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Ben Stein's Expelled

I recommend Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed to all!  Go see it, you won't be sorry.  This is a topic worth vigorous public and scholarly discussion.  I don't claim to know the origins of life, but it is worth free discussion and investigation from all sides.

I saw this documentary last night.  Wow, what an eye opener!  The movie did a great service in really defining the difference between Intelligent Design (ID) and Creationism, a difference I didn't know existed.  ID only wants to be able to throw an intelligent architect (possibly God) into the beginnings of life.  Creationists want to fit science into the Bible, according to the movie's definition.  Ben interviewed dozens of ID scientists with stellar credentials and many prominent Evolutionists in academia and government.  Evolutionists could never say where the beginnings of life came from, but most offered absurd explanations.  One offered what he called the most "popular" theory:  the first cell came into existence on the backs of crystals.  Another said aliens brought the cells here.  And the most prominent and outspoken supporter of Evolution, Richard Hawkins, finally said that the very first cell must have come from some intelligence.  Ben stopped him in his tracks and asked him to repeat that statement.  Hawkins did.  Stein pressed him on this and Hawkins repeated it several more times.  That poor man negated his entire career's worth of Evolution work with that repeated admission of an intelligence (small "i") responsible for the first cell.

I have seen "the wall" of  which Ben speaks in the college classroom.  I know that it is high and solid wall that is guarded by college faculty and to a lesser extent by high school teachers.  Parents beware!
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