Intelligent Design Is a Protest Movement Against Homogenized Thought

Watch this parody of a TED talk. It's very funny, and true, but also suggests a more serious point.

Many TED talks are, of course, quite good and we've highlighted more than a few here in the past. But in a sense, when you've seen one, you've seen them all. There's a kind of stereotyped routine or patter to them that is startlingly invariant from Talk to Talk.

The homogenized gestures and way of speaking suggest homogenized thought, and this too is largely borne out. Whether in TED talks o...