Richard Dawkins and Ben Stein

I know I am a little slow but I just watched Expelled by Ben Stein.

It was a fascinating piece even though there is much that was not very professional about it.

Now I see the overarching theme of the "documentary" is the freedom of ideas and he does an excellent job of showing how the scientific establishment has squelched any possibility of opposing Darwinism or evolution educationally, politically, or through the media.

Ideas are important and do influence our lives and the society we live in. He made allusion to the current state of the regard for human life (abortion and euthanasia) and its tie to Darwinism and evolution.

But the most shocking thing I found in the whole video is the part where Ben Stein secures an interview with Richard Dawkins. What Richard Dawkins admits in that interview astounds me.
At about 4 minutes into the folllowing clip, Ben Stein aks if Dawkins thinks that ID could have any contributioin to genetics or in evolution.

He is a die hard evolutionist but he admits that Intelligent Design is a possibility to answer the question of origins of this earth. Albeit he is not going to say that any god anywhere has anything to do with it but that is astounding that Richard Dawkins finds ID to be an "a possibility, an intriguing possibility" where he purports that an "earlier civilization ... seeded life onto our planet." So I see Dawkins as believing in aliens and UFOs and such.

So if Dawkins admits this, isn't he admiting that universities should be able to teach ID even if they take the whole god thing out of it? Isn't that all that most ID proponents are asking for?

What do y'all think? Have you seen the video? Have I missed something?


http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=fb627ff95e49f546adb0