I just saw, "Horton Hears a Who."  Am I the only one who saw many similarities between the movie, Horton Hears a Who" and the Intelligent Design debate?  From the mayor's point of view, there is someone out there beyond the clouds that wants to be their savior.  The people don't believe and think he is a kook.  He tries to warn the crowd that danger lurks and that they should prepare for it, but the influential town council mocks him and tries to get others to do the same.

In the larger world, Horton, who tries to convince his world that there is another world, is also viewed as a kook.  The mother kangaroo, who happens to be the bossy, overprotective, home-pouching mother (Me thinks that was a jab at homeschoolers?) won't allow her son to play with Horton because he is a bad influence.  He might open their eyes to something more than their own community standards that the concensus has decided is truth.  She works the crowd to be against him, she hires the big-gun vulture to destroy the idea that there may be something beyond their world.  She fights to keep Horton and his ideas squelched and ridiculed as a nonsense.

The mayor's son is the final loud voice that breaks through the clouds of Whoville and reaches Horton's world, so they were able to open their minds to this new idea that has been taboo.  The little joey is the person that had an open mind that finally heard the Whos and saved the day.

I was thinking that Ben Stein (Expelled: The Movie) could either be the mayor's son that was the almost-too-late voice that breaks through barrier (clouds - or in Expelled, the wall).  Or could he be the open-minded joey that finally heard the voices and believed, saving the idea from extinction?

If Ben Stein was not the joey, then we need to pray for a joey, who is part of the consensus, but with an open mind, that has enough clout to shake up the powers-that-be (scientists, educators) to cause the scoffers to believe that an idea, such as Intelligent Design, is a valid theory and should be allowed and taught.

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Posted by Anonymous

I just found your blog and the post that links to the many other bloggers who are using MFW. My two sons are only 2.5 years old but I have been reviewing and researching now for a while, just to prepare myself. I think MFW looks great too and, for now, that is my plan. I also have a friend in K.C. who is planning to purchase it for her K'er daughter and her mom (the daughter's grandmother) is going to homeschool her. I blog at www.pisarikadoption.blogspot.com (for now) and we live in Tulsa too. Thanks for the links to the other MFW'ers.

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Posted by Lea@Pisarik.com

I found your blog just by google-ing 'blogs My Father's World'. I did not know that they have a blogroll but just saw that in one of the comments on your blog. I'll have to go look it up.

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Posted by Wendy

I had the same thoughts when I took my son to see this movie, so no... it wasn't just you. I still can't say for certain whether or not I enjoyed the movie. I found myself in a weird place while watching it.

I appreciate your blog. You're a thinker and I like that!

http://thehomeschoolingblog.com

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Posted by Anonymous

There may or may not be a designer that's not the point. The point is that the intelligent design community is trying to manipulate the public before it actually has the science. Teach your children evolution all of it. Teach them that we share a common ancestry with other primates. That is that there was once a creature that was neither human nor ape. (the actual consequence of human origins by the evolutionary theory). And if this is wrong then perhaps your child will be the one to discover why! That is we cannot figure out where Darwin went wrong with out an understanding of Darwin (if you insist that he is wrong). All creationist/intelligent design literature I have read up until this point has misinterpreted the evolutionary theory. So read up on it yourself! and don't go for the nonsense. Remember IF Darwin was wrong about the basic picture of life IF modern evolutionary theory cannot work out the kinks THEN we will need someone to understand EXACTLY where that picture went wrong. AND in order to do that we NEED as many people as possible to UNDERSTAND the evolutionary theory.

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Posted by humpty

Actually, "anonymous," Evolution is merely a theory and the people that believe it have to have as much faith as anyone else who has a theory, including the creationists.

Creationists come from a Biblical worldview while evolutionists come from a secular humanist worldview. A theory is a theory and since NO ONE was around when the world was created, why should one theory have any more creedance in science than any other? Doesn't science need observation?

I prefer to put my faith in a Creator, not chance and random coincidence.

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