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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

So I was watching television, because since my parents turned the Intarwebz off there is nothing to do except torture/play with our cats and rot my brain on the T.V., on PBS(one of the few good channels and we have cable). It was a cooking show my grandma was watching and I saw this commercial for a documentary by, oddly enough, Ben Stein. I really didn't get much of what it was about but today I looked it up.

It's a movie documentary, kind of like "Fahrenheit 9/11" or "An Inconvenient Truth", about how Intelligent Design is discriminated against in classrooms and scientific institutions across America. It's about how a scientist, if he holds this belief, can lose his job and credibility because of it.
Crazy, I know.
The movie is called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed".

http://expelledthemovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expelled:_ ... ce_Allowed

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04-13-2008 02:14 AM
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