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Dear Friends:


Through the auspices of a local informal political club whose monthly meetings I attend, I went to a screening last night of a new documentary, "Expelled", featuring Ben Stein, which is scheduled for nationwide release on April 18.


I am now trying to help promote this movie, so that as many people as possible will know about it, in the hope that the opening weekend will be "boffo". This is important because it's not the kind of movie that Hollywood likes, but they can't ignore it if it fills theaters when it opens.


Now, I don't want to jump to any conclusions about "where you're at" on the controversial issue this movie is about, but I'm hoping you'll have the same feeling about this movie that I do.


It deals with the controversy over the theory of evolution vs. "Intelligent Design", the concept that life on earth is the product of something more than just random luck.


What the movie does, in very entertaining and thought-provoking fashion (that's where Ben Stein comes in) is expose the way the scientific- and academic communities totally suppress any discussion of anything that challenges the evolutionist (or "Darwinist") dogma. It features interviews with scientists and academics whose careers have been ruined for daring to question the Darwinist "party line", as well as interviews with proponents of Darwinism.


The mainstream media have portrayed efforts to include Intelligent Design in curricula as part of a "Fundamentalist Christian" agenda. But this movie contains NOT ONE WHIFF of "Fundamentalist" slant, although it IS driven by those who believe in a "higher power", and opposes those who categorically deny any possibility of God's existence and use ridicule and ostracism to suppress any discussion of it. The fact that Ben Stein is Jewish doesn't hurt; he frames it as a matter of Freedom: Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Choice. There is almost no "religious" angle to this movie, which will surely confound its critics.

If this is of interest to you, you can learn more about the film at: : www.GetEXPELLED.com.
I have included some more material below. I hope you will help build the "buzz" about this film by e-mailing as many people as possible about it. I also hope you will go to see it on its opening weekend, and also urge as many others as possible to do so.