No, Ben Stein's attacking Western Civilization.
Western Civilization is predicated on the belief that objective knowledge can be accumulated by rational, testable means. Creationism -- which is a euphemism for rejecting the concept of science and scientific knowledge -- rejects that premise.
There is no controversy as far as the facts go. But creationists insist that there is, insist that their unequal, invalid view should be placed on an equal field with science, that there shouldn't be criteria for testing ideas and their validity. "Teach the controversy," they cry, as if our society were incapable of differentiating real from imagined, right from wrong. You call yourself after the great Roman orator and statesman, yet I think Cicero would have been appalled by a line or argumentation that rejects reason and inquiry.
Yep, we all know that Western Civ and Modern Science have NOTHING to do with the Judeo-Christian religion.
At least, all the enlightened folk who aren’t stupid, right?
Really?
I thought Western Civilization was predicated on rational thought, which encompasses not only science but philosophy and theology as well.
Socrates and Aristotle did not have the modern idea of "the scientific method" and yet they were able to speak about rationality in both the natural world and the meta-physical world.
When did science co-opt all rationality? Why is the study of meta-physical areas now an affront to Science, and according to you, Western Civilization?
Yeah, that's all Western civilisation is based on.
Schmuck.
Because there was no Western Civilization before Darwin.
Michelangelo was an evolutionist. And so was Bach. Or so you would have us believe.
You got to help me out. If I believe that “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” I am attacking Western Civilization?
We’re not talking about creationism. We’re talking about intelligent design, which is in fact different.
I would also point out that the rise of western science and technology took place under Christian auspices. Darwin was late to the party.
Western Civilization is predicated on the belief that objective knowledge can be accumulated by rational, testable means. Creationism — which is a euphemism for rejecting the concept of science and scientific knowledge — rejects that premise.”
Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing.
It is this realization— that something transcendent started it all— which has hard-science types... using terms like “miracle”.
Western Civilization is predicated on the belief that objective knowledge can be accumulated by rational, testable means. Creationism — which is a euphemism for rejecting the concept of science and scientific knowledge — rejects that premise.”
Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing.
It is this realization— that something transcendent started it all— which has hard-science types... using terms like “miracle”.
Gregg Easterbrook
No bias there, huh?
Science IS a religion, and it seems you must be one of the high priests. Unless one accepts that everything came about from nothing, that life began from nothing, and that there COULK NOT BE EVEN A POSSIBILITY OF GOD, you are a heretic, and have "invalid"views.
ROFLMAO...
Yes, and that follows from the notion of design, purpose, teleology, and intelligent creation.