Depending upon your disposition toward the NT Times it probably confirms your suspicions about Expelled either way.

So, from my disposition about the NY Times, anything it slams is probably something I’m going to enjoy.

In the case of Expelled this little formula of mine proves to be accurate.

The NY Times calls Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, “One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time.”

Your wrong, therefore deserve no debate.

Almost tricked me on that one, you sly dog!

Bah.

I’m not watching Fahrenheit 911 either. What would be the point?

Frontpaging a piece that one can reliably predict will cause an uproar…

An uproar that would have nothing, and did have nothing, to do with the topic at hand. Thank you for noting my wisdom.

As for poisoning the discussion, as I see it, the discussion being had had nothing to do with the documentary but rather what a crock people think ID is. I didn’t poison any discussion because that discussion never took place. So it’s kind of hard to blame me for “pissing in the soup pot” when there was never a pot involved.

I do expect you’ll excuse me for pissing, however. It is a natural biological function that I assume you yourself engage in from time to time.

As for ignoring my posts… feel free. I’m only taking to hear my own voice most times anyway.

Its worked out pretty well for me so far.

That’s not much of a victory.

It does, however, both depreciate your reliability as one seeking to engage in true dialogue and really annoys those who don’t automatically agree with your point.

You won this ‘battle’ perhaps, but at the cost of at least one reader’s determination to ignore posts from Kevin D. in the future.

It used to be that a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Academia was the bastion of ideas, tolerance and as researchers exploration.

Maybe theories of evolution, b/c that’s all they are theories (even Darwin’s is a theory) should not be part of the science curriculum and should be moved to a different class where all theories are presented. Sort of an epistemic class on evolution much like philosophy class go from Kant to Popper, from Hume to Kuhn.

In the end I will never understand all this bruhaha about teaching creationism, intelligent design and Darwin all in the same curriculum. I went to a Catholic school and we studied Darwin and had ample and lively discussion in class of evolution vs. creationism.

Watch out for dead horses and people that think.

And remember drive-bys produce the fewest challengable comments.

And, frankly, no one has a right to comment. Not even me. This is Dean’s blog and he allows each of us here to post on the front page or comment. As part of being a front page writer it is my right to close comments to my threads.

In fact, many bloggers don’t read or respond to comments to their posts. They fire out what they think and that’s that.

This particular issue is one I didn’t feel like commenting on, nor allowing comments to be made about, because, as Mr. Shoemaker notes above, this topic has been beaten to death. I didn’t want to be responsible for kicking the dead horse one more time. Or, more accurately, letting others kick the dead horse when, in reality, that particular dead horse had nothing to do with the topic I was discussing.