Glen Davidson
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It's not terribly interesting, but I thought Stein's prattle on Glenn Beck's program is worth a few quotes and a link:
Quote | STEIN: Well this was for a documentary which as you say is called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." We were studying what our kids were taught about evolution, what they were taught about how life originated.
What we found is that if you question evolution, you have a good chance of losing tenure. You have a good chance of getting fired, losing a grant, you`re out of there.
And yet evolution and Darwinism do not explain an awful lot about life. Darwin said nothing about how life originated and Darwin had no idea how complicated the cell was. Darwin was never able to point to any clear evidence of any species that originated by evolution and there hasn`t been much progress in Darwinism since then. But we found that if you even question the established church of Darwinism, bang, you`re gone. |
Uh, yeah Ben, who the hell lost tenure?
Damn, Darwin didn't explain the origin of life? What did he think he was doing, explaining evolution, or something?
Darwin didn't point to any clear evidence of species appearing by evolution, of course, since the finches look like they were designed by engineers. Not much progress in "Darwinism," either, or at least no progress in teaching Stein anything.
Quote | BECK: What about first cause or intelligent?
STEIN: Well, first cause is not -- it`s lightning striking a mud puddle. See, this is what the evolutionists say and by the way, they may be right. I`m not a scientist, they could be right. Evolutionists struck a mud puddle and out of that mud puddle came a fully-equipped Boeing 747.
Because a human cell, or plant cell or frog cell has hundreds of thousands of very complicated, moving parts all of which have to work together in exact synchronization with each other to build the cell, repair the cell and reproduce the cell.
Darwin thought it was just Jello inside the cell. No, very complicated. How that happened by lightning striking a mud puddle is a very good question. And if you ask that question, you better start looking for another job or have rich parents or something. |
I think Stein's running off of old Frankenstein movies there. At least the mud puddle differs somewhat, but the lightning bolt is still there.
Bizarre, though, that Darwin thought lightning in a mud puddle made a jello-filled cell. Is this a new design process for making gelatinous desserts?
Anyway, that's most of what Stein said that he no doubt considers to be substantive about evolution on the Beck show. But here's the link for anyone wanting context (it's maybe around 2/3 of the way down):
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/13/gb.01.html
Glen D
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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of coincidence---ID philosophy
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