EXPELLED: The Review

EXPELLED: The Review

It's been a while since the movie EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed came out (2008), but it is still a great film. You must see this movie.

The beginning shows black and white film clips of post-World War II Germany. Workers are building the Berlin Wall. It soon becomes apparent that the analogy is to a wall in the academic community. Just as the Communists put up a wall to prevent their subjects from leaving East Berlin, so the academics have put a wall around the doctrine of Darwinian Evolution. No other viewpoint is allowed in, and anyone who so much as questions Darwinism is cast out.

Ben Stein talks to many people in the film. Some are proponents of Darwinian Evolution, some are decidedly against evolution. The first man he talks to is neither. But he had the audacity to use the term “Intelligent Design” in one of his papers. He worked for the Smithsonian Institute. But not any longer.

Other examples were given of eminent professors who were fired, even a tenured one who lost funding for questioning evolution. These people weren’t Bible-thumpers at all. But they had the audacity to point out that some intelligence may have played a part in the origin of life on this planet.

You will be glad to know that John Lennox is in it. You may recall hearing a debate he did some time ago against Richard Dawkins (who is also in the film). Dr. Lennox is as eloquent as ever. Dr. Dawkins is eloquent too, but he has an ax to grind against religion. To his credit, he didn’t call names. Another evolutionist did refer to people of faith as “idiots.” Nothing like a good ad hominem argument to show how insecure you really are about your position.

This is not a Christian film. It’s not advocating that a person watching it has to believe in Intelligent Design or Biblical Creationism or anything else. It is simply pointing out the intellectual dishonesty of the academic community, which claims to promote free speech and the free exchange of ideas. Just as long as those ideas don’t question Darwinism. Those professors who dare question evolution—no matter how esteemed they are—will be gone quite soon.

This film is about freedom. We live in a great country. One thing that has made this country great is the fact that we can question ideas. It’s not a crime to debate ideas. Well, unless you teach in a secular university.

Yes, you must see this film.