The pro-intelligent design documentary, “Expelled”, made waves a couple of months ago when the famed blogger/biologist PZ Myers, who was lining up to get into the show, was pulled out of the line and not allowed in. But somehow, Richard Dawkins, a fellow biologist and atheist who was with Myers at the time, managed to get in.

The movie tries to argue that people supportive of intelligent design have been muzzled and persecuted.

It has activated the good people who are sadly called on too many times to “defend” evolution and Darwin and to expose intelligent design for what it really is. One of the stars in this arena is Kenneth Miller, a biology professor at Brown U. He has a nice op-ed in today’s Globe saying that not only is the movie full of lies, but is also a threat to science.

“Expelled" is a shoddy piece of propaganda that props up the failures of Intelligent Design by playing the victim card. It deceives its audiences, slanders the scientific community, and contributes mightily to a climate of hostility to science itself.”

The National Center for Science Education has a website devoted to debunking “Expelled”. They accuse the makers of the movie of being dishonest with the people they interviewed and in how they promoted it. The NCSE even recently ran a contest to pick the 5 best refutations of claims made in the documentary. The site says the winning entries will be posted soon, this month.