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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

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Author, actor and political commentator Ben Stein poses the argument that intelligent design and evolution are both valid scientific explanations for the development of life on earth, and that institutions that don't embrace both views are guilty of stifling academic freedom. Stein makes his case through film clips, interviews with creationists and scientists and his own acerbic observations, including the opinion that Darwin's theory of evolution is partially responsible for the Holocaust.

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Full of patronizing, poorly structured arguments, Expelled is a cynical political stunt in the guise of a documentary.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times This film is cheerfully ignorant, manipulative, slanted, cherry-picks quotations, draws unwarranted conclusions, makes outrageous juxtapositions, segues between quotes that are not about the same thing, tells bald-faced lies, etc. Dec 4, 2008 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Ignorance may be bliss, but encouraging it, as Expelled does, ought to be a crime. Rated: 0/5 Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Philip Marchand Toronto Star Don't expect any serious debate here about God and evolution. This documentary is like watching a paranoiac making fun of a hysteric. Rated: 1.5/4 Jun 27, 2008 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com It's impossible to take it seriously. Rated: 1.0/4.0 Sep 7, 2020 Full Review Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine I won't go into the details of the film's polemic. But one of its problems is that it has a double agenda. Dec 16, 2017 Full Review Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy A the point where the film starts exploiting the Holocaust to score cheap shots.. there's no laughter left, only pure, unbridled disgust. Rated: 1/10 Dec 4, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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Augustine J I had to watch this for a class. The amount of interviews with some pretty important people is impressive but Stein does a lot to bring the documentary down. Maybe with a different host this could have been something decent, but Ben Stein is just not it. Stein also just goes completely off the rails and tries to basically call all evolutionists Nazis. Yeah, it's not great. Please have more respect for your time and watch literally anything else. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/25/24 Full Review Peter A film that does nothing more but try to completely discredit the idea of "creation" from the perspective of evolution and science. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/17/23 Full Review Audience Member It really brings home the idea that radicalized Darwinist Evolution is nothing more than a fanatical religious belief, with no more merit than any other religion. XD Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member How can any human being spend two years travelling the globe talking (supposedly) to the worlds leading scientists about "Evolution", and still not know a) what it is, or even, b) what it is called ? Stein thinking that Evolution (or Darwinism as he incorrectly labels it) fails because it doesnt explain the origin of life (which is a completely different topic - Abiogensis), or explain thermodynamics or gravity (which again are completely different intellectual domains) would be like arguing "The bible doesnt mention how to bake bagels or change a car tyre, therefore the bible is wrong". Stein's ignorance and or intellectual dishonesty is beyond breathtaking - if there were a Nobel prize for intellectual dishonesty I would happily canvas politicians to nominate him. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member I think it's about time a movie like this was made. My reading in the last two years confirms what this movie proclaims loud and clear. Richard Dawkins states he has "no idea" how life started, Richard conceded that aliens could have "designed a form of life that they seeded onto this planet" (but that these aliens would have had to evolve by Darwinian means, somehow to a very very high level). What crock! If there was a designer Richard, you don't get to say who it was, or how it happened. You are just a blob from the soup, remember? Richard also openly offers the statement near the end of the film that we may find a "signature of some sort of designer" . Yes Richard we know. That's what the whole film is wanting to tell you. That's what is being suppressed by so called "science". Richard goes on: "and that designer could well be a higher intelligence from elsewhere in the universe". Yes again, we know. "It couldn't just have jumped into existence spontaneously, that's the point," says Richard Dawkins. (But it's ok if things jumped out of the primordial slime? That's ok!) What Richard says in one minute here refutes all the books he has ever written about how we got here. Perfect! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was fantastic. The establishment will tell you that only religious people have an "agenda" but ask any atheist for evidence for the nonexistence of God, and they have nothing, not even an augment for it. These are the same type of people that will tell us that abortion is about "women's rights" and "choice" and then tell women to run around with a pussy hat on, that's uplifting to women, oh wait, it's not. They're laughing at people that kill their babies and run around looking like an idiot with that hat on. You can see the evidence for the Genesis 6 giants all over the world. Take a trip to Israel along the Dead Sea and you can walk through the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and pull sulfur right out of the walls. How about standing inside the spilt rock of Moses, that and so much more is all out there to see. Or sit back on the couch and watch it all on YouTube The evidence for the bible is all over the place. Balance that with the evidence for Atheism, which is NOTHING. Who's pushing an agenda? The odds that this universe came about by chance is laughable. I wonder if anyone would take those odds if their life depended on it? Not one person, atheist, agnostic or religious would take those odds but were told it's a scientific fact. The amount of lies we're told is endless. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Author, actor and political commentator Ben Stein poses the argument that intelligent design and evolution are both valid scientific explanations for the development of life on earth, and that institutions that don't embrace both views are guilty of stifling academic freedom. Stein makes his case through film clips, interviews with creationists and scientists and his own acerbic observations, including the opinion that Darwin's theory of evolution is partially responsible for the Holocaust.
Director
Nathan Frankowski
Producer
Logan Craft, Walt Ruloff, John Sullivan
Screenwriter
Kevin Miller, Ben Stein
Distributor
Premise
Production Co
Rampart Films
Rating
PG (Thematic Material|Some Disturbing Images|Brief Smoking)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 18, 2008, Wide
Release Date (DVD)
Jan 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$7.5M
Runtime
1h 30m
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