I'm not a movie reviewer by trade, but I do go to a bunch of movies and I eat
popcorn.
Tonight I went to see "Expelled", a documentary about the oppression of even the words "intelligent design" if used in academia, the press, or politics. It's a run-n-gun shoot showing
Ben Stein interviewing leading scientists, thinkers and writers who have been fired, labeled, branded, and ostracized for mentioning intelligent design, along with dyed-in-the-wool Darwinist authors, teachers, and philosophers.
Big picture - Ben comes through the heavy Nazi, Communist, Berlin Wall, and
Eugenics metaphors genuinely asking for open, free, debate on the topic of intelligent design as a way that Evolution (change over time) began.
My favorite detail - The Darwinists all agree, as did Darwin that life began with a single cell. There's disagreement on where the cell came from. One scientist postulated that the cells piggy-backed on crystals. Another agreed that one way the cell got here was through seeding by another intelligent race of aliens. Clearly, he believed in the possibility of intelligent design, but not the possibility of a Judeo-Christian designer. Aliens "Yes", God "No" - everyone got that? Yikes!
During the shooting and editing, the following expression popped up and I think I'll use it for my next Christmas Card.
