1. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162985 by Foster Zygote on April 17, 2008 at 6:51 pm

I haven't read through all 45 pages of comments, so perhaps someone else has mentioned this: I found it rather odd that Ben Stein's narrative should make such histrionic mockery of the Cairns-Smith abiogenesis hypothesis by commenting "MUD???". Aside from the logical fallacy of an argument from personal incredulity, it strikes me that more than a few creation mythologies, including those of the Abrahamic tradition, make mention of earth as the material from which humans were formed. I wonder if any of the writers of Expelled would have the same reaction reading the book of Genesis.

2. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162779 by Foster Zygote on April 17, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Styrer,

Yes, I think it's a good thing that the film is presented openly. Even if the financial backers pulled out, those responsible would doubtless spin it as further suppression of the "truth". The fact that the lies in this film are so egregious, particularly about those who are supposedly being repressed, will lead to it being made a mockery of by all but the most fundamentalist viewers.

3. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162681 by Foster Zygote on April 17, 2008 at 8:21 am

The Nazis used precious little real science in their mad racial philosophy. Real evolutionary science has revealed the idea of "race" to be a human construct with no scientific support. Much of Nazi racial pseudo-science was based on phrenology for crap's sake. But this film will instill in its scientifically ignorant target audience the "fact" that Darwin paved the way for the holocaust. And they, wanting to believe, will swallow it whole.