O'Reilly Factor talks about Expelled the Movie

Wow - love it when they constantly mention Newton. Why can't we have as much freedom as Newton? He was an anti-trinitarian heretic. If the church knew about his religious beliefs he may have been killed for all we know.

Call that freedom?

I suppose it was intellectual tyranny that prompted his publishers to omit the stuff about the Atlantians. :)

Why do I watch these things - you CAN say in ANY class you want that there are people who believe in creationism and believe that a higher power is responsible for directing nature.

What you can't do is FORCE biology teachers to tell students things that are not true because you have an agenda.

It's interesting how O'Reilly equates a court case that was championed BY science teachers so that they were not FORCED to say something in class - with censoring science teachers.

Funny that. Those interested should look into the Dover case.

Umm, yes there is! Edwin Hubble discovered red shifting in the stars which he won the Noble Science Award for. This discovery proved the universe was growing.

It has therefore nothing to do with free thinking or suppressing an opinion. On the contrary it's the apologists of creation that deny the right of free speech and thought.

That's a joke, isn't it?
Lets recall why the theory of Intellignet Design is denied in science class. Oh, it is because, this concept scientificly speaking is rubbish! It's based on pure faith with no scientific evidence to support the theory. In contrast evolution has been proven many times by scientific findings wether it be genetics, biology, geology etc. If you allow ID to be taught in schools you are giving up everything western society is based on since the Enlightenment!

Bigger than obviously you can imagine.

What are you talking about?

BUt you cant explain it either

What can't I explain? How God speaking creates matter? That is not something that I would propose in the first place. I am not an astro-physicist or a molecular biologist, so no, I can't explain the Big Bang or Abiogenesis either. You're missing the point though. My point is that even if God exists, all things are naturalistically explicable.