It's ironic; atheist scientists who have become famous for attacking those who disagree with them are now loudly complaining about supposedly being mistreated. Professional atheist Richard Dawkins is grumbling that the producers of a new movie tricked him into doing an interview.

Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion. — Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion

Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins has made a lot of money and fame calling people who believe in God delusional. New movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed claims that any scientist who dares dissent from the view that all life on earth is the result of random mutation and natural selection suffers intimidation, persecution and career destruction. "Some of these people — especially Mr Dawkins — spend a lot of time insulting the millions of folks who disagree with them, so you would think they would have a little tougher skin," said Mark Mathis, one of the film's producers. "The funny thing is they are whining about the fact that the film is going to allow them to insult people on a much larger stage."

Expelled's producers say they aren't surprised by the academic uproar over the film because it is consistent with what happens on university campuses when students or professors question atheistic materialism. "There is some serious mistreatment and downright reprehensible behavior going on here, but I can assure you it's not coming from us — we're just the ones exposing it," said executive producer, Walt Ruloff. "When our audience sees the stories of the real victims of scientific malpractice they're going to be outraged." The producers of Expelled are particularly amused by Dawkins's complaint that the name of the film was changed from "Crossroads" to "Expelled" suggesting that this re-naming was a deception. Dawkins is well aware of the fact that movie titles change. When he was interviewed for Expelled he made the comment that the title of his anti-religion documentary, "Root of all Evil?" was chosen as a replacement for the original title late in the process.

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