Well, while the battle rages on I want to swing by here and make note of a special movie. It is only playing in a handful of theaters but one of those is near my home. It is a documentary of sorts, called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". (The Trailer is below.)Not to explain the entire premise of the film, but it is set against the evolution vs. creation or science vs. religion debates. More specifically, the Intelligent Design movement vs. the evolutionary establishment’s dogmatic doctrines.
The host of the film is Ben Stein who many people will recognize and the film itself revolves around his personal journey to understand the issue which has been important to him for a while now. He begins a bit skeptically, exploring the fight between ID and evolution in academia. He tends to, as most have done, side with the majority vote which is evolution; believing that the majority of academia and science have claimed that it is simply sound teaching. Quickly he realizes that their is much more going on as he meets with evolutionists and ID proponents who have been ostracized or discredited simply for following where the science leads them; in those cases the science had led them to evidence for an intelligent designer.
Ben then starts interviewing both sides of the battle, many big name evolutionists included, to piece things together. Looking for truth, not to provide a one sided view, but to see which view is stronger and if their is truly a conspiracy of sorts in the academic circles. What he finds is the truth indeed, but it is a sad truth that many creationists and apologists have known for some time. The truth is our arguments, especially in science, go ignored and discredited with little hesitation or inspection by the evolutionist establishment.
Over the course of the film, Ben discovers many things; an academic world that functions more like a communist nation than the free world it claims to be. He also discovers just how utterly bankrupt the idea of evolution is and from the mouths of the evolutionists no less. Lastly he reveals what is long been known by some, that the nature of this fight is not in the science, but in the heart. If you can spare the hour and a half, if you can spare the 7 dollars, please see this and consider what it says. Ignoring a point and concluding on it is not a rational way of denying what it says and what it says is important to every single person. If not in the theaters though, at least rent it in a few months. Talk about it and pass it around if you can. This is important...
Ben then starts interviewing both sides of the battle, many big name evolutionists included, to piece things together. Looking for truth, not to provide a one sided view, but to see which view is stronger and if their is truly a conspiracy of sorts in the academic circles. What he finds is the truth indeed, but it is a sad truth that many creationists and apologists have known for some time. The truth is our arguments, especially in science, go ignored and discredited with little hesitation or inspection by the evolutionist establishment.
Over the course of the film, Ben discovers many things; an academic world that functions more like a communist nation than the free world it claims to be. He also discovers just how utterly bankrupt the idea of evolution is and from the mouths of the evolutionists no less. Lastly he reveals what is long been known by some, that the nature of this fight is not in the science, but in the heart. If you can spare the hour and a half, if you can spare the 7 dollars, please see this and consider what it says. Ignoring a point and concluding on it is not a rational way of denying what it says and what it says is important to every single person. If not in the theaters though, at least rent it in a few months. Talk about it and pass it around if you can. This is important...
Disclaimer:
"Expelled is not a Christian film per se; its emphasis is not on the Bible, Jesus, or Christianity. However, we believe that Christians will enjoy the documentary, as it is very much pro-logic, pro-liberty, pro-life, and pro-intelligent design—which also means that it is very much anti-macroevolution." -ApologeticsPress
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