I don’t know about evolution, but I do believe that peanut butter does prove evidence of a god. Especially when combined with chocolate.
Sheesh, maybe you should reconsider your game plan.
Duh. The same way Noah fit all those animals on the Ark.
Watch that video with the sound off and tell me if you’re watching Fundie tripe or something that’s very quickly about to devolve into a gay porn film.
“Pointed tip for ease of insertion…”
Heh.
I was pretty excited about this too. But since I trust Time magazine for scientific literature like I trust Rush Limbaugh for political insight I looked at the Joyce publications hoping to find this impressive feet. I cannot find it. Something this significant could not go without being published. It looks to me like the actual research is quite a bit more ambiguous than a self-replicating molecule. I think it may require the addition of an enzyme, which in my opinion is nothing new. Unfortunately, I can’t access some of these articles online so I will have to trudge my way over to the library to get more info.
Not an idiot, just someone who was not very scientifically sophisticated who knew about Pasteur’s work but was unaware of what those who hypothesize about abiogenesis, (not evolutionists, per se), have speculated.
I agree that the “add heat to this jar of peanut butter” is not merely dishonest (or utterly dishonest) but pretty clearly stupid, but an audience, lacking sophistication, that is presented with two (apparently) contradictory facts from “Science” is liable to be misled by a better presentation.
You know… I’m not convinced so easily, but… I’m kinda creeped out by peanut butter now. Another delicious food item ruined. shakes fist to the sky Thanks again, creationists!!!
Please, please, please… don’t let them hinge another asinine argument on pizza.
That’s what I get for believing what I read. I forgot to factor in the sorry state of science journalism in the US (or probably anywhere, for that matter). I have computer access to university resources, but I am not familiar with the biology databases (hey, I’m a humanities type!), so I wouldn’t really know how to go about investigating the status of this reported result.
Oh, I wouldn’t call someone an idiot just b/c they don’t know about abiogenesis. Hell, I wouldn’t call someone an idiot just b/c they knew about abiogenesis and thought it was crap. But I would call someone an idiot who thinks that the peanut butter argument is in itself convincing. But I’m getting crankier in my old age, so maybe that’s it.
Oh, there you go again, muddying the Intelligent Design waters by bringing in Silly Design!
Splitter!
Well. There goes that theory.
Muaahaha! 
ok so no life in peanut butter -but have we tried vegemite?
An infinite number of jars of Vegemite left out for an infinite amount of time, and one of them will eventually evolve into Hamlet, Prince of Denmark?
At some point, my head will fly apart into a million shards from the burden of boggledness mixed with incredulity wrapped up in flabbergastedicity caused by idiocy of this magnitude. And the realization that some people actually will believe something this appallingly stupid.
I thought vegemite only proved that Hell is a real place. Not that I’m biased or anything 
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If you look in the upper right of that silly Skippy video, there’s a row of links to others. The far-left one (at least when I clicked into it) is a Chinese-language video about Tiananmen Square and it’s powerful stuff. No religious propagandizing (unless it’s in the narration), just a moving depiction of what happened, complete with the man who faced down the tank column.
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When he was talking about God’s color-coding of the fruit, all I could think of was this Mitch Hedberg bit.