Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a 2008 independent documentary film, directed by Nathan Frankowski and hosted by Ben Stein. The film contends that the mainstream science establishment suppresses academics who believe they see evidence of intelligent design in nature.

Directed by Nathan Frankowski. Written by Kevin Miller, Ben Stein, and Walt Ruloff.

Dawkins Interview

STEIN: Well, then, who did create the heavens and the earth?......how did it get created?

DAWKINS: Umm, well, by a very slow process.

STEIN: Well, how did it start?

DAWKINS: NOBODY KNOWS HOW IT GOT STARTED. We know the kind of event that it MUST have been. We know the sort of event that MUST have happened for the origin of life.

STEIN: And what was that?

DAWKINS: It was the origin of the first self-replicating molecule.

STEIN: Right, and how did that happen?

DAWKINS: I told you, WE DON’T KNOW

STEIN: So, you have NO idea HOW it started?

DAWKINS: No, no, nor has ANYBODY.

STEIN: Nor has anyone else. What do you think is the possibility that Intelligent Design might turn out to be the answer to some issues in genetics or in evolution.

DAWKINS: Well, it could come about in the following way. It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved, by probably by some kind of Darwinian means, probably to a very very high level of technology, and DESIGNED a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. Um, now that is a possibility, and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it's POSSIBLE that you might find EVIDENCE for that IF YOU LOOK at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a SIGNATURE of some sort of DESIGNER

STEIN NARRATION: Wait a second! Richard Dawkins thought that intelligent design might be a legitimate pursuit?

DAWKINS: Mm, and that DESIGNER could well be a higher INTELLIGENCE from elsewhere in the universe. That higher INTELLIGENCE would, itself, have had to have come about by some explicable, ultimately explicable, process. It couldn’t have just jumped into existence spontaneously. That’s the point.

STEIN NARRATION: So, Professor Dawkins was not against intelligent design, just certain “types” of designers… such as God. [1]

Quotes about Expelled

• Ben Stein wants you to stop thinking of evolution as an actual science supported by verifiable facts and logical arguments and to start thinking of it as a dogmatic, atheistic ideology akin to Marxism.
  • John Rennie, "Ben Stein's Expelled: No Integrity Displayed", Scientific American, April 9, 2008
• This propaganda production would make Joseph Goebbels proud.
  • Michael Shermer, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed—Ben Stein Launches a Science-free Attack on Darwin", Scientific American, April 9, 2008
• "Stein puts to Dawkins a simple question, 'How did life begin?' ... Dawkins, however, frankly admits that he has no idea. ... Evolution has no explanation for how life got started in the first place. Darwin was very clear about this.... In order for evolution to take place, there had to be a living cell. The difficulty for atheists is that even this original cell is a work of labrynthine complexity. Franklin Harold writes in The Way of the Cell that even the simplest cells are more ingeniously complicated than man's most elaborate inventions.... "Ben Stein Exposes Richard Dawkins": [Dinesh D'Souza, 4-18-08]