Expelled

Back in 2008 an American creationist organisation funded and produced a nasty little propaganda film called "Expelled". Its main presenter a fifth rate American actor called Ben Stein presented a toxic caricature of science, a straw man designed to appeal to the denialists and conspiracy theorists that seem to swell creationist ranks the world over. Stein claimed that "big science" (whatever that is?) was suppressing the truth, pushing an agenda of evolution at the expense of "heroic" creationists who supposedly had killer evidence that evolution was false (although we never saw what this evidence actually was?)

The problem for Stein and creationists everywhere is that there is no conspiracy, no cover up, there is just a mountain of solid evidence for evolution, accumulated over decades from all the major scientific disciplines, geology, palaeontology, biology, chemistry, physics, cosmology etc. and each thread of evidence supports the other, if you're claiming that Genesis is literally true then by definition you are also claiming that everything we know about physics is WRONG - a bold claim.

On the other hand there is no evidence whatsoever for creation, no matter now hard they try and no matter how many millions of dollars harvested from gullible believers they pump into this they cannot come up with a single sliver of a single shred of a minuscule shard of evidence that their stories and delusions are real, so instead they resort to monstrous distortions of the truth like "Expelled", they lie for Jesus.

In a rare example of cosmic justice, the company that produced this appalling little film just went into receivership, and the whole pathetic artefact is going under the hammer. I wonder who would buy such a thing? perhaps some university could use it to underpin a module of a psychology course, I can see it now, "Herd mentality, using Godwin's law to support mass delusion 101"..