You Say You Want An Evolution?

Newsweek, April, 2008

His resume is loaded: lawyer, economist, presidential speechwriter—and beloved monotone teacher. Now Ben Stein (“Bueller? Bueller?”) is taking on the role of moral crusader. In “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” a documentary that opens April 18, Stein dissects Darwinism and what he calls its monopoly on American classrooms. He spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Jessica Bennett:

Why did you make this film?

Darwinism is a brilliant theory, but to say it has all the answers would not be truthful or sensible. And today’s students aren’t learning that.

And academia has a role in that?

There are a number of scientists and academics who’ve been fired, denied tenure, lost tenure or lost grants because they even suggested the possibility of intelligent design. The most...

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