RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
May 3, 2014 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2014 at 1:04 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 3, 2014 at 12:41 pm)Chuck Wrote: Who is Ben stein?
Ben Stein is a lawyer, actor, conservative commentator.
He used to be Richard Nixon's speech writer.
He does voice work in tons of animated movies, but probably best known for his role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
His primary gripe against evolution is that he thinks it lead to the Holocaust. Seriously.
He made a dishonest anti-science movie a few years ago called "Expelled" where he dishonestly claims that any scientist that challenges evolution get ousted from universities.
He's very intelligent, but drastically mislead.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.