“Expelled” review

Just last night I was able to go to the theatre and see Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. An outrageously overpriced Regal Cinemas theatre, may I add. Regardless, I have to say, it was quite excellent.

Now, before I get hate mail from all you Richard Dawkins lovers, I want to give my personal review. First of all, if you haven’t seen the movie, go see it. In any case, I really love the way Ben Stein begins the movie. He starts off with more of a skeptical point of view towards the whole intelligent design idea, but as the movie wears on, he completely reverses and comes to the conclusion that evolution isn’t really as “scientific” and unmatched in evidence as scientists would have us believe.

I’m not going to go into a detailed review, but I’d like to point some things out. For those of you who believe Richard Dawkins and other evolutionist scientists that were interviewed, the scenes in the interview were obviously uncut. Or at least in the way mentioned by the interviewed. Evolutionist scientists interviewed for the film claim that the interview was cut so ridiculously that the answers presented in the film did not appear to be for the questions they were really asked. Yet I paid close attention to the interview, and did not find a pixel of choppiness or obvious change. The only way I could imagine this being cut is a Photoshop genius unknown to our universe editing the entire interview frame by frame, which is essentially impossible at, say, one hundred frames per second in a fifteen minute interview. I’m being a little generous in this argument too. Backpedaling now, eh Dawkins?

Now that I’m done criticizing Richard Dawkins… wait, I’m not done. This thought occurred to me during the film: Richard Dawkins reminded me of a dog chasing its tail. Throughout the film, the evolutionists scientists being interviewed often just ran around in circles in their arguments. Blank requires blank which requires blank and that requires the first blank. It’s an endless circle! Doesn’t the dog look like Richard Dawkins too?

Alright, this time I’m really done with my Richard Dawkins bashing. So I come to this conclusion: go watch Expelled.

Oh, and I need to give an address for hate mail. Go ahead and send it all to contact@richarddawkins.net.