When the principles of academic freedom conflict with the drive for academic standards, there you will find the creationists...

From a science perspective, how did life begin? And is it possible that life began by intelligent design?

Some say these questions are unanswerable, invalid, or heaven forbid, unimportant. Yet science has become closed to honest enquiry. What this 'Expelled' doco shows is that our faculties and institutions have set up defense mechanisms to surround a pet theory. Establishment science is caught suppressing questions that they don't like.

For science or any other part of society to flourish, we must be free to ask tough questions and be allowed to follow evidence wherever it leads.