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« on: December 05, 2007, 01:10:39 PM »
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BEN STEIN’S EXPELLED TOUR IS COMING TO COLUMBUS, OHIO!!!
Wednesday, December 5
7:00pm
Worthington Christian Church
Columbus, OH

Ben Stein is set to storm America with his highly-controversial upcoming movie, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” which is already receiving national news coverage
(click to view articles - New York Times, O'Reilly Factor, Christian Post).

Ben’s “Expelled Tour” will kick off the movie campaign by traversing America in a huge, boldly decorated bus, proclaiming “FREEDOM” to the millions of students, teachers, scientists, and others who have dared to question the “truth of Darwinism.

The Expelled Tour will expose the Darwin elitists who SUPPRESS all who disagree with them, including many scientists (yes, SCIENTISTS) whose new EVIDENCE erodes Darwin’s claims.

This is a rare opportunity to educate your class, congregation, group, and community on issues that deeply affect our families, schools, courts, churches, and the progress of science, medicine, and morality.

FOR INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES CONTACT:
Lesley Burbridge Bates
Motive Entertainment
615.321.6400
lesley@motivemarketing.biz
For more information on “Expelled” and to see the movie trailer, visit
www.expelledthemovie.com
 
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2010, 06:28:13 PM »
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Read the interview with "Darth" Venter below and contemplate three things:

1) the billions wasted on it (his words, not mine)
2) remember all of the promises that came with this?  Just like all of the promises of embryonic stem cells..
3) absorb the implication that our genome is far, far more complex than just an assembly of genes (which, by themselves, are enormously complex). 

'We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,709174,00.html
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2010, 10:17:49 PM »
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Since the Shadow believes that he has been put on ignore by TB he (TB) will not see this.

Contrary to Vetner's assertion much has been learned from the project.  Knowing the genes that one has that may presage disease is not an absolute,  but rather offers a probability (because of the interaction of other genes).  However individuals who have deleterious genes can take cautionary measures for the possible eventuality (breast cancer is a good example).  In addition the human genome has also been useful in determining population migration and ancestry patterns.   Paternity/maternity cases are determined because of the genome information as are cases exonerating (or proving) criminal cases.

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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2010, 09:56:50 PM »
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Saying the human genome project hasn't provided important foundational knowledge is like saying that the atomic theory of matter and the development of the periodic chart failed to advance human knowledge.

A certain percentage of the population is incapable of grasping the significance of scientific knowledge.
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« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2010, 04:59:04 PM »
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Venter is the just the latest prominent scientist to remark on what Fortune magazine has dubbed “the great DNA letdown” — the failure of the multi-billion-dollar, public-private genome-sequencing effort to produce any noteworthy practical applications so far. That failure is especially remarkable in light of the hyperbole surrounding the genome a decade ago. Bill Clinton described the genome sequencing project as “the scientific breakthrough of the century, perhaps of all time,” and said that  “it is now conceivable that our children’s children will know the term ‘cancer’ only as a constellation of stars.” Venter echoed that point at his famous press conference alongside Clinton, Tony Blair, and geneticist Francis Collins, speaking of “the potential to reduce the number of cancer deaths to zero during our lifetimes.” The New York Times wondered if we had “broken back into” the Garden of Eden “for a second bite” of its fruit. The Clinton White House said that using genomic research to fight disease would be “the single biggest challenge to humankind.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/242777/human-genome-and-human-being-adam-keiper
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