oh noes! they're on to us!!!1!

Someone named Katherine T. Phan at something called The Christian Post has written a laudatory article about Ben Stein's new "documentary" film Expelled!:

Stein said he finds it problematic that Darwinism, which he feels leaves a lot of questions unanswered, is being touted in the academic and scientific circles as the only rational explanation on how life began.

Where did life come from? How did cells get so complex?

If the origins of life all did happen by random mutation, he questioned, where does the laws that make the universe possible to function – the law of gravity, the law of thermodaynamics, laws of motion – all come from?

"Who created these laws that keeps the planets in motion?" asked Stein. "These are fundamental questions" where Darwinism lacks explanations.

Sheesh. First, it's where do the laws come from... And second, I'll admit it: 'Darwinism*' can't answer that question. For that, we need to look elsewhere ... and I'm not playing that NOMA game, either; science is entitled to try to answer any question that deals with the real world. It's just that ... you know, the Theory of Evolution deals with Evolution - change over time, common descent, that sort of stuff.

We don't ask the Theory of Gravity to explain why iron is more massive than hydrogen. We don't ask the Atomic Theory to explain why there is cholera. We don't ask the Germ Theory to explain why planets orbit suns.

The problem is that a certain subset of us don't understand what the Theory of Evolution is, don't care that they don't, don't want to, and in fact have concocted a monstrous straw man to fight against, and cackle triumphantly when they ask their silly questions. Not to say that "where did life come from?" is necessarily a silly question, but it's silly to ask it of the Theory of Evolution. It's like asking it "why is the sky blue?"

Somebody can answer that question, but it's not Evolution. And, like Putin said about the Brits: if they don't know that, they're incompetent, and if they do, they're grandstanding.

* For some reason - that probably says a lot more about them than anything else - these people always talk about 'Darwinism'. The Theory of Evolution is called by its (19th century) founder's name as though it were some unchanging doctrine handed down to a prophet by divine revelation. No one talks about, you know, 'Kelvinism', say, or 'Newtonism' ... Well, not yet, anyway. But if they succeed in their quest to foist ID on us, the next step may be to challenge in science classes the age of the earth, and then wait till they get started on "Huttonism" and Deep Time. (And Hutton is a 18th century man, uncontaminated by Darwin in any shape or form... inconceivable!)