Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Review by Jason Donner

 

Ben Stein, who's greatest culture achievements are a game show that gave away his money and repeating the same name over and over again is going to teach us something about Darwinism and Creationalism. 

Basically, Creationalism is being held down by the evil Darwinists who should be thinking twice about what they are teaching because it killed faith in God, it's a flaw theory, and makes them no better than Nazis.

Oh, yes... that's right.  Nazis.

Get out your foil hats, ladies and gentlemen, it's about to get a little crazy.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is an hour and a half rant by a fanatical madman pulling out every cockamamie argument in the conservative arsenal to combat an evil that just doesn't exist.  Thirty years ago, I could imagine Mr. Stein lauding the fact that fluoride in the water supply is a government mind control plot.

Mr. Stein declares that, because some prominent scientists believe in an intelligently created universe, that they are being unfairly dismissed and silenced by the scientific community.  Part of me wonders if a priest who believed in Xenu would last long in a church.  Probably not, but then again perhaps that's just a church plot to silence someone else.

Expelled is poorly structured, insultingly stupid, and reliant on flawed logic and suppositions.  I would have been bored with this movie if not for the sudden comparison between Darwinists and the Nazis shamelessly using the backdrop of a concentration camp to sell paranoia and propaganda.  At that point, I went from bored to just seethingly angry.

Expelled is horrible.  It's mindless political ramblings based on shaky data and personal attacks on Richard Dawkins who, yes, is a gigantic tool but I'm sure that there are tools in the Stein camp as well when they're not acting like the whipped little stepchildren of the beaker bunch.  Anyone who is capable of taking a few steps back and looking at the big picture projected by this documentary will recognize its many failings of logic and dismiss it for the propaganda piece that it is.