The new Ben Stein movie, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” opens today. It is only showing in Wehrenberg Theaters farther out from the city. (Movies.com link [1]). Before today, it has only been seen by fundamentalist congregations, hand-picked audiences, and selected legislatures.
If you’ve read my earlier post and long comment thread about it [2], you know that I am not suggesting that you go and pay them for producing this piece of nominally documentary film.
In brief, the movie is about the theological Darwinist conspiracy to keep seekers of truth out of academia. There are plenty of clips of Nazi atrocities interspersed with quote-mined interviews with actual scientists. It apparently makes Michael Moore productions seem fair and balanced.
It has been shown to closed door presentations to legislatures as bills were being discussed to include or allow “alternate theories” to scientifically established ideas in science classes in several states, including Florida, Texas, and my own Missouri.
If ever there was a Dangerous Intersection between faith and society, this film is on that cusp.
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