Even their commercials are intellectually dishonest

I was watching the Daily Show last night when, to my dismay, they aired a commercial for the lying, creationist claptrap movie, Expelled. The commercial showed a stodgy old professor going on about evolution when a student at the back raises his hand.

The "student" is Ben Stein who then asks the question, "But how did life get started in the first place?" He is then shown waiting in the hall outside the Principal's office, presumably expelled from the class for daring to ask a question that shakes the foundation of evolutionary theory.

The commercial is stupid and dishonest for several reasons.

First, no student would be tossed out of class for asking that question. It's a logical question in a biology class and probably gets asked quite frequently. Second, and this is the important part, the question doesn't have anything to do with evolutionary theory because evolution doesn't have anything to say about the origin of life. Evolution is the process of change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms from one generation to the next.

The study of the origin of life is "abiogenesis" and there are currently different models, but no single theory explaining it. So suggesting that evolution doesn't answer the question as if you've proven a point is like asking an astronomer why cheese is yellow.

Just more misdirection, lies, and ignorance from the ID crowd.