Expelled Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere
| March 25, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
EXPELLED Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere
SANTA FE, N.M.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Something amazing happened yesterday. The controversy around Premise Media’s upcoming movie Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed became the hottest topic in the blogosphere. According to BlogPulse, a service of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, the issue held the number one slot throughout the day on Monday, March 24th (http://www.blogpulse.com). There were also over 800 results on Technorati (www.technorati.com).
“It is amazing to see the reaction of PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins and their cohorts when one of them is simply expelled from a movie. Yet these men applaud when professors throughout the nation are fired from their jobs and permanently excluded from their profession for mentioning Intelligent Design,” said producer Mark Mathis. Mathis was at the event that has raised this controversy.
Mathis continued, “I hope PZ’s experience has helped him see the light. He is distraught because he could not see a movie. What if he wasn’t allowed to teach on a college campus or was denied tenure? Maybe he will think twice before he starts demanding more professors be blacklisted and expelled simply because they question the adequacy of Darwin’s theory.”
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Blogpulse for Expelled stein”lists 1581 messages, about twice yesterday.
and Blogpulse for
expelled myers has 699 messages.
Then again, Mr.alan, the warped logic of darwinism is powerful enough to sway the naive into believing that if something shares a common feature with something else, then both had to have originated from the same source.
Maybe we shouldn’t be hard on those who are victims of such dangerous delusions.
DLH: How many of the “expelled stein” links trace back to topics other than the “Incident”? The top hit deals directly with it, as do a large of number of links. In fact a majority of the links I’ve looked over thus far deal with the Myers thing. You should also take account of the fact that there is significant overlap between the two sets of pages. Plus, a boolean search on “expelled AND stein NOT myers”
turns up 1364 results, which is odd considering that that presumably would exclude the ~700 of 1581 mentioning Myers (I’m being deliberately here). Obviously, blogpulse is not a reliable source of statistical data when you just plug search terms into it without taking account of how their database is structured or what search algorithms they’re using. A good example of Twain’s take on statistics.
Oh, and even excluding Myers while including Stein, you still end up with a bunch of links about the Myers incident. Go figure.
“Knowledge of convergent evolution is widespread. The notion made its way into American pop culture at least as early as the days of the Star Trek television series.”
Turner Coates you may enjoy Michael Denton’s NATURE’S DESTINY.
Any word on a UK release?
(I asked this before ages ago but no-one knew).
Over at Riddles, Timothy wrote a nice blog:
Blog Duel! Chess with Pigeons. Expelled illustrating recent evolander sophistry.