Ben Stein looks at a subject which has long intrigued me, Intelligent Design and how it is often being denied a place at the table when it comes to serious discussions in our major institutions of higher learning and research. Expelled opens April 18th in theatres around the country.
Storms on Jupiter.
As an artist, it is important to learn observation skills when it comes to nature. the Fibbonacci Number Sequence is seen in the spiral of a galaxy, water going down a drain and the hair pattern on a child's head. Complex mechanisms exist in nature, such as the eye, for example. How could they evolve without some oversight as they would not function when not wholly complete.
This past weekend a man who is working on an assistive technology robot at Carnagie-Mellon showed us videos of his 'robot' attempting to grasp a doorknob and open it. Let's just say these researchers were well pleased when the robot hit the doorknob. They have a long way to go before it will open the doorknob. There's more to hand-eye coordination than you would imagine. Do you ever just stop and appreciate the well-tuned software that you've depended on all your life?
More important, do you think of what it might mean to have been so created? Stein's movie gives us a lot to think about.
Expelled Movie Website
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