Expelled Impressions

_{Salvador Cordova

April 18, 2008

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I’m opening a thread for those who would like to report their impressions of seeing the movie Expelled as well the numbers of viewers and their reactions to the movie.

Here is my report:

Location: Memphis, TN Stage 13 Cinema, just north of Cordova Tennessee
2:00 PM Friday Showing

I expected to see only 3 people at the 2PM showing, but there were 60 people! I asked what people thought, they said they would recommend the movie to their friends. They braved bad weather to get here.

The ticket manager said she had a steady stream of positive comments from the movie goers.

The audience was laughing at Richard Dawkins. They seemed in awe of the cellular animation, and they gasped at the images of the Nazi death camps.

In the movie, Uta George, the director of the Hadamar Gas Chamber Memorial explicitly said that the Nazis drew inspiration from Darwin. Darwinism was associated with atheism, eugenics — along with various macabre images. ID was associated with freedom, morality, and heroism. That went over well with the audience….

Will Provine’s interview was very noteworthy. Provine is a good friend of Phil Johnson, and has shown himself to be honorable in treatment of pro-ID students even though Provine himself rejects ID. Some of his statements brought a chill. He said that life has no meaning, no free will, no morality. He said he may put a gun to his head one day because he faces the possibility of terminal illness. I was very sorry to hear this. Up until today, I was not sure that part of Will’s interview would air….

You’ll see Will at the end of the movie saying he applauds students who, after weighing the evidence, decide to become creationists. Thus, Will came across as the most honorable of the non-ID side. In contrast, Dawkins looked like a buffoon. When Berlinski called Dawkins a “reptile” the audience was in stitches laughing….

I also attended the later 4:50 showing, and about 70 people were there.

I asked people what they thought and how they heard about the movie. Much of the word spread through the churches and radio. The negative reviews such as USA Today were ignored by those buying tickets….

It is hard to say whether what is happening here in Memphis can be extrapolated anywhere else. So I hope some of you from other parts of the world will report. My thanks in advance to those providing reports….

