Expelled (Documentary)

This afternoon as I was home, sick, I watched Ben Stein's documentary on the war between Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Aside from a strange foray into Nazism and the Holocaust--its point being that Darwinism, specifically natural selection, was a belief that led to a classification of human beings that enabled a group in power to exterminate them, which may be a perfectly valid observation, but that, in my opinion, does more to turn Darwinists away from the doc's message than show that academic freedom is being denied--I found the documentary entertaining and informative.

On a side note, I find it strange why Intelligent Design is denounced as "not science," while some atheist scientists believe their religious statements and beliefs developed from their scientific research count as science. Hello? McFly? Religious statements--positive or negative--are not science. They are religious and philosophical. You can arrive at religious beliefs via scientific research, but neither are science. Interpreting scientific data as evidence of atheism is no less religious than interpreting scientific data as evidence of theism. I don't know why that is so hard to figure out, but lots of people miss it. Now, that being said, Darwinism and natural selection may still be the manner in which matter has evolved, which may close the door to some versions of intelligent design. But to say natural selection means atheism is not science.

The most interesting part of the film was to hear atheist Richard Dawkins say that a certain highly evolved intelligence may have planted the seed for life on this planet and we may discover evidence for this in molecular biology (though this intelligence had to have evolved, as well).... Uh.... [Aaron scratches head.]

Another interesting part was when Ben Stein asked Dawkins--who, it must be pointed out, did graciously give an interview to Stein!--what he would do if he died, saw God, and God asked him what he did with his life. Dawkins answered that he would answer as Bertrand Russell did, by asking why God didn't make himself more obvious. I felt like saying lots of things, but in the end, I don't think with Dawkins it would matter. All in all, a quasi-documentary worth watching.