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On Friday 18 April 2008, the long awaited (by creationists) and long dreaded (by realists) movie, Expelled: No intelligence Allowed, opened in theaters in the United States.
Expelled Website
The whole film is poorly produced lie from start to finish (even FOX News panned it). The whole objective of the movie is to blame Darwin for all the evil perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The producers of the film (most notably Mark Mathis) obtained interviews from a number of prominent scientist including Richard Dawkins, P.Z. Myers and Eugenie Scott, all under false pretenses. They told these academics that they were making a film called Crossroads about the conflict between evolution and intelligent design, instead of the ID propaganda film they did make. They edited the interviews to make these people look sinister and evil.
Everybody off course knows who Prof. Dawkins is, however Prof. Myers is less well known. He is a prominent and prolific atheist and evolutionist blogger, that writes the blog Pharyngula.
In the weeks before the official opening of the film, there were free preview screenings of the film in various cities, the tickets of which could be obtained for free by booking online at the movie's website. These shows included one in Minneapolis on March 20 that Prof. Myers attended after doing the requisite online booking for himself and several guests.
When Prof. Myers attempted to enter the theater where the film was being shown, he was spotted by Mark Mathis and asked to leave the theater because he would be critical of the film. Unfortunately for the moron Mathis, he let through all of Prof. Meyers' guests, including....
wait for it...
...Richard Dawkins!!!
The obvious and delicious irony is of course that Prof. Myers was expelled from a screening of a film called Expelled, that is about academics supposedly being persecuted for holding dissenting views, for being an academic that holds a dissenting view. This incident and the Christian/ID response to it makes it clear as day that the producers of this film and the entire ID movement in general are liars and hypocrites. They have no evidence of their own, so they try to portray evolution as the cause of all genocides of the 20th century and then they try to silence and discredit those that call them on their lies.
Mathis for instance tried to tell people that Myers and Dawkins gate crashed the screening and that you and to be invited by the producers to attend. Once this lie was exposed, the denials and fabrications came thick and fast from all corners of the ID movement, but they were all exposed and have since fallen mostly silent, probably to prevent any further embarrassment.
I tried to find Mark Mathis' take on the events, but I could not locate it. Here is the Christianity Today report on the incident:
Dawkins Crashes 'Expelled' Party by Mark Moring
It seems that Mr. Moring has some integrity however, because he retracted many of the slanderous allegations against Proff. Myers and Dawkins when he got the correct facts. If you want to read more mind numbing propaganda by the film's producers, just go to the news section of the film's website.
It makes me sad (and bloody terrified) that so many people in the most powerful nation on Earth actually fall for this nonsense.
Prof. Myers made this blog entry from the Apple Store in The Mall of America while the film was being shown:
EXPELLED! by P.Z. Myers
Prof. Dawkins recounted the events and stated his views of them on his website:
Lying for Jesus by Richard Dawkins
Here is a video taken later on the evening of 20 March 2008 where Dawkins and Myers discussed the evening's events:
Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled
Here is the NY Times article on the incident (to add some objectivity):
No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film by Cornelia Dean
There are hundreds of other articles and blog entries all over the internet on this topic that you can read for further information. The creationists made their stupidity, incompetence and lack of ethics abundantly clear during this incident and its aftermath. I really cannot understand that these people and their allies can wield so much power in a modern 1st world nation. In a sane wold, these people would have been laughed of the stage the moment they started to speak and ridiculed for their moronic views. Hopefully America will soon come out of this nadir of religiously inspired stupidity.
What are your views on the incident?
ETA: Prof. Dawkins wrote a letter to "a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda", an actual person who was taken in by the lies in Expelled and wrote a rather nasty letter the Michael Shermer. He also put it online as a form letter to any person fooled by the film (after changing the name).
Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda by Richard Dawkins
Expelled Website
The whole film is poorly produced lie from start to finish (even FOX News panned it). The whole objective of the movie is to blame Darwin for all the evil perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The producers of the film (most notably Mark Mathis) obtained interviews from a number of prominent scientist including Richard Dawkins, P.Z. Myers and Eugenie Scott, all under false pretenses. They told these academics that they were making a film called Crossroads about the conflict between evolution and intelligent design, instead of the ID propaganda film they did make. They edited the interviews to make these people look sinister and evil.
Everybody off course knows who Prof. Dawkins is, however Prof. Myers is less well known. He is a prominent and prolific atheist and evolutionist blogger, that writes the blog Pharyngula.
In the weeks before the official opening of the film, there were free preview screenings of the film in various cities, the tickets of which could be obtained for free by booking online at the movie's website. These shows included one in Minneapolis on March 20 that Prof. Myers attended after doing the requisite online booking for himself and several guests.
When Prof. Myers attempted to enter the theater where the film was being shown, he was spotted by Mark Mathis and asked to leave the theater because he would be critical of the film. Unfortunately for the moron Mathis, he let through all of Prof. Meyers' guests, including....
wait for it...
...Richard Dawkins!!!
The obvious and delicious irony is of course that Prof. Myers was expelled from a screening of a film called Expelled, that is about academics supposedly being persecuted for holding dissenting views, for being an academic that holds a dissenting view. This incident and the Christian/ID response to it makes it clear as day that the producers of this film and the entire ID movement in general are liars and hypocrites. They have no evidence of their own, so they try to portray evolution as the cause of all genocides of the 20th century and then they try to silence and discredit those that call them on their lies.
Mathis for instance tried to tell people that Myers and Dawkins gate crashed the screening and that you and to be invited by the producers to attend. Once this lie was exposed, the denials and fabrications came thick and fast from all corners of the ID movement, but they were all exposed and have since fallen mostly silent, probably to prevent any further embarrassment.
I tried to find Mark Mathis' take on the events, but I could not locate it. Here is the Christianity Today report on the incident:
Dawkins Crashes 'Expelled' Party by Mark Moring
It seems that Mr. Moring has some integrity however, because he retracted many of the slanderous allegations against Proff. Myers and Dawkins when he got the correct facts. If you want to read more mind numbing propaganda by the film's producers, just go to the news section of the film's website.
It makes me sad (and bloody terrified) that so many people in the most powerful nation on Earth actually fall for this nonsense.
Prof. Myers made this blog entry from the Apple Store in The Mall of America while the film was being shown:
EXPELLED! by P.Z. Myers
Prof. Dawkins recounted the events and stated his views of them on his website:
Lying for Jesus by Richard Dawkins
Here is a video taken later on the evening of 20 March 2008 where Dawkins and Myers discussed the evening's events:
Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled
Here is the NY Times article on the incident (to add some objectivity):
No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film by Cornelia Dean
There are hundreds of other articles and blog entries all over the internet on this topic that you can read for further information. The creationists made their stupidity, incompetence and lack of ethics abundantly clear during this incident and its aftermath. I really cannot understand that these people and their allies can wield so much power in a modern 1st world nation. In a sane wold, these people would have been laughed of the stage the moment they started to speak and ridiculed for their moronic views. Hopefully America will soon come out of this nadir of religiously inspired stupidity.
What are your views on the incident?
ETA: Prof. Dawkins wrote a letter to "a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda", an actual person who was taken in by the lies in Expelled and wrote a rather nasty letter the Michael Shermer. He also put it online as a form letter to any person fooled by the film (after changing the name).
Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda by Richard Dawkins
