Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a documentary film charging Darwinists with suppressing and persecuting scholars who disagree with them in order to avoid discussing the scientific challenges which intelligent design presents to the Origins of Species aspects of the theory of evolution.[1] . The film's premise, which it goes on to prove with unassailable logic, is that scientists have been met with harsh opposition and/or received punishments from schools, universities and the scientific community merely for daring to ask inconvenient questions.[2] The documentary is co-written and hosted by Ben Stein and was released in America on Friday, April 18, 2008.
- This movie follows Ben Stein as he seeks to prove that far from being a pseudo-science trying to undermine evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design is in fact a legitimate science being suppressed by a scientific establishment that is hostile to any deviation from the status quo. [3]
In the film's trailer, Stein states that there are "people out there who want to keep science in a little box where it can’t possibly touch God" and that "freedom of thought and freedom of inquiry have been expelled from publicly-funded high schools, universities and research institutions."[4] This also refers to privately funded science institutions as well.
Perhaps most infuriatingly true and telling for design opponents is the way the film links Darwin's ideas to Social Darwinism and destructive, immoral, atheistic ideologies such as Hitler's National Socialism and Marxist socialism.[5]
The film clearly shows that scientists and educators who promote intelligent design are persecuted by the scientific establishment.[6] Examples given by the film include Richard Sternberg, a biologist, journal editor, and research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, and Guillermo Gonzalez, a pro-intelligent design astrophysicist denied tenure at Iowa State University in 2007.[4]
- The film opens with documentary footage of the Berlin Wall going up and closes with it coming down. The day Darwinism and intelligent design can be fairly discussed without fear of reprisal represents the removal of a barrier even greater than the Berlin Wall.[7]
Film Clips
WingClips provides several free glimpses into "Expelled".
- Expelled - Genetic Mutation (2:23) - Scientists discuss how the evolutionary theory of random genetic change contradicts what really occurs in nature.
See also
- Origins debate
- Theory of evolution
- Creation-evolution controversy
- Design detection
- Suppression of alternatives to evolution
- Premise Media (Producers of the film)
External links
- N.C.S.E. Exposed: No Victim-Blaming Allowed!
- Michael Shermer’s Fact-Free Attack on Expelled Exposes Intolerance of Darwinists towards Pro-Intelligent Design Scientists
- Theater locator for North America
- Reviews of 'Expelled' on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Christianity Today review of 'Expelled'
- ↑ Stein told O'Reilly, "This whole problem is about violation of the First Amendment. There are many scientists - many - who have been expelled from their jobs, who have had their web sites shut down, who have been denied grants [or] tenure because they wanted to question the limits and boundaries of Darwinism ... that's not how society has progressed."
- ↑ Expelled the movie website
- ↑ http://www.wingclips.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16857&category_id=778
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/science/27expelled.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "nyt" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Expelled - Implications of Neo-Darwinism (4:15) - Doctors and Scientists explore how the belief in Neo-Darwinism affects our society.
- ↑ Lesley Burbridge-Bates (2007-08-22). Expelled Press Release. Premise Media. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
- ↑ [1]