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The thing is, the movie tries to make it out like THEY'RE the ones being trodden on by those authoritarian stuffed-shirt evolutionists. And their followers just eat it up.

Thanks. And there weren't THAT many jabs. Hopefully enough to keep it entertaining.

With that said, it IS Creative Commons. If you want to download Subtitle Workshop (it's free!) and go through and delete the jabs (very easy to do!), it's fine with me; but it is an Attribution license, so if you do that and show or give the file to anyone else, please add in a subtitle at the beginning saying that you did it.

I certainly appreciate your critical comments! My only objection is that subjective, taunting remarks tend to weaken one's case.

I agree that the overriding strategy in Expelled is to make the ID people look like the victims of authoritarian evolutionists.

Cool you're danish. You must be happy lol. Nice site by the way.

P.S. For all those who don't know, Denmark is apparently the happiest nation in Europe. Dunno how you determine that though lol

Admittedly it's a privilege to live in Denmark in a lot of respects, albeit it's not exactly Paradise!
It's difficult for me to imagine a Danish initiative like Steins "Expelled". I guess it would be nipped in the bud, simply because we in our public life have a very long anti-authoritarian tradition, ridiculing stuffed shirts like Ben Stein.
I've added a few things to my High School educational page on Evolution and Intelligent Design, http://kj.kolding-gym.dk/TOK%20archive/intelligent_design_andor_evolut.htm, - i.e. a trailer to the excellent documentary "Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on trial", and a pfd-file synoptically combining the transcript from "Expelled" with Shane Killian's critical commentary.
Personally I'd prefered to omit Killian's purely subjective, taunting remarks. In my opinion they just weaken his (our) case. Having said that, I would like to thank Killian (and his sources) for a fine job!

My mother tongue isn't English, so bear with me.
First of all, I would like to thank the people involved in making the critically commenting subtitles. Great job!
Next, in order to make Expelled play with these subtitles, I suppose you need Expelled as an avi-file AND re-name the subtitles file exactly in accordance with the movie's name (exepting the extension, in my case respectively .avi and .srt. - E.g. 'Expelled_critically commenting subtitles.avi' and 'Expelled_critically commenting subtitles.srt'). It works fine for me, using Media Player Classic.
Finally, since 2004, I have worked as a Philosophy and Theory of Knowledge (TOK) teacher in the International Baccalaureate (IB) system, and besides, I've taught Literature, Antiquity and Philosophy in my national educational system, in fact since 1976.
When some months ago I first watched Expelled, I thought "This seems interesting...". Now, having watched the movie a couple of times, and having visited a good deal of critical internet sites, I'm disappointed, embarrased and horrified on behalf of the Intelligent Design movement, and on behalf of honest Christians respecting Science as an independent realm besides the independent realm of Faith.
As far as I have been able to scrutinize things, Expelled is one of the most manipulating 'documentaries' I've ever watched.
For my teaching purposes, I've set up a web page on Intelligent Design vs. Evolution in general. However, it's a work in progress, and I have not had the time to update it with references to the subtitles materials at stake. Nevertheless it may be of some interest to members of this forum: http://kj.kolding-gym.dk/TOK%20archive/intelligent_design_andor_evolut.htm