Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

A good look at the other side, the one the media will never portray. Ben Stein is brilliant.

Politics, religion and science may be topics to avoid at parties, but they make an engrossing, if slightly heavy Ben Stein movie. Contrary to some naysayers, this movie is not anti-science, or even against evolution. But it shows that several very different ideas all go under the same label of "Evolution".
Since most people are theists and also are open to theories of evolution, we could say that "theistic evolution" is a common belief today. But EXPELLED demonstrates that a powerful minority among scientists believe that Darwin's theory of evolution (there are other evolutionary theories) absolutely rules out the existence of God. Stein allows these men to speak for themselves here, and it's not always a pretty sight. Prof. Dawkins believes that God is impossible, but space aliens starting life on earth is "an intriguing theory". (Where is your scientific evidence for space aliens, prof?) Other leading apologists for Darwinism come across as lacking social skills, or even lacking compassion for their fellow human beings!
But what really hammers home Stein's point is the Darwinian connection to Nazism, social eugenics and even Marxism. "Let the weak die, they are contaminating our gene pool!" Do you realize at least a few of your college professors actually believe that? Scary, to say the least.
EXPELLED should be shown to church youth groups, science classes at any grade level, adult study groups etc. It's sure to provoke discussion! For more reading on the ongoing debate, explore the books of Drs. Behe and Dembski, among others. Also recommended: Simon Conway-Morris (life forms develop in very non-random ways), Richard Milton (Shattering the Myths of Darwinism), Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" (animal bodies are based on mathematical formulas, not natural selection), and Dr. Lee Spetner. All of these men believe in evolution of some kind, but NOT according to Darwin's antiquated model.
A new generation of scientists is slowly coming along, more open to the ideas in this movie. My advice to those guys and gals: keep quiet until you have tenure! All the censorship in the world cannot prop up a crumbling scientific theory.

Ben Stein's movie "EXPELLED" is very thought provoking and I actually paused it a couple of times to let my brain catch up with it. This work needs more publicity and a greater circulation. It is a serious work and I am glad that I have it.

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I finally got to see Expelled.
Found it quite moving to my surprise. Its pretty far off of course, but as a craft I enjoyed it.
Expected much worse.

First off I want to say what screams needs to be said to you Intelligent Design supporters:
Believe what you want. You are free to believe that we live in a giant teapot if you like. You are free to believe that Noahs Ark existed and we all are sons of Noah and his zoo-ship. Its just that as long as you can't find any evidence for it, thats more than inside your imaginiation and part of your religious faith, then science can't test it. Its impossible.

Scientific American editor John Rennie said this about Intelligent Design.
"a notion which firmly states that at one or more unspecified times in the past, an unidentified designer who might or might not be God somehow created whole organisms, or maybe just cells, or maybe just certain parts of cells--they're still deciding and will get back to you on that."

The other problem is that questioning Darwin's theories in these days is just extremely sad. I know you want to believe your Bible and Quran so much.. but the evidence for evolution is mindbogglingly and breathtakingly enormous. And in reality lots of religious people believe in evolution, even if Ben Stein tries to hide them with this film. Look up Ken Miller. Look up Robert Winston. Heck, even the Pope has accepted evolution.

Ben Stein and the Expelled squad does something really dirty with this movie. They interviews only the Intelligent Design defenders in this movie, versus. a lot of atheist scientists who defends in evolution. That's the main problem of this movie. It tries to present a fictional harsh battle between religion and evolution. Thats propaganda! They could have interviewed some religious people who believes in evolution too, as that there is lots and that would would be interesting, but that wouldn't suit Ben Stein's attempt to alienate the viewer from evolution.

Instead we see Stein walking inside Darwins museum, with cold eerie music and dark pictures, staring a statue of Charles Darwin cold in the eyes, like he's looking for a sign of humanity in there.

Another problem is that we're not presented to what intelligent design IS. No explanation. Which is of course because it isn't a coherent theory. I bet if you asked all those various people Ben interviewed, you'd get very different answers. Even more strangely is however that they never define evolution either. Its strange, because its like Steins argument isn't that evolution is wrong, faulty, have scientific problems...

Its more that evolution is EVIL. It kills faith and it leads to bad things... which presents the craziest point of the movie: Evolution leads to Nazism. Which is just insane. It doesn't even deserve a comment.

But I'll try to explain it because I understand that for some Christians they can't tell apart Socialdarwinism and Darwism. Thats actually very sad. Charles Darwin had NOTHING to do with socialdarwinism.
Just because natural selection seems to be the rule of the nature, where there is no moderating structures doesn't mean humans who can build a society any way we want have to apply natural selection into our way of living. Thats just sick minds. Hate socialdarwinism, but it has nothing to do with Darwin.

And besides, socialdarwinism wasn't even the whole deal with Nazism. It was more complex than that. It was racial theories, it was strange religious stuff going on... and it was a cult of brainwashing and propaganda that took things too far and couldn't stop. It was a lot. Blaming Darwin for Hitler is as insane as blaming Newton for the Two Towers falling down, just because he discovered the theory of gravity.

But as a positive note. The reason I give this 2 stars and not 1 is rather perhaps a bit of a sarcastic one, but still I'm sincere. I think this is excellent propaganda.
Even I, who knew almost every detail about the movie before I saw it, and knew a lot about the subject to logically refute the movie to bits.. was still moved by it somehow. Emotionally I was caught in it. And that impressed me. If I didn't know any better I'd probably be in favor of this movie as a serious documentary.

Perhaps its because it kind of gave the illusion that evolution was destroying people's faith. It was destroying God. And it did present evolution as something rather awful. But this is of course all propaganda. Its a big seducing lie. Religious fundamentalists all over the globe has a new handy powertool now for brainwashing.

This might even be filmhistorical propaganda, ready to be remembered as a school example of how manipulating the filmmedium can be to distort truth and promote lies, for all eternity.
Congratulations Ben Stein. You made history.