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    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

    • 20082008
    • ALAL
    • 1h 37min
    IMDb RATING
    3.8/10
    12K
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    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
    Trailer for this documentary exploring the fallacies of the intelligent design theory
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    Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.

    IMDb RATING
    3.8/10
    12K
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    • Director
      • Nathan Frankowski
    • Writers
      • Kevin Miller
      • Ben Stein
    • Stars
      • Ben Stein
      • Lili Asvar
      • Peter Atkins
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    • Director
      • Nathan Frankowski
    • Writers
      • Kevin Miller
      • Ben Stein
    • Stars
      • Ben Stein
      • Lili Asvar
      • Peter Atkins
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    • 396User reviews
    • 59Critic reviews
    • 20Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins

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    Ben Stein
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    • Self - Hostas Self - Host
    Lili Asvar
    • Saraas Sara
    Peter Atkins
    • Selfas Self
    Hector Avalos
    • Selfas Self
    Doug Axe
    • Selfas Self
    Adam Behr
    • Multiple animation voicesas Multiple animation voices
    • (voice)
    David Berlinski
    • Selfas Self
    Walter Bradley
    • Selfas Self
    Bruce Chapman
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    Anderson Cooper
    Anderson Cooper
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    • (archive footage)
    Caroline Crocker
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    Richard Dawkins
    Richard Dawkins
    • Selfas Self
    William Dembski
    • Selfas Self
    • (as William Albert Dembski)
    Daniel C. Dennett
    Daniel C. Dennett
    • Selfas Self
    • (as Daniel Dennett)
    Michael Egnor
    • Selfas Self
    Steve Fuller
    Steve Fuller
    • Selfas Self
    Bill Gaede
    Uta George
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    • Director
      • Nathan Frankowski
    • Writers
      • Kevin Miller
      • Ben Stein
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    Academic freedom is being suppressed, says Ben Stein. He contends that professors from around the United States are being fired from their jobs for promoting, or even exploring the possibility of, intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinism. Stein interviews the expelled academics and other supporters of intelligent design. He also interviews the scientists in the mainstream, who support Darwinism. Stein links Darwinism to Nazism, Communism, eugenics and abortion. Vintage clips of educational films and Hollywood movies are used to illustrate points in a satirical way. —J. Spurlin
    propagandacreationismchristian fundamentalismparanoiadarwinism69 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom...What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel!
    • Genre
      • Documentary
    • Certificate
      • AL
    • Parents guide

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    • Trivia
      Preview screenings for the movie were held for churches and other Christian groups months in advance, and by invitation only. After a movie critic was inadvertently allowed to view the film early, resulting in a negative review, a policy of requiring viewers to sign nondisclosure agreements was implemented at these screenings. Closer to release, an "RSVP" site was set up to allow members of the public to view the movie in a near-finished state. One of these was evolutionary biologist and Expelled interviewee Paul Zachary Myers. Although ejected from the screening, his anonymous guests - including fellow interviewee, biologist Richard Dawkins - were able to view the movie.
    • Goofs
      The film presents Darwin's writing as a driving force behind the Nazi ideologies. In fact, the Nazis denounced and banned most of Darwin's work.
    • Quotes

      Stephen C. Meyer: We don't know what caused life to arise. Did it arise by purely undirected process? Or did it arise by some kind of intelligent guidance or design? And the rules of science are being applied to actually foreclose one of the two possible answers that very basic, and fundamental, and important question.

    • Connections
      Featured in Creation Today: The Origin of Life, Part 2 (2013)
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      All Along the Watchtower
      Written by Bob Dylan

      Courtesy of Steve Ford Music

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    A Global Conspiracy?
    For those who have found positive things to say about this film, I would ask you how the greatest conspiracy in human history might have been perpetrated. Virtually every major scientific society in the world has come out with the strongest support for evolution, a theory that has more factual underpinnings than the atomic theory of matter or quantum mechanics. The conspiracy to silence the dissent against evolution must include most people working in geology, biochemistry, paleontology, ecology, molecular genetics, etc., all fields where overwhelming amounts of evidence provide the basis for our understanding of how life on earth diverged from a common origin. When I am told that "leading" scientists have questioned evolution, it reminds me of the National Enquirer headline that stated that a space scientist had an encounter with aliens. Reading the article made it clear that this person was a draftsman at some NASA facility. Let us be clear that there is no scientific debate about whether evolution took place (that debate was finished more than 100 years ago), rather, it is religious fundamentalism that refuses to accept that humans evolved from other life forms (yet most Americans do not accept this fact). Ben Stein's agenda appears to be to drive America back to some fundamentalist time, while the rest of the world advances.
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    • What is Intelligent Design?
    • What is creationism?
    • Is "Intelligent Design" the same as "Creationism"?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • April 18, 2008 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Crossroads
    • Filming locations
      • Down House, Biggin Hill, Kent, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Premise Media Corporation
      • Rampant Films
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    • Budget
      • $3,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $7,720,487
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,970,848
      • Apr 20, 2008
    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,720,487
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 37min
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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