The History of Eugenics is in Expelled - (Has anyone seen Ben Stein's new movie?)

Catholic Exchange ^ | May 9, 2008 | Leticia Velasquez

[Diago]

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The History of Eugenics is in Expelled

Posted By Leticia Velasquez On May 9, 2008 @ 12:00 am In Today | No Comments

The dark history of the shameful movement underpinning the biggest human atrocities of the 20th century was powerfully outlined by Ben Stein in his important documentary which is a must-see for anyone serious about science, about faith, and about freedom. Did I leave anybody out?

Stein followed the scientific community’s lockstep loyalty to Darwinism backwards in time, and ended up at the Nazi gas chambers, which first killed disabled people. They were just practicing Darwinism, by speeding up the process of natural selection, formerly called survival of the fittest, by eliminating “useless eaters”. Society bought into this toxic mentality because it came from doctors and scientists.

He followed their trail to Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who was a dedicated eugenicist, working overtime to rid the world of people like my immigrant grandparents. While she was ostensibly offering women choice, secretly she was seeking to rid American society of the ‘unfit’. More Darwinism in action. We are still in the midst of the nightmare of Sanger’s legacy; 46 million Americans have died of abortion, far surpassing the darkest dreams of Hitler and Stalin together.

Ben Stein did us the invaluable favor of holding a spotlight of truth on some of society’s darkest secrets, and those valiant scientists who have dared to reveal them to academia. They were expelled from their positions and blacklisted from obtaining further employment. We are talking here about Oxbridge and Ivy League graduates who have produced world renowned work. They mentioned Intelligent Design once and they were gone. Nothing but strict Darwinism will be tolerated by academics. What happened to scientific inquiry and academic freedom?

Stein then exposed the utterly laughable theories of scientists who would rather make up some fairy tale about Extra Terrestrials coming to earth and planting “human seeds” from which we emerged, or life beginning as molecules bumping together on “the backs of crystals”.

With his trademark aplomb and vintage film clips adding humor and highlighting the outrageous statements captured by his camera, Ben Stein has created a classic which will one day be appreciated as the film that drew society bent on self-destruction back from the precipice.

If it’s not too late.

If we continue to allow ourselves to be dominated by militantly atheistic scientists whose agenda blinds them to the fact that evolution is a 150 year old theory which has not withstood scientific advances, we will find ourselves in a totalitarian state. The scientists themselves admitted on camera that they wish to destroy the power religion holds on culture, and relegate it to an innocuous hobby, like knitting. (Yes, they said that.)

Global warming and political correctness will have replaced the Judeo-Christian belief in the dignity of man, the pinnacle and master of God’s creation. We will find ourselves enslaved to a materialistic ideology. Our very right to exist will be determined by what the powerful consider a “worthwhile contribution” to society, against our carbon footprint. Many of us — “useless eaters” — may not make the cut.

Terri Schiavo didn’t.

Forty-six million unborn American didn’t.

 See the trailer [1] here.

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[Diago]

Great trailer, I think I’ll go see it tonight.

http://www.expelledthemovie.com/enterflash.php

[Oztrich Boy]

You should be advised that Ben Stein (on Craig Ferguson) said the movie is meant to be watched while stoned.

[Diago]

Great preview:

http://www.expelledthemovie.com/enterflash.php

Limbaugh loved it:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031808/content/01125115.guest.html

RUSH: Ben Stein has a new movie out. He brought it by my house Friday afternoon to screen it for me. It’s called Expelled. It is powerful. It is fabulous. And here’s the premise of his movie. The premise is that Darwinism has taken root, taken hold at every major intellectual institution around the world in Western Society, from Great Britain to the United States, you name it. Darwinism, of course, does not permit for the existence of a supreme being, a higher power, or a God. His interviews with some of the professors who espouse Darwinism are literally shocking. The condescension and the arrogance these people have, they will readily admit that Darwinism and evolution do not explain how life began. One of these professors said it might have been that a hyper-intelligence from another planet came here and started our race. This from some professor either in the UK, I forget where it was, but can’t be God. These people are so threatened by the existence of God, they will not permit intelligent design to be discussed. Professors have been fired, blackballed, and prevented from working who have deigned to try to combine the whole concept of evolution with intelligent design.

