Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

10 Comments on “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”

1. 
   Lavender
   December 9th, 2008 at 10:06

   Me thinks thou dost protest too much, thereby giving Stein credibility. Really, if this were about anything BUT ID, would you have gone off on a 4,000+ word rant? You certainly don’t provide that much commentary with most (if any) of your other docs. My husband is a Ph.D. in Mathematics, so he’s no irrational, illogical dummy. And his personal research indicates that there’s not much science behind evolution, no matter how much faux “scientific” bs they pull out of their asses. It’s basic, foundational premise HAS to be: life came from non-life. THAT goes against all OBSERVABLE phenomenon, which is the basis of all science: a phenomena is observed; from which hypotheses are then drawn; experiments contrived; and hypotheses then proven or disproven. How in the h#ll does evolution fill that bill?! So things adapt (”micro-evolution”)– Big whoop! My husband’s conclusions about evolution, based on personal research: it’s based on faith, just as the religions it despises and denigrates. In fact, it’s basis of faith is WHY it so despises religion. After all, you won’t find physicists, chemists, & mathematicians attacking religion with such fervor — Only “scientific” evolutionists. There’s something going on there, and it ain’t rational science, no matter how much they say it is (i.e., the BIG LIE: say something long enough, loud enough, and everyone will believe it).

2. 
   Vlatko
   December 9th, 2008 at 21:49

   Don’t worry Lavender. 4000+ words in this review are not actually mine. In fact they are taken from Amazon as it’s stated at the end of it. Believe me… the length of this review in comparison to others here on TDF is just a coincidence and nothing more, or maybe the only reason for the length of this review is because this documentary is still not available for on-line watching.

3. 
   Richard K.
   February 5th, 2009 at 02:42

   @Lavender

   I would like to inform you that having a PhD in Mathematics does not make him someone who can challenge people with PhDs in life sciences. He is good with numbers, but he definitely does not know the mechanism of evolution, else he wouldn’t have said its based on “faith”. Not just “evolutionists” (they are called biologists, by the way), but every field of science that is not in accordance to the bible (geology, astrophysics etc) is attacked by proponents of ID. You can believe what you want to ma’am, but evolution is a fact. And another fact – this documentary is horribly skewed in favor of the supporters of ID, which definitely is not science,

4. 
   Vitaloverdose
   May 13th, 2009 at 19:53

   lolol.. is this guy serious?

5. 
   silkop
   May 13th, 2009 at 23:27

   Ben Stein is a master of failure. He fails at giving financial advice, film making, science, politics, intelligence, compassion … you name it. The only thing he sort of succeeds at is making people laugh at him. Maybe he’s a covert clown.

6. 
   III
   June 11th, 2009 at 05:58

   interesting how id proponents rely on baseless hypothesise to advance their cause. i guess all the credible science was taken…

   however as an atheist i wish creationist nonsense were taught in schools so the young could see for themselves how unintelligent it is firsthand.

   evidence > faith

7. 
   quick
   June 11th, 2009 at 20:20

   I didnt know that nazis used to kill people.
   what an eyeopener, Ben

8. 
   Spiderman156
   June 28th, 2009 at 06:38

   This movie is offensive for many reasons, only some of them being the conjecture that people who see Darwin’s theory as being valid thus are lead to not have morals and see life as worthless, that there is not a single piece of evidence put forth for Intelligent Design, only the disagreements of scientists with the theory, in the film Ben Stein says that “Darwinists” have gone from promoting evolution to bashing religion while ignoring the debate while he does the same thing, he ignores the fact that he presents no evidence for Intelligent Design and just shows some scientists opinions on lackings within Darwin’s theory which are valid, but Darwin’s theory is not made to cover the areas they have issues with, and lastly that Intelligent Design, no matter if you agree with Darwin or not because for this point it is hardly relevant, cannot at all be science. Science is based upon empirical observation that is analyzed and has conclusions based upon it which are then tested for credibility, then after a sufficient theory is established hypotheses are created and tested to hold up new advancements in the field, but Intelligent Design at its core cannot possibly do that because it is based upon the idea of an unknowable force starting life which is by definition beyond empirical observation so calling Intelligent Design science is just incorrect and therefore is untestable, and not to mention the point that Intelligent Design unlike all other scientific theory does not have any hypotheses that predict anything that we can test and observe. I am not against the advancement of any idea, no matter what it is and these statements may seem to counter that but Intelligent Design is untestable as a scientific theory and is therefore useless to speak about as a science, at most as philosophical. Lastly, I am sorry if I am reiterating anything someone has previously stated, I just needed to say this myself.

9. 
   Pink
   July 1st, 2009 at 08:58

   Spiderman156, you said:
   “Science is based upon empirical observation that is analyzed and has conclusions based upon it which are then tested for credibility, then after a sufficient theory is established hypotheses are created and tested to hold up new advancements in the field”

   Two Questions:
   1) Can science test and prove what sparked the creation of the universe before the universe existed? (Obviously, scientists will tell you that the universe is finite in terms of age and size if you’ve ever studied astronomy/astrophysics.)

   2) Can science test if and how matter is created out of nothing (no space, no time, no energy, no matter/particles, nothing at all)? How can we test the creation of matter out of nothing, when our very existence resides in SOMETHING (space, time, etc.) at all points in time?

   Until these two things can be tested and proved, you have shot yourself in the foot with your own argument.

10. 
    Pinkish Hue
    July 2nd, 2009 at 04:09

    Pink

    Thank you!

    No one can or will understand the origin of the universe!

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