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fiveeagles
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Don Gately
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| Ben Stein worked in a presidential administration. He has a great mind for economics. He should know better and hold himself to a higher standard than pandering to the base. |
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On the other hand
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He should know better and hold himself to a higher standard than pandering to the base.
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I dunno. You might be underestimating the degree to which Stein himself is part of that base. He's fully on the "pro-life" side of the abortion argument, and has even won awards from various anti-abortion groups. I wouldn't completely rule out that he would be a creationist, or at least someone who thinks that "creation science" is worthy of being discussed on the same level as evolutionary theory in a classroom.
I know he projected that "square hip" image on the Comedy Network, and it looks like he's trying to bring that same schtick to the big screen with this in-your-face, aimed-at-the-youth-market gonzo wannabe shockumentary. I suspect it will fall flat, though. Social conservatives trying to hook up with youth usually do. |
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Don Gately
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| Dr. Sternberg was at the center of a controversy over a paper published in 2004 in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, a peer-reviewed publication he edited at the time. The paper contended that an intelligent agent was a better explanation than evolution for the so-called Cambrian explosion, a great diversification of life forms that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago. |
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The paper�s appearance in a peer-reviewed journal was a coup for intelligent design advocates, but the Council of the Biological Society of Washington, which publishes the journal, almost immediately repudiated it, saying it had appeared without adequate review.
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I have to say, that was something of a minor victory for the creationists, because it forced the Biological Society into a position of having to say that either...
A. There was some merit to the creationist's paper, or...
B. They had been duped into printing an unscientific piece of religious propaganda.
Of course, that doesn't get anywhere near proving creationism, but it does do a bit of damage to the Society's overall credibility. |
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