As you will see, Dawkins simply could not make sense of the
evolutionary speculations on which he had built his worldwide fame and
fortune. Notice his grandiose claims and flawed explanations. He was
totally unable to validate his own assertion that evolution is a proven reality.
After all, an atheist -- especially a world famous atheist author -- cannot
accept a creationist's faith in God's mighty work without losing credibility!
After watching the
full length video back in 2008, Dinesh D'Souza wrote an article
exposing Dawkins ignorant and irrational speculations. Here
are some excerpts:
"So Stein puts to Dawkins a simple question,
'How did life begin?' One would
think that this is a question that could easily be answered. Dawkins,
however, frankly admits that he has no idea. One might expect Dawkins to
invoke evolution as the all-purpose explanation. Evolution, however, only
explains transitions from one life form to another. Evolution has no
explanation for how life got started in the first place. Darwin was very
clear about this.
"In order for evolution to take place, there had to be a living cell. The
difficulty for atheists is that even this original cell is a work of
labyrinthine complexity. Franklin Harold writes in The Way of the Cell
that
even the simplest cells are more ingeniously complicated than man's
most elaborate inventions....
"[This] absurdity was recognized
more than a decade ago by Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA double
helix. Yet Crick is a committed atheist. Unwilling to consider the
possibility of divine or supernatural creation, Crick suggested that
maybe aliens brought life to earth from another planet. And this
is precisely the suggestion that Richard Dawkins makes in his
response to Ben Stein. Perhaps, he notes, life was delivered
to our planet by highly-evolved aliens. Let's
call this the "ET" explanation.
"Stein brilliantly responds that he had no idea Richard Dawkins
believes in
intelligent design! And indeed Dawkins does seem to be saying that alien
intelligence is responsible for life arriving on earth....
"Basically Dawkins is surrendering on the claim that evolution can
account for the origins of life. It can't. The issue now is simply whether a
natural intelligence (ET) or a supernatural intelligence (God) created life.
Dawkins can't bear the supernatural explanation and so he opts for ET. But
doesn't it take as much, or more, faith to believe in extraterrestrial
biology majors depositing life on earth than it does to believe in a
transcendent creator?
"All he can do is hope there is another 'god'
or 'intelligence' somewhere who might have set evolution in motion."
[1]
Did you catch that message? Both Dawkins and Crick
agree that life must have begun with some kind of living cell.
But they can't explain how that essential and foundational living cell came
about! And so, in desperate search for an answer, they turn to a vague hope of extraterrestrial life still to be discovered.
Since both are determined atheists, they refuse to believe in
our
God -- the actual Creator of all life!
"Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists"
On April 18, 2008, Brent Bozell
-- founder and president of the Media Research Center, the Conservative
Communications Center, and the Cybercast News Service -- presented his
review of Expelled. He began by exposing the standard bias and
hostility of evolutionists toward those who reject evolution.
"It is a reality of PC liberalism: There is only
one credible side to an issue, and any dissent is not only rejected,
it is scorned. Global warming. Gay 'rights.' Abortion 'rights.'...
PC liberalism's power centers are the news media, the
entertainment industry and academia, and all are in the clutches of an
unmistakable hypocrisy: Theirs is an ideology that preaches the
freedom of thought and expression at every opportunity, yet
practices absolute intolerance toward dissension. Evolution is
another one of those one-sided debates....
"Ben Stein's extraordinary presentation documents how
the worlds of science and academia not only crush debate on the
origins of life, but also crush the careers of professors who dare to
question the Darwinian hypothesis of evolution and natural
selection.
"Stein asks a simple question: What if the universe began with an
intelligent designer, a designer named God? He assembles a stable of
academics -- experts all -- who dared to question Darwinist assumptions
and found themselves "expelled" from intellectual discourse as a result.
They include evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg (sandbagged at the
Smithsonian), biology professor Caroline Crocker (drummed out of George
Mason University), and astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez (blackballed at
Iowa State University).
"That's disturbing enough, but what Stein does next is truly shocking.
He allows the principal advocates of Darwinism to speak their minds.
These are experts with national reputations, regular welcomed guests on
network television and the like. But the public knows them only by their
careful seven-second soundbites. Stein engages them in conversation.
They speak their minds. They become sputtering ranters, openly
championing their sheer hatred of religion.
