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		<title>Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s sequel. Their &#8220;teach the controversy&#8221; slogan seemed to work well in getting the general public to believe that Intelligent Design is a viable alternative scientific theory to Evolution, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anticipating success with their feature film <em>Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed</em>, Producers Mark Mathis, Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff have already leaked a teaser trailer for the film&#8217;s sequel. Their &#8220;teach the controversy&#8221; 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. <em>Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed</em> tells of how Sex Theory has thrived unchallenged in the ivory towers of academia, as the explanation for how new babies are created. <span id="more-410"></span>Proponents of Stork Theory claim that &#8220;Big Sex&#8221; 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. </p>
<p>There is also a late-breaking new development in the controversy, a new theory called Avian Transportation Theory.</p>
<p>Unlike the original Stork Theory, the modern, sophisticated &#8220;Avian Transportation Theory&#8221; (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 &#8220;large birds unspecified&#8221; (although many individual ATT theorists PRIVATELY believe it is a stork). </p>
<p>See more about <em>Expelled</em> at <a href="http://www.expelledexposed.com/">http://www.expelledexposed.com/</a></p>
<p>(<a href="http://richarddawkins.net/article,2478,Sexpelled-No-Intercourse-Allowed,RichardDawkinsnet">video</a> taken from <a href="http://richarddawkins.net">richarddawkins.net</a>)</p>
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		<title>The Great Debate:  Dinesh D&#8217;Souza v. Michael Shermer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shermer</dc:creator>
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	In this debate on what are arguably two of the most important questions in the culture wars today &#8212; Is Religion a Force for Good or Evil? and Can you be Good without God? &#8212; the conservative Christian author and cultural scholar Dinesh D&#8217;Souza and the libertarian skeptic writer and social scientist Michael Shermer, square off to resolve these and related issues, such as the relationship between science and religion and the nature and existence of God. This event was one of the liveliest ever hosted by the Skeptics Society at Caltech, mixing science, religion, politics, and culture.
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	Dinesh D&#8217;Souza is the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. <em>Investor&#8217;s Business Daily</em> called him one of the &#8220; top young public-policy makers in the country,&#8221; and the <em>New York Times</em> magazine named him one of America&#8217;s most influential conservative thinkers. Before joining the Hoover Institution, Mr. D&#8217;Souza was the John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In 1987&#8211;88 he served as senior policy analyst at the Reagan White House. From 1985&#8211;1987 he was managing editor of <em>Policy Review</em>. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983. His books include the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>What&#8217;s So Great About America</em>. His 1991 book <em>Illiberal Education</em> was the first study to publicize the phenomenon of political correctness. He is also the author of <em>The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno Affluence</em>. D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s articles have appeared in the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>, <em>Vanity Fair</em>, <em>New Republic</em>, and <em>National Review</em>. His latest book is titled <em>What&#8217;s So Great About Christianity?</em>
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<h5>Part A</h5>
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