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Dawkins: Life might indeed have had a designe |
| ?"Stein's often funny, always engaging frontal assault on the oppressive neo-Darwinist establishment is arguably the smartest and most sophisticated documentary ever produced on the right side of the cultural divide, on any subject, ever."Stein's role in?"Expelled"?has been compared to the one Michael Moore plays in his films, but "the Stein persona is conspicuously brighter and more benign."Nor do Stein and his producers resort to the kind of editing that make Moore movies something other than documentaries.In Bowling For Columbine , for instance, Moore cobbles together five different parts of NRA honcho Charlton Heston's Denver speech a week after Columbine.?Moore then inserts into the mix a cold, dead hands remark from a speech Heston gave a year later.Stein resorts to no such tricks.He gives certain interview subjects all the time and all the rope they need to hang themselves, unedited.One highlight among many is Stein's one-on-one interview with Richard Dawkins, who has made a small fortune as the worlds most visible neo-Darwinist.?To his credit, and to the utter discomfort of the public education establishment, Dawkins does not shy from discussing the atheistic implications of Darwinism.Indeed, Dawkin's anti-deity call to arms, The God Delusion?has sold more than a million copies worldwide. |
| To his credit, and to the utter discomfort of the public education establishment, Dawkins does not shy from discussing the atheistic implications of Darwinism.Indeed, Dawkin's anti-deity call to arms, The God Delusion?has sold more than a million copies worldwide.Where Dawkins wanders into a black hole of his own making is in his discussion of the origins of life on earth.While most atheists will tell you they believe life arose purely my chance random mutations, with no input from any sort of creator,
Dawkins says?life might indeed have had a designer but that designer almost assuredly was a more highly evolved being from another planet, not God.This sounds a bit like Scientology to me - if there is any being anywhere more highly evolved than God - I question why we have never heard a single peep from this being.Stein does not respond.He does not need to. |
| He does not need to.For the past hour of the film, the audience has met one scientist after another whose academic careers have been derailed for daring to suggest the possibility of intelligent design.If only they had thought to put the designer on another planet!The choice of Stein as narrator is inspired for another reason.That reason becomes most apparent when he and two creationist allies, mathematician David Berlinski and nuclear physicist Gerald Schroeder, visit a remnant of the Berlin Wall, the central metaphor of the film.At the wall, the three discuss the value of freedom, the central idea of the film, and the need for the same in science.All three are Jewish.Indeed, it would be hard to imagine any three individuals on the planet who less resemble the Inherit the Wind stereotype that Darwinists have been scaring soccer moms with for the last half century.Expelled opens nationwide on April 18th (My birthday - if you want to get me something - go see the movie).The neo-Darwinists and their allies in the major media will do their best to kill it. |
| The neo-Darwinists and their allies in the major media will do their best to kill it. |
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