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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
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Ratings: 3.7/10 from 9,249 users
Metascore:
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Reviews: 350 user | 63 critic | 13 from Metacritic.com Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design. Director:Nathan Frankowski |
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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. Written by J. Spurlin
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Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom...What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel!Genres:
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Rated PG for thematic material, some disturbing images and brief smoking See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
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Budget:
$3,500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$2,970,848 (USA) (20 April 2008) (1052 Screens)Gross:
$7,690,545 (USA)Company Credits
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Richard Dawkins: Bertrand Russell had that point put to him, and he said something like: sir, why did you take such pains to hide yourself?
Ben Stein: But, if the Intelligent Design people are right, he isn't hidden. We may even be able to encounter God through science, if we have the freedom to go there. What could be more intriguing than that?
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Written and Performed by Steve Ford
Remixed by Robbie Bronnimann & Andy Hunter
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The film sets up the lecture scene as if it were an actual university lecture. While filmed at Pepperdine University, the auditorium had been rented by the producers and the lecture was not an officially sanctioned event. Pepperdine officials confirmed that the audience was made up of paid extras with only "two or three" actual students attending. Pepperdine administration claims that their student body, while overwhelmingly Christian (Pepperdine is a private Christian college), accepts evolution and does not accept the concept of Intelligent Design. Ironically, Michael Shermer, one of the "Big Science" interviewees in the movie, is a Pepperdine graduate. See more »Quotes
Ben Stein: What if after you died you ran into God, and he says, what have you been doing, Richard? I mean what have you been doing? I've been trying to be nice to you. I gave you a multi-million dollar paycheck, over and over again with your book, and look what you did.Richard Dawkins: Bertrand Russell had that point put to him, and he said something like: sir, why did you take such pains to hide yourself?
Ben Stein: But, if the Intelligent Design people are right, he isn't hidden. We may even be able to encounter God through science, if we have the freedom to go there. What could be more intriguing than that?
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"All Alone"Written and Performed by Steve Ford
Remixed by Robbie Bronnimann & Andy Hunter
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