By: MW

MW — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:28:09 +0000

A person who can hold his opinions against the mass popular belief and the guts to fight someone’s else fight, I hope theres more people like that.

By: RWA

RWA — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:43:56 +0000

Stein has also been providing money to Al “cokehead” Franken’s senate campaign. My respect for him has plummeted.

By: B.B

B.B — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:27:54 +0000

The Expelled website gives a pretty good idea of what direction this "documentary" is going to go in. They are claiming that Intelligent Design supporters are being persecuted, however their examples are disputable.

They have physics professor Guillermo Gonzales, who claimed he was denied tenure because of his support for Intelligent Design. But I would also say that having gotten no major grants, having not published a significant amount of peer-reviewed research and only having had one graduate student finish a dissertation during his entire seven year of employment at Iowa State University may have also played a roll in the universities refusal.

Then there is Richard Sternberg, who was the editor of Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. He published an article advocating Intelligent Design that didn't go through the proper peer-review process.

And finally there is Caroline Crocker, a molecular biologist who who was released from her position at George Mason University after her contract expired. Not surprising since she propagated numerous falsehoods such as the false distinction between micro and macro-evolution, the myth that Bernard Kettlewell's peppered moth study was fraudulent and misrepresenting the Miller-Urey experiment.

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