Darwin published his evidence. Why can’t this guy simply revisit that evidence to prove that Darwin misinterpreted it? Unless he just wants a trip to the Galapagos, which I guess is a fair reason.
Considering his Kickstarter page has not one, but two fundraising goals - $75k with film and production crew, $55k without - it’s patently obvious the film is of secondary importance to the trip in his mind.
What’s his plan? Land on the Galapagos, drag his knuckles around for a while, notice that the tortoises aren’t turning into T-Rexes and go “aha! Told you so!”?
It’s fun to mock the guy, but he has some interesting points. Like, you’d figure he’d want to directly engage with the populace, but that’s not the case: “I believe the populist has accepted the idea of evolution due to the lack of evidence of the contrary.”
So, who is The Populist: a misguided demagogue, a redeemable supervillain? I dunno, but, apparently, you set that one dude straight and the rest falls into place.
That’s exactly what I thought. To take it a step further, how can he believe that evolution exists on small scale such as from a maggot to a fly, but not believe that humans came from single celled organisms…like gametes/zygotes/sperms/eggs?
Like you said, he doesn’t even appear to know what evolution is. That’s going to make it mighty hard to disprove.
Also, proving that evolution doesn’t exist wouldn’t prove the existence of god. It would imply that something other than evolution created humans, but not necessarily a higher being. Don’t they make people take some kind of logic class to get a masters degree? I took as part of my undergrad.
It’s like saying “I’ve proven that lochness monster doesn’t exist, therefor it was a black bear covered in seaweed in those pictures”.
Sorry buddy, you can prove half your statement, but proving the other part is a whole other thing that isn’t implied from the first.
I’m intrigued by the poster he has on his site. It appears to be some kind of depiction of Haeckel’s recapitulation theories. I imagine the “self-sustaining longitudinal circles” have something to do with the arcs connecting the different “grades” of organization.
It’s fascinating how creationists think that all they have to do is disprove Darwin’s own findings, and the whole edifice of evolutionary biology constructed over the past 150 years will collapse.
ETA: The human couple in the upper left of the poster are looking suspiciously cozy for a scientific chart.
