When you don’t have the facts on your side, can’t get published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, and have consistently failed to make a case for your hypothesis, what do you do? Well, if you’re a real scientist, you might just finally pack it in, admit that you were probably wrong, and move on to another scientific question or to another hypothesis about the same question to investigate.
Not “intelligent design” creationists.
To them, it doesn’t matter just how bad their arguments are, how untestable and incoherent their hypothesis is, or how obvious it is that they are simply rehashing a “God of the gaps” sort of view of science (“if science can’t figure it out right away, God must have done it), they’re like the Energizer Bunny. They just keep going and going and going and going. So what to do? Well, they could make a propaganda film (Expelled!) that once again rehashes revisionist history claiming that Darwinism was a direct path to Naziism and the Holocaust and then goes on to parrot other ideologically-inspired historical revisionism.
Check.
They could hand out bogus “awards” for “Liberty and Truth” from Phillip E. Johnson, one of the originators and driving forces behind ID creationism, and a fundamentalist Christian university.
Check.
They could even give an award for “Liberty and Truth” to the host of this execrable excuse for a “documentary,” Ben Stein.
I’m telling you, you can’t make stuff like this up. You know, given the penchant of the producers of Expelled! and Ben Stein for blaming Naziism and the Holocaust on “Darwinism,” it’s really hard not to point out that they would have done Josef Goebbels proud with Expelled!, particularly the parts where Stein visits Dachau and, if the trailer is any indication, Auschwitz.
What’s good for the goose…
