What Was That?
Oh, that was my respect whizzing past.
Ben Stein, who spent a long time positioning himself as the smartest man in America is now touting for Intelligent Design (it irks me that I even have to capitalize that) and in an interview today said that "science leads you to killing people." (Read about it here, if you want to see the actual interview there's a link at that page, it was on TBN.) He was being interviewed to promote his new movie Expelled which is supposed to be a documentary about how scientists who study Intelligent Design are being persecuted. (There's a great debunking of basically every word in the movie here.) He was talking of course about the Nazis and their scientists, and the atrocities they committed. So by Godwin's Law the IDers have now officially lost the argument.
Science doesn't lead you to killing Ben. Lack of compassion leads you to killing.
But a lack of science leads you to superstition, and superstition often leads you to killing.
Like the 5 guys in Benin, Africa who were beaten to death for using sorcery to steal other men's penises. (Read this about the deaths and this about a current, new outbreak of the panic in Congo, if you don't believe me.) They'll tell you all about what superstition gets you.
Ben Stein, who spent a long time positioning himself as the smartest man in America is now touting for Intelligent Design (it irks me that I even have to capitalize that) and in an interview today said that "science leads you to killing people." (Read about it here, if you want to see the actual interview there's a link at that page, it was on TBN.) He was being interviewed to promote his new movie Expelled which is supposed to be a documentary about how scientists who study Intelligent Design are being persecuted. (There's a great debunking of basically every word in the movie here.) He was talking of course about the Nazis and their scientists, and the atrocities they committed. So by Godwin's Law the IDers have now officially lost the argument.
Science doesn't lead you to killing Ben. Lack of compassion leads you to killing.
But a lack of science leads you to superstition, and superstition often leads you to killing.
Like the 5 guys in Benin, Africa who were beaten to death for using sorcery to steal other men's penises. (Read this about the deaths and this about a current, new outbreak of the panic in Congo, if you don't believe me.) They'll tell you all about what superstition gets you.
"Intelligent Design" is such idiocy.