My Grandma bought this at Tom Hoyle's speech last week and we watched it before she left to go home to the Yukon. And even though I don't really like Ben Stein, I must say I was impressed.
Expelled (No intelligence allowed)
Directed by: Nathan Frankowski
Written by: Kevin Miller, Ben Stein
Starring Cast: Ben Stein
What's it Rated?: PG for some thematic elements and graphic images to do with Nazi concentration camps.
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: Ben Stein goes on a mission first to find out why some teachers and professors are being fired from their work, but later to find out why Intelligent Design is being left out of schools and Universities.
My Take: Although Ben stein isn't a Christian, Expelled gives an interesting glimpse at Creationism, and the holes in the theory of evolution, and even if don't agree with some of his points or arguments, you'll enjoy watching it just to laugh at "top scientists" who support evolution even though they know it doesn't explain how the first microorganism got on earth, or even began!
It features leading scientists from the evolutionary side and some scientists who support the idea of Intelligent Design. I say "Intelligent Design" because that's what the movie terms it, obviously they can't just say outright "God created earth in six days and rules over it now" (OK, they could, but they won't anyway)
Another tactic that Expelled uses to get it's point across is the clear path that exists from evolution to Nazism, Nazism to eugenics, eugenics to murder, and finally murder to genocide. However because of this, there are some graphic images to do with Nazi death camps and also the eugenics movement in the US.
Overall, I don't think I'd watch it again, because it's a bit confusing and hard to follow as well as the fact that it's pretty long for a film on this subject.
Story: 5 out of 10
Action Suspense: N/A
Humor: not much, but what there is I'd give a 7.5 out of 10
Overall: 7.5 out of 10
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