‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed!’
Ben Stein is the star of a new documentary called “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.”
Remember, Ben Stein from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the boring high school teacher who spoke in a toad-like monotone during classroom roll call…..Bueller? Byooolerr? The documentary is about how intelligent design scientists are being silenced and shamed, how education in America is steered by the majority of scientists who have pro-evolutionary agendas, limiting freedom of speech in schools.
Sounds like propaganda to me. Propaganda anyone? Anyone?
Ben Stein, in an interview with the NY Times, said he believes the theory of evolution leads to racism and ultimately genocide.
If it were up to him, he told the Times, the film would be called ‘From Darwin to Hitler.’ (Darwin into Hitler–now that’s evolution!)
Stein also said in the interview that he accepted the producers’ invitation to participate in the film not because he personally disagrees with evolutionary theory, he admits there’s “a very high likelihood” that Darwin was on to something, he just does not accept that evolution alone can explain life on earth. “Big Science in this area of biology has lost its way,” says Stein. “Scientists are supposed to be allowed to follow the evidence wherever it may lead, no matter what the implications are. Freedom of inquiry has been greatly compromised, and this is not only anti-American, it’s anti-science. It’s anti-the whole concept of learning.”
Ben Stein has forgotten that freedom of inquiry involves critical thinking. Proponents of Intelligent Design DO NOT provide concrete evidence for what they claim. When their papers get criticized and turned down during peer-review for presenting ideas without supporting evidence, they cry out that they have been unfairly persecuted for their beliefs. To all ID proponents: this wouldn’t happen if you actually had EVIDENCE. Without evidence, beliefs are simply just that–beliefs, nothing more, nothing less, in absolutely no credible position for consideration.
The National Center for Science Education will post a full response to the Ben Stein movie Expelled on April 15 on the site: www.expelledexposed.com.
Ben Stein, I like the name of your movie film; it’s so aptly named, it actually fails to be ironic.
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patrick
Apr 23, 2008 at 12:39 am
just saw Expelled; Ben Stein’s goal in making this flick (i gather) was not to win any popularity contests (this by itself helps to validate his message)… his goal was to promote free thought, especially more thinking about motivations that drive American academia and a lot of other behind-the-scenes worldview that we tend to take for granted.
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