Apr 16 2008
Expelled Exposed Goes Live
On Wednesdays I post a blog entry over at Science-Based Medicine. My time does not allow writing two blog entries for one day, and I have chosen not to cross-post so that the comments will be contained under the single blog entry. So I have mostly just left Wednesdays empty here on NeuroLogica. But I am going to try a new strategy – I will post a brief entry on Wednesday that will mostly point to another blog post or a news item of interest, with brief commentary by me.
This week’s Wednesday News Item is Expelled Exposed – a website dedicated to exposing all the falsehoods and shenanigans surrounding the Expelled ID propaganda movie. I have mentioned this site before but yesterday Expelled Exposed went “live” with their official format and full content.
Check it out – there is a ton of great content on the site, all conveniently in one place. The website is a project of the National Center for Science Education run by Eugenie Scott, a tireless advocate for science education. The site also promises to be updated frequently with new information and links – so visit often.
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It’s unfortunate that the site is having technical difficulties. I was able to read about half the site before they had to revert back to the old one, and it was well-written.
We overwhelmed them with high traffic. They are fixing it. But the content is still there.
I had no problem accessing the site and read everything linked except 3-4 I’d already read.
Talk about shooting oneself in the foot. Only the ID choir will find any value in Expelled.
My brother-in-law, a born again Christian and “on the fence” regarding evolution vs. ID, saw the film and came away disgusted at what he termed “blatant propanganda”. He’s a retired district attorney in rural eastern North Carolina and deeply in tune with evangelical Christianity, but reported feeling embarrassed for his religion by the film. He said the attorney in him recognized tactics he’d seen often from defense attorneys who didn’t have a case and had to resort to semantics, trickery, and misrepresentations, if not out an out perjury. He said any idea that depends on outright lying and deceit is both intellectually and morally bankrupt. (I resisted the urge to pull out a Bible and apply his statement to Christianity in general).
With Expelled, the IDiots have provided, free of charge, a mountain of material with which pro-evolution debaters may beat them about the ears for years. Huge mistake. Not to mention a delicious irony: this film contributes to the dwindling chances of ID surviving as an idea, a victim of intellectual natural selection.
ID = Dodo.
I had said in a previous thread and paraphrase again here:
The best way to discredit a creationist is to simply let him speak.
I have to highlight my favourite part of the site:
The Claim
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Michael Egnor says in Expelled that he expected criticism, but was shocked by the “viciousness” and “baseness” of the response.
The Facts
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Michael Egnor had apparently never been on the Internet before.
I laughed out loud at that.