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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (review)
The Flick Filosopher ^ | Maryann Johanson

Posted on 05/08/2008 9:12:10 AM PDT by steve-b

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To: 50sDad

Thanks for posting. Nice summary of the situation. Liberals don’t like to have their assumptions questioned. The secular humanists on this board follow the same pattern. Personally, I don’t mind if Evolution is taught — but when non-believers are shouted down and punished for their apostasy, then I do have a problem.


21 posted on 05/08/2008 10:40:39 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Personally, I don’t mind if Evolution is taught — but when non-believers are shouted down and punished for their apostasy, then I do have a problem.

The problem scientists have is with a fundamentalist version of religion being forced into science classes under the guise of science.

What do you expect scientists to do when folks come claiming to be doing science, while at the same time violating all of the rules of science?

22 posted on 05/08/2008 11:15:01 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman
When Isaac Newton was doing science, he considered that there was likely to be a place for the Creator.

Since then, science has been re-defined -- specifically to exclude anything immaterial. Now, contra Newton, you are free to expell anyone who comes along "claiming to be doing science, while at the same time violating all of the rules of science" as you have freshly defined them.

How conveneient for you.

23 posted on 05/08/2008 11:18:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: steve-b
Nazis! It’s all about Nazis. In a parallel universe even crazier than our own, Ben Stein is making a documentary about ...

I love it!
The perverts and their supporters keep reviwing a different movie than the one I saw. The Nazi reference was incidental, factual and less than 5% of the entire film.

The main subject, for normal viewers, is the "McCarthyist" behavior of academia against anyone who dares to ask questions they can't answer.

In a nutshell, that is the subject of the movie!

24 posted on 05/08/2008 12:26:39 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: steve-b

OK. This movie is about how the scientific establishment has ‘mccarthy’d’ those who do not follow the party (evolution) line. This is something its supporters say routinely, that it really isn’t about knocking down the ToE, or trying to bolster support for ID, it’s about how the scientific establishment treats its renegades.

Do I have that right?

If that is correct, can anyone explain the foray into Nazis and Eugenics and the attempt at linking the two with Darwin? How does that help making the point of the movie?


25 posted on 05/08/2008 12:40:44 PM PDT by dmz
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To: dmz
...can anyone explain the foray into Nazis and Eugenics and the attempt at linking the two with Darwin? How does that help making the point of the movie?

Easy.

Smear Darwin using guilt by association, no matter how tenuous, and you combat the theory of evolution.

They are forced to use these tactics because they have neither the scientific training, nor the evidence, to combat the theory of evolution in scientific venues.

(It's the Goebbels approach.)

26 posted on 05/08/2008 1:16:41 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
“When Isaac Newton was doing science, he considered that there was likely to be a place for the Creator.”

I can't find a God constant or variable in Newton's laws of motion. “He said, ‘Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done.’” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton)

Newton distinguishes between what he is able to describe with science and what is beyond his knowledge yet.

“Since then, science has been re-defined — specifically to exclude anything immaterial.”

For the Greeks science and philosophy was one. With Newton modern science starts.

Newton wrote in a supplement to his “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica” - “Hypotheses non fingo” - “I feign no hypotheses”. That excludes anything immaterial or to be more specific anything not material or not energetic.


By the way, what did Dawkins exactly said in the movie about Panspermia? For me Panspermia can be a kind of ID.

27 posted on 05/08/2008 1:51:17 PM PDT by MHalblaub ("Easy my friends, when it comes to the point it is only a drawing made by a non believing Dane...")
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To: Coyoteman

Elevate mysticism, tribalism, shamanism and fundamentalism...to an equal status with technology in the public mind. Make sure that, in order to pay proper (and politically correct) respect to all different ethnic groups in America, you act as if science were on an equal footing with voodoo and history with ethnic fable. (Source)

Looks like Stein has voted for mysticism, tribalism, shamanism and fundamentalism.
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philosophy in the English speaking worlds was screwed up by Francis Bacon in the late 1500 when he drew up his tree of knowledge and put theology as a subgroup of philosophy right next to witchcraft.

science is a subgroup of philosophy but theology is something very different. philosphy ends in personality and character of man or a man. Theology ends in the personality and character of God. Man is the measure of things—is a philosophical proposition. God is the measure of all things is a theological proposition. Philosophy is bottoms up. Theology is top down. The origins and ends of philosophy and theology both disappear into mystery.


28 posted on 05/08/2008 3:01:54 PM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: MHalblaub

By the way, what did Dawkins exactly said in the movie about Panspermia? For me Panspermia can be a kind of ID.
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in No Intelligence Allowed Dawkins said he thought the genes came from space aliens. Likely he was echoing the sentiments of Francis Crick who discovered the double helix.

I saw Dawkins on Discovery last week opining that language was the new genetics. I about fell out of my chair when I heard that. Did that mean that language came from space aliens too?

Maybe

60 million years from now geologists studying the earth will see a layer where suddenly an advanced civilization appears—there won’t be any transitional forms—because 5000 years is just a sliver of sand in deep time. It will look like some space aliens set up shop. However, if they have a copy of the bible they’ll learn the truth. God himself came to visit the earth in the presence of Son.

See my post above on how Francis Bacon (& Decartes)screwed up the tree of knowledge for the english speaking world in the late 1500’s/early 1600’s.


29 posted on 05/08/2008 3:29:00 PM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: ckilmer

Panspermia is a giant change the subject gambit.

It just moves the argument about the origin of life and intelligence to another planet. I fail to see how that’s an improvement.

