I remember seeing Ben Stein for the first time in Ferris Bueller\’s Day Off. Who could forget the monotone deadpan teacher repeating \”anyone… anyone… Bueller… Bueller\”.
And then there was \”Win Ben Stein\’s Money\”, a campy television quiz show that demonstrated Ben\’s ability to stand toe-to-toe with the best of them. I sure would have liked to have seen him go up against Ken Jennings.
As a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a speechwriter for President Nixon, Ben Stein has had a colorful life to be sure.
Now, he takes on the fanatical Darwinists in the movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
Unlike Michael Moore\’s so-called documentaries that are more fiction than fact, Ben Stein and the creators of Expelled have put together a film that exposes those who would seek to silence the voice of science in order to propogate their own religion.
Through a series of interviews with both Darwinists and proponents of Intelligent Design (ID), the film demonstrates that today\’s political correctness and blind following of evolution as fact is squashing the very scientific objectivity that it purports to follow.
We meet college professors and professional journalists who were summarily dismissed from their positions for even suggesting that Intelligent Design MAY be a theory worth considering.
We also meet dogmatic evolutionists whose prejudice for people of faith and pure hatred for God radiate from their very being. I found them to be quite sad. Not the least of these was author/pseudo-scientist Richard Dawkins, known for his best-seller The God Delusion.
When questioned by Stein about the first forms of life, the best Dawkins could do was to suggest that perhaps life on this planet was \”seeded\” by life from another place. Which, of course, begs the question of where the OTHER life came from.
Dawkins could not answer and was visibly uncomfortable.
The lengths people will go to deny God\’s existence is mind-boggling. Yet, I am not surprised.
Critics of the movie attack it for the campy old movies that are woven throughout, comparing Nazi Germany to today\’s suppression of the Intelligent Design discussion. Ben Stein has always been known for being fun and this film is no exception. And yet, there rings some truth to the comparisons made.
The audience in the theater applauded when this movie ended, and for the first time ever, I wanted to thank the management of the theater for running this film.
It\’s far more worthy of an Academy award then any of Moore\’s nonsense, but I guarantee you won\’t see it as this is certainly a movie that the left, atheists and evolutionists will want to silence. Sound familiar?
I fully expect some to come to this blog and rant. But the question remains… Where DID life come from?
Go see Expelled. Seeing that Hollywood produces nothing but crap these days, It is refreshing to go to the theater and actually be challenged to think.