by Sasha Stone on March 22, 2008
I posted this on my other site, awardsdaily.com, which follows the Oscar race. Why I believed it pertinent to the discussion over there is that this film, complete and total propaganda, is being dressed up to look like a documentary. Nothing new there – Michael Moore has been making leftist propaganda movies forever. It’s just that Creationism/Evolution is a subject close to my own heart. I am both amazed at the idiocy of Creationism and rather horrified, frankly, that anyone would think posting something negative about Expelled would be a controversial move. To me it’s about as controversial as posting an article about how cigarettes are bad for your health. Anyway, here it is:
PZ Myers, who writes the addictive site scienceblogs.com/pharyngula chats with his friend, Richard Dawkins, who was let in to see the Creationist Intelligent Design “doc”, Expelled. The two chat about the xperience and the film in this clip (gotten from Scienceblogs.com):
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39jYgsvUOY]
by sashastone on May 21, 2007
I know only human being I’d actually like to murder. Now, I can add a few soldiers to the list:
Congolese militia are threatening to slaughter rare mountain gorillas in Congo’s Virunga National Park after they raided the eastern reserve at the weekend, killing a wildlife officer, officials said.
Up to three more local wildlife workers were injured in the attacks early on Sunday by Mai Mai militia fighters on three conservation and tourism camps in the park, in
Democratic Republic of Congo’s violence-torn North Kivu province.
Officials in Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park established in 1925, said on Monday the attackers looted the three sites, seizing arms and communications equipment.
The area attacked is only two hours walk from a unique and isolated population of gorillas, according to WildlifeDirect, an organization involved in conservation in Virunga, which is home to half of the 700 mountain gorillas that remain in the world.
“This was an unprovoked attack on our Rangers and other wildlife officers who protect Virunga’s wildlife. And the Mai Mai said that if we retaliate, they will kill all the gorillas in this area,” Virunga’s Park Director Norbert Mushenzi said in a statement distributed by WildlifeDirect.
During the raids, 13 other local wildlife workers were taken hostage by the militia fighters but were subsequently released, WildlifeDirect said.
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