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Right to the Point
PostedApril 27, 2008
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from Florida
Ben Stein’s movie/documentary goes right to the point. How many of our scientific theories of the past have given way to new and compelling evidence over a period of time? Ben Stein’s case for academic freedom, particularly with reference to naturalistic Darwinian evolutionary theory is absolutely critical for the integrity of the scientific enterprise. The opportunity to critique and challenge naturalistic Darwinism in civil, rational discourse in light of a growing body of rather compelling, contemporary, scientific evidence pointing to design ought to be inviolable. It is rather frustrating that whenever there is the suggestion that such evidence points to design, well-qualified scientists find themselves “expelled” from the opportunity to debate, teach, and publish their arguments without those arguments being dismissed under the label of “religion.” One has but to read the publications of men like Michael Behe, William Dembski, Jonathan Wells, Stephen Meyer, and Guillermo Gonzalez with Jay Wesley Richards – to name but a few – to see that their works are scholarly, scientific, and subject to review and scientific critique, and invite the same. To summarily dismiss them as “religion” because they suggest that the observed evidence points to “design” unveils the underlying naturalistic philosophical commitment of many Darwinian evolutionists who choose to define science in terms that disallow even the possibility that the evidence might point beyond itself to a designer. But once one realizes that it is the naturalistic philosophical commitment that refuses to allow civil debate and critique, then he needs to cry “Let the debate proceed!” And that is what Ben Stein has done.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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