Comments on: EXPELLED Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/03/expelled-controversy-top-issue-in-blogosphere/ Do we believe we hold the truth? No, the Truth holds us... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:18:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Quintin http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/03/expelled-controversy-top-issue-in-blogosphere/#comment-2615 Quintin Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:46:21 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1305#comment-2615 I've heard good things and bad things. But all in all I've noticed that evolutionists are waiting with every ad hominem and biology textbook at the front doors of this movie. They seem scared, I don't know why. Maybe they are concerned natural selection is excluding evolutionists from the gene pool. I’ve heard good things and bad things. But all in all I’ve noticed that evolutionists are waiting with every ad hominem and biology textbook at the front doors of this movie. They seem scared, I don’t know why.

Maybe they are concerned natural selection is excluding evolutionists from the gene pool.

]]> By: Cedric Katesby http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/03/expelled-controversy-top-issue-in-blogosphere/#comment-2425 Cedric Katesby Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:41:24 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1305#comment-2425 "The idea here is not just to list a website you like or agree with, but to list your own site if you have one." Oh. I didn't know that. Sorry. I'll leave the URL blank in future. “The idea here is not just to list a website you like or agree with, but to list your own site if you have one.”

Oh. I didn’t know that. Sorry.
I’ll leave the URL blank in future.

]]> By: Tom Gilson http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/03/expelled-controversy-top-issue-in-blogosphere/#comment-2418 Tom Gilson Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:19:04 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1305#comment-2418 Cedric, your own credibility would be higher if there were some evidence that you actually have a connection to randi.org, the website you listed as your URL. Do you? The idea here is not just to list a website you like or agree with, but to list your own site if you have one. Cedric, your own credibility would be higher if there were some evidence that you actually have a connection to randi.org, the website you listed as your URL. Do you? The idea here is not just to list a website you like or agree with, but to list your own site if you have one.

]]> By: Cedric Katesby http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/03/expelled-controversy-top-issue-in-blogosphere/#comment-2416 Cedric Katesby Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:01:32 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1305#comment-2416 Expelled is truely the perfect film to represent ID. (Sad really) Everybody should watch it. Repeatedly! Some Christian blogs have finally seen through the hype and they are not amused. "Mark Mathis: The Premises of Feeding the Beast and Expelled" http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/03/24/mark-mathis-the-premises-of-feeding-the-beast-and-expelled/ The damage control by the makers of the film is just icing on the cake. http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/contradictory-stories-from-the-id-crowd-on-the-expelled-incident/ Expelled is truely the perfect film to represent ID.
(Sad really)
Everybody should watch it.
Repeatedly!

Some Christian blogs have finally seen through the hype and they are not amused.

“Mark Mathis: The Premises of Feeding the Beast and Expelled”

http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/03/24/mark-mathis-the-premises-of-feeding-the-beast-and-expelled/

The damage control by the makers of the film is just icing on the cake.

http://pigeonchess.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/contradictory-stories-from-the-id-crowd-on-the-expelled-incident/

]]> By: Karl http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/03/expelled-controversy-top-issue-in-blogosphere/#comment-2371 Karl Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:37:17 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1305#comment-2371 Tom, unfortunately I think you're going to find that the attention in the blogosphere around the ridiculousness of the Expelled producers keeping someone from attending their screening will only serve to increase the general public's skepticism around the movie and the intelligent design movement. What's needed in intelligent design, if it is in fact a viable project, is sound scientific research that supports its claims, instead of a puffy movie that does nothing toward that end. To the academic establishment, the intelligent design controversy is ridiculous, like a debate around the historicity of Santa Claus. To them, the explanatory power of evolution are so tested and strong (a fact which, even from my Christian perspective, I find myself compelled to agree with) that to allow a contrived, unsupported, dare I say completely undefined "alternate view" is completely unnecessary. Ultimately, though, as in all things, the truth should prevail -- so we'll see! Tom, unfortunately I think you’re going to find that the attention in the blogosphere around the ridiculousness of the Expelled producers keeping someone from attending their screening will only serve to increase the general public’s skepticism around the movie and the intelligent design movement.

What’s needed in intelligent design, if it is in fact a viable project, is sound scientific research that supports its claims, instead of a puffy movie that does nothing toward that end. To the academic establishment, the intelligent design controversy is ridiculous, like a debate around the historicity of Santa Claus. To them, the explanatory power of evolution are so tested and strong (a fact which, even from my Christian perspective, I find myself compelled to agree with) that to allow a contrived, unsupported, dare I say completely undefined “alternate view” is completely unnecessary. Ultimately, though, as in all things, the truth should prevail — so we’ll see!

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