Expelled: can anyone spell hypocrisy?
Just a quick post for one of the funniest things I’ve seen for ages.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a creationist movie, written by Ben Stein. The official site makes for rather bizarre reading, with ‘No Intelligence Allowed’ plastered all over the site, apparently with no ironic intent. The movie is apparently about those brave put-upon martyrs who are frozen out by teh ebil evolutionist science overlords for expressing their creationist views.
Anyway, the great PZ Meyers, creator of the Pharyngula blog and evolutionary biologist was to go to this movie since he appears in it, along with Richard Dawkins (their cooperation was gained under false pretenses, but that’s another story). He is also a well known atheist. Perhaps too well known, since PZ Meyers was expelled from the theatre by security prior to to screening. I would have been incredulous and indignant, but PZ took his banishment with good grace. Probably because his guest for the screening and his family, who were all allowed in to the screening, was none other than Richard Dawkins himself!
Read all about it here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php
ETA, a conversation between PZ Meyers and Richard Dawkins about the incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39jYgsvUOY
Tags: Ben Stein, creationist, expelled, Pharyngula, PZ Meyers, Religion, Richard Dawkins
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March 22, 2008 at 6:33 am
That is easily one of the funniest things ever written. Why make a movie professing to give an “underrepresented viewpoint” its due then commit the very same act? Clearly they just want to build hype for the film before they incur the inevitable flood of bad PR. Then they can claim to be “unfairly attacked” by the leftist atheists again.
This is Absurd
March 22, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Interesting…