Ben Stein: EXPELLED

A Review of Ben Stein's EXPELLED

I just returned from watching Ben Stein's new controversial movie, Expelled. This movie was made to ensure that that American people had a better understanding of both secular view of the origins of life including Darwinism, Neo-Darwinism, intelligent Design and Creation. There are proponents on each side of the equation, who adamantly adhere to their own beliefs and understanding of how life started on earth.

Ben Stein took a somewhat lighthearted approach to engage academia from both sides of the fence, to get their opinions, ideas, beliefs and understandings on the table. Mr. Stein interviewed many doctors and professors of universities, biological scientists, and population geneticists from around the globe.

In my opinion, the movie was very well done and outlined the belief systems and the contemporary views of both Darwinistic evolution and Intelligent Design (ID). Both sides had a great opportunity to voice their opinions and answer questions related to their beliefs and scientific evidence for each.

It was interesting to see the concerted effort to "expel" Intelligent Design proponents from the scientific community. There were several scientists who were employed at very high level positions that had the audacity to say that Intelligent Design should at least be considered as there is as much, if not more, evidence for the plausibility of ID than there is for the theory of evolution. However, even with the evidence, ID scientists are being shunned, ostracized, fired and harassed for their positions. They also regularly receive hate mail and e-mail because of their arrogance to go against the mainstream scientific community.

Towards the end of the movie, Ben Stein is interviewing Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion", a self professed atheist who during the interview could not say that there is a 100% probability that God does not exist, and when questioned about the origin of mankind, gave a theory that "intelligent" life from another planet may have seeded mankind on the earth. So...in other words aliens created mankind on the earth?