After our small group, Nick, Winston and I went out to see Expelled tonight. The Expelled website says, in part, that “Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is that every generation has its rebel…Ben blows the horn on suppression.” The movie is a documentary filmed as Ben interviews scientists on both sides of the Evolution/Intelligent Design (ID) debate. Of course, since it’s Ben Stein, it’s also interesting.
Ben Stein raises the question “What’s wrong with asking if the evidence is better explained by Intelligent Design than Darwinian evolution than simply dismissing such thought as inane and anti-intellectual.” If evolution is so foolproof, why are its proponents so defencive and censor ID ideas? There is an amazing interview with Richard Dawkins at the end. (By the way, I have read some of Richard Dawkins work, so please don’t think I’m a dismissive censor.) I don’t want to spoil the movie for you, so I’ll leave it at that…and look for the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off allusion at the very end!
Until you get a chance to see the movie, check out this video.
