Expelled!–due out April 18th!
The new movie starring ben Stein hopes to expose the bias and censorship in the mainstream scientific community. I hope that many will see it and realize that science has not disproved religion, but replaced it. Check out their website. I especially like the “Big Science” concept–very appropriate. From the website:
At Big Science Academy we take our motto seriously: “No Intelligence Allowed.”
And this year, we are proud to report that in every subject but Science, students and faculty are free to challenge ideas, and seek truth wherever it may lead.
But Science is different. In Science, there is no room for dissent, for dissent is dangerous. That is why we at Big Science simply refuse to allow it. Like dancing, “dissent” can lead to other things.
I think Thomas Kuhn would agree. In discussing science education, he remarks:
Of course, it is a narrow and rigid education, probably more so than any other except perhaps orthodox theology (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, p. 166).
In fact, according to Kuhn, science insulates itself from views that lie outside of the currently accepted paradigm. The current scientific paradigm determines the questions that can be asked, and on that basis the scientific community decides whether new scientists will be accepted into the fold. This is exactly what is happening in the case of Intelligent Design. ID does not fit the current scientific paradigm, but a paradigms are not forever.
Benjamin Franklin said,
March 14, 2008 at 9:31 am
For those of you reading this blog who think that Ben Stein was in any way the motivating force behind “Expelled”, please reconsider.
From the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Texan interview with Logan Craft (executive producer of Expelled):
http://www.sbtexan.com/default.asp?action=article&aid=5533&issue=2/4/2008
TEXAN: How did Ben Stein come to be involved in the film?
CRAFT: Well, John (Sullivan, producer of Expelled) had a real insight, we believe, into the necessity to have a person, first of all, who wasn’t overtly Christian or overtly religious…
Ben Stein is a hack!
This film is a manufactured argument, cleverly crafted to advance a conservative Christian agenda. Intelligent design at this point, after almost 20 years and millions of dollars tossed at it by the Discovery Institute, is still merely conjecture. It has not yet even been fleshed out into a valid scientific hypothesis, and certainly hasn’t developed into a viable or testable theory.
So at this point, the ID/creationist movement is merely a well-funded public relations effort trying to rally public support by falsely decrying “There is no Freedom of Speech!”, and promoting “science/evolution = atheists = Nazism”, rather than offering any positive evidence for why ID should even be considered as science.
To see what people who have seen the movie are saying, go to
http://www.expelledexposed.com
“Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for or even against evolution, march in the army of the night with their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.”
—Isaac Asimov
Presuming Atheism? « The Wind in His Fists said,
March 14, 2008 at 10:58 am
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