Blue Collar Scientist

My pal over at Dinosaurs and the Bible: A Creationist’s Fairy Tale is hosting an Expelled carnival, including posts from around the blogosphere offering tons of reading about this Nazi propaganda movie¹. It is up as of a few minutes ago - go check out To Hell with Expelled!

And thanks for getting my submissions in even though I sent them in way late!

1. Er, wait - did that come out right? Hmm. Not sure I care. [↩]

Never challenge stork theory. It can only get you in trouble.

Hat tip to loyal reader Scott Hurst, who I met at TAM 5.5 earlier this year.

If you haven’t heard - and really, if you are learning of this here, you really should read some other blogs - the makers of Expelled, a propaganda movie claiming that science professors kick intelligent design creationists out of classes, lectures, and discussions of evolution in order to censor debate, have kicked a science professor out of a screening of their movie in oder to censor debate.

Repeat after me: HYPOCRITES!

What’s truly baffling about this is that they kicked out PZ Myers, but they let his guest in. His guest? Richard Dawkins. You know, the virulently anti-intelligent design guy who even wrote a book called The God Delusion. Nobody could write fiction this good.

Repeat after me: DUMBASSES!

The movie also apparently claims that frail bespectacled science professors sitting in their offices and writing letters to one another were responsible for the murder of six million Jews in Nazi Germany.

Repeat after me: Deplorably disrespectful of the millions of people alive today who lost family as a result of a genocidal Christian dictator and his devout henchmen. These intelligent design creationists are just uncivilized for suggesting such a thing.

Greg Laden, from whom I’ve lifted the images, has a running mini-carnival of posts about this. If you haven’t heard the story, it should be enough to convince you that (a) intelligent design creationists are radical religious extremists, and (b) religious extremism is inherently silly, at least when it isn’t deadly.