History Film / Expelled

* [[GodwinsLaw Godwin's Law]]: Fast and hard. A fair portion of the movie towards the end involves trying to directly link acceptance of evolution and the Holocaust.

* DocumentaryOfLies: For instance, to illustrate the point of the evils of evolutionary theory, the movie includes a passage from Darwin's ''The Descent of Man'' that seemingly favors eugenics and culling the infirm and insane, but cuts Darwin praising doctors and lawmakers for their care of and concern for the weak and the poor. These portions of the text are in the middle of the quote, making their exclusion an intentional lie by omission. The following paragraph of the book, omitted in its entirety, has Darwin unambiguously state as evil that the very views the film ascribes to him.
** This is called quote mining, a very common tactic which has also been used against RichardDawkins the same way. Except, in the portion of the movie interviewing Dawkins, Ben Stein tries to twist or quote mine several things Dawkins says, while leaving in the original content that reveals Steins dishonesty.

* QuoteMine: A common (and probably not unfounded) complaint levied agains the film by critics.

* DocumentaryOfLies: For instance, to illustrate the point of the evils of evolutionary theory, the movie includes a passage from Darwin's ''The Descent of Man'' that seemingly favors eugenics and culling the infirm and insane, but cuts Darwin praising doctors and lawmakers for their care of the concern of the weak and the poor. These portions of the text are in the middle of the quote, making their exclusion an intentional lie by omission. The following paragraph of the book, omitted in its entirety, has Darwin unambiguously state as evil that the very views the film ascribes to him.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: If you're going to argue that Intelligent Design is a real possibility ''and'' doesn't require belief in God, then panspermia should not be offensive to you...

** This is called quote mining, a very common tactic which has also been used against RichardDawkins the same way.

* [[GodwinsLaw Godwin's Law]]: Fast and hard.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The example below, using John Lennon's "Imagine" to depict how terrible the world would be without religion - when the song in question makes the exact opposite point...
** The intent with that choice may have been {{Irony}}, however.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Possibly on both sides.

** See the FunnyMoment page for an incident which makes this fact ''hilarious''.

''Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed'' is a documentary film conducted by Ben Stein [[InTheStyleOf in the style of]] documentaries of the 2000s. Stein appears to be following the steps of such luminaries as Al Gore and MichaelMoore in style.

* HitlerAteSugar

* BlatantLies: To illustrate the point of the evils of evolutionary theory, the movie includes a passage from Darwin's ''The Descent of Man'' that seemingly favors eugenics and culling the infirm and insane, but cuts Darwin praising doctors and lawmakers for their care of the concern of the weak and the poor. These portions of the text are in the middle of the quote, making their exclusion an intentional lie by omission. The following paragraph of the book, omitted in its entirety, has Darwin unambiguously state as evil that the very views the film ascribes to him.

* DocumentaryOfLies

** Except that it has "sperm" in its name....

* BlatantLies: To illustrate the point of the evils of evolutionary theory, the movie includes a passage from Darwin's ''The Descent of Man'' that seemingly favors eugenics and culling the infirm and insane, but cuts Darwin praising doctors and lawmakers for their care of the concern of the weak and the poor. These portions of the text are in the middle of the quote, making their exclusion an intentional lie by omission.

* [[PoesLaw Poe's Law]]: Seriously, if the best spokesman Intelligent Design can find is a comedian, then evolution might not be the ''only'' target.

The substance? It's on "Darwinist" evolutionists and how they try to suppress the views of anyone in favor of "Intelligent Design". Depending on whom you ask and how they're feeling on the day you ask, Intelligent Design is either a form of creationism, or a form of evolution which nonetheless contains the tenet that certain things cannot have evolved without outside help. It also argues that Darwinism creates atheism and moral corruption.

It did surprisingly well In America, considering it was an independent film (financed by intelligent design proponents). Naturally, it got help from church groups. It would've done even better, except YokoOno noticed that JohnLennon's music was being used in the film to suggest a position that Lennon would never have supported (maybe even two of them), and the film was pulled out of theaters so the copyright issue could be settled.

** [[MemeticMutation O]] [[YourMileageMayVary RLY?]]

* GodwinsLaw: Fast and hard.

* PoesLaw: Seriously, if the best spokesman Intelligent Design can find is a comedian, then Darwinian evolution might not be the ''only'' target.

''Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed'' is a documentary film conducted by Ben Stein InTheStyleOf great documentaries of the 2000s. Stein appears to be following the steps of such luminaries as Al Gore and MichaelMoore in style.

** [[MemeticMutation O RLY?]]