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== Criticism ==
 
== Criticism ==
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The film quotes Charles Darwin's ''The Decent of Man'' to demonstrate how he supported what later became [[Social Darwinism]], which became fashionable among the dictators and intellectuals who perpetrated the [[Holocaust]].  Here is the quote in the movie, which is accurate:
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The film selectively quotes Charles Darwin's ''The Decent of Man'' in an attempt to demonstrate that he supported what later became [[Social Darwinism]], which became fashionable among the dictators and intellectuals who perpetrated the [[Holocaust]]{{fact}}.  Here is the quote in the movie:
    
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Darwin's full quote is more tedious but conveys the same objectionable belief that it is somehow unwise to help the weak and allow them to have children ("breed"):
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Darwin's full quote conveys an entirely different meaning in relation to humans:
    
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Ben Stein's speech was done specifically for the film, as in most films.<ref>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=ben-steins-expelled-review-michael-shermer</ref>
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Ben Stein's speech was done specifically for the film<ref>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=ben-steins-expelled-review-michael-shermer</ref>, as in most films{{fact}}.
    
The movie completely omits [[theistic evolution]], which is not taught in [[public school]] and is used primarily by [[evolutionists]] to rebut their obvious correlation with [[atheism]].  Mark Mathis, an associate editor of Expelled, when asked why alleged religious evolutionists such as Catholic Kenneth R. Miller were not in the film, replied that this form of fallacious [[liberal logic]] (see point 6) "would have confused the film unnecessarily."<ref>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-conversation-with-mark-mathis</ref>
 
The movie completely omits [[theistic evolution]], which is not taught in [[public school]] and is used primarily by [[evolutionists]] to rebut their obvious correlation with [[atheism]].  Mark Mathis, an associate editor of Expelled, when asked why alleged religious evolutionists such as Catholic Kenneth R. Miller were not in the film, replied that this form of fallacious [[liberal logic]] (see point 6) "would have confused the film unnecessarily."<ref>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-conversation-with-mark-mathis</ref>
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