"Big Science has
expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is that
every generation has its rebel!"
Ben Stein, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The
Wonder Years is on a journey to answer one of the biggest
questions ever asked: Were we designed or are we simply the end result
of an ancient mud puddle struck by lightning? Stein, who is also a
lawyer, an economist, a former presidential speechwriter, author and
social commentator, is stunned by what he finds on his journey. He
discovers an elitist scientific establishment that has traded in its
skepticism for dogma. But even worse, along the way, Stein uncovers a
long line of biologists, astronomers, chemists and philosophers who have
had their reputations destroyed and their careers ruined by a
scientific establishment that allows absolutely no dissent from Charles
Darwin's theory of random mutation and natural selection.
"Big Science in this area of biology has lost its way," says Stein.
"Scientists are supposed to be allowed to follow the evidence wherever
it may lead, no matter what the implications are. Freedom of inquiry has
been greatly compromised, and this is not only anti-American, it's
anti-science. Its anti-the whole concept of learning."
Expelled:No
Intelligence Allowed uncovers that educators and scientists
are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired in some cases for the
fact that they believe there is evidence of "design" in nature,
challenging the idea that life is a result of random chance. The
creators of Expelled:No
Intelligence Allowed crossed the globe over a two-year
period, interviewing scores of scientists, doctors, philosophers and
public leaders. The result is a startling revelation that freedom of
thought and freedom of inquiry have been expelled from publicly-funded
high schools, universities and research institutions.
Expelled:No Intelligence
Allowed is the first of its kind - a film that has been years
in the making, featuring the best and brightest physicists, biological
scientists, molecular biologists, educators, theologians and
philosophers from over 25 countries on our planet.
Many of the world's top scientists, educators and researchers are
recognizing new scientific evidence of intelligent design in our
universe. But, they are being Expelled by Big Science.
Fired. Denied tenure. Denied their right to free speech.
Despite the fact that most Americans believe that God created life,
the only "origin of life" theory taught in the majority of American
schools is Neo-Darwinism, which at its core hold that a random
undirected process has led from non-life to all of the marvelous
complexity we see in the living world.
Recent scientific discoveries have raised serious questions about the
theory of Darwinian evolution, while at the same time giving birth to a
scientific theory called intelligent design. Despite the compelling
modern science in support of intelligent design, and despite the fact
that most Americans want the evidence for and against Darwin's theory
taught in schools, any questioning of Darwinism is systematically
suppressed in nearly all academic and scientific communities.
The suppression of new scientific ideas - particularly
those that pertain to the origins of life - presents today's students
with a one-sided argument in the court of public opinion. It's as if
they're a jury being shown evidence for only ONE SIDE of the case. All
evidence from the opposing side is being thrown out of court, not by the
jury or even the judge, but by the side presenting the contrary
argument!
It's suppression at its worst, where the implications reach far
beyond the classroom. Expelled:No
Intelligence Allowed seeks to expose this suppression and give today's students a glimpse into the amazing discoveries that modern science is revealing.
"In today's world, at least in America, an Einstein or a Newton or
a Galileo would probably not be allowed to receive grants to study or
to publish his research." - Ben Stein
"A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing
the facts and arguments on both sides of each question."
- Charles
Darwin, Introduction to the Origin of Species.
DARWIN - IN HIS OWN WORDS:"If it could be
demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly
have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my
theory would absolutely break down."
"To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for
adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different
amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic
aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely
confess, absurd in the highest degree."
