tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1933519781770237941.post7912312109089746196..comments2023-07-19T03:55:53.082-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist Journal: Fox Review of "Expelled"Alonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1933519781770237941.post-182151992226539932008-04-23T00:51:00.000-06:002008-04-23T00:51:00.000-06:00just saw Expelled... Ben Stein's goal in making th...just saw Expelled... Ben Stein's goal in making this flick (i gather) was not so much to break any box office records, but rather to promote free thought, especially more thinking about motivations that drive American academia and a lot of other behind-the-scenes worldview that we tend to take for granted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1933519781770237941.post-30234497477473234672008-04-15T05:56:00.000-06:002008-04-15T05:56:00.000-06:00anonymousNothing in what I wrote requires such a p...<B>anonymous</B><BR/><BR/>Nothing in what I wrote requires such a presupposition. There are a lot of people who believe in God who also believe that intelligent design is not science and does not belong in the science classroom. Indeed, this is the official view of the Catholic Church (though some individual Catholics have said other things).<BR/><BR/>The business arm of the Republican party has no special complaint against religion or those who believe in God, but has reason to pause when that belief threatens the science on which their business depends by mixing religion and science where they cannot usefully be mixed.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1933519781770237941.post-25363066680395780292008-04-14T20:29:00.000-06:002008-04-14T20:29:00.000-06:00So you presuppose that a person who believes in a ...So you presuppose that a person who believes in a higher power can not understand and believe in scientific principles and methods? That is ignorant. As a successful scientist and mathematician and believer in God my existence would prove you wrong. I would agree that what people believe in does not unnecessarily make a person a higher moralist, rather it is by turning your beliefs into actions that one demonstrates their morales.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com