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Published on Saturday, April 19, 2008
By Chris Weinkopf
THERE'S a great piece of viral satire working its way around the Internet, an ad for Ben Stein's new movie, "Expelled." It's a music video featuring animated representations of prominent atheists rapping about their intellectual superiority over the majority of mankind that still has doubts about Darwinism as an all-purpose, infallible explanation for everything.
The video is funny, but nowhere near as funny as some of the crusading atheists' responses to it.
At the Web site of celebrity God-hater Richard Dawkins, both host and acolytes spent more than a day - and wrote hundreds of posts - praising the video because they construed its smug lyrics ("He's smarter than you, he's got a science degree!") as supporting their cause. The satire sailed right over their heads.
And so it is with "Expelled" itself - a searing satire whose critics have largely failed to recognize it for what it is. Instead, they fume over what they perceive as Stein's unfair treatment of them
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