Ex-spelled Out, Pt. End

I guess it would be better to be brief as possible, since so many other people have eloquently created responses to all of this ignorance. However, I'd like to wrap it up with one more entry in case you watched the whole interview. The reason I am doing this is Ben Stein represents a staggering portion of people in this world who want to turn from evidence and put their myths in the classroom without doing the work to prove their hypothesis as a testable theory...

I don't know where the Sagan quotes were coming from but I'm sure he doesn't either and they're out of context. The refrain here is that "Darwinists" believe in chance, and something coming from nothing. First, Darwin's theory was the "Origin of Species by means of natural selection." For short, we call it Evolution, but nowhere does it claim to have an answer for how life originated. Regardless, it is illogical to say that something came from nothing, which is precisely what Genesis tells us. Scientists are working on stable theories that can describe the universe and its origins, but they are not going to claim to know something until it is proven. Just about any other theory is more plausible than Creationism. Did you ever think that our universe could be the after effect of a "big bang" that is one of billions upon billions of others? No, it's more plausible that scientific theories of the bronze age are more accurate.

At 6:20 of the first part, they continue with the arrogance. Maybe you could learn something if you took a different perspective from your own for once. Your arguments are a straw man, and the version of Evolution you are trying to tear down is really just a reflection of yourself. Think about it this way: everyone once assumed the Earth was at the center of the universe and God had set up the cosmos to dance around our little globe. Scientists like Galileo once challenged this and were imprisoned for it, and worse for other scientists who put out similarly challenging theories. He was "Expelled" so to speak. Religion in general has been in charge for a hundred thousand years, and science is the new kid on the block. Science is the child prodigy that the father and all adults are secretly jealous of.

Leaving heliocentricity was just one of the evolutionary steps we have taken towards enlightenment, but now we have a similar problem--a still lingering problem because we didn't fully tackle the issue of heliocentricity. Most humans accept now that the Earth is a sphere that revolves around the sun, and is not at the center of anything but just a speck in existence. However, we still haven't addressed the problem that we think Humanity is the center of the universe. Sure, maybe God made a mind-bogglinly huge collection of galaxies, but he set aside this particular Milky Way for us in a nice corner, where he spends most of his time ignoring the rest of existence. Surely God created this universe like a playground for us humans to explore! It's all for us!

Well...no. Evolution didn't take place as a roundabout way of making humans. We just happened to evolve this way. Life in the universe is the equivalent of a patch of mold on a peice of bread. "Just happened" does not mean a coin toss. It means an unimaginable number of coin tosses that lead to results in reality. Just think of this: if there is no god, then there must be chaos, right? Well in that case, everything that could exist or take place is doing so either right now or it has already. (small example would be how observations of photon behavior show them to often be two or more things at one time--particle and wave, etc...--and when shot at a board with two holes, the photon will go through both holes at the same time) Actually, the number of things that could happen, like different combination of genes, may not be able to happen, but much of it does and things that cohere to order will naturally tend to happen more often.
If you have a million peices of bread sitting in storage and one gets a patch of mold on it, you don't claim it was intelligent design, it just happened by chance. But because we are that speck of mold, and humans are so special, we assume some supreme being did it for us.

Around 9:00 he claims that Greek word origins prove him right and that anyone who brings up these ideas would "probably be shot" in intellectual circles. Really? Isn't it more the Bible crowd's job to execute heretics?
Part 2 of the interview doesn't get any better. 2:25 "Chance is used if you don't have a better explanation," as if a personified character is more plausible. It's not chance in the sense of magical appearance, which is your argument, but chance in the fact that life was bound to sprout up in some remote corner of existence and we happen to be the little speck where conditions happened to be right. Again, all of their focus is grounded on Earth. Also, natural selection is similarly a passive process of the animals that happen to be best suited for survival are the ones that do so.
I'll try to save us some time by skipping his other repeated points...but the Nazism thing is ridiculous. The Holocaust was like a kid finding his dad's hunting rifle and shooting the family dog. Natural selection is supposed to be natural and passive. Then at 4:00 in Pt. 3, the host tells us a story about how he got expelled for three days. Funny...the ignorance even creeps into not caring about word choice because it sounds good. Anyway, he was suspended for fighting and not acting like a civilized, rational human being. Proves the point precisely of what creationists are in scientific circles.
Then he brings up another impressive misinterpretation by twisting the words of Einstein to support them. Albert Einstein did not believe anything in the Bible, as he proclaimed publicly, but did occasionally indulge in using the word "God." In saying "God does not play dice," he was getting across the point that things don't "just happen," but there is a definite cause for everything. Scientists are trying to figure out what sort of metaphysical origins matter might have, but to say that God did it contradicts the argument because where did God come from?

I'll leave you guys with this thought: you were once an embryo. A single cell which grew into the bigot you are today. You stopped growing. Evolution continues as it always will, and dead ends like religion will keep you stuck in the past. The journey toward understanding continues, and it would be a shame for you to get left behind.