Ben Stein on Biological Explinations for Planetary Motion

On the Craig Ferguson show, Ben Stein said (in reference to his movie Expelled): “Don’t fire people because they say the planets do stay in their orbits because of something other than Darwinism.”
By “Darwinism” I presume he means the Theory of Evolution which does not address planetary motion in any way, but only describes speciation. In fact, Evolution has absolutely nothing to do with planetary motion (Gravity), the beginning of the universe (Cosmology), or the beginning of life (Abiogenesis), all of which Stein has criticized Evolution for not explaining. Evolution only addresses the origin of Species and Speciation on this planet. To ask it to explain anything else, especially something as different as Gravity is simply foolishness and exposes Stein’s complete lack of scientific understanding.

On Commercial Fine Print

One of the downsides to owning a very large HD TV is that it is now possible to read the fine print on many commercials and what I see greatly reduces my respect for humanity. Presumably the fine print is added to these commercials by lawyers representing whatever product is being advertised. These lawyers are very correctly afraid that if the comical, fanciful, and down-right ridiculous actions portrayed in the ads were to be reproduced for real that someone would likely be severely hurt or even killed. This would naturally result in an extremely large law suit against the makers of the product being advertised. Never mind that everyone is responsible for their own actions and if you are dumb enough to try some of the things you see on TV for yourself you deserve everything that happens to you.
So, here are a couple of examples that I found particularly amusing or absurd:

On the Order of Creation

There are some people in this country who claim that the Bible is the true and accurate word of God and that the description that it provides for the creation of the universe in Genesis is to be taken literally. Literally, as in it took 6 literal days. I presume that their insistence on the literal interpretation includes not only Chapter 1 of Genesis but also Chapter 2 and in fact the entire Book and the entire Bible. In reading Genesis I discovered a number of discrepancies and items of interest that I would like to point out.

Starting this blog

Typically I don’t care to jump onto bandwagons. That’s not true. Bandwagons are fun. I just don’t like to look like I’m jumping onto bandwagons. I’m speaking about blogging. It seems like everyone and his brother (including mine) has one now-a-days. However, I think I have allowed sufficient time to pass since this whole “blogging” thing started that starting one now will seem like I am honestly interested in speaking my mind and am not simply starting a blog just because everyone else is doing it.

Really, I’m starting this blog because I am becoming more active in other blogs and having your own is a great way of differentiating yourself from all of the other people who post to blogs that have the same name as you. Not having a unique enough name makes it difficult for one to differentiate oneself within a blog community since in this text-based world you do not have a distinct “voice” to be recognized (at least not easily recognized), you don’t always have the option of having a picture, and pseudonyms can be easily hijacked. Starting this blog doesn’t necessarily solve all of those problems but it does make it easier to establish my “persona” within a blog community. There are a lot of people out there that may call themselves “Bill” but very few who would refer to themselves as the “ThirdMonkey” and link to this blog.

Eventually, as time permits, I will try to make a positive influence on the ever growing pile of information, news, opinions, lies, and controversy that is the blogsphere.