I'll have more on this tonight, but of course I think Ben Stein mis-spoke the other day. I'm sure not willing to pile on, however, with John "All Women Over 20 Are Over the Hill" Derbyshire.

Ed seems to get it right, here: the enemy is not science, and when we begin to imply that it is, we become what we've set out to conquer: opponents of free inquiry. The enemy is the perversion of science; this is the critical distinction to keep in mind.

That's why I felt that Expelled dwelt just a bit too long on "Darwinism," a word that has many different meanings to many different people. If we acknowledge that Darwin's writings were "necessary, though not sufficient" for the development of Naziism, we have not really said too much about evolution itself, except to note that it can be abused, like all good ideas.

That said, I'm still looking for the whole transcript, since I suspect Stein's quote was taken a bit out of context.

Not that I want to interfere with The Derb's righteous indignation.

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