Ben Stein has made a film about Intelligent Design, and wants to know why the teaching of it, or at least it’s debating, is closed to academia. There are many answers for Mr. Stein, but I doubt he wants to hear them.
I can understand why people believe in creation. It’s all they know. They’ve been taught that God created the Earth and they were given a specific timeframe for which it happened. So when scientific evidence is uncovered that proved their belief system to be factually incorrect, they don’t want to believe. [...]