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

Ken McElhaney wrote:
> Weirdwolf wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Let's take it one at a time;
>
> 1) ) Expelled quotes Charles Darwin selectively to connect his ideas
> to eugenics and the Holocaust.
>
> Uhm, no. What the film does do is connect how the "science" of
> eugenics was warped and modified by Hitler in order to justify his
> treatment of "lesser" peoples.

I'm confused, was this section of the movie kind of a non sequitur,
then?

<snip>

> Yet the scientific community has no explaination of the origins of
> life on Earth, that is certainly without dispute, only some theories
> that as of yet cannot be proven.

It doesn't matter what can be proven (not in this context), what matters
is that it is possible to *disprove* them.
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Tyler Trafford

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