Will Christians help ‘Expelled’ beat box office expectations?

Actor, comedian, and commentator Ben Stein’s new film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which investigates the way intelligent design is handled in American schools, is opening this weekend and receiving the widest documentary release ever. However, the movie is not expected to pull in big numbers at the box office. But some critics think that it might beat expectations because it was marketed heavily to faith-based groups.

Expelled is nothing more than “a cynical attempt to sucker Christian conservatives into thinking they’re losing the ‘intelligent design’ debate because of academic ‘prejudice,’” said Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel. And “when academia, the courts, the opinions of the educated have all weighed in on this subject on that ‘other side,’” we’ll see who “the real monkey in this ‘debate’” is.