Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity

eldavojohn writes "Painting the current scientific community as just as bad as the Spanish Inquisition, an extended trailer of Ben Stein's "Expelled" has a lot of people (at least that I know) talking. It looks like his movie plans to encourage people to speak out if they believe intelligent design or creationism to be correct. In the trailer he even warns you that if you are a scientist you may lose your job by watching 'Expelled.' Backlash to the movie has started popping up and this may force the creationism/evolutionist debate to a whole new level across the big screen and the internet." adholden points out a site called Expelled Exposed, which asserts that 'Expelled' "is simply an anti-science propaganda film aimed at creating controversy where none exists, while promoting poor science education that can and will severely handicap American students."

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Re:Which do you believe?

[El Puerco Loco]

*sighs* - I bet he's skeptical about anthropomorphic climate change too yes, the climate is beginning to look more human isn't it? i thought i was the only one who noticed.

Academic Oppression

[Woundweavr]

Its not just "Darwinists" that force their anti-Jesus dogma on the education system. I had a similar experience in my childhood.

Given a circle with a radius of 10, whats the circumference? Some would say thats its 10 * 2 * "pi"!

But what is this pi? They can't even define it;its completely irrational! Meanwhile they suppress the controversy. When I put down a much more reasonable answer - 60, because the literal Bible tells me the circumference of a circle is 2*r*3, I was marked wrong! The Nazis used these numbers to build their war machine and concentration camps and its being taught to children far to young to understand its deceptiveness. Inquiring minds are led to a literally endless and patternless series of numbers intended to confuse and dull the mind.

Teach the controversy!

Re:Which do you believe?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

It's anthropogenic climate change. Man-made, not man-like.

Perhaps climate change wants to be man made?

(seriously, thanks for the correction).

Re:Which do you believe?

[RiotingPacifist]

On the other hand, maybe he gets the debate on the front page in a popular vein. Could be time for him and Dawkins in a live MTV cage match. And Dawkins is taking a beating, but whats this... Stephen hawkin has entered the ring and smashed stein over the head with a chair, looks like stein is out for the count.

I think he is right

[Vexorian]

He's totally right, science in academia should be more about discussing what you believe and less about what science people have found out after observation and experimentation.

For example the other day when my chemistry teacher told me that material stuff is made of atoms, I really couldn't believe him. I think I should have been given the right back then to discuss with them about my theory that everything is conformed by milk derivatives.

I shouldn't really have to prove my theory or even get the smallest amount of evidence pointing to the certainty of my theory before being given the opportunity to have kids at school discuss about it.

And all what I said in this post is the truth, because if you read this post you may lose your job.

Re:No need for debate

[tomcode]

Clearly education isn't working. The average IQ has held steady at 100 for as long as records have been kept.