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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Expelled Frozen Out in Canada

From Peter McKnight of the Vancouver Sun:

The makers of Expelled, including Ben Stein, have not let facts stand in the way of their anti-Darwin screed

McKnight goes on to describe how the producers quote-mined reality in making this film. To summarize, he notes

In effect, then, the producers are doing precisely what the Nazis did: Distorting Darwin's writing in order to justify their beliefs. On this point, there may be hope for [narrator/star Ben] Stein yet: When I alerted him to the alteration of the Darwin quote and read him the full passage, he said he was "kind of dismayed if that's true." He also said he would check it out, so I look forward to Stein disavowing at least that part of the movie.

I don't, however, expect the producers to disavow any part of the movie because their disdain for truth comes through loud and clear. Consequently, I'm not particularly bothered by the existence of Expelled. For it displays, in a way a movie review never could, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ID movement which, unable to construct a convincing argument, resorts to dishonesty and deceit.



posted by Cheryl Shepherd-Adams

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