A divisive film that draws people into a false debate of 'either-or' over an issue that is ultimately 'both-and'.
Todays religious institutions are suffering from an addiction to rationality and a need to 'prove' God exists. There's a reason we call our walk 'faith' and not 'proof'. Look up the definitions if this escapes you. Ben Stein needs to buy some bigger underwear, take a few deep breaths and lighten up a little- he makes this come across like it's a horror show.
There needs to be a clear understanding of what constitutes intellectual/analytical/secular knowledge on one hand, and religious/spiritual knowledge through experience on the other. There is no conflict here, rather a distinction between the two.
So much of our cultural debate between science and religion seems to assume that science and religion pose competing answers to the same question of 'why?' when, in fact, they pose different questions. Both are legitimate answers to the same question but there is a distinction between 'why' the way science asks about the mechanics of matter as in 'Why does that work like that?'; and 'why' as a theological question about the purpose of this universe as in 'Why am I here?'
It's like trying to use science to explain 'why' a piece of music stirs the soul. Science can provide the math that explains it's structure and mechanics, but God can only be found in the experience of the music- which transcends the equation or any words that can wholly express the stirring. Science is the dancer, God is the dance.
What the Promethean mind really finds scary is the insecurity of the paradox that both sides here belong, and so it naturally seeks the security of rational and logic. We're all guilty of that at one time or another. We humans have a tendency to avoid the spiritual space of duality and paradox.
If you consider yourself a person of faith in the slightest, I encourage you research Hindu physicist V.V. Raman's take on this subject to draw a more informed conclusion for yourself.
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/heartsreason/unheardcuts.shtml
