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	<title>Comments on: Ben Stein&#8217;s Grand Unified Theory of Stupid</title>
	<link>http://intepid.com/2008-04-27/13.34/</link>
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		<title>By: Ross</title>
		<link>http://intepid.com/2008-04-27/13.34/#comment-2496</link>
		<author>Ross</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Just to clarify a point that the film should have made clear(?).  Darwinism  promotes or endorses (not leads to) racism, genocide etc.  It's only going to have that affect on some people. And Stein should have run his script passed AiG scientists. You have clearly shown that he is no scientist. That does not negate other aspects of the film, however, such as the rabid discrimination that otherwise top class scientists face if they "come out of the closet" regarding their creationist leanings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just to clarify a point that the film should have made clear(?).  Darwinism  promotes or endorses (not leads to) racism, genocide etc.  It&#8217;s only going to have that affect on some people. And Stein should have run his script passed AiG scientists. You have clearly shown that he is no scientist. That does not negate other aspects of the film, however, such as the rabid discrimination that otherwise top class scientists face if they &#8220;come out of the closet&#8221; regarding their creationist leanings.</p>
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		<title>By: mark</title>
		<link>http://intepid.com/2008-04-27/13.34/#comment-2497</link>
		<author>mark</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Ross, not only is Stein no scientist, his comprehension of the subject of his own film is lower than that of the worst hack who ever called themselves a science journalist.

Darwinism at its worst does not promote or endorse genocide... there is nothing natural about extermination of a race or ethnicity... it makes more sense to invoke selective breeding as a causal effect in these cases, and selective breeding has been practiced for millenia, long before Darwin was ever born.

Your misconception is a perfect illustration of why literal creationists make SUCH BAD SCIENTISTS. You infuse everything with intent, whereas a rational scientist does not look at evolution and read intent or higher purpose into it (and therefore does not extract any kind of moral framework from the fact that is evolution).

I'll grant you that evolution can be twisted to support racism, but just barely since we humans are in fact just one species. Even if this is the case, does the fact that bad people might choose to misinterpret and misuse such information make it less true? No. 

We evolved, copious empirical evidence supports this, deal with it. Better to deal with the truth than deal with nut-jobs trying to argue that blacks and Jews are descended from "mud people" or the sons of Cain etc

And if you want to argue against the fact of evolution then I would first request that you tell me how all the land animals from the Ark could go from being functionally extinct to thriving populations again. And then talk about how the carnivores used to be herbivores before original sin, even though they had big pointy teeth. Forgive me if I don't know exactly where you conveniently draw the line here between history and fairytale.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ross, not only is Stein no scientist, his comprehension of the subject of his own film is lower than that of the worst hack who ever called themselves a science journalist.</p>
<p>Darwinism at its worst does not promote or endorse genocide&#8230; there is nothing natural about extermination of a race or ethnicity&#8230; it makes more sense to invoke selective breeding as a causal effect in these cases, and selective breeding has been practiced for millenia, long before Darwin was ever born.</p>
<p>Your misconception is a perfect illustration of why literal creationists make SUCH BAD SCIENTISTS. You infuse everything with intent, whereas a rational scientist does not look at evolution and read intent or higher purpose into it (and therefore does not extract any kind of moral framework from the fact that is evolution).</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll grant you that evolution can be twisted to support racism, but just barely since we humans are in fact just one species. Even if this is the case, does the fact that bad people might choose to misinterpret and misuse such information make it less true? No. </p>
<p>We evolved, copious empirical evidence supports this, deal with it. Better to deal with the truth than deal with nut-jobs trying to argue that blacks and Jews are descended from &#8220;mud people&#8221; or the sons of Cain etc</p>
<p>And if you want to argue against the fact of evolution then I would first request that you tell me how all the land animals from the Ark could go from being functionally extinct to thriving populations again. And then talk about how the carnivores used to be herbivores before original sin, even though they had big pointy teeth. Forgive me if I don&#8217;t know exactly where you conveniently draw the line here between history and fairytale.</p>
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		<title>By: mark</title>
		<link>http://intepid.com/2008-04-27/13.34/#comment-2498</link>
		<author>mark</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>To answer your second point, if a scientist believes and asserts that A is true, even though all the evidence points to B, then he is a bad scientist and should not be supported. It's clear that your guys can say and do whatever the hell they like and get away with it... so it's not censorship that's the problem here... it is their ridiculous demand for unearned respect within the scientific community.

Science is all about evidence, you can hope all you like that we will find God's signature in our DNA but until we do you need to chill and accept that ID is just wishful thinking from people who cannot stomach the idea of being wrong and think proper science is too hard.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To answer your second point, if a scientist believes and asserts that A is true, even though all the evidence points to B, then he is a bad scientist and should not be supported. It&#8217;s clear that your guys can say and do whatever the hell they like and get away with it&#8230; so it&#8217;s not censorship that&#8217;s the problem here&#8230; it is their ridiculous demand for unearned respect within the scientific community.</p>
<p>Science is all about evidence, you can hope all you like that we will find God&#8217;s signature in our DNA but until we do you need to chill and accept that ID is just wishful thinking from people who cannot stomach the idea of being wrong and think proper science is too hard.</p>
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