He has a film coming out in February called "EXPELLED: No Intelligence" about Intelligent Design which promotes "The God of the Gaps". If science doesn't fit...fill the gaps in with God. Is he an idiot or is he just trying to make a buck? Isn't he Jewish? Am I wrong in my assumption that Intelligent Design was a Christian pseudo-science?
http://www.expelledthemovie.com/blog/
2007-11-17 06:09:03 · 7 answers · asked by AuroraDawn 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is pseudo-science.
If you watched last week's NOVA special, you'll see the ID-promoting Discovery Institute ran like military-eligible Republicans from the trial in Pennsylvania, except for Behe, who admitted ID is in the same "scientific" category as astrology.
Ben Stein is a political hack who doesn't believe half of what he says but dearly wants the neocons to hold onto power. He stopped being funny years ago when he publicly began his career as a neocon spokesman. He should have stuck to teaching math.
Bad enough we get that chain letter of stuff he never said.
2007-11-17 06:15:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What's wrong with being Jewish? I'm Jewish but I was raised a Christian. That is what gets me you and others if a Christian begin to show science and Christianity go together, you call it Christian pseudo-science. If you go see the movie it will go long closer to what you believe then I.
2007-11-17 15:31:39 · answer #2 · answered by Coop 366 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To answer your questions in reverse order:
1) ID is indeed pseudoscience. It's covered thoroughly and entertainingly here:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/11/the_morning_after_judgment_day.php#more
2) I believe he's Jewish, yes.
3) He's an occasional actor, a not-very-good right-wing political columnist, and a head-up-his-@rse economist. In other words, yeah, he needs the money.
4) What's with him? Beats me. But he's no worse than many other mis-educated Americans -- they support ID because "Americans root for the underdog."
That would also explain why he was a speechwriter in the Nixon administration and why he will still defend Nixon to anyone who will even pretend to listen -- his reasoning is that because Dick wasn't liked by the smart and pretty people, then he must have been right about SOMEthing.
2007-11-17 14:17:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Jewish
ID includes not only Genesis-literal Creationists but evolutionists who believe that creation contains many signs of divine design and that apparent chance simply cannot explain many things in evolution and that excluding the evidence for God is not being scientific but ideological
2007-11-17 14:24:19 · answer #4 · answered by James O 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suspect, he is going to attack the suppressing alternative ideas, but not not come out against evolution as much as the Creationists anticipate. Remember, he still has to sell tickets. The blog you cite refers to Darwinism not evolution.
2007-11-17 14:28:21 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whatever is going on, my respect for him went from "healthy" to "lack of". He's lost it. He should have stuck to telling jokes in a monotone.
2007-11-17 14:15:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes you are wrong in your assumptions. But don't let that stop you from fulminating against people.
2007-11-17 14:14:39 · answer #7 · answered by rebecca v d liep 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