Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Monday, April 21st, 2008There have been plenty of “reviews” exposing Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed for the piece of crap that it is (1 2 3, 4, and many others…)
Just about all of them focus on the science, and how the movie gets it wrong. I think that’s a mistake.
Nobody really gives a fuck about evolution. Even the authors of creationist textbooks by and large couldn’t give a rat’s ass about how we explain biological changes over geologic time. For them, creationism is just the thin end of a wedge of forcing public schools, and later other public entities, to espouse their religious doctrines. Likewise, the people in the blogs reacting strongly against it probably aren’t deeply invested in academic biology.
Instead, both sides are invested in other questions: can homosexuals kiss in public, or can we keep those faggots in their place? Can mixed-race couples marry and conduct themselves in public, or can we stop this mongrelizing? Can women make a career outside the home without social or legal reprisal, or can we make them be housewives like the lord intended? Should young single women be able to get contraceptives, or is that for little whores? People react strongly because this is yet another push from a group that has been on the wrong side of every social issue of significance for the past 100 years.
And I think we should call them out for that, not their shitty understanding of biology.
