Merit-bound Alley

Yes, I’ve had to section this one out due to length.

Hopefully in Part I, I’ve successfully imparted the fact that intelligent design is not science and therefore does not belong in the science classroom. Now, it is time to move on to discuss the Premise Media movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and how, before it has even been released, this most wretched propaganda piece has exemplified every aspect of the lies, ignorance, and misdirection that the ID leadership exhibits to further their cause.

Expelled is a pro-ID movie produced by Mark Mathis that purports to shed light on the active expulsion of pro-ID “scientists” by the monolithic and atheist (ooh, scary) “Big Science”. It presents multiple cases of people who have supposedly lost their jobs and standing in the scientific community due to their support of ID.

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One of the things that I detest about religion in America is it’s willful ignorance and hostility towards science. This is most vividly fronted in the creationist doctrine of intelligent design, and an upcoming movie called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. I wasn’t planning on covering this, as it’s been done on some 40 other blogs and frankly the subject is beneath my contempt, but the idiocy of intelligent design and the slimy and underhanded tactics of the movement’s “leadership” have pissed me off enough to merit some writing time. In other words, I need to vent my spleen.

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