I’ve lifted the following parody from Richard Dawkins.net which basically exposes the stupidity behind the pro-creationist film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, whose title nicely sums up the criteria for believing in ‘intelligent’ design:
Anticipating success with their feature film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Producers Mark Mathis, Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff have already leaked a teaser trailer for the film’s sequel. Their “teach the controversy” slogan seemed to work well in getting the general public to believe that Intelligent Design is a viable alternative scientific theory to Evolution, so the team has moved on to promoting other theories that they feel are being suppressed by the scientific community. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed tells of how Sex Theory has thrived unchallenged in the ivory towers of academia, as the explanation for how new babies are created. Proponents of Stork Theory claim that “Big Sex” has been suppressing their claim that babies are delivered by storks. Furthermore, Stork Theory proponents warn of the serious moral dangers posed by teaching children that sex has a function. They point out that evil dictators such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao all believed in Sex Theory, and they may have even had sex themselves.
There is also a late-breaking new development in the controversy, a new theory called Avian Transportation Theory.
Unlike the original Stork Theory, the modern, sophisticated “Avian Transportation Theory” (ATT) merely points out that there are gaps in the orthodox Sex Theory, and that current sonogram imaging is unreliable. Moreover ATT does not specify that babies are necessarily brought by storks but by “large birds unspecified” (although many individual ATT theorists PRIVATELY believe it is a stork).
See more about Expelled:
http://www.expelledexposed.com/
PZ’s post:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/pelicans_always_seemed_more_pr.php
Another funny ‘teach the controversy’ video posted today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUCXkqn-dM&watch_response
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Well I’d put myself very strongly in line with the Stork Theory! I mean how else would it work? I don’t even know what the other theory is! I mean, why do stork’s exist if their primary purpose isn’t to deliver babies?
Mind you, despite my insistence to be agnostic in this debate, I reckon Creationism should stay in RE simply because it’s not a scientific theory and has nothing to do with science. We can discuss evolution in RE until the cows come home, but teaching evolution as a science is totally illogical. Science is discovery based on a specific frame of mind and creationism doesn’t fit with this.
I think you mean teaching creationism as a science is illogical…? Evolution is a science because you can observe and collect data in accordance with Scientific Method. With any theory of intelligent design, this is impossible, as the only way you could observe it is to go back to the moment your subject was created. (Which, unless you have a time machine, would be pretty difficult).
How do you always manage to seek out these exciting things? Very amusing…it inspired an almost spiteful ‘Ha!’….
Easy. I just subscribed to the Richard Dawkins.net mailing list. Some of the stuff you get isn’t too interesting, but every now and then, there are a couple of gems.
Yeah, sorry, that was what I meant. Typo.