Expelled Exposed

ryan — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:03:32 +0000

Since I talked about it before, and a CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE EVOLUTIONARY APPARATUS DIRECTIVE exists, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point of that Expelled has a new counter-site aggregating the awful reviews and accounts for and about the movie.

Oh, and Overcompensating has good comic up today as well.

Dawkins Raps, You Laugh

ryan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:28:13 +0000

Thanks to Maitri, you get to see Richard Dawkins rap along with Sam Harris, Charles Darwin, and the rest of evolution’s Horsemen.

I’m still laughing at Christopher Hitchens with a blunt and the line, “Hell, if I was dyslexic, I’d hate dog too.” Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGgpGLxLQw

Know Your Enemy

ryan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:19:00 +0000

Slight backstory: There is a movie currently being screened for very select crowds called EXPELLED!, hosted by Ben Stein. It is, essentially, creationist propaganda about how colleges and universities are evil for promoting science and not religious dogma in their classes (here’s a trailer, if you have 8 minutes to sacrifice). It has, predictably, come under intense criticism from actual scientists for what it is; creationism dressed up as victimization. Yah know, the classical view that evolution is, as they say, the view that life is simply “mud animated by lightening.” The trailer even Godwin’s itself.

Anyway, as I said, they are screening this movie for very select audiences to build good grass-roots support for it. This basically means they hand-pick audiences of the Faithful to view the film or go to churches and show it there. They have been very wary of allowing anyone not on The List to see the film, which should send up red flags everywhere.

Last night, PZ Meyers, a biologist, associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and vocal critic of the creationist agenda, tried to see the film with his family. According to his blog, he registered for the event (as did everyone else attending), but was thrown out of line and then the theater property altogether before being able to enter the movie at the request of the producer.

The funny bit is who the producer (Mark Mathis) missed. You’d think that if one were so averse to allowing any potential critic into one’s movie, one would know all the major players to bar from one’s film. You’d be wrong because, although the producer knew Meyers, he didn’t know his friend, a friend who was able to enter and view the film. The friend? Richard Dawkins.

Yeah, good one guys. I bet your film is utter crap and I can’t wait for its vivisection.

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Expelled Exposed

Dawkins Raps, You Laugh

Know Your Enemy