Re: How Science Gets Swiftboated

On Apr 30, 4:25 am, Ray Martinez <pyramid...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 29, 6:46 pm, Jorge <jo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Ray can bite my knob.

This is an excerpt - for the entire article and discussion please go to:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/29/950658.aspx

"Ben Stein has done good things and funny things during his more than three
decades as an actor, economist and writer (going back to his days as a Nixon
speechwriter). His latest work, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," is not
that good and not that funny. There's something creepy about the documentary,
which blends a no-holds-barred assault on evolutionary theory with what sounds
like a high-minded cry for academic freedom. It's a 90-minute campaign ad,
aimed at swiftboating science.

Talk about negative campaigning: Stein and the "Expelled" filmmakers try to
link Charles Darwin and "Big Science" to Nazism and Stalinism. Scenes of death
camps, mad scientists, marching minions and the Berlin Wall are flashed on the
screen when Darwinism is discussed.

Before I saw the movie, I wondered how wacky it might be. Now I don't think
it's wacky. Instead, it's worrisome. The creepiest thing about "Expelled" is
that the filmmakers' strategy of casting the scientific establishment as a big
bad godless conspiracy just might work."

-more-

Much more at:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/29/950658.aspx

"Intelligent design -the pseudoscientific, inbred second-cousin of
biblical creationism."

- John Patterson THE GUARDIAN (UK) -

Since all Atheists are evolutionists, and since intelligence is not
allowed as an explanation of reality, science today is an anti-God
conspiracy.

Even if it were, it wouldn't diminish the validity of the scientific
theories in the least.

RS

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