You will end up seeing this movie EXPELLED! No Intelligence Allowed, a creationist film featuring Ben Stein. Why? For the same reason I am.
I clicked on one of those "Web clips" that appear at the top of my Gmail today that took me to the "supertrailer" of the movie. My brother-in-law Jon sent me the same link a little later on too. I did find the irony hilarious when I heard that an atheist was expelled from the movie. That got me. I sent Jon the link.
The great controversy
I was drawn into the great controversy about creationists versus Darwinists. I read a bunch of blogs all about how Darwinists were going to end any chance of our finding a true creator. I also read a bunch about how the ultra-religious were going to destroy the world.
Well now I just found out that the EXPELLED! controversy was the most read, most blogged-about story on the Internet today. So I had to write a blog too.
The great conspiracy
Here's my conspiracy theory: They're all in on it. We're all going to end up paying money to see this movie. Maybe we'll even buy books about it. Even the people who decide to attempt to boycott it will end up marketing it. Why? Because there's a guy who's a genius who found a way to shroud it in controversy. Follow the money. We're all going to end up having an opinion, and it's going to end up being the trendy thing to talk about.
Maybe someday I'll be genius enough to come up with some good controversy and make money on it.
Religion in schools = disaster
Let's all believe whatever we want, but let's never fall into the trap of putting religion back into schools. C'mon! How would you handle that without turning a classroom into a war zone? Stick to sound science that can be tested. Do we really want kids discussing how this God or that God or no God or those Gods or those aliens made the world? I mean it's a fun discussion, but nothing good will come out of it being in a school.
1 comment:
That actually looks pretty interesting...
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