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Gordon J. Glover<\/a> offers a brilliant parody of intelligent design arguments in the video<\/a> he has created for the \u201cAlien Intervention Institute\u201d:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kp86gsHschQ<\/a>\n

And for those interested in how parody, Martha Stewart and the wedding at Cana might relate to one another, I offer my friend Charles Allen\u2019s<\/a> sermon, \u201cA Lovely Merlot<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gordon J. Glover offers a brilliant parody of intelligent design arguments in the video he has created for the \u201cAlien Intervention Institute\u201d: And for those interested in how parody, Martha Stewart and the wedding at Cana might relate to one another, I offer my friend Charles Allen\u2019s sermon, \u201cA Lovely Merlot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Alien Intervention Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gordon J. 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