We went and watched Ben Stein's "Expelled No Intelligence Allowed" and wow. Ben hits the nail on the head and does it in a very meaningful and tactful way. The documentary was definitely one of the best I've ever seen.
He brings up some very valid points.
1) The first is that freedom is one of the fundamentals of America. America is America today because of how it has valued freedom. But, freedom is being stripped away from the American people by means of the powers that be censuring what is taught in schools in regards to the origins of life (Darwinism vs Intelligent Design).
2) Intelligent Design is not Creationism which is the Biblical account of God creating the world. It is a scientific theory presented by some of the most talented, educated and intelligent scientists across the world that all of nature was designed by a supreme being (beings).
3) Believing in Intelligent Design is not synonymous with believing in the Judeo/Christian God.
4) Despite the credentials of those presenting Intelligent Design and despite the vast amount of evidence itself, ID is not allowed to be presented as theory. In fact, any who support it, teach it, or even mention it are ostrizied by their peers, faculty, institutions and even our government.
5) Ben Stein draws an excellent analogy between the Wall that separated East from West Germany and the Wall that separates ID from mainstream science. It is okay to teach anything you want as long as it's on "this side of the wall."
6) In other countries, the evidence presented in debates and discussions determines what is scientific. In the states, court systems decide. And we all know that the constitution is interpreted by the opinions of the men and women who serve as Supreme Court Justices. That is why it is such a fight when one political party gets to fill the majority of the Supreme Court seats. Because if one party rules the supreme court, they control how the constitution gets interpreted. In the US, when those that make it their life goal to keep ID out of schools hear of a situation where ID is being presented, they sue. It is taken to the courts where the biased judges decide that ID is religion and religion should not be taught in schools. No one of the Darwinian movement is even interested in looking at the evidence of ID. Those of the ID theory would LOVE to just even have the opportunity to present and discuss the evidence but rather they are simply shut down, no questions asked.
7) He explores that Darwinism lead Hitler to believe that they were the chosen race and that he needed to destroy the weak (as natural selected teaches). Thus concentration camps came about and millions were exterminated.
He brought up many, many more points. I loved how he didn't bring about a full on assault on the darwinists but simply interviewed them, asked the right questions, and allowed them to bring themselves down. At the end of the video, he interviews Richard Dawkins. Dawkins said earlier in the film that evolution as how life came about is fact. No ifs, ands, or buts. But then at the end of the interview, he states and I paraphrase, "The only way that intelligent design could be possible is if a more advanced life form out in the universe with a much more advanced technology designed and created life on earth as we know it. But they themselves had to evolve as evolution teaches." What the heck? He himself believes in the possibility of ID???
It seems to me that Richard Dawkins and all the Darwinists who have a grudge against God refused to even to look at the evidence of ID simply because they are afraid that it might be true. They fear that there might just be a God. Stein asked Dawkins if when he dies and finds himself in front of God and God asks, "Dude what have you been doing," what would he say? And he replied with "Why have you made yourself so hard to find?" Well, if Dawkins and the all the rest actually allowed themselves to look at the very powerful evidence of a Creator, they may find that God has not hidden himself at all.
[video:http://youtube.com/watch?v=xGCxbhGaVfE]
