Atheist Scientists in Uproar over Movie Showing Intolerance of Evidence for Intelligent Design

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | October 5, 2007

[monomaniac]

Atheist Scientists in Uproar over Movie Showing Intolerance of Evidence for Intelligent Design

EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Coming to Theatres in February 2008

LOS ANGELES, October 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  Atheist scientists who have become famous for attacking those who disagree with them are now loudly complaining about supposedly being mistreated in a film they haven't seen.

Oxford zoologist, Richard Dawkins, has made a lot of money and fame calling people who believe in God "delusional." Yet he is now grumbling that the producers of EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed "tricked" him into doing an interview. EXPELLED exposes the intimidation, persecution and career destruction that takes place when any scientist dares dissent from the view that all life on earth is the mere result of random mutation and natural selection.

"Some of these people -- especially Mr. Dawkins -- spend a lot of time insulting the millions of folks who disagree with them, so you would think they would have a little tougher skin," said Mark Mathis, one of the film's producers. "The funny thing is they are whining about the fact that the film is going to allow them to insult people on a much larger stage."

Other notable scientists who claim they were "deceived" by the producers of EXPELLED include Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education and PZ Myers, a biologist at the University of Minnesota, Morris, who devotes much of his time to his popular science blog.

Myers has attacked the film several times on his blog since EXPELLED announced its arrival in theaters in February 2008.

EXPELLED's producers say they aren't surprised by the academic uproar over the film because it is consistent with what happens on university campuses when students or professors question atheistic materialism.

"There is some serious mistreatment and downright reprehensible behavior going on here, but I can assure you it's not coming from us -- we're just the ones exposing it," said Executive Producer, Walt Ruloff. "When our audience sees the stories of the real victims of scientific malpractice they're going to be outraged."

The producers of EXPELLED are particularly amused by Dawkins's complaint that the name of the film was changed from "Crossroads" to "EXPELLED" suggesting that this re-naming was a deception. Dawkins is well aware of the fact that movie titles change. When he was interviewed for EXPELLED he made the comment that the title of his anti-religion documentary, "Root of all Evil?" was chosen as a replacement for the original title late in the process.

Additionally, Dawkins participates in the documentary "A War on Science," which is an attack on Intelligent Design (ID). Producers of that film presented themselves to the Discovery Institute as objective filmmakers and then portrayed the organization as religiously-motivated and anti- scientific.

"I've never seen a bigger bunch of hypocrites in my life," said Mathis, who set up the interviews for EXPELLED. "I went over all of the questions with these folks before the interviews and I e-mailed the questions to many of them days in advance. The lady (and gentleman) doth protest too much, methinks."

"Both Myers and Scott say they would have agreed to be interviewed under any circumstances, so why are they complaining?" said Ruloff. "In fact we had a second interview set up with Eugenie Scott, which she cancelled once rumors about EXPELLED began to circulate."

The legal releases all of the interviewees signed were quite explicit in regards to editorial control and transferability, something that is standard in the film business. Dawkins, Myers, Scott and many other scientists were paid for their interviews (Scott's check went to her organization, the National Center for Science Education).

EXPELLED's producers have made it clear the film will portray the scientists interviewed in a way that is consistent with their actual viewpoints or other public statements.

EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed is scheduled for release in February 2008. For more information on Ben Stein's journey visit http://www.expelledthemovie.com/

[muawiyah]

Problem with Dawkins is that he’s the quintessential whiner.

[damondonion]

Superb. We have something like 200,000,000 dead bodies lying around from this idea of a man’s neighbor being a meat byproduct of random events rather than a fellow child of God, and it’s way past time somebody called the idiots on it.

[Star Traveler]

Sounds like something I’ve got to see, along with the new Creation museum in Kentucky. W00T... LOL!

No, really, I’ve got to see them both... really, I mean it...

[HerrBlucher]

Crybaby athiests bump.

[Free Vulcan]

Whether you favor evolution or ID, bottom line is these atheists act like sniveling leftist bullies who can’t tolerate any dissent. If your theory is valid, it will speak for itself, and you don’t have to use totalitarian tactics to prove it’s validity.

If you can’t run with the dogs, don’t come out of the doghouse.

[Thumper1960]

Mr. Dawkins may know by now that God works in mysterious ways.

[joebuck]

Nothing like lots of free publicity to help out a flick.

[joebuck]

"Sounds like something I’ve got to see, along with the new Creation museum in Kentucky"

Going there next month on a Church outing.

[Coyoteman]

The "evidence" for ID is laid out in the Wedge Strategy.

A sample:

We are building on this momentum, broadening the wedge with a positive scientific alternative to materialistic scientific theories, which has come to be called the theory of intelligent design (ID). Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions....

Governing Goals

• To defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies.
• To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God.

No science there, except creation "science." And in fact, in the Dover decision, a federal judge determined that ID was creation "science" with the serial numbers filed off.

[woofer2425]

A MUST SEE for my wife and I.

[Evie Munchkin]

I’d love to see this movie and I wish it were being released earlier. My baby is due in early February, so it may be hard to get out of the house for a couple of hours.

[pray4liberty]

EXPELLED's producers say they aren't surprised by the academic uproar over the film because it is consistent with what happens on university campuses when students or professors question atheistic materialism.

That's the point right there. That's what they are afraid of. When the light of truth shines, the roaches scatter.

[Archon of the East]

Boo Hoo deal with it Dawkins.I love it when people feel they step all over others then whine like spoiled child when someone disagrees. But we are talking about leftists and Democrats.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"... when any scientist dares dissent from the view that all life on earth is the mere result of random mutation and natural selection."

Not even Charles Darwin believed that! The Theory of Evolution addresses the origin of species not the origin of life.

Meanwhile a new life form has been created in the lab -- which does seem to prove that Intelligent Design of lifeforms is feasible.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907889/posts

[Darkwolf377]

Yet he is now grumbling that the producers of EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed "tricked" him into doing an interview.

What's good enough for Michael Moore...

[Renderofveils]

Not even Charles Darwin believed that! The Theory of Evolution addresses the origin of species not the origin of life.

And follow that with a link to an article where scientists mutate an existing bacteria into another bacteria? That's not creation. That's mutation.

[scarface367]

We have something like 200,000,000 dead bodies lying around...

Ah yes, trot out the pathetic Darwin is responsible for all the world's evils nonsense. Why don't you just go ahead and blame Darwin for traffic jams, elevator music and the Broncos piss poor performance while your at it. It's only slightly less stupid to do so.

[grey_whiskers]

Meanwhile a new life form has been created in the lab -- which does seem to prove that Intelligent Design of lifeforms is feasible.

From the article in the Guardian:

The DNA sequence is based on the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium which the team pared down to the bare essentials needed to support life, removing a fifth of its genetic make-up. The wholly synthetically reconstructed chromosome, which the team have christened Mycoplasma laboratorium, has been watermarked with inks for easy recognition.

Plagiarism!

Cheers!

[FunkyZero]

Although these fellows deserve what they get, I do hope it is all quoted in context. We already have one too many Michael Moores. Not busting on the producers because I obviously haven’t seen it yet either, I just hope it is done fairly so the freaks can’t scream foul over it.