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Josh at work Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is formerly a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not battling creationists or modeling species ranges, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.

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    « In which I reject the sage advice of my elders | Main | More Expelled reviews »

    Too stupid for words

    Category: CreationismCulture Wars
    Posted on: March 21, 2008 12:26 AM, by Josh Rosenau

    If you make a movie that falsely claims there's a massive conspiracy to expel dissenting voices, it's probably unwise to then expel dissenting voices.

    And if you are going to pass photographs around to security guards and instruct them that certain people are threats to your movie, and must be expelled, you might as well have the guards be on the lookout not only for PZ Myers, an innocuous professor from a small liberal arts college in the backwoods of Minnesota, but also for the biologist, best-selling author of numerous books, and TV star Richard Dawkins. Just on the off chance that Dawkins will be in town at a prominently advertised conference for atheists and accompanying the mild-mannered professor to a screening of the hack movie you tricked both men into appearing in.

    Not that you would ever do such a thing. But the producers of Expelled: No Intelligence sure did.

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    HYS-terical. They make it way too easy.

    Posted by: ckennedy | March 22, 2008 9:11 AM

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