You are completely right. The central point of this documentary is calling for a fair and balanced debate. Ben Stein does clearly let you know, while visiting concentration camps in Germany, where he stands on the issue. I suppose with the Darwinism/ID/Creationism debate being such a hot potato Stein risks loosing his message with so much attention paid to the issue.

I came away from the film thinking primarily about the origin of life debate and the freedom of speech seemed to take a second place.

As I think back, there was clearly a lot of time devoted, in the film, to the freedom of speech issue, but I seem to be pulled into the debate itself for some reason.

I hope that I am alone in the seduction of the debate. We really must assure ourselves that we have, in this country, free and equal access to ideas and the right to express them in a free and equal manner.