Ethics

Ken Miller on Expelled

By Ed Brayton

Ken Miller reviews Expelled for the Boston Globe. And he nails this precisely:

According to Stein, science leads you to "killing people." Not to cures and vaccines, not to a deeper understanding of nature, not to wonders like computers and cellphones, and certainly not to a better life. Nope. Science is murder.

"Expelled" is a shoddy piece of propaganda that props up the failures of Intelligent Design by playing the victim card. It deceives its audiences, slanders the scientific community, and contributes mightily to a climate of hostility to science itself. Stein is doing nothing less than helping turn a generation of American youth away from science. If we actually come to believe that science leads to murder, then we deserve to lose world leadership in science.

I haven't seen a single ID advocate take Stein to task for his ridiculous claim that science leads to killing people while religion leads to panacea. Not one.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 10, 2008 (boomark / email).