{"id":3822,"date":"2008-03-30T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/expelled-the-video-game\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T00:16:00","slug":"expelled-the-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/expelled-the-video-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Expelled! The Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Pseudoscience needs the support of a <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/ReligionProf\/44197\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">video game<\/a> to really flourish. Following on the great success of our <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/michael-behe-vs-mousetraps-video-game.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Behe vs. the Mousetrap game<\/a>, we\u2019ve now added a new addition to our products: <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/ReligionProf2\/130721\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Expelled! The Video Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stein is the wizard trying to defend his movie theater of hocus pocus from intruding scientists. Use left and right arrows to change P. Z. Myers\u2019 direction at any time. Press the space bar to have Ben Stein cast his spell and attempt to make PZ fade into ghostly nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid the \u2018d\u2019 key at all costs, or Richard Dawkins will sneak past, right under Ben\u2019s nose!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/ReligionProf2\/130721\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"319\" alt=\"Scratch Project\" src=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/static\/projects\/ReligionProf2\/130721_med.png\" width=\"425\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Like the last game, this one was created using <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">MIT\u2019s Scratch program<\/a>. 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