Posted on 04/10/2008 8:58:06 AM PDT by unspun
Darwinism is a specific evolutionary theory that excludes everything but material processes in the design of all life forms. No Intelligent Design allowed.
"What's driving it is Darwinism is a foundational principle – scientific validation of secularism, atheism, liberalism – and that it strikes at the core of who they are," said Mathis.
"Secondarily, these scientists are the high priests of the biggest question ever asked. They have all the authority, knowledge, power, funding," continued Mathis. "This is ground they own exclusively. They look down their elitist noses at the unwashed ignorant religious masses and scoff. That's why they respond with such extreme hostility. They are very concerned that if this monolith cracks, then the whole thing could crash."
Indeed, "Expelled" is already making a difference. Last month, Ben Stein, star of "Expelled," screened it for Florida legislators as they prepared to present a bill guaranteeing academic freedom in their schools. It looks ready to pass.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I am really looking forward to Ben Steins movie. I think it will show how the Evolutionists maintain their orthodoxy not through the power of their arguments but through the fear of retaliation. They love to criticize Christians and talk as if they were modern Galileo’s but in reality they have much more in common with the leaders of the inquisition.
It has come to our intention that Premise Media and Rampant Films has produced a film entitled "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," which is scheduled for commercial release and distribution on April 18, 2008. To our knowledge, this film includes a segment depicting biological cellular activity that was copied by computer-generated means from a video entitled "The Inner Life of a Cell." XVIVO holds the copyright to all the models, processes, and depictions in this video, and has not authorized Premise Media or Rampant Films to make any use of this material.
Harvard is enforcing its copyright to material Expelled lifted without permission!
More details here.
Witty commentary here: Harvard Strikes Back.
I live near Dover PA. I was shocked and outraged at the condescension with which the mainstream religious leaders greeted the concept of intelligent design.
After our Rabbi thundered from the alter about how we must adapt to modern science, and how intelligent design is a disguised attempt to Christianize our children, we then read a passage from the Torah about creation. No-one but me seemed to notice the irony.
If it hadn't been for those darned scientists always questioning things the US would be even greater.
Gosh, do you think America ever would have been discovered?
For you literalists out there, that was sarcasm
The thought-processes behind those who insist on intelligent-design / creationism as science are themselves the best evidence that humans are descended from apes.
Indeed. And the Global Warming Envirofascists have learned their M.O.
The dementia of believing that Darwinism is honest science may be one of the best evidences of the Fall of Man.
What a weird way of putting things. I think we can write just about anything that way, to wit:
Republicanism is a specific governmental theory that excludes everything but the will of the people.
No kings allowed! Not one!
Evidently, the producers of "Expelled" have a similar edition, but with the misprint transposed to the commandment concerning theft.
What a weird way of putting things. I think we can write just about anything that way, to wit: Republicanism is a specific governmental theory that excludes everything but the will of the people. No kings allowed! Not one!
But the former is true and your example is factually false. Darwinism attempts to declare by caveat that only philosophical materialism may be allowed to explain exactly what materialism cannot explain, i.e., how life got to be life.
That is Orwellian thought control and intellectual fraud.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999544/posts
(I wonder how many will condone the theft.)
It has come to our intention? Well, at least it's clear that this statement truly came from Harvard.
no comment
Ironically most biologists are Christians.
Harvard: Because not everybody can get into MIT.
(I heard about a T-shirt with that on it. Thought it was funny.)
Maybe your rabbi is wiser than you think. Judaism rejected a literalist interpretation of Genesis centuries before Darwin was born. There are Midrashic arguments to this effect, and the RaMBaM wrote a treatise on the subject. All major Jewish denominations in the United States, including the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America, accept the fact that scientific evolution and Judaism are completely compatible and their reasoning is robust, is steeped in Jewish law, tradition and practice, and really quite interesting. Maybe you should consider approaching your rabbi and asking him questions if you're interested in learning more about Judaism.
Your Rabbi should reread Hitler’s writings.
They are based on social darwinism, which began with guess who?
The modern Darwinian evolutionary synthesis does no such thing. It simply observes allele change over time and posits four mechanisms in order to explain that change: selection, mutation, gene flow and genetic drift. You're trying to make this into some huge fight between religion and secularism, I understand that, but I don't think that's justified.
What’s up, Einig? So how’s tricks in Deutschland?
You guys had `Gott Mit Uns’ on your belt buckles in the second one, right . . . for all the good that did!
I’m thinking the tub-thumpers are afraid the high-brows are going to have them all `put to sleep’ someday.
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