Why we laugh at creationists...

[summer_jackel]

Yeah, yeah, I'm totally preaching to the choir here (heh), but I know that many of you will, if nothing more, gain some amusement from this. Thank you, alex_garg for this delightful bit of scientific snark. We loves it, we do. /smooch/

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So, my stance on these things: religion/spirituality/myth/what have you can be profoundly useful tools in many ways, and can be used to do fascinating things with one's psychology. They aren't useful in explaining the tangible world, however.

Comments

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

This is my first exposure. I totally want to watch the rest of them now.

[raveness-d.livejournal.com]

You mean Ethel and her Happy Dance DIDN'T create the world?

I'm lost.

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

I thought it was some monster comprised of spaghetti... Ethel doesn't enter the equation.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

No, no, you have it all wrong. Ethel and His Noodly Wonderfulness bred and created the universe.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

This is another anti-creationist video -- in fact, the most elegant of the lot. It's called "Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker" and it uses computer simulation on one of their most common strawmen to...evolve a clock. Literally.

In addition to its elegance, it's also the most beautiful introduction to molecular virology that I could possibly gift someone with. How his clocks "evolved" is strikingly similar to how viruses are hypothesized to evolve in the real world...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

Heh.. yeah, I've seen this video previously. There's some flawed thinking here, but its still entertaining to compare.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Can you explain the flaws in it for me? I'm quite interested in this...

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

That's lovely. Thank you for sharing such a neat thing!

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

I highly respect Ben Stein for his economic mind, but obvious his scientific one is lacking. This video is a keeper. In my world, we have much fun at the expense of creationists that believe their doctrine is truth. Faith and science are not exchangeable, but neither are they mutually exclusive.

[joreth]

All my atheist youtube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=14054CB089AB3E5D

[alex-garg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Creationists seem to think that their best argument against evolution is to be ignorant and say, "Nyuh uh! You're wrong!" to every shred of evidence presented to them.

Quite annoying.