When I noticed that Ben Stein’s new Creationist movie previewed a shot of Richard Dawkins, I already knew that the movie must have used some amount of deception in getting him to participate. Dawkins had vowed years ago that he would not do interviews for any anti-evolution films or documentaries because of an incident in which he gave an interview that was edited to look as if he couldn’t give an answer to some questions that were given to him. Sure enough, Dawkins was told that he was participating in a movie called “Crossroads”, which was suppossed to be about an honest discussion about evolution vs. intelligent design, not about scientists getting expelled for beliving in Creationism. Sure enough, Dawkins’ opinions were once again purposely misconstrued, such as when he goes into a thought experiment about how even if Earth was seeded by some other intelligent life form like aliens, then the aliens themselves would have had to evolved from something themselves. This was turned into: “What? Richard Dawkins BELIEVES IN INTELLIGENT DESIGN.” “Richard Dawkins BELIEVES IN ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE.” On top of that, when Dawkins and another scientist from the movie, PZ Myers, booked seats together for the screening of the movie, Myers was himself EXPELLED from the movie theatre! Lies about the two being “gate-crashers” were subsequently spun despite the fact that the producer has gone on record saying that “of course” he had seen Dawkins and allowed him to attend because “he had handled himself fairly honorably” (as if Myers was somehow less honorable in the way he stood in line next to Dawkins). According to Dawkins, the movie is terribly boring and attempts to tie Darwinism to the Nazis, which seems about as intelletually dishonest as one can get. All of this is pretty hilarious. The religious right have finally got their Hollywood documentary and they’ve managed to raise the bar of deceitfulness and general douchebagginess far higher than anything Michael Moore could have done to “Donation of Constantine” levels.

http://richarddawkins.net/article,2394,Lying-for-Jesus,Richard-Dawkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39jYgsvUOY>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39jYgsvUOY