Well, I’m convinced.
http://www.glumbert.com/media/peanutbutter
(too bad evolution says nothing about the creation of life, otherwise this might not be quite so ridiculous. Still ridiculous, but not quite so ridiculous)
I’m just wondering what kind of a fucking idiot you would have to be to be convinced by this. My favorite was the guy opening the jar and basically saying that the fact that, in the time since the peanut butter was put in the jar, no life had evolved and developed to the point where it could be seen with the naked eye, the theory of evolution is stupid.
I wonder what would happen if someone pointed out to these people that self-replicating, evolving molecules have been accidentally created in the lab? Massive denial, or cranial explosion? I’d like to find out empirically.
Engineers should stick to engineering.
Are you serious about this? I take it you don’t mean anything you could really call ‘life’? Amino acids or something?
No, not life, but pretty damned intriguing. Here is the opening paragraph of a Time magazine article (“How Did Life Begin?”, J. Madeleine Nash, Time 10/11/93, Vol. 142 Issue 15, p68):
Actually, the fact that it is not living is what makes it so intriguing–a non-living molecule that can reproduce and evolve is exactly the sort of thing life would have come from originally. Admittedly, in this case the deck was stacked in favor of the molecule–it had a ready supply of proteins in the test tube, etc. But as I said, it is very suggestive.
Meh. It would probably convince them that there was something in Intelligent Design.
Probably right. There is no human mental faculty so powerful and well-tuned as our ability to rationalize.
I found new life in the peanut butter jar one time, but I ate it. Tasted like chicken.
Every time I see something like this, I have a brief internal debate with myself: Are the people making these arguments colossally stupid, or are they really smart con artists who know that their target audience is colossally stupid?
And then I think, Mmm, peanut butter! and the debate ends without resolution.
I swear, when the guy was lifting off the tin cover, I was half expecting an elephant to fly out. :smack:
Yeah, I suspected maybe the whole thing was a joke, and that was going to be the punchline (or something like that).
<Long string of Swear words> That is absolutely incredible. Anyway, here is a link to the entire article Time
As to the peanut butter thing, I thought it was a parody of the Banana Atheist’s Worst Nightmare* right until the end. I mean who could think that theory of evolution allows for (or requires) the evolution of ants (and similar) from a roughly sterile jar of peanut butter in a couple of months.
*which I initially thought was a parody of the “It’s a New Day” type programs.
err: by sterile I mean without a soup of random organic molecules setup to be like the test-tubes in the article
Is this a real video? Who made it? If it’s real, I’d really, REALLY like to know where it came from.
Hmmm, after googling, some other forum claims it came from a TV show made by this organization. Can anyone confirm this?
Hmmm… bananas disprove evolution, too. Maybe we should put them together and make an evolution-disproving sandwich. Or do we need evolution-disproving bread, first?
Me too. What did that dude expect to find in the jar? A fully-formed Pat Robertson?
Remember the old gag cans of peanut brittle with the fake snakes that come springing out?
Man, I wish I could have been a stagehand on that set.
If you’re a Darwinist, it’s just stupid.
If you’re a creationist, then I believe this quote covers it: “There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.” - Daniel Dennett.
:eek:
Did he really fucking say that? (referring to the nitwit in the video clip).
Besides…here’s peanut butter and new life. That wasn’t so hard to find.
See, now that’s not how science works. You have to be able to replicate your findings. I find new life in containers I open all the time. QED: evolution
Or maybe I just need to clean the fridge more often.