In 1959, Madalyn Murray O’Hair filed a suit on behalf of her son who was forced to attend bible reading in school and when he decides not to participate, the staff of the school harassed him. This case was the first openly case of Atheism. Atheism is the idea of one not believing in the existence of deities. In her opening statement before the Supreme Court, O’Hair states, “An atheist believes that only in a knowledge of himself and a knowledge of his fellow man can he find the understanding that will help to a life of fulfillment. He seeks to know himself and his fellow man rather than to know a god” (American Atheists). In 1963, O’Hair started a foundation of non-believers that have multiplied by the past decades. People in the world today,…show more content… Well its simple, they believe in evolution and science because it can be proven somehow. In the film, “Evolution vs. Creation”, both sides of Christianity and Atheism beliefs are contradicting one another on how the world began. From a stand point of an Atheism, it is believed that the world began with the Big Bang Theory. Meanwhile, Christianity argues that God created the earth with water, sun, moon, and stars on Day 4 of his creation. Ever since Charles Darwin questioned the theory of creation, Christianity has been fighting hard to keep the scripture of Genesis alive. In the film, a man named Dr. Walter Hearn, who is a biochemist and writer, found him under attack when he was a guest speaker at Weadon College, a Christian college. During a seminar on Christianity, Hearn told the audience that the same chemical processes that bring each person into existence today, could have produced Adam and Eve. After the seminar, critics and protestor start to discriminate him and science for not believing that God had created humans. Although atheism can be an easy target in this film, the commentary purpose is to help viewers understand both perspectives on the ongoing issue. It focuses on trust and logic: trusting of biblical reading and the logic of science. The audience can learn to make their own choice to believe in a god or be a
