Comments on: EXPELLED makes front page of NYTimes

By: Imagine no Religulous

Imagine no Religulous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:17:54 +0000

[...] Dawkins told The New York Times that Expelled was misrepresented to him, and that he would not have taken part, had he known Ben Stein’s sympathies. But [...]

By: Expelled!: A chat with Walt Ruloff, plus some thoughts interspersed | Uncommon Descent

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:08:56 +0000

[...] The Darwinists have all the pop science journalists on auto dial. They need only ring them up and bitch. Indeed, that is precisely what Richard Dawkins did. One might have expected a professor of the [...]

By: Expelled: Why are Americans allowed to care so much about freedom?, and other thoughts | Uncommon Descent

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:03:16 +0000

[...] broken the story of its existence last August. I watched it pitch and roll through accusations of trickery, a threatened lawsuit over plagiarism and a real one over intellectual property, production delays [...]

By: Larry Fafarman

Larry Fafarman — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:10:59 +0000

In press conferences, do politicians ever ask a questioner’s reason for asking a question? Wouldn’t the politicians sound silly if their first response was, “why do you ask?” And politicians get into big trouble for giving different answers to the same question. These Darwinists are making themselves look foolish by whining that they were “misled.” I have already taken the Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskin to task for denying Monkey Girl author Edward Humes a full interview.

By: russ

russ — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:35:19 +0000

http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bi.....ow+Winners

The above URL will take you to the Pulitzer Prize page for NY Times reporter, Walter Duranty. Duranty made a name for himself whitewashing the “Terror Famine” created by Stalin to starve millions of Ukrainians for resisting collectivization. Duranty was blackmailed (it was later discovered) into reporting in the NY Times that Ukrainians were doing just fine, without mentioning that “Uncle Joe’s” government was confiscating their food.

This is the legacy of the NY Times, that they have never (as far as I know) surrendered the Prize won by publishing propaganda in service of Stalin’s genocide.

By: PaV

PaV — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:35:18 +0000

Tina said:
Mr Dawkins says,”At no time was I given the slightest clue that these people were a creationist front”.

Does that make Ben Stein a Jewish “creationist”?

From the article:

Dr. Scott said, adding that she would have appeared in the film anyway. “I just expect people to be honest with me, and they weren’t.”

I want everyone’s help here as I try to understand what Dr. Scott meant. Does she mean that had she known the interview was for an ID friendly movie-maker she wouldn’t have participated? No. She says she would have participated anyway. So, why did she want to know who the movie makers were? Are we to assume that she would have said things differently? If the answer to that question is “Yes”, then it sounds like there are at least “two” versions of what Dr. Scott would say about evolution on camera: one for ID-unfriendly movie makers; and one for ID-friendly movie makers. The question I need your help with is this: Does all of this imply that despite the fact that Dr. Scott protests she wants people to be honest with her, that she has two versions of Darwinism she tells depending on the questioner?

If, OTOH, the answer to the above question was “No”, that her answers regarding Darwinism wouldn’t have changed in the least, then why does she complain that she felt the movie makers weren’t being honest with her? I wonder if Dr. Scott is being honest with herself.

By: late_model

late_model — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:58:55 +0000

Is Dawkins classifying anyone who believes in a god acting in history as a creationist? Is Ben Stein a creationist? I know he Jewish but is he a creationist or does he believe in a higher power?

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:18:14 +0000

Mr Dawkins says,”At no time was I given the slightest clue that these people were a creationist front”.

Well I say, “He’ll just have to learn the hard way what Research means!”

By: idnet.com.au

idnet.com.au — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:10:30 +0000

Dawkins and PZ were duped into being interviewed by Stein because they really believe that only fools would look at the issue and come out in support of ID. Maybe they are wrong.

By: bornagain77

bornagain77 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:13:09 +0000

If the evidence is so overwhelming for Darwinism why should they worry at all???? Why can’t they just naturally select and mutate a bacteria into another type of bacteria or even phylum, and get the whole debate over with….
Oh yeah that right… No concrete proof of evolution is just one of the few minor problems they are working on…..But rest assured Darwinism is true!!!!!….Don’t dare question it boy or you career is over buddy…Toe that line!!!!! OR ELSE!!!!!