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Redemption for this film can be found...
... by displaying it in a Critical Thinking course and challenging students to spot the logical fallacies. This film has almost all of them.
At no time in its meandering, rambling diatribe does it even approach anything resembling a single, coherent, logical point. It resorts to insults to evolution and evolutionists and appeals to emotion in defense of intelligent design. It fails to present any actual evidence in favor of intelligent design, or any evidence against evolution. Its anecdotal stories of ID proponents being persecuted are wildly altered, and you can do a Google search of "Expelled Exposed" to learn the truth behind these issues.
As Christopher Hitchens says in the film, "The only intelligent thing about Intelligent Design is that they managed to sneak that word in there."
July 2008 · Movies and TV