Producer: US Not Ready for Darwin Film

The producer of a British film about Charles Darwin says he has been unable to find a U.S. distributor for the movie because Darwin's theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to the Daily Mail .

"Creation," details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote his 1859 book "On The Origin of Species." The film depicts Darwin as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.

The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has been sold to almost every country around the world.

However, U.S. distributors have turned down the film and producer Jeremy Thomas thinks it's because "religion rules America."

"It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. There's still a great belief that He made the world in six days," Thomas said. "It's quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the U.S., outside of New York and L.A., religion rules."

According to a Gallup poll conducted in February , only 39 percent of Americans believe in Darwin's theory of evolution.

Many American schools were teaching both evolution and creation science in the mid 1990s, but in recent years, the emphasis has been on encouraging teachers and students to be skeptical of the theory of evolution. In 1999 Kansas officially rejected Darwin's Theory of Evolution and eliminated it from teaching curriculums. The state's board of education reaffirmed the decision in 2005.

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