Eden?🌍🌴🎄🌏

Creation (2009)

Eden (upcoming film)

I wrote a post about Sydney Sweeney recently and now see that she is starring in a Ron Howard movie called 'Eden' being filmed in Australia and the Galapagos.

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I have no idea what Ron's movie 'Eden' is about, except for the tagline on the movie's Wikipedia page stating, "A group of people abandon society and civilization in order to travel to the Galapagos and find the meaning of life."

Having just watched the 2009 movie 'Creation' on the SBS OnDemand free streaming service about Charles Darwin writing 'On the Origin of Species', I couldn't help but see the title 'Eden' referring to the battle in some way between the theories of creation and evolution. 
I must admit to being a fan of neither theory, as I feel the truth is somewhat a mix of the two and that neither side has the answers when it comes to the truth, although I certainly don't believe the Biblical myth of the creation story about Adam and Eve.

That story to me is just pure BS.

When I talk about creation it's more about intelligent design than the Biblical story of creation.

Ironically, it was watching Ron Howard's movie 'In the Heart of the Sea' that led to me visiting the town of Eden back in 2016, not to mention Tasmania -

Eden: The Unintended Garden

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I see 'Eden' also stars Jude Law, who I wrote about in this recent post -

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'Eden' also stars Ana de Armas from 'Blade Runner 2049' I see -

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And 'Eden' is being filmed in and around where Margot Robbie grew up, I notice -

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Jennifer Connelly in 'Creation'

Synchronicity?-)

I only watched 'Creation' the last night it was on the SBS OnDemand free streaming service, not because I'm a fan of Darwin and his theory, it was because the green-eyed Jennifer Connelly played Darwin's wife Emma in the film.

"Having returned from his expedition in the Galapagos Islands 15 years earlier, Darwin is still trying to finish a manuscript about his findings, which will articulate his theory of evolution. 

The delay is caused by anxiety about his relationship with his devoutly religious wife, Emma, who fundamentally opposes his ideas, which pose a threat to established Anglican theology. 

Emma worries that she may go to heaven and he may not, separating them for eternity."

Jenny?-)

"Darwin is especially fond of his eldest daughter Annie, a precocious and inquisitive ten-year-old. 

He teaches her much about nature and science, including his theory of evolution, and tells her stories of his travels. 

Her favourite story, despite the sad ending, is about the young orangutan Jenny, who is brought from Borneo to the London Zoo, where she finally died of pneumonia in the arms of her keeper. 

Darwin is furious when he learns that the family clergyman has made Annie kneel on rock salt as punishment for contradicting him about dinosaurs, which she takes as having become extinct long ago. 

This contradicts their church's position that life is unchanging and that the Earth is very young -- Young Earth Creationism being a then-recent heresy taken as dogma by Seventh-day Adventists."

Being an Australian, I couldn't help thinking while watching 'Creation' how the city of Darwin was named after Charles Darwin.
And the Hulu/Disney series 'Faraway Downs' is about getting cattle to Darwin, a series I wrote about in this recent post -

Human Is ... Science Fiction?🦠🔬

It wasn't lost on me when I got my 2024 Brisbane Lions membership on Friday that the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy was named after Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, the Governor of New South Wales from 1846 to 1855, who was the half-brother of Robert FitzRoy, who was the captain of the HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage.

16 Eden Station Drive, Springfield Central, 4300

In the movie there is a scene that recounts this Wikipedia entry on FitzRoy's page - "during the survey, some of his men were camping onshore when a group of Fuegian natives made off with their boat. 

His ship gave chase and, after a scuffle, the culprits' families were brought on board as hostages. Eventually FitzRoy held two boys, a girl and two men (one man escaped.) 

As it was not possible to put them ashore conveniently, he decided to "civilise the savages", teaching them "English ... the plainer truths of Christianity ... and the use of common tools" before returning them as missionaries.

The sailors gave them names: the girl was called Fuegia Basket (so named because the replacement for the stolen boat was an improvised coracle that resembled a basket), the younger boy Jemmy Button (FitzRoy allegedly 'purchased' him with a large pearl button), the man York Minster (after the large rock so-named near which he was captured).

The second, elder, boy he named Boat Memory. 

FitzRoy brought the four back with the ship to England. 

Boat Memory died following a smallpox vaccination. 

The others were cared for and taught by the trainee missionary Richard Matthews; they were considered civilised enough to be presented at Court to King William IV and Queen Adelaide in the summer of 1831."

I guess we all have our favourites when it comes to the AFL and AFLW:-)

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I also find it amusing that Noah Pink is the writer behind 'Eden'.

Noah is the Creator, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer behind the 'Genius' series, not to mention the Screenwriter and Executive Producer of 'Tetris';-)

God does not play Tetris with the universe either, 

I would imagine?-)

I can't wait to see if 'Eden' is any good once it is created;-)

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