I accepted

I accepted the invitation to see Expelled. It was about what I expected.
I didn’t subject myself to that horrid movie since I’ve already seen it, but I did make sure to show up toward the end. I caught the last bit with the interview with Richard Dawkins. It’s hilarious. Ben Stein, horrid economist, understander of [...]

How inviting

I have been cordially invited to attend a viewing of Expelled at the University of Maine at Augusta campus on Tuesday, April 7 at 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. (You must be logged into Facebook to view.) Here is the event description.
We will be watching “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”
The debate over evolution is confusing [...]

Ebert Takes Stein to Task

A bit late, but Ebert has a review of the movie Expelled

Toward the end of the film, we find that Stein actually did want to title it “From Darwin to Hitler.” He finds a Creationist who informs him, “Darwinism inspired and advanced Nazism.” He refers to advocates of eugenics as liberal. I would not call [...]

Uncommon Descent

There’s been this big hub-bub among creationist conspiracists that “academic freedom” is being quashed by all those EVILutionists. That was the main theme of the movie Expelled and it even resulted in an anti-science bill being signed into law by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal (most states rejected such nonsense, fortunately). For those who are unfamiliar, [...]

Expelled corrected

Stop with the apologies

I recently visited the National Zoo in Washington D.C. It was somewhat late in the day so animal activity was down a bit, but it was still pretty interesting. The golden lion tamarin was by far the best animal in the park for me; what’s more, it was featured in quite a few exhibits (as [...]