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Kids are not dumb. But they ARE credulous. The whole talk radio thing is telling everybody to "make up your own mind" on virtually everything. Where the fundamentalists pick this up and wave it overhead, people accept the self-evident truth. Unfortunately it is *not* true for things that take background knowledge of modern science. They are asking you as a viewer to accept their version of stereotyping. Got that kids? Stereotyping. Making an assumption based on incomplete knowledge. The fundamentalists frame their argument in terms of 1960's textbook biology, constantly referring to "facts" that are just not fact anymore. They also make use of common misunderstandings of the process of science that at least half of the population carries around and should unlearn. Expelled is a species of documentary, but one in which it is allowed to lie in order to convince viewers of your case. Is that a good thing? Is that really what students need? And is it possible to present superstitious bull as an alternative to measurable fact to a population of people who expect to be prepared for real life not fantasy? I teach topics in Internet and Society in a high school as well as cinematography.
1/10
7.23.2008 -
thisisentirelybogus@ - age: 50+
Amazing how strongly people feel about this subject. Ratings are 1-2 or 9-10. It's worth noting that most comments are emotional in nature. For that reason I give it a 10 as it has caused a polarization.
10/10
7.15.2008 -
marksmeltzer@ - age: 36-49
This is a documentary type of movie, it is not fiction or an action show. This show really opened my eyes and showed me how there really isn't free speech in our educational institutions when it comes to Intelligent Design. I found it to be one of the best movies I have ever seen.
10/10
7.12.2008 -
ostrosky@ - age: 36-49
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It is an interesting movie because it finally shows all the flaws and how people like Stein try to sell their intelligent design which is neither science nor religion. First of all lets not mixed everything like Stein does. Evolution is a Theory because based on fact, and like all theories not perfect but trying and doing a good job at explaining observed facts (physical anatomy, microbiology, physiology and genetics) Intelligent design is a dogma based on humm? And finally evolution does not explain the creation of life it explains its progression. Theory on creation of life is called abiogenesis and has nothing to do with evolution, it actually had really nice progress in the few last years (I suggest you watch "abiogenesis" by CDK007 on youtube, if you are interested) but here again a theory which is supported by lots of fact but not perfect and still improving. I have to admit science will always meet barriers that it can not yet explain and at one point something has to be created from nothing. Can you put god there? Maybe, who knows? I ll give a 50% 50% there, but I certainly give a 0% accuracy and honesty to Stein.
1/10
7.12.2008 -
hockeymaniac@ - age: 26-35
ID? Mr. Stein is a world champion representative of ID - Intellectual Dishonesty. This footage, masquerading as a movie, is nothing but political propaganda for social issues debated in the US ad nauseum. Stein creates a straw man in citing scientific academic elite and uses this 'creation' to lecture about his view of society, history and belief in higher powers etc. But he does not show much courage for his convictions, using pseudo interviews and dishonest editing to distort logical argument and misrepresent established scientific discovery. In terms of evolution, Mr. Stein tends to demonstrate that his own evolution is slower than average. I have no hope that he will catch up any time soon. Darwin would certainly be disappointed and probably somewhat puzzled.
1/10
7.11.2008 -
jackovipe@ - age: 50+
This is way better than the crap we are taught in school. They should show documentaries like this in school so that kids are more open minded.
10/10
7.10.2008 -
toddler@ - age: 13-17
I thought it was a great documentary but my friends thought it sucked. They obviously don't get it which I knew all along.
10/10
7.10.2008 -
martha@ - age: 13-17
You know what's funny, the ratings for most movies is really high for the youngest age group and tapers off toward the older age group. This movie has the opposite going on. Kiddies are definitely not mature or learned enough to understand the dialogue in this one. It was well done; it addressed the argument in a relatively even, balanced manner though it's obvious there were some jews behind the film. They made very good arguments and I would go so far as to say that Ben Stein proved that the one-sided acceptance of Darwinism as absolute truth is poor science. That's all I'm gonna say about the issue. The movie is in the Michael Moore vein of propaganda but like Fahrenheit 911, it's so hard to ignore!
