Invoking journalistic ethics by saying he "adamantly" won't review Creation till it releases to theaters, Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert then went on to "review" Christians in a recent blog post from the Toronto International Film Festival.

Ebert had been to a screening of Creation, the ironically titled film about Charles Darwin, opening in the UK this month and in the U.S. sometime next year. Adhering to an unwritten critics' code to not review a film till it releases, Ebert goes on to voice a few observations about Christians, Darwin and more.

He noted that one member of the audience walked out shortly after a scene in the film in which Darwin walks out of a church during a sermon on Genesis 1 – the creation story. Ebert wonders: "Was he offended by the film? There's no way to say. There were an unusually large number of walk-outs, but who knows if they were leaving for theological reasons, or to get in line for the screenings of [other TIFF films], or because of boredom?"

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