Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Page #2

And I said, "I mentioned

intelligent design

"on a couple of slides,

But I did not teach

creationism."

He said, "nonetheless,

you have to be disciplined."

At the end of the semester,

I lost my job.

Not only did

this well-loved professor

Lose her job

at george mason,

She suddenly found herself

blacklisted,

Unable to find

a job anywhere.

So whenever I

interviewed for a job,

I would be offered it

usually on the spot.

Since this has happened

And since people

can google my name,

I'm finding that when

I send my credentials,

I do get interviews--

I get many interviews--

But I never get

offered a job.

I don't tell them

about my--

About my, uh,

"science sin."

[bell tolling]

I was only trying to teach

what the university stands for,

Which is academic freedom.

Egnor:
there's nothing

to be learned in neurosurgery

By assuming

an accidental origin

For the parts of the brain

that we work on.

Stein:
it wasn't

just biologists

Who were feeling

the darwinist wrath.

When neurosurgeon

michael egnor

Wrote an essay

to high school students

Saying doctors didn't need

to study evolution

In order to practice medicine,

The darwinists were quick

To try and exterminate

this new threat.

A lot of people

in a lot of blogs

Called me unprintable names

that were printed.

[laughs]

There were a lot of very,

very nasty comments.

Other people suggested

That people call

the university I work at

And suggest that perhaps

it's time for me to retire.

I realized when

I kind of went public

With my doubts

about the adequacy

of darwin's theory,

You know, that I would

encounter criticism.

What has amazed me

is the viciousness

And the sort

of baseness of it.

I'm an old guy.

I have tenure.

I'm academically safe.

But the young people

And what

is happening to them

in america right now

Because of this

scientism gulag

Is really terrible.

Apparently professor marks

Was not as safe

as he thought.

A few months

after this interview,

Baylor university shut down

his research web site

And forced him

to return grant money

Once they

discovered a link

Between his work

and intelligent design.

In order to attract grants,

you have to market yourself.

So you put up sites

and call yourself

"labs" and "groups"

and things like that

In order to get

visibility.

And in my entire

experience in academia

I never went

to any superior

And asked them

any permission

To put up

any of these labs.

So the fact that

this was singled out,

Let alone shut down,

is jaw-dropping.

It's astonishing.

I have never been treated

like this in my--

About 30 years in academia.

Shut up, you freak!

I said shut up!

[echoing]

it's a madhouse!

If you peel back

the onion,

I think that

there's no doubt

That the center

of this is my work

In what some would call

intelligent design.

Dr. Gonzalez:

people really get

emotional about this.

Whenever you say

"intelligent design"

in a room of academics,

Them's fighting words.

Creationists!

Astronomer

guillermo gonzalez

Found himself

in a fierce shootout

With iowa state university,

Following the publication

of his book

Arguing that the universe

is intelligently designed.

Despite a stellar

research record

That has led

to the discovery

of several planets,

His application

for tenure was denied,

Putting his career

in jeopardy.

I worried about my tenure

a little bit in 2005

When the petition

was being circulated

Because I viewed

that as a strategy

Of hector avalos

and his associates

To try to poison

the atmosphere

on campus against me

Because he knew I

wasn't tenured yet

And I was

very vulnerable.

I have little doubt that

I would have tenure now

If I hadn't done

any professional work

on intelligent design.

Dr. Gonzalez had

this advice for scientists

Who might be thinking

about following his example.

If they value

their careers--

[laughs]

they should keep quiet

About their

intelligent design views.

We know there are times

and places to be quiet

And other times and places

When we can make noise

if we want to.

- filmstrip narrator:

will you show us?

- of course.

Boys and girls,

How would you like to show

Some of the ways we know

of being quiet?

Man #1:
it's the kind of thing

where you just learn

to keep your mouth shut.

Stein:
in addition

to those scientists

Who were willing

to appear on camera,

We encountered many more

who didn't dare show their face

For fear of losing

their jobs.

Man #2:
you use

an intelligent design

perspective

To get the research done,

But you're not allowed

to talk about it in public.

Man #3:
and so there is

definitely incentive,

if you think about it,

For people to remain

within the mainstream.

Man #4:
you know,

"what's he up to?

What is he thinking?

Is he one of them?"

that kind of thing.

Man #5:
if I write

"intelligent design,"

They hear "creationism,"

They hear "religious right,"

they hear "theocracy."

So it appears mr. Shermer,

the self-styled skeptic,

Was wrong on this one.

Intelligent design

was being suppressed

In a systematic

and ruthless fashion.

But maybe intelligent design

should be suppressed.

I didn't like

what was happening

to these scientists,

But on the other hand,

We don't want

our kids being taught

That the earth is flat

Or the the holocaust

never happened.

It was time to ask

the scientific establishment

What was so bad

about intelligent design.

Intelligent design people

are not genuine scientists.

Intelligent design

is a racket.

It's just propaganda.

The only intelligent

thing about it

Is to have got people

to call it that.

It's really

very stupid, as well.

Everybody knows

science education

In america

is appalling.

What we don't need

at this time

Is intelligent design

in the classrooms.

To present

intelligent design

Stunts their

educational growth.

It stunts their

intellectual growth.

But what I don't understand

Is how these animals

could've been on earth

Millions of years

before man

When the bible says

the whole earth was created

in only six days.

It wasn't just

the educational aspects

of intelligent design

That had scientists

concerned.

Many suspected the movement

masked a much larger agenda.

Intelligent design

is a set of excuses

To squeeze creationism

into the classrooms.

Get intelligent design

in the schools today,

And we can have

school prayers tomorrow.

Chorus:

hallelujah

hallelujah

Stein:
any other complaints?

Can you imagine

anything more boring?

The boredom attached

to id is supreme.

It is so boring

That I can't even bother

to think about it

much any more.

It's just utterly boring.

John paul young:

love is in the air

everywhere I look around

love is in the air

every sight

and every sound

Stein:
love was

in the air, all right,

But none of it was directed

toward intelligent design.

There seemed to be

a lot to hate about id,

And nearly all of that hatred

was focused on one place.

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