Oh... my... gosh.

This is... amazing.

It would seem this has something to do with Ben Stein's upcoming movie "Expelled."

What do you all think?

Comments

[bill reichart]

Sooo funny. I think I am going to have a chance to see the Expelled movie on Friday. I am curious to see if the movie is as good as all the hype suggests.

[Aaron Stewart]

It's nice to see someone sum up my feelings about Richard Dawkins in a hilarious video. :)

[brad brisco]

The rap and video are unbelievably hilarious!

“If I was dyslexic I would even hate DOGs too.” Great stuff.

Also think the trailer looks great. I love the opening in the Biology 101 class with all the chalk dust from writing "Do Not Question Darwinism." That is soooo true.

[Lance]

I am all for putting this debate to rest and talking about things like Gods foreknowledge and if we have Free Will or not. I really do not care about the Darwin issue. This just seems like more pointless debate that will cause us to ignore more important real world issues. Evolution/Creationism who cares?

[Bob]

Actually, this debate isn't about Creationism vs evolution. It's about academic freedom and the ability to dissent from established secular dogma without punitive reprisal.

And the video is ridiculously funny...

[Lance]

Bah!! At it's core it is Creationism vs. Evolution. The academic freedom issue is just being thrown about as cover. ("punitive reprisal" is that fancy talk for being punished?) I just think that this film wouldn't even be made if it wasn't concerned with the Creation issue. There are all kinds of dissent within the academic community with "punitive reprisal" and without. Ben Stein is picking an issue to raise a point. He could have used other subjects.

[Aaron Stewart]

@Lance

No the core of it is the elevation of Darwinism to a world of view and ideology. It's not just a matter of the science of evolution, it's wanting to use that science to explain away any possibility of a creator God and thus destroy belief in God in general.

[daniel]

The National Center for Science Education has put together a nice website on Expelled.

I'm surprised (but shouldn't be) that this is an issue.

[brett maxwell]

As a Christian (and former YEC proponent) who has read the New Athiests, followed the ID controversy, and this movie in particular, I have to agree with Lance; ID is a mask for creationism. Ken Miller, a devout Roman Catholic and biology professor, has some keen observations to make about ID here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg

Also, Scientific American has a good brief article, Six Things Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=six-things-ben-stein-doesnt-want-you-to-know

ID at its core can't be science because it seeks to NOT explain things, and then attribute them to God. As the article linked above points out, ID proponents don't scientific theories because they offer no way to be proven false.

There is a proper way to respond with the Gospel to the New Athiests, but it's not Expelled.

[Aaron Stewart]

@Brett

It seems like God is a pretty good explanation for the Big Bang and life in general whereas Atheistic Evolution will hold to the thought that something magically was created from nothing at the beginning of the Universe.

Which sounds more like faith and less like science?

[Aaron Stewart]

And by magically I mean spontaneously. It's like sitting in the middle of the desert and expecting a 6 pack of Corona to materialize in your hand.

[Sean]

I've often sat outside my parents house in Yuma and waited for the Corona; I always assumed it didn't appear because my parents had placed a hedge of prayer protection against alcohol around their domicile--now you're telling me it wouldn't happen anywhere, AAAron?

I look forward to seeing the film, even though I think it is clearly setting up a false dichotomy (like much of the Creation/Evolution debate does, by its very nature).

I created this t-shirt for my site a few weeks before hearing about the Expelled movie. I think I'll wear mine to the film:
http://www.headscratching.com/
(it's the "getalong1" design--I still need to enable hotlinking to the specific designs & shirts)

:)
Sean

[brad brisco]

Well we went to see the movie tonight, thought it was pretty good. I would give it 3 out of 4 popcorn bags. Dawkins made me laugh several times with some of the most crazy statements about the beginning of life maybe coming from another planet but most certainly not from a god of any type. There was actually a lot more humor than I had expected. And as stated before it is much more about freedom than it is about creationism v. evolution.