Expelled Debunk - Flunked 3of16

Expelled makes some outrageous claims. But what really happened to the people they claim were persecuted for their views? And what is the real story about evolution and Intelligent Design?
In practically every scene, Expelled insults the science of evolution and the scientists who study it, accepting the long-ago-debunked criticisms and conspiracy theories of the intelligent design proponents as valid. On the contrary, evolution is well accepted in the scientific community, where it is considered the organizing principle of biology and central as well to the field of geology. The notion that scientists have formed an atheistic cabal to keep intelligent design from its day in the sun is ludicrous.




Intelligent design has not produced any research to suppress. When prominent ID proponent Michael Behe was asked about his research, and why "you don't do those tests?" he responded, "I myself would prefer to spend time in what I would consider to be more fruitful endeavors." If even proponents of ID do not think it is a fruitful enterprise, why should the scientific community take any interest in it?




Intelligent design is scientifically unproductive, and this perhaps explains why scientists like Guillermo Gonzalez and Michael Behe publish far fewer papers after they become attracted to intelligent design. Ultimately, intelligent design's lack of success in science departments is the fault of the flawed and unscientific nature of intelligent design itself, not the result of bias in the scientific community.
The issue is not the suppression of ID, but the lack of warrant for its scientific claims. And ultimately, ID has an uphill struggle to demonstrate that it is, indeed, science. The fundamental problem with intelligent design as science is that intelligent design claims cannot be tested. Scientific testing requires that there be some set of phenomena which are incompatible with your idea. No observation could possibly be incompatible with a claim that an "intelligent agent" (whom everyone recognizes as God) acted to, say, introduce information into a system. Untestable claims are not scientific claims. Regardless of their attractiveness as religious ideas (although many people of faith strongly reject intelligent design) intelligent design has not passed muster as science.

Flunked - Expelled Debunked by PrometheusWithLight
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[Crit0]

I normally don't buy into conspiracy theories. But really this is the only one that actually makes sense (they had a handbook, for peet's sake.) Creationists have the organization, devotion, and political influence to destroy science in this country and replace it with myth. Thank GOD the internet brought that wedge document to everyone's attention.

[DoubleHelixPrdctns]

christianity had no influence on our nation with the exception that it was the reason why people left England to go to America.

[PaonSol]

I found a flaw in your video.

"Not all men with mustaches will become sociopathic dictators" is an unsourced claim; we cannot be certain of this without further study.

[TheNarcMan]

Is it just me or does Ben Stein talk like someone's brushing his teeth with their dick?

[yillow1]

And why have I not subbed you? I thought I did when first watched these.

[yillow1]

This is like the 3rd time I'm watching through these. They're just so well made.

[LifeUntilLove]

I will point out, just since i'm a nerd, it is impossible to create a utopia because by definition, a utopia is a "no place". A perfect no place is a eutopia and and horrible no place is a dystopia. It is just a pet peeve of mine when it is used incorrectly.

[Ripley747]

Please don't insult people with autism by saying they're "retarded" or even confused as someone who was retarded. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that that was a slip. What you REALLY meant to say was "creationist." People with autism (which, to a creationist, is "one who believes in auts") are Einsteins when compared with creationists.

[panterguy]

In 20 years Ben Stein can make another Expelled movie siding with material science and the circle of life is complete.

[Trbitt213]

@scottpastry they still do

[scottpastry]

lets be serious here.......

no advocate of ID can still claim that Hitler was an atheist. there is much evidence to suggest otherwise, and no excuse to still be building strawmen.

[VC106893]

Its shocking to see that a modern world is trying to retard themself...