{"id":1641,"date":"2008-04-22T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2008-04-22T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:38:17","slug":"sleaze-in-masquerade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"Sleaze in Masquerade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking this was today&#8217;s review (it&#8217;s actually last Friday&#8217;s), I will proceed to link to the NYT&#8217;s review of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expelledthemovie.com\/\">Expelled<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/18\/movies\/18expe.html?em&#038;ex=1209009600&#038;en=dc0f6df8e6739db2&#038;ei=5087%0A&#038;scp=2&#038;\">sleaziest documentaries<\/a> to arrive in a very long time, \u201cExpelled: No Intelligence Allowed\u201d is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry. . . . Mixing physical apples and metaphysical oranges at every turn \u201cExpelled\u201d is an unprincipled propaganda piece that insults believers and nonbelievers alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Typical.  In other news, Richard Dawkins explains himself and why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-dawkins18apr18,0,1900872.story\">Intelligent Design isn&#8217;t a scientific theory<\/a> in the LA Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Entities capable of designing anything, whether they be human engineers or interstellar aliens, must be complex &#8212; and therefore, statistically improbable. And statistically improbable things don&#8217;t just happen spontaneously by chance without an explanation trail. That is what &#8220;improbable&#8221; means, as creationists never tire of assuring us (they wrongly think Darwinian natural selection is a matter of chance).  In fact, natural selection is the very opposite of a chance process, and it is the only ultimate explanation we know for complex, improbable things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know I have much to learn about modern evolutionary science, but I don&#8217;t buy this non-chance argument.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/blogs\/rnicoll\/11574002\/\">Regis Nicoll comments<\/a> on the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking this was today&#8217;s review (it&#8217;s actually last Friday&#8217;s), I will proceed to link to the NYT&#8217;s review of Expelled. One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time, \u201cExpelled: No Intelligence Allowed\u201d is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry. . . . Mixing physical apples and metaphysical oranges at every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sleaze in Masquerade<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}