Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

So I decided to watch a movie that I didn’t necessarily agree with because its generally something healthy for your mind and viewpoints. However, this movie is built on fallacies, lies, and mistruths. It tries to achieve the view of persecution through clever juxtaposition of old, shitty stock films and by not showing the faces of many of the scientists who are advocating intelligent design for fear that we’ll know they are dumbasses they’ll be “persecuted” for their views.

It achieves part of its goal through asking questions that it pretends that evolution hasn’t answered, when in fact they have (or at least have many ideas about). Yes, dumbass questions such as “Well where did life start from?” are asked even at the DVD’s main menu and this question visibly frustrates a cartoonishly foolish looking science professor. Way to present me with an intelligent debate by debating with shitty caricatures, movie. Why not debate with Richard Dawkins who is frequently shown in 5 second clips throughout the movie? He obviously agreed to appear in this movie, but you choose to debate with cardboard cutout characters that you create.

Also, a recurrent theme in the movie is advocating “freedom,” and implying that freedom has been suppressed by not allowing intelligent design in the science classroom. Too bad the constitution doesn’t govern the classroom dumbass. Science is based on the scientific method and all of the ideas in the science classroom must follow it – if you don’t follow it, you’re checked at the door – sorry. Here’s an analogy: everything that happens at the generic church on the street corner should in theory all fall within the ten Commandments. Now, imagine if I strolled into said generic church and asked “where is the goddamn altar?” It flies in the face of the base of Christianity – pretty much the same thing as letting “what I believe” into science – a world of “what I can prove.”

The movie also goes as far as to play a song with the words “Evolution’s just a theory.” Okay, now you’re basically hurling playground insults. Evolutionary theory is a term for a body of work contributing to one idea. The way this slobberfaced singer is using it is as in “I have a ‘theory’, that if’n I drank 12 beers by night – I’ll prolly sleep alright.” That is to say, he’s using it in the sense that “I have some wild idea.” The two do not equate.

It even goes so far as to present the pro-intelligent design ‘scientists’ as classy, charismatic gentlemen, but then he only lets Richard Dawkin’s views be played after a lengthy character assassination painting him as a hard-line, militant atheist complete with menacing music playing over his voice. Then it moves on to paint the evolutionist’s view on the origin of life as winning the lottery 250 times in a row. Thanks for the analogy Sherlock, but you fail to take into account the size of the universe – infinitely larger than your mind can conceive. It also just brings in fringe-like origin theories such as panspermia as strawmen arguments to handily be ridiculed by the same shitty old stock footage from black and white films.

But persecution? This is so blatantly incorrect that it flies in the face of all reason. Go try to order Richard Dawkins’ DVD entitled “The Root of All Evil?” You’ll quickly find that its banned from sale in the United States (my copy is on a boat somewhere in the Atlantic, regardless). Persecution indeed, but opposite of the way you perceive Mr. Stein.

[After writing most of this review I looked back up and Ben Stein was touring a place where Nazis dissected human beings. Are they really so shallow as to draw lines from modern evolutionists to Nazis? I turned the DVD off – this isn’t a debate, this is an utter attempt at character assassination]

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