This Week: Intelligent Conversation
In a world where a snob like Michael Moore and a smug manipulator like Al
Gore can win Oscars for "documentaries" that play fast and loose with the
truth, it's ironic that Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which
makes a serious effort to tell the truth about a problem that's seriously
damaging our civilization, not only won't get nominated for an Oscar but will
certainly be attacked as anti-scientific.
This is the opposite of the truth, or very nearly so. Ben Stein's film project was
to expose the way rigid insistence on Darwinist dogma is expelling not only
brilliant individuals but also truth itself from the public conversation of
science.
To do this, he tackles the issue of "intelligent design" (ID), which is detested by
atheists -- and many believers -- as an unscientific insistence that what can't
yet be explained by science must therefore be the result of a deliberate act by
some unidentified intelligence.
Of course, almost all adherents of ID have in mind that the "intelligent
designer" is God.
But Expelled is not trying to preach or even defend ID. The technical
arguments are far too complicated to explain in a movie. What Ben Stein is
trying to do is expose the way anyone who dissents from Darwinist orthodoxy is
punished and silenced.
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