Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

 

I’m *SO* keen to watch this, there are no words. I’ve argued this back and forth, a million million times before, and from the reviews I’m hearing, this guy gives Darwinists there time to speak before making his point. We need more of this! We need more open, public debate that challenges without ranting.

This is on my “to purchase when it comes out on DVD” list.

Edit: So I’ve been doing some reading on this movie, and a few things have come up. Firstly, a link: Expelled: The Movie. This is the main movie website, go and take a glance. I thought it was cute, if a bit silly, though in some ways it seems that that is the tone the movie takes. Secondly, and what had me rolling on the floor nearly in tears, was the Wikipedia entry on Expelled: The Movie. Seriously, if you don’t take the film’s statement of non-Darwinian science being oppressed, read this (unless someone edits it before you get an opportunity).

A few points about the Wikipedia entry:

• Wikipedia is meant to be opinion-neutral, or to at least maintain that facade. This is so remotely distant from neutrality, it’s laughable. The entire entry is attacking the movie’s ID stance.
• A quote from Amanda Gefter, from the New Scientist magazine, amused me:
  

  Its selling point is that academic freedom in the US is threatened by a vast conspiracy of atheist scientists, hypnotised by what Stein labels in the film the “Darwinian gospel”. Supporters of ID are fired from their institutions or denied tenure, the film argues, while journalists who report on ID are silenced or shunned. This is an old trick. By claiming their views are suppressed, proponents of ID hope to be protected from criticism. When someone argues that ID is bogus, all they need do is yell: “See? Suppression!”

  Now, I see her point. Heck, in the past, when I was a whiny idiot (and yes, I’ll admit to that then, and to some extent it’s still something I’m growing out of) I tried to use similar things. Unfortunately, the reverse is exactly true. What she has just said results in a similar fallacy: Now, whenever true persecution DOES come, and people stand up and recognize that persecution and identify with this film, people will go “See what Amanda Gefter said? Stop being an idiot, and sit down, Steiner was just giving you an out so you can whinge”.
  I’m not trying to say that he DIDN’T. But sometimes, what he says is true. Which leads me to:

• I’ve felt it, my colleagues have felt it, my friends and family have experienced it. Sciences in modern educational and academic institutes will not allow a person to believe in anything other than hard atheism or, (and even then ridicule is possible) vague agnosticism. This is infuriating and frustrating, but most Christians just shrug their shoulders and walk away. And it’s a shame, because most of the best scientists I know are Christian, and just don’t talk about it.

You know what excites me? (Cue sarcastic remarks from my friends, ignore them)

The work of Dr. Andrew Basden. For many years, I laboured under the false assumption that my field of study (Computer Science) had no relationship with religion and never could – that it was a purely practical/academic field, with little in the way of Kingdom impact.

I am extremely excited to see Christians making an impact in areas of academia where I had never even imagined Kingdom principles might be felt.

And now it is late and I sleep