Evolution

The controversial pro-intelligent design documentary featuring actor Ben Stein released on DVD Tuesday, weeks after a highly-publicized lawsuit against it was dropped.

Noticeably missing from the “Expelled” DVD, however, is the song “Imagine,” which was at the heart of the months-long legal battle.

“The mere pendency of these cases caused the film's DVD distributor to shy away from releasing the full film – the version that includes the Imagine segment,” reported Anthony Falzone, executive director of Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project, which defended “Expelled” in court. “So the film goes out on DVD on October 21 in censored form, illustrating the damage that even an unproved and unsupported infringement claim can do.” more >>

This month, the popular pro-intelligent design documentary featuring actor Ben Stein will make its DVD debut after having grossed more than $7 million in theaters as the twelfth highest-grossing documentary film in the United States.

The release of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” on DVD will be accompanied by grass roots outreach by Motive Entertainment, the company that spearheaded the grass roots marketing for Hollywood blockbusters like “The Passion of the Christ,” “Polar Express” and “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

Promoters of the documentary film believe it will continue to open up and fuel the debate on freedom of speech and freedom of education in the United States. more >>

The evolutionist is locked into an intellectual box from which there is no rescue. Evolutionary theory is naturalistic by necessity - everything must be explained in purely naturalistic terms. Only nature can explain nature, and there is no other source of meaning or truth. Thus, in the end the theory of evolution - and the theory of evolution alone - must explain everything about humanity.

This predicament was made clear in a lecture recently given by geneticist Steve Jones at University College London. Speaking on his chosen topic, "Evolution is Over," Jones argued that human evolution has reached an end because of changes in human health and human behavior.

This argument stands in stark contrast to those offered by other evolutionists, who now call on humanity to use modern reproductive technologies and techniques designed to enhance the species. Some go so far as to argue that humans must employ these technologies and direct evolution in order to save the species from itself. more >>

While the 21st Century Science Coalition may sound like it’s on the cutting edge of scientific innovation, at least one of its critics argues otherwise.

“The 21st Century Science Coalition has the wrong name,” says Dr. John G. West, Vice President for Public Policy and Legal Affairs at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.

“It should be dubbed the ‘19th Century Science Coalition,’ because it wants to turn the clock back to the 19th century by suppressing recent scientific evidence challenging Darwinism from fields like biochemistry, bioinformatics, microbiology, and paleontology,” he told The Christian Post in response to the coalition’s recruitment of more than 800 supporters from the scientific community in Texas. more >>

Over 800 scientists in Texas have signed a statement to “encourage valid critical thinking and scientific reasoning by leaving out all references to ‘strengths and weaknesses’” of evolution – references, they say, that politicians “have used to introduce supernatural explanations into science courses.”

"Texas public schools should be preparing our kids to succeed in the 21st century, not promoting political and ideological agendas that are hostile to a sound science education," said David Hillis, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin, according to The Associate Press.

Hills is one of the state’s more than 400 science faculty members who have signed the “Scientists for a Responsible Curriculum in Texas Public Schools” statement, which also includes more than 430 signatures from other Texas scientists. more >>