Fundamentalists say the funniest things
Jul. 22nd, 2007 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnI 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-07-23 08:08 am (UTC)Seriously, not just this, but every time they ever take the stage, their whole thing is based on starting with what they try to pass of as a recap, a sort of "For those of you who aren't in the know, the Theory of Evolution states that..." with a statement that's criminally oversimplified and misleading at best or outright made up at worst. Of course, once they've specifically defined their idea of Evolution as something wholly ridiculous, it's easy to go on and talk about the ridiculousness of the idea they just presented. "Evolution states that peanut butter will spontaneously come to life, but clearly, it doesn't! Ha ha, joke's on you, Evolution!"
Seriously, every time. You don't want to know the kind of fraudulent claims they were making during one demonstration I saw involving carbon-dating lava rocks from a recent volcanic eruption.