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