Comments on: I’ve heard of padding your resume, but that’s just wrong http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/ive-heard-of-padding-your-resume-but-thats-just-wrong/ The Spiritual Successor to Growthrate n lg n Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:16:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Paul Hutch http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/ive-heard-of-padding-your-resume-but-thats-just-wrong/#comment-270 Paul Hutch Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:29:17 +0000 http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-270 "Ben Stein, ... a 21st-century Einsteinian figure." Poor Albert, he must be spinning in his grave especially with today being his birthday. “Ben Stein, … a 21st-century Einsteinian figure.”

Poor Albert, he must be spinning in his grave especially with today being his birthday.

]]> By: Benjamin Franklin http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/ive-heard-of-padding-your-resume-but-thats-just-wrong/#comment-269 Benjamin Franklin Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:40:23 +0000 http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-269 For those of you reading this blog who think that Ben Stein was in any way the motivating force behind this movie, please reconsider. From the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Texan interview with Logan Craft (executive producer of Expelled): http://www.sbtexan.com/default.asp?action=article&aid=5533&issue=2/4/2008 TEXAN: How did Ben Stein come to be involved in the film? CRAFT: Well, John (Sullivan, producer of Expelled) had a real insight, we believe, into the necessity to have a person, first of all, who wasn’t overtly Christian or overtly religious… Ben Stein is a hack! This film is a manufactured argument, cleverly crafted to advance a conservative christian agenda. ID at this point, after almost 20 years and millions of dollars tossed at it by the Discovery Institute, is still merely a vague idea. It has not yet even been fleshed out into a valid scientific hypothesis, and certainly hasn’t developed into a viable or testable theory. So at this point, the ID/creationist movement is merely a well-funded public relations effort trying to rally public support by falsely decrying "There is no Freedom of Speech!", and promoting “science/evolution = atheists = Naziism”, rather than offering any positive evidence for why ID should even be considered as science. To see what people who have seen the movie are saying, go to www.expelledexposed.com “Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for or even against evolution, march in the army of the night with their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.” —Isaac Asimov For those of you reading this blog who think that Ben Stein was in any way the motivating force behind this movie, please reconsider.

From the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Texan interview with Logan Craft (executive producer of Expelled):

http://www.sbtexan.com/default.asp?action=article&aid=5533&issue=2/4/2008

TEXAN: How did Ben Stein come to be involved in the film?

CRAFT: Well, John (Sullivan, producer of Expelled) had a real insight, we believe, into the necessity to have a person, first of all, who wasn’t overtly Christian or overtly religious…

Ben Stein is a hack!

This film is a manufactured argument, cleverly crafted to advance a conservative christian agenda. ID at this point, after almost 20 years and millions of dollars tossed at it by the Discovery Institute, is still merely a vague idea. It has not yet even been fleshed out into a valid scientific hypothesis, and certainly hasn’t developed into a viable or testable theory.

So at this point, the ID/creationist movement is merely a well-funded public relations effort trying to rally public support by falsely decrying “There is no Freedom of Speech!”, and promoting “science/evolution = atheists = Naziism”, rather than offering any positive evidence for why ID should even be considered as science.

To see what people who have seen the movie are saying, go to

http://www.expelledexposed.com

“Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for or even against evolution, march in the army of the night with their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.”
—Isaac Asimov

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