Ben Stein’s new movie is going to open to a thousand screens pretty soon, it’s not out there yet. It’s called Expelled. But the point of it is that these people on the left are just scared to death of God. It threatens everything. We, on the other hand, recognize that our greatness, who we are, our potential, our ambition, our desire, comes from God, and as part of our Creation, this natural yearning to be free and to practice liberty. That is how we think this country came to be great. It is how we think this country will continue to be great and to grow.

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[Diago]

“You should be advised that Ben Stein (on Craig Ferguson) said the movie is meant to be watched while stoned.”

Well, we’ll probably go out to eat and have a couple beers before hand.

[G Larry]

I saw the movie it’s first night out.

I liked the movie, but must offer that it is more academic than entertaining.

I would be very surprised if anybody posting on FR admitted that it changee their mind.

In my opinion, it will reinforce the believers and only frustrate the non-believers.

[HerrBlucher]

From another FR thread, here is an excellent interview of Ben Stein by RC Sproul before the movie came out. These two touched on some very interesting perspectives.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014037/posts

[Publius6961]

The movie I saw wasn't about eugenics. Eugenics was mentioned in passing as an interesting sidelight.

The movie is about academia being heavy handed about anyone who questions dogma, by asking questions that they can't answer.

Blackballing and attacking other academics has never been good science.

[Mr. Silverback]

Yeah, and I’m sure he was being absolutely serious, because Ben stein is noted for his total rejection of deadpan humor and you know what Ferguson’s show is like...it’s Firing Line with a Scottish accent. No, really.

[Mr. Silverback]

The movie is about academia being heavy handed about anyone who questions dogma, by asking questions that they can't answer.

Blackballing and attacking other academics has never been good science.

Exactly. the answer to "Can you explain this" should be the answer that many Freeper Darwinists have offered: "No, I can't at this time, but that doesn't mean there is no explanation." Sometimes that answer is, IMHO, delusional, but it is a real, honest answer and at least an attempt to be intellectually valid. Instead the answer is often "You're fired."

People who are afraid of questions are afraid of more than questions, in my experience.

[Lancer_N3502A]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

[sionnsar]

The movie is about academia being heavy handed about anyone who questions dogma, by asking questions that they can't answer

That's the movie I saw too.

[NYer]

For those who may not already be aware, Obama supports eugenics.

[LiteKeeper]

Saw it! Loved it! Will see it again!

[Paige]

I took a course on this...amazing how Hitler found Progressive ideas to be a great way to implement genocide.

[Huber]

You should be advised that Ben Stein (on Craig Ferguson) said the movie is meant to be watched while stoned.

I trust that you understood that this was his way of being funny.

[FaithfulCatholic]

Very powerful, well done - will buy the DVD when it comes out.

[Amendment10]

From a related thread...

Unfortunately, based on everything I've heard about Mr. Stein's much needed movie, even Mr. Stein seems to be unaware of the broader problem of the USSC's unlawful stifling of free religious speech in public schools.

From another related thread...

In 1987, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that teaching creationism in public schools violated the separation of church and state in Edwards vs. Aquilard.

If anybody wants to see the USSC's bogus separation of church and state disappear before their eyes, a politically correct perversion of our constitutional religious freedoms that was wrongly legislated from the bench when the Court decided Cantwell v. Connecticut in 1940, then please read the following post. Note that while the post concerns a 10 Commandments issue it is also applicable to this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992174/posts?page=22#22

Note, for instance, that the states have the constitutional power (10th A.) to authorize public schools to lead non-mandatory (14th A.) classroom discussion on the pros and cons of evolution, creationism and irreducible complexity, as examples, regardless that atheists, separatists, secular judges and the liberal media are misleading the people to think that doing such things in public schools is unconstitutional.

The bottom line, as mentioned in the referenced post, is that the people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state powers, particularly where the wrongly ignored 10th A. power of the states to address religious issues is concerned, power now limited by the honest interpretation of the 14th Amendment. The people then need to get in the faces of renegade justices and do a major spring cleaning where USSC respect for our religious freedoms is concerned. President Lincoln put it this way.

"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln (Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas), 1858.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Ben Stein could have said a lot more about Darwinism and Eugenics. I hope he's planning to. If anyone doubts there is a historical causal relationship between the two, this page will clarify it for them:

Euvolution 0.4.7

[mckenzie7]

My husband and I saw the movie the day after it first came out and it was good!
I especially liked it when he asked Richard Dawkins where, in Richard Dawkins opinion, that life originated and Richard Dawkins thought that it might have possibly arrived in a space ship.
I'll go with the God concept myself!