Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Expelli-brain-us: Ben Stein and the Crock of Crap
I'll be honest with you, I haven't seen Ben Stein's creationist propaganda movie Expelled, and I've no intention of doing so. But I've been seeing and hearing ads for it damn near everywhere, from Comedy Central during the commercial breaks while I'm watching Stewart and Colbert, to my local liberal talk radio station, KPHX.
I'm struck by the dishonesty of the advertising campaign. On Comedy Central, they're trying to make the movie look like a comedy, a sequel to Jack Black's School of Rock. And on KPHX, the ad opens with dire pronouncements about free speech and science being under attack. At first I thought they were talking about the Junior regime's campaign to suppress the truth about global warming.
It speaks volumes that Stein and his creationist paymasters are going to such lengths to deceive people and prevent them from finding out what this piece of crap is really about - which is of course merely a continuation of the tactics used in making the film.
Part of me feels the sanity-based community should simply ignore this movie, relegating it to the obscurity it so richly deserves. But the central thesis of Expelled is the outrageous and despicable lie that "Darwinism" lead inevitably to the WWII holocaust, that the highly principled and humane Charles Darwin was himself some kind of proto-Nazi - and that anyone who continues to teach evolution today is in the thrall of eugenics and genocide.
This is the sort of big lie that only organized religion can get away with - and it's long past time we started calling them on this shit! I for one am going to do everything in my small power to expose Stein's lies, smears and slanders. I hope he and his fellow liars-for-jeezus lose a buttload of money on this turkey.
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RSS feed for comments | Pauli Ojala wrote 5/1 3:52am in reply to Original article: Ben(jamin) Stein is under heavy artillery for 'exaggerating' or 'going easy' on the influence of evolutionism behind Nazism and Stalinism (super evolution of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Russia). But the monstrous Haeckelian type of vulgar evolutionism drove not only the 'Politics-is-applied-biology' Nazi takeover in the continental Europe, but even the nationalistic collision at the World War I. It was Charles Darwin himself, who praised and raised the monstrous German Ernst Haeckel with his still recycled embryo drawing frauds etc. in the spotlight as the greatest authority in the field of human evolution, even in the preface to his Descent of man in 1871. If Thomas Henry Huxley with his concept of 'agnostism' was Darwins bulldog in England, Haeckel was his Rotweiler in Germany. 'Kampf' was a direct translation of 'struggle' from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859). Seinen Kampf. His application. Catch 22: Haeckel's 140 years old fake embryo drawings have been mindlessly recycled for the 'public understanding of science' (PUS) in most biology text books until this millennium. Despite factum est that Haeckel's crackpot raging Recapitulation/Biogenetic Law and functioning gill slits of human embryos have been at the ethical tangent race hygiene/eugenics/genocide, infanticide, and Freudian psychoanalysis (subconscious atavisms). Dawkins is the Oxford professor for PUS - and should gather the courage of Stephen Jay Gould who could feel ashamed about it. Some edited quotes from my conference posters and articles defended and published in the field of bioethics and history of biology (and underline/edit them a 'bit'): http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Asian_Bioethics.pdf http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Haeckelianlegacy_ABC5.pdf The marriage laws were once erected not only in the Nazi Germany but also in the multicultural states of America upon the speculation that the mulatto was a relatively sterile a (Reply) |
 | No More Mr. Nice Guy! wrote 5/1 11:54am in reply to Pauli Ojala: You're full of it. The truth about Haeckel and recapitulation (Reply) |
