Posted by
tohu.vavohu on Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:09:00 AM
'eXpelled: No Intelligence Allowed' is a
movie/documentary from Ben Stein. Basically it's Ben Stein and his stand that
there is a God/intelligent design vs. the atheist world view and the trouble
educators are receiving for believing in God and intelligent design. From what
I can gather. "Ben
realizes that he has been 'Expelled,' and that educators and scientists are
being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the 'crime' of merely
believing that there might be evidence of 'design' in nature, and that perhaps
life is not just the result of accidental, random chance." There is a great
trailer to watch that is several minutes long. Click here and then click on the
trailer that says "Super Trailer" to see that extended trailer. The current trailer on
television is a hoot that you can see on the home page [it's extended from
the 15-30 sec tv ad]. [I laugh at his reason for being sent to the
office.]
'eXpelled' opens this Friday nationwide. If you have
the ability to, I encourage you to see it. In fact, I encourage you to try and
get groups together to see this movie. It's actually
imperative. If you think this movie is worthwhile and deserves to be seen by
the public, time is of the essence. The opening weekend for a movie is the
"make-it-or-break-it" time. A movie can bomb in the first weekend and can be
pulled out of theaters by the next or even before a full week is over with [I've
personally seen this]. If a movie does better than projected it will be kept in
theaters and more locations will be added to the list of theaters screening the
movie. Just look at a movie like 'Little Miss Sunshine'. When it first came
out it opened in one theater in the Arizona/Phoenix area. Because of the buzz
around it and it's unexpected positive sales it was released state wide in
several theaters around the state [and the nation]. It was never slated to be
in that many theaters, but it was made possible by the overwhelming audience
trying to find a theater playing it. Even though 'eXpelled' is
in an unprecedented high number of movie theaters for being a documentary, it
can be pulled quicker than you can bat an eye. But if there is a high "demand"
it can be sent to even more theaters than what is currently on board. The
movie's website has a theater locater to find
the nearest place it's playing to you. Go by yourself, go in a group, plan an
outing with a church group to see it, plan it around a discussion. However you
want to do it, see it; if you think it merits it.
Michael Medved
interviewed someone this past Friday I believe either about the movie or about
atheism, where his guest was on the side of intelligent design, arguing against
atheism. There seems to have been some kind of glitch/mix up on the archive
site so I can't link to the audio. If it pops up, I'll let you
know.
Some interesting
"tidbits" involving atheism and the like:
Again, 'eXpelled' is
opening this Friday
~tohu.va.vohu