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Movie EXPELLED: Opens Today To Anger And Outrage
"EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed", opens in theaters across the country today in a firestorm of controversy.
Some are saying it is more than a movie; it is a cause.
Churches are sponsoring screenings and encouraging their members to see the movie.
The Association of Christian Schools International has urged its thousands of member schools to use the movie as a springboard for discussions.
However it is almost unbelievable how atheists and evolutionists are attempting to suppress the film.
Atheists are crashing "EXPELLED" screenings and conference calls while critics are slamming the film and calling it trash.
One organization is working to force theaters to reject or cancel the film, because they say it, "Undermines science in our nations schools." (Read Article.)
On the other hand "EXPELLED" has been screened by legislators in Florida and Missouri and is driving bills that challenge Darwinism.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Yoko Ono, the late John Lennon's wife, is being accused of "selling out" to the other side by licensing the song "Imagine" to the filmmakers.
Her lawyers say she never granted permission for it's use.
I have been told by someone close to the project that the producers used less than 25 seconds of the song, which is permissible under the "fair use" regulations.
It is amazing to me that those who claim to champion diversity of opinion, open mindedness, dialog, differing views and a long list of politically correct academic exercises, are so violently opposed to a film that advocates for Intelligent Design or even creationism.
It seems hypocritical that those who support most any immoral expression of art or film under the guise of free speech, are going to such length to suppress a film that points out the flaws in Darwin's theory of evolution.
If the film is available in your area this weekend, I recommend you see it. Take your kids.
Click here to view a portion of the film.
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Gary Randall
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18 Comments:
How hypocritical of those who support darwinism. They can put down the idea of creationism but if we dare question them they get upset.
Nothing surprising about their head in the sand approach. Believers in xtreme liberalism are some of the most closed minded people I've ever discussed with.
Of course Expelled is going to be met with anger and resistance from Darwinists, their belief is being violated as they have violated creationism in our schools for decades. Darwinism is just as much a belief as creationism, and the darwinists are getting a taste of their own medicine. Honest confrontation is not always comfortable, but at times necessary. The darwinists really don't have to worry too much as their belief in evolution fades the silly belief in global warming being man's fault is emerging. Thus establishing another cause to believe in. I wonder why their causes need to be so egocentric?
Enjoy your movie folks.
A completely unsupported story is still not science and no one on this site has demonstrated that it is.
Anon 9:18
Many would consider my liberal and progressive. Yet I have not problem with the movie Expelled nor do most people. What I have a problem with is your dishonesty and effort to manipulate by continuing to degrade other human beings via labeling. The fact is most so called liberals and progressive as most so called conservatives are too busy trying to survive really to care much about this film.
There is a small coterie of individuals on both sides of ignite these "firestorms of controversy".
A little truth would be appeciated by those who, presumably, are interested in the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Patrick
The most riveting part of the film is Ben Stein's visit to Germany. Without trying to insert a spoiler here, I want to point out that pro-life activists such as myself have known of the Darwin-Hitler connection to the present-day abortion holocaust. It is our hope that the film will open some peoples' eyes who have up to now been indifferent to the killing of unborn babies. The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, has been researched heavily by pro-lifers. Visit www.all.org/stopp/sanger.htm .
"A completely unsupported story is still not science and no one on this site has demonstrated that it is."
Exactly! That's what I've been trying to tell people. The idea that a cell was formed with a working reproductive system (i.e. cell division, and information stored in its DNA to be able to reproduce itself, etc) and a metabolic system (to take energy from its environment to allow it to do "work", e.g. photosynthesis, chemosynthesis, etc) all by ACCIDENT is, as you said a "completely unsupported story [and] is still not science."
It's amazing the silly ideas people will fall for, when they're dead set against the mostly likely and logical answer to a question.
-Mike
"There is a small coterie of individuals on both sides of ignite these 'firestorms of controversy'."
And somehow, that "small coterie" of people was able to search for google and yahoo enough by themselves to make the terms "Expelled," "intelligent," and "design" as the top 6 searched for things? Wow, that small group of people must have quite that batch farm of computers and auto-click and search routines. Very impressive... ;-)
Jake Davis
Wasn't the a Christian blitze
to stop th Golden Compass movie?
If it is a well made movie and entertains it will be judged as
a good movie .
If it is trash it will be judged as trash.
