Posted by
D W W Robertson on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:33:31 PM
This user represents many of the comments I’ve been reading in response to Ben Stein’s movie Expelled. It is so obvious that people are missing the whole point of the movie. Featured User comment on imdb.com from m0laria@gmail.com:
Completely inaccurate. Equates scientists to Nazis. Doesn't even explain what Intelligent Design is, or offer one single opposing theory to evolution. Only interviews scientists who also happen to be Atheist, for obvious reasons of generating a false argument that evolution must lead to atheism.
The movie did not purport to prove that intelligent design is the best alternative theory to Darwinism. It is not an argument that intelligent design should be taught in the class room.
The movie does expose that Darwinists do not have all the answers that they claim to have. Furthermore, Stein argues that evolution should not have to lead to atheism as these prominent scientists argue. It is not the other way around. Stein interviews these scientists because the are prominent and they believe that atheism is supported by evolutionary theory, not because Stein believes that evolution leads to atheism.
The whole point? The academic enterprise is undermined by a refusal to be honest about Darwinism’s weaknesses and most importantly that the freedom to criticize any idea in the classroom is a crucial element for progress in learning. The universities should be the forefront in the marketplace of ideas. They have become dens of intolerance where criticism is silenced by those in authority.