Comments

Here is Rob Crowther's collection of reports:
Expelled Posts 3rd Best Never mind the critics — people are giving the movie thumbs up with their wallets. Here's just a few of the comments from viewers that I received in e-mail this weekend. One theatre in Clark County, WA presented "Expelled". It seats 321 (I asked) and I estimate there were no more than 10 or 15 empty seats. We attended a 7:00 Friday night showing in the San Diego area. The three-hundred-seat Edwards Cinema was almost completely full and the film received enthusiastic sustained applause at the end. Overall, I'm pleased with the finished product. This morning, some friends told us they saw "Expelled" yesterday (Sat.) afternoon at 1:30 at the same theater--300 or so seats. They said the house was 2/3 - 3/4 full and the film received warm applause at its conclusion. I saw the movie at a 6:30 pm showing in a Kerasotes theatre in Skokie, IL, a northern suburb of Chicago -- the showing wasn't full, but was well-attended (most of the seats were filled, with significant applause at the end) Northern California, 7:15 pm showing, looked sold out or practically sold out. One guy was handing out Darwin $10,000 bills. The audience was audibly impressed. I thought it was really good and could hardly restrain myself during the cell video portion and Dr. Axe's excellent explanations. Big kudos to everybody. We went to the opening last night in Independence, OR which is about 15 minutes southwest of Salem. Our little town theater was packed for the opening night of this movie. Young and old alike were present. Everybody clapped at the conclusion. I took a couple of friends to the 9:15 showing of Expelled at Bellevue's (WA) Lincoln Center last night. The theater was more than half full (pretty good, I thought) and the crowd was friendly — even applauding at the end of the film. Haven't gotten to the theater yet (will do so tonight), but by sending hoards of our students, greedy for bonus points, we made a big showing at 5:30, sold out at 7:45, and almost certainly sold out 10 (tickets for that show were going fast at 7:30!). I expect more of the same Saturday. I took friends to the 7:40 showing but it was sold out. Only one theater in town had it on the schedule. We had about 45 people in a theater that holds 4-5x as many, but we too had applause at the end. Note Eugene (OR) likens itself to a Berkley of the Northwest and that might be a massive turn out for us. We were not sold out (north of Houston), but we went to a late night showing due to time schedule constraints. San Bernardino, California: It's nice to know that I am living in the deep south, according to the various critics of this movie. Not sold out, but very full on a Friday evening when our baseball team was playing rival High Desert Mavericks on 50cent Fridays. I have offered my students extra credit if they go see it. When I went last night I found about 70 - 100 people in my showing (which is only 1 of three theaters in the Lexington, KY area that are showing it. And I was pleased to say that only 1 of the other attendees was one of my students (I had feared that my students would make up half or more of the audiences). I saw the movie yesterday — it was awesome! (Knoxville, Tn) The theater here in Ontario (Calif.) was near to full at the Friday night 7:40pm showing. The audience seemed to really enjoy the film and applauded at the end.
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Granville @65 The real measure of a work of art is what is left out of it. In the realm of communication, the theme is what provides the power and the persuasion. If the producers had cluttered up the theme of injustice by introducing extraneous intellectual material, it would have ruined the effect. As an analogy, consider Martin Luther King's speech "I have a dream." Now picture him reserving a section for commenting on trickle down economics and imagine what happens to the inspirational tone of the address.StephenB_{April 21, 2008
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Submitted to scordova: 5-STAR! I went with my son and a friend to a 10 p.m. showing on the 18th in Fayetteville, NC. Only about 20 or so there at that late hour. The movie is GREAT! Stein and producers have a knack at keeping the action flow lively so it is not just a series of boring interviews, but should have an appeal to a much wider audience than solely science and/or religion aficionados. The juxtaposition of old movie footage interspersed throughout drove home key points being made and provided some creative humor interlude. All was done respectfully enough, it should be noted, and not in the sarcastic and profane way that so much of this has been done in similar contexts by the evolutionists. It was made clrearer than ever through the on-site interviews at the death camps with Uta George and Dr, Weikhart that Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust WERE justified ultimately by the irreligious spirit pervading Germany at the time which emanated from the German academy. There is plenty of history available to corroborate this and its open-handed discussion should be undertaken in our schools today as a fair warning to our children. The connections between the eugenicists and Planned Parenthood were noted and are obviously quite ominous in our day as PPH is the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars of government largess. (I was expecting to see a picture of Terry Schiavo flash across the screen when euthanasia was mentioned, but time or taste apparently did not allow for this) I couldn't help but smile when I saw a colored push pin protruding clearly from the heart of Cumberland County, NC, on Eugenie Scott's Hot-spot U. S. map of "creationist" uprisings for which she had been called to assist in suppressing! This was our doing not too long ago. Ben Stein was so calm and collected through the whole set of interviews and it was amazing how he had Dawkins, P.Z. Meyers, and others confessing to ulterior (sociological/political) motivations and implications of their grand Neo-Darwinian programme. Don't expect rave reviews in secular media. Mostly they will attempt to ignore it and hope it "goes away" and is soon forgotten. But it is timeless in content and should be promoted via DVDs in every school in America as well as shown on television wherever this can be arranged.jeff long_{April 21, 2008
