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.
