LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY or_mabinogi)

A movie called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed starring Ben Stein is due out February 2008. It's tag line is: "Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel... Ben blows the horn on suppression!"

The movie is obviously another attempt to stir up the public in order to push Intelligent Design into science classes. As PZ Myers says: "... it's central theme seems to be that Big Science has excluded god from the classroom and the lab ... it's a raw demand for a violation of the separation of church and state and for the inclusion of superstitious dogma in science. That's very convenient. It'll make it easier to use the courts to keep their religious propaganda out of the classroom."

It could go that way. But then it could also generate the support from the public that the creationists want.