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The Uncommon Descent blog posted a link to a page that the author of the post thought was worth looking at as an illustration of the problems with evolution<\/a>. If you visit the original site, you will see that it is clearly an attempt at humor, not a critique of science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apparently even some proponents of Intelligent Design<\/a> cannot tell attempts at humor from their own attempts at \u201cscience\u201d<\/a>. Does this prove beyond reasonable doubt that this form of ID is in fact a joke?<\/p>\n

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