Nazis? It’s all about Nazis? Did Stein get his ideas from Raiders of the Lost Ark?
In a parallel universe even crazier than our own, Ben Stein, former Nixon speechwriter turned ironic symbol of the anti-hip, may as well be making a documentary about how the Nazis used the “controversial” theory of gravity to make bombs fall to earth.
His idea is that, because the Nazi's thought it would be a good idea to breed people like animals, the theory of evolution must be wrong.
It’s nuttiness right from the opening moments. Images of Nazi atrocities and the terrors of life behind the Berlin Wall are smugly deployed in an attempt to editorialize away basic scientific fact.
Expelled isn’t about “intelligent design,” about an alternative scientific theory, or even about academic freedom. It’s about Stein believing he has proven that acceptance of evolution leads to atheism (and also, we’re told, to such horrors as birth control). Hence, evolution cannot be allowed to be true.
I know that Ben Stein is not stupid, but like many intelligent people that are raised in a religious environment, he just can't let go of iron-age ideas.
I have lost all respect for Ben Stein.
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