Re: Expelled...not bad....anyone?

Ken McElhaney <mcelhaney@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:f944cba5-6920-41c9-
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> Just saw it this morning, pretty decent stuff though it's more serious
> than "funny" as the ads for it suggest. The most interesting aspect
> was watching hardcore Darwinian scientists admit that they know
> absolutely nothing about how life (i.e. the first single cell
> organism) was formed on Earth and yet in the same breath rule out
> "Intelligent Design".  Gee guys...if you admit you don't know...And
> yet the theories they propose (such as the combination of the
> necessary elements forming on the back of a crystal...I'm not making
> this up) make "Intelligent Design" look pretty darn sane.
> 
> The ending of the film is even more astounding as one simple question
> gets the most unlikely answer from one of the most visable Darwinian
> proponent/athiests/whatever in today's media.
> 
> Good job, Ben Stein...anyone?
> 

 Before you praise this movie Ken you may wish to see the special that 
Scientific American put together, basically this is about as much a 
documentary on evolution as "Bowling for Colombine" is on gun control.
 They actually put out several stories in a special email, including one
on 
the main misrepresentations in the film.this might be a good place to
start 
as a basic rebuttal.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=sciam-reviews-expelled

 I'm not sure if you know this but I studied biochemistry at university
and 
so this subject is of interest to me even though I admit that my knowledge

now is limited to reading the less technical papers and I am a little out 
of date.
 I.D. gives us NO answers, it obscures the work done by scientists and 
pretends to be scientific but has none of the rigor. It replaces a I don't

know but I am going to explore,to ponder,to experiment,to sift through the

data with, my choice of deity did it no matter the evidence may show. It
is 
a dead-end, and intellectual cul-de-sac.
 A couple of months ago I stood with my daughter in the natural history 
museum cafe and showed my daughter the statue of Charles Darwin,(and yes I

do agree he should have a more prominant position,) explaining that this 
man was the most important biologist in the world. Everything that anybody

in the biological sciences studies directly relates to his work.
 

-- 
Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to 
hide the bodies