The war in our schools over whether to teach Creationism or Darwinism is a perfect example. Science and religion seem to be two different languages attempting to tell the same story, and yet the battle between them has been raging for centuries and continues today.

Religion savours the questions while science savors the quest for answers. Both are manifestations of man's quest to understand the divine. primarily regarding the battle between science or religion? Which do you think will ultimately win the war?'īrown said: 'That's a difficult question because in many ways I see science and religion as the same thing. The interviewer asked the novelist: 'The characters in Angels & Demons battle with some tough moral issues. The book Angels & Demons published 2000 is reissued by Simon & Schuster with a bonus interview with writer Dan Brown.

The Israeli actor who starred as Eric Bana's lovely but troubled wife in Steven Spielberg's Munich, apparently beat out Naomi Watts for the role in the new movie. Though Hanks monopolises the film, relatively newcomer Ayelet Zurer who plays a doctor in search of the killers of her physicist father, is getting plenty of attention. What, exactly, is anti-Catholic about that?' After all, in Angels & Demons, Professor Robert Langdon teams up with the Catholic Church to thwart a vicious attack against the Vatican. 'And let me be a little controversial: I believe Catholics, including most in the hierarchy of the Church, will enjoy the movie for what it is: an exciting mystery, set in the awe-inspiring beauty of Rome. 'Let me be clear: neither I nor Angels & Demons are anti-Catholic,' he wrote. In the novel and the movie, the Church also becomes a victim, and recently Howard fought back the charge that the film is anti-Church in an article in The Huffington Post: In the 1500's they started meeting in secret, because they were concerned about the church's inaccurate teachings. Their name means 'The Enlightened Ones.' They were physicists, mathematicians, astronomers. The organisation did not become violent until the 17th Century, per the novel. In the new film, which, like Da Vinci Code, is based on a bestseller by Dan Brown, Langdon (Hanks) stumbles on the Illuminati, which plans to destroy the Catholic Church. Hanks could not make Charlie Wilson's War into a smash, and though Howard got praise for his Frost/Nixon, the film was a box-office dud. The new film, which comes out May 15, reunites the two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks with director Ron Howard who made Da Vinci Code.īoth need a big hit. Nevertheless, it made over $680 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits in the 10 years before its release.

That film, condemned by many churches including the Catholic one for its depiction of the working of the church and the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, was also panned by leading critics.

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