DISQUS

Will Wilkinson: The Contradiction of Expelled

  • Swimmy · 1 year ago
    An excellent point. According to reports, during the interview with Dawkins in Expelled, he is asked the best argument he can imagine in favor of ID. He constructs a story about space aliens seeding life onto planet earth. Stein takes this as free reign for mockery: "Hear that? Richard Dawkins believes in aaaaaaalieeeeeens!"

    But the movie's mockery emphatically reinforces the contradiction explained here. If ID is really about the science of irreducible complexity, space aliens deserve as fair a shake as God. Some biologist somewhere might give them that shake, but Ben Stein and Mark Mathis don't. Neither will the vast majority of this movie's target audience.
  • Jthadeus · 1 year ago
    Will,
    Perhaps you should get together with Stein and do a movie about how psychometricians refuse to countenance non-evolutionary explanations for the IQ gap. I bet that would sell more tickets.