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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883476004921
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Premise
Manufacturer: Premise
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Premise
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 160
Studio: Premise
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom ... What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth … that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the crime of merely believing that there might be evidence of design in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance. To which Ben Says: Enough! And then gets busy. NOBODY messes with Ben.
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Rating:  - Excellent - everyone should watch it
This is a high quality production that discusses how we do not have freedom to debate in science classes today. It has become mandatory to believe evolution in order to get jobs in academia. Those who dare even mention intelligent design are punished and expelled out of our colleges and universities. Why?
The US is great because we have historically been a free society. This freedom is slowly being eroded, especially in science classrooms.
Before you join the evolutionists who want to squash academic freedom, watch this DVD.
Rating: - Highly recommend it
I felt that this movie was so well-done, and very eye-opening to many troubling things going on with our education system and our government. I think everyone should see it, regardless of what they believe. I was stunned at the answers to many of his questions, presented by people who are regarded as geniuses in the field. Open your mind and watch it.
Rating: - A must see!!!
What can you say, Ben Stein asks all the right questions. The importance of ID is the moral and epistological implications. I believe this to be the best video I have seen addressing the moral weaknesses of a naturalistic view of life. If you were only going to see one video on ID as a way of thinking - this would be the one.
Rating: - View the film for yourself. It is about the freedom of ideas, not arguing for or against any specific scientific idea
I know emotions are high as the topics of evolution / natural selection, intelligent design, and religious faith surround this film. However, as I viewed it for myself, I think most of this heated discussion is misplaced. This film just happens to be about these topics, but the real point Ben Stein is exploring is the problem that arises when a particular view becomes orthodox and uses its dominance to squelch any contrary view.
At no point in this film are the arguments for or against evolution or intelligent design made or compared. While Ben talks with some folks who have been ostracized and punished for broaching the topic of intelligent design in science courses, the film never makes the case that their arguments are right and evolution is wrong.
The film merely points out that individual cells are astoundingly complex, even the simplest of them and the odds of one of them popping into being and surviving and having the ability to reproduce and those descendents successfully reproducing is vanishingly small. In fact, in his interview with Dawkins, Ben brings up the Francis Crick notion called Panspermia, which is that life on Earth might well have been seeded here by some higher intelligence. Now, the naïve among us might point to this higher intelligence as God, but these scientists insist that such beings must exist and have evolved within our universal system. Of course, there is no such requirement except in the minds of those defining this game. What ... Read More
Rating: - well-sourced perspective articel about Intelligent Design
I was impressed at the breadth of the perspective on the issue of whether Intelligent Design Theory actually is scientific theory. This documentary uses direct interviews with esteemed academicians, relatively unknown professionals, and some political activists involved in the issues around Intelligent Design. It is shown that whereas Evolution Theory was once roundly opposed by the large majority of society, Evolution Theory has become almost axiomatic among contemporary scientific/politic cross-sections of society. The first portion of this documentary, which comprises about 80% of the play-time, is a secular investigation of what actually is behind the various positions on Intelligent Design.
The last portion of this documentary involves application of theology to secular ethics: if Evolution Theory is taken to extremes then what might be the overall social/political results?
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