Re: NYT's review of Expelled
- From: jillarontown@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:25:52 -0500
NYT's review of Expelled
From: Glend
"Positing the theory of
intelligent design as a
valid scientific hypothesis,
the film frames the refusal
of "big science" to agree as
nothing less than an assault
on free speech. Interviewees,
including the scientist
Richard Sternberg, claim that
questioning Darwinism led to
their expulsion from the
scientific fold (the film relies
extensively on the post hoc,
ergo propter hoc fallacy...
...snip...
Philosophy may start with opinions, but it requires artifice and science
to cease dialectical randomness that leads to a reduction into
absurdity. That is why Aristotle was a good philosopher and Hegel and
Marx were not.
Opinions are not the foundation of philosophy: It is the grammar about
reconstructing bits of information provided by sense and learning and
memory. Therefore, it is about the artifice of reconstructing parts,
like truth statements.
Take this statement for example: Mr. Stein had to have learned the
difference between 'accusation' and rulings that 'show cause' in legal
sense because he went to law school.
Did that statement show cause? No. Its a 'post hoc' statement.
How can we establish truth statements that 'show cause' in legal sense?
One way is to ask Mr Stein if he learned the difference between
'accusation' and 'show cause' in law school and show that in public.
Without his input in the public view, we are left in the dark.
As for the film, I did not see "Expelled". I do not know if Mr Stein
'showed cause', at least on par with legal sense requirements; namely,
that the teacher was fired because of his anti-Darwin opinion. The
author of the NYT's article also did not make a public statement about
the employer who fired the teacher having admitted in Mr Stein's movie
that he fired the teacher because of his anti-Darwin position.
I conclude, there are no philosophical positions at hand here, only a
continual reduction into absurdity. It is the first principle of BOTH
philosophy and science that gods and God NOT be allowed to be played as
a trump card to end the reduction into absurdity. However, when it comes
to 'origins' humans make it a game and a self-identification with power
and most notably now with political power.
Vjillar
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