The third and final installment of my Intelligent Design parody is a spoof on the film EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed.

Last summer, Ben Stein (whom I respect as an economist and conservative thinker), took up the cause of Intelligent Design in the film EXPELLED.  Ok, fine.  But biology is not the only academic discipline with a vocal minority of dissenters.  And biology is not the only field of science with difficult questions that are more easily “answered” by appealing to “higher” powers of intelligent agency. 

In the field of archaeology, there is a small minority of “scientists” who firmly believe that the architectural history of the ancient world can’t be explained by mainstream theories which ignore the possibility of alien intervention.  Does this “controversy” deserve to be heard in the public science classrooms?  What if Ben Stein had taken up their cause instead of Intelligent Design?  I’m sure he could have rounded up a few folks who have suffered unfairly at the hands of mainstream instutions who don’t take theories of Paleo-Contact seriously.

Perhaps this is what the trailer for that film would have looked like…

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