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I saw it Friday in Ventura, CA. (near Santa Barbara). The room was half-full---more than I'm used to for name-brand features. The movie was well-received, with applause at the end. I know that some have complained that the movie didn't focus more on ID as science, but my deep impression was that this film indeed was a documentary: documenting Ben Stein's odyssey searching for the real answer as to whether or not academia was silencing debate. If you look at each vignette, it builds on the prior ones as Stein comes to the realization that ID is not bogus science, and that Darwinism is indeed like a religion. The objective nature of this odyssey gives the movie its strength. So, I, for one, am happy with its composition. I think it accomplishes what it sets out to do: document Darwinian bigotry and idealogy.PaV_{April 20, 2008
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I saw the movie Friday at 7 pm. There was some speaker malfunction, but most of the film was intelligible. Not a full house, but a fair number of people nonetheless. There was actually a full-fledged scientific/philosophic debate afterwards; someone down in front asked for reactions to the film, and most of us were happy to talk. We actually had a couple of atheists in the crowd who readily admitted that "certain mistakes in Academia have been made", although they didn't care to elaborate on the precise nature of those mistakes. Ah well. I think that the connection between Darwinism and Nazism was fair in the context used. The point was to draw to attention the fact that Darwinism is an ideology, and like any ideology it can be twisted or misinterpreted with truly horrifying consequences. I approved of the acknowledgement that Hitler truly believed that he was doing the right thing, at least when it came to the slaughter of people with disabilities and ethnic cleansing. He truly thought he could create a "perfect" race. Nazism is a deadly mixture of misinformation, self-righteousness, and extreme Darwinism. That is undeniable. I'm an agnostic myself, and I have no quarrel with those who draw attention to atrocities commited "In the Name of God". But say that Darwinism is incapable of begetting evil, to say that organized religion exclusively a source of corruption... that is simply absurd. Humans have always lived, died, and killed for causes. At the end of the day, Darwinism is just another cause, an old cause that's started to crumble. And the purpose of this film was to expose the oppression suffered by those who oppose it.Zakrzewski_{April 20, 2008
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It made 3 million yesterday so it's at about 5 million so far. This is pretty remarkable for a documentry film.deadfishes_{April 20, 2008
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Scottsdale, AZ Desert Ridge Harkins. Sold out a very big theatre. Much laughter at Dawkins and others. 30 secs or more applause at the end. They loved that Dawkins made a fool of himself.golfsullivan_{April 20, 2008
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I went to the showing 9:30 Friday at the multiplex in the Greenway Plaza district of Houston a couple of blocks away from the former Summit, now the giant Lakewood Church. About 30 attended. I bought tickets for Dr. R. P. who came to Houston to found the Pain Management Center at M.D. Anderson Clinic, and his wife. I loved the film and thought it very emotional, seemed to communicate a sense of gravity regarding what has happened to Western Civilization. Dr. P said he resented the film. However, his wife and I laughed uproariously at Dawkins at the end, as did others in the theater not including Dr. P. who by the way is not a materialist.groovamos_{April 20, 2008
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Re my post above: The showing I went to was on Friday.jstanley01_{April 20, 2008
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Grapevine, Texas (near DFW airport): Approx 50 attendees at 5:40 Friday showing. My wife and son went. Applause afterword. Great movie. I would have preffered more actual science/math evidence supporting ID. I just sent in my donation to the Discovery Institute. I want them to be able to buy the whole building. Denyse, today I noticed in the entertainment section of the Dallas Morning News it had the EXPELLED movie ad almost hidden. It was one page after the rest of the movie ads, all by itself, and away from the movie listings. What are the odds of that "coincidence"? Smurfpilotfo64_{April 20, 2008
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At the 4:50 pm showing at the Embassy in San Antonio, there were 20-30 people. Dawkins drew the strongest audible reaction during the film, in the form of laughter. At the end, the audience applauded. I was surprised by the film's emotional impact. Among the poinient moments, Stein facing down the statue of Darwin brought a lump to my throat. I agree with Granville Sewell @ 65. What I found myself wishing for, sitting in the theater, was more exposition of what ID is about. Answers by the interviewees, from both sides, to the Journalism 101 question "What is the ID?" would have been interesting to hear. I think that the film, as a documentary, would have benefited from thumbnail sketches of the concepts such IC, DI, NFL and the fine-tuned universe. Seeing such common-sense ideas being supressed by mainstream science would have made the plight of the expelled scientists that much more reprehensible. It was great to see faces put on some of the names I've heard for years, Berlinski and Provine especially. But Behe was sorely missed.jstanley01_{April 20, 2008
