Ben Stein seems so smart, what with the glasses and the monotone. I guess it’s because he was intelligently designed.
Really Ben Stein? A documentary about how "Big Science" has expelled intelligent design from the classroom? And where did your research begin, Sir, in the Ferris Bueller set classroom perchance?
I’m pro free speech and actually don’t care if intelligent design is taught alongside evolution so that kids can learn to think for themselves. But I’m anti Hollywood hucksters tricking actual scientists into interviews for bullshit propaganda disguised as a documentary. Expel that, Stein.
“I’m pro free speech and actually don’t care if Denialism is taught alongside the Holocaust so that kids can learn to think for themselves.”
The Intelligent Design movement is a denialist movement; it doesn’t offer any actual science and the people i
Sad to see Stein relegate himself to “kook” status.
As far as offering “alternatives” in the classroom, I’m all for teaching another scientific theory for how life arose. They key word being “scientific”. I’m still waiting for one though.
The reason
I’m not advocating for teaching ID in schools – I should have thought more about that sentence :) but, as Hassed put it, if there are alternate scientific theories, great. and if people want to do research to try to prove creationism, have at it. just do
Shiksa I’m surprised to see you quote Dawkins on any matter involving factual evidence, his “God Delusion” was little more than the embittered rantings of a sad and lonely old man who believes in nothing, ‘facts’ in his little book were non-existent.
A cl
” Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.”
Mark Twain
Puck, good idea, let’s give the biologists a break from religious whack-jobs and let the cosmologists deal with them for a while. LOL.
I can agree with Aquinas’ quote though. Of course I also believe that everything within the Universe from the smalles
Have to respectfully disagree with you there Hesed.
It may be that the measurement and explanation of some things are simply beyond our abilities for now, look at dark matter for example.
A blind belief in science (given their propensity for revising th
It is not an uncommon arguement by true believers to make the incorrect analogy between science and faith. Scientific naturalism is not a belief system. Science makes factual assertions based on what can be proven. Faith, the very defintion of the word, i
A response to Hesed.
I will accept that you believe what you say about science. You make a very major mistake, however, when you refer to non-Jewish, that is to say, non or anti-Torah sources to reference and support your suppositions and opinions abo
I didn’t say anything about about Judaism or the Torah. I only said that the nature of faith is inherently untestable by scientific standards (that’s why its called “faith”)….thus it should stay out of science. If we adopted the criteria for verifying s