Ben Stein film earns $5.7M at box-office

"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," the Ben Stein documentary exposing the lack of tolerance in American education for alternative views, has taken in $5,775,000 at the box office in its first two weeks of release.

It's already among the Top 15 highest-grossing documentary films of all time. (Not surprisingly, liberal film critics don't like the film, but good word-of-mouth is bringing audiences to theaters.)

Dr. Brian Melton talks about "Expelled" and the domination the Darwinists have on the education system in "Human Origins and a Side of Fries" posted at NewMediaJournal.us

Melton writes:

Neo-Darwinists (NDs) insist that the burden of proof is on Intelligent Design (ID) advocates to show "that there is anything to talk about." The implication is that if there actually were the evidence to back ID up, then the open-minded Darwinians would be happy to pay attention. Since there apparently isn't anything forthcoming, though, they expect people to "just shut up" about ID.

The issue here isn’t so much in what the NDs say, but in what they don’t say. They lead their listeners to make certain assumptions on implied grounds. So, while they give the appearance of the essence of intellectual virtue, they are in fact stacking the proverbial deck in a very unscientific way by creating artificial standards of evidence for ID and then failing to subject their own theories to similar scrutiny. The result is a drive-thru epistemology where science is defined primarily by what NDs personally want to be true.