Re: In the News: Expelled producers offer PZ free popcorn
- From: Glend <interelectromagnetic@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:06:54 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 31, 12:47 pm, jspace...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From the article:
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Reel News has been reporting about the upcoming documentary Expelled
and the controversy it's generated for weeks now, but we're hardly the
only ones. Last week, Expelled was the most blogged-about topic on the
Web, says BlogPulse, a Nielsen service.
Though the Ben Stein-narrated movie doesn't open in theaters until
April 18, it has already become the most controversial movie of the
year after noted atheist PZ Myers was booted from a recent screening
of the film in Minneapolis. Associate producer Mark Mathis sees some
irony here. "It is amazing to see the reaction of PZ Myers, Richard
Dawkins and their cohorts when one of them is simply expelled from a
movie. Yet these men applaud when professors throughout the nation are
fired from their jobs and permanently excluded from their profession
for mentioning Intelligent Design."
"I hope PZ's experience has helped him see the light," Mathis
continued "He's distraught because he could not see a movie," noted
Mathis. "What if he wasn't allowed to teach on a college campus or was
denied tenure? Maybe he'll think twice before he starts demanding more
professors be blacklisted and expelled simply because they question
the adequacy of Darwin's theory."
Executive producer Logan Craft added, "We can't wait for all
Americans, including our friend PZ Myers, to see the film when it
opens. We'll even throw in some free popcorn for PZ if he'll tell us
which theater he'll be attending."
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Read it athttp://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/news/blog-080331.html
J. Spaceman
He sees the irony, and yet he is the source of the irony--expelling
people from the movie which supposedly will foster dialog and
openness. Of course, for the truly inept who wouldn't understand
Mathis's hypocrisy, Mathis went ahead and wrote one of the most
blatant lies possible, "...We expell [sic] no one." Here it is in
context:
"Yes, I turned Mr. Myers away. He was not an invited guest of Premise
Media. This was a private screening of an unfinished film. I could
have let him in, just as I invited Michael Shermer to a screening in
Nashville. Shermer is in the film as well. But, in light of Myers'
untruthful blogging about Expelled I decided it was better to have him
wait until April 18 and pay to see the film. Others, notable others,
were permitted to see the film. At a private screening it's my call.
"Unlike the Darwinist establishment, we expell [sic] no one."
In fact, we expel none but the unruly, unlike Mathis. We don't need
to expel people for asking questions like the IDiots do. But yes,
those who can't do science get a failing grade in science, in our
continuing efforts to keep an honest educational system.
OK, I realize this is mostly obvious stuff. It's just that we have to
keep answering these morons each time they tell their special little
lies. And since they mostly don't willingly allow responses to their
claims, either at the theaters or at their "press conferences," we
must do so on the open forums, which always end up exposing the lies
of IDiots like Mathis.
Glen Davidson
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
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