Well isn't this special? Ben Stein made a movie!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

By KIT WAGAR and JASON NOBLE

The Star’s Jefferson City correspondents

JEFFERSON CITY – A bit of Hollywood’s right wing came to Missouri last week as Ben Stein showed up to pitch his new documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

The premise of the film is that serious scientists are systematically disparaged, discredited and blacklisted if they dare to mention the possibility that the infinite complexity of organisms might indicate design by a higher power.

Stein, the monotone-voiced actor and political essayist, introduced a special screening of the film in the Capitol rotunda. Stein said the movie was inspired by skepticism that a single theory, based on a modest amount of evidence, could explain the entire universe.

“We’re not saying teach creationism,” Stein said. “We just think you should be able to question Darwinism.”

The film, scheduled to open in theaters this month, questions gaps in the theory of evolution. Scientists who say the existence of God is not science are derided as closed-minded keepers of a secular faith who refuse to consider any alternative explanations for highly debatable conclusions.

Charles Darwin’s theories of species changing through random mutation and natural selection are depicted as the intellectual underpinnings of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

And a favorite target of social conservatives – Planned Parenthood – is painted as a purveyor of contraception as a way to reduce less desirable traits among the humans – not as a way to help the poor attain self-sufficiency by controlling their fertility.

The movie is essentially a love letter to the religious right packaged as a call for freedom of speech and a demand for freedom of inquiry at research institutes and universities. It is being marketed heavily through churches and socially conservative groups, with endorsements from James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family, and Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America.

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1. Nice to see that "Ben Stein's Money" is being used for such a good purpose.

[Fovea]

2. Ben Stein's movie

I hope it cost a lot of Ben Stein's money.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Right wingers are not smart enough to understand documentaries

Well, unless they are cartoons. LOL

[billybob537]

4. trolling for the less than brilliant.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Well when it comes to Missouri Republicans

you have no idea how accurate that description is. LOL

[GoneOffShore]

6. It's a shame to see Stein roped in by the ID fruitcakes

Because sometimes his money column in the Sunday NYT makes a lot of sense.

He has even sounded like a progressive sometimes.

Not every column, but occasionally.

:hide:

[Catshrink]

7. Bueller, Bueller

[BearSquirrel2]

8. It's not Darwinism ...

It's not Darwinism, it's evolutionary biology. This is a nice little trick that allows "skeptics" to attack The Origin of Species rather than modern biologists like Stephen Jay Gould.

There is a catch-22 here for creationism is that it is not science and it never will be. As soon as you say that there is not regular mechanism to be studied, there is not point. When you introduce a whimsical "supreme being" there is absolutely nothing to study scientifically since there is no continuous set of principles to discover.

As soon as you introduce a "supreme being" everything is explainable via conjecture as no one need be consistent. All contradictory evidence can be explained away as the deity changing mood. Even worse, the anti-diety can be invoked to debunk contradictory evidence.

Creationism is religion. "Intelligent Design" is religion disguised as science, which becomes moot as soon as you introduce a "designer" because at that point there is no natural process.

Really. I had respect for Ben Stein before this.

[alittlelark]

9. I guess the producers of this drivel 'Won Ben Steins $$$'

hmmmmmm ....:puke: