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Sometimes I spend way to much time on Youtube, and it makes me cry.
PZ Myers, my "high priest of science" started this off today by posting a video of a horribly stupid young girl who was "challenging" evolution and therefore atheists. Truth be told, my 4 year-old son came up with more challenging questions about evolution, and rationally came to the conclusion that the scientific evidence made sense. While he is VERY smart, almost freakishly so, it is sad that a 4 year-old gets it and she does not.
So after watching the video, I continued to go down the rabbit hole of creationist videos. After the above mentioned lovely idiot, I came across this man, who scares the beJesus out of me! He starts off by saying that since the big bang was basically a rock that exploded in space and created all the planets, WHY ARE THEY ROUND? Seriously, I went to a liberal arts college, have a degree in Business, only passed astronomy because I was banging the TA and I still understand the complete stupidity of that statement. It shows that there are indeed stupid questions.
He then says that evolution must mean that hammerhead sharks evolved that way because of their annoyance at local fish, that scientists do not understand tornados and twisters, and that first generation atheists make him the most sick because that means that "you are saying your mother is a stupid retard and your grandfather is an asshole." Hey, my grandfather is an asshole, but that does not disprove evolution.
This man should be blacklisted from any public events where atheist are present, because he is about to pop, and I bet he is packing heat.
Finally, I get to Sister Sunshine, the video I posted above. Her main concern is that if we descended from "monkeys, apes, simians, or whatever you want to call them" then why don't humans occasionally produce full monkey babies from their recessive genes. She also wants us to know that she has taken MANY biology and anatomy courses, so that she knows about science. Who wants to guess that she took these classes at the Discovery Institute, Bob Jones University, or Jerry Falwell's Liberty University?
Although I think that my son Max might sway her that occasionally monkey babies do come,
this dude does it so much better than me!
Now I just need to getPat Condell on their case! He can truly open up the can of atheistic whoop ass, and do it in such a classy voice you will thank him when he is done.
Ok, I am on board with you. However this guy rebutting Sister Sunshine is pretty stupid also. There is no such thing as de-evolving. Humans are still evolving to this day. We have removed ourselves from nature but evolution is still happening to the human race as we speak. The only argument he could make is that we are evolving into a species that is less likely to succeed. That is totally acceptable in the theory of evolution. There is nothing in the theory of evolution that accounts for his term de-evolving.
ok-this is way too boring for my uneducated mind. that woman bored me to tears and i had to stop watching it, sorry. couldn’t watch anything else, afraid i would be bored again. love your blog though! heehee
The pic of Max is adorable, liked that :0
Do you have to be an atheist to believe evolution? Because I totally think God could use evolution. :)
Love you Heidi.
The picture of Max is pretty great.