By Juanell Garrett--Midwest Voices Columnist 2008
"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," Ben Stein's documentary about the difficulties of scientists who dare to tread off the evolutionary path, opened Friday at a few area theaters.
A review appeared in The Star's FYI section that day, one borrowed from Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel. His complete review didn't appear in the Star.
After reading the whole thing, I decided that Mr. Moore's one-star rating was probably due to his personal beliefs on the subject. On Yahoo, there are no critic reviews, but over six hundred Yahoo! users were giving it a B- rating as of 1:30 Saturday afternoon. Most of the couple hundred user reviews seemed to be strongly affected by the predilections (both ways) of the viewers.
I attended a Friday afternoon showing. Some on the Internet say Ben Stein fails to make the case for Intelligent Design. I think they missed the point. He's trying to show how anyone who dares to invoke the term is silenced. Contrary to what Mr. Moore said in his review, the "experts" (his quotes) didn't say they wanted to teach creation, but they do believe they should be able to point out that there is another possibility besides evolution, which remains a theory although it seems to be increasingly taught as fact.
A simple life form has 250 proteins and the human body has 100,000 proteins in each cell. Why can't anyone explain where all those proteins came from? Why are our children taught (as fact) that they evolved from some primordial soup via a lesser animal?
No one's denying that microevolution occurs. I've noticed that subsequent generations of my family are getting smarter and better-looking (fortunately for them!), but my perception may be the result of the lack of impartiality caused by becoming a mother and a grandmother.
Darwinists have a similar lack of objectivity. Their worldview requires the lack of a God, therefore they throw Him overboard in favor of a story that to this day fails to provide the answer to how life began. They have made it their business to attack religion rather than scientifically prove their own beliefs. Richard Dawkins went so far as to say that anyone who doesn't believe in evolution is insane or stupid. OK, I'll seek psychiatric help just as soon as he comes up with actual proof that an inorganic crystal evolved into something resembling the complexity of my grandchildren.
Toward the end of the documentary, Dr. Dawkins was asked what he would do if at the end of life he has to face the God who he doesn't believe in. He said, referring to something that had been said by Bertram Russell, he would ask God, "Why did you take such pains to hide yourself?" Dr. Dawkins, might I suggest you're not looking very hard?
Science has another orthodoxy that its members buck at their own risk--global warming. See Mike Thompson's April 14th weather blog here.
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The Facts
Darwin's theory from 1859 says species turn into completely different species(macroevolution). Never been seen.
Darwin said there would be "numberless" missing link fossils to prove him correct. In all this time, other than some outright frauds, no true missing links found in all this time.
The Cambrian Explosion where 40 different and distinct species show up at the same time shreds Darwin's tree of life.
Never has it been proven that life "Spontaneously Generates" from lifelessness.
That DNA that has to be fully intact for it to work doesn't manifests itself from mud after being hit by lightning.
The "mud" or primordial soup has not been proven to exist because the evidence of it would be massive amounts of nitrogen which makes up enzymes that are needed for life.
Darwin looked at Women, Africans, Orientals, Aborigines, etc. as less evolved and as proof of his amateur theory.
The dating of fossils are not 100% accurate and in fact are not very effective at all resulting in huge problematic gaps.
Darwin's macro evolution theory breaks the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Entropy, things wearing down, getting less orderly, is the exact opposite of Darwin's theory.
Statistical probability is also the enemy of this theory.
One fatal flaw is all it takes and here are 10 of them.
darwinist?
Just a note--
I am a Christian, and I believe in evolution because the facts and evidence support it. Christianity and natural selection are NOT mutually exclusive concepts. Perhaps this is the true meaning of intelligent design: that God created life using a tool called evolution.
Sound far-fetched? No more so than a talking snake or a six day creation. In my opinion, the message of Christianity is found in the wisdom of Christ's words, and not in a blind clinging belief to a Hebrew creation myth.
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we see you for what you are Dan
"...anyone who dares question the Sacred Theory are looked at like religious fanatics."
You are a religious fanatic Dan. You beleive in a deity fairy-tale, that's your right, but your nonsense should not be taught in schools. Teach it to your own kids at home or church.
Congratulations
You've made no sense whatsoever, and have succeeded only in demonstrating a profound ignorance, both of modern evolutionary theory and of how science works generally.
I find myself at a loss to explain your antipathy to science, since there's no logical disconnect between belief in God as creator and buying into evolutionary theory, gravitation, quantum electrodynamics, or any of hundreds of other scientific explanations of phenomena observed in our world.
My point exactly!
As I said, Darwinists have a long history of only seeing what they want to see. The previous poster doesn't get my point so he sees some kind of religious conspiracy from me instead.
Because Darwinists can't accept that what they blindly cling to is going down the toilet, they try to turn the discussion around to imagined religious bogeymen trying to make science go away.
That's why you can't have mature discussions with most Darwinists because to them, anyone who dares question the Sacred Theory are looked at like religious fanatics. It's really sad.
Foolishness
"Darwinists can't handle the fact that science evolves."
Of course it evolves. Any scientist will tell you that. Any scientific theory evolves over time to accommodate new data.
You seem to have a silly concept of science that's utterly divorced from the reality of science as it's practiced.
As far as I can tell, your main beef with evolutionary theory is that you feel it threatens your religious viewpoint. Many folks are both religious and buy into evolutionary theory, because, as I pointed out, there's simply no contradiction between believing in God and believing in evolution (or believing the earth goes around the sun, or that diseases are caused by microorganisms, or that energy can be released by the splitting of atoms).
Why are you so frightened of science? In what way does it threaten your faith?
The Facts of Change
Darwinists can't handle the fact that science evolves. They would rather ride this titanic to the very bottom rather than accept the fact that the scientific discoveries since 1859 point away from macro evolution which is what Darwin's theory is. Instead of following where the evidence leads them, they constantly waste money and time trying desperately to prop up this tired theory with more and more fantastical explanations.
But there's no controversy claim the Darwinists who've had a history of seeing only what they want to see since 1859. As far as they're concerned regarding the present movie about this very controversy, it's just a big evil plot, a conspiracy against them and their "True" science.
Just don't say anything about it to them though, they get real bent out of shape being they know deep down this theory is in tatters.
just the fact that
there ain't no controversy. There's no contradiction between buying into the theory of evolution and believing in a creator God.
Not everyone who believes in God is as clueless about science as you appear to be.
Spontaneous Generation Magic!
Darwinists have blind faith in the voodoo belief that lightning bolts can strike patches of mud and the intricate computer code-like DNA fully intact and ready to go, just poofs into existence!
They also believe they're the chosen ones to administer all science without question.
Unfortunately for the Church of Darwin, there aren't any magic wands to wave around to make the growing controversy go away.
"How does the spin of the
"How does the spin of the earth not create centrifugal force and throw us off instead of hold us down?"
It's because of Ilbs - God of Gravity, he's the second cousin of Aqua - the God of Water. Yep, witout Aqua around, water wouldn't flow, it would just sit there. How can we be sure the Mississippi is flowing towards the Gulf of Mexico, maybe the north American continent is actually flowing north, and the water is just standing in place. I know that water really flows, for my Aqua tells me so.
"Maybe, though, I pray that no large truck pulls out in front of me." So if a truck does pull in front of you some day, I guess your prayers were ignored, your God has forsaken you, and you're doomed to live eternity burning in hell.
'I just find it hard to believe that these things “just happened.”' I know, it's just so far-fetched. I mean, if you believe that, you'd believe that some dude lived in a whale, another dude built a boat with 2 of every animal species on board, end the earth is only 6000 years old.