Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Just watched Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed by Ben Stein last night. Magnificent! Go out and rent or buy it today! A few quick notes...

What it isn’t, what it is and what people can learn from this film.

What it is not. It is not a defense of or an advocacy for creationism. As a young earth, literal six-day creationist I didn’t hear much that supported my view directly. Conceptually yes, but specifically not. The biggest issue is whether or not intelligent design is a viable theory and if so why it is forbidden to speak of in the academy. If you want a defense of Biblical creationism, try Answers in Genesis. Defending creationism is not accomplished in this film, nor should you be disappointed by that because it is not the goal.

What it does set out to do, and accomplished, is to expose the lunacy of the “science” community, a community that is dogmatic about it’s articles of faith as any religion has ever been. The bastions of learning and expression, i.e. the universities, have in reality turned into cathedrals of intolerance. What is ironic is just how firmly these people hold to their creed of Darwinism when in fact they are unable to prove many of the most basic questions (i.e. how did life begin?)

What you can and should take from the film. The biggest issue is the absolute moral bankruptcy of the humanist, evolutionary view. Some may see Ben Stein’s link between Darwinism, Planned Parenthood and Nazi Germany as being heavy handed, but it really is the logical end result of that worldview. At the very minimum Darwinism reduces human beings into economic units: what can you produce and what do you consume. At it's worst it sees human as having no intrinsic value, and killing the inconvenient, the lame, the less intelligent, the old, the unproductive is not only permissible, it is ethically required.

See this film, and realize that the intellectual elites are neither intellectual nor elite. We have nothing to fear from these people, because they have nothing intelligent to say. It may sound high minded, but it is bankrupt and false.