Posted on May 9 at 6:05 p.m.

JWhite asked: "Why does it not say who wrote this?"

Possibly because it's another Dishonesty Institute press release, lying about the bogus "Expelled" movie, and they don't want you to know that.

Oh, and the reason the movie is "(No longer playing locally.)" is because it was such a failure - it earned less than half what the producers predicted, and over half the theaters initially showing it have yanked it after only two weeks.

See http://www.expelledexposed.com for the truth about this pitiful piece of creationist propaganda.

And yes, Ben Stein is right: Biologists who support intelligent design creationism over evolution ARE "expelled," just as doctors who support the Demonic-Possession theory of disease are "expelled," just as mathematicians who support 2+2=3 are "expelled," just as geologists who support a 6,000-year-old Earth and a 4,000-year-old Grand Canyon are "expelled." Get the picture? As the Dover Federal trial judge ruled in 2005, intelligent design creationism has much more to do with religion than science. In fact there's no science there at all: no theory, no testable hypothesis, just an "argument from ignorance" and wishful thinking.

On ‘Expelled’ shows danger of suppressing inquiry in the science world

Posted on July 20 at 11:45 a.m.

Jake, you've blown the lid off the dirty little secret of intelligent design creationism: You're never supposed to admit in public that the "intelligent designer" is God.

The whole point of changing the name of "creationism" to "intelligent design" was so creationists could get around the minor detail called separation of church and state, so they could teach the book of Genesis in public school biology classes. Unfortunately that doesn't work.

In 1987, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Edwards v. Aguillard that creationism could not be taught in public schools. In the 2005 Dover trial in Pennsylvania, Judge John Jones ruled "We have concluded that (intelligent design) is not [science], and moreover that (intelligent design) cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents." Intelligent design creationism is not science - it's religion.

And if you want to discuss "Biblical truths" (remember, you brought this up), please contemplate the factuality of a talking snake (Genesis 3:1-5) and a talking donkey (Numbers 22:28-30); or the morality of ethnic cleansing (Joshua 6:21) or polygamy (King David and others) or incest (Lot and his daughters); the report that insects have four legs (Leviticus 11:20-23), that bats are birds or that Pi is equal to 3.000 (I Kings 7:23)? Do you understand why the Bible cannot be considered a useful source of technical information?

Essentially all the supporters and defenders of intelligent design creationism are overtly or covertly religious - not scientific - organizations. These anti-science evolution deniers - some of whom believe the earth was created in 4004 BC - also deny all the findings of biology and geology and astronomy and paleontology and every other science showing the great age of the universe and the earth and the evolution of life.

On the other hand, essentially every scientific organization - the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Center for Science Education, and many others have declared that intelligent design creationism is religion, not science. Many of these organizations have prepared position papers, available on the internet, explaining their position.

For anybody who wants to understand the true nature and goals of the intelligent design creationism movement, please read
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/uploa.... Philip Johnson, one of the originators of the intelligent design creationism movement has stated, "This isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science. It's about religion."

On Everything had to come from something