Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Last night I watched Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed last night. I was inspired. This subject never fails to energize me. It must have to do with my 180 degree turnaround in my worldview which occurred when I went from being an antagonistic religion-hater to being a baptized, born-again Seventh-day Adventist Christian, in 1986. Where once I had whole-heartedly embraced evolution theory and Darwinism in my scientific and philosophical understanding of the world, now I am a strict Young Earth Creationist, whole-heartedly rejecting Darwinism in all its many forms.
I also reject the charge that I am dishonest intellectually. I have examined the evidence as thoroughly as I need to become convinced of the great lack of factual basis for Darwinism. Don’t believe Darwinists (like Hitchens) when they try to say that anyone who looks honestly at the theory evolution cannot deny that it is truth, unless they are idiots or stupid. Download this PDF of over seven hundred scientists who have dared to dissent from the party line of Darwinism.
For a PDF of cited and sourced major claims from the film, download this leader guide from the movie’s website.
I challenge all my Darwinist friends to examine the arguments in Ben Stein’s Expelled. I hear so much from Darwinists about how supposedly debunked the Intelligent Design theory is. In fact, Stein completely devastates the Darwinist community’s basis for their campaign agains ID: what passes for “academic freedom” in the scientific community in reality must succeed in gaining approval from a gauntlet of sanitizing thought police who are the real arbiters of what can and cannot be said on a university campus or in a museum like the Smithsonian.
Stein has the intellectual qualifications for a credible voice in an academic forum, although I had to read about this humble guy’s curriculum vitae on his website: graduated with honors in economics from Columbia University in 1966, graduated as valedictorian of his class from Yale Law School in 1970, successful career as a lawyer in multiple fields, including poverty law and trial law in trade regulation; and he taught law at several universities.
Ben Stein is right at home in the academic environment, and not afraid to spoof it, as shown by his famous appearance in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as the boring teacher: “Anybody? Bueller? Anybody?”
Stein speaks face-to-face with proponents on both sides, and allows Darwinists to fully voice their theories. He also allows the testimony of many scientists and professors of science who have lost their careers because they dared to challenge Darwinism. You’ll be amazed at how reactionary and aggressive the anti-ID forces are, and to what lengths they will go to maintain a grip on their delusion that what they are promoting passes for academic freedom.
Watch the movie. I don’t think anyone will change their worldviews by viewing it, but if you are a person who believes in the honest, open discussion of any ideas in the pursuit of truth, you will be challenged by this film.
Steve Webb
November 10th, 2008 at 1:35:15 pmI, too, enjoyed the movie. So much so that I interviewed one of the film’s producers, John Sullivan, for my show. If you’re interested, you can listen at expelled.LifespringMedia.com. In the interview, he mentions a recent debate that Dr. Dawkins had, in which he admitted that there might actually be a designer!
Jim Miles
November 10th, 2008 at 3:50:14 pmThanks for the heads up on that interview, Steve!
Dave
November 10th, 2008 at 11:05:49 pmhttp://www.expelledexposed.com/
Q.E.D.
Aaron/Inspectaneck
November 11th, 2008 at 7:12:51 amThis topic always gets my brain buzzing. Note that I said brain — because the debate is presently held in the intellectual realm. I choose to embrace all the information I can find on this topic. I am in the first chapters of a book called “Big Bang” by Simon Singh and am enjoying the science and history of planetary discovery. I have also believed the evidence described by my wife’s grandparents’ pastor, Pastor Tom; he teaches creationism with a mobile planetarium and fossil museum which is absolutely mind-blowing. After seeing the museum he had at his small church in Christmas, FL, I brought up the case on a message board my friends use. I was engaged as being ridiculous. My intention in that case was to offer the scientific argument of the other side, which I had not previously heard. While I was not convinced one way or the other at that point, I felt the need to give my friends the entire scope of knowledge so they could make their own decisions.
That’s when “Big Bang” showed up at my door — from one of my best friends, a trusted technology guy.
As an admirer of both you, Jim, and Ben Stein, I will surely check out the movie.
Thanks for the buzz.
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Bang.....amp;sr=1-1
http://www.gospelfossils.com/ - Pastor Tom and his Creationism Museum.