We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man itself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil. -From Darwin's Decent Of Man

So i finally watched Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled: Intelligence Not Allowed", and the title really speaks for itself. I have to admit i've never studied Darwin's theory, never read his writings but i was aware of it and got the premise of it, and i thought i knew what intelligent design was about, i associated it with theology. Putting God in the classroom, that it had zero scientific theory behind it. But really, intelligent design simply is asking how was a single cell is created, basically how did life on the planet begin. Because a single cell is so complex and has a very complicated design any critical thinking, free thinking person will beg the question who designed that cell, because they're is intelligence behind the makeup of a single cell. When in the theory of evolution they don't even answer that question it touches upon after life has already begun.

It's freedom of thought, it's scientific freedom and its basic scientific principals to question. In the movie they interview atheists, the really nasty ones like Christopher Hitchens and the like that insist intelligent design is religion. I used to consider myself an atheist but not anymore really, i can't get a grasp on the idea that when you die that's it, and this whole life we live is nothing more.

The scientists who have been expelled from all these prominent colleges are not pastors or preachers. These were people who were at the top of their class, peer reviewed studies published, impeccable resumes, some were even agnostics! Mathematicians, physicists, micro biologists and no they were not pastors in their free time. These were scientists doing what scientists do, asking questions.

Anyway so on the journey Ben Stein takes us through in the movie of coarse he explores the Darwinism connection to the Nazi's, which the is the whole reason why i rented this movie. I had heard he gets into the Nazi eugenics policies from the 30's and 40's which the Germans basically learned from the American scientists. Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf thanks the American eugenists. It was really a jaw dropping moment in the movie when he traveled to Germany and visited one of the facilities where the Nazi's exterminated thousands of mentally challenged people. Ben Stein makes perfectly clear that he's not calling people who believe in evolution Nazi's. He is simply exploring my favorite angle on examining current events, he's looking back into history at what Darwinism has inspired. And it's a fact, in the historical records the Nazi scientists were extreme Darwin believers. Hitler believed he was helping to push forward evolution by killing and sterilizing the mentally ill, the jews, homosexuals, any "undesirables, worthless eaters". It's a fact undisputed, eugenics was a government policy in Nazi Germany. In fact Margaret Sanger, the woman who founded Planned Parenthood developed a policy of eugenics here in America with her sterilization program through planned parenthood, with the sterilization of the poor. She was a open racist and believed strongly in eugenics.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Just because you believe in a creator or a higher consciousness as i like to call it, doesn't make you religious. Many of our first scientists believed in God, and they weren't ridiculed.
I myself don't have a single religious bone in my body but i'm critical thinking person and free thinking and with all the millions of galaxy's we have in the universe, to the complexity of a single cell and the importance and intelligence behind every single part of that cell, i can't believe that when i die that's is it, and poof i'm gone. Check out Ben Stein's movie then go sign his academic freedom petition on line. We're being told what to think and that yet again asking questions, questioning your reality is bad, and to just shut up. We have freedom of speech in this country, and simply questioning is getting people fired for unconstitutional reasons. This is a freedom issue.