“I have always assumed that scientists were free to ask any question, to pursue any line of inquiry, without fear of reprisal," Ben Stein explains in the new hit movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. "But recently I have been alarmed to discover that this is not the case." He asks, "Darwin challenged the consensus view, and that's how we got Darwinism. If Darwin wanted to challenge the consensus today, how would he do it?"
Ben Stein clearly shows the scientific bigotry that exists in academia and such august institutions as the Smithsonian Institute. He interviews several scientists who have been fired from tenured positions for daring to breathe the notion that life could not have begun haphazardly. One even says, “I have been viewed as an intellectual terrorist.”
One prominent neo-Darwinist expects Stein to believe, as he does, that one possible theory about the beginning of life is that a speck of mud hopped a ride on the back of a crystal and somehow turned itself into a living cell. He rejects the notion that the “somehow” could be an Intelligent Designer. Richard Dawkins, a top British Darwinist tells Stein that no one knows how life began. When asked about the thought that God is the Designer, Dawkins replies, “God is about as unlikely as fairies, angels, hobgoblins, etc.”
While the movie doesn’t provide proof for Biblical creation or for the theory of Intelligent Design, it does provide fodder to renew the public debate between life rising from muddy goop or being systematically and orderly created. The film highlights the loss of academic freedom and first amendment rights of peer-reviewed, renowned scientists working around the world seeking truth in science.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed debuts in movie theaters April 18. Ben Stein guides you through this historic and humorous documentary exposing the myth of tolerance among Darwinian scientists. Round up all your friends and invite your children’s science teachers to see this break-through movie of the year.
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