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Well, of course Expelled gave a far more fair and accurate picture of ID than any previous documentary, so I guess I was expecting too much, but I came away somewhat disappointed. Here's why: if there really is no evidence for Intelligent Design, the other side has every right to expell it from the science classroom, and virtually none was presented in the film. Of course, for most people, the evidence is so obvious and overwhelming that no one would ever believe something as counter-intuitive as Darwinism unless they were constantly told that ALL scientists believe it, then they start to think, maybe they know something I don't--hence the need for the constant intimidation and repression of dissent that the film is really about. So all they need is to know that there are a few good scientists who doubt it, and they will revert back to common sense. Still, it would have been nice to see some discussion of the "scientific" evidence, so academic types who aren't able to see what the rest of the world sees, couldn't come away still thinking, there isn't any evidence for ID, so why shouldn't it be expelled from the science classroom? Behe could have at least been included, with a short discussion of irreducible complexity. (For crl529 and other newcomers who want a short summary of the evidence, I suggest you go here or here ). All in all, a very good movie, I think I was just expecting the film to bring down the Berlin wall itself, it clearly won't. Maybe if the producers make a sequel some evidence will be presented; then I'll probably still find something to complain about, I'm afraid I'm a tough reviewer.Granville Sewell_{April 20, 2008
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I saw it in Maple Grove, Minnesota on Friday at 2:50pm. I thought there were about 20 people in the cinema, mostly older and retired people. The reaction seemed somewhat muted. Personally, I thought the film was beautifully done. I disagree with whoever it was that said there was too much intercutting of old footage: all of that worked very well, in my view, to give the movie a distinctive momentum, and kept it from becoming dull. The movie brought home the point that the ID hypothesis is not stupid or crazy or anything like that. Its supporters are credentialed, sophisticated, and intelligent. It is enough that even Richard Dawkins called it an "intriguing possibility" towards the end of the film. The persecution of ID supporters is obviously shown to be the result of a religious (or anti-religious) agenda, witnessed by P.Z. Myers' dream of pusng religion onto the periphery.Leo Hales_{April 19, 2008
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Apr. 19, 2:25 PM Torrance, CA 40-50 people, apparently pleased - they applauded afterward. I enjoyed it very much.Jack Golightly_{April 19, 2008
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Here is Dr. John West's account of ISU Showing
The movie theater screening Expelled in the home town of Iowa State University (ISU) apparently couldn't handle all the people who showed up last night, and the audience responded with a standing ovation for ISU astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, who was denied tenure by ISU because of his pro-ID views. According to The Ames Tribune,
A line for the 7:10 p.m. premiere showing of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" at the Varsity II theater on Lincoln Way stretched back five storefronts to the Bali Satay House Friday... Those who made it into the theater before it filled up generally responded positively to the film. They greeted the ending credits with applause and, after Gonzalez wrapped up a brief discussion following the film, treated him with a standing ovation.
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I bought 10 tickets for Boise ID showing -- should have bought 20 as the people who wanted to go came out of the woodwork. I work with youth in the 12-18 age range. This movie had a MAJOR impact on the youth that went with me, and after seeing it I am certain that the younger audience was the prime target. The motivation it caused in those youth with me was exceptional. I think this is why the details of the science was downplayed. The purpose was creating awareness -- as one of my Juniors so astutely pointed out. After you create the awareness, you can get people to listen to the shop talk.SpitfireIXA_{April 19, 2008
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Around 30 people at 2:30 (Sat Apr 19) at the only theater on Maui showing Expelled, which is pretty good for a weekend daytime show for anything other then a kids movie since most people are at the beach or various parties and get-togethers on the weekends here. I'm sure it will be packed in the evening. Great movie, really funny. Don't be discouraged by the reviews, it's what we expected, they aren't reviewing the movie as a piece of cinematic art as they would other movies, they are making it known that they are not "fooled" by "creationist propaganda", they are "too clever to be brainwashed" and therefore will pan the movie even though it's very entertaining and well made and truthful. Plus this movie is critic proof. Almost no one is going to go to the movie or not go to the movie based upon the critics. If they are interested in the topic they will go, if they are not they won't. Simple as that.mentok_{April 19, 2008
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We went to the film last night in Raleigh, NC for a 6:30 showing. There were probably about 80 people in the theater. My kids (ages 12 and 14) and I went dressed ala Ben Stein in a trailer we saw with white shirts, jackets, ties, shorts, black socks, and sneakers. We have been talking about it ever since. We loved the movie and have been talking about what kind of educational preparation one would need to participate in the debate, Nazism, the evil of Planned Parenthood, and the arrogance of the evolution lobby. Dawkins and Myers vigor in preventing I.D. from having a place at the table was especially insightful. Eugenie Scott seemed just creepy, too.chapman55k_{April 19, 2008
