Ben’s Blog<\/a><\/p>\nI’m Ben Stein “\u201c many of you know me from the classic film, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,”\u009d or from my Comedy Central show “Win Ben Stein’s Money”\u009d. Still others of you may know me as a speechwriter, for presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. You may even have read my books, attended one of my lectures at The American University, Washington DC, or seen me on the talk shows.<\/p>\n
I’m glad you found this site, because I want to share with you my thoughts from time to time here about a subject that is very near and dear to me: freedom. <\/span>EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed<\/span> is a controversial, soon-to-be-released documentary that chronicles my confrontation with the widespread suppression and entrenched discrimination that is spreading in our institutions, laboratories and most importantly, in our classrooms, and that is doing irreparable harm to some of the world’s top scientists, educators, and thinkers.<\/p>\nAmerica is not America without freedom.<\/strong> In every turning point in our history, freedom has been the key goal we are seeking: the Mayflower coming here, the Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, the Cold War. Tens of millions came here from foreign oppression and made a life here. Why? For freedom. Human beings are supposed to live in a state of freedom. Freedom is not conferred by the state: as our founders said, and as Martin Luther King repeated, freedom is God-given.<\/strong>A huge part of this freedom is freedom of inquiry.<\/strong><\/p>\nFreedom of inquiry is basic to human advancement. There would be no modern medicine, no antibiotics, no brain surgery, no Internet, no air conditioning, no modern travel, no highways, no knowledge of the human body without freedom of inquiry.<\/p>\n
<\/span>This includes the ability to inquire whether a higher power, a being greater than man, is involved with how the universe operates. This has always been basic to science. ALWAYS.<\/strong><\/p>\nSome of the greatest scientists of all time, including Galileo, Newton, Einstein, operated under the hypothesis that their work was to understand the principles and phenomena as designed by a creator.<\/p>\n
Operating under that hypothesis, they discovered the most important laws of motion, gravity, thermodynamics, relativity, and even economics.<\/strong><\/p>\nNow, I am sorry to say, freedom of inquiry in science is being suppressed.<\/strong><\/p>\nUnder a new anti-religious dogmatism, scientists and educators are not allowed to even think thoughts that involve an intelligent creator. Do you realize that some of the leading lights of “anti-intelligent design”\u009d would not allow a scientist who merely believed in the possibility of an intelligent designer\/creator to work for him”\u00a6 EVEN IF HE NEVER MENTIONED the possibility of intelligent design in the universe?EVEN FOR HIS VERY THOUGHTS”\u00a6 HE WOULD BE BANNED.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>In today’s world, at least in America, an Einstein or a Newton or a Galileo would probably not be allowed to receive grants to study or to publish his research.<\/strong><\/p>\nThey cannot even mention the possibility that”\u201cas Newton or Galileo believed”\u201cthese laws were created by God or a higher being. They could get fired, lose tenure, have their grants cut off. This can happen. It has happened. <\/strong><\/span>EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed<\/span> comes to theaters near you in February 2008. To learn more, check out my blog here often “\u00a6 and explore the rest of our site for new developments, or to volunteer<\/a> to help spread the word.<\/p>\nSincerely,<\/p>\n
Ben Stein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EXPELLED the movie is due out in theaters nation wide in February of 2008! This is going to be a very controversial film and I cannot say just how thankful I am that Ben Stein has committed himself to fighting for the academic freedom of our scientists and scientists around the world. This is truly … Continue reading EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,4,20,19,50,15,54,26,36,59,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-atheism","category-current-events","category-debate","category-evangelism","category-evolution","category-funny","category-history","category-promotionals","category-reforming","category-science","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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