An example of Expelled's problems is the Charles Darwin quotation. Stein was showing that Darwin believed in Eugenics by giving this quote;

"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized 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. Thus the weak members of civilized 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. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed."

The real untrimmed quote is;

"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized 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 civilized 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 himself, hardly anyone 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."

Its entirely ridiculous how Stein spinned it.

But, but... the aliens! The aliens, man! We were all brought here by aliens, it's true! Don't y'all know?? C'mon, even John Travolta knows! Scientology man, Darwin knew nothing about that.

microorganisms have indeed evolve thats why we are here, altough not all of them have or haven't done it since before other life forms existed. a good example of an ancestral multicellular organism that hasn't evolved through ages is the crocodile, they have remainded the same since hundred thounsands of years, does that mean that they have reached the pinnacle of their existance and have become perfect in their own function?

Unless scientology believes in time-travel psi-borgs, they are wrong. But hey, they might

Rath, are you saying Darwinism did not influence Eugenics? That is a bold claim.

Yes indeed, it is perfect or very close to perfect for survival in its ecological niche. Hence why it has survived through those hundreds of thousands of years without becoming extinct.

Darwin is dead.

I agree with Darwin. Maybe he's not right on every aspect, but his larger point is absolutely correct.

No I was providing evidence of how badly Stein misrepresented Darwins position on Eugenics. I made no comment at all on my personal position on the subject.

     = 10,000 years old "cave" drawings.