Today, Ben Stein's movie, "Expelled," hit the theaters. If you didn't know, it is a documentary showing the intolerance toward anyone opposed to Darwinian evolution in the institutes of higher learning. No doubt, you'll get conservatives lauding the movie and evolutionists gnashing their teeth. Sho'nuff.About 3% of movie critics like it. That should tell you something right there. The rest find it "propaganda, a political rant disguised as a serious commentary on stifled freedom of inquiry." Another was about as kind, " One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time, Expelled is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry." These from the people who think Michael Moore is genius (by the way, both are actual quotes from reviews, the latter being the opening line from the NY Times' review).
The tone is venomous! You get a flavor for it above. But from all directions, from the film snobs and from the scientific evolutionists, you get a disdain to the point of loathing toward anyone who would seriously consider the arguments made in the film. Essentially, what the critiques (insults?) boil down to is something like this: "If you find this film at all entertaining, then either you are not smart enough to understand the finer nuances of Darwinian evolution (by the way, is there another kind?), or you've been deluded by your religious myths and fairy tales." Sounds like they've been in touch with Obama's speechwriter.
Looks to me like I'll be taking my challenged IQ and my B-I-B-L-E to the cineplex for a rip-roaring good time. Yee-ha! Pass the popcorn.
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I feel ya, sir! Some friends and I here have been trying to work out a time to go check it out. Only mildly problematic since our closest options are Denver or Cheyenne!
-JP
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