Posted on 04/09/2008 7:27:17 AM PDT by js1138
After seeing a new non-fiction film starring Comedy Central’s Ben Stein, you may not only be able to win his money, but also his career.
Stein is that whiny little guy with the monotone voice that makes him seem funny and an unlikely "character" for TV appearances. But that career may be over come April 18 when a movie he co-wrote, narrates and appears in, called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," is released.
Directed by one Nathan Frankowski, "Expelled" is a sloppy, all-over-the-place, poorly made (and not just a little boring) "expose" of the scientific community. It’s not very exciting. But it does show that Stein, who’s carved out a career selling eye drops in commercials and amusing us on sitcoms, is either completely nuts or so avaricious that he’s abandoned all good sense to make a buck.
To wit: Stein, Frankowski and pals say in "Expelled" that perfectly good scientists and educators are being stigmatized for wanting to teach their students creationism and "intelligent design" — in other words, junk science — in addition to or instead of conventionally accepted Darwinism. You see, Stein, like some other celebrities, finally has shown his true colors and they aren’t so pretty.
The gist of Stein’s involvement is: He’s outraged! He believes in God! God created the universe! How can we not avail our students of this theory? What do you mean we’re just molecules? What the producers of this film would love, love, love is a controversy. That’s because it’s being marketed by the same people who brought us "The Passion of the Christ." They’re hoping someone will latch onto an anti-Semitism theme here since there’s a visit to a concentration camp and the raised idea — apparently typical of the intelligent design community — that somehow the theory of evolution ...
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It would seem this author doesn’t know very much about Ben Stein.
The author has a well-honed BS detector. Stein sent it off the scale this time.....
Roger Friedman’s outrage may persuade me to buy a ticket to see this movie. His outrage proves the point Ben wants to make in the movie.
I disagree, but that’s okay.
It would also seem the author is in line for an eye opening experience after death.
Looks to me like Stein rankled some anti-theists with this movie.
At least, he exposed their inability and reluctance to have open discussion on the topic.
If evolution is true and there is no Creator,
wouldn’t we be required, “ethically”, to kill the unfit?
Bueller... Bueller...
The best part is the description of the film’s distribution pattern (executive summary: the marketers figure that the South is full of dumb goobers who will fall for their line of malarkey).
Fox News has some dumb writers. To suggest that this movie has an anti-Semitism theme is absurd. Exactly the opposite is true.
Me and Micheal Medved, too
You and Michael Medved what?
Evolutionary theory is not about who created the universe.
Some of the claims in this movie (e.g. that George Mason U fired a dissident biology professor) are just plain BS. She was a part-time instructor and her contract wasn't renewed. She went on to a full time position with another school in the state university system.
IMO, GMU would have been well within its right to fire her, but they didn't.
My opinion of Ben Stein will never be the same. Either his research skills are inexcusably bad or he is nothing more than an ideologue with no interest in facts.
Oh! Never mind. I’m a little slow this morning.
What a snarky article. I’m planning on seeing this movie the day it opens.
Once again, ladies and gentleman, I present The Left: Telling you exactly what you should be allowed to believe, while they are pillorying you for not accepting them.
One either abandons reason and the Scientific method or one goes to hell? What Jack Chick comic did you glean that little theological gem from?
Most Scientists in the U.S.A. are Christian. Most know that I.D. is not Science but a religious philosophy. Many of them are named Steve apparently.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Christian, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Evolution being true is not incompatible with the existence of a Creator.
For the record, Darwin was adamantly opposed to killing the "unfit." I believe his words could also be interpreted to indicate that he was appalled by abortion, which he considered "perverted."
I can put up some quotes if anyone is actually interested in what Darwin thought.
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