Ben Stein speaks out against Expelled

Yes, this audio is obviously edited together and is not what Ben Stein actually said. The fact that the video is classified as "comedy," and that the phrase "parody" appears in the tags should have made that fact painfully clear. Nonetheless, I am forced to give this disclaimer due to a number of intellect- and humor-deficient semi-literates who think that I'm trying to put one over on the viewers as part of some vast atheistic conspiracy to discredit Ben Stein, and who leave comments to that effect, as if they've "caught" me.
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Ben Stein, in a recent interview with Pat Robertson, admits that the foundational ideas of his movie are flawed.

"No one has ever observed God. If there's a God, he always was and always will be morally responsible for Holocaust. There could have been no Holocaust without this endless worship of God.

"You know, we have no evidence there's an intelligent designer. We don't know how the god began. A perfectly reasonable hypothesis is there's dozens, dozens, and dozens of gods.

"If you were, say, an assistant professor at Harvard and you stood up and said, 'There's no God,' you would be out of their on your ass so fast, it would be insane.

"A god explains so little. It doesn't explain how life began. It doesn't explain how gravity works to keep the planets in their orbits. It doesn't explain how thermodynamics works. It doesn't explain how physics or the laws of motion work.

"If there's a god of a single mammalian species, it shows that God would be insane.

"If you stood up and said, 'Darwin never hypothesized about how life began,'
God, you would be out of my jeans like that [snaps fingers]. We don't know how the mammalian species stay in my jeans. I am in deep trouble here."

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[ndrthrdr1]

The Bible says in Genesis 1:24-31 that all land animals (so that includes dinosaurs) and people were created on the same day. The geologic record shows that the large dinosaurs died out at least 65 million years before humans showed up on the planet.

It's been 2,000 years now, and some people are still waiting for a dead guy to come back.

Figure it out. The Bible is just old myths and legends, not truth. Religion is like history class - without the facts.

[smrt606]

@tomsalam1 What a hilariously stupid thing to say.

[glassbrain]

@tomsalam1 What are you babbling about?

[tomsalam1]

@glassbrain And other scientists once believed that the earth was flat, which means scientists are some of the most stupid fucked up assholes on the flat-ass face of this planet. Generalization's a bitch.

[shizzleman8]

@buttface112211 That was really excellent right up to the last sentence.

Evidence is inadmissable if it's UNFAIRLY PREJUDICED. I work for a medical malpractice attorney, retired, she's more intelligent and knowledgeable about medicine than the Doctors she defended. The LAW rules and administers JUSTICE for ALL, including scientists, especially scientists. The law keeps the science legit.

[buttface112211]

@shizzleman8 Okay, so then jurisprudence relates to science based on their objectivity. That does not make him scientifically literate, it is not a science degree, I don't see where you are going with this. Jurisprudence is completely irrelevent.

[shizzleman8]

@buttface112211 The first rule of Law and Science is the same, objectivity. This isn't the human condition. How many objective people or programs are you aware of? Even the news that traditionally meant "fair reporting" is all slanted one way or another. It's about experience. One side believes that what they know is greater than another side that says either we know more or we have experience. Law is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God. < It's decided.

[buttface112211]

@shizzleman8 Where do you get this information? If you search Jurisprudence in Google it clearly says, in every link on the first page, the science of philosophy of law. It all pertains to law, as I said earlier.

[shizzleman8]

@buttface112211 The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, methods and implications of science. It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific results are actually a study of truth. Natural science as you're implying is the only one to use the scientific method as the only source of inquiry then NO all other fields of study incorporate it and a plethera of other methods.

[buttface112211]

@shizzleman8 Do you mean jurisprudence? Because that pertains to philosophy and law, not science.