Blogging against film promotion
February 6, 2008 – 10:08 am by William Wallace
Evolutionists at Panda’s thumb are still bellyaching about the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and how it is being released with a promotional campaign. (Gasp. In the United States of Amerika?)
They’ve most recently resorted to quoting an aspiring English major who has apparently never handled the business end of a garden rake—yet is waxing sophomoric about an unreleased film and intelligent design. The English major is possibly too busy plagiarizing Wesley R. Elsberry and scouring wikipedia’s Intelligent design articles to be bothered with yardwork. (Elsberry 2008), (PVM 2008), (Elias 2008)
But his piece, I.D. Rakes it in and Gets Rake in Face, makes for an entertaining read. Some whoppers include Aaron cautioning his audience:
Intelligent design is the belief that an intelligent being created the universe. This belief is promoted mainly by the Discovery Institute, not to be confused with the Discovery Channel…(Elias 2008)
Apparently, a common mistake among the demographic “people who wished they had stoned talking dogs” is to confuse Discovery Channel with Discovery Institute.
Recognizing the need for activist judges to determine what is and what is not science when school boards go wild, Aaron continues:
The [Discovery] Institute [and the Dover school board argued] that intelligent design is a scientific view and should therefore be taught in schools. Fortunately, the judge in Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School District thought otherwise. (Elias 2008)
Good thing Aaron’s majoring in English and not political science. He continues…
Maybe I’m only bashing the movie because I’m a left-wing, liberal hippie who drives the Mystery Machine with my stoned talking dog. I wish that were 100 percent true, but the fact of the matter is that the film has gathered support from the creationist end of the spectrum.(Elias 2008)
Yeah, certifiable progressive wingnut. Clearly, we’re dealing with a member of the church of liberalism. The creationist end of the spectrum is probably anticipating this film because it will expose to the general population how evolutionists suppress critical discussion of and dissent from the Theory of Evolution (T.o.E.). What frightens evolutionists most, however, is the film will also attract the attention of liberals concerned about academic freedom.
In closing, here are some other capitalistic promotions for the communists at Pandas Thumb to rail against:
- Nickelodeon has been promoting their upcoming film The Spiderwick Chronicles by providing free holographic book marks to young children at public libraries.
- Kemps milk offers schools $0.05 for each milk cap the schools collect with their Nickels for Schools program.
- Target offers kickbacks to schools (including private religious schools) with their Take Charge of Education program.
Sources
- Elias, Aaron (2-4-2008) I.D. Rakes it in and Gets Rake in Face
- PVM (2-4-2008) Expelled: I.D. Rakes it in and Gets Rake in Face
- Elsberry, Wesley R. (1-16-2008) Flunked, Not Expelled: Gaming the Movie Rating
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5 Responses to “Blogging against film promotion”
Sorry to break it to you, but scientists aren’t scared of the films release. The theory of evolution has been around for 150 years for a reason, and unless a better theory is proposed, and there hasn’t yet, it will be around for at least 150 more.
By Chad Estep on Feb 7, 2008
Thanks for stopping by and commenting Chad. I just did a search on this page for scientist, and its first occurance is in your post.
It appears to me that you might have confused scientists with my use of the term evolutionists. While some evolutionists are also scientists, not all scientists are evolutionists.1 Evolutionism in this context is very much akin to a religion—an institutionalized system of attitudes, beliefs, and practices—to paraphrase T.H. Huxley, a varying compound of some of the best and some of the worst elements of materialism and atheism, molded in practice by the innate character of certain individuals and organizations.
Most evolutionist activists, also known as T.o.E. thumpers or NCSE toadies, appear to be very afraid of the film’s release, as least judging by their reactions on the internet.
I speculate this is because some infamous attacks on academic and religious freedoms will be exposed in the film.
Here is a working definition of evolutionist as I use the term.
1This is not to say that most scientists disavow the theory of evolution. Most polls indicate that the overwhelming majority of scientists avow the theory of evolution, especially in the most relevant biological sciences.
By William Wallace on Feb 7, 2008
I see you’ve discovered the Pandas thumb. Feel free to argue there that your view is correct.
Unfortunately, as we will repeatedly point out to you, ID/ Creationism has no evidence, and they continually fail to produce any, eg at the Dover trial. Thus, they remain laughing stock, even amongst religious believers (of all the world religions) who also agree with the science behind evolutionary biology.
By guthrie on Feb 12, 2008
Pandas thumb mafia?
By William Wallace on Mar 2, 2008
Now Expelled is offering 10,000 to Christian schools only if they ‘mandate’ a trip to see the movies. How desperate can one be that one is willing to so clearly show that this is not about academic freedom but all about Christian religion.
Fortunately Ben Stein is honest enough to admit this. I appreciate such honesty, even though the product ‘Expelled’ seems to suffer from the same short comings as found in so many Intelligent Design creationist writings. Vacuous as a science and dangerous as a theology
By PvM on Mar 4, 2008