Evolutionary biologist turned filmmaker Randy Olson goes home to Kansas in 2005, when the state school board is deciding whether to teach intelligent design alongside evolution in public classrooms. Olson interviews the Discovery Institute's leading intelligent design proponents, letting them make their case on camera, then sits down with evolutionary biologists to hear why they think the argument is settled science being reopened for political reasons. The film's sharpest scene is a poker game with a table of scientists, who admit under questioning that they are losing the public debate not because their evidence is weak but because they are bad at explaining it. Olson's own mother, a Kansas conservative, gets a say too, complicating any easy split between believers and scientists. Rather than adjudicating who is right, the film keeps circling back to communication itself: slick design advocates versus scientists who assume the facts should speak for themselves. The title's dodo joke aims at whichever side stops adapting to how the argument is actually being won.