Editor’s Note: Questions have been raised about the origination of some of the animation used in our movie EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed.  Claims that we have used any animation in an unauthorized manner are simply false.  Premise Media created the animation that illustrates cellular activity used in our film.

The globe’s leading Big Science atheist is ‘shocked! Shocked!’

 Anyone reading this blog who isn’t aware of the dustup that occurred at the Mall of America somewhere in Minnesota this past Friday must not be a reader of the New York Times (or any of the teeming millions of ‘mom and pop’ atheist/Darwinist / boffin blogs that are all atwitter about it and still writing well into the night.) The controversy around Premise Media’s upcoming movie Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed became the hottest topic in the blogosphere. According to BlogPulse, a service of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, the issue held the number one slot throughout the day on Monday, March 24th

Suffice it to say that getting caught sneaking into a movie is apparently a much, much bigger deal in Minnesota than it is in the rest of the country.

But we understand. What could possibly be more depressing than finding yourself with nothing to do, in town for an atheist’s convention, …in Minnesota of all places? Imagine traveling all the way from England to pal around with an assistant biology professor – and then finding out that your host is a would-be gangsta of sorts? Desperate times call for desperate measures.

If you want to read a highly entertaining, frothy and fairly apoplectic 3,500 word rant (Lying For Jesus?) about what supposedly happened, written by the more famous of the two ‘perps’ – the one whose claim-to-fame is that he successfully ‘snuck in’ to the invitation-only screening of the soon to be released movie “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed – you can read the unapologetic (if decidedly rabid) version written by that famous Oxford professor and “God Delusion’ author Richard “Clinton” Dawkins himself. (Warning – some language may not be suitable for children.) Keep in mind that he got caught red-handed and was then seriously upbraided in the Q&A follow-up by the film’s talented Assistant Producer Mark Mathis - and so ‘Clint’s’ account must necessarily be taken with a grain of salt.

Or if you want to read a more level-headed (if still not quite ‘fair and balanced’) account, you can click here for The New York Times version (No admission for biologist) of what some are now calling the Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. The once fabled Grey Lady of journalism is not what she used to be, but then again – former President Nixon’s ‘Watergate’ started with a simple report of an attempted ‘break-in, too. So you never know. You just never know.

If on the other hand you prefer the account written by the ‘perp’ who got away – the alleged ‘mastermind’ of the caper and the one who actually claims to feel ‘mighty’ about it (his attempted gate-crashing) but who was unceremoniously frog-marched out of the mall by a local rent-a-cop before he could perpetrate…then the assistant professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris’s bi-polar tale of ennui and ecstasy is the one for you .

Now – by all accounts – what most would consider a business-as-usual kerfuffle is in fact turning out to be a bona fide ‘international incident’ of great and momentous import. One fellow has even taken it upon himself to painstakingly compile a growing list of over forty (count ‘em!) individual URL’s of blogsters who have weighed in.Songs are being written. Screenplays are in the works. The mind boggles.

Most of us, however, haven’t yet finished reading even a tenth of Professor Dawkins’ screed alone, and so – since we weren’t there – we are not about to try and recap, regurgitate or rebut any of the no-doubt well intentioned but dauntingly disparate accounts from the dizzying array of eyewitnesses, passersby, spectators, pundits or perpetrators.

We wouldn’t know where to begin. Seriously. But we are concerned about Professor Dawkins and Mini Me…they seem to be awfully agitated, and we think that we know why. Remember, fellahs: it’s a free country.

– Deacon Blue