Slog - Comments on Expelled http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled You know that stupid movie Expelled, the Ben Stein-related intelligent design thing that's so full of truth they're paying Christian schools to screen it and making damn sure that the only people who get to see it or write about it are people who already agree with its nonsensical premise? Yeah, that's the one. Anyway, in or near the Mall of America (which is basically in Canada), they're at it again. I went to attend a screening of the creationist propaganda movie, Expelled, a few minutes ago. Well, I tried ... but I was Expelled! It was kind of weird... Copyright 2008 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:35:53 -0800 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:45:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Steve I wonder if they're going to make a profit, after paying people to watch it and barring anyone but the choir from watching.

If they do, I will have lost respect for my own country.

]]> Steve http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975871 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975871 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:58:57 -0800 Comment by bma De-fucking-licious. :)

I'm getting really sick of these Creationist assholes. Can we just put them on a desert island somewhere and conveniently forget about them?

]]> bma http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975872 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975872 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:01:00 -0800 Comment by Zwbush Basically in Canada? Hennepin County compared with Canada? I wish, but far from it. I would say Seattle is closer to Canada than Bloomington MN, a suburb of Minneapolis. Dipshit.

]]> Zwbush http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975888 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975888 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:55:35 -0800 Comment by ahava The best part is that Richard Dawkins is speaking at the Association of Atheists' conference this weekend. I bet he had to rewrite his speech.

]]> ahava http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975890 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975890 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:45:10 -0800 Comment by Tom These "creationist assholes" are half your country. Doesn't mean they aren't assholes, but they aren't going to go away. Solution? Cascadia: http://zapatopi.net/cascadia/

]]> Tom http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975895 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975895 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:21:18 -0800 Comment by Cassie hahahahahaha


seriously, when will they figure out that being deliberately stupid is ... stupid-making? oh, that's right, they don't believe in verifying the performance of their theories compared to reality. They will never get it.


Don't know what I'm laughing about, actually. These people rule our world (ok, America).

]]> Cassie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975900 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975900 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:59:30 -0800 Comment by Helena That's awesome. But, alas, I fear they will make money... I recently visited the Creation Museum in Covington, KY and it was PACKED (with an admission ticket of $20 a pop). As far as I could tell, my partner and I were the only godless heathens in the place. It was disheartening, but as a scientist I was amused to see that their "scientific" arguments for the viability of creationism were laughable at best.

]]> Helena http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975908 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975908 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:32:09 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay Of Course it will make money, by the same method that Ann Coulter's books are NYT best-sellers, and "The Passion of the Christ" is one of the top-selling movies.

Churches and special interest groups will buy up thousands of tickets and give them away. That's why they pass that collection plate every Sunday. What else are they going to do with it? Help the poor? That's communistic.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975921 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975921 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:13:58 -0800 Comment by Levislade That is amazing. Can't wait to hear RD's take on it.

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975923 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975923 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:17:07 -0800 Comment by kid icarus Yeah, but is Kirk Cameron in it??

]]> kid icarus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975924 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:17:15 -0800 Comment by STJA That's rich. He'll skewer them.

]]> STJA http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975942 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975942 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:47:14 -0800 Comment by some dude seattle is only 100 miles away from canada.

minneapolis is about 250 miles south of the canadian border.

so long as we're being scientific. and all.

]]> some dude http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975958 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975958 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:06:25 -0800 Comment by Gomez Anyone else notice that Kentucky (KY) and K-Y Jelly have the same initials?

My question is more relevant than this film.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975967 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975967 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:19:34 -0800 Comment by COMTE Well, if anybody is really that interested in seeing it, but doesn't want to endure the hassle of being kicked out of line for appearing too "rational", there are apparently a couple of bittorrent files floating around:

http://www.torrentportal.com/torrents-search.php?search=Expelled

Not that I'm endorsing the illegal downloading of copywrited media - particularly patently stupid copywrited media - but, just you know, sayin' and all.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975983 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c975983 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:32:58 -0800 Comment by Westside forever Their propaganda must really, really suck if they can't even put it in front of the general public.

]]> Westside forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976010 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976010 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:55:09 -0800 Comment by Anna Montana @3 - agreed!
@12 - it's actually 300 miles from the Canadian border. Author, have you ever driven 300 miles? That's 5 hours. According to your calculations, I guess that means Utah is basically in Mexico.

]]> Anna Montana http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976051 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976051 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:27:07 -0800 Comment by Anthony Hecht Wow, I touched a nerve, there, huh northern midwesterners? Eh? Ya leekers!

Canada, Canada, Canada.

]]> Anthony Hecht http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976053 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:27:50 -0800 Comment by Big Sven (1) Portland is closer to Canada than Minneapolis. Closer to the North Pole, too.

(2) The makers of "Expelled" have the right to choose who they want to let in to see their "movie", though the fact they won't let one of the people they interviewed for the movie in to see it is telling.

But if PZ Myers was told he couldn't stand in the Mall of America in front of the theater, well FUCK THAT. The MoA has always skirted around First Amendment issues by claiming that it's a private place. Bloomington police and city councilmembers should take a deep, deep look at that policy if a citizen was told to move along from *the mall* simply because a movie producer didn't like his presence.

I know that weren't allowed to tape anything it the theater, but somebody should have broken out a videocamera for the interaction w/ the police *outside* the theater.

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976057 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:28:31 -0800 Comment by infrequent that's pretty funny.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976085 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976085 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:39:44 -0800 Comment by Jay #5 Only if we get to burn down the Discovery Institute and run all their ilk out of Cascadia into the deserts of the east.

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976333 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976333 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:51:31 -0800 Comment by some dude @16 252.17 miles as the crow flies from approx 2nd st s and 3rd ave s in downtown minneapolis due north to a spot in the boundary waters a few miles outside international files . 295 road miles from minneapolis to int'l falls.

@17 - just a scosh, ya hoser.

]]> some dude http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976348 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976348 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:00:21 -0800 Comment by apttitle thanks Zwbush for pointing out the obvious. Seattle is indeed closer to Canada by say 2.5 hours to be exact.
I think we just wanted to point out your own provincialism here. Moreover, the degree to which being from Canada is associated with something just rotten, is well losing its value. Literally!

]]> apttitle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976356 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976356 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:07:05 -0800 Comment by some dude apttitle, agreed! seattle's proximity to canada was one of the reasons I wanted to move here in the first place :D

]]> some dude http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976360 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:10:20 -0800 Comment by Big Sven 227 miles from Nye's Polonaise in Nordeast to the border at the Little Lake Vermillion River SE of Crane Lake.

Why am I all of a sudden getting chills and thinking of "The Handmaiden's Tale"?

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976532 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/expelled#c976532 Religion Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:45:48 -0800