Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

The movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed opens in theaters today. For those of you who haven’t heard, it is an Intelligent Design-related movie that attempts to show that scientists and educators are persecuted because of their religious faith or their questioning of evolution.

As one can imagine, it has generated a good deal of controversy. ID critics have attacked it in numerous ways, from claiming that they mislead interviewees, including Richard Dawkins (yeah, he’s one to talk), to complaining about who was allowed to see invitation-only advanced screenings.

As for me personally, I just hope that they did a good, honest job on the movie. So many times something big in the whole origins debate comes up and the theist end (ID or whatever it happens to be) falls flat and ends up being more of a detriment to Christian apologetics, which is unfortunate, because there really are good arguments for Christianity. Hopefully the movie is a quality, solid support of the ID movement, and not something that will give critics of theism and Christianity more stuff to blast while ignoring the real arguments.

Tom Gilson at Thinking Christian has a post reminding everyone, whatever the movie ends up being, to be calm and thoughtful about it. For more information, I’d recommend browsing through his posts tagged “expelled.”

Elderly Woman Witnesses to Robber

This is a great story. It’s not exactly new, but if you haven’t heard the story of Pauline Jacobi, watch this news bulletin.

Nice to have a truly happy news story. I thought they ruined it towards the end, though, by stating that they are still searching for the guy. Question for readers: should they still have continued to look for this man?

Also, this example shows that apologetics, while useful, are often unnecessary. When witnessing to this man, Jacobi didn’t break down the Cosmological or Teleological Argument; she didn’t start talking about extra-biblical evidence of the life of Jesus or 1 Corinthians 15. She merely convicted the man and got him to acknowledge his sin. He obviously knew what he was doing was wrong, and when his sin was brought to the light, and shown for what it really was, he broke down.

Maybe he had robbed before, or maybe this was his first time. The point is, he realized that he had stooped so low as to threaten a sweet, grandmotherly old lady with death if she didn’t give him money.

So many times we are like the man, secretly knowing we are sinning but refusing to acknowledge our sin for what it is- as we continue to move further and further away from God until we reach the point of threatening to kill an old lady for whatever cash she may have on her. Pray that we stop this.

Hat tip: Joe Carter at the evangelical outpost