Of Sir Ridley Scott, Damon Lindelof, and God

Here is the link for the recent Q&A with Scott and Lindelof: [url=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTwVoIapW-Y[/url]

This movie is about alternate creation theories, aliens, and genetic creations, so it has a rather "blasphemous" tone as it is, but I think that's somewhat the norm in sci-fi. But I also wonder how much of a director's personal beliefs influence a story... Would a firm believer in Christianity ever make a movie denying the existence of the Christian God, or even proposing another possibility? Perhaps it does take somewhat of an atheist viewpoint to really handle a topic like that. Maybe making a movie in this vein takes a sort of suspension of personal beliefs, at least temporarily. As for in the movie itself, I am still not sure whether the movie will show something that completely changes how we thought man originated, or if it could still be construed as fitting in to what we know now. For example, a superior being coming down from the stars and putting man (made in his image) onto the planet pretty much does fall into what much of the world currently believes. This movie could just be a slant on that, or it could go in a completely different direction. We shall see, eh? :P

I think they are filmmakers, and their agenda is to tell a cool science fiction story. Creating a work of fiction does not necessarily ever involve personal beliefs, an agenda, or hidden motives. It's simply what storytellers do.