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Expelled: Trying to open closed minds
PostedApril 19, 2008
SpdrMnky
from Seattle, wA
I went into this movie with no expectations, having only seen one preview that only explained the premise. I would invite everyone to see this movie. I would also invite this movie's opponents to *try* to refute the facts this movie brought up.
Here is what I came away with:
There are prominent people in the scientific community that are willing to throw out one of the most basic principles of the scientific method (question everything) due to their own pride and fear.
There are organizations actively trying to keep those questions from being asked, even in places where the questions are welcome.
Finally, the people who see the movie that don't come away wondering about the total accuracy of the Evolution Theory (or Darwinism, if you must) weren't paying attention. Their pride was undoubtedly stung and they probably spent half the movie trying to think up arguments against what they're seeing.
This movie tells the truth. It presents facts, unpopular facts, but facts nonetheless.
The negative reviews I have read don't actually address the cases presented in the movie or even try to refute the facts of the extreme improbability of life's spontaneous generation on this planet! Instead they ask "why wasn't so-and-so interviewed... they would have set you straight" or say "it's all lies and propaganda."
The fact that was presented that no one seems to get?
Intelligent Design theory is scientific, not religious. The ID theorists are willing to question who the intelligent designer is and only want the point of view investigated to see if the theory answers questions unanswered by evolutionists.
The crowing point of the movie as far as my own personal enjoyment is concerned?
Hearing Richard Dawkins say (paraphrasing), "Life on this planet may have come from another race of people who have evolved to the point where they could design a self-replicating, single-cell organism that they could use to seed our planet." I have trouble even quoting that with a straight face!! How would this anti-intelligent design scientist not hear the words he used? Out of his own mouth, he admitted that life on our planet may have been designed!
And he calls *us* idiots....
Here is what I came away with:
There are prominent people in the scientific community that are willing to throw out one of the most basic principles of the scientific method (question everything) due to their own pride and fear.
There are organizations actively trying to keep those questions from being asked, even in places where the questions are welcome.
Finally, the people who see the movie that don't come away wondering about the total accuracy of the Evolution Theory (or Darwinism, if you must) weren't paying attention. Their pride was undoubtedly stung and they probably spent half the movie trying to think up arguments against what they're seeing.
This movie tells the truth. It presents facts, unpopular facts, but facts nonetheless.
The negative reviews I have read don't actually address the cases presented in the movie or even try to refute the facts of the extreme improbability of life's spontaneous generation on this planet! Instead they ask "why wasn't so-and-so interviewed... they would have set you straight" or say "it's all lies and propaganda."
The fact that was presented that no one seems to get?
Intelligent Design theory is scientific, not religious. The ID theorists are willing to question who the intelligent designer is and only want the point of view investigated to see if the theory answers questions unanswered by evolutionists.
The crowing point of the movie as far as my own personal enjoyment is concerned?
Hearing Richard Dawkins say (paraphrasing), "Life on this planet may have come from another race of people who have evolved to the point where they could design a self-replicating, single-cell organism that they could use to seed our planet." I have trouble even quoting that with a straight face!! How would this anti-intelligent design scientist not hear the words he used? Out of his own mouth, he admitted that life on our planet may have been designed!
And he calls *us* idiots....
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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