On 22 Apr, 19:41, "BretLudwig" <bratziru...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ben Stein=92s Documentary =93Expelled=94
>
> Posted by Matt Nuenke on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 10:12 PM in Free
> Speech
>
> >>"This weekend my wife and I saw the documentary movie =93Expelled.=94
It=
>
> stars Ben Stein, trying to show the heavy hand of scientific Darwinists
in=
> suppressing any scientists that do not agree with the modern synthesis.
> That is, suppressing any alternative to Darwinism=92s rejection of
> intelligent design (creationism). How intolerant is science to
intelligent=
> design? From watching the movie not much=97Stein only covers a couple of
> examples, spending most of the movie showing him walking from one campus
> or office to another.
>
> The primary premise in the movie is that the simplest organisms that
first=
> evolved on earth are far too complex and statistically could not have
been=
> created from the primordial soup without a designer. The purpose of
> Stein=92s movie seems to be not so much against science, as to show that
> there is a god because life needed a designer to even begin the process
of=
> evolution. And why is such an intelligent person like Stein taking on
this=
> issue? I can only speculate, but it seems to be part of the Neocon=92s
> strategy to maintain the guiding hand of the prophets (primarily the
> Jews), the administrators like Bush and other government officials, and
> the masses who need religion in place of open intellectualism. That is,
> the masses do not need the truth, but need a sustaining dogma to follow
> blindly where the Neocons lead them.
>
> He talks with Richard Dawkins about his belief in God. At one point
> Dawkins points out that the intelligent designers could be very
> intelligent aliens from another planet that =93seeded=94 life on earth.
It=
> seems an easy way out for educators, who may be forced to teach
intelligen=
t
> design, to assume that it means that aliens and not some deity was the
> intelligent designer, as a matter of scientific parsimony.
>
> The absurdity of this movie however is that Stein focuses on a very
narrow=
> area of academic intolerance when there are far more egregious examples
of=
> political correctness and outright oppression using state sponsored
dogma.=
> In every Western country, anyone who questions the details of the
Holocaus=
t
> is harassed, censored or imprisoned for research that does not conform
to
> the Holocaust dogma. Likewise, scientists who study behavioral and
> cognitive differences between various races or ethnic groups, and dare
to
> reveal academic research that shows real and innate differences between
> races is subject to censor****p and dismissal in far greater numbers than
> the handful of academics who advocate intelligent design. Stein never
> ventures into these other areas of academic censor****p, leading me to
> assert that academic freedom is not what stein is objecting to. He
simply
> wants to make the little people believe that intelligent design is a
> viable hypothesis because he wants to make sure that the masses maintain
> their religious faith. "<<
>
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