WOW!!! FANTASTIC!!! A major anti-evolution movie!!! December 20, 2007
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Have you ever seen any advertising banner EVER on my blog?
I have determined to keep this blog 100% non-commercial.
But… I just broke my own rule, after I learned about Ben Stein’s new movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
I was *JUST* this morning talking with my two youngest sons about this issue: How the current scientific community blackballs (though I didn’t use that term) scientists of any field who aren’t neo-Darwinists. Lo and behold, Ben heard me talking and decided to make a movie about it, and about the rebellion against the “Don’t question the authority of Darwin” stance that is happening right now (thank God) in the schools of America.
I am officially, completely excited. Exhilarated. I can’t wait for February.
PLEASE watch the “super-trailer” — it’s a good seven+ minutes, but it is SO very worthwhile.
(And if anyone wants me to help them make a banner on their WordPress blog, I’d be more than happy to. E-mail me.)
That rocks!!
Go gettem’ God….as the dark gets darker the light gets lighter!!
Just called my spawn out of bed to let them in on this…..just as excited as when I first heard about the Passion about 2 years out from its release!! He is not kidding. The ridicule and the unwillingness to *even* debate this with an intelligent SCIENTIST of the intelligent design persuasion points to an enemy of a creation that is God’s primary way of pointing to Himself. Bring it on says the Lord.
That’s awesome! I’m anxious to see it! The clip was great! Thanks for sharing it.
I love Ben Stein. He is a voice of reason among the unreasonable.
My only concern with the ID movement is that they stop short of identifying the ‘intelligent designer.’ For that reason, Hugh Ross and the folks at Reasons.org will not endorse the ID concept.
Steve ~ Stein, though, doesn’t stop short. He calls him “God” and also “a loving creator” or something like that. He’s pretty clear about it. Frankly, I don’t know if Stein is Jewish or a Messianic Jew/Christian, but right now, I don’t care, because the movie looks so fantastic, and definitely gives credit to God.
[...] Stein - Expelled Karen at Only Sometimes Clever had a great post and I wanted to share here about it as well. Ben Stein has created a movie called “Expelled [...]
This is my blog of the week!
Thank you, Daja!!
Everyone ~ I just noticed that instead of saying that the movie is due out in February 2008, it’s now saying “Spring 2008.” Hm.
I can’t wait for this to come out. The more attention on the lack of academic freedom, the better.
[...] couple of weeks ago, Karen Joy shared a link to Ben Stein’s upcoming documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. From the Expelled [...]
It’s a “mockumentary”.
But the mocks didn’t get many laughs at the screening of the “director’s cut”, so it’s back to the drawing board in hopes of getting the lies written better by April.
Ummm… onein6, it’s not a mockumentary. Ben Stein is funny, in a very droll way, but if you watch the “SuperTrailer” above, you’ll see that he’s quite serious about the whole thing. Also, if you read his blog/essay posted on the site, it is quite a studious work; that’s his intention: not to mock or make it funny, but to draw attention to the fact that anyone — of any religion — who doesn’t swallow current Darwinian theory hook, line and sinker, is basically blacklisted within the scientific community.
I’m sure the movie will get some laughs; funny people can’t help being funny, even if they’re smart, too. But, I think this movie — like many of Stein’s other brainiac endeavors, such as economic analysis — has a larger bent towards the serious side.
“he’s quite serious about the whole thing”
Your statement needs modification:
He’s quite seriously deluded about the whole thing.
“if you read his blog/essay posted on the site, it is quite a studious work”
It’s serious as in “mock serious” – kind of like mock turtle soup.
“is basically blacklisted within the scientific community”
What? People promoting the non-science that is “intelligent design” are not given grants to study who, what, where, when, how, and why an “intelligent designer” did something? They aren’t given tenure in an Astronomy Department when they have almost no publications, no grants, and no graduate students? “I can’t believe it” he said mockingly.
“has a larger bent towards the serious side”
I’m sure he wishes that it really did. But I’m sure I will laugh at his “howlers” when I go see it.
onein6 ~ I’m glad you’re going to go see it. It’s a good place to be lending your support in terms of your money.
Also, many strong believers started out as skeptics seeking to disprove the theory of God, or the theory of creation. Here’s hoping that, in the future, you can label yourself as a “former skeptic.”
Blessings,
~Karen
“lending your support in terms of your money”
What I will do is buy a ticket to another silly movie in the same complex and then go see his silly mockumentary. Afterwards I can hold a picket outside the theater while claiming I actually saw the movie.
“Here’s hoping that, in the future, you can label yourself as a “former skeptic.””
I will be a “former skeptic” when I’m dead.
They offer to “bribe” schools to bring their kids:
http://www.getexpelled.com/schools.php
But hurry to register – there’s a limited amount of bribe money. Last come – not served.
Thanks for the link, Mike! What a fantastic program. I hope those involved in Christian schools see this post, and follow the link you’ve so graciously provided, so that chronically underfunded Christian schools can get a bit more $$.
“Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.”
P.J. O’Rourke (1947- )
“The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things…. It’s a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don’t have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.” ~P.J. O’Rourke (1947- )
I can Wikiquote, too.
Except, in lieu of “American liberalism”, I would substitute “Christianity-hating, pro-evolutionary dolts who have nothing better to do with their time than bash homeschooling blogging mothers.”
You go, Karen!!
“ROFLOL”
“who have nothing better to do with their time than bash homeschooling blogging mothers”
Idiots need bashing. It gets their attention. Then maybe they could learn something. But 30+ years of indoctrination makes that possibility extremely remote. But if/when their little homeschoolers actually go to a real university, they may come home and ask “why did you lie to me about evolution?”
I’m reading a novel, Mike, called Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. There’s a portion in it that caught my eye, and now I recall after reading your words.
“Be careful whom you choose to hate.
The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly.
Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.”
If you are suggesting that as an idiot, I need bashing, then, by your own admission you are, at my most charitable, best described as a bully. I don’t presume to call you an idiot, though it appears to me that you are dangerously messing with the wrong end of Matthew 25:40, which infers that you are foolish.
I also have suggested that you have a gigantic chip on your shoulder, and are embittered against the sort of people with whom, until very recently, you identified yourself: a Christian creationist. You have yet to refute this, or to explain your regrettable transformation, and have ignored my offers to hear the story.
I feel an odd mixture of anger towards and sorrow for you, Mike. Your very life seems the epitome of pathetic, and I highly suggest that you find some more constructive hobbies.
suppressed?
No, Mike. You haven’t been suppressed. You’ve been temporarily set aside whilst I have more important things to deal with, like the fact that I was dreadfully ill for a week, and had my MIL visit for the weekend. I’ll likely approve all your recent comments, and respond to them, but only as time allows, and it just isn’t allowing right now.