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I seem to have been using this icon a lot more recently, which I suppose is indicative of my continuing sense of complete bafflement at this country.

This video has been around for a few months now, but I only just discovered it yesterday. The people who believe in evolution (with all our irrefutable evidence that's built up over the last couple of hundred years that annoys the creationists a bit) might as well give up now, because they've struck back with the argument to end all arguments. Evolution can be disproved by a simple demonstration with a jar of peanut butter.

These people truly live on another planet. (If anything in a jar disproves evolution, it's Marmite.) As unlikely as it seems, some of them have worked out how to use keyboards and as a result the comments are equally laughable. Not that I'd recommend reading them, because they're quite a danger to IQ-force.

Apparently another common argument against evolution is that if you hammer nails through a plank of wood, leave it lying around for ten thousand years or so and come back, you'll probably find that it hasn't turned into a house. (However, the advantage of this experiment is that it does leave you with a handy tool to beat some sense into whoever suggested it in the first place.)

I did try to get over that video and write about something else, but I can't. What were they expecting? Undead peanuts?

Edit: I've just realized that the first man in that video is Dr. Gish, as seen in Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure.

Date: 2007-07-23 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yemminie.livejournal.com
That is absolutely unbelievable. My favorite part is his patronizing tone - hell-O you fools, no new life! Like HE'S the one with a clue.

Also, I was thinking exactly what diarytypething pointed out: new life=microscopic=who knows if it's in the jar of peanut butter or not.

My heart weeps for those who watch this video and agree with it.

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