Trouble ahead for science

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Advocates of Intelligent Design needed a story to explain why the idea has been a nonstarter within the scientific community, and Ben Stein has given it to them. The story line is that Intelligent Design advocates are persecuted and suppressed. "Expelled" tells of this terrible campaign against free expression, and mocks the pretensions of the closed-minded scientific elite supposedly behind it.

The movie also uses interviews with avowed atheists like Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion," to argue that scientific establishment is vehemently anti-God. Never mind that 40 percent of the members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science profess belief in a personal God. Stein, avoiding these 50,000 people, tells viewers that "Darwinists" don't allow scientists to even think of God.

Puzzled, the editors of Scientific American asked Mark Mathis, the film's co-producer, why he and Stein didn't interview such people, like Francis Collins (head of the Human Genome Project), Francisco Ayala, or myself. Mathis cited me by name, saying "Ken Miller would have confused the film unnecessarily." In other words, showing a scientist who accepts both God and evolution would have confused their story line.

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Great article. See more at Expelled Exposed

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The idea of intelligent design is based on a singular reasoning:

If someone is too complicated to explain now Goddidit.

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"Well this is new....and scary" - Serena on a Convent Scarab

But yeah, K Miller for the win.

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"Drop to your knees and direct your mouth to my crotch."
-Trent

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Isn't this like how you refuse to accept religions that don't make claims contrary to science/ reason because of the effect their presence has on your antireligious claims, going so far as to blatantly misrepresent their teachings so as to construe them as dogmatically opposed to reality (your equation of Thelema with Aleister Crowely's occult belief system comes to mind)?

But yeah, K Miller for the win.

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You mean like I'm a secular version of young earth creationism?

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Quote: from Wilder at 12:52 am on May 10, 2008

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Isn't this like how you refuse to accept religions that don't make claims contrary to science/ reason because of the effect their presence has on your antireligious claims, going so far as to blatantly misrepresent their teachings so as to construe them as dogmatically opposed to reality (your equation of Thelema with Aleister Crowely's occult belief system comes to mind)?  

 But yeah, K Miller for the win.

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You mean like I'm a secular version of young earth creationism?

 

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"Drop to your knees and direct your mouth to my crotch."
-Trent

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Quote: from Moridin at 4:32 am on May 10, 2008

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Quote: from Wilder at 12:52 am on May 10, 2008

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Isn't this like how you refuse to accept religions that don't make claims contrary to science/ reason because of the effect their presence has on your antireligious claims, going so far as to blatantly misrepresent their teachings so as to construe them as dogmatically opposed to reality (your equation of Thelema with Aleister Crowely's occult belief system comes to mind)?  

  But yeah, K Miller for the win.

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 You mean like I'm a secular version of young earth creationism?  

 

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YECs are to evolution as Moridin is to religion?

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Religion is Rotten - Read my blog on how religion is destroying the world

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Quote: from Wilder at 6:23 pm on May 10, 2008

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Quote: from Moridin at 4:32 am on May 10, 2008

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Quote: from Wilder at 12:52 am on May 10, 2008

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Isn't this like how you refuse to accept religions that don't make claims contrary to science/ reason because of the effect their presence has on your antireligious claims, going so far as to blatantly misrepresent their teachings so as to construe them as dogmatically opposed to reality (your equation of Thelema with Aleister Crowely's occult belief system comes to mind)?  

  But yeah, K Miller for the win.

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  You mean like I'm a secular version of young earth creationism?

 

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YECs are to evolution as Moridin is to religion?

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Yep.

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Let yourself be enchanted,
You just might break through
To ever ever after

He's a goof ball in my opinion.