Ben Stein and the Origins Debate

Posted January 8th, 2008 @ 12:14 pm by Chris Salzman

Just watched an extremely compelling trailer for a documentary called Expelled.

You can watch additional trailers here.

It seems he’s not trying to prove a point either way about origin issues, but rather drawing attention to the lack of free speech in scientific academia.

Interested in seeing it? I know I am. Has anyone in academia experienced flat-out resistance to an idea merely because of religion?

On a personal note, I stopped having creation v. evolution debates a few years ago. Most discussions started with angry people and ended with accusations of blind ignorance or questioning someone’s salvation. That sort of discourse did far more harm than good. Do you think this film will be helpful to the discussion or incite people?

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