Comments on: Ben Stein in Hot-Pants for Intelligent Design

By: Bad

Bad — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:44:41 +0000

I think your reasoning here is off a little, at least as an indictment of Christianity. In reality, it’s only a rather small percentage of Christians, and mostly in English speaking nations, who are either creationists, or even care much about the issue. Catholicism, which still makes up the bulk of Christians, even has the official position that evolution is fine as a scientific description of nature: which is exactly what it is. Obviously they believe other things in addition to that, but the point is they aren’t theologically committed to go after science as a target.

If you’re giving up your faith for lots of other reasons, that’s one thing. But you shouldn’t think that you need to give up Christianity just to escape creationists… though this is exactly what creationists want people to think.

By: Nathan Privittia

Nathan Privittia — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:42:11 +0000

I think this movie will be the last nail in the coffin for me. Christianity is no longer for me. I am leaving the religion. This is really sad. You can’t fight against science because it is based on mountains of provable empirical observations, and data. It seems like many Christians are sadly distracted with the hopeless political quest of trying to disprove the science of evolution. That is like trying to disprove gravity. Scientists are using genetics, evolution, biology and medicine to create new cures and treatments for illnesses. Not only is evolution real, it is moving the field of biomedicine and biotechnology along. My country is falling behind the rest of the world in the sciences because our education system is failing. I.D. will only hurt us more. Christianity has failed to coexist with scientific truth, and has lost another member.

By: Bad

Bad — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:21:38 +0000

You’re going to have to do better than simply referring to the incident: what’s the nature of the interview with Haggard? What was deceptive about it? How was it edited to change the context?

By: Not Rev. Anyone

Not Rev. Anyone — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:02:33 +0000

Right… and the scientific community would NEVER engage in such lowlife tactics as a bait-and-switch or “interview entrapment.” Oh wait, except for that Richard Dawkins interview of Ted Haggard for the BBC series he did…

Not that I am defending such tactics, but the all the moral indignation about this movie is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, I’m afriad.

By: Maximus

Maximus — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:45:40 +0000

I would like to see a continuation of the topic

By: Rev. David Williams

Rev. David Williams — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:38:11 +0000

This sort of thing is a travesty…not just for the damage that it could do to our education system, but for the desperate misrepresentation of faith that comes from I.D. and creationist thought.

Unlike your “Rev.” friend, I’m actually one, dagnabbit, and this sort of this massively cheeses me off.

There are undoubtedly “believers” who’ll take it seriously…much the same folks who get their faith from the teevee and their science from the Creation Science museum.

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By: Bad

Bad — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:36:20 +0000

I’m touched that you cared, but aren’t you violating His Will by paying attention to me yourself?

In any case, while I would indeed greatly enjoy on topic comments, I’m really not looking to be part of a vaudeville act, or provide a stage for one. So, last warning before your parody project ends up in my spam file.

By: Hipple, Rev. Paul T.

Hipple, Rev. Paul T. — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:07:20 +0000

I have Prayed to Our Lord that people ignore your blog so that when they see His work exposed in the movie Expelled, they will not doubt its truthfulness.

I see my prayers are answered.

By: Bad

Bad — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:18:08 +0000

I wanted to find out if you were kidding or not, so I checked out your blog. I have but one question: wouldn’t a “Gay Homosexual” technically be a straight person?