Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) More at IMDb Pro »

This movie was much better than I expected. Before I watched this movie, I had second thoughts about getting it. I was afraid it would be Christians ranting against evolution. Frankly, the intellectual disgrace of so many Christians on this matter is shameful.

However, the movie was very well done (and very entertaining). It was not a defense of intelligent design itself. The point of the movie was that intelligent, rational people can believe in intelligent design – but if they do they are driven out of Academia.

I don't agree with intelligent design. The case for it is made on some of the large gaps in evolution theory. The movie does a great job showing the astonishing complexity of a single cell, and raises the question how did the first cell come about? A huge question, but I believe that when all the dust settles that there will be plausible, rational explanations for how these things tied together and became cells. I don't think we need to interject miracle to explain them.

At the same time, I don't think we have to mandate that all science must be dysteleological – my spell check rejects that word, but it means the view that there is no point to the universe. There's nothing scientific about that view, it is a dogma. If science is built on all these rational, orderly bits of the universe, why do we insist that when all these bits and theories are put together, that the whole thing must be irrational and pointless? Why must we insist, in the universities, that personhood is a completely alien force in an otherwise dead and stupid (though elegant) universe?

I suppose some people won't understand the points I'm making, but let me just say, that for academicians who ban religious thought, and for the creationists who will completely butcher the points made in this fine documentary – a plague on both your houses.

The point of this movie is about people asking questions, and not being censored for asking them. What's wrong with that?