I finally got around to watching Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed the other day. Luckily it was on Netflix instant viewing, so I didn't have to pay to rent it or anything. Here are the notes I jotted down as I was watching:
You're not being shut down because of some Darwinist/Evolutionist conspiracy. You're being shut down because intelligent design is not science. If you started alleging that fairies existed and nudged biological development one way or the other, no one would question you being fired. It's the same damn thing.
Idiotic cutaways comparing someone getting fired over propagating ID with beheadings by guillotine, the separation of Berlin, etc
Moronic segues with Stein speaking like he hasn't already concluded that ID is a good thing. Playing stupid while asking leading questions, so he can say, Oh, look, I'm skeptical, I'm not just engaging in ID masturbation.
Chose the most crazy sounding atheist to interview at length, the one with the brain tumor.
Oh no, the Nazis exploited Darwin's ideas to perpetrate horrible crimes, it must be evil! Oh wait, the church and religious ideas have been used way more often to perpetrate terrible acts, I wonder why *that* hasn't fallen under suspicion...
So yeah, needless to say, I found this film to be absurd and worthy of all the ridicule which has been directed toward it.
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