Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
// November 10th, 2008 // 4 Comments » // General
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.
