If you are looking for examples of intolerance, look no further.
Poor PZ…associate professor Paul Zachary Myers over at the University of Minnesota has his knickers in a twist over the film EXPELLED, again. He hasn’t seen it, (it isn’t out yet) he clearly doesn’t understand the film’s premise – but he sure seems hell-bent on making sure that his readers don’t go to see it with an open mind!
And we think that we know why.
Paul is one of the stars in the film EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed. He’s probably remembering all of the things that he said on camera, when we interviewed him and faithfully recorded it all. That couldn’t be making him feel very good.
When the film comes out in April – we think that he’s going to have some explaining to do – and his handlers at Big Science aren’t going to be very happy with what they see and hear him say. The same goes for fellow-traveler professor Richard Dawkins, the atheist author of “The God Delusion.” He’s definitely going to be in trouble with Big Science too, once the film comes out. The truth sometimes hurts.
Big Science doesn’t like it when they can’t control the message: it’s why we made EXPELLED.
Now it appears that the associate professor Myers is regretful, and lashing out against the film again in his modest science-blog, “Pharyngula,” attempting to mitigate the inevitable criticism of his performance, in advance. His latest is a vein-popping, eyes – bulging, 3,000 word, eleven-screen diatribe posted on his website, a “critique” of a simple eight-hundred word editorial that the producers of EXPELLED wrote on Darwin Day.
From his lengthy, over-the-top screed, we can’t really sort out what it is that upset him so, but one thing is painfully obvious: he is literally sweating over the upcoming release of our film.
As well he should be.
But a three thousand –-word “analysis” of a simple eight hundred word movie-blog editorial seems like a strange way for a university-employee to be spending his time, to us. It may be he just doesn’t have enough to do… we can’t be sure. But one gets the feeling that associate professor Myers isn’t used to the idea of having to listen to folks who disagree with his gloomy, state-sponsored neo-Darwinian version of materialistic science.
Which is of course the precise point we make in “EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed.” It’s called freedom of speech.
Can anyone even imagine a tenured professor at a reputable university spending so much time obsessing over a film that he hasn’t even seen? That won’t even be released until April!
You would think that a supporter of academic freedom would welcome a well publicized point-of-view that challenged the reigning orthodoxy in his area of supposed expertise. And one would hope that a fair-minded associate professor would at least pay his readers and students the intellectual courtesy of seeing the film, before coming unglued over it in public. Apparently not. This is maybe the fifth time that the idle professor has written negatively about EXPELLED on his blogsite.
We wonder – why are the disciples of Big Science so unnerved by the mere prospect of a simple documentary film? What have they got to hide?
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