Posted by: speedinguptoslowdown | April 2, 2008

Expelled: The Movie

A while back, Bill sent me an email link with information about a new movie coming out in the spring.  I blogged about it a while back.  It is a documentary style movie, with Ben Stein (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) asking professors and educators about creation vs. evolution.  When I went to the movie’s website, I signed up to receive email from them about the movie, reviews, when it would be coming out, etc.   Here, from the Relevant site is a nutshell of what the movie is about:

 The film opens by exposing severe cases of highly-qualified educators and professors at top universities who have been fired for mentioning that the evolution theory has some flaws. Top professors are denied tenure, editors fired, and journalists shunned for touching the subject even at its most innocuous levels. It continues, slowly peeling back the layers, revealing scientific and academic intolerants (many of them funded by our tax dollars) that have swiftly and aggressively silenced any dissent—either by Intelligent Design proponents or anyone questioning Darwin’s theory, a deliberate crushing of our freedom of inquiry.

It looks like an amazing movie.  I applaud Ben Stein for taking on this subject.  When “Expelled” comes to Marietta, let’s all go see it and go talk about it.


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  1. I am all about seeing it. It looks really good.
    Maybe we can take a crew once I get back from India!

  2. I’m in. Ben Stein is hilarious and smart.

  3. Sounds like B2F to the max. I’m all in.

  4. I’m there too. Let’s take popcorn

  5. sho nuff. i love a good flick.

  6. If Tatum can babysit, we’d enjoy going. If Kee goes, we’ll hardly see the movie pumping him full of Sprite and popcorn the whole time. Never saw the end of Bee Movie because we ran out of both.

  7. just saw Expelled; the fact that Ben Stein isn’t trying to win any popularity contests helps to validate his message… i gather that his goal is to promote free thought, especially more thinking about worldviews that drive American academia


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