blind faith:  belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination.  belief in what cannot be known or the unknowable.

when it comes to science, faith in something with no/zero evidence pointing towards or supporting that thing is idiotic.  no influential scientist had faith about things related to their science.  you are confusing their personal beliefs from their professional work.  science goes to great lengths to remove all bias of the experimenter from the experiment.  ones beliefs no matter what they are, are not a part of the scientific process whatsoever.

faith is required for certain religions as there is no tangible evidence collaborating their claims.  that is fine.  they don’t require any evidence and are not concerned with the cataloging of facts or tangible data.  they server a completely different purpose that is not at odds with faith.  there is no room or place for faith in science as faith is anti-science.  science is based on empirical observation and is the cataloging of what can be know.  religions are  various competing stories to explain what cannot yet be known.  as science constantly pushes out the boundaries of what can be known, the unknowable shifts to new areas, hence the old stories for the unknowable often no longer apply.  this is the key reason science and certain religions are at odds.  do note some religons, like Buddhism, do not have this issue as they are completely different in nature from, lets say the judeo-christian religions.

hope that clarifies.

To me, Arthur C. Clarke would be the epitome of the dull SF movie.  2001 may be a well-made movie that is scientifically accurate in the right places (and magical in turn where needed)…it is frightfully BORING.  2010 is  the same, but is a much more entertaining movie.  Contact is like 2010…a very smart movie, but a lot of SF fans I know find it uninteresting and tedious, at places.  2001′s popularity over time has much more to do with Stanley Kubrick’s visual language than Clarke’s story.  That’s not a slight on Clarke, just an observation that most people view 2001 as a Kubrick film first.

Prometheus has a lot of what Hitchcock referred to as ‘ice box logic’; plot points that don’t occur to you when watching the film, but do occur afterwards when you’re raiding the fridge.  In Hitchcock’s mind, if it doesn’t hit you until after the movie, he’d done his job.  

I think a large portion of Prometheus problem is the cache of it’s predecessor coupled with the originator of the franchise semi-returning to the fold set up expectations far beyond what the film would be capable of delivering.  Which isn’t an excuse for some of the film’s problems, just a thought that maybe the film wouldn’t be viewed so harshly if those particular situations didn’t exist.

I liked many of the effects too. Sparkly lights, wheeee! But the people and the monsters and the mess of the story got in the way.

But every time I sat back to just enjoy the show, they’d hit me over the head with some other massive stupidity and they just NEVER LET UP. I didn’t go looking for flaws. They rained down from the screen like the cinders from the burning tree in Avatar. And my gawd, I like Avatar better than this mess.

Is Kelvin not allowed on this voyage? Richard Smalley? Freeman Dyson? Come on!

Karma is bitch. Last night I writhed!

In New London, CT, I once took a tour of the first nuclear-powered sub. There were ashtrays in every freakin’ cabin.

prometheus is more of a sequel to gladiator than a prequel to aliens.

I guess my message would be: Try not to bring too much of what you want Prometheus to be into the theater. The first time you see the movie, your sense of what you want it to be and what it’s going to be could potentially override you just sitting back and watching it. And I do feel that at the very least, taking full responsibility for my own role in the writing of the film, it’s one of the most visually spectacular things that I’ve seen recently. It can be experienced as just something that washes over you if it’s possible for you to turn your brain off. I just hope people dig it.

(Bolding added.) See, all y’all need to just stop thinking so hard about it.

*this is your one hint about that, humans, and that’s all i’m saying about it.