Everybody's favorite dead-pan teacher and game show host, Ben Stein, is the face of a new documentary to be released this April called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". It's ostensibly a movie about attacks on freedom of speech in today's hostile climate among scientists in academia, but on closer inspection it really seems to be a thinly veiled screed for Intelligent Design.
The author makes a big mistake. He automatically equates eugenics to Hitler when in fact the eugenics movement grew out of America. In fact, Hitler's first sterilization laws were based on Harry Laughlin's model eugenics code. Moreover, there is nothing wrong with Stein bringing up eugenics in his movie as Francis Galton, the man who first used the word "eugenics", is the cousin of Charles Darwin. Evolution is a theory. ID is a theory. I personally don't believe in either. Darwin was an elitist. When he theorized evolution, it was a justification for what he already believed--that he was of a "higher order" or "higher species" than the rest of the population.
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