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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Ben Stein and Intelligent Design
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ben Stein, actor (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), lawyer and social commentator has a new film out, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.”
Here’s the upshot of the work, according to a press release: “Stein uncovers a long line of biologists, astronomers, chemists and philosophers who have had their reputations destroyed and their careers ruined by a scientific community that allows absolutely no dissent from Charles Darwin’s theory of random mutation and natural selection.”
Says Stein, “Big Science in this area of biology has lost its way. Scientists are supposed to be allowed to follow the evidence wherever it may lead, no matter what the implications are. Freedom of inquiry has been greatly compromised, and this is not only anti-American, it’s anti-science. It’s anti the whole concept of learning.”
The movie “uncovers that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure, even fired in some cases for the fact that they believe there is evidence of “design” in nature, challenging the idea that life is a result of random chance.”
Is Stein right?
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