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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
May 6, 2008
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Ben Stein Provokes the Liberal Wrath
By Phyllis Schlafly
Ben Stein is known to many as an actor on Comedy Central.
But the funniest part about his recent movie "Expelled"
is not any clever lines spoken by Stein but the hysterical
way liberals are trying to discourage people from seeing
it.
Stein's critics fail to effectively refute anything in
"Expelled"; they just use epithets to ridicule it and
hope they can make it go away. However, it won't go away;
even Scientific American, which labeled the movie
"shameful," concedes that it cannot be ignored.
The movie is about how scientists who dare to criticize
Darwinism or discuss the contrary theory called intelligent
design are expelled, fired, denied tenure, blacklisted,
and bitterly denounced. Academic freedom doesn't extend
to this issue.
The message of Stein's critics comes through loud and
clear. They don't want anybody to challenge Darwinian
orthodoxy or suggest that intelligent design might be
an explanation of the origin of life.
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Stein, who serves as his own narrator in the movie, is
very deadpan about it all. He doesn't try to convince
the audience that Darwinism is a fraud, or that God
created the world, or even that some unidentified
intelligent design might have started life on Earth.
Stein merely shows the intolerance of the universities,
the government, the courts, the grant-making foundations
and the media, and their determination to suppress any
mention of intelligent design.
The only question posed by the movie is why, oh why, is
there such a deliberate, consistent, widespread, vind-
ictive effort to silence all criticism of dogmatic
Darwinism or discussion of alternate theories of the
origin of life? Stein interviews scientists who were
blacklisted, denied grants and ostracized in the academic
community because they dared to write or speak the
forbidden words.
Liberals are particularly upset because the movie
identifies Darwinism, rather than evolution, as the
sacred word that must be isolated from criticism.
But that semantic choice makes good sense because
Darwinism is easily defined by Darwin's own writings,
whereas the word evolution is subject to different
and even contrary definitions.
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The truly funny part of the movie is Stein's interview
with Richard Dawkins, whose best-selling book "The God
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Englishman as the world's premier atheist. Dawkins is
a leading advocate of the theory that all life evolved
from a single beginning in an ancient mud puddle,
perhaps after being struck by lightning.
Putting aside the issue of evolving, how did life begin
in the first place? Under Stein's questioning, Dawkins
finally said it is possible that life might have evolved
on Earth after the arrival of a more highly developed
being from another planet.
Aren't aliens from outer space the stuff of science
fiction? And how was the other-planet alien created?
According to Dawkins, life must have just spontaneously
evolved on another planet, of course without God.
Stein spent two years traveling the world to gather
material for this movie. He interviewed scores of
scientists and academics who say they were retaliated
against because of questioning Darwin's theories.
Stein interviewed Dr. Richard Sternberg, a biologist
who lost his position at the prestigious Smithsonian
Institution after he published a peer-reviewed article
that mentioned intelligent design. Other academics who
said they were victims of the anti-intelligent design
campus police included astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez,
denied tenure at Iowa State University, and Caroline
Crocker, who lost her professorship at George Mason
University.
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Stein dares to include some filming at the death camps
in Nazi Germany as a backdrop for interviews that explain
Darwin's considerable influence on Adolf Hitler and his
well-known atrocities. The Darwin-Hitler connection was
not a Stein discovery; Darwin's influence on Hitler's
political worldview, and Hitler's rejection of the sacred-
ness of human life, is acknowledged in standard biographies
of Hitler.
Stein also addresses how Darwin's theories influenced one
of the U.S.'s most embarrassing periods, the eugenics fad
of the early 20th century. Thousands of Americans were
legally sterilized as physically or mentally unfit.
Mandatory sterilization based on Darwin's theories was
even approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes writing his famous line, "Three
generations of imbeciles are enough." Stein also reminds
us that Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist who wanted to
eliminate the races she believed were inferior.
Stein's message is that the attack on freedom of inquiry
is anti-science, anti-American, and anti-the whole concept
of learning. His dramatization should force the public,
and maybe even academia, to address this extraordinary
intolerance of diversity.
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