Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity

eldavojohn writes "Painting the current scientific community as just as bad as the Spanish Inquisition, an extended trailer of Ben Stein's "Expelled" has a lot of people (at least that I know) talking. It looks like his movie plans to encourage people to speak out if they believe intelligent design or creationism to be correct. In the trailer he even warns you that if you are a scientist you may lose your job by watching 'Expelled.' Backlash to the movie has started popping up and this may force the creationism/evolutionist debate to a whole new level across the big screen and the internet." adholden points out a site called Expelled Exposed, which asserts that 'Expelled' "is simply an anti-science propaganda film aimed at creating controversy where none exists, while promoting poor science education that can and will severely handicap American students."

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its all fantasy

[methuselah]

From what i am reading here I am sure this will never see the light of day but, here goes. I read post after post indicating that you have to be a moonbat to take anything but evolution seriously. This all based on the fact that the "experts" agree. Well let me draw an analogy that will work here, "according to the experts windows is the best operating system"! Now after visiting oh say 1,000 mainstream websites on the subject of computing it could be pretty safe to run around and state rather authoritatively windows is the source of all computer greatness. Oh, sure there is a group of nutbags that keep mumbling irrationally about bsd and linux but, the experts assure us that they are fanatics and there is nothing whatsoever to what they are saying. I know what I believe, and I also know, that enough people are full of crap on a wide variety of topics, and that they pontificate about pure dribble in front of some pretty impressive backdrops to add legitimacy to their bunk. So much of what is declaratively said by "scientists" is based on a long convoluted rube goldberg set of suppositions and extrapolations that accepting what they say as the incontrovertible truth, and therefore the final word, makes you an idiot. I am not agreeing with intelligent design but, I do agree with what I think is the premise of the movie which is, a lot of scientists that espouse theories are really narrow minded self important megalomaniacs that in all reality have no definitive answers. Especially when they insist that anyone that disagrees with their "facts" is a poopy head.