That’s what I said to the other pastors one afternoon last week… “Let’s go see a movie.” And off we went to watch Ben Stein’s documentary film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

Ben Stein is an orthodox Jew and believes that theory of evolution is an inadequate explanation for the existence of life, not to mention the world and everything in it. So he sets out to demonstrate in the film that scientists and university professors are being systematically fired and blackballed for even daring to suggest that Intelligent Design (similar to biblical creationism but not exactly the same) be put on the table for discussion and debate.

In keeping with the title of the movie, he does a pretty good job through interviews and other investigative techniques of documenting and proving his main premise - namely that refusing to tow the line when it comes to evolution is professional suicide in science and academia.

But what I found especially fascinating were the other nuggets of truth that were exposed in the process. 

Stein did a masterful job of getting leading evolutionists to admit on film evolution's dirty little secret - that a belief in evolution and a disbelief in God (i.e., atheism) are inseparable dogmas.  They go hand in hand as surely as a belief in the God of the Bible and a belief in creationism do.

Stein also documented the huge effect that devotion to Darwinism had upon Adolph Hitler and his policies.  The wholesale extermination of certain ethnic groups (i.e., Jews) and of people with disabilities and handicaps was Hitler's way of helping evolution along, removing the weak and infirmed so only the strong and beautiful would be left to breed.  After all, Darwin himself had offered the observation that just as dog breeders do not allow their weak and infirmed animals to mate, nor should the human race tolerate the same from the weak and infirmed of its own number.

I have long maintained that belief in the theory of evolution begins with a religious belief just as surely as a belief in the biblical account of creation does.  As a Bible believer, I begin with the premise that there is a God and He is Creator.  In the same way, evolutionist begins with the premise:  there is not a God, and we must therefore provide an alternate explanation for the existence of life.

Could this be what Paul had in mind as he wrote to Timothy, "O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you.  Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge," for by professing it some have swerved from the faith."  (1 Timothy 6:20-21, ESV).

Late in the film Ben Stein really pinned down some of the leading evolutionists on the question of life's origin.  "How did the inorganic become a living cell?"  The answers ranged from "I don't know" to "On the backs of crystals" to my personal favorite, "Life on earth was seeded by beings from other planets."

That's it.  That's the best the evolutionist can do when answering the question, "How did life ultimately begin?"

I leave you with this thought:  "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."  (Romans 1:22, KJV)