Emily and I went to check out Ben Stein's (You know, from the Wonder Years, Ferris Beuller's Day Off and Win Ben Stein's Money) new movie Expelled. In it, he highlighted scientists who have been, in his words, Expelled, for bringing up the idea of Intelligent Design in academic settings.
Apparently, even though there is no viable provable scientific theory for initial origins, it is ok to teach any sort of theory other than the possibility that a there was a creator. For instance, it is ok to say that lightning, goo, space aliens or whatever brought about life on earth, but to say that a "God" did so is a terrible mistake.
Anyway, it must be creating a hullabaloo with some. A crop of articles and the like have popped up in defense of the academic establishment. Here is a sight the National Center For Science Education slapped up.
Here is the Expelled website itself.
Here is an article from Worldnet Daily.
In any case, it was well done and quite provocative. Worth a look, I think.
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I wonder what would happen if the amount of money and time were dumped into proving Intelligent Design over the last 150 years instead of the THEORY of Evolution. I get so tired of the brainwashed, self-serving "scientific" majority telling me there's a huge lack of evidence for Intelligent Design when the only thing their THEORY of Evolution stands on is Carbon dating. What about the rest of the historical, archeological, and (reliable) scientific dating methods that prove over and over that the Bible just plain has it right - again? Thanks for giving me a place to blow off my frustrations, FPF.
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