Good show for Ben. But it cannot just be two hypotheses. We need to also be open to a lot more ideas. Evolution starting at the centre of growing planets. Various types of panspermia as well as the intelligent type that we see from people like Lloyd Pye. A more sophisticated view of evolution including Lemarckian effects. The fact that the universe is really trillions of trillions of years old instead of this young-universe creation idiocy that we are forced to believe by the Jew idiocracy we call physics .... and so forth. Secular atheists really ought to choose between evolution and the most embarrassing idiocy of science ..... ie the big bang.... They cannot have both except that they suffer from some sort of IQ deficiency.
Intelligent panspermia ought to be a given. We know that planets can explode or there would not be rocks in space. The first impulse any seriously smart society would have would be to terraform other planets and colonise the insides of large asteroids. Its a natural follow-on of permaculture which is the only sensible way to live.
So as worthy as Ben Stein is there is always this hateful tendency to control the narrative by way of segmenting the debate into two warring hypotheses. When we realise that we should age the universe beginning at a trillion to the power of a trillion years just for starters, and we should ignore Jew thought-nazi idiocy in physics, then we see that their are very many alternatives. Even the Theists have a look-in once real science is followed.