Earlier this week Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed was released on DVD. After 7 months and 3 days of waiting I finally had the opportunity to see the documentary that confronted the issue over whether or not an academician could legitimately challenge "Big Science’s" orthodoxy of Darwinian evolution without persecution. I'm sure you can guess how that turned out...

Needless to say, what was poignantly revealed was open hostility and forthright persecution of anyone among the intelligentsia who dared challenge the accepted norms. Professors who made the mistake of mentioning ‘Intelligent Design’ in the classroom soon found themselves out of work, black-listed and unable to find teaching positions in respected schools.

In his inimitible movie, Stein unabashedly confronts the thorny problem with evolution in that the "truth is that a staggering amount of new scientific evidence has emerged since Darwin’s 150-year-old theory of life’s origins. Darwin had no concept of DNA, microbiology, The Big Bang, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity or of the human genome."

In spite of recounting the new scientific evidence contradicting aspects of Darwinian thinking, the movie's most powerful question is the most fundamental one in this whole debate. How did life begin? That is the question that is oftentimes glossed over but is never satisfactorily answered by the evolutionists. Scientists have no formidable answer for this elementary question. They can only postulate about hydrogen and helium forming clouds but even that is a failure to address the issue which still remains. From whence did these elements derive? Evolution is a woefully inadequate system to answer this question. Yet, scientists would have us believe that the question has already been solved, but the truth is that evolution offers no answer at all if we were to be intellectually honest.

Beyond drawing attention to this simple fact, Expelled seeks to answer the three following questions: 

Question #1:

Should our government be engaged in official, de facto promotion of the exclusively secular, materialist worldview inherent in neo-Darwinian theory in our nation’s public schools, universities and research institutions? Why? 

Question #2:

There is growing support among scientists that there is evidence of intelligent design operating in nature. Yet these scientists, researchers and educators are being routinely persecuted for their scientific views. Who is behind this persecution? Why is this happening in America? How did this situation develop?  

Question #3:

Should the enterprise of science somehow be treated differently from all other forms of human knowledge, and accorded a special privilege that exempts it from robust debate or inquiry, especially when such debate or inquiry may alter viewpoints that raise important questions concerning larger issues that extend beyond the limits of science itself?

Expelled does a masterful job of exposing the liberal bias and anti-theistic agenda of the far left. It is one of the best productions in recent years that takes on the evolutionary movement and shows just where it can lead in societies when carried to its logical conclusion -- i.e., Nazism, Totalitarianism, Communism, etc.