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Watch Ben Stein's Movie Part II

Posted by Hestrold on Sunday, April 27, 2008 3:24:12 PM
Alright, now I've seen Ben Stein's new movie, 'Expelled'.  He's right. The educational establishment in America is vested in making sure that only the accepted views on Darwin and evolution are taught. He explores why and what happens to those to challenge the conventional wisdom. There is no danger in seeing this movie. There is no reason to rush out and condemn it out of hand. There is no reason to make fun of Ben Stein or the thoughtful and honest scientists who are only calling for an opportunity to have an open discussion about Intelligent Design. Their point -- the incredible complex world around us cannot be explained simply by trial and error evolutionary changes of millions and millions of years. There is no reason as Richard Dawkins does in the movie to make fun of the Christian God. But of course they can't help themselves can they?

So evolution, according to those defenders of Darwin in the movie, is really a front for atheism. Radical atheism. Stein touches on Hitler's love affair with Darwinism, the master race, and touches on eugenics, one of the early champions being Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.

Pope Benedict makes an interesting point when discussing atheists. Let me paraphrase -- there are those who believe, those who don't believe and those who don't know or don't care. Atheists do not fall in the category of those who don't know or don't care. They are activists. They take a stand on God. By actively choosing not to believe they are engaged in the God question up to their eyeballs. They can't get away from it. Now look at the agnostic. An agnostic simply says, 'I don't know' and leaves it at that. The militant atheist on the other hand can't leave God alone.

So go watch Ben Stein's movie. It doesn't try to convert you to the theory of Intelligent Design, though it is a completely engaging idea, but it does show you that educational freedom, like all our other freedoms are being eroded away piece by piece. Brave New World and 1984 got it right. In the case of Orwell's 1984, it just took about 25 years more than he thought.
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Watch Ben Stein's Movie?

Posted by Hestrold on Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:06:40 PM
I am surprised, well maybe not too surprised, at the din and uproar  that has already surfaced attacking Ben Stein's new documentary on intelligent design called Expelled. I haven't seen the movie yet but I plan to and I heard Ben talk about it on Medved's program recently. I can't see the problem with the movie that apparently the sane, sane scientists see. Why are they so quick to jump on it if evolution is so, so established and so, so right? You'd think they'd just laugh it off. But their agitation exposes the game. Anything that questions the dogma of evolution interferes with their cherished goal of a secular world governed by reason and science. 

There's already a website attacking the movie up and running and offering prizes to poke at the holes in 'Expelled'.

http://www.expelledexposed.com/

There was no such ado when Al Gore's fictitious documentary was required viewing in high schools across the country. Why not? The theme of Gore's movie is in debate, regardless of what you hear. There is no established scientific evidence that the world is warming or that man can have a large effect on a global scale. Yet I'm sure the same scientists who are agitating about Ben's movie loved Al's movie.

Does this make sense?

I also think it's interesting that the Pope was here recently and garnered huge crowds. Apparently a bunch of silly, empty-headed religious folks.
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Slow and Stealthy Wins The Race

Posted by Hestrold on Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:36:13 AM
While Hillary and Barack take each other apart, crafty, old John McCain solidifies a base he couldn't solidify, pulls in operatives and advisors, and primes the money pump. Will it be enough? The infighting and back-biting between the Democrats assures he'll have time to put things in place. And McCain is fighter, both in the real world and the rough and tumble world of politics. He brought his Presidential bid back from life support. He deftly stepped around Romney and Huckabee and went onto win the primaries he needed to win.

McCain has also kept himself in the news. The pundits claimed that the feuding Democrats would suck all the oxygen out of the daily news cycle and assure that McCain got no press coverage at all. But John has always courted the media, and despite some bite-back from the Gray Lady the MSM talked up his visit to Iraq, and his recent speech on the economy. And his poll numbers, though way, way too early to be meaningful, are creeping ahead of Obama and Clinton.

So I can enjoy the cat fight and hope that McCain is using this time wisely to plan a winning strategy for the big show. What do you think?

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