Expelled

Released just yesterday, the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed has stirred up a lot of controversy. Though the surrounding rhetoric includes words like Creationism and Evolution, the movie is really about Intelligent Design (ID) and, more to the point, about the scientists and scholars who propound this view. Simply put, ID is the theory that the universe was not created by chance or out of nothing, but by an intelligent creator. Now the movie (really a documentary) is not a pure defense of ID and critique of Darwinism. Rather, it is about the ramifications of believing ID and questioning Darwinism. The movie brings attention to the fact that many in the scholarly community who have espoused belief in ID, or who have questioned Darwinism, have been shunned, fired from their jobs, or, in some instances, black balled. Here's the trailer for the movie:



I doubt the film would have garnered so much attention had Ben Stein not signed on to host it. But I am glad for that. Now I'm not glad because I believe that the universe was intelligently designed (though I do) and want it promoted. I am glad that there is a bit of light being shed on the fact that many who claim to be tolerant of all views are, in fact, very intolerant. I don't think it's a coincidence that this sort of intolerance usually shows itself when God is pointed to. Let's pray that changes.

Read the CT review here or read all the reviews here. Darrel Bock has a good post on the reviewers that just plain misunderstand the movie here.