Here is the first seven minutes of Ben Stein’s documentary on Intelligent Design. Most of you don’t know this, but for the majority of my high school life I went to a private Christian school. I was taught about Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Darwinism; but we spend the majority of our time in Life Science and Biology on Intelligent Design. I’ll be watching the full version of this documentary sometime this week.
I already have some problems with the first seven minutes, mostly with the presentation. It’s no secret that Ben Stein is an active Republican, maybe that’s why the first seven minutes felt more like propaganda. Stein seems to be taking the martyr’s route (which, I guess, some Christians are good at). He’s speaking as if scientists don’t have a right to be weary of Creationism or Intelligent Design, as if they are willfully being ignorant and trying to squash his freedom of speech. I think scientists have a very real reason to be angry at anything that even smells like dogma, not that I think they shouldn’t tell ID into consideration. But, it was religious dogma that ostracized Science and caused this massive break between Science and Religion.
Full thoughts later this week.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I don’t have time to watch the video right now (ack! sorry!) but this is a subject I feel strongly about, so I had to come by and say something. I did this huge independent project on creationism vs. darwinism vs whatever my junior year of high school and put a lot of research into it. I’m a very strong creationist (I’ll have to look up what exactly intelligent design is, but it sounds a lot like creationism to me), but I spent months and months scoping out both sides of the argument, purely scientifically. I totally put aside “in the beginning, God created heaven and earth” for six months, and looked at the whole problem as if I was a scientist or a reporter. It really REALLY makes me mad when a creationist’s only argument is “Well, God said so.” Yeah, he did, but that’s not much of an argument to someone who doesn’t believe the same way you do.
Anyhow, I’m in a rush, like I said, so I’ll get back on this later. Before this ends up longer than your post 0.o
April 28th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
@Meli
Hahaha! I think that may be as long as my post! Can’t wait to hear your opinion, since I am an avid evolutionist. :P
April 29th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I’m very open about these types of things, I’ve cme to except that I wasn’t there and that I will never have the full story so I don’t bother with trying to think too hard about either side.
Godisnowhere.
^_^
April 29th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
come accept*
Wow, what am I on?
April 29th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I tend to be very open about these kind of things, why bother trying to figure out what you can’t figure out? I just accept that I know nothing.
Godisnowhere.