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The clip demonization of character Part 2 from Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) with John Polkinghorne

Rests on a fundamentally different vision of man.
If you have two distinguished scientists--
And, in fact, you can range many more on each side, as you know--
Saying exactly opposite things,
That's telling me that the conflict
Is not between science and belief in god.
Otherwise you'd expect all scientists to be atheists.
But it's a worldview conflict.
It's between scientists who have different worldviews.
You've got two competing explanations of the evidence.
One says design, one says undirected processes.
Both of them have larger philosophical or religious
Or anti-religious implications.
So you can't say that one of those two theories is scientific
And the other is unscientific
Simply because they have implications.
Both have implications.
People who tell you,
For example, that science tells you
All you need to know about the world
Or that science tells you that religion is all wrong
Or science tells you there is no god,
Those people aren't telling you scientific things.
They are saying metaphysical things,
And they have to defend their positions
For metaphysical reasons.
What is being presented to the public is
First comes the science,
And then comes the worldview.
I would want to argue that that may not be the case,
That it may actually be the other way 'round,
That the worldview comes first
And is influencing the interpretation of science.
My deep regret is some people
Are so deeply entrenched in their own worldviews
That they will simply not countenance alternatives.