8/10
7.9.2008 -
nanolovesjesus@ - age: 26-35
High school kids shouldn't even bother to watch this because it seems to be way over their heads. When you are between 13 and 18 and know everything, what is the point. That said, I thought it is a great documentary.
10/10
7.9.2008 -
mark_c@ - age: 26-35
Great movie, there should be more debate instead of the darwinists bashing the alternative.
10/10
7.9.2008 -
john_m_j@ - age: 26-35
Even though documentries are boring this one was funny and I actually liked it. It could be better. The acting could have been better and the popcorn needed more salt.
8/10
7.9.2008 -
littlemissprincess4life@ - age: 1-12
If your into bull crap watch it. Alright I have to wirte more I found this movie vry boring how kids should be smart and that were all dumb.
2/10
7.9.2008 -
garrettnicholson@ - age: 13-17
Go see this movie. I give it a 10 just because I don't like the darwinist's narrow minded views.
10/10
7.9.2008 -
klinder@ - age: 36-49
Excellent! Those giving the movie a 1 seem to be mostly teenagers who know everything and those supporting one sided conventional science. Open your minds people.
10/10
7.9.2008 -
carey256@ - age: 50+
Very funny. I know its labeled a documentary, but go to expecting a comedy and you won't be disappointed. I'm sure at points throughout the movie the makers of the film intended you to laugh with them, but I laughed at them for just about the whole thing.
7/10
7.8.2008 -
toddlt1@ - age: 26-35
IMO, Darwin's theory is partially correct in the sense that evolution works but he did not EVER figure out creation and how life started. IDers are trying to figure this out and scientists are blocking them.
10/10
7.8.2008 -
david25d@ - age: 18-25
I highly recommend this movie. It shows just how narrow minded conventional scientists have become.
10/10
7.8.2008 -
mark_cc@ - age: 50+
This movie is complete religious propaganda. Go look up the scientists that Stein interviewed and you find out that they were tricked into appearing for a totally different movie. It's really sick that the producers couldn't be honest; this shows the bias they espouse in this film.
1/10
7.8.2008 -
nothought@ - age: 18-25
There's a reason ID isn't taught in science classes, and it's not an international cabal of atheists trying to suppress threatening world views. It's that ID isn't science. It's theology. Now that we've seen evolution in action in e. coli, can't we just move along?
1/10
7.7.2008 -
none@ - age: 26-35
Great movie! I highly recommend it! Finally somebody that share some light on this very important topic!
10/10
7.7.2008 -
debatsociete@ - age: 36-49
This is a documentary all high school and university students should see. Your academic freedom is at stake. Are you being taught to think critically, or just regurgitate whatever you read in your science text book and hear from your teachers and instructors. Regardless of your stance in the evolution/creation debate, do you really want to be denied the right to question what you are told and to debate?
9/10
7.6.2008 -
creatednotevolved@ - age: 50+
Amazing go see it. Enlightening to say the least. It really takes some one who wants truth, and believes science is a tool to getting understanding and ultimately knowledge of the truth... sadly enough there aren't many who want to know the truth.
10/10
7.5.2008 -
ttbjjones@ - age: 18-25
Great movie. It's time someone put some of these arrogant Darwinists in their place.
