“I’ve not seen the movie either, and based on what I know of it have no desire to. It’s sad to see Ben Stein, who’s been very funny at times, involved with such an intellectually bereft effort.”
So, just like the liberal academics, you say that having a dissenting opinion is being “intellectually bereft?”
Nice.
All dissenting opinions are not created equally. Someone who believes that 2 and 2 make 8 does not have a valid opinion. Someone who believes that Jews should be exterminated does not have a valid opinion. Someone who believes that the world was created in seven days six thousand years ago does not belong anywhere near a science classroom, except as a student. The whole creationist argument is predicated on the belief that we're too stupid as human beings to be able to tell fact from fiction, and, given our stupidity, should just present all sides to schoolchildren equally since we can't hope to judge facts rationally.
I think that notion rejects the entire 2500 year tradition of Western Civilization, rejects the idea that there can be any such thing as objective knowledge.