Everyone should take the opportunity to see "Expelled" — if nothing else, as a bracing antidote to the atheism-friendly culture of PC liberalism. But it's far more than that. It's a spotlight on the arrogance of this movement and its leaders, a spotlight on the choking intolerance of academia, and a spotlight on the ignorance of so many who say so much, yet know so very little.
I saw Expelled Sunday and highly recommend it (I know, I know, a movie reco. from Alan Smithee is by its very nature suspect...). It's a very thought-provoking examination of how the mainstream scientific establishment stifles any discussion whatsoever of discussion of ID.
Stein comments that America is founded on freedom - freedom of thought, speech and inquiry, high on the list. That freedom is being taken away and stifled in the name of PC liberalism. He uses the Berlin Wall throughout the film as a metaphor for what is happening in science. Just as the Soviets put up the wall to keep out western influence and ideas, so too has the scientific establishment erected its own Berlin Wall. If you're on the right side of that wall, you're free to do your science unimpeded. If you cross over to the other side, and dare mention ID (or by extension, question Global Warming), then you will be shut out, ostracized, lose grant funding, be denied tenure and lose your job.
Go see the movie. I haven't been to a movie in years where the audience clapped at the end. |
