
The 9/11 Truth movement is dying, people are realizing the utter bankruptcy of these morons in black and truthers are fast becoming nothing but fodder for jokes. But there is certainly no lack of silly ideas floating around in the American tableau.
When it comes to overt stupidity few can match the 9/11 truth community, but their brothers in anti science nonsense, the creationist. You have no doubt been hearing a lot about a movie called “Expelled” staring Ben Stein. Another one of those “conspiracy” movies, unlike the plethora of 9/11 conspiracy movies this one claims the big bad scientific community conspired to keep Intelligent Design out of the classroom and are keeping the “truth” of creation from the general public. The idea a group of people would take the word of an economist like Stein on biological science is just as loony as thuthers believing the insights of a theologian like David Ray Griffin on the subject of structural engineering.
Few don’t know this movie had a working title called “Crossroads” and the producer Mark Mathis went as far as to create a production company with it’s own web site to hide the fact the film was going to be a hit piece on evolution. Using the Crossroads title producers started interviewing leading scientist, well that is until word got out that “Crossroads” was actually going to be Premise Media’s ” Expelled”. Wow, Odd behavior for people who claim to be honest god fearing Christians, right? Nearly all the scientists who appear in Expelled including PZ Meyers, Richard Dawkins, Eugenie Scott and Michael Shermer say they were misled from the beginning about the subject of the film.
The film started to show up at test showing, with most of the tickets being distributed through various religious/creationist organizations. You would think that being in the film would guarantee one an invite but many of the scientist who were now in the film were NOT invited, you could say the were “Pre-Expelled”. This came to a rather comical head in what has been called the “Good Friday Fiasco”. PZ Myers found out where invites to the test screenings could be had and requested tickets to a showing of the film, and he did receives the invites for himself and his guest, BUT, while standing in line to get in he was asked to leave! Well PZ certainly DID see the humor in this! and being one of the country’s most popular bloggers he got out his laptop, found a Wi-Fi connection and stared to blog about being Expelled from Expelled. right then and there while the movie was screened.
BUT… and this is the good part… one of Myers’s guest was none other than British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, popular science writer and Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins. He was allowed into the movie. Word is that producer Mark Mathis turned rather pail when Dawkins stood up to ask his questions during a question and answer session. The creationist are now trying to claim that by using his real name Clinton Richard Dawkins he was deliberately deceitful. Oh the irony.
So Dawkins got to see the movie and review it. Lying for Jesus? by Richard Dawkins
For more on this turkey of a movie see Expelled Exosed, Flunked, NOT Expelled