Posted on 04/17/2008 4:07:06 PM PDT by Aristotelian
I confess that when the producers of Ben Stein’s new documentary “Expelled” called, offering me a private screening, I was less than excited.
It is a reality of PC liberalism: There is only one credible side to an issue, and any dissent is not only rejected, it is scorned. Global warming. Gay “rights.” Abortion “rights.” On these and so many other issues there is enlightenment, and then there is the Idiotic Other Side. PC liberalism’s power centers are the news media, the entertainment industry and academia and all are in the clutches of an unmistakable hypocrisy: Theirs is an ideology that preaches the freedom of thought and expression at every opportunity, yet practices absolute intolerance toward dissension.
Evolution is another one of those one-sided debates. We know the concept of Intelligent Design is stifled in academic circles. An entire documentary to state the obvious? You can see my reluctance to view it.
I went into the screening bored. I came out of it stunned.
Ben Stein’s extraordinary presentation documents how the worlds of science and academia not only crush debate on the origins of life, but also crush the careers of professors who dare to question the Darwinian hypothesis of evolution and natural selection.
Stein asks a simple question: What if the universe began with an intelligent designer, a designer named God? He assembles a stable of academics – experts all -- who dared to question Darwinist assumptions and found themselves “expelled” from intellectual discourse as a result. They include evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg (sandbagged at the Smithsonian), biology professor Caroline Crocker (drummed out of George Mason University), and astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez (blackballed at Iowa State University).
That’s disturbing enough, but what Stein does next is truly shocking. He allows the principal advocates of Darwinism to speak their minds.
(Excerpt) Read more at mrc.org ...
Michael Moore, the left's favorite documentarian, never lets the other side speak its mind -- except when it is heavily edited, so heavily edited, in fact, as to twist and distort the meaning of what was actually said.
Thanks, Ben...I was gettin' a bit movie starved, too!
Is the movie out tomorrow? I was afraid some court order would stop it.
Saw it at CPAC and it’s definitely worth your time and money. I hope Ben or someone else will do something similar on the ‘climate change’ hoax.
I think I'll be sure to go see this one next week.
I do want to see this film, hoping it stays in the theaters since we can’t go this weekend.
” What, then, is the alternate explanation? Stein asks these experts, and their very serious answers are priceless. One theorizes that life began somehow on the backs of crystals. Another states electric sparks from a lightning storm created organic matter (out of nothing). Another declares that life was brought to Earth by aliens. Anything but God. “
Pricless indeed. A lightning bolt manufactured the first protein from nothing ! ?
Priceless.
This will be shocking news to the evolutionarily biologists that I know who attend church or synagogue multiple times each week.
How should I explain to them that they are really atheists?
Ben Stein- Great American.
Provide a test for your favorite deity and then he/she/it/they can be considered a part of science.
Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2003002/posts
Looks like Ben Stein has been taking documentary lessons from Michael Moore.
I wonder whether “Expelled” will win the Documentary Feature Academy Award.
Go Ben! Don’t let the debate be stifled.
I want to see Intelligent Design raised in a question in a presidential debate.
Ah yes, the earlier posted SciAm article.
Funny thing about SciAm. They endorse that highly unscientific theory of gobul warming.
How quaint. How .. scientific, ... NOT!
Yes. I might go see this and I have not been to a movie theatre since 1999 (Mel Gibson's The Patriot).
Provide a test where the first protein manufactured itself and you`ll be considered as part of science.
Until then, you`re as priceless as the lightning bolt boy.
Well, if a lightening storm created electric sparks, something/someone had to have created the lightning. Wonder what his answer for that was? If any?
Just thinking...
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