There has been many pro-evolution celebrity endorsements lately due to the intelligent design vs. evolution/Darwinism debate. Finally a pro-intelligent design celebrity endorsement has surfaced. Hollywood’s Ben Stein has thrown his hat in the ring. He has created a documentary focused to bring to light how the science community has black listed colleagues who have held to the idea of ’science by design’. Here is an excerpt from Ben’s blog:
EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed is a controversial, soon-to-be-released documentary that chronicles my confrontation with the widespread suppression and entrenched discrimination that is spreading in our institutions, laboratories and most importantly, in our classrooms, and that is doing irreparable harm to some of the world’s top scientists, educators, and thinkers.
America is not America without freedom. In every turning point in our history, freedom has been the key goal we are seeking: the Mayflower coming here, the Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, the Cold War. Tens of millions came here from foreign oppression and made a life here. Why? For freedom. Human beings are supposed to live in a state of freedom. Freedom is not conferred by the state: as our founders said, and as Martin Luther King repeated, freedom is God-given.
It will be interesting to see how Ben Stein approaches this issue in the film. The announcement of this film and its trailer has already caused quite a stir. As the release date approaches I expect much more controversy and opposition to rear its ugly head.
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onein6billion // January 7, 2008 at 3:30 am |
“that chronicles my confrontation with the widespread suppression and entrenched discrimination”
But it’s a lie. He did not get in a time machine and go back to 1950s to confront discrimination.
Wait – maybe he’s refering to the fact that scientists are a little impatient with creationists since “a god intervened” somehow, somewhere, sometime, for some inscrutable purpose is just NOT science.