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Our friend, Ben, has been quiet recently.
Now we know why:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=expelled-exposed
Of course, Darwinism does equal death - since believers in such usually also don't also belief in life after death.
Of course, Ben is still busy with his Yahoo column:
http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/86643
Now we know why:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=expelled-exposed
...before he began interviewing me for what I was told was a film on the intersection of science and religion entitled Crossroads.
That is not what the interview was about. And neither is the film, now called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The subtitle exposes its motif—intelligent design has been expelled from classrooms and culture, and Ben Stein sees a sinister conspiracy at work.
That is not what the interview was about. And neither is the film, now called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The subtitle exposes its motif—intelligent design has been expelled from classrooms and culture, and Ben Stein sees a sinister conspiracy at work.
Expelled’s exegesis is this: Darwinism leads to atheism, communism, fascism and a repetition of the Holocaust. We are in an ideological war between a scientific, natural worldview that leads to the Gulag Archipelago and Nazi gas chambers and a religious, supernatural worldview that leads to freedom, justice and the American way. Expelling intelligent design from American classrooms and culture will inexorably take us down a path of doom, and the film’s blunt editing intersperses interview snippets from evolutionary biologists with black-and-white clips of, in ascending scale of ominousness, bullies pounding on a 98-pound weakling; Charlton Heston’s character in Planet of the Apes being blasted by a water hose by a gorilla thug; Nikita Khrushchev pounding his fist on a United Nations desk; East Germans captured trying to scale the Berlin Wall; and Nazi crematoria remains and Holocaust victims being bulldozed into mass graves. The formula is unmistakable: Darwinism = death.
Of course, Ben is still busy with his Yahoo column:
http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/86643
But on a national basis, residential home prices are still up roughly 60 per cent from their levels of 2000. In my home area of Southern California, they're up close to 100 percent above spring 2000 levels. Prices are still falling, but the appreciation even after the recent correction, has been dramatic. By my rough measurement, the gains since 1990 here in Southern California have been by at least a factor of three. That is, homes that were selling for roughly $400,000 in 1990 would be selling for about $1,200,000.
In addition, the owners got the benefits of imputed rent, tax deductions, and no tax at all on the imputed rent, which is really a benefit. (That is, if you owned a bond and got interest checks for it, those would be taxable in most cases. But you if you get free rent, the equivalent of the bond coupon, you are not taxed on it at all.)
In addition, the owners got the benefits of imputed rent, tax deductions, and no tax at all on the imputed rent, which is really a benefit. (That is, if you owned a bond and got interest checks for it, those would be taxable in most cases. But you if you get free rent, the equivalent of the bond coupon, you are not taxed on it at all.)
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