Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Opening nationwide in theaters next week, April 18, 2008, is Ben Stein’s new movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. This looks to be a good and entertaining look at the ongoing debate between the Darwinian Evolutionist camp and the Intelligent Design camp. With Ben Stein being involved, it will also prove to be somewhat funny as well.

The fact brilliant scientists are losing their jobs, being denied tenure, putting their entire academic careers on the line for an alternate theory is ludicrous, especially in this day and age. Unfortunately, the naturalistic evolutionists are the gatekeepers to upper echelons of the scientific community and therefore they wield a lot of power and can squash much of the counter-perspective brought against them. They say that the Intelligent Design group does not have any serious papers published in peer-reviewed journals, therefore their views and research cannot be taken seriously. But what most people do not understand is that those papers have to go through the evolutionists and they do the peer-reviews and they decide who gets published and who doesn’t. So the game is rigged right from the start because they control the peer-reviews, the access to get published by them, etc.

The unfortunate thing about all this is that there is some good research being done that has better explanatory power and scope over 19th century Darwinism. Just to be clear, I’m not claiming that all evolutionary theory is bad or incorrect. There is viable and valid aspects of what it has done and brought to light. But there are also many things that it is capable of explaining and it seems that there needs to be tweaks to the theories as well as alternate theories allowed the chance to come to light so that intelligent people can make up their own minds, do their own research, and be allowed access to grant money to help fund that research.

Anyway, I’m typically swamped with work, school, church activities and the like, but next week I plan on making time to catch this in the theaters.

Below is an extended trailer:

GCU Update - 2008 (Spring 1)

Well, the grades from my first two classes are in and I have added them to the current tally below. The two recently finished classes are in bold. Still managing straight A’s, although I’m not quite sure how.

Current tally:
Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy - 96.6
Philosophy 351: Christian Apologetics - 97.85
Bible 313: Biblical Hermeneutics - 94.3
Philosophy 225: Introduction to Ethics - 99.01
Bible 113: Old Testament History - 100
Historical Theology 365: Historical Theology - 95.31
Bible 123: New Testament History - 99.7
Bible 432: Old Testament Prophets - 96.29
Bible 442: The Pentateuch (Gen - Deut) - 90.7
Bible 423: General Epistles & Revelation - 91.69 (by far the most difficult class I have had)
Bible 443: Life and Letters of Paul - 93.93

Spring 2008:
Historical Theology 303: History of Christianity in America
Bible 433: The Gospels

Spring Break - 2008

Woot - I’m on spring break for the semester. I just finished up two classes at GCU (The Life of Paul and his Letters, The General Epistles and Revelation). There were pretty intense and tough classes, but I made it through them. Now I’m just waiting to see what grades I end up with.

Next week I begin two new classes: The Gospels and The History of the Church in North America. I am looking forward to both of them and excited to see what I will be learning.

GCU Update and Re-cap - 2007

Wow - who would have thought that after I decided to return to college that I would be where I am now. It has been hard but definitely worthwhile and I must, must, must give a big Thank You to the wife for supporting me for doing this. I have had to sacrifice some in order to take the classes and my wife has had to sacrifice as well by having less of my time and attention. She deserves a lot of the credit for giving me the space to work and succeed.

Well - I finished last year with a straight A average - I have never done that on any level before, so I am pretty excited about that. Below is a list of the classes that I currently wrapped up as well as the upcoming classes for the Sprint 2008 semester.

Current tally:
Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy - 96.6
Philosophy 351: Christian Apologetics - 97.85
Bible 313: Biblical Hermeneutics - 94.3
Philosophy 225: Introduction to Ethics - 99.01
Bible 113: Old Testament History - 100
Historical Theology 365: Historical Theology - 95.31
Bible 123: New Testament History - 99.7
Bible 432: Old Testament Prophets - 96.29
Bible 442: The Pentateuch (Gen - Deut) - 90.7

Spring 2008:
Bible 423: General Epistles & Revelation
Bible 443: Life and Letters of Paul
Historical Theology 303: History of Christianity in America
Bible 433: The Gospels

Let’s pray I do not go crazy and lose my mind over this upcoming semester.

GCU Update

Wow - what a crazy, busy summer this has been…

So I wrapped up my last 2 classes of the summer semester at GCU and my final grades are in.

Current tally:
Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy - 96.6
Philosophy 351: Christian Apologetics - 97.85
Bible 313: Biblical Hermeneutics - 94.3
Philosophy 225: Introduction to Ethics - 99.01
Bible 113: Old Testament History - 100

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