Association is when someone tries to link two unrelated things, either in a good way or in a bad way.
Examples of Association in Flock of Dodos
Association of IDers with conservatives, Bush, and right-wing politics
- During the beginning of the film by flashing the redstate bluestate map and mentioning the cultural divide often.
- Zooming in melodramatically to the Bush calendar hanging in the kitchen of the school board member Kathy Martin, who Olson interviewed.
- Focusing on the organization Kansas Republican Assembly, described as a far right-wing group, which helped the school board member Kathy Martin get elected.
- Evolutionist Tom Givnish mentions Rick Santorum (a Republican Senator) in the poker game.
Association of IDers with negative stereotyped religion (usually a ludicrous-sounding or bigoted form of religion)
- The expressly Christian mission statements of many of the 22 right-wing institutions funding the Discovery Institute
- Melodramatically relating the Wedge Document and the nefarious plan stated therein to destroy scientific materalism.
- Long discussion of the religious beliefs of school board member Kathy Martin in Kansas.
- Religious beliefs (including the retelling of dramatic conversion story) of Kansas school board member Connie Morris.
- Religious beliefs (including ludicrous-sounding conversion story) of John Calvert, director of Access Research Network.
- Mentioning that Dover was "full of churches".
- Alleged bigoted religious views of a pro-intelligent design Dover board member.
Evolutionist religious or lack of religious beliefs are rarely discussed, or discussed when they are describing some kind of benign spirituality (as in the case of Mrs. Murphy) or in the case of other evolutionists who worry about having a "God of the Gaps" or another evolutionist (towards the end of the film) who worries piously about testing God.
These three associations are repeated throughout the film.