Ben Stein features ISU professors in intelligent design and evolution film in theaters today April 18, 2008
Posted by John in Education, Entertainers, Films, Nature, Science.Tags: academic freedom, Ben Stein, documentary films, evolution, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Guillermo Gonzalez, Hector Avalos, Intelligent Design, Iowa State University, tenure, YouTube
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Background on intelligent design from Encyclopedia Britannica.
From IMDB.com:
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Release Date: 18 April 2008 (USA)
This Wikipedia page about the film lists Iowa State University professor Guillermo Gonzalez (recently denied tenure) among those featured.
According to the Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed film site, it is showing locally at Galaxy 16 in Cedar Rapids, and Sycamore 12 in Iowa City.
Found a 7+ minute trailer at YouTube:
Please send me additional links or add your own thoughts here!
UPDATE: Guillermo Gonzalez to leave Iowa State University after this semester. For more information, see ISU Intelligent design proponent finds new job.
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Biological evolution has overwhelming evidence, and intelligent design creationism is a childish idiotic belief in magic.
The producers of Expelled are professional liars for Jesus.
http://www.expelledexposed.com/
“Premise Media and its marketers have engaged in deception from the beginning of the production of Expelled to the opening weekend. The makers were dishonest with their interviewees, dishonest about allowing (and then disallowing) people to view the film, and dishonest in promoting the film. Dishonesty permeates the content of the film as well: quote-mining, selective editing, and misinterpretations permeate the movie from start to finish, as discussed in The Truth behind the Fiction.”
Educators, Bloggers Find an Inconvenient ‘Expelled’
http://thescroogereport.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/educators-bloggers-find-an-inconvenient-expelled/
I have no plans of watching that idiotic movie in spite of the fact they happen to have an ISU Professor who failed to earn tenure whinning about how he is being unfairly treated.
Ben Stein peaked in his role of the boring teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. This movie is proof Ben Stein has hit rock bottom.
Thanks for the trailer.
Here’s a link to a page showing excerpts from a dozen or so reviews of the movie – so people can get an idea of what they’re spending their $$ on
http://tinyurl.com/5q5mu8
You folks may be interested in a response lecture to
Expelled by Dr. Hector Avalos, Iowa’s fiercest anti-creationist
who was featured in the movie:
“Did Darwinism Lead to the Holocaust?
A Response to Expelled: No Intelligence
Allowed,”
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
7:30pm
2432 Food Sciences Building
Iowa State University
A well written letter by Richard Dawkins who was tricked into being interviewed by the makers of Expelled. Mr. Dawkins letter is to someone who after watching Expelled is now convinced that Darwinism is responsible for the Holocaust.
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2488,Open-Letter-to-a-victim-of-Ben-Steins-lying-propaganda,Richard-Dawkins
The film Expelled is in the news again today:
Ben Stein 1, Yoko Ono 0 in “Expelled” copyright spat