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

Ken McElhaney wrote:
> Weirdwolf wrote:
>
>> As you may have noticed I like to talk, I love to debate,explore
>> ideas learn new things.It's the scientist in me.  Ben Stein however
>> has a differing viewpoint, 'What would you like to say to Darwin?
>>
>> "You are a wealthy man, you married a wealthy woman, why don’t you
>> just live quietly out in the countryside and not torture us with your
>> half- baked suppositions, which have caused so much misery?"'
>>  Truly a man who believes in intellectual debate it seems.
>
> Hmm, Ben Stein certainly defies his own words in "Expelled".  All one
> has to do is listen to his questions. He does not berate or impose his
> own ideals, he asks open-ended questions.

Again, this particular part of this discussion seems moot unless you
know that Stein wrote his own questions.

<snip>

> I have seen other programs which delve into their experiments...the
> continuing theme seems to be why something that should be so easy to
> recreate in a lab is proving so difficult to do.  After all, we have
> all the basic building blocks of life right here, right now, and can
> recreate the conditions of the "primative" Earth with ease. Yet for
> some reason, the answer continues to elude them.

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>> Would you say that all physics is rubbish because there is no as yet
>> agreed upon cause for the big bang?
>
> No one is saying that ALL of evolution is rubbish because the
> Darwinians cannot explain the origin of the first living cell. In
> fact, ALL of the evolution theory AFTER that is not disputed at all.

I assume by "Darwinians" (I have never heard this term before) you mean
evolutionary biologists.  Ted can correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the
search for the ultimate abiogenesis a separate field of study?
-- 
Tyler Trafford

The universe is ruled by letting things take their course.  It cannot be
ruled by interfering.
		-- Chinese proverb