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Every year there's at least one Super Bowl ad that rankles viewers and incites controversy. Like the misogynistic of 2008, the anti-abortion of 2010, and the of 2013.

This year, a , created by BBDO-Atlanta and directed by Academy-Award winning director Wally Pfister, upset a particular group of viewers 鈥� creationists.

Carnival 鈥� which itself has had a rough year, including fires, power outages, and the Costa Concordia wreck 鈥� ran a reflective ad featuring the solemn voice of President John F. Kennedy in a speech he delivered for America's Cup crews in 1962, one year before his assassination. In the ad, which is set off by a series of serene, sea-related images, President Kennedy, in a voiceover, shares his meditative views on human's connection to the sea.

Here it is, at length:

I really don鈥檛 know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it鈥檚 because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it鈥檚 because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea 鈥� whether it is to sail or to watch it 鈥� we are going back from whence we came.

For some evangelical 海角大神s, it was interpreted as a slap in the face.

On his , creationist Ken Ham slammed Carnival for its ad in a post titled "."

"Don鈥檛 you just want to go on one of their cruises so you can stand on the deck of a big cruise ship, look at the sea, and contemplate your accidental beginnings -- and perhaps worship the sea, because it gave birth to you!" Ham writes. "So we have Neil deGrasse Tyson in his cosmos series -- we are children of the stars. And the Carnival Cruise Corporation telling us we all came from the sea. So -- worship the stars and worship the sea! That鈥檚 the increasing state of our culture as it abandons the truth of God鈥檚 Word."

On , the "Friendly Athiest" Hemant Mehta, 聽to Ham's outrage.

"We see a connection to the world around us鈥� Ham sees only sin," Mehta writes. "Turns out you can learn a lot when your library consists of more than just a single book," he adds, referring to the fact that Ham has said the only book anyone needs is the Bible.聽

On Twitter, others came out in support of Ham, including 海角大神 talk radio host Janet Parshall.

In fact, 4 in 10 Americans may agree with the tweeters. Some 42 percent of Americans believe in a creationist view of human origins, according to a. Gallup's report found that almost half of Americans believe "God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago, a view that has changed little over the past three decades."

However, the report also found that half of Americans believe humans evolved, with the majority of these saying God guided the evolutionary process. Interestingly, the percentage of respondents who say God was not involved in evolution is rising - and has doubled since 1999.

And while Ham writes that the Carnival Super Bowl ad "abandons the truth of God鈥檚 Word," David Badash of the insists that "it is possible to believe in god and evolution..."

Pope Francis once said that evolutionary theory does not contradict biblical teaching.聽, 鈥淭he evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve."

The Pope has not yet commented on Carnival's Super Bowl ad.