インテリジェントデザイン宣伝映画ExpelledのAssociated Producerたぶん失言

インテリジェントデザイン宣伝映画ExpelledのAssociated ProducerであるMark Mathisが、「キリスト教と進化論が背反する」ことを示すために、キリスト教徒な進化生物学者をExpelledに登場させなかったといったことを述べたもよう。

John M. LynchがChrisを引用する形で：

Chris Heard on Mark Mathis’ admission that Christian scientists were excluded from Expelled because they "would have confused the film unnecessarily":

「映画を不必要に混乱させるので」キリスト教徒な科学者をExpelledから除外したとMark Mathisが認めたと、Chrisは聞いた：

Mathis as much as says that because he personally cannot reconcile Christian belief with evolutionary biology, prominent Christian scientists ... who do affirm both at once don’t deserve attention. Remember, please, that this comes from the associate producer of a film whose entire thesis is that well-meaning religious scientists are being persecuted or ostracized --"expelled"-- for wanting to talk about God! Yet prominent Christian evolutionary biologists like [Francisco] Ayala, [Francis] Collins, and [Ken] Miller (never mind physicists like John Polkinghorne or Howard Van Till) get no attention in the film--because they "would have confused the film unnecessarily."

Mathisは自分がキリスト教信仰と進化生物学を調和できないので、その両方を支持する著名なキリスト教徒な科学者は注目には値しないと言っていた。「神を語る信仰心ある科学者は迫害され、追放される」と主張する映画のAssociated Producerが言ったということを銘記しよう。著名なキリスト教徒なFrancisco AyalaやFrancis CollinsやKen Millerのような進化生物学者（もちろん同様の物理学者John PolkinghorneやHoward Van Till)はこの映画では注目されない。というのは「映画を不必要に混乱させるから」

[John M. Lynch: "Framing in action in Expelled" (2008/04/10) on
Stranger Fruit]

Chrisは、Scientific AmericanによるMark Mathisとの会話から、これに関して次の部分を挙げている：

Mathis: But I would tell you from a, my personal standpoint as somebody who’s worked on this project, that Ken Miller would have confused the film unnecessarily. I don’t agree with Ken Miller. I think that you, I think that when you look at this issue and this debate, that really there’s, there’s one side of the line or the other, and you, it’s, it’s hard to stay, I don’t think you can intellectually, honestly, honestly intellectually stand on a line that I don’t think exists—

Rennie: I mean, I think, listen—

Mathis: so—

Rennie: there are, there are obviously plenty of people, I mean as you mentioned, P.Z. Myers, Dawkins himself, a lot of them would make exactly that same argument—

Mathis: Mm-hmm, yeah.

Rennie: that somebody like Ken Miller is wrong. But I mean, you say he would have, his presence would have “confused the film.” The point is what, it would actually had, I mean, it would have, it would have considerably undercut the major point that is made, that really that belief in, in evolution obliges you not to believe in God, and to—

[Chris: "Why Ken Miller isn’t in Expelled" (2008/04/10) on Higgaion]

もともと、"Darwin to Hitler"なインテリジェントデザイン宣伝映画ではあるので、筋にあわないものは登場させなくても不思議ではない。が、あっさり認めてしまったのは正直すぎ。