Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) by Sara L — 27 Feb 2010

Go, Ben Stein! His argument is logical, reasoned, and (pardon the language) intelligent. Why are the negative assessments so laden with emotion and chary with reason? If ID is so absurd why fear its treatment in schools--unless refuting it is too difficult a challenge.

If refuting ID is difficult, present rational argument not emotional furor to put ID in its place. Most of the reviews seem content stating that evolution is good and ID is bad: those positions seem purely axiomatic; their tone, particularly rigid.

Maybe Jonathan Swift was right: we're animals capable of reason; unfortunately we don't always make use of reason. Einstein seems to have been more open minded than Stein's critics. He developed a Theory of Relativity; he was openminded enough not to declare it an inextricable law.