"PC liberalism has showered accolades on atheist author Richard
Dawkins' best-selling book "The God Delusion." But when Stein
suggests to Dawkins that he's been critical of the Old Testament God,
Dawkins protests -- not that Stein is wrong, but that he's being too
mild. He then reads from this jaw-dropping paragraph of his book:
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most
unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a
petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty
ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal,
genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic,
capriciously malevolent bully."
"It's understood that God had nothing to do with the
origins of life on Earth. What, then, is the alternate explanation?
Stein asks these experts... One theorizes that life began somehow on
the backs of crystals. Another states electric sparks from a
lightning storm created organic matter (out of nothing). Another
declares that life was brought to Earth by aliens. Anything but God.
"The most controversial part of the film follows Stein to the Dachau
concentration camp, underlining how Darwin's theories of natural
selection led to the eugenics movement, embraced by Adolf Hitler."[2]
Flowing with the Culture ~ or Standing Firm
in Christ?
It's hard to
find Bible-based churches
these days. Most congregations seem to be choosing the world's
perspective. Many give more credit to today's speculative evolutionary "theories" than
to God's creation as described in Genesis 1 and 2.
Since the New Testament -- like the Old Testament -- contains plenty
of references to God's marvelous life-bringing creation, today's skeptics are prompted to alter the rest of the Bible as well.
It's no surprise that the social and spiritual consequences of rejecting God's Truth are all around us. God has been diminished to a name and a place, and
relatively few are taking His Word seriously.
The Scripture below is not popular these days. Our postmodern
culture wants
encouragement, not warnings! We seek comforts, not rebukes; positive
thinking, not repentance. All the
more, we need to ponder and repeat these much needed verses that are
becoming increasingly relevant -- while largely forgotten -- today:
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the
truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest
in them, for God has shown it to them.
"For since the creation of the world His
invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are
without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify
Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts,
and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they
became fools....
"Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the
lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who
exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and
served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever." Romans 1:18-25
Does that sound like
our times? Are we
willing to believe His Word and follow His Way?
Oswald Chambers,
author of the beloved book, My Utmost for His Highest, offered
these wise and relevant words:
"Those who deal with the
great secrets of the universe imply that our planet is such a tiny spot in
the tremendous universe that it is a piece of stupid conceit on our part to
think that God watches over us. And to make our planet the center where God
performed the marvelous drama of His own history of the Incarnation and
Atonement is absurd, they say.
"But watch a simpleminded person, one who is right with
God and not terrified by the reasoning of men, as he looks at
the stars and exclaims, 'when I consider Your heavens, the
work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have
ordained; what is man, that You are mindful of him?" It
is said not in despair, but in adoring wonder." Oswald Chambers
Today we are facing a rising spiritual battle. The main struggle is between those who scorn the Biblical
message
(especially God's Creation)
and those who love our Lord and would give their lives to serve Him. Between
those opposing forces, there is little room for compromise.
"Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all
longsuffering and teaching. For
the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but according
to their own desires... they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will
turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
But you be watchful in all things..." 2
Timothy 4:2-5
“My sheep hear My
voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them
eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone
snatch them out of My hand."
John 10:27-28
Footnotes:
1. Dinesh D'Souza,
Ben Stein Exposes Richard Dawkins," Townhall, April 21, 2008.
http://townhall.com/columnists/dineshdsouza/2008/04/21/ben_stein_exposes_richard_dawkins/print
2. Brent Bozell,
"Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists,"
April 18, 2008, founder and president of the Media Research Center, the
Conservative Communications Center, and the Cybercast News Service.
http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2008/04/18/ben_stein_vs_sputtering_atheists/print
3. Oswald Chambers,
The Oswald Chambers Daily
Devotional Bible,
"The Earth also is Yours," (Discovery House Publishers, Grand Rapids, MI.
1929) page 714.
Additional information:
"A
lengthy preview of Expelled, where Ben Stein seeks an answer to why
Intelligent Design is being suppressed in the Scientific, Political,
and Educational communities
."
Ben Stein interviews a number of educated atheists to get their
thoughts on Religion and Intelligent Design
Evolution
versus God
-- an amazing video by Ray Comfort
.
The "experts" were unable to answer his fact-based questions
Dawkins: "Richard Dawkins Talks Aliens
and Gods["
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYb8gliZZEA
]
(Notice the foundation of this thesis: imagination and positive
thinking -- no genuine evidence of life and multiplication. It's all imagination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYb8gliZZEA
http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/expelled-no-intelligence-allowed/the-cell?play=1
