by Ewen MacAskill
Guardian (UK), page 6
September 28, 2007
Among the films being shown tonight at the Atheist Alliance convention taking place near Washington is, unsurprisingly, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. What will not be showing are trailers for a new movie, Expelled.
Some of the world’s best-known atheists, including British scientist Richard Dawkins, appear in the documentary, but they are unhappy with it. They say they agreed to appear in a documentary called Crossroads, but have ended up instead in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
They had expected Crossroads to be a debate about creationism versus Darwinism, but Expelled supports intelligent design (ID), a variation on creationism. The premise of Expelled is that scientists sympathetic to intelligent design are penalised by being denied academic posts.
