Fundamentalists say the funniest things

[davidn]

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.

Comments

[diarytypething.livejournal.com]

That is a great big can of WTF with 50% extra free.

Has no one mentioned to the fundies that single celled organisms are microscopic, or did they never pay that much attention in Biology? By their logic, we could be spreading new lifeforms on our toast every morning - and does it just apply to peanut butter, or all things that come in jars? Obviously they haven't considered spreadable cheese-based products anyway, because those go mouldy even when they're sealed except possibly dairylea, because nothing that's that shiny all the way through could have enough stuff in it that wasn't additive for mould to grow on. Neither have they considered that it might sound slightly blasphemous to suggest that humans are mould and God is someone with no concept of food hygene.

[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.

[yemminie.livejournal.com]

Oh, and did you watch the one about the banana?

It truly is wtf comedy gold.

[kjorteo]

I have never seen more straw man arguments than any time a fundamentalist tries to talk about creationism.

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.

[stubbleupdate.livejournal.com]

The banana one is SO sapo-centric (if that's a word. if not, it is now) and simplistic.

Bananas fit in our hands. Bananas are good to eat. THEREFORE THERE IS NO EVOLUTION. I think we need to hear from Dr Richards on this one.^

[pookatimes.livejournal.com]

*laughs so much he needs to go off into a quiet room and calm down*