So I watched Actor/Economist/Speechwriter and Intelectual at Large Ben Stien's movie today.
Besides your referral to Stein as an "intellectual" without the benefit of a smilie, the fact that you're jumping in with an argument from authority makes me suspect you are a cdesign proponentsist.
He's an actor, an economist, and a speechwriter. So what? Is is a biologist?
NO!
So what do we think of some of his claims?
They're lies. Pure and simple.
1.) That while slight changes in nature over time is evident, we do not have evidence of one species becoming another.
2.) That the peer review process is hostile to views/evidence that run counter to established theories?
No. We have nearly 150-or-so years of evidence, from multiple sources and disciplines, that shows that all life on this planet share a common ancestor and that life has changed over the course of 4.5 billion years due to a process of random mutation and natural selection.
Now, if you or Ben Stein really think that evolution didn't happen and that all life was "poofed" into existance by an invisible, Bronze Age, tyrant who lives outside the universe (whatever the frack that means), then you must provide evidence before the mean, old, "atheist," scientistic community will take you seriously. It's the way the scientific method works.
What is the testable, reproducible, empirical, and objective evidence, that proves ID is correct? What lab experiments can you site? How about fossil evidence that shows Yahweh's meddling in the biological record? What forces and factors did Jehovah use to create and modify life, how did he produce and manipulate them, and why did he make the decisions that he made? What predictions does ID make?
Show us why evolution is wrong and prove to us ID is right, then we'll talk about whether or not it was fair for "Big Science" to ignore the collection of religioius fanatics trying to pose as scientists that Stein presents.
