TRENTON – The on-going debate on the theories of Evolution and Intelligent Design was reignited on Friday the 18th, with the release of actor-turned-filmmaker Ben Stein’s documentary, “Expelled”, which takes on establishment science and Darwinism. It opened in 1,000 theaters nationwide, finishing fifth overall in per-theater earnings (3.2 mil.).

The film follows Stein as he determines whether Intelligent Design is a pseudo-science trying to undermine evolutionary biology or whether it is a legitimate science being suppressed by a scientific establishment that is hostile to any deviation from the status quo. 

Stein, a writer (including presidential speeches), public speaker, social activist, actor, and game show host says everyone should have the freedom to disagree and most importantly follow the evidence wherever it leads.  In fact Charles Darwin stated in Origins of the Species, “A fair result can only be obtained by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.”

Stein says he has no problem if people (some very smart people) want to believe we evolved out of nothing without purpose.  “After all”, he says, “this isn’t Nazi Germany.  People are entitled to say and believe anything they want regarding God and development of life…..at least that’s what I used to think”.  Upon investigation he found that those who challenge Darwinism seldom go unpunished: scientists and educators lose jobs, no tenure, publications denied in scientific journals, and ridicule by media outlets that often merely repeat the unfounded mantra of evolution scientists that Intelligent Design is some how not scientific.

The reality, however, is that a host of newer scientific discoveries reveal the evidence of a Designer – not chance – and the film explores this science.   

Stein began researching this issue because Darwinism has led to academic suppression. “Darwinism got rolling in the 19th century, but no one would have dreamed that the Nazis would ‘decode’ it to mean survival of the fittest, using industrial technology to eliminate people they deemed to be just specks of mud. If I wipe some mud off my car windshield, who cares? Similarly, the Nazis thought, ‘If I wipe some Jews off the windshield of history, who cares? They’re just specks of mud’.” 

Stein sees it as all of our duty to examine the evidence and get this information out before it’s too late. He warns that “doing so could cause you trouble”, but if scientists, teachers, college and high school students, legislators and journalists don’t look at the evidence, will anyone be left to fight this battle? Anyone? Anyone? DON’T ALLOW ONE SIDE OF THE DEBATE TO BE “EXPELLED.”        

###