Here is an uncommon review by Mayer – who has the courage not to bow to Darwinian orthodoxy.
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Expelled – Ben Stein’s Brilliant And Subversive Documentary
By William Mayer
April 19, 2008 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – Darwin…Darwin…Darwin…you can almost hear Ben Stein muttering to himself as this subversive little documentary, “Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed,” unfolds. Having opened only yesterday it has already left the piggies that feed at the trough of big science foaming at the mouth and staggering about in near apoplexia.
So outraged are the fascisti intelligentsia by Stein’s work that as the film’s website makes clear, “…the National Center For Science Education has taken the extraordinary and unprecedented step of building a website devoted solely to discrediting the…film…” an overtly political act.
Science subordinating itself to politics?
How can this be and why was it deemed necessary?
Well primarily because Ben has seen fit to present the not-so-pretty face of what the field of evolutionary biology has become and how an obviously left-leaning bunch of fanatical atheists are suppressing – at all levels – inquiry into an interesting if not promising avenue of exploration called intelligent design.
But isn’t intelligent design merely a code phrase for creationism?
No, not at all.
Intelligent design [ID] is a hypothesis, a way of attempting a better explanation regarding the origin of the species than Charles Darwin’s now 150 year-old theory. ID rests heavily upon an idea called irreducible complexity, a term originated by biochemist Michael Behe and explained in his 1996 book “Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution,” which posits that biological systems are far too complex to have simply “evolved,” from the inanimate components percolating in some primordial pool of mud.
Behe argues that the odds are impossibly high of such a thing happening by chance, ruled out mathematically because of the sheer number of mutations required, which would have to occur, in exactly the right order, at exactly the right time to construct the DNA for even such a simple organism as a bacterial flagellum.
But this is a movie review, not a scientific treatise.
The central topic of Expelled is not about the science of intelligent design, though that is certainly laid out, but rather it is about a more universal concerns, liberty and freedom, especially intellectual freedom and its intentional suppression in this particular case.
To establish that fact Stein interviews on camera a half-dozen or so highly credentialed professional scientists who have been forced out of academia, lost their jobs and blackballed, one for the simple act of having allowed to be published in the periodical he was responsible for editing, a single article which mentions the verboten term, intelligent design.
For this and similar sins against scientific orthodoxy these folks are either fired, fail to be granted tenure, see their grants dry up or are simply harassed out of their positions. The anxiety quotient is so high over potential loss of employment and retribution that many scientists who have first-hand knowledge of this phenomenon refused to be seen on camera, for fear of reprisal, and were interviewed in the dark.
Stein does an extraordinarily good job exploring the dark side of the Darwinian theory of evolution, how explaining life as a mere series of complex chemical reactions cheapens it to the point where Hitlerian theories such as Eugenics and master race ideology become justifiable.
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