Summit Ministries

A secular mentality has a stranglehold on the academy. This comes to light in a major motion picture being released Friday, April 18th. It’s called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."
The film chronicles Ben Stein’s quest to find out why there is no academic freedom when it comes to discussing certain issues of science. He interviews several members of the science community and professors who have been censored, called names, shunned, and even denied tenure because they dared to question the Darwinian answer to the question of life’s origins.
Stein finds the prevailing attitude of the university today is narrowly dogmatic. The only view admitted into the area of science is that of naturalism. This, of course, precludes any suggestion of an “intelligence” at work behind the natural order. But this exclusivity of naturalism begs the question of whether life, or the cosmos, displays signs of such an intelligence. This theme is clearly brought out in the film.
So why should we cut off the discussion over origins? One answer seems to be that many professors are convinced that naturalism is the only way to do science and, more to the point, is the only viable worldview. At least, this is the case made by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion. But isn’t this viewpoint discrimination? If so, does this mean that what is taking place in the classroom has more to do with indoctrination into a particular worldview rather than education?
So, what should it be? Keep science to a thinly veiled naturalism and thereby exclude God from the discussion, or allow the freedom to express a wider range of possibilities? To answer that question, I recommend you see the film, Expelled. I’ve written a fuller account here. The film’s website is www.expelledthemovie.com.