10/10
7.4.2008 -
glassy_lady@ - age: 26-35
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The great debate between creative intelligence (code work for preplanned world) and Darwinism (unplanned world governed by environment) seems to really come down in this film to a test question: who created the first molecule? It’s a good question since molecules are the building blocks of all life on earth and so far as we know all molecules are created by other molecules so who ever or whatever created the first molecule created life on earth: call that man GOD. So let’s make GOD an acronym for Good Overall Designer. Now the debate is simpler. Whoever or whatever created the first molecule is a GOD. Well is would appear we are getting close to finding out who that is as we know each of the following is distinguished from naturally-occurring DNA or RNA by changes to the backbone of the molecule: Artificial nucleic acids include peptide nucleic acid (PNA), Morpholino and locked nucleic acid (LNA), as well as glycol nucleic acid (GNA) and threose nucleic acid (TNA). May I humbly suggest that we follow all great scientists and look for GOD in the laboratories? This movie creates a sort of Mike Moore fake controversy and then resolves it with anecdotal evidence rather than any sensible analysis of the scientific datum. This sort of pseudo science is probably good for Mr Stein’s pocket book but it does little to add to the body of available knowledge and, by taking an adversarial rather than analytical approach, exacerbates the debate oddly enough just as Mr Hitler did seventy years ago. Poor or Charles Darwin gets a bad rap. All Charles wanted to do was figure out how earthworms worked. He knew his theory was far from complete. He came unstuck on the hermaphroditic flora reproduction and was candid about it. Charles wasn’t against GOD the acronym or the spiritual leader he was living in a time when the understanding of cellular structure was just beginning and he posited based on simplistic evidence. This movie is intellectually misleading, I am tempted to say dishonest…. But it is perfectly possible to have an honest if entirely fallible credo so I will give Mr Stein the benefit of the doubt. Literally a GOD-awful movie.
2/10
7.4.2008 -
crwwilson@ - age: 50+
It's about time someone broke the silence on this issue. I know I am sick and tired of arrogant "scientists" who impose their worldview on their science and then try to indoctrinate the world with their propaganda with no tolerance for other scientific worldviews.
9/10
7.3.2008 -
oshuajay@ - age: 18-25
Random creationist bullshit. All the cases he brings up have been proven to be about stuff that had nothing to do with intelligent design.
1/10
7.3.2008 -
moogle_935@ - age: 13-17
It is important to ask "Why are there so many roadblocks to investigating the possibility of Intelligent Design? " What happened to freedom of speech and freedom of inquiry? I hope that this will inspire people to fight for their right to look into things and draw their own conclusions rather than having to follow "what someone else says is fact without any evidence of it actually being factual". No one can answer "How did the world begin? " So, why not look into it? Let science tell us!
8/10
7.3.2008 -
kimberlyobrien@ - age: 26-35
Evolution is a theory not a fact, ("Theory" of Evolution). Intelligent Design is a theory. There is no "Fact of Evolution" or Fact of Intelligent Design and as far as I know, no one has proven that God sits on a throne in the sky and judges mankind. Atheists and Darwinians will likely feel threatened by this documentary because it challenges their point of view. In my opinion there is too much narrow mindedness in the conventional scientific community. I have yet to see anything but theories and NONE of the theories have ever explained the creation of life. Until there are legitimate FACTS in place by either side that explain the creation of life, I will continue to ponder both sides and give both sides their
right to be heard.
10/10
7.3.2008 -
marlyn,collins@ - age: 36-49
I thought this was an excellent documentary. I believe that more dialogue and collaboration is needed between science and ID. I don't see that anyone has figured out how we were created, not even Darwin and until then, why are all theories not acceptable? Why are ID theories disregarded as garbage? I don't put ID in the same category as religion at all or even in the same category as creationism. Dogmatic atheists are every bit as narrow minded as dogmatic creationists or IDers. Let's have some open mindedness. We are all looking for the truth so why are some theories discredited? What is the scientific community afraid of?
10/10
7.3.2008 -
marlyn__c@ - age: 36-49
The fact that people think this movie is an excellent documentary is just plain scary. It is a partisan propaganda film and nothing more.
1/10
7.3.2008 -
bjopson@ - age: 26-35
Infantile churlish anti-intellectual neolithic muddle-headed featherweight knuckle-dragging baloney. Can't wait for Ben Stein's hard hitting expose of... what? The "Smoking Kills" liberal egghead con-job? The gobal climate change tree-huggers? The "Earth is not flat" nut cases? Ben must get awfully tired carrying that really really gigantic brain around.
