I’m not a particular fan of hardcore Atheism, but I’m even less a fan of Creationism. Here’s a good example why:
PZ Myers, an evolutionary biologist who blogs and engages Creationists in debate over evolutionary theory reports that the producers of the Creationist film Expelled kicked him out of the theater a few days ago:
They singled me out and evicted me, but they didn’t notice my guest. They let him go in escorted by my wife and daughter. I guess they didn’t recognize him. My guest was …
Richard Dawkins.
He’s in the theater right now, watching their movie.
Now, technically, they are within their rights not allowing someone to watch their movie. A Movie theater is private property and you can kick someone out for parting their hair the wrong way if you want to. But (a) it’s not very Christian to throw someone out just because they disagree with you. (b) It just makes you look like a ham-fisted moron when you can’t even do it right.
In case you don’t know who Richard Dawkins is, he’s a rather prominent evolutionary biologist who’s also firmly anti-Creationism. The fact that the producer wanted to kick out a blogger and not the author of “The God Delusion” just makes you wonder.