Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

[CarpeDiem]

Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Premiere: April 18, 2008

His heroic and, at times, shocking journey confronting the world’s top scientists, educators and philosophers, regarding the persecution of the many by an elite few. Ben travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth…that bewilders him, then angers him…and then spurs him to action! Ben realizes that he has been “Expelled,” and that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the “crime” of merely believing that there might be evidence of “design” in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance.

_http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031808/content/01125115.guest.html

Rush Limbauch: Ben Stein has a new movie out. He brought it by my house Friday afternoon to screen it for me. It's called Expelled. It is powerful. It is fabulous. And here's the premise of his movie. The premise is that Darwinism has taken root, taken hold at every major intellectual institution around the world in Western Society, from Great Britain to the United States, you name it. Darwinism, of course, does not permit for the existence of a supreme being, a higher power, or a God. His interviews with some of the professors who espouse Darwinism are literally shocking. The condescension and the arrogance these people have, they will readily admit that Darwinism and evolution do not explain how life began. One of these professors said it might have been that a hyper-intelligence from another planet came here and started our race. This from some professor either in the UK, I forget where it was, but can't be God. These people are so threatened by the existence of God, they will not permit intelligent design to be discussed. Professors have been fired, blackballed, and prevented from working who have deigned to try to combine the whole concept of evolution with intelligent design.

Ben Stein's new movie is going to open to a thousand screens pretty soon, it's not out there yet. It's called Expelled. But the point of it is that these people on the left are just scared to death of God. It threatens everything. We, on the other hand, recognize that our greatness, who we are, our potential, our ambition, our desire, comes from God, and as part of our Creation, this natural yearning to be free and to practice liberty. That is how we think this country came to be great. It is how we think this country will continue to be great and to grow.


Featured in documentary expelled scientists:
Richard Sternberg
Guillermo Gonzalez
Caroline Crocker
Robert Marks
Pamela Winnick
Michael Egnor

_http://www.expelledexposed.com/ - defamation campaign

 

[GRiM]

edit: having thought about this post I think it might be somewhat redundant to the members here, but I will let it stand as it somewhat comical too.


remix of the official-trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMCp_g5gLIQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istxUVBZD2s (part 2, lots more if anyone have 22 x 10min to spare, I have not seen all just part 22)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiNGK3y5Ypg (part 22) someone takes one of his interview head-on ... "you fuul!")

 

[bngenoh]

This movie was awesome. Watch the whole thing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZAAh_6OXg

It was hilarious to see the mainstream scientist shoot themselves in the foot so many times, it's a wonder they still walk around. Their ad homenim attacks on the Intelligent Design people and ideas was a pathetic spectacle. Arguments like "it's just boring" from that one scientist who said that if he ever found out he had a brain tumor, he would shoot himself in the head, were truly astonishing. He came across to me, as a classic Authoritarian Personality type, exchanging religion for "science."

Richard Dawkins saying that if intelligent design is right, then, 3D aliens from another planet dun it. It was a funny admission from him, but also understandable considering his materialistic outlook.

All in all, a great movie, ties in with the corruption of science pretty well.

 

[paralleloscope]

Richard Dawkins saying that if intelligent design is right, then, 3D aliens from another planet dun it. It was a funny admission from him, but also understandable considering his materialistic outlook.

All in all, a great movie, ties in with the corruption of science pretty well.

Agreed. Indeed a funny admission from R.Dawkins, and a spot on comment from D.Berlinski "little bit of a reptile, but very smart guy" :D
But where was Bryant Shiller...

 

[herondancer]

Those interested in this topic would find Shiller's The Origin of Life: The Fifth Option interesting. He analyzes the different theories about the origin of live (OoL) from the point of view of a systems engineer conducting a reverse-engineering project. It's a wild ride, but he makes a pretty compelling case for what he calls Rational Design. It drops right in-between the creationists and the chemical-soup bunch. Other than his championing of nuclear energy towards the end, it's a great read, though as Laura mentions somewhere, it's heavy going in the middle. If you persevere though, his conclusions are certainly unique. He doesn't have the whole banana (no one does) but his way of approaching the problem of the origin of life is definitely a breath of fresh air for a topic that seems to have ground to a stalemate.