...according, at least, to Ben Stein's (!) upcoming 'documentary' Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. This is the type of movie where, the more you read about it, the more you're convinced it's an elaborate prank on the part of the Colbert Report. Allow me to quote a snippet from the website's own summary, and tell me if you can discern this from a Colbert Report segment:

"Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom...what they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel!"

The smart new ideas? Intelligent design. Just check out the website.

Oh boy.

Join me after the break, won't you? There'll be the trailer, and it'll be fun. I promise.

I posted this in my campus newspaper, The Daily Campus, in response to a convention/workshop the Discovery Institute is holding on our campus this weekend. There has been a lot of protest from our Natural Sciences, Anthropology departments and has caused a 'war of words' in various online and print outlets between the Institute and said departments.

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This weekend Dedman Law School's Christian Legal Society will be hosting a controversial and well-known institute that preaches a religious message masked in a capsule of pseudoscience.

The Discovery Institute is one of the nations leading political action groups. It fights to create a theistic world view that corrupts science to fit the doctrines of evangelical and literal Christians who are unable to reconcile their religious beliefs with the material world.

A controversial document (reported as the Wedge Document, a 1998 internal memo) stated the Institute's goal was to "drive a wedge" into "scientific materialism" in order to divorce it from its purely observational and naturalistic methodology and stop the deleterious effects of evolution on Western culture.