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New Film Investigates Crushing of Dissent from Darwinian Orthodoxy
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | August 30, 2007 | Hilary White

Posted on 08/31/2007 3:21:59 AM PDT by monomaniac

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1 posted on 08/31/2007 3:22:01 AM PDT by monomaniac
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To: monomaniac

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.


2 posted on 08/31/2007 5:01:13 AM PDT by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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To: monomaniac; Calm_Cool_and_Elected; visually_augmented

ping


3 posted on 08/31/2007 5:23:29 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (So many books, so little time!)
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To: monomaniac

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.


4 posted on 08/31/2007 5:26:51 AM PDT by Nextrush (Proudly uncommitted in the 2008 race for president for now)
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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.

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.

5 posted on 08/31/2007 6:18:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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"The evolution crowd gets fanatical in silencing different ideas and I think it has do with their hangups over God and religion."

Which is interesting because ID has absolutely nothing to do with god or religion.
6 posted on 08/31/2007 7:00:44 AM PDT by Boxen (If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate!)
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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.

Then where are all these Intelligent Design and Creationist promoters coming from? I guess that elitist scientific establishment conspiracy isn't working very well?

7 posted on 08/31/2007 7:04:10 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Boxen

According to evolution fanatics, its creationism in drag.


8 posted on 08/31/2007 7:04:52 AM PDT by Nextrush (Proudly uncommitted in the 2008 race for president for now)
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To: Boxen
Which is interesting because ID has absolutely nothing to do with god or religion.

Then who is the intelligent designer?

9 posted on 08/31/2007 7:05:08 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: monomaniac

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.


10 posted on 08/31/2007 7:08:44 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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Your tag line is humorously ironic.


11 posted on 08/31/2007 7:12:09 AM PDT by Shryke
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To: Non-Sequitur

Aliens. I’m serious.

My point is, the theory does not specify. Any attempt to insert god into the theory is only unscientific speculation.


12 posted on 08/31/2007 7:13:43 AM PDT by Boxen (If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate!)
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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?

13 posted on 08/31/2007 7:17:22 AM PDT by Shryke
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Replace “aliens” with “unspecified intelligent designer” and you have intelligent design. You might now understand why I do not accept the theory.


14 posted on 08/31/2007 7:20:10 AM PDT by Boxen (If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate!)
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To: Boxen
My point is, the theory does not specify. Any attempt to insert god into the theory is only unscientific speculation.

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?

15 posted on 08/31/2007 7:23:30 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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"Intelligent design claims that there is an intelligent designer but makes no attempt to identify it?"

Correct.

"Even evolution attempts to explain the origin of life down to the very beginning."

Also correct. However, the method by which life first occurred on earth is unimportant, only that life changed once it got here.

"But apparently ID isn't interested?"

Proponents of ID avoid identifying the intelligent designer(god or otherwise) as a way of keeping it scientifically acceptable:

"ID is an intellectual movement, and the Wedge strategy stops working when we are seen as just another way of packaging the Christian evangelical message."

- Phillip Johnson, co-founder of the Discovery Institute.
16 posted on 08/31/2007 7:41:12 AM PDT by Boxen (If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate!)
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Intelligent design claims that there is an intelligent designer but makes no attempt to identify it? . . . 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.

17 posted on 08/31/2007 7:51:07 AM PDT by atlaw
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To: monomaniac

bump


18 posted on 08/31/2007 7:52:26 AM PDT by VOA
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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.”


19 posted on 08/31/2007 8:01:44 AM PDT by webboy45
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To: Boxen
Proponents of ID avoid identifying the intelligent designer(god or otherwise) as a way of keeping it scientifically acceptable...

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."

20 posted on 08/31/2007 8:06:14 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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