I just got back from a couple of weeks in Israel, where I visited the ruins of the ancient city of Capernaum on the shores of the Sea of Galilee and saw this stone: An “expert” at the site insisted that this stone bears the marks of a 1st century Jewish stone carver. “But,” I asked […]
Month: April 2008
Nobel Laureate Fraud Exposed
Go here On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film [An Inconvenient Truth] was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster “The Day After Tomorrow.” And here it is!
Duped and Duping — What Goes Around Comes Around
Richard Dawkins continues to be indignant about being “duped” into taking part in Ben Stein’s EXPELLED. His indignation is a pose. Dawkins and his TV production company tried to dupe those who disagree with him into taking part in his “Enemies of Reason” series. Some of the people in that series (and in his previous […]
Victimized by EXPELLED?
Richard Dawkins posts a letter on his website by an anonymous individual who, supposedly inspired by his viewing of EXPELLED, now holds Dawkins and fellow Darwinists responsible for the Holocaust. Dawkins then shifts the blame to Ben Stein and EXPELLED. This is the same Dawkins who in books and videos rails against religious people for […]
IDEA Revolution: Caroline Crocker, April 27 in Vienna, Va
A star of Expelled, biologist Caroline Crocker, will be making an appearance at: McLean Bible Church 8925 Leesburg Pike Vienna, Virginia 12:30 PM Sunday, April 27, 2008 I hope to meet some of you at Dr. Crocker’s talk! Caroline Crocker is the Executive Director of the IDEA Center, an organization devoted to supporting pro-ID students […]
Angus Menuge vs. P.Z. Myers Debate
On Saturday, 19 April 2008, philosopher of psychology Angus Menuge debated blogger and biologist P.Z. Myers at the University of Minnesota-Morris. What follows is Menuge’s summary of their interaction; his slides are available here.
Will the Expelled film “flop” like Bella did?
Would you go to see a film about a pregnant New York waitress from a deprived background – estranged from her family, dumped by her lover, fired for being late, and about to arrange an abortion? Really? If you said no, you would certainly be affirmed in your decision by critics at the top Entertainment […]
Expelled as a Perceptual Exercise
Like the choice between competing political institutions, that between competing paradigms proves to be a choice between incompatible modes of community life. Because it has that character, the choice is not and cannot be determined merely by the evaluative procedures characteristic of normal science, for these depend in part upon a particular paradigm, and that […]
New Website about Atheism
I received this email today from Rupert Sheldrake: You might be interested to know about an excellent new web site about atheism that is hosted on the Cambridge University server and is factual, informative and non-polemical, and puts the “new atheism” into a broad historical and philosophical context. It would be good if you help […]
Chuck Norris reviews Expelled in Town Hall column
Win Ben Stein’s Monkey By Chuck Norris Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Evolution. Intelligent design. These are terms that can cause great consternation in the minds and hearts of many, particularly opponents of each view. Now, that anxiety and debate have resurfaced in theaters everywhere with Ben Stein’s new documentary, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” The press […]
Biologic Institute Website Goes Live
Details here. I wish their ship of inquiry calm seas and a prosperous voyage. To invoke the University of Chicago’s motto, which has never failed to inspire me: “Crescat scientia, vita excolatur” — “let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched.”
Chris Mooney – Shaken (Not Stirred) by Expelled
Chris Mooney writes: I am Labeled a “Creationist Apologist” …by Greg Laden. Or as one of my own commenters put it, “Either you really are just [bleep]ing stupid, or you’re a closet creationist in this blog group. Pick one.” I won’t be deleting that comment despite the profanity, because I want to have it all […]
Invitations to Hitler Connections
One of the worst things about one side making connections to Hitler is it invites return fire of the same kind. This should be filed under the category “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”. How many of you knew that beloved evangelical Christian minister Jerry Falwell shared Adolf Hitler’s views about the […]
One-stop shop for reactions to EXPELLED
With so many extreme reviews and reactions to Ben Stein’s EXPELLED, it’s hard to get a sense of proportion about the film. To that end, check out: www.arn.org/expelled
He’s smarter than you, he’s got a marketing degree…
ROFLMAO – to the Church Burnin’ Ebola Boys, their mothers, their fathers, and their professors – I TOLD YOU SO!!!! What a bunch of maroons.