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Here's another comment about Expelled
How about this one.

I not only since much anger, I get the idea that most people think that this is a religious movie. Many of the people in the film were not Christian. Last night at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth I attended a lecture by David Berlinski in which someone asked, if he, with his beliefs in intelligent design, would ever consider Christianity, and he flat out denied that he could ever become a Christian.
I already realize at this point that many of you are going to jump on the band wagon that all religion does is leave us with something to cling to when we are scared, or is the main motivation of war. The truth is, throughout all of history not only has there been violence done in the name of God, there has been violence done without invoking the name of God. I guess John Lennon’s song was wrong.
The debate is not about creationism verses evolution. It is about intelligent design verses evolution. There was, at no point in the film, an argumentation for a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis. These people were simply challenging the orthodoxy of Darwinism and saying that Darwinism does not explain the origin of life. However, as I look at site after site, reading the anti-ID material, I see more bigotry coming from your side.
I wish to respond to this comment ,
“The damage that this movie has done is quite apparent, should you encounter internet creationists who’ve seen this movie. With a sudden surge of confidence, the most devestating tactic they’ve learned from this movie is the belligerant use of speculative ad hominems. “What are you so afraid of?” “Why are Darwinists so angry?” “If intelligent design is so stupid, why are you spending so much time talking about it?” “Why are you trying to silence new ideas?” Yeah. Thanks, Ben Stein. Now the creationists are even stupider than they were before.”
Propoents of ID do have a right to exist and those questions are indeed valid. You resort to calling them stupid. In a postmodern society, do not both the ID proponents and evolution proponents deserve to have an equal playing field in the realm of science? Teach evolution, there is not a problem, but allow people to have opposing views. I am neither a scientist nor a philosopher. I am striving to be a theologian. I must say that there is nothing that seems scientific to me about closing out evidential arguments simply because that do not fit the Darwinian orthodoxy. I can accuse all of you of the same bigotry that is often extended toward me.