Thursday, April 17, 2008

six things in expelled that ben stein doesn't want you to know...

...about intelligent design and evolution
.
from scientific american, 6 points in brief:

"

1) expelled quotes charles darwin selectively to connect his ideas to eugenics and the holocaust.

2) ben stein's speech to a crowded auditorium in the film was a setup.

3) scientists in the film thought they were being interviewed for a different movie.

4) the id-sympathetic researcher whom the film paints as having lost his job at the smithsonian institution was never an employee there.

5) science does not reject religious or "design-based" explanations because of dogmatic atheism.

6) many evolutionary biologists are religious and many religious people accept evolution.

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read the full article here.

EDIT: oh yeah, i forgot: expelled.

1 pearl of wisdom:

Intergalactic Hussy said...

Equating evolution with atheism has always annoyed me. Sure, many of us subscribe to both, but evolution is a scientific fact. Atheism is a philosophical stance...or something to that effect. lol