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Old 04-25-2008, 07:01 PM   #271
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Some feedback from the other side:

It never ceases to amaze me how blindly and righteously indignant religious apologists can be. I have seen a figure somewhere that suggests something to the tune of 96% of reviews for Stein's propaganda film are overwhelmingly negative. Just a cursory perusal of the internet will bear this number out, but what is quite stunning is how fundamentalist apologists have responded to this unprecedented negative response. No denials, but an insistence that the retort stems from fear: the "humanistic", scientific establishment does not want you to see this film, because they know how damningly accurate it is:

Here is an excerpt from a blog by Answers in Genesis emperor Ken Ham:

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Originally Posted by Ken Ham
"Of course the secular world does not want people to see this movie—they don’t want people to find out about the censorship in the culture, the academic snobbery and arrogance, and the intolerance of the secular academic world for anyone who even tries to question the validity of evolution—or even suggest there could be an intelligence (even if a vague intelligence) behind the universe. The secular world doesn’t want the average American to understand about the loss of freedoms, and the erosion of freedom of speech in this country. The secular elite doesn’t want the average person to know that evolution is not fact and that there is overwhelming evidence of a great intelligence (the God of the Bible, of course) behind the universe..."
You read that correctly: "overwhelming evidence of a great intelligence (the God of the Bible, of course)".

http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/ar...asts-expelled/

Perhaps of interest to some is an interview that Ligonier Ministries mega-apologist R.C. Sproul conducted with Ben Stein in February:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...61480192587449

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Originally Posted by R.C. Sproul
"I sense a fear from [the scientific establishment] of the unwarranted intrusion of religion into the scientific domain, but what I think that these academics fail to realize is that this issue is not just a religious issue; it's a philosophical issue of the highest magnitude, and as far as I'm concerned what is at stake here is the integrity of science itself...
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