Intelligent Movie - Expelled

Spirituality Column # 75
April 15, 2008
Current! In Carmel (IN) Newspaper

Intelligent Movie
By Bob Walters

Everybody knows Ben Stein. Everybody loves Ben Stein.

That may be about to change.

He reveals himself this week as a very dangerous first class thinker.

Stein’s new docu-movie, Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed (www.expelledthemovie.com), is in theaters Friday, April 18. If it lives up to its billing, the Darwinist crowd is going to start sleeping not so well.

And will blame Stein for their pain.

Stein is Jewish (note: Genesis is Jewish). He was an author, philosopher and presidential speechwriter before playing quirky characters in movies (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), commercials (FedEx) and as host of the TV game show “Win Ben Stein’s Money.”

This week Stein swings a big, smart hammer on the topic of Intelligent Design, or ID. Expelled supports the very wise, very elite, courageous and very much growing crowd of scientists and thinkers who have concluded, completely opposite the politically correct Darwinists, that there is no way the Cosmos, Earth and Humanity just “happened” as a big, pointless, amoral cosmic freak of nature.

No, Stein insists: an intelligent designer, a creator, a moral force, ahem … God … is the only rational way to explain how and why we are all here.

Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, call your office. Better yet, call your doctor; this movie is going to make you sick.

Mimicking the genre of Michael Moore’s silly attack pieces on common sense (Fahrenheit 911, Sicko) only without Moore’s disingenuous editing tricks, Expelled pushes back at the 150-year-old Darwinian trend of eliminating God – the “Intelligent Designer” – from serious scientific and philosophical discussion.

Routinely teachers are fired, professors are denied tenure, science magazine editors are ridiculed and scientists are denied funding – all Expelled – because they examine, for example, a human cell and authoritatively conclude, “that couldn’t have just happened.”

Expelled also scrutinizes Darwinism’s devastating moral effect on humanity. Survival of the fittest? Look up “Nazism.”

Christians will champion this movie because it effectively and cogently discusses ID without it being portrayed as the grist of close-minded, monosyllabic country bumpkins. The Jews should like it because Darwinists are messing with Genesis 1-2-3, the beginning of the Torah.

The atheists and Darwinists aren’t going to fare so well.

Go see this one. It will, hopefully, begin to change the way true intelligence, and truth, are viewed … for the good.

Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) recommends that you read Lee Strobel’s The Case for a Creator.