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04/18/08
Reviews of "Expelled" line up with worldviews
With the opening of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed on over 1000 screens, the rhetoric on the evolution side has been at fever pitch. It has been said that "people believe what they want to believe, not the truth". People's judgment can be warped by prejudices, emotions, and plain bullheadedness.
At the base level, there are those who do not want to surrender self-autonomy to a higher power. They will claim that there is no debate.
They defend their view by going for emotional appeal, and by personal attacks on their opponents. It is easier to call someone an ignoramous or a moron, then to debate the science.
They say Intelligent Design cannot be determined by science, and yet science can determine intelligent agency in archaelogy, forsenics, search for extraterrestial life, etc. Of course, in their thinking, in those disciplines of science, the intelligent agent is a being created by evolution...so, no problem. But, if a cause is posited outside the physical cosmos, forget it. Even though science sees remarkable evidence of design in microbiology, THAT intelligent agency is forbidden...that is religion. Funny, because the multiverse theory, which attempts to explain the fine-tuned cosmos we live in, is putting faith in an entity which cannot be seen or measured, the multiverse. So who has to exercise more faith, the atheists/agnostics or the theists? Evolutionists in the past 50 years have been walking on thin ice, especially in the discipline of microbiology, and the cracks are widening.
Roger Moore, the man who snuck into a private screening of the documentary film in Orlando months ago, gives Expelled a poor rating. Because the film was not released to film critics, his review is getting a lot of play this week. See the review...
Meantime...Brent Bozell III, who initially was expecting little from Expelled, came out of the showing stunned. See his review...
The LA Times reports that the film could have a bigger opening than expected by many. See story here...
We shall see. One thing for sure, the blogs will be on fire with comments about Expelled once people see it for themselves.
Watch for one of the most stunning parts of the film, which was the interview with Richard Dawkins near the end. His bumbling response to the question, "How did life arise" is priceless.
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