Intelligent Design or Primordial Ooze?

Mom and I needed to get out of the house yesterday because our hardwood floors were being refinished. One of the things we decided to do was take in a movie. We chose Ben Stein's "Expelled" and really enjoyed it.

I highly recommend it, especially to young people who might be struggling with the concept that science and religion cannot accommodate each other.

The movie is a documentary dealing with several cases where college professors and other academicians were actually fired, and even blacklisted, for suggesting that Intelligent Design be explored as a possible explanation for the existence of our world and all that is in it.

Ben gives representatives from each side of the issue an opportunity to present their case and defend it. The actual hatred toward religion expressed by some is breathtaking in its lack of true scientific principles of seeking truth.

One of the most interesting segments was where Ben interviews avowed atheist Richard Dawkins and just lets him talk. This guy, while talking without a script, actually reached his own conclusion that there was, in fact some intelligent design at some level. It was actually funny to watch him arrive at this conclusion on his own and then realize what he had said. He had to somewhat clumsily add that this intelligence was absolutely not God though.

Boiled down to basics, we have to decide whether or not life as we know it was caused by lightening striking primordial ooze and causing some accidental reaction, or was it a "Big Bang" of some kind or was it some intelligent being. It had to be one of the three.

It was interesting and well worth taking time to see it.