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One reason Intelligent Design has trouble being taken seriously is because it lacks what all cool things must<\/em> have nowadays: its own video game. To show that I have nothing personal against the proponents of ID, I thought I\u2019d help by rectifying the problem.<\/p>\n

In the game I created, using MIT\u2019s Scratch program<\/a>, you play Michael Behe (yes it really is him, but you have to look really <\/em>closely), being chased in a nightmare by four of Ken Miller\u2019s mousetrap tie clips. As you avoid them and navigate the maze, you pick up dots marked ID to score points with the Intelligent Design crowd. Get the bacterium with the irreducibly complex flagellum for bonus points. Click the green flag to start, then choose as many mousetrap enemies as you wish, then click GO. Use the arrow keys to move.<\/p>\n

Learn more about this project<\/a><\/p>\n

If the Java applet above doesn\u2019t work on your browser, click on the image below to go to the Scratch site and play the game there. Have fun!<\/p>\n

\"Scratch<\/a><\/p>\n

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One reason Intelligent Design has trouble being taken seriously is because it lacks what all cool things must have nowadays: its own video game. To show that I have nothing personal against the proponents of ID, I thought I\u2019d help by rectifying the problem. In the game I created, using MIT\u2019s Scratch program, you play […]<\/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-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMichael Behe vs. The Mousetraps Video Game<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One reason Intelligent Design has trouble being taken seriously is because it lacks what all cool things must have nowadays: its own video game. 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