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.

Anyone?

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Ben Stein has a new movie coming up, unlike really anything he has done before. The movie is called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and in it Stein exposes the sheer irrationality of the Darwinian dogma that insists that life happened randomly, that the facts are settled and no one who questions those facts

A great video has been circulating around the Internet, with R.C. Sproul interviewing Ben Stein, in all of his deadpan glory. The conversation is supremely intelligent and should set to rest the notion that we are all, as Stein says, "knuckle-dragging creationists".



Sproul and Stein ask the questions and raise the spectre that no one likes to deal with in academia or philosophy: if we are a random event, coming from nothingness and destined for nothingness, why bother getting up in the morning? Why not steal a car? Why not gas six million Jews? Who cares, it is all meaningless anyway. Creationism is not just a possible explanation, it really is the only logical explanation. Matter cannot spring into being from nothing. So there was supposedly a Big Bang. What came before that? Where did that matter come from?

I am looking forward to seeing this movie and seeing the predictable, frothing at the mouth, reaction of "academics" and "intellectuals" when it comes out. The movie opens in theaters this week (April 18th). Not up north in Michigan where we live now, but it is opening in theaters downstate where we will be living as of this weekend so I plan on attending for sure, perhaps with some friends we have made in the area. Check out the video, then check out the movie and then check out the reaction of evolutionist when their theories are shown to be logically untenable. Good times all around!

(In fine R.C. Sproul fashion, he barely lets Ben Stein speak! He may not quite the concept of how to interview someone else...it normally involves letting them answer your questions)