1/10
7.3.2008 -
bmoon1635@ - age: 36-49
Few people will come away from this movie indifferent. It will be particularly frustrating to haters of Christianity (including the delusional author of the egregious hate-message/review posted below which alleges that "tens of millions" of Christians were directly complicit in the holocaust) that Ben Stein and most of the other people involved in making this film were in fact Jewish. The film's message is presented in a clear and factual way, but humour is used well to moderate its "tone". You may not agree with Stein's concerns about Darwinism and the efforts of those who espouse it to limit the scope of scientific debate and investigation, but you may still benefit from the increasingly-rare experience of listening to views and arguments that are not politically correct.
9/10
7.2.2008 -
mattgss@ - age: 50+
This is a very good film, I learned things that I did not have any clue of before. The evolution lie should be shattered and the intelligent design be taught instead. If everything were by chance then even our thoughts would be by chance and we could not be right or wrong about anything. But the opposite is true and there is a intelligence behind it all, we have intelligence, did that come by chance or a creator? Obviously it did not come by chance. If everything was by chance then there would be no laws science, morals, right or wrong, or any truth at all in anything. Which would be utterly ridiculous. I also like how hawkins was shown his contradiction in the film.
9/10
7.2.2008 -
downey@ - age: 36-49
This movie should be shown in every school and university around the world. This isn't about religion. This is all about science. True science has always shown that the Darwinian theory is just that, a faith based theory. Nothing more. Scrape away the deception, assumptions and fairy tales and you end up with dust that falls between your fingers.
10/10
7.1.2008 -
john316@ - age: 36-49
Those here who are praising this laughable bit of crap for the hard of thinking need to understand that open-minded requires that there be a mind available. Censorship is a bad thing - proponents of creationism aren't being censored. They are being laughed out of the room by thinking folks that insist on maintaining a reasonable distance between church and state.
2/10
7.1.2008 -
digidaddyca@
This is an excellent movie. It opened up my thinking. It is a movie that I truly believe everyone should see. It challenges the way we think. It exposes that we don't know the whole truth about everything. It stirred deep emotion in me because I felt that I am being manipulated in a way that doesn't allow meaningful dialogue about these important issues.
10/10
7.1.2008 -
ohwiseone@ - age: 36-49
Terrible movie. It seems odd to me that people are trying to poke holes in the 'theory' (fact, I say) of evolution. The religious argument is that everything we see/touch/taste/feel was created by some cosmic magician up in the sky who has built an infinite universe simply to test humans of earth as to their wothiness of having an afterlife. Hmmm... can't poke ANY holes in that...
1/10
6.30.2008 -
jifff@ - age: 36-49
Well, I just came back from the movie and I totally agree with some other folks who think that it should be viewed in Hight Schools and Universities. We must have "freedom" of thought. How can Intelligent Design not be allowed in our teaching institutions?
9/10
6.30.2008 -
jzslvzu@ - age: 50+
Wow, I can imagine some medieval redneck evangelicals in the US getting a kick out of this movie. I'm not sure why they're showing it in Canada.
1/10
6.30.2008 -
grsites2003@ - age: 26-35
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This is the kind of movie where people will respond according to their worldview. If you've got an atheistic or Darwinian perspective (which tend to go hand-in-hand), you're only going to see this movie as threatening propaganda for a point of view you despise. If you're anyone else, you may be surprised to discover that some of the assumptions you may have held about the good health of scientific freedom-of-inquiry in America are in serious error. In fact, quite a few of the negative reviews here strongly echo the vociferous response any questions of the Evolutionary Theory receive from some of the scientific elite in the documentary. As you can see by these angry reviews (and as you can see in the documentary), there is a blind and often presumptuous allegiance to this theory that will countenance no challenge - which is precisely what the documentary criticizes. In their own way, every review here opposing the documentary is as "propagandist" as they accuse Ben Stein of being. Watch it for yourself and make up your own mind.
