A pro-magic anti-science movie about magical intelligent design creationism is now available on YouTube.

The idiotic Ben Stein movie about magical creationism is now available on one YouTube video at “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” (2008) Full Movie.

This dishonest anti-science pro-magic propaganda movie has some value because PZ is in it. Unfortunately I don't know when in this insane movie he appears, and I don't want to endure an hour of bullshit to find that out. This Christian movie is only for people with an extremely high tolerance for stupidity.
 
I don't know who Mike Toreno is but a long time ago I saved this priceless comment he wrote about the bullshit called magical intelligent design creationism:

ID creationism is misrepresented by its adherents, not its critics.

The various statements of what ID creationism is are simply obfuscations of the following argument:

I don't understand the reason for X phenomenon. Therefore X phenomenon originated by magic.

For example, take the contention that the bacterial flagellum could not have originated through a step by step process. That's an obfuscation of the true argument, which is "I don't understand how the bacterial flagellum could have originated through a step by step process."

The response, of course, is:
Well, maybe you not understanding something doesn't mean it can't be understood. There are other reasons why you might not understand something. Maybe you're just stupid.

Dembski gave some talk in Oklahoma, and he got totally pwned. He talked about the bacterial flagellum, and some guy in the audience, during the question and answer session, said, I can explain how the bacterial flagellum could have originated through a step by step process, and did it. Of course, then Dembski wanted more steps. No matter how many steps you present, the ID creationist wants more. This is a slight variation of the ID creationist argument, and reads as follows:

I won't admit that X phenomenon could have originated through natural means. Therefore, X phenomenon must have originated by magic.

And the answer, of course, is: Well, maybe you're just a liar.

The idea that proponents of ID creationism have been discriminated against is based on a misconception - namely, that every idea is of equal merit. ID creationists aren't able to gain acceptance for their ideas not because of philosophical resistance, discrimination, or conspiracy, but because their ideas are stupid. I mean, when a real scientist explains phenomena that an ID creationist says is unexplainable, is the ID creationist still entitled to a respectful hearing for his claim?

ID creationism adherents believe in ID creationism because they haven't considered, or don't want to consider, the possibility that they're just retarded. Well, it's time for them to consider it.

-- Mike Toreno

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A well written post about the Christian war against science education in Louisiana and Tennessee is at The Art of Teaching Science.

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