Posted by RB on May 19, 2008 · 15 Comments
This is a video of a teen Scientologist who is angrily frustrated by the way Scientology is viewed by most of society, questions what gives another person the right to talk negatively about his “religion” (answer: the same thing that gives us the right to criticize any other belief we find to be silly – … Read more
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Posted by RB on May 3, 2008 · 8 Comments
Hi all. When I started this blog my intent was to engage every debate that comes my way regarding my posts – with little regard for how inane the other side was being. I viewed it as a matter of being a good citizen and being responsible for my content. When the blog first started … Read more
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Posted by RB on May 2, 2008 · 37 Comments
From the official ADL website: New York, NY, April 29, 2008 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit the scientific community which rejects … Read more
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Posted by RB on April 28, 2008 · 4 Comments
The Evolved Rationalist, in an act of self-sacrifice, has subjected herself and her brain cells (a few thousand of which are probably dead now) to watching Ben Stein et al.’s crocumentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. She reviews the intellectual and moral travesty here. PS: ER has the best blog tagline I’ve ever seen: We have … Read more
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Posted by RB on April 21, 2008 · 4 Comments
The following articles are must-reads: In the wake of the release of Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Science After Sunclipse writes an absolutely excellent piece (so excellent, in fact, that it was prominently linked on PZ Myers’ Pharyngula, which is, to my knowledge, the world’s most read science blog) on the depressing track record of … Read more
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Posted by RB on April 18, 2008 · 4 Comments
The Scienazis are at it again. It wasn’t enough for them to suppress the highly tenable and definitely scientific approach that is Intelligent Design (and certainly not Creationism). Now they’re suppressing the equally meritorious stork theory of reproduction. Stork theory, a totally viable alternative to the sex theory (which is just a theory) of reproduction, … Read more
Filed under Evolution, Free Speech and Censorship, Politics, Religion, Science, Society & Culture · Tagged with Anti-evolution, Anti-Science and Pseudoscience, Ben Stein, biology, Censorship, Christian, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Expelled, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, ID, intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design and Creationism, procreation, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Science, sex, Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed, sexual reproduction, stork theory, storks
Posted by RB on April 15, 2008 · 2 Comments
Evangelical scientists refute gravity with new “Intelligent Falling” Theory. Request for equal time in schools has been made.
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Posted by RB on April 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Tomorrow, April 15, The National Center for Science Education will be posting its review of Ben Stein’s crocumentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The NCSE’s ExpelledExposed website currently contains a collection articles critical of the shock-croc.
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Posted by RB on April 13, 2008 · 7 Comments
Barry Duke of The Freethinker writes: “IT had to happen – a Saudi man has hit back at films criticising Islam in a Fitna-style video which portrays Christianity as a religion of violence. The film, entitled Schism, was made by Raed al-Saeed. It splices together Bible verses and Iraq war images – including British soldiers … Read more
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