2008-04-09 Ben Stein Launches a Science-free Attack on Darwin

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Date:	2008-04-09
Link:	http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=ben-steins-expelled-review-michael-shermer
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Topics:	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Michael Shermer
Categories:	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Michael Shermer

Ben Stein Launches a Science-free Attack on Darwin

by Michael Shermer: “In 1974 I matriculated at Pepperdine University as a born-again Christian who rejected Darwinism and evolutionary theory—not because I knew anything about it (I didn't) but because I thought that in order to believe in God and accept the Bible as true, you had to be a creationist. What I knew about evolution came primarily from creationist literature, so when I finally took a course in evolutionary theory in graduate school I realized that I had been hoodwinked. What I discovered is a massive amount of evidence from multiple sciences—geology, paleontology, biogeography, zoology, botany, comparative anatomy, molecular biology, genetics and embryology—demonstrating that evolution happened.”