"Expelled"

It's no secret that I am no friend of creationism or intelligent design. Recent stories in the news have been pretty discouraging in terms of the development of an objective populace. The state of Florida has taken the step of clarifying in their science curriculum that evolution is always to be specified as "the scientific theory" of evolution. It took them over 150 years to realize it's a theory... What is the world coming to?

Also, The Kansas school board has openly thrown out evolution from their curriculum or rather, they have embraced creationism and intelligent design as valid scientific theories. These decisions go against everything that the process of science and inquiry stands for.

Many people resort to creationism and intelligent design as part of their faith in a higher being or a master designer. While ignoring the abundance of evidence that supports more rational theories, people still choose to give these ideas more credit than they can prove. The interesting thing about intelligent design is that rather than taking the creationist approach where they completely denounce any evidence for evolution, intelligent design incorporates this evidence as part of their idea.

Intelligent design is not synonymous to creationism. Intelligent design is another series of ideas that refute the idea that natural selection is taking place. The idea doesn't focus on survival of the fittest, but rather focuses on the argument that all life has a design and is in some way guided towards a higher level of organization through this design.

The intricate nature and interconnectedness of all of life's processes seem to be convincing enough to followers that they completely ignore the significance of chance occurrences in nature.

A lot of my kids don't have the objective mentality to really embrace natural selection as the process that govern evolutionary biology. They don't like to look outside the box. It's a little ironic because they are so content being told everything they need to know in their lives and yet they raise so many questions that they are interested in understanding but they aren't willing to think outside the box to seek the answers to their questions.

The release of "Expelled" can be an interesting source of class discussion. Not that my kids can really afford to go to the movies every week, but it would generate some interesting points and ideas. I know that my kids are so gullible that they'll pretty much believe anything in a documentary as true.

As much as I dislike the concept itself, I am still compelled to watch this film to see what I'll be up against in the near future.