Expunged

This past weekend we went to see the new Pro-Intelligent Design (a re-dressing of Creation Science) film from pop culture icon Ben Stein called: Expelled.

The documentary attempts to uncover a conspiracy in the world of Science. Ben Steins says that if you are a proponent of Intelligent Design, the idea that all life in the Universe was designed by a Creator, and you work in the scientific field then you will be ostracized.

He says that this is an issue of free speech. That all ideas should be given equal weight in the eyes of the scientific method. But the scientific method is not democratic, and it shouldn't be. Certain ideas are given more weight because the evidence supports them, others are considered foolish because they LACK EVIDENCE.

But he doesn't stop at promoting ID, he also goes after old Darwin himself.

Ben Stein tries to denounce Evolution by showing that the theory itself doesn't have all the answers. He says that Evolution falls short because it fails to explain how life on Earth began... This drives us absolutely crazy.

Evolution is not a theory on the origin of life. Evolution is a theory that attempts to explain how life changes over time.

Nobody knows how life began. Because.. you know, that's like the GREATEST MYSTERY IN THE UNIVERSE. To say that evolution is flawed because it doesn't solve one of the biggest questions in existence, even though it was never intended to, is like saying that Robocop is flawed because he's not good at pottery. Robocop's job isn't to make a clay bowl, it's to shoot jacked-up bad guys, and survive gas station explosions. Besides, his giant robot hands lack the subtle movement needed to be a great potter.

The shoddy workmanship in this film doesn't end there. A couple of our favorite Scientists and a few prominent Atheists were duped into being interviewed for a movie called "Crossroads: Where Religion and Science meet." That movie was sold as a open minded discussion about the compatibility of Science and Religion. The movie we got in it's place seems a little one sided.

The website Expelled Exposed goes a long way to show that the film wasn't a documentary at all, but rather an attempt to create a controversy where there was only rational science-minded thought.

Here is the story of a Science Teacher who really was fired from a Texas school for failing to remain neutral on the subject of Creationism. Fired, by a school! For trying to teach science!