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"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" is a trenchant new film by actor/economist Ben Stein, the man first made famous in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." He's now tackling with humorous dudgeon the classic example of ideological science, Darwinian evolution. Stein shows Darwinists insistently misrepresenting the scientific case against their theory. Where facts and reason might fail to persuade, personal attacks are employed, sometimes even by organizations supposedly committed to civil discourse.

When I was taught Darwin's theory in college more than four decades ago, it was represented as unassailable. But I also was taught in those days to respect academic freedom, which is a good standard to apply in any field. In the 1990s, before intelligent design was added to the ideas studied at Discovery Institute, I learned about an assault on the academic freedom of Dean Kenyon, a biologist and author at San Francisco State University who had come to view Darwin's theory as flawed. At first, the effort to restrain him from teaching seemed like just another skirmish over political correctness.

Then, following the Kenyon case, I began to examine the account of life's development that I once had been taught so dogmatically. One after another of the demonstrations of the theory that supposedly were "certain" and "conclusive" when I was a student — such as Ernst Haeckel's embryo drawings that showed various animals looking almost identical in the earliest stages of life — have been abandoned or replaced. What has not changed is the dogmatism.

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ORIGINAL: Zensee

And who made ET?


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ORIGINAL: Zensee

And who made ET?


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ORIGINAL: Zensee

Now I remember the reek of this "film" - Before you go rushing out to applaud it (or block book a theatre for your group) consider the experience of P.Z. Myers at the duplicitous hands of the producers of this festival of distortions.

In short, having tricked him into an interview under false pretenses, they edit his responses to fit their thesis and drop them into the real film. Then they promote the fake film as a confrontation of himself, Dawkins and other similarly tricked  participants. If this is any indication of their integrity and intellectual honesty we can expect a propaganda piece long on accusation and void of science.

If you read nothing else, skip to the bit where Myers is expelled from the movie's premiere, just for showing up - while the zealous producers allow his guest, Richard Dawkins into the screening. Dawkins proceeds to rip a strip off the producers in the post show Q&A, not only for their duplicity in gathering the footage used, but for their own expulsion of a critic of their dogma. LMFAO!!

Talk about 'hoist on their own petard.

How do I spell hypocrite? B E N  S T E I N.


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ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie

I love Ben Stein.  I'll see it simply because he's behind it.  He's brilliant and funny and isn't afraid to say it as he sees it.  Thanks for the info, Level!

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ORIGINAL: Real_Trouble
I agree that he's funny, but he's also often wrong.  You should consider that when you read or watch anything involving him; it's not a reason to believe or disbelieve a point of view, but it's sure a reason to doubt his account in particular.

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY
Not arguing against your points, because I have zero knowledge of this film and the events surrounding it (yet).

However, I couldn't but help find humor that you seem to be saying the same thing about this film, that many on the "right" side said about Michael Moore's films ...

There is some symmetry here.

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ORIGINAL: Zensee

Sorry but I had to share this - http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?id=986

It's a footnote link from the annotated version of the editorial piece that appears in the first post.

Let's see - make a list of fascinating things in nature and simply claim their very presence is proof of an intelligence behind them. Brilliant logic Casey Luskin (except it's a circular argument). With quality evidence like this those pesky atheists will be on the ropes in no time.


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ORIGINAL: Zensee

As I asked before - who made ET?



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