Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Truth "Expelled"

When Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, Eugenie Scott, and others were interviewed for the movie "Expelled", they were told they were being interviewed for a movie with a more balanced premise, called "Crossroads".

Now it's possible the producers simply decided to change the name of the movie halfway through. After all, I saw ads for a magazine named "Nova" a year before it hit the newsstands, same format, same font, but with the name of "Omni". And I once went to a screening for a movie called "Eaters of the Dead", based on the Michael Chrichton novel of the same name. It was excellent, and I told all my friends to go see it when it came out, under the title of "The 13th Warrior".

But the question arises, just when did the producers decide to call their movie "Expelled"?

Wesley Elsberry did some digging:

One of the things that has dogged Mathis is the fact that the “expelledthemovie.com” domain was registered at the beginning of March, 2007, about a month earlier than the invitations for interviews went out to Eugenie Scott and PZ Myers. No similar domain seems to have been registered by Mathis for the alleged “Crossroads” concept. Ben Stein adds another piece to the burgeoning chronological evidence stack that argues against taking Mathis at his word. When did Ben Stein get the word that he’d be the front-man for an attack piece? According the WORLD interview, that would be sometime in 2006...

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