But it is just a THEORY
Ben Stein has a new movie out, called Expelled: No intelligence allowed. The tagline is pretty precious: Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is every generation has its rebel…Ben blows the horn on supression. Apparently, Big Science also expelled grammar from the classroom. Its hard not to automatically reach for the joke on this one, but the movie is dead serious about ‘exposing’ the stranglehold so called Big Science has on …. science…and how unaccommodating they are about teaching things that….aren’t scientific….in science classrooms.
There is a 50% chance this post only came into being because I love that happy little goat picture up there. But the other 50% comes from trying to understand how, in a country with declining enrollments in science, the biggest crisis we face, according to Ben Stein, is the horror of discrimination against intelligent design.
In the interest of full disclosure, I must now admit that I myself am a Pastafarian, the fastest-growing carbohydrate-based religion in North America. But even though I am blessed with the knowledge that the world was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster, I still feel the need to point out that if Ben wants “intelligent” design taught in schools, then I want equal time in science classrooms for the teachings of FSM, which are an equally valid supposition of how the world was created.
Of course, ‘Big Science’ is keeping the man, or in my case, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, down. Stupid Big Science, with their stranglehold on Science and education. The cynic in my adores that language construction though - Big Science, like Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, all known to be killing us with our own money, the worst of the worst in corporate life, the kinds of firms that even the devil himself would hesitate to cross.
Check out Expelled Exposed for a more serious take on some of the accusations levelled in this movie.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I suppose you think this is a big joke, but not teaching intelligent design is one of the reasons why american students are not pursuing science at the college level. Why should they, when they know that the factual information they need most is being deliberatly removed from their education?
May 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Thank you for taking the time to comment, Meredith.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Would your argument remain the same if one day they just stopped teaching Physics in high school? Or what if one day mitosis and meiosis was just removed from the curriculum, because educators decided that it wasn’t legitmate? Intelligent Design can be proven to the same extent that Darwinism can, and yet educators are making a choice at the expense of our children’s futures to teach one and shun the other.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Thank you for taking the time to comment, IDScientist.