Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) by Joel R — 02 Dec 2008

Imagine you are Ben Stein. (Did I scare you???!).

And then imagine - you want to expose those people who are censoring free ranging scientific thought. You want to "slam dunk" your point, but you have the MOST BORING SPEAKING VOICE on the face of the earth (Think of boring Ben Stein in the "Ferris Buehler" movie or even Ben Stein the boring teacher in "The Wonder Years" TV show...) And you have a deadpan face to match...(remember the most boring lecturer that ever put your college class to sleep...).

What can you do to make your point - to show, document, blast into the TV picture brains of the Gen X Y Z etc...(and their Boomer/Buster parents???).

SHOW & TELL!

Berlin Wall, and Communist Checkpoint Charlie, is your visual theme. Scientific authorities, university officials, and their ideologically non-diverse friends are shutting down their fellow credentialed scientists (and reporters, other persons) who DARE even mention the vague, minute possibility that we did NOT get here by seeds dropped by an alien race (oh, wait that was Dawkin's hypothesis for how the cell began) ...

So you (again, you're "Ben Stein") use your droll voice and deadpan expression (which also conceals the brain of a very smart guy) to interview some of the top people .......(think Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" and leader of the pack in evangelising atheism...) on both sides of this issue....

Whatever your beliefs are, (ore aren't) the interviews with some of the top people on either side of this controversy are very revealing...Maybe Dawkins, et. al (who are shown usually in long takes...little of the microediting of, say, a Michael Moore) were lulled by deadpan Ben (apparently) into revealing a bit of their true ideology disguised as objective science....

Watch and see if Ben makes his case!

Fun, interesting to watch! Oh, maybe not for my 10 year old, but for many of the rest of us...