So I got Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed from Netflix. I’m watching it as I write this. The beginning is what you would expect, a long and tedious trek to find professors who have been shunned for expressing support of intelligent design. A lot of ignorance about what evolution actually is, and a lot of pointing out that ID has good points (without ever actually making them so we can judge for ourselves how good they are). But the best part so far is the long bit about Nazi Germany and eugenics. What place do the Nazis have in this “documentary”? Evidently the Nazis became Nazis because they were Darwinists. Stein also manages to imply that Planned Parenthood is an organization guided by the principles of eugenics!
Stein spends a lot of time talking about how it isn’t the American way to suppress a viewpoint – we are the land of freedom and inclusiveness. What he never does is make an argument of why we should listen to ID. What is the evidence? He says it is just as valid but never bothers to show us why.
And that is because its a bunch of bullshit.
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