My teenage son and I saw the movie this weekend and we found it both well done and thought provoking. I cannot fathom why asking questions regarding the origins of the universe are such anathema to the Left. Do they not agree that the freedom of inquiry is a cherished privilege (and allowed in our society)? Aren't we hard-wired to inquire? Stein's movie opened the door - who wouldn't want to see what lies behind? I hope there's an honest and itelligent debate to follow. It's long overdue.
Mimi,
You are clearly grossly uninformed about the nature of Science. Scientists ask questions about the origin of EVERYTHING! You see the one key difference between them and ID proponents is they ask questions and create falsifiable assumptions which they then test through experimentation and observation. ID'ers on the other hand, merely exclaim "God did it" and make no further effort. While they are perfectly free to do so, they are not performing science, but theology or philosophy, it's simply not science.
If you are looking for a honest debate, you certianly won't be finding it from the makers of Expelled. They have shown themselves to be nothing if not dishonest and disingenuous.
As a conservative, practicing Christian, and a Biology major in college, I believe in neither Darwinism nor Intelligent Design. I see too many flaws and self-contradictions within both. Evolution, on the other hand, is a scientifically sound concept.
While I have not yet seen the movie, my understanding is that it does not question evolution, but merely the Darwinian assertion that evolution and natural selection are solely responsible for the development of life on Earth. Darwinism *is* taught as fact in many textbooks, just as Intelligent Design is taught as fact in certain others. The point is not that Darwinism is flawed, it is that a flawed theory is taught as fact while an opposing theory is not taught at all because it is flawed. If Intelligent Design were the predominant theory in our schools, "No Intelligence Allowed" could just as easily have been "Darwin Need Not Apply."
I wonder what college Jenny must be going to. I know that in every one I'm aware of, Darwinism is not taught, you won't find a single Darwinism course. You will, however, find many courses on Evolution, such as Evolutionary Biology. Never heard of a Darwinist Biology course.
Anon 10:13
No, it's true you won't find a specific course on Darwinism, and I never claimed that you could. However, many Biology textbooks (including some of the ones I've used at my Catholic college) are written as if Darwinism were fact. Even if the courses at my college doesn't put emphasis on that aspect of it, it doesn't change the nature of the textbook.
So you think there is evolution, its just not driven by natural selection? I mean that's all Darwin's theory proposes, that that all biological organisms evolve through natural selection.
Would it even be evolution without natural selection?
Way to completely miss the point Jenny! "Darwinism" doesn't exist as a field of study, it is merely a term Creationists use to try and discredit the valid and as yet not disproven theory of Evolution! I find it hard to believe that you are actually studying Biology at an accredited college and are so obtusely unaware of this.
"which they then test through experimentation and observation"
This is true of most good science, but not true of evolution. It has not been tested, observed, nor has any experiment ever been performed that proved it.
thrive over those without them passing these qualities on to future generations, is hardly a theory at all - its common sense.
As for 'proof' as we know from groups like the Flat Earth Society (a debating organization that can 'prove' the world is flat) if you want to deny something you can no matter what the evidence presented. But as for the theory of natural selection we have tons of 'proof':
Genetic studies show the commonality between all living things, but in the context that those things that seem closely related have very similar genetic makeups, while the same genes with the same functions in more diverse organisms they are structurally more variant just as one would expect with evolution, what one wouldn't expect with an 'all at the same time' single creator.
Computer models designed to test the theory of natural selection easily demonstrate that in a world where desirable traits survive and breed they will rapidly go from their appearance to dominating the entire population with subsequent beneficial changes doing likewise on and on.
There are ample evidences of just these kinds of models in real life in fossil records and now recovery of genetic information from fossils themselves. We even have all the stepping stones for even complex structures such as the eye present in modern day mollusks and the reasonable mind can see they probably existed in the past for all 4 different types of 'eyes' the animal kingdom has. (yes being able to see is so advantageous to survival it seems to have developed 4 separate times!)
From a practical standpoint just a few weeks ago a computer chip was designed that 'evolves' new chemical compounds by creating hundreds of variants of a chemical and then letting them compete against each other with the chip letting the 'winners' take over the losers. It will revolutionize the drug industry, all because of evolution theory.
No the only way someone could say evolution hasn't been 'proven' is if they just take as a postulate that it didn't.
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