While I’m generally in-line with the “God used evolution” folks, in these various discussions I’ve noticed something that is interesting, at least to me.

The violently anti-God and Stein bunch are appalled that misdeeds of people with a less than thorough understanding of evolutionary theory are used to discredit their hero Darwin. And have in fact been doing so for decades if not centuries.

Yet as a group Dawkins and others are perfectly happy to use the misdeeds in the past of people with a less than thorough understanding of Christianity to discredit that religion.

This is despite the obvious fact that Darwinism, like all science, is amoral. It may be able to tell us how things happen, but can provide exactly zero insight on whether what an action we are considering is right and wrong. The Nazis may have misunderstood Darwin, but they certainly weren’t violating his teachings. Any moral basis for action or inaction that a scientist might have is imported from somewhere else. It cannot be derived from the pursuit of knowledge.

The Inquisition and other Christian misdeeds, in contrast, are directly in contradiction with the words of Christ himself.

So why does criminal misbehavior in the name of Christ reflect badly on Christianity, while criminal misbehavior in the name of Darwin not reflect anything at all on Darwin?


30 posted on 05/08/2008 3:53:16 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan; Brad's Gramma; wagglebee; Vision; Coleus; EternalVigilance; Born Conservative; ...

why does criminal misbehavior in the name of Christ reflect badly on Christianity, while criminal misbehavior in the name of Darwin not reflect anything at all on Darwin?


QUESTION OF THE WEEK!


31 posted on 05/08/2008 4:07:31 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Sherman Logan
So why does criminal misbehavior in the name of Christ reflect badly on Christianity, while criminal misbehavior in the name of Darwin not reflect anything at all on Darwin?

Darwin didn't have as good a press agent?

32 posted on 05/08/2008 4:12:21 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Post 30 should read:

The violently anti-God and Stein bunch are appalled that misdeeds of people with a less than thorough understanding of evolutionary theory are being used to discredit their hero Darwin.

Yet as a group Dawkins and others are perfectly happy to use the misdeeds in the past of people with a less than thorough understanding of Christianity to discredit that religion. And have in fact been doing so for decades if not centuries.


33 posted on 05/08/2008 4:25:21 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Coyoteman
What do you expect scientists to do when folks come claiming to be doing science, while at the same time violating all of the rules of science?

That's not what the movie is about.
How about allowing questions that the perverts can't answer? Is that Ok with you?

34 posted on 05/08/2008 4:42:17 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: MHalblaub
By the way, what did Dawkins exactly said in the movie about Panspermia? For me Panspermia can be a kind of ID.

He said, in his own words, that it was possible, not knowing what the actual origin of life was.

35 posted on 05/08/2008 4:47:36 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: Publius6961
What do you expect scientists to do when folks come claiming to be doing science, while at the same time violating all of the rules of science?

That's not what the movie is about.

How about allowing questions that the perverts can't answer? Is that Ok with you?

Not sure I understand your comment.

Who are "the perverts"?

36 posted on 05/08/2008 4:58:08 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: steve-b; All
The recent threads attacking Ben Stein's Expelled movie are completely overlooking that Mr. Stein's concern for free speech is just the tip of the iceberg concerning the major problem of renegade justices who are ignoring 10th A.-protected state powers, stifling free religious speech

From a related thread...In 1987, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that teaching creationism in public schools violated the separation of church and state in Edwards vs. Aquilard.

If anybody wants to see the USSC's bogus separation of church and state disappear before their eyes, a politically correct perversion of our constitutional religious freedoms that was wrongly legislated from the bench when the Court decided Cantwell v. Connecticut in 1940, then please read the following post. Note that while the post concerns a 10 Commandments issue it is also applicable to this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992174/posts?page=22#22
The bottom line, as mentioned in the referenced post, is that the people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state powers, particularly where the wrongly ignored 10th A. power of the states to address religious issues is concerned, power now limited by the honest interpretation of the 14th Amendment. The people then need to get in the faces of renegade justices and do a major spring cleaning where USSC respect for our religious freedoms is concerned. President Lincoln put it this way.
"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln (Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas), 1858.

37 posted on 05/08/2008 5:21:19 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Sherman Logan
Christianity claims to provide moral guidance ("ought"). Evolutionary biology claims only to provide descriptions of the world ("is"). Thus, failure to induce morally upright behavior is a failure of the former to achieve its claims, but is irrelevant to the latter.

Next question?

38 posted on 05/08/2008 5:54:36 PM PDT by steve-b (The "intelligent design" hoax is not merely anti-science; it is anti-civilization. --John Derbyshire)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
why does criminal misbehavior in the name of Christ reflect badly on Christianity, while criminal misbehavior in the name of Darwin not reflect anything at all on Darwin?

QUESTION OF THE WEEK!

Excellent point. It is sophistry to blame either Christianity or Darwin for Hitler's crimes. If people assign blame to one, then it seems to me they are stuck with blaming both.

Do you agree?

39 posted on 05/08/2008 5:55:20 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: steve-b; Sherman Logan
Christianity claims to provide moral guidance ("ought"). Evolutionary biology claims only to provide descriptions of the world ("is"). Thus, failure to induce morally upright behavior is a failure of the former to achieve its claims, but is irrelevant to the latter. Next question?

You've constructed a really pathetic straw man. First of all, there is no such entity as "evolutionary biology" that has any ability to "claim" anything. There are only evolutionary biologists. And these guys, like every other human, are full of "oughts" and "shoulds" that they believe are logical expressions of their belief system which, if followed, would result in the world becoming a better and happier place.
40 posted on 05/08/2008 6:03:47 PM PDT by aruanan
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