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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed | 
 enlarge | Director: Nathan Frankowski
Actors: Ben Stein, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Sternberg, Mark Souder
Studio: Premise
Category: DVD
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Rating:  469 reviews
Sales Rank: 188
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCMDPM0492D
UPC: 883476004921
EAN: 0883476004921
ASIN: B001BYLFFS
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: October 21, 2008
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Ben stein travels the world & learns an awe-inspiring truth .. That educators & scientists are being ridiculed denied tenure & even fired - for the crime of merely believing that there might be evindence of design in nature & that perhaps life is not just the result of chance. To which ben says enough!. Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/21/2008 Starring: Ben Stein Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Pg
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 Fallacy and Miscommunication January 9, 2009
Darwinian evolution is a scientific theory concerning macroevolution, or speciation. It is NOT a scientific theory on the origin of life, which is what Intelligent Design is supposedly addressing. In other words, I.D. is a hypotheis about The Beginning, and Evolution is a scientific theory about what happens after Origin. Therefore, the documentary is really comparing apples and oranges, and looses all credibility and relevance! This is a very important point for those not familiar with the controversy. Also note that in the scientific community, a scientific hypothesis, a scientific theory, and a scientific law have different meanings. What a layperson would consider a "theory" is not the same as a scientific theory.
It is great to see Ben Stein at the Discovery Institute, where I.D. originated. However, this documentary NEVER properly explained to the audience what Intelligent Design is: its definition, what it hypothesizes, and the evidence and observation to which support it.
 Truth in media format! January 8, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great film! It clearly shows the agenda behind many scientists in academia. It helps if you have some experience studying the debate between ID and Darwinism. Also, I think the average viewer would benefit if they understood how significant the people being interviewed are. These aren't just loonies off the street, these are well respected "scientists."
It would be great is they included some interviews with people on the street that shows the average person's ignorance of the matter and their willingness to be fooled by media.
Great stuff January 8, 2009
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Very entertaining way of examining the absense of academic freedom today. Secular scientists (not all), moreso out of a subjective low opinion of religion than a quest for truth, bypass a right to express all viewpoints and rather turn the issue into a war of worldviews. Their foundation is based on a theory, whose author (Darwin) himself admits that if certain evidence fails to manfifest (and so far it has), the theory is rendered erroneous.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed January 8, 2009
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
You will enjoy this movie if your science has no fear of the facts.
Ben Stein investigates allegations that some high-end colleges and universities are edging out professors if any hint of "intelligent design" surfaces in their classrooms.
A friend tells Ben of his expeience of losing his teaching position which is likely to have happened undersuch circumstances. That just seems so unlikely to Ben but after other interviews with a number of people who had been outed under similar circumstances,Ben heads to the source.
You have to laugh if it were not so serious as Ben treks from campus to campus asking questions that few but Ben Stein could pose so candidly. The answers he got named his movie; EXPELLED No Intelligence Allowed.
Even an Oxford professor finds it difficult to answer Bens straight forward questions and the theater audiences cheer.
Ben Stein nails it. January 7, 2009
Ben Stein does a great job exposing a very disturbing phenomena in academia, i.e. the almost cult-like devotion to a theory that is plagued with problems. The most distressing thing is the intolerance for dissent in spite of the evidence, bringing to mind a certain pope who confronted Galileo many years ago. Hmmm. Through it all, Ben brings to light this very important issue with humor and class.
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