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Steve Peterman is a design engineer holding several patents. Like Steve, I was personally negative on the film. However, I've learned as a rule we engineers don't necessarily see things as others do, and for sure my taste in movies would be a horrible barometer for what will be received enthusiastically by general audiences. The motive marketing employees I was coordinating with told me that premise media used lots of focus group pre-screenings to actually shape the movie content. Apparently de-emphasis on the science was what came out of focus group meetings. So now that the film is out, I actually like it more because it is reaching the kinds of people which ID could not reach with technical literature. C'mon, how many people could really wade though Michael Denton's book? Not many! So here is my revised prediction. The viral marketing has only begun. Unlike The Passion of Christ, the plot line and content of Expelled was totally unknown. It was hard to get the laity or clergy in the chruches to be enthusiatic about a film which they had no knowledge of. In my conversations with Motive, I warned them that they'll get a lukewarm reception in many places that were enthusiastic about The Passion of Christ. And sure enough, Motive related the response the got from Young Life to the effect, "Young Life does not want to give the impression that one has to support ID in order to accept Christ...so Young Life cannot officially be involved with promoting the movie." The response from Young Life is typical of the lukewarm reception ID gets. It was the same attitude I got from the Inter-Varsity Director at James Madison University and at Longwood/Hampden Sydney. "We don't want to side with ID because we don't want people to think you have to accept ID in order to be a Christian". I have to try hard to contain the steam that's about to explode out of my ears when I hear such brush offs. Of course someone can be a Christian and accept Darwinain evolution. Someone can believe in phologiston and be a Christian. The point however is that if Darwinism is eroding someone's faith, wouldn't it be good to explore the possibility that Darwinism is false, and thus the compatibility of Darwinism and faith becomes a moot point? The movie finally might break the barriers in the Evangelical community from touching these divisive issues. The Darwinsits have done a good job suggesting the Evangelicals are behind ID. That is not true. Anyone working in the trenches where there are upstanding Evangelical Christians like Francis Collins in the congregations knows this is not true.... Expelled will encourage discussions which many churches would not touch with a ten foot pole... The reports in this thread are telling me the viral marketing has only begun. Unlike marketing of The Passion of Christ where the most successful viral marketing happened before the premier, I think Expelled viral model will be most effective after the premier. Furthermore, it will be marketed by the laity and not the clergy. Finally this movie will appeal to many of the young who are tired of having their view denigrated in the classroom by the Larry Moran's of the world. The movie has given them a voice. Professors of all varities are attacking the values and beliefs of their students. This movie will give them a voice...scordova_{April 19, 2008
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23 people at the 1:35 showing in Bowling Green, Kentucky. About the same number as were attending the other 9 shows at the complex. Light applause at the end. I thought the film interesting, entertaining, and effective. Excellent. Ten out of ten stars.Gerry Rzeppa_{April 19, 2008
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Here at the AMC 30 in Olathe, KS, about 40 people attended the 10 a.m. showing on Saturday. I thought the movie did a great job of highlighting the “monolithic big science” vs. “tiny little ID” playing field on which everyone is a player, including mainline media, courts, etc. Our crowd also snickered at Berlinski’s “reptilian” comment and applauded at the end. I noticed that the movie tended to pull the applause by picturing the Berlin wall coming down toward the conclusion. Still, I read the applause as an indication that the audience got the film’s point. It was great to see many of the people who’ve been discussed and who’ve made comments on the blogs I’ve been following for the past two years! One unexpected detail caught my attention. During his initial interview with Ben Stein, Bruce Chapman seemed somewhat apprehensive and maybe a little anxious. It occurred to me that he had agreed to this interview, and was being filmed without knowing fully what spin might be put on the final product. Entering the offices of the Discovery Institute, the camera crew caught several employees stealing furtive glances from behind semi-closed office doors. A lot of nervousness was evident. These people had learned to distrust cameras and microphones, just as the “big science” interviewees had learned to trust. But this time, the tables were turned. Recalling that the film project initially had another name (“Crossroads”), I realized that at the outset none of the people involved could have predicted how the film was going to come out. The interviews were all unscripted, and they could have turned out very differently, which would have absolutely affected the plot and narrative of the film. The producers must have been delighted with the turn things took—and so they were able to give the project the spin and title they did. I thought Chapman did a great job, in that he quickly “got out of the way” and turned the camera and microphone over to the scientists who are moving the ball forward. And then they moved it forward for the audience as well. (Score!)Lutepisc_{April 19, 2008
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Thanks for the suggestions DaveScot! I will definitely be reading some books to learn more. Whenever I read about ID I find it incredibly intellectually stimulating and not at all like the propaganda people make it out be. I'm a senior in high school taking AP Biology now, and we've just started learning about evolution. I feel like we're missing out on so much by not getting to debate both sides at school, but hopefully Expelled will help change the tides!crl529_{April 19, 2008
