The National Center for Science Education just put this new video up on Youtube; “Teaching Creationism in Schools.” This is a great organization the entire scientific community should support. This particular video seeks to call Ben Stein out on his ludicrous ideas.
This has been making the rounds on the blogs.
Ben Stein’s expelled movie is in hot water for using secondary party content without permission. Read science after sunclipse’s witty response.
Pay special attention to where the creationist lies about how fossils are dated, while standing in front of a placard describing about how it actually works.
I feel sorry for these kids that are getting brainwashed. I can only hope that they, like the museum curator, will one day be able to draw their own conclusions based on empirical evidence.
via SciencePunk.
This is going back a few years now, but I just found it now. Objective: Missionaries has (or had, I can find a more recent link) a science fair devoted to children’s science projects that attempt prove creation science.
There are so many contradictions in that last statement, I don’t know where to start, but I prefer to let the “science fair” speak for itself:
“Scientists are supposed to be allowed to follow the evidence wherever it may lead…This attack on scientific freedom was so egregious that it prompted a congressional investigation.” - Ben Stein
Ben Stein is essentially correct in the first part of this quote. Science follows the evidence where it leads. Much to Ben Stein’s chagrin, it doesn’t lead to creationism.
I may be preaching to the choir here, but science has had hundreds of years to model neo-darwinist evolution, and none of the evidence requires a creator in the model. Still, that has not stopped creationists from infiltrating our schools and museums in the attempt to show an “alternative viewpoint.”
The attack actually comes from the creationists, in their attempt to inject religious doctrine into a scientific discipline without any evidence. Since creationists don’t provide a falsifiable model of creationism, it cannot be accepted as science.
For the purposes of this article, I consider Creationism, also falsely know as “Creation Science,” as the same thing as “Intelligent Design.” While in reality, there are subtle differences, the Intelligent Design movement is merely a renewed attempted at hijacking science for the sake of religion, by the religious right in this (and other) countries. As the principles behind these two beliefs are the same, I can treat them as the same, for the purposes of this article, because I am only interested in dealing with their principles.
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