Yes, I saw Expelled last weekend. Quite frankly, I wasn’t really interested in going, because I had heard all of the arguments and much of the whining about how evolutionists suppress all discussion about creation and intelligent design. However, I went with a group of friends, and wanted to show my support for the theaters that showed the movie. If you haven’t seen this documentary, GO SEE IT!
I have been reading some of the columnists rant about this film, but one of the best ones supporting the movie is Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists, by Brent Bozell. Man he makes some great points. He states,
It is a reality of PC liberalism: There is only one credible side to an issue, and any dissent is not only rejected, it is scorned. Global warming. Gay “rights.” Abortion “rights.” On these and so many other issues there is enlightenment, and then there is the Idiotic Other Side. PC liberalism’s power centers are the news media, the entertainment industry and academia, and all are in the clutches of an unmistakable hypocrisy: Theirs is an ideology that preaches the freedom of thought and expression at every opportunity, yet practices absolute intolerance toward dissension.
We see this reaction in nearly all of the comments against this film. No one really addresses the content specifically, but instead rails against the film as stupid, made for and watched by idiots, and only for those morons that believe the earth is flat. Listen to the comments by some of the stars of the film:
Now that the film is complete, the evolutionist prophets featured in the film are on the warpath inveighing against it, and the alleged idiots who would lower themselves to watching it. Richard Dawkins laments how the film will solicit “cheap laughs that could only be raised in an audience of scientific ignoramuses.” Minnesota professor and blogger P.Z. Myers predicts the movie is “going to appeal strongly to the religious, the paranoid, the conspiracy theorists, and the ignorant —- which means they’re going to draw in about 90 percent of the American market.”
Hmmm. If you can’t address their substance, then insult them, attack them, and slander them in the press.
It’s understood that God had nothing to do with the origins of life on Earth. What, then, is the alternate explanation? Stein asks these experts, and their very serious answers are priceless. One theorizes that life began somehow on the backs of crystals. Another states electric sparks from a lightning storm created organic matter (out of nothing). Another declares that life was brought to Earth by aliens. Anything but God.
This is the crux of the matter, isn’t it? If someone is adamant about denying the existence of God, then one must come up with a “creation” story that does not include any form of outside, supernatural deity. This is evolution. It is NOT a scientific explanation of the world or of its origins. It is, plain and simple, an explanation of the world and its origins WITHOUT God. That is the agenda of the evolution crowd. There is no science, no proof, no well-reasoned arguments, and no data. It is aliens, crystals, and chance. It continues to amaze me how strongly human beings will suppress the truth about God and nature in order to live life autonomously. What is amazing is that theories of the origins of the world have been around for along time. Our understanding of the natural world has changed considerably over the past several thousand years. What is amazing is that the Bible has endured for 3,500 years, in the same form with the same words as it is now, and is still truth. People have been suppressing the truth of God and His revelation in nature and His Word for thousands of years, and yet the truth still comes forth. This irritates the wise, the smart ones, because they think God is foolish.
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians chapter 1: But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, ”Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
