the site “bring God’s light to an industry with much darkness,” hasn’t reviewed “Creation.” But last week, the site posted what it called a “very timely” review of a book about Darwin that contends his “half-baked Theory of Evolution” inspired Hitler and other “genocidal mass murderers.” Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, who saw “Creation” last week at the Toronto International Film Festival, suggested the film actually dances around issues of whether evolution and God are compatible. "Did [director Jon Amiel] restrain himself in fear of provoking controversy? Has it gotten to that point?" Ebert asks. “ ‘Creation’ dares not state relevant ideas that were acceptable nearly 50 years ago, when ‘Inherit the Wind’ was nominated for four Academy Awards.” It seems like Hollywood is anything but evolving when movies that tackle weighty matters are shunned.
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