Ben Stein's Intelligent Design propaganda movie, a series of clips from various interviews designed (ha!) to make you think that academics who "use" ID in their research are being unfairly singled out and punished in academia.
Stein fails to show an example of "research" that scientifically tests the tenets of ID. Probably because there's no such thing. Imagine what that would look like: "Ok, trial 239, when I put this drop of acid in the beaker, you'll see that the intelligent designer turns the solution pink. Success again!" (Comments are turned on, so if you can describe a way to use ID in a *testable* hypothesis, please let me know it.)
Stein later decides to abandon his attempts to make ID appear scientific and raises the specter of Nazism, linked of course with Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Because Hitler used eugenics to exterminate people he and his "scientists" felt were inferior and bad for the survival of the species, he was a believer of Darwin's principles. One of Ben's interviewees says Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for Nazism, but it is a necessary condition. Right, just like breathing is a necessary condition for murdering someone. Even if you believe that nonsense, so what? So in the brain of the mush-minded viewer, Darwinism = Nazism. Way to go Ben, you've just self-Godwined.
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