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Help defend science: flunked not expelled
Author: cbit on April 18 2008 Viewed 6122 times. 29 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Apologies, a completely non-music related post.
The creationist/ID friendly pseudo documentary called Expelled will be screening near you soon. In the film, Ben Stein claims that scientists critical of the theory of evolution are being silenced by the powers behind "big science". Through ham fisted montages the film also tries to establish a link between the theory of evolution and Nazism and other genocidal ideologies.
Christian fundamentalists are lobbying hard to promote this film, even offering incentives to school groups to go and see it.
A counter site has been launched by the national center for science education that lists, and refutes, the lies and important omissions of the expelled film.
Publishing hyperlinks to the expelled exposed site, using 'expelled' as the visible link text, will help make the counter site more visible in search engines, and help ensure that people really do hear 'both sides' of the story. If you can, please help out.
Here's a review of the film:
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Digging this page will help spread the word too (there's a subtle digg link beneath this blog post)
edit: "help defend science" == shorthand for 'help protect people from being robbed of the chance to understand the scientific method, to understand the crucial importance of evidence based reason in evaluating truth claims, to understand the principles or critical thought, to appreciate the enormous weight of evidence in support of evolutionary theory.' | |
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Zanf
Heres a youtube video that points out some of ben steins flawed arguments in 'expelled'
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Analog
I bet Jesus is well chuffed.
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11t1
Damn, I always thought Ben Stein was much smarter than that.
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hecanjog
Yeah i didn't expect this of Ben Stein.
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license
same here, that's unfortunate.
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Otterfan
I just don't get Ben Stein.
He's got this weird idea that, being a religious man himself, it's to his benefit to actively defend all of the right-wing American religious causes. What he doesn't appreciate is that most American right-wing religious leaders aren't really after religious freedom but rather Christian hegemony in public life.
You'd think a guy with his credentials would be savvy enough to figure this out.
Of course everyone knows evolution is just a theory anyway.
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zach
I was going to a therapist to try to treat depression and, in the midst of talking about something personal, made an offhand remark about the ridiculousness of creationism and its attempt to rebrand itself as "intelligent design." The therapist stopped the session to dramatically intone (like in a movie he would have taken his glasses off to say this), "But there's real science behind intelligent design." After that and calling me "Jason" twice in the same session, I stopped going to him. :P
Also: I'd like to explicitly question the "science" of a methodology that seems to say, "Take all that stuff that isn't yet 100% knowable - interstellar matter prior to the big bang, the exact day/hour/minute/second of the first peptide bonds, etc. - and put it in that God Musta Done It folder. Oh. And get me something about how Noah's ark like totally for serious could have happened. Baseless self-satisfaction, I has it."
(To that end the Conservapedia's prismatic view of reality is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.)
Shorter version: I am more than happy to help with the linking effort. 
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bla
i think intelligent design should be about aliens and spacemen
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zach
Omg, bla. My wife's mom told her, when she was little, that humanity was the result of alien breeding experiments and that they got bored with us and wandered off. (This was while, concurrently, being her "sunday school" teacher.)
My mother-in-law is awesome.
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license
zach: (or should I say Jason?) great story about your douchebag ex-therapist.
I went to high school in the Bible Belt. all the teachers, even those who seemed like perfectly reasonable and trustworthy (with the exception of my German teacher, who confided in me about his love for Depeche Mode and Front Line Assembly), had these weird undertones. after my social studies teacher got done bashing gays in class on an almost daily basis, I went to biology where the teacher explained anything not found in the textbook with "because God said".
the funniest thing to me about this hegemony is that they're so fucking PROUD PROUD PROUD of their intolerance, ignorance, stubbornness, mental and spiritual laziness. it also cracks me up how most of these people seem to drive gigantic polluting vehicles and don't give 2 shits about recycling or any kind of conservational effort...as if their creation-based religion doesn't take into account stewardship for living things and the natural environment that their god created.
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bleen
movies like that make me fearful of the future.
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cbit
Digging this page will help too (there's a subtle digg link beneath the blog post)
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minisystem
zach's therapist is a sign that the intelligent design propaganda of the discovery institute (which, incidentally, gets funding for some of its non anti-science-bible-thumping activities from the Gates foundation) and other nutjobs is working. people want to believe it.
this is just another sign of the endarkenment enveloping us. all the more reason for me to move to a large rural property and build a high fence.
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cbit
license said: "as if their creation-based religion doesn't take into account stewardship for living things and the natural environment that their god created."
That's where the 'end days' and rapture doctrines come in. Why bother taking care of the environment if Jesus is due back soon? And no, nevermind about the inexplicable 2000+ year delay, this time he's really *really* coming back soon [eyeroll].
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maydaycapsiz
I think I might be the only Christian at this site. Whilst my view on creation is not as pragmatic as some.....I completely believe the bible is inspired by God and he made freaking everything..... I just enjoyed the birth of a daughter...surely in moments like that you don't at least question the existence of a beautiful, creative and loving God....
let the flaming begin
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