"Expelled" Event Recap

Actor, economist, and social commenter Ben Stein visited Biola on March 27 to promote his new film, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” and to receive the Phillip E. Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth.

The gym was packed with 1,500 people, scientists, and journalists. Clips from the film were shown with commentary from the film producers. Stein encouraged the audience that truth will overcome, and that the battle for Intelligent Design “begins tonight.”

Caroline Crocker, former Professor of Biology at George Mason University spoke on her “expulsion” from teaching simply because she asked her students to consider all the options. Guillermo Gonzalez spoke on being denied tenure at Iowa State University because of his work in the field of intelligent design and his book, The Privileged Planet.

President Corey presented the award to Stein. The award has previously been given to Phillip E. Johnson in 2004 and Antony Flew in 2006 and is presented through the university’s Masters of Arts in Science and Religion (MASR) program.

For more information on the MASR program, please visit [ http://www.biola.edu/scienceandreligion ]www.biola.edu/scienceandreligion. The event was co-sponsored by the Christian Apologetics Program.

For more information on events like these, please visit www.biola.edu/apologetics.

Ben Stein is a lawyer, economist, former presidential speechwriter, author and social commentator. He has acted and made guest appearances in numerous movies, TV series, and TV commercials. His part as the boring teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was recently ranked as one of the five most famous scenes in American film.