Comments on: The Contradiction of Expelled http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/04/19/the-contradiction-of-expelled/ The Sweet Release of Reason Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jthadeus http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/04/19/the-contradiction-of-expelled/#comment-14069 Jthadeus Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:28:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1418#comment-14069 Will, Perhaps you should get together with Stein and do a movie about how psychometricians refuse to countenance non-evolutionary explanations for the IQ gap. I bet that would sell more tickets. Will,
Perhaps you should get together with Stein and do a movie about how psychometricians refuse to countenance non-evolutionary explanations for the IQ gap. I bet that would sell more tickets.

]]> By: Jthadeus http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/04/19/the-contradiction-of-expelled/#comment-14071 Jthadeus Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:28:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1418#comment-14071 Will, Perhaps you should get together with Stein and do a movie about how psychometricians refuse to countenance non-evolutionary explanations for the IQ gap. I bet that would sell more tickets. Will,
Perhaps you should get together with Stein and do a movie about how psychometricians refuse to countenance non-evolutionary explanations for the IQ gap. I bet that would sell more tickets.

]]> By: Swimmy http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/04/19/the-contradiction-of-expelled/#comment-14068 Swimmy Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:28:57 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1418#comment-14068 An excellent point. According to reports, during the interview with Dawkins in Expelled, he is asked the best argument he can imagine in favor of ID. He constructs a story about space aliens seeding life onto planet earth. Stein takes this as free reign for mockery: "Hear that? Richard Dawkins believes in aaaaaaalieeeeeens!" But the movie's mockery emphatically reinforces the contradiction explained here. If ID is really about the science of irreducible complexity, space aliens deserve as fair a shake as God. Some biologist somewhere might give them that shake, but Ben Stein and Mark Mathis don't. Neither will the vast majority of this movie's target audience. An excellent point. According to reports, during the interview with Dawkins in Expelled, he is asked the best argument he can imagine in favor of ID. He constructs a story about space aliens seeding life onto planet earth. Stein takes this as free reign for mockery: “Hear that? Richard Dawkins believes in aaaaaaalieeeeeens!”

But the movie’s mockery emphatically reinforces the contradiction explained here. If ID is really about the science of irreducible complexity, space aliens deserve as fair a shake as God. Some biologist somewhere might give them that shake, but Ben Stein and Mark Mathis don’t. Neither will the vast majority of this movie’s target audience.

]]> By: Swimmy http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/04/19/the-contradiction-of-expelled/#comment-14070 Swimmy Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:28:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1418#comment-14070 An excellent point. According to reports, during the interview with Dawkins in Expelled, he is asked the best argument he can imagine in favor of ID. He constructs a story about space aliens seeding life onto planet earth. Stein takes this as free reign for mockery: "Hear that? Richard Dawkins believes in aaaaaaalieeeeeens!" But the movie's mockery emphatically reinforces the contradiction explained here. If ID is really about the science of irreducible complexity, space aliens deserve as fair a shake as God. Some biologist somewhere might give them that shake, but Ben Stein and Mark Mathis don't. Neither will the vast majority of this movie's target audience. An excellent point. According to reports, during the interview with Dawkins in Expelled, he is asked the best argument he can imagine in favor of ID. He constructs a story about space aliens seeding life onto planet earth. Stein takes this as free reign for mockery: “Hear that? Richard Dawkins believes in aaaaaaalieeeeeens!”

But the movie’s mockery emphatically reinforces the contradiction explained here. If ID is really about the science of irreducible complexity, space aliens deserve as fair a shake as God. Some biologist somewhere might give them that shake, but Ben Stein and Mark Mathis don’t. Neither will the vast majority of this movie’s target audience.

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