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Film review: Expelled: No intelligence allowed

By Amanda Gefter

9 April 2008

THE highly controversial documentary Expelled: No intelligence allowed, is full of surprises, not least of which are endless clips of Nazis from the second world war.

Nazis? What have Nazis to do with a film about the “conflict” between evolution and intelligent design? Everything, apparently. The film-makers’ logic is that by teaching evolution, the US public school system is telling children that there is no God, morality or free will. And this can lead to only one thing: Holocaust.

But fear not, Ben Stein is here. Those who love 1980s teen cult films will remember him as the monotone economics…

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