Posted on 08/31/2007 3:21:59 AM PDT by monomaniac
By Hilary White
August 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "If you have questioned Darwinism, that's it, your career is over."
"I was viewed as an intellectual terrorist."
"I have been told to shut up."
The quotes come from interviews with research scientists featured in a new film, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," starring the New York writer and intellectual Ben Stein. The film, set for release in February 2008, documents the crushing of any investigation or questioning of materialist Darwinism that is the orthodox position of most of the scientific establishment.
In the trailer for "Expelled", Stein is seen addressing an audience saying, "There are people out there who want to keep science in a little box, where it can't possibly touch God…Scientists are not allowed to even think thoughts that involve an intelligent creator."
A PRNewswire release says that Stein, a lawyer, economist, former presidential speechwriter, author and social commentator, was "stunned" when he investigated the debate surrounding Intelligent Design theory and Darwinism. Stein uncovers what he says is an elitist scientific establishment that actively suppresses any research that may lead to questioning of the accepted Darwinian theory.
The film features interviews with scientists and thinkers including biologists, astronomers, chemists and philosophers who have had their ideas suppressed for questioning adherence to the materialist theory.
"Big Science in this area of biology has lost its way," says Stein. "Scientists are supposed to be allowed to follow the evidence wherever it may lead, no matter what the implications are. Freedom of inquiry has been greatly compromised, and this is not only anti-American, it's anti-science. Its anti-the whole concept of learning."
Stein writes that the Darwinian orthodoxy in science is as dangerous politically as it is antithetical to free scientific inquiry.
"America is not America without freedom," he writes. "Human beings are supposed to live in a state of freedom. Freedom is not conferred by the state: as our founders said, and as Martin Luther King repeated, freedom is God-given."
"A huge part of this freedom is freedom of inquiry."
Expelled was produced by Premise Media and marketed by Motive Entertainment, the company that has spearheaded The Passion of the Christ, Polar Express and The Chronicles of Narnia.
View the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxGyMn_-J3c
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Over 400 Eminent Scientists Sign "A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05072204.html
Over 500 PhD Scientists Proclaim Their Doubts About Darwin's Theory
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06022204.html
Read Ben Stein's weblog:
http://www.expelledthemovie.com/blog/
What do you call a scientist who forbids the challenging of a theory?
Reminds me of the Pope and Gallileo.
Scene I
Pope: Has he confessed the heresy yet?
P.F.: No, Holines. Can we torture him?
Pope: No. No torturing.
P.F.: Please, oh please? At least let us threaten him with the instruments.
Pope: You may show him the instruments.
Scene 2
Gallileo’s buddy: Why did you confess?
Gallileo: I had to. They were going to torture me.
G.B. But you know the sun doesn’t move around the earth!
Gallileo: You don’t understand. They showed me the instruments.
G.B.: But what about the Truth, Gallileo?
Gallileo: For God’s sake, man, they had oboes and bassoons and F-F-
F-French Horns, and I’ve heard terrible stories about — about—BAGPIPES!!! I’m only human. The Truth will have to wait.
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This looks like a film to watch and Ben Stein should make it very interesting.
The evolution crowd gets fanatical in silencing different ideas and I think it has do with their hangups over God and religion.
Their attitude is “bend over, grab your ankles and believe Darwin.”
Should I say “Hail Darwin” in case any evolutionists are reading this post.
Bingo. I hope this film has some success. The banning of intelligent discussion regarding biology--be it from an elite of churchmen or an elite of academics is reprehensible.
Then where are all these Intelligent Design and Creationist promoters coming from? I guess that elitist scientific establishment conspiracy isn't working very well?
According to evolution fanatics, its creationism in drag.
Then who is the intelligent designer?
Interesting fact:
When Communists take over a country, they “re-educate” people, not with the merits of communism, but with the “facts” of Evolution.
The purpose: to “educate” the people that there is no higher power than the government.
The “American” left has the SAME EXACT GOAL.
Your tag line is humorously ironic.
Aliens. I’m serious.
My point is, the theory does not specify. Any attempt to insert god into the theory is only unscientific speculation.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. Let me see if I have your theory straight: 1. Life is too complex. 2. Aliens, therefore, must have designed it. 3. Class over. Is that right? It sounds like a fantastic way to educate future biologists. PHDs take, what, 30 seconds to earn?
Replace “aliens” with “unspecified intelligent designer” and you have intelligent design. You might now understand why I do not accept the theory.
Intelligent design claims that there is an intelligent designer but makes no attempt to identify it? Even evolution attempts to explain the origin of life down to the very beginning. But apparently ID isn't interested? It's kind of hard to take them seriously if they ignore the central part of their theory, isn't it?
What's particularly fascinating about the ID movement is the apparently firm belief that there are two discrete and entirely isolated audiences for the ID proposition, and that these two audiences can be freely sold a completely separate bill of goods without fear that this patently juvenile duplicity will be uncovered.
Thus, you have a "science" audience told that the Intelligent Designer is unspecified. Could be God. Could be aliens. Could be satan and satan's little helpers.
And then you have the "fundamentalist" audience, who is told right up front and without equivocation that the Intelligent Designer is not just God, but the Christian God of the New Testament.
For example, Phillip Johnson unambiguously states that the biblical basis for ID is John 1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
And Dembski, following suit, states in a 1999 article for the Christian magazine Touchstone that John 1 is undeniably the Biblical basis for ID: "Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John’s Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory."
And in Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology, Dembski's 1999 book, he explains that "divine Logos" is God’s own language, "the Word that in Christ was made flesh," and "God speaks the divine Logos to create the world."
It's such a bizarre and blatantly obvious bit of fraud that I am at a loss to explain its persistence.
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You either believe in ID or in magic. My daughter’s evolution professor was at least honest enough to say, “and then the magic happens.”
Ignoring the biggest part of your theory is a strange way to make it acceptable. If we were talking about 'intelligent geography' you would be blanking out inconvenient parts of your maps and saying "Here be dragons."
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