Here are just a few examples of the many, many, factual errors which interfered with my enjoyment of this movie:
1) No one thought the earth was flat in Columbus' day. Ancient Greeks had actually calculated, with surprising accuracy, the circumference of the earth According to historian Jeffrey Burton Russell, "no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat."
2) The body does not renew/replace all its cells every 7 years. That is a myth and a misconception. Although its true that the lining of the stomach is renewed every few days, other parts can take a decade or more to renew and some parts stay with us from birth to death.
3) There are not different versions of the Bible. This is another misconception. There are, however, many different translations, which is different. For example, if you ask two experts to translate a Greek passage (without conferring with one another) you'll get two unique translations, but they'll both mirror the original Greek passage.
This could have been an interesting film, but early on I could not suspend my disbelief and the only way to view this film is from the perspective that it takes place in an alternate universe where our knowledge and facts don't exist. It is possible that this script writer lives in the world he created, as do many people, a world where knowledge and facts are supplanted by ignorance and bias.
1) No one thought the earth was flat in Columbus' day. Ancient Greeks had actually calculated, with surprising accuracy, the circumference of the earth According to historian Jeffrey Burton Russell, "no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat."
2) The body does not renew/replace all its cells every 7 years. That is a myth and a misconception. Although its true that the lining of the stomach is renewed every few days, other parts can take a decade or more to renew and some parts stay with us from birth to death.
3) There are not different versions of the Bible. This is another misconception. There are, however, many different translations, which is different. For example, if you ask two experts to translate a Greek passage (without conferring with one another) you'll get two unique translations, but they'll both mirror the original Greek passage.
This could have been an interesting film, but early on I could not suspend my disbelief and the only way to view this film is from the perspective that it takes place in an alternate universe where our knowledge and facts don't exist. It is possible that this script writer lives in the world he created, as do many people, a world where knowledge and facts are supplanted by ignorance and bias.