This is awesome. I remember watching some creationist idiocy that tried to make the claim that abiogenesis couldn’t have occurred. After all, the packaged food industry depends on life not spontaneously generating in, say, a jar of peanut butter.
Sophistry, brought to you by Southwest* and Jif: Choosy evolutionary biologists choose Jif.
*Actually, by the argument above, would that mean that fat people are each actually two people?
There’s always a market for telling people what they already believe. Sometimes I think I should go into that business myself. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I could pull it off. And besides, the only place I hang out is here and you guys are all to smart and sophisitcated to fall for any of that.
Kirk’s just mad because the orangutan’s IQ is higher than his. I’d love to see what the Librarian would do to him, though.
ook
The Librarian would try to unscrew his head…probably to see if there was anything inside it.
Obviously not.
<starts writing Trion a check>
I can’t watch the video right now. Could someone summarize the argument that bananas prove God’s existence, please?
I’m just going from memory here, but the gist is that they’re the perfect food. They come in their own wrappers, they’re the perfect size to fit in your hand, and they are even curved towards your mouth. How can something so perfect be an accident? It had to be designed by God.
Yeah. Batshit insane.
Other way around, I think.
But that doesn’t even make stupid sense. They’re only that way because of selective breeding and thousands of years of cultivation.
I hate going to lunch with orangutans. They never put in enough for the tip.
Susan
Not to mention the fact that the snotty racist (speciest?) bastards won’t even pick your nits if you’re human.
ook ook you’ll go ape over our savings
We’ve laughed at Kirk’s religious wackiness on the SDMB before. Here is his official site, “The Way of the Master,” which features the “Are You a Good Person” quiz, written accounts of Kirk witnessing to heathens at airports and other various places, and (surprise!) an online store. Finding Jesus apparently isn’t as affordable as it used to be.
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially simian ones. They are not all that subtle.”
– Lords and Ladies
GODDIDIT!
It was even better than that: they were comparing it to a Pepsi can (i.e., like a soda can, a banana is easily opened and its contents readily available; thus, since one was created, the other must have been, too).
My favorite argument–from the segment I watched–was how you could prove there’s a Creator because you can look around and see, you know, Creation. Kinda like how (using Kirk’s example) you know there’s a painter when you see a painting.
Me, I’m convinced. [del]Thanks[/del] Amen, Growing Pains!
Suddenly, that extra dessert doesn’t seem like such a bad idea.
I could be my own dependent. Twice! Woo!
Personally, I believe in Heaven, and I believe that one of the highlights is watching God smack anti-evolutionists upside the head.
Of course, if there is a heaven, then I’m probably completely wrong, but I’ve decided to take a cue from Mr. Cameron and his ilk. I will believe what I want to believe, common sense be damned!
Funny, they always curve away from my mouth.
That just proves God knows I hate bananas!
Silly, you’re standing on the wrong side of the banana!
Kirk’s shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.