EXPELLED - Ben Stein
NEW FILM: Ben realizes
that he has been “Expelled,” and that educators and scientists are
being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the “crime” of
merely believing that there might be evidence of “design” in nature,
and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random
chance.
To which Ben Says: "Enough!" And then gets busy.
NOBODY messes with Ben.
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Pillars of Naturalism
Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin are considered the
pillars of modern western thought. They differed in many ways but had
one thing in common—they were reductionists who claimed that all
higher realms of existence could be explained by lower natural causes.
They were the pillars of naturalism.
But their ideas were tested during the twentieth century and found
wanting. Freud was the first fall. Incidents in his career were cited
to call into question both his integrity and his scientific
competence, and psychiatry seemed to make more progress through
medication than through Freudian analysis. The collapse of the Soviet
Union in the late 1980s inflicted a death blow on Marxism, which is
now seen as not only failing to deliver its promised utopia but as
creating an inhumane tyranny. Darwin is the last man standing, but his
theory is rapidly eroding as modern biological science reveals amazing
complexity and design that cannot possibly be explained by Darwin’s
proposed mechanism of random mutations and natural selection. This led
Phillip Johnson to summarize the situation one day with the phrase
that appears on this shirt: “Freud is dead, Marx is dead, and Darwin
is not feeling very well.”
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Mind Preceded Matter
In the 19th century, we
thought that there were two fundamental entities of science: Matter
and energy. At the beginning of the 21st century, we now recognize
that there is a third fundamental entity, and it is information. It is
not reducible to matter; it is not reducible to energy.
All theories put forward in
the twentieth century to reduce information to matter-like the random
origin of life, self-organization of matter, the biological theory of
evolution that has tried to explain species' genetic information
through the mechanism of mutation and natural selection-have failed.
Professor Phillip Johnson, a leading critic of Darwinism, wrote:
“The real duality at
every level of biology is the duality of matter and information. The
philosophers of mind-science fail to understand the true nature of
information because they assume that it is produced by a material
(i.e. Darwinian) process and hence is not something fundamentally
different from matter. But this is merely a prejudice that would be
swept away by unbiased thinking.”
-- Phillip
E. Johnson, The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of
Naturalism , Intervarsity Press, Illinois, 2000, p. 123
As Johnson states,
"information is not matter, although it is imprinted on matter. It
comes from elsewhere, from an intelligence..." Dr. Werner Gitt, a
director and professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and
Technology, expressed much the same thought:
“A coding system always
entails a nonmaterial intellectual process. A physical matter cannot
produce an information code. All experiences show that every piece
of creative information represents some mental effort and can be
traced to a personal idea-giver who exercised his own free will, and
who is endowed with an intelligent mind.... There is no known law of
nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can
cause information to originate by itself in matter...”
-- Werner
Gitt. In the Beginning Was Information. CLV, Bielefeld, Germany, pp.
107, 141
Therefore, the source of
the information in nature cannot be the matter itself, as the
materialists claim. The source of information is not matter, but
rather a supra-material Mind. This Mind existed before matter. The
Mind created, shaped and organized the whole material universe.
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Academic Integration
Edited Proceedings From the Christian Scholarship:
Knowledge, Reality, and Method Conference
The conference was held
October 9-11th at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Approximately
100 attended and 30 papers were read. This link has the alphabetized (by
author), edited proceedings from those papers.
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