JoeJustice
10-23-2008, 07:53 AM
Hey all,
I thought this would be a good place to review a movie I watched last night called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. You may or may not have heard of it, it's a small documentary produced by Ben Stein on a kind of blacklisting of Intelligent Design (ID) in the Scientific Community. I was able to watch in on NetFlix instant watch feature, so if you have NetFlix you an check it out now and if not I'd recommend you rent or buy it.
Here's the NetFlix page:
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Expelled_No_Intelligence_Allowed/70096749?trkid=222336&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=947140724_0_0
Expelled is not an explanation of ID and the theories it's made up of, it's not an argument for ID, what it is, is an exposé on how people who put forth the ID argument are treated by the scientific community. Looking at the reviews it seems the thing that gets the critics the most hung up is the fact that the film does not "prove" ID, but that's not it's intent. The intent of the film is to say, "Let's have a debate" and along those lines it does offer up a few holes in the Darwin theory and give a few examples on how ID woks. But it is not a comprehensive explanation of ID.
It does also give some very chilling and somber views of what a truly Godless society is by using history as a guide. Naturally this area gets into NAZI Germany as it was a very Darwinist driven society. This seems to be another place where the critics really seem to get their fur up. Stein does not say that everyone who believes in Darwinist evolution is a NAZI, but fact and history are facts and history. The NAZIs did justify their actions through "science" and that science was based on Darwinist evolution, it's right there in all of the literature and propaganda. Just read Mein Kampf if you don't believe me.
The film also points out a few flaws in evolution as the origin of life. The biggest flaw being the actual creation of life to begin with and just how complex a single cell really is. This seems to be the fundamental shortcoming of evolution, but oddly enough it is here where evolutionists take some of the most bizarre leaps. It is apparently a very common belief that aliens somehow seeded the Earth with the first cells and that everything grew from that. But Intelligent Design, is laughed at and impugned...
Overall the movie is about what happens when you are part of the science establishment and even mention ID. There are several people who literally reference ID and are fired; from professors to journalists. It sounds like over-the-top kind of propaganda, but it's true and factual. Watch the movie for yourself and be the judge.
-Joe
I thought this would be a good place to review a movie I watched last night called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. You may or may not have heard of it, it's a small documentary produced by Ben Stein on a kind of blacklisting of Intelligent Design (ID) in the Scientific Community. I was able to watch in on NetFlix instant watch feature, so if you have NetFlix you an check it out now and if not I'd recommend you rent or buy it.
Here's the NetFlix page:
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Expelled_No_Intelligence_Allowed/70096749?trkid=222336&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=947140724_0_0
Expelled is not an explanation of ID and the theories it's made up of, it's not an argument for ID, what it is, is an exposé on how people who put forth the ID argument are treated by the scientific community. Looking at the reviews it seems the thing that gets the critics the most hung up is the fact that the film does not "prove" ID, but that's not it's intent. The intent of the film is to say, "Let's have a debate" and along those lines it does offer up a few holes in the Darwin theory and give a few examples on how ID woks. But it is not a comprehensive explanation of ID.
It does also give some very chilling and somber views of what a truly Godless society is by using history as a guide. Naturally this area gets into NAZI Germany as it was a very Darwinist driven society. This seems to be another place where the critics really seem to get their fur up. Stein does not say that everyone who believes in Darwinist evolution is a NAZI, but fact and history are facts and history. The NAZIs did justify their actions through "science" and that science was based on Darwinist evolution, it's right there in all of the literature and propaganda. Just read Mein Kampf if you don't believe me.
The film also points out a few flaws in evolution as the origin of life. The biggest flaw being the actual creation of life to begin with and just how complex a single cell really is. This seems to be the fundamental shortcoming of evolution, but oddly enough it is here where evolutionists take some of the most bizarre leaps. It is apparently a very common belief that aliens somehow seeded the Earth with the first cells and that everything grew from that. But Intelligent Design, is laughed at and impugned...
Overall the movie is about what happens when you are part of the science establishment and even mention ID. There are several people who literally reference ID and are fired; from professors to journalists. It sounds like over-the-top kind of propaganda, but it's true and factual. Watch the movie for yourself and be the judge.
-Joe