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Intelligent Design Propaganda Is Coming to a Theater Near You


As I sat through opening night of Ben Stein's movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, the words H.L. Mencken wrote at the conclusion of the Scopes Monkey Trial kept running through my mind:


" ... even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge."

As a journalist who sat through every day of the trial, I can tell you that this movie is in a slick misleading piece of shrill propaganda.