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Title: Smear Of Ben Stein's Film 'Expelled' Already Begun
Source: News With Views
URL Source: http://www.rense.com/general81/conven.htm
Published: Apr 9, 2008
Author: Devvy Kidd
Post Date: 2008-04-09 19:49:47 by Horse
Keywords: None
Views: 993
Comments: 74

The big guns are coming out already.

This scorching is by Roger Friedman. Notice how he puts his own beliefs in wrapped up as "conventionally accepted Darwinism. "

Ben Stein: Win His Career By Roger Friedman

After seeing a new non-fiction film starring Comedy Central's Ben Stein, you may not only be able to win his money, but also his career.

Stein is that whiny little guy with the monotone voice that makes him seem funny and an unlikely "character" for TV appearances. But that career may be over come April 18 when a movie he co-wrote, narrates and appears in, called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," is released.

Directed by one Nathan Frankowski, "Expelled" is a sloppy, all-over-the-place, poorly made (and not just a little boring) "expose" of the scientific community. It's not very exciting. But it does show that Stein, who's carved out a career selling eye drops in commercials and amusing us on sitcoms, is either completely nuts or so avaricious that he's abandoned all good sense to make a buck.

To wit: Stein, Frankowski and pals say in "Expelled" that perfectly good scientists and educators are being stigmatized for wanting to teach their students creationism and "intelligent design" - in other words, junk science - in addition to or instead of conventionally accepted Darwinism. You see, Stein, like some other celebrities, finally has shown his true colors and they aren't so pretty.

The gist of Stein's involvement is: He's outraged! He believes in God! God created the universe! How can we not avail our students of this theory? What do you mean we're just molecules?

What the producers of this film would love, love, love is a controversy. That's because it's being marketed by the same people who brought us "The Passion of the Christ." They're hoping someone will latch onto an anti-Semitism theme here since there's a visit to a concentration camp and the raised idea - apparently typical of the intelligent design community - that somehow the theory of evolution is so evil that it caused the Holocaust. Alas, this is such a warped premise that no one's biting.

The whole idea of Stein, a Jew, jumping on the intelligent design bandwagon of the theory of evolution begetting the Nazis is so distasteful you wonder what in - sorry - God's name - he was thinking when he got into this. Who cares, really, if "Expelled" is anti-Semitic? It will come and go without much fanfare.

But Stein is another matter. Can he really be amusing selling eye drops or acting like a nebbish on game shows if we now have this new insight into his thinking?

You know Ben Stein from his voice. He used it to intone Ferris Bueller's name iconically at the beginning of that 20-year-old Matthew Broderick movie. His laconic delivery and deadpan presence have given him a benign celebrity - until now.

But this is what he wrote last fall on the "Expelled" movie Web site:

"Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media. Darwinism also has not one meaningful word to say on the origins of organic life, a striking lacuna in a theory supposedly explaining life.

"Alas, Darwinism has had a far bloodier life span than Imperialism. Darwinism, perhaps mixed with Imperialism, gave us Social Darwinism, a form of racism so vicious that it countenanced the Holocaust against the Jews and mass murder of many other groups in the name of speeding along the evolutionary process."

In a word: Urgggh. Suddenly Stein is not so amusing anymore. I want my eye drops from someone else.

PS: Following "The Passion" release pattern, "Expelled" will open wide on the 18th but mostly in rural and poor neighborhoods. It's got just one theater in all of New York City, in Times Square, none in places like Beverly Hills or wealthier, better-educated urban neighborhoods where more "evolved" people might live.

According to the film's Web site, the producers are in a whopping 45 theaters in North Carolina, and a mere seven in Massachusetts, 35 in Georgia, 11 in New Jersey, four in Connecticut and one in Vermont. And so on. There are huge numbers of screens in Florida and Texas taking the film, particularly seven in San Antonio. If I lived in the Deep South, I'd boycott the filmmakers for thinking of me as this gullible and unsophisticated.

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348468,00.html


Poster Comment:

Notice that this review from Friedman ran originally at FOX news which is supposed to be conservative. Actually, it is Zionist and changes sides when convenient. Currently, many conservatives are willing to kill Muslims for Israel so FOX is conservative.

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#1. To: Horse (#0)

If you want to make a Darwinist froth tell them you believe in evolution but could you please explain exactly how one species turned into another?

YertleTurtle  posted on  2008-04-09   19:53:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: YertleTurtle (#1)

If you want to make a Darwinist froth tell them you believe in evolution but could you please explain exactly how one species turned into another?

They don't froth, they simply go into the Cline theory and show how small genetic differences over an expanse of territory eventually keeps one member of the species at one edge of the Cline from breeding with another an the other end of the cline. From that point genetic differences eventually lead to a new but related species.

This argument went down at the same time that the argument that life doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics went down in flames. And remember that that failure so discredited "Creationism" that it was necessary to replace the snake oil with "Intelligent Design".

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#7. To: ... (#6)

I knew a guy in high-school, a rabid creationist, that insisted Africans were the product of a sexual union between Cain of Biblical infamy and gorillas. He never could quite grasp how his theory on creation of species conflicted with his theory on immutability of God work. If I remember right he died about 20 years ago from auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Dakmar  posted on  2008-04-09   20:22:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Dakmar (#7)

I don't care if people want to believe in it, or even if they want to teach it in college, but it isn't science and they shouldn't be able to teach it as science. If they want to start a class the studies creations myths in various cultures, then that's fine.

To be honest, I used to wonder about the gorilla thing when I was a little kid.

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#14. To: ... (#10) (Edited)

I've always been interested in the idea that anger is a function of a worldview rooted in contradictory beliefs. I know many Christians who love everyone, and they are at peace. I know other Christians who attempt to use their religion to assert superiority over others, and they are some messed up little booboos. I know (personally) very few Jews, Moslems, Hindus, et al, but I gotta think it works the same way.

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