Alfonso Cuarón, director of the space epic 'Gravity', has slammed creationists who refuse to accept the facts of evolution.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Cuarón was asked how he feels about the ongoing evolution 'debate' between creationists and, well, everyone else.
"I don't even know what to comment about it," he laughed, "except, yeah... the world is 5,000 years old, and, yeah, dinosaurs came 4,000 years ago. And the dinosaurs were there to tempt our fate, right? Or something like that? I don't understand the need of certain people to bring forth their faith by just contradicting scientific facts.
"I don't understand why people cannot just be so happy and comfortable with their own beliefs and accepting facts. I don't think that any of the facts contradict the fundamentals of the faith."
Cuarón also spoke about the 'Darwinian' nature of 'Gravity', and how the film's finale is a (not particularly subtle) commentary on the process of evolution.
"In many ways, the film deals with that urge for living; that urge for life. And this urge for living is something that's shared with the rest of the species' on this planet. It's something that's part of that great mystery. In the human experience, we share so much with the rest of nautre.
"On one hand, there's the image of this character who went through a process of rebirth and now she's putting her feet back on the ground, taking her first baby steps towards a new life, and in a bigger metaphorical sense, there's this comment of evolution. Even more literally, life came from space — not unlike our character reentering earth and colliding with the water."
