(on Expelled)
The film wasn't done to insult their life's? work. Not at all. It was to examine their work with an open-mind.
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No, it wasn't. It was a cack-handed hatchet job with the ultimate aim of killing the grand unifying theory of biology.
As a hatchet job, it wasn't even very good.
Open-mind? Bullshit! Hypocritical bunk! The assholes who made this movie showed how open their minds were when they EXPELLED some of the "stars" by blacklisting them from the movie opening. And nothing shows an open-mind like LYING to get interviews. And open-mind about what, the movie simply insults evolution and advocates intelligent design without ever DEFINING either concept in the movie. It is a piece of attack propaganda, pure and simple nothing open-minded about it.
Yet the films own producers admitted that they didn't interview any theistic biologists because it would have unnecessarily confused their message that evolution = atheism.
They were so open minded that they thought it best not allow any contradictory statements to change the 'message' they had already decided to push.
Isn't that what they claimed the evolutionists were doing?
OK, let's examine their work with an open mind. I'm game.
Afterwards, we'll do the same with your beliefs, and we'll see which holds up better. Sound good?
The movie never addresses what evolution really is. It never, ONCE, offers up a coherent scientific theory of "Intellegent Design", yet wants ID to have "equal time" with evolutionary theory (always called "Darwinism" in the film). Ironically, even when it tries to mock people like Dawkins by having him offer up a theoretical "Intellegent Design" scenario, the editors and producers of the movie are too stupid to recognise that he still was advocating evolution and natural processes as the ultimate origin of sentient life. If you cut out all the patent untruths, the non sequitor segments (Stein wandering the streets of Seattle, the Dachau visit, the black and white clippings designed to evoke an emotional negative response to evolution and some of its advocates) you have almost nothing left. But the worst thing is, this movie's failure in the theater is meaningless. In DVD form it will be poisoning minds in home-taught, religious based private schools, and in community viewings pushed by creationists. Instead of one large fire it will become a thousand small brushfires, each doiing just a little more damage to the scientific knowledge of the nation, raising the anti-science bias of people. I wonder, if in the name of "academic freedom", if Ben Stein would approve of the teaching of Holocost Denial in history classes. After all, there are historians out there who support that particular view, and we do want to give everyone their chance... somehow I suspect that Mr. Stein's standards of academic integrity and requirement of evidence would suddenly improve if someone tried to push this case. And no, I don't seriously support the idea. Nonsense is nonsene after all.
That's the same open mind that tells you to shut the hell up, follow your pastor and be a good little sheeple?
I'd rather do experiments and question things.
An open mind and a ...
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THEY DOCTORED IT!
Jm wrote:
"If this movie saved just one person from the virus caused by atheistic world veiws, then it was worth it." Hi, Jm.
You're probably either (A) a visiting Christian who's new around here, or (B) an atheist posting what we around here refer to as a "Poe".
In either event, I have to ask: Are you talking about:
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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