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PostedApril 27, 2008
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I've always been a big fan of Ben Stein and greatly admire his intellect but this so called documentary showed a great lack of any intellegence. I found it interresting that he did not concentrate on any of the points of Iintellegent Design vs. Evolution, but rather presented it as a freedom of speech issue. He took a few disgruntled employees and used that as a springboard into his conspiracy theory that somehow "Big Science" was preventing any discussion of ID and squelching anyone that tries to present this point of view. This is utter nonsence. There is no "Boss" of science. There is no single authority. The people that lost their jobs failed to demonstrate any experimental data to support their hypothesis. The common thread among ID proponants is "since this is so complex it must have had a designer" is not science. There is no experimental data, no predictions, no theory. Just "prove it isn't so" statements that defy logic.
There are many highly religous evolution biologists that have strong faith and still have no issue with Darwinian evolution. Stein did not seek our or interview any of them and instead used one of the most outspoken and controversial athiests as his foil.
The cheap trick of showing the evils of "Darwinism" (there is no such word by the way. Ism's are beliefs - Catholicism, Prostistantism, Budism, Hinduism etc.) by using Hitler and how he used Darwin to justify his actions. History is full of evil people using the words of others to justify their deeds. The Bible has been used to justify slavery, genocide, incest and murder. Even the Beatles song "Helter Skelter" was used by Charles Manson as his inspiration. It is a lot of nothing and, other than being self serving, does not promote the cause of free speech that Stein claims to be promoting.
There is no lack of free speech in science. ID has failed repeatedly to present even one piece of experimental data to support it's claims. In a Science classroom evidence is everything. There are reams and reams of data to support Darwinian evolution and nothing but belief to support ID. One of the major tenents in science is that it can be falsified. That is evolution can be proven wrong. All it takes is verifiable experimentation or solid evidence to the contrary. If the ID people have this they should bring it on. A Nobel prize is waiting for them.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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