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Another subject on Ben Stein’s movie “Expelled”…

MY GOD! (no pun intended.) These people can’t keep quiet, can they?

There is only one credible side to an issue, and any dissent is not only rejected, it is scorned. Global warming. Gay “rights.” Abortion “rights.” On these and so many other issues there is enlightenment, and then there is the Idiotic Other Side…..Evolution is another one of those one-sided debates. We know the concept of Intelligent Design is stifled in academic circles. An entire documentary to state the obvious? You can see my reluctance to view it.

So far, I like this guy.

I went into the screening bored. I came out of it stunned.

And with those words, he had me stunned too. How can ANYONE be stunned?! I’ve read enough about this movie, and if there’s one thing I know, it’s that only IDIOTS watch it, and come out stunned. And he mentions it here too.

Richard Dawkins laments how the film will solicit “cheap laughs that could only be raised in an audience of scientific ignoramuses.” Minnesota professor and blogger P.Z. Myers predicts the movie is “going to appeal strongly to the religious, the paranoid, the conspiracy theorists, and the ignorant —— which means they’re going to draw in about 90 percent of the American market.” Myers and Dawkins now both complain they were “duped” into appearing in the movie (for pay).

That last part made me laugh. Not only did they prove that they were, in fact, being “duped”, they talked to every other evolutionist in there and found out the exact same thing!!

I don’t know about you, but I think Myers and Dawkins are right; only fools would find this movie educational, and Brent Bozell III had wrote that he was very much entertained.

Your opinion on this?

Hey! I guess this is my first post, so let’s get started on the right foot.

I participate in a program for high school students that allows them to take college courses earlier. It also allows us to finish with an Associate’s Degree and a high school diploma in five years from entering. Of course, since I’m posting here, I’m heading for an Associate’s of Science. My future? Teaching physics (or something along that field) in a university setting.

Currently, I take Biology at the college level as a sophomore. The semester is almost done, and I’m doing quite well. This semester, I’m taking General Biology II (because I finished GB I last semester). However, I’m considering going to a science and math oriented school during my junior and senior years. Hooray for science!

I guess that’s a good summary for what I do science-related. Besides posting on the forums. Hopefully, that explains why I’m not able to post much on some of the science-related forum discussions here. I’m a lowly science n00b…

But I’m moving on up, and hope to participate full-throttle in later years. In other (science) news…. I’ve read over the past few weeks about several interesting events…
1) A robot that uses EEG and eye-movements during sleep to move in according to your dreams. LINK Gives Freud a run for his money!
2) Electron filmed for the first time! LINK You probably already knew that…

Plus numerous other things. But these aren’t that recent… Ok. I guess this ends my first blog. Ever. Yay for firsts! Now for a quote about firsts…

“Louise: “How did you get here?”
Johnny: “Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.”" –From the movie Naked
(Taken from LINK)