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Dawkins made himself seem a little silly, he had soo much zeal it was just absurd in reference to the question of God "Well I'd say I'm 99% sure" Stein "Why 99 instead of 98 or 97?" Dawkins " well I can't put a number on it but I'm fairly confident, certainly over 50%" Stein "How do you know it's over 50%?" Dawkins "well I don't but.." It's a shame someone could be so smart but so lacking in the way of control. I also recall the beginning of the film where they were showing the one man... I can't recall his name he appears twice.. "ID Is just sooo boring, boring, boring!!" lol I feel bad for someone who claims to not believe in any point to life, yet clings to romantic thoughts of something elegant. It must be hard to be a living contradiction.Stone_{April 19, 2008
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crl529 Lot's of books on ID at Amazon. The Design of Life by Bill Dembski covers most of the bases for a broad overview without a lot of math. Mike Behe's Edge of Evolution is more focused on observation and experiment with rapidly reproducing species and is a must read. Mike Gene's The Design Matrix is a really different take on it from an engineering POV. You'll learn a lot of biology from all three. Probably more than you ever wanted to know. Behe and Gene both accept an old earth and common descent at face value so you won't find any vestiges of "creation science" in them. Creation science, which isn't ID proper, doesn't accept an old earth or common descent. ID itself doesn't speak directly to either the age of the earth or common descent. Strictly speaking all ID purports to do is differentiate between natural and artficial, between chance and design. It can be applied to all kinds of things where discriminating between accident and design is important.DaveScot_{April 19, 2008
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Houston TX Update I just went to a 4:30PM showing with about 60 people. Applause afterword and lots of cackling thoughout - entertaining yet disturbing. Wow what a movie. I think the final version is just outstanding. Every individual, believer or not, should care about the issues in this movie. It really is about the basic freedoms we cherish. All in all we thoroughly enjoyed it. The implications for the scientific establishment in other endeavors are interesting - global warming, breast implants, asbestos, etc. etc. I hope there are more sequels to come. Dawkins and PZ probably won't sign up for the next one though.pluribus_{April 19, 2008
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Upright Biped We've been getting spammed to the breaking point of our spam filter since about when Myers made the news at the MN screening. Pretty much when the blogpulse on expelled spikes we get spiked with spam. My guess is spammers are sophisticated enough to follow the traffic wherever it goes. Interesting that the Arbor showings were sold out. I had no idea which way it would go but figured lunchtime on Friday would be the fewest. I was surprised it was at the Arbor as that's a mainstream theater as opposed to those that cater to indy flicks.DaveScot_{April 19, 2008
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Austin, TX, April 19th, 2:50 PM This is my first time reading/posting on this blog. :) There were maybe 20-30 people watching. As a layman who is totally new to ID, I was disappointed that there was not a more detailed analysis of what ID is and the flaws in Darwinism that it addresses. I recently attended a lecture by Kenneth Miller, and though he took several cheap shots at calling ID creationism, I liked how he used scientific arguments to justify his hardline opposition to teaching ID and how tried to reconcile faith with science. While the movie showed the foolishness of people like Dawkins, I was hoping for more scientific information to distinguish ID from people like Kenneth Miller and Francis Collins who believe that religion is compatible with Darwinian evolution, and say that ID is widely shunned in academia because it has no scientific basis. I also felt that the Nazi imagery, though valid, was a bit excessive because it deviated too far from arguments about science and the academic community. With that said, I was thoroughly entertained by the movie and loved how there were interviews of so many of the leading atheists. I thought the interview of Dawkins at the end hilariously and pointedly exposed how his opposition to ID was solely on the basis of his atheism and not any scientific data against the possibility of an intelligent creator. I also loved the part showing his trip to the Discovery Institute. For all the hype that people give it, it was just a little office building! The look on everyone's face when Ben Stein entered the room was priceless. Overall, I thought Expelled was definitely worth my money and time, and I'm very excited that there is a voice of opposition in the media to the slick materialism and atheism rampant in today's society. :)crl529_{April 19, 2008
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deadfishes, thanks for the link. I loved the "grade breakdown" Seems that people love or hate this flick: As 64.5% Bs 3.9% Cs zero Ds zero Fs 31.6% Pretty much as expected, huh.bFast_{April 19, 2008
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I'm not sure that the Nazi allusions in the movie are helpful. The Wehrmacht, after all, had the slogan "GOTT MIT UNS" on their belt buckles.Booker_{April 19, 2008
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According to boxofficemojo.com it came in at number 8 and made about 1.2 million yesterday. This means it has surpassed "an inconvenient truth", "sicko" and is gunning for Fahrenheit 9/11 as the top grossing documentry opening weekend ever.deadfishes_{April 19, 2008
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