We saw Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a new documentary/movie, yesterday afternoon. Much to our surprise, the theater was PACKED, with every seat in the house taken, even the front row!!! Amazing! We were thinking we might have been pretty lonely in there. Conservatives in this neck of the woods often feel lonely among the sea of the Obama and the Hillary bumper stickers of South Florida. So it was much to our delight that we were amongst plenty of laughing, cheering, gasping, applauding movie-goers. It felt comforting…
To me, the movie wasn’t all about espousing Ben Stein’s personal beliefs, but more of an eye opener to what is going on out there in our leftist universities, scientific community, and main-stream media. The documentary recounted/interviewed many university professors, journalists, and scientists/biologists, et al. that were fired, forced out, denied tenured, etc. for mere mention of Intelligence Design or Creationism.
Why is it that one cannot or should not make suggestion that perhaps a Higher Being, a Creator, exists when none of the theories has the absolute answer. It is still up to the individual to decide…but to simply dismiss one whole side of this argument is just plain ignorance to me. Besides, evolution is a process of change…it does not address the original creation. Even the eminent Oxford scholor and a big Darwin rottweiler, Richard Dawkins, asserted in the interview by Ben Stein that perhaps it is “possible that advanced aliens could have seeded life.” I suppose that believing in an intelligent alien from another planet is much easier than to believe in GOD as the Creator…?? 
In my experience as a youth schooled within the parochial system (Catholic elementary school, Baptist middle school, and Lutheran high school), all of them lectured about Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. We were taught about the Big Bang theory and so on in science and biology class, while Bible Study class taught us about God as our Creator. Now I can tell you, as a Buddhist, I was and still am quite conflicted in this regard. But at least I am thankful that these schools gave me the information, ALL the information to allow for me to decipher for myself. Why is this an issue within Public schools and universities? I don’t know. If you control the information disseminated to shape the minds, aren’t you just creating mindless robots?
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I suppose that believing in an intelligent alien from another planet is much easier than to believe in GOD as the Creator…??
Yes, because an intelligent alien would be IN the universe and you could possibly test for the alien’s existence. Whereas god is always undefined and outside of scrutiny by humans. That’s convenient for those who believe, as it puts it their deity out of scientific scrutiny. But at the same time it makes god worthless with respect to scientific research. It does no good to just press the “God Did It” button, as that explains nothing. We need to figure out how things work in the real world from the bottom up! Cheers!
You are free to make any claim of any supernatural creator you want (we prefer the Flying Spaghetti Monster). Really. We mean it. But do it in the proper place. Under Philosophy and religious studies.
The reason you cannot teach Intelligent Design in science class is because it invokes the supernatural. Science, by definition, can say nothing about the supernatural. The supernatural cannot be falsified, and science relies on predictions and the falsifications of the predictions. Even Michael Behe, one of the most prominent proponents of Intelligent Design, admitted at the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial that if we expanded the definition of science to allow Intelligent Design, then even Astrology would be considered science.
BTW, if you wondered why all those parochial schools taught evolution, it’s because they accept Theistic Evolution (a much different beast from Intelligent Design, one of which is their full acceptance of evolution along with the rest of science)
I watched the trailer to this film, and it looks like the entire thing is nothing but talking heads. Isn’t that incredibly boring? I mean, I’ve had lengthy discussions about creationism before, and I don’t really want to pay money to watch a bunch of academic windbacks have the same conversation!
Is the subject matter all that is engaging in this film, or is there something more? I hear so many great things about it, but no one mentions what it’s actually like as a movie instead of a topic.
I am looking forward to seeing it! Isn’t it amazing how cheering it is when the conservatives out there get a little piece of the entertainment pie? I got so tired of the Michael Moore movies and then the anti-military movies – its discouraging. But then something like this comes out and DOES WELL and low and behold we are reminded that there definitely is a large conservative base out there. You are not alone!