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The substance? It's on "Darwinist" evolutionists and how they try to suppress the views of anyone in favor of "Intelligent Design". Depending on whom you ask and how they're feeling on the day you ask, Intelligent Design is either a form of creationism, or a form of evolution which nonetheless contains the tenet that certain things cannot have evolved without outside help. It also argues that "Darwinism" creates atheism and moral corruption.

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: If you're going to argue that Intelligent Design is a real possibility ''and'' doesn't require belief in God, then panspermia should not be offensive to you...

* [[Big Bad]]: [[Richard Dawkins]]. Ben Stein thinks Dawkins is THE [[Atheism|atheist]] to beat if atheism is indeed correct. He treats his confrontation with Dawkins as the [[Final Boss]] of the movie.

* [[Documentary of Lies]]: For instance, to illustrate the point of the evils of evolutionary theory, the movie includes a passage from Darwin's ''The Descent of Man'' that seemingly favors eugenics and culling the infirm and insane, but cuts Darwin praising doctors and lawmakers for their care of the concern of the weak and the poor. These portions of the text are in the middle of the quote, making their exclusion an intentional lie by omission. The following paragraph of the book, omitted in its entirety, has Darwin unambiguously state as evil that the very views the film ascribes to him.

** This is called quote mining, a very common tactic which has also been used against [[Richard Dawkins]] the same way.