Why Ben Stein's movie should be expelled.

There's been a lot of flap over Ben Stein's movie, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." I don't understand why. I would think that it would be pretty easy to see why Intelligent Design is not regarded as science. Then again, I think it would be easy to see why American Idol and reality TV is idiotic bullshit tripe. Yet such TV fare is wildly popular. Which, I guess, makes perfect sense why people don't see ID as philosophy instead of science.


If you've seen Stein's "Expelled," or even if you haven't, I would suggest giving Alan Boyle's great article, "How science gets swiftboated," a read.

By the way, science uses the scientific method.

Scientific method refers to the body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning. A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
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Intelligent Design has no empirical evidence to support it nor does it have any way in which to measure a single one of its claims. ID is not and never will be science nor scientific. It's time to stop teaching religious philosophy in scientific curriculum. No wonder our education system is lagging so far behind in the sciences.