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| Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Oct. 08 2008,21:16) | Craig Hazen of Biola University has a review panning "Religulous", saying that it showed in a small theater and didn't attract a crowd...
I did a brief search to see if Hazen had boasted about numbers for "Expelled", but didn't see a smoking gun. Hazen should be made aware that "Religulous" will be making the numbers for "Expelled" look weak by comparison. |
In case anyone was, like me, wondering who Craig Hazen is and how he's connected to "Expelled":
"Expelled" Event Recap
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Actor, economist, and social commenter Ben Stein visited Biola on March 27 to promote his new film, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” and to receive the Phillip E. Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth.
The gym was packed with 1,500 people, scientists, and journalists. Clips from the film were shown with commentary from the film producers. Stein encouraged the audience that truth will overcome, and that the battle for Intelligent Design “begins tonight.”
Caroline Crocker, former Professor of Biology at George Mason University spoke on her “expulsion” from teaching simply because she asked her students to consider all the options. Guillermo Gonzalez spoke on being denied tenure at Iowa State University because of his work in the field of intelligent design and his book, The Privileged Planet.
President Corey presented the award to Stein. The award has previously been given to Phillip E. Johnson in 2004 and Antony Flew in 2006 and is presented through the university’s Masters of Arts in Science and Religion (MASR) program.
For more information on the MASR program, please visit [ http://www.biola.edu/scienceandreligion ]www.biola.edu/scienceandreligion. The event was co-sponsored by the Christian Apologetics Program.
For more information on events like these, please visit www.biola.edu/apologetics.
Ben Stein is a lawyer, economist, former presidential speechwriter, author and social commentator. He has acted and made guest appearances in numerous movies, TV series, and TV commercials. His part as the boring teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was recently ranked as one of the five most famous scenes in American film.
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So, who's the director of Biola's M.A. Program in Christian Apologetics?
Craig Hazen:
Not only the director, but also the founder.
Here's the description of the MA Christian Apologetics program:
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In addition to biblical and theological studies, you are able to draw from disciplines as diverse as history, philosophy, science, the humanities, social science, and law, all with an eye toward demonstrating the truth of the Gospel and the Christian world view beyond a reasonable doubt. |
He's also considered part of the faculty of the very pro-ID MA Science and Religion program, the other department that sponsored the Expelled event, and the stated goal of which is:
| Quote | | The new Master of Arts degree in Science and Religion is designed to provide scientifically literate individuals with the essential background in theology, history, and philosophy that is necessary to integrate evangelical Christianity with modern science. |
He was a speaker at their "Intelligent Design and the Future of Science" conference.
He's also the editor of the journal Philosophia Christi, and if you check the back issue contents, almost every issue includes articles about or directly related to ID, often by guys like Dembski, Johnson, and Behe. Oh, and it's also where the Anthony Flew "conversion" interview got published.
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I wouldn't be bothered reading about the selfish gene because it has never been identified. -- Denyse O'Leary, professional moron
Again "how much". I don't think that's a good way to be quantitative.-- gpuccio
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