Josh Timonen has filmed a dialogue between PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins. The clip below describes what happened when the two of them went, with friends and family, to see the creationist propaganda flick Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Many people have already observed that the movie’s subtitle is a blazing beacon of irony, but gosh darn it, that observation gets truer every day: the makers of Expelled are bound and determined to drive home their lack of acumen.
The Harvard/XVIVO animation to which the biologists refer, one which creationists have plagiarized before, is available on Harvard’s website.
But according to Matthew Nisbet and his sockpuppet Chris Mooney, Myers and Dawkins should shut up.
Yes, Ben Stein is certainly familiar with the adage that “all publicity is good publicity” — after all, he wrote speeches for Richard Nixon, and look what the Watergate publicity did for Nixon’s reputation!
An interesting update, noted for history’s sake: see here and here.