9/10
6.30.2008 -
nwaikikai@ - age: 36-49
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[ATTENTION: This review reveals content of the movie.]
The movie is wrong on almost every charge. The "victims" they put forward are not victims of an evil "Darwinist" conspiracy. Their real stories are much more mundane. Leaving aside the questions concerning the honesty of the film-makers during production, the very substance of the movie - that "Darwinism" leads to an evil end - is absurd. The Theory of Evolution (theory being defined in it's scientific sense: as an explanation of observed natural phenomena and known fact) explains the diversity of life. Nothing more, nothing less. It does not comment on the origin of life (that's be abiogenesis, although to be fair, ToE might play a role in that as well) It does not comment on the origin of the unverse (that's be Big Bang Theory) It does not comment on gravity (that's be General Relativity) Despite this, Stein claims (in this movie and in interviews) that this represents a major shortcoming of ToE. Intelligent Design, on the other hand, attempts to cover everything by saying "Magik Man done it". BUT THIS IS NOT AN EXPLANATION! Science is concerned with how and why. Saying "it looks complicated, God must've done it" (and yes, I am referring to the Christian God, because that is what ID stems from) is not an explanation. It explains nothing of how, or why, and is entirely dependant on the validity of an ancient collection of writings already shown to be woefully inaccurate in the fields of science and history. Imagine, if you will, that it is 1835. Agostino Bassi has just stated, for the first time, that disease is caused by "germs". All of a sudden, disease is not the result of God punishing the wicked. It now has a mundane, Earthly explanation. Stein, and his fellow ID proponents, would be arguing that this "Bassinism" idea of "germs" is "just a theory", and can't explain gravity, and that it resulted in biological weapons and thereofre the theory that disease is caused by a vengeful "Magick Man" should be taught alongside "Bassinism" as valid science. This is what Stein is trying to do. You may have noticed my re-labelling of germ theory as "Bassinsim". I had a reason for doing that. You probably noticed Stein doing the same thing. He re-labelled the Theory of Evolution as "Darwinism". Why? To personalize it. To make it seem like a religion, focused around a saviour figure, Darwin. Why would Stein do this? Because it's easier to attack something if you make it seem like a cult, instead of a valid, recognized and oncontrovertible scientific fact and theory. If you want to follow Intelligent Design, fine. It's your opinion. But don't force children to have to learn that antiscientific crap in schools. It does them far more harm than good. Religion should not enter schools, especially when it is corruptig science education and crippling a generation of youth. Save you money, save your mind, and most importantly: save your childrens future. Don't let Stein succeed in forcing his religious crap on the youth of today.
1/10
6.29.2008 -
leftieman@ - age: 18-25
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This is an excellent documentary that details the discrimination, and blacklisting that scientists, academics, and journalists have faced if they published or even discussed data that contradicts Darwinism and supports Intelligent Design. In arguing for the freedom to speak freely about the evidence against Darwinism and the academic freedom to pursue data wherever it leads without risking one's academic career, this documentary makes its case compellingly. Ben Stein with his inimitable sense of humor interviews many of the key players on both sides of this controversy in a thoughtful and respectful way. It is interesting to me that many of the negative comments I had read in the news media and on the internet about the film were completely inaccurate and misrepresented the film. The film is not at all a defense of Intelligent Design (although many of those interviewed do defend it), but rather argues for the freedom to examine and discuss the data supporting Intelligent Design and contradicting Darwinism without reprisal. Having seen the documentary, and reflecting back on the misrepresentations, I wonder how many of these negative commentators and reviewers had actually seen the movie. After viewing this film, I immediately emailed several family and friends urging them to see this important documentary.
10/10
6.29.2008 -
pkazmaier@ - age: 50+
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