Commentaries on Our World

Expelled from Expelled

Sometimes the real world is funnier than contrived comedies. This past week we have PZ Myers http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ and his Guests attending the showing of Expelled http://www.expelledthemovie.com at the Mall of America, he confirmed his attendance at a website where he received confirmation by e-mail from the Expelled people. So far son Normal.

Next scene is PZ Myers and his guests standing in line to enter the cinema, before signing in, when a policeman pulled him out of line. It was explained that he was a trouble maker and had to leave the premises. This is even more curious when you discover that PZ Myers is interviewed in the movie and his guests were his wife and daughter and Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist, author of The God Delusion

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) who is arguably the biggest trouble maker in the anti-ID (Intelligent Design) movement. Locally PZ Myers is probably easily recognised as it is his home turf, internationally Dawkins is a well know.

The upshot was, PZ missed out and went over to an Apple dealership and vented his spleen at his blog.

Dawkins and PZ's Family entered and watched the show, Dawkins made himself known by asking a question, and the consequences have been flowing since on both sides. You can follow it through the two above links where other links to the ID movement response can be found. All in all it is yet another chapter to the Creationist/Evolution dichotomy that seems to concentrate in the US.

What do you think?