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I wholeheartedly recommend this movie. I saw it because several people I know who always claim to be open minded and thoughtful totally bashed it. I had to see it then... Seeing all these reviews which appear to be nothing but second grader rants totally supports my theory that whenever anyone does anything of consequence the "authorities" start acting like children having a tantrum or run away and cover their eyes, ears and mouth. Just for doing the movie in this hostile environment it gets five stars from me. If for no other reason you should watch this movie for the interview with the author of "The Blind Watchmaker." Mr. Stein simply asks questions and the answers are precious, sad, but precious. I loved the interview because it exemplifies the argument Stein is making through the whole movie. Stein does not hit you over the head with it either--he lets you see it for yourself. The movie presents the fundamental argument: That Scientists should be open to follow the evidence where ever it leads however uncomfortable. He also presents a powerful information concerning what can happen to individual human rights when those in power pick up on a novel idea and run with it... Stein shows, throughout the movie, science is impotent when scientists try to force a belief system paradigm into their thinking. The paradigm or "wall" of interest is that there is no place for religion in science therefore there can be no creator and no means to understand the origins of life other than through random happenstance (but apparently its OK to consider "little green men.") Clarified by this movie and the rantings (I mean reviews), people don't like to question what their teachers and TV told them ad nausea all their lives. It is uncomfortable and it takes intestinal fortitude many folks simply lack and would rather just be with the safe crowd and make them selves feel better by suckling on the teat of rage; scream down Mr. Stein, "liar liar liar..." The movie supplies evidence origins of life cannot be explained by random events and Darwinism as it is understood even today, can be deadly for the citizenry from those in power who wield science like a bat. You may be thinking we are older wiser now, but then there is Al Gore... Science is supposed to be the continued practice of ever increasing knowledge and debate without prejudice. Stein shows in interview after interview with the self proclaimed "open minded" there is little else but close minded prejudice within the halls of many academic institutions where Darwin and neo-Darwinism is concerned. To them, the "debate is over." If you've taken any time to read some of the movie reviews you can see this self evident arrogant antagonism unleashed. It is very surprising to see the interviews with several prominent academics dismiss without consideration ideas which confront this belief system; so called scientists and academics reduced to name calling. Its just sad. What is sadder still is watching one of them later talk about experiments to determine if there is a "blueprint" in DNA... Just think on that one for a moment. Stein walks you through several illustrative events; personal experiences of scientists--real scientists who are and have been studying Biology and Microbiology. And as a result of relatively modest ideas: Like the novel idea that life did not randomly start on this planet. That the complexity we see in a single cell cannot be explained by random mutations... The result of these statements or proposals gets these men and women "let go" or ridiculed or not given tenure, treated like many of the persons reviewing this movie treat the movie. Not with arguments, not with facts but simply calling Ben Stein a liar then lying themselves. Stein walks us through what the Darwinist ideology brought through the power of the state. About 30 US states and their effort to rid us of the undesirable species. About Margret Sanger and Planned Parenthood and of course we learn about Germany and its efforts for the "Arian" race and of course where those ideas came from. I was very disturbed by the discussion about the US governments efforts to sterilize folks. Some of these folks are alive today-just disturbing. Then Stein takes you to a real museum in Germany (it exists today and is not a lie) which shows what happens when you follow the thinking thread of "survival of the fittest" and meld that with unyielding belief in an ideology. Surprisingly, the most disturbing, shameful and deadly behaviors were not from those evil Christians...