Shrike wrote:
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> "Should I be worried about the Crips and the Bloods up here?" These
> were the first words out of the mouth of Ben Stein as he entered my
> office at Skeptic magazine, located in the racially mixed
> neighborhood of Altadena, Calif. I cringed and hoped that the two
> African-American women in my employ were out of earshot of what was
> perhaps merely Stein's ham-handed attempt at humor before he began
> interviewing me for what I was told was a film on the intersection of
> science and religion entitled Crossroads.
> That is not what the interview was about. And neither is the film,
> now called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The subtitle exposes
> its motif-intelligent design has been expelled from classrooms and
> culture, and Ben Stein sees a sinister conspiracy at work. This
> supercilious financial columnist and ersatz actor and game show host
> proceeded to grill me on whether or not I think someone should be
> fired for expressing dissenting views. My answer: it depends. Who is
> being fired for what, when and where? People are usually fired for
> reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or
> failure to fulfill the terms of a contract. If you are hired to teach
> biology according to the curriculum standards of your school district
> but instead spend the semester telling students that science has no
> definitive explanation for DNA, wings, eyes, brains and that mystery
> of mysteries-bacteria flagella-then, yes, you should be fired
> posthaste. But I know of no instance in which this has happened, and
> the film's examples of such alleged abuses have reasonable
> explanations detailed at www.expelledexposed.com, where Eugenie Scott
> and her tireless crew at the National Center for Science Education
> have tracked down the specifics of each case.
Good link.
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