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Old 09-April-2008, 08:15 PM
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BTW, I recently heard about Ben Stein's "Expelled" on radio and watched trailer on YouTube. He seems to understand my frustation of ID being totally excused as idiotic and is not even worth mentioning or questioning, although science has yet to 'prove' anything.

Any thoughts?
A couple. First, there is no such thing as absolute proof in science. There is, however, a great deal of evidence for evolution.

Second, Mathis (the movie's producer) is himself arguing that ID is religion. I wrote a post on this earlier with links:

PZ Myers expelled from "Expelled"

Religion doesn't belong in the science classroom. I wouldn't call ID idiotic so much as missing the point. Religion is about faith, science is about evidence.
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