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Actor Ben Stein To Push Storms’ Evolution Bill

Posted Mar 10, 2008 by Catherine Dolinski, Tribune Tallahassee Bureau

Updated Mar 10, 2008 at 01:29 PM

  Ben Stein  (File Photo/Associated Press)

The debate over teaching in evolution promises to get even more interesting on Wednesday when actor/columnist Ben Stein joins conservative lawmakers and the Family Policy Council for a press conference to push Sen. Ronda Storms’ and Rep. Alan Hays’ “Academic Freedom Act” that would allow teachers to contradict the theory of evolution in class.

For Stein, it’s a chance to promote “Expelled:  No Intelligence Allowed,” his new documentary about the teaching of evolution in classrooms and backlash against dissenting educators and students.  According to the movie’s Web site:

“All over the world, Big Science is on the march, making sure that Neo-Darwinian Materialist Theory is protected, and that any challenges and challengers are dealt with…properly. Science is too important to be left in the hands of just any scientists, no matter how ‘credentialed’ they may be! Which is why the administration at Big Science Academy thought it essential that students be made acutely aware of what happens to ‘dissenters’ who stray into dangerous areas of science after graduation. Our Science ‘Field Trip’ allowed Science Club students to travel around the world, and to see first-hand what happens to ’the expelled’ when they attempt to “follow the evidence wherever it leads.”

Lawmakers and staff will get an exclusive screening on Wednesday night of Stein’s flick, which debuts April 18 in theaters.