Today, I took the family out to see Ben Stein’s movie, ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.’ I was captivated by the narrative from the start. Ben manages to take a documentary format and make a very compelling and entertaining presentation of the bias and prejudice against proponents of Intelligent Design.

                This is the movie that world-famous atheist, Richard Dawkins, was apoplectic about before it even came out. Once I saw the movie, I understood why. Mr. Dawkins’ narrow-minded bigotry comes across glaringly through two separate interviews in which he was very candid.

                Many of the secular scientists interviewed were amazingly candid. The absolute conviction they held that there was no possibility of a designer of our amazing world and creation was telling. In Mr. Dawkins case, he did allow for highly-evolved alien designers having ‘seeded’ our planet, but on the whole, in each and every case, they were adamant that there was no place for a designer of the world and everything in it.

                Or so it seems. Those scientists, physicists, biologists, MDs, and historians that allow for ANY mention or consideration of a designer are immediately and ruthlessly silenced. ‘Expelled’ does an amazing job of documenting the intimidation and coercion unleashed on these ‘superstitious fools.’

                When you hear the stories of these academics who have been ostracized for not holding to the establishment propaganda, it is infuriating. To hear those who hold the reins of power in our modern collegiate system coldly and blankly calling religion a ‘fairytale’ and ‘superstition’ is almost unnerving. They would not even pause to discuss the claims of Intelligent Design, they had already dismissed it out of hand as, gasp, ‘religious.’

                Instead, they launched into a monologue on the need to marginalize religion and supplant it with ‘science.’ They were very pointed and focused on their belief that the more they could discredit God and faith, the better off society would be as a whole.

                What was incredibly gratifying was to hear these PhDs stumble about and see them blink and squirm when they were asked the simple question of the origin of all life. They had to admit that nobody knows. There were theories they had, aliens included, but the crystals, the lightning, the primordial soup – none of these give a definitive answer to the question: ‘How did life first begin?’ All they have are postulates and theorems.

                To which I’d like to say, ‘Not that there’s anything wrong with that,’ but if it’s still the evolutionary THEORY, then stop behaving as if it is proven scientific fact. Which brings us to the main feature of this movie, the revealing of a group of arrogant elites who want us to believe that they have all the answers and we just need to shut up and take what they say as fact. Never mind the fact that there is no PROOF, never mind the fact that they will allow no debate on the subject, never mind the fact that it takes as much faith to believe in the evolutionary view of the beginnings of life on Earth as it does to believe that a loving God created us with a purpose – No, just shut up and swallow it.

                This is a debate that we as a nation need to have, but those who hold the purse-strings and the tenure-power are running a strict campaign of ‘no free-thinking allowed’ especially in this area of science. This question, the origin of life, holds the key to our future as a society. If you don’t believe me, then read the Declaration of Independence.

                If we are endowed by our CREATOR  and not the government with inalienable rights, what happens when we cease to believe there is a Creator, a Designer? The continued success of this political experiment in democracy, the Democratic Republic, rests on the premise that our rights come from God and not from man. Take God out of the picture, and we lose the ‘inalienable’ part of our rights, because now man is the final arbiter of our freedoms. Men and governments always stifle freedom, which is why the Founders saw the need for very specific and difficult steps to alter the Constitution.

                So why aren’t scientists in American Academia allowed to explore and ask the difficult questions about our world and how it got here? Because there is a controlling establishment that will not be held accountable, and which refuses to acknowledge that there might be a Deity. Funny, I’ve read about this before.

“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man--and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.” Romans 1:20-23

                Seems almost prophetic, doesn’t it?