No Intelligence Allowed...at all.

This note had been a long time coming. For those of you who are religious and believe in creationism and think that what I'm doing is not fair...well, you're out of luck. A week ago a film was released called, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" which is the most accurate tagline I've heard in a long time. The film is a documentary by Ben Stein of Bueller fame. As it turns out this guy saw a Michael Moore film and thought he could rip it off going in a different direction. The film makes the claim that evolution has destroyed american. Bold ain't it?

The documentary makes the claim that we as children of america are indoctrinated into the Darwinism way of thinking and any professor that questions this is immediately fired and has to find a new profession. I really don't know where to begin with this. I've only seen the first 10 minutes and hope to see the whole thing soon. However, I viewed many of Ben Stein's news appearances in promoting the film. So I will only criticize those until i actually see the whole thing. First off he claimed that kids who go to college are force fed a secular liberal agenda at these college universities. First off, this is stupid to begin with. I've been in college for a long time now and the only agenda I've seen of a major university is to make more money. Seriously, if there was a liberal college agenda, would there even be a Georgia State? A state university wants your money anyway it can get it, regardless of belief. They're not going to try and change you. It's against their business interests.

I never saw anything that suggested this liberal bias. At Ball State I've met about every walk of life you can imagine. There's a healthy Christian section but there's also a health Muslim section, Gay/lesbian section, and yes liberal section. So right off the bat this claim is largely ignorant especially coming to a man who hasn't been to college since 1930.

Next is a very common claim I hear from every creationist on the planet. The claim that "I didn't come from no puddle of goo." and the grammar in that claim is so elegant that this becomes a very valid argument. The idea that humans were improved overtime to adapt to conditions seems incredibly against God. I don't know why this is and if anyone can explain why this is so blasphemous be my guest to comment.

Next claim by creationists is that they would have no problem as long as both sides were presented in the science classes. I would have no problem if the science of creationism was presented in the classroom, unfortunately, there is none. Creationism has nothing to do with science. I find it amazing that when questioning evolution the creationists question every bit of data there is yet when you ask them for their evidence you get the same old "because God made it so!" and that is not science. Lack of evidence of one thing is not evidence for another.

Another claim is that scientists who question evolution are being persecuted for their beliefs. This is fascinating to me, are these people being persecuted for mentioning creationism? Yes! But at that same time evolutionists are being persecuted for not mentioning creationism in the classroom. In fact, more and more school districts are requiring the teaching of intelligent design in the classroom as if it were a science along side evolution. But there is problem I have with that. Creationism is not science. No matter how much it tries to be. Bill O'Reilly once said and I quote, "Why can't you just mention in biology class that there are theologians who believe that a higher power was responsible for the first life." I will answer this, because it's biology class and not a theology class. If theologians want to say this in a theology class I doubt there'd be much controversy over that.

There's is an argument that when you ask these atheist, liberal, hippy, evil doers how did life begin they shrug and say they don't really know. Well, yeah, we don't know how life began but that doesn't mean that you do. As I said a lack of evidence for one thing is not evidence for another.

This is the best one yet, that darwinism leads to social darwinism. That the better race has a moral duty to eliminate another race and that there would've been no holocaust if there were no darwinism. This is a claim that is ignorant to a point that I can't even comprehend. Yes, it was darwin that caused the holocaust. I mean what the hell? Is this what a creationist scientist does? Say "hey I heard something about survival of the fittest so that must've been what hitler was thinking." Well guess what Darwinism talked about natural selection and Hitler's selection was anything but natural.

I take most offense to this claim because it all falls into the idea that atheists are morally inferior. That if you don't believe in a God you don't feel that there's any purpose to life and so you're free to do all the evils of world. This is plain old fashioned discrimination. And if you Christians are feeling so persecuted what about the atheists that you say causes all the evils in the world? You see how this can go back and forth forever until the of time? I can say that religion causes all the wars in the world, you can say atheism causes all the wars in the world, and mel gibson can say all the jews cause all the wars in the world and where does that leave us? FUCKIN NOWHERE! All this amounts to is calling atheists a poopy face. That's all I see it as. Yes, Ben Stein can do a documentary on this and be protected under the first amendment. But in turn I have the right to call him a fucking idiot and have the right to say that what he is doing is morally wrong, dishonest and I'm just as protected.

However, there is still claim that creationism should be taught under the first amendment. Well, that first amendment also includes a separation between church and state. You can teach evolution all you want in private schools but public schools is a different story. Because creationism is not a science, faith is not a science, and there's no way to make it so. Refuting Darwinism by saying "It didn't happen all of the sudden", and then say "God made it all happen all of the sudden." is a circular argument. With Darwinism, BAM! There it is! And with God, BAM! There it is! Why must Science be required to be ever changing yet Religion so perpetually static?

Stein asked the public, "If Darwinists are so right what are they so afraid of?" I'll tell you what we are afraid of. We're afraid of a time when we go into a public classroom and have someone's religious agenda forced on us. We're afraid of the day that fanaticism takes over what was once a free thinking society. We're afraid of being forced to accept one powerful almighty God. Because that is not a free society. Christians may feel persecuted for not getting their ideas into science class but what about the Muslim, the Pagan, and the Wiccan ideas of the origins of life. Why can't they be taught in the science classrooms? Oh wait! Yes! Because none of them are science!