Expelled opens Friday amid opposition and praise

expelled This just landed in my Inbox from CBA Industry Brief and I thought I’d share. I guess next Friday is movie night. ; )

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, starring Ben Stein, is set to open in nearly 1,000 theaters nationwide this Friday, April 18. The film follows Stein as he discovers that students, educators, and scientists are being ridiculed and even fired for merely believing that there’s evidence of “Design” in Creation (God), and that perhaps life isn’t just the result of accidental, random chance. He confronts the world’s leading atheists and Darwinists in a humorous yet serious battle of world views, a quest for freedom, and a frightening look at the dire consequences this culture war could have.

While Darwinists and atheists are fervently opposing the film, faith and family organizations like Focus on the Family, American Family Assoc., Young Life, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and many others have endorsed the movie.

Visit www.GetExpelled.com for more information and free resources.

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2 Responses to “Expelled opens Friday amid opposition and praise”

  1. Benjamin Franklin Says:
    April 16, 2008 at 12:12 am

    The Claim
    “Intelligent design was being suppressed in a systematic and ruthless fashion” (Ben Stein, Expelled).

    The Facts
    Intelligent design has not produced any research to suppress. When prominent ID proponent Michael Behe was asked about his research, and why “you don’t do those tests?” he responded, “I myself would prefer to spend time in what I would consider to be more fruitful endeavors.” If even proponents of ID do not think it is a fruitful enterprise, why should the scientific community take any interest in it?

    As shown elsewhere, ( http://www.expelledexposed.com ) the supposed cases of suppression offered in Expelled are dishonest attempts to make mountains out of molehills and to create martyrs where martyrdom does not exist.

    Intelligent design is scientifically unproductive. Ultimately, intelligent design’s lack of success in science departments is the fault of the flawed and unscientific nature of intelligent design itself, not the result of bias in the scientific community.

    The issue is not the suppression of ID, but the lack of warrant for its scientific claims. And ultimately, ID has an uphill struggle to demonstrate that it is, indeed, science. The fundamental problem with intelligent design as science is that intelligent design claims cannot be tested. Scientific testing requires that there be some set of phenomena which are incompatible with your idea. No observation could possibly be incompatible with a claim that an “intelligent agent” (whom everyone recognizes as God) acted to, say, introduce information into a system. Untestable claims are not scientific claims. Regardless of their attractiveness as religious ideas (although many people of faith strongly reject intelligent design) intelligent design has not passed muster as science.

  2. Pundit Mama Says:
    May 9, 2008 at 4:24 am

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