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Ben Stein expels some Expelled rumors (…continued)

Read the first half of this blentry looking at some rumors surrounding the upcoming film “Expelled” here. 

2. The movie claims that evolutionary science leads to Nazism. While this rumor is less heinous than the first, there is an important distinction to the proposition that Expelled makes, which is that Darwinism is a necessary COMPONENT of Nazism. While the film does explore the relationship of the two ideas, and it is clearly capitalizing on the inherent emotional reaction to all things Nazi, it never claims that one leads to the other.

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Ben Stein expels some Expelled rumors

On April 18, Big Religion might get its answer to Michael Moore from an unlikely source: intellectual (and pop-culture icon) Ben Stein. Stein and Premise Media Corporation are releasing Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, an ambitious and already-controversial documentary that only takes on one of the most rigorously defended scientific theories of all time: evolution. As the producers of the film explained in a press conference Friday, because evolutionary science is the bedrock for many scientific ideas, and because of the potential implications that any disproving of the theory would bring, every self-respecting secular scientist defends Darwin’s theory with a religious fervor most often reserved for…well…religion.

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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed reviewed

Ben Stein's Expelled No Intelligence Allowed posterI saw an advance screening of the movie ”Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” last night. It’s a film put together by intellectual heavyweight/gameshow host, Ben Stein. Seriously, this guy is brilliant, and hilarious. Generally speaking, the film attempts to challenge the academic elitist establishment for attacking our freedom. Specifically, the film sets out to debunk Darwin’s theory of evolution, and exposes certain scientists who have been blacklisted for even talking about the concept of Intelligent Design. The movie was compelling, but I couldn’t always keep my finger on why it was. Was it because of the clever humor dropped in at just the right moments (usually in the form of old movie, or instructional film footage)? Yes. Was it because there really seems to be a problem with certain scientists being fired from their jobs for expressing even the possibility of A. I.?

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