“Expelled” The Movie
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In what some describe as “one of the most important movies to come out in 100 years” because it discusses “Where did we come from? How did we get here?”
Observer and commentator Ben Stein contributes his style to focus on answers and describe academic persecution of those who dare think about and speak about creationism and intelligent design. He warns those with a stake in the ivory tower not to watch this movie lest they be discovered and attacked by secularist who would ruin their careers. It opens in February. See his web site and complete movie preview including additional clips Here.
See a provocative Super Clip Click Here.
To Join The Expelled, Click Here.
Comment by ScienceGuy on 18 January 2008:
How can otherwise intelligent people not remember that religion is “based on faith” which means it is not subject to scientific inquiry. If this is a movie to get creationism taught in regular science classes, what a croc. All religions ultimately deny that science can evaluate them.
Religions belong in religion classes or maybe philosophy classes or somewhere else, but not in science.
Comment by Shane on 18 January 2008:
I’m surprised that Ben Stein would be a part of a film like this. I understand that he’s conservative, but he’s also a trained economist. As some one who has worked with numbers and bottom lines his entire life I’m surprised that he can’t see that Intelligent Design theory belongs in a philosophy or theology class.
Comment by Richard Cochrane on 18 January 2008:
Having watched the clip and seen a little more of the movie it is more about adcademic persecution than anything else.
As one who has written a lot I know first hand there are elitist who persecute ideas disagreeable to them.
Witness the disagreement about causes of global warming.
Comment by Don12 on 18 January 2008:
Couldn’t agree more. Witness the persecution of Larry Summers, erstwhile progressive, liberal economist, member of Clinton administration and President of Harvard, was run out of Dodge by other “tolerant” liberals (the entire Harvard faculty) whose job is to provoke thought. His crime? He had the temerity to suggest there might be differences between men and women besides the genitals.
Comment by David on 16 February 2009:
Search for Ebert’s hilarious review of this hard hitting documentary.
Ben Stein’s an economist. He understands that he’ll never go broke appealing to the lowest common denominator. American churches are almost entirely businesses, they’ve as much in common with Christ as George W Bush does with astrophysics.
Mark Twain became an athiest after reading the Bible, I think it was the same with me. Up until then, I was just a kid and let other people read me passages. When I read it myself I was horrified. God is Bronze Age fiction. Filled with all the hatred, prejudice and genocide of the times.
Now all I have to worry about is his moronic followers, and the right wing politicians who profess a false belief to herd the voting public to their evil agenda of profiteering from war. What I don’t understand is that how anyone who had read the words of Jesus Christ could let them.
Unredeemably stupid, I suppose.