{"id":341,"date":"2008-03-04T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christandpopculture.com\/asides\/brett-mccracken-reviews-expelled\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T14:36:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:36:44","slug":"brett-mccracken-reviews-expelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2008\/03\/brett-mccracken-reviews-expelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett McCracken reviews Expelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Brett McCracken reviews Expelled:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stillsearching.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/28\/no-discussion-allowed\/#comments\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cIt\u2019s a film that very deliberately presents itself as an <em>alternative<\/em> type of film\u2014the anti-Michael Moore, perhaps. It is trying to argue that there is (or should be) room at the table for both sides, for multiple arguments on any issue. But more than likely the film will be denied wide distribution or much (if any) press coverage, just as Intelligent Design theory is either ignored or laughed out of most cultural discourse.\u201d <\/a>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/03\/mccracken-on-ben-steins-documentary-about-intelligent-design\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Overstreet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett McCracken reviews Expelled: \u201cIt\u2019s a film that very deliberately presents itself as an alternative type of film\u2014the anti-Michael Moore, perhaps. It is trying to argue that there is (or should be) room at the table for both sides, for multiple arguments on any issue. 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