14 April 2008

Expelled Gets Exposed

What Ben Stein isn't telling you about the "documentary" Expelled. [via Pharyngula]

Also very relevant, from Good Math, Bad Math:

Science isn't morality. Science describes what is. Morality defines our understanding of right and wrong. Science doesn't tell us what's morally right and wrong. It tells us what is. It can allows us to reason from what we know, to determine the effect of an action, which can allow us to decide whether that action is morally right or wrong. But the science doesn't tell us what's moral.

What Stein and friends are doing is trying to say that it's appropriate to judge science based on what kinds of moral judgements a lunatic can derive from it - and further, they're basically trying to argue for suppressing the truth when they don't like the results of trying to infer morality from that truth.


UPDATE: More resources exposing the "crockumentary" at Scientific American.

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