Comments on: Whoops! Fundies’ Darwin Conundrum

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:36:50 +0000

I really want to see someone make a parody of this video and replace ‘evolution’ with ‘gravity.’

Liberals LOOOOOOVE gravity, but Al Gore has an airplane! LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Why is it so hard for people to understand that evolution isn’t an agenda? We don’t WANT it to happen, it isn’t necessarily FAVORABLE, it just happens.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:51:34 +0000

You could turn it into a public service video quite easily. Just add “Don’t be this guy, kids. Stay in school” at the end.

The sheer level of idiocy here is amazing. I wonder if these people ever debate their position, face to face, against some moderately intelligent person with a grasp of evolutionary biology. Sadly, they probably don’t. I can’t stand such self-righteousness.

By: dvsrat

dvsrat — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:27:39 +0000

This may be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. I imagined that someone opened up the top of this guy’s skull, plunged an electric mixer into his brain (on high), mixed thouroughly, replaced the top of his skull, and told him to make a video. This is the result.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:58:18 +0000

Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism for genocide. Social Darwinism is the long-accepted (and incorrect) term for applying artificial selection to human societies and pretending that your brutish behavior is justified by nature. After 130 years, I don’t think we’ll be able to change the term.

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:10:54 +0000

I really don’t like the term “social Darwinism.” Is there a more accurate term without smearing Darwin’s name? Ethnic cleansing?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:31:15 +0000

Wow…the stupid really DOES burn. I love how he assumes that because something is an evolutionary dead-end (e.g., homosexuality) that it “should be discouraged”. So…sterility “should be discouraged”? Tell me, Mr. Fatty, how exactly does one go about “discouraging” sterility? And besides, if we’re trying to “discourage” things that lead to an evolutionary dead-end, maybe we should “discourage” you from eating so much and sitting on your fat ass?

It’s funny how the morons who claim that they’re against social Darwinism build a straw man that attempts to imply that accepting modern biology entails social Darwinism – but THEY are the ones who encourage social Darwinism (e.g., racial profiling, allowing the rich to be above the law).

By: sue blue

sue blue — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:45:42 +0000

I tried…I really did. But I could only make it about a third of the way through the waste of time and technology that is this video. This guy – who should be the poster boy for birth control – makes associative leaps that would make a psychologist scream “schizophrenia!!!” Apparently, any half-assed idea he got in the middle of a drunken dream, or any two words that reminded him of something, is enough to link to Darwin and evolution and liberals. It’s like some wierd word-association game or something. Even being drunk wouldn’t help; I’d probably just puke.

Unbelievable that people this stupid can breathe and walk at the same time.

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:21:22 +0000

Brian – although your post was, as usual, brilliant, I fear Crystal M. was nothing more than just a drive-by troll trying to spread links to his/her website. If you look at the content, it’s only mildly on-topic and could be posted to thousands of blogs on any number of scientific, skeptical, or superstituous blogs uncut and still also be mildly on-topic.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:34:19 +0000

Crystal,

I’m sorry if this is going to sound harsh. I really don’t want it to be. I’ve got a new episode of Battlestar Galactica coming on soon so I’m in a good mood, but we must talk.

Your comment amounts to nothing more than intellectual cowardice. I can’t help picturing someone saying, “Science is, like, hard. There’s all those facts, and stuff. Who has time to keep track of them all anyway? Besides, like, everyone I know believes in God, so I’m not going to be a total loser, am I?”

Science and religion are often sold to us as two happily coexisting explanatory systems by those who wish we could all just get along. There is a crucial difference. One system is steeped in evidence and experimentation, has no idea forever safe from revision and constantly admits to its own ignorance on all matters. The other is nothing more than a public nuisance kept afloat by the lesser human qualities of ignorance, credulity, fear, arrogance, and bigotry.

If you were steeped in evolutionary biology and natural selection, you would watch the video above and within seconds conclude that Mr. Molotov Mitchell is a fuckstick who is proud of his own stupidity. It is literally like listening to someone who truly believes that the sun will rise in the west tomorrow morning, and cannot be dissuaded from his delusion even after being proven wrong.

There is no comparison between science and religion. Go ahead, find out for yourself. Perhaps if you do, the next time you read a statement advocating the parity of both, I hope you won’t associate it with the same emoticon. That’s certainly not the expression on my face.

By: Crystal D.

Crystal D. — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:58:21 +0000

Does Darwin prove or disprove god? Maybe we should consider a compromise and say both?

By: sue blue

sue blue — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:15:53 +0000

AAAamen, brothuh! Perky piety is the ultimate in douchebaggery. Very few things could possibly be more irritating. Once I was accosted by one of these infomercials for Gawd at a gas station when I was running late for work. This woman was acting like Jesus had just given her the orgasm of her life. Or like she’d just taken a great big hit on her crack pipe and snorted some meth while sucking down a Red Bull or two. Meanwhile, my eyes are barely open and I’m fifteen minutes late for work. She’s just lucky I didn’t have anything more lethal than a gas pump nozzle in my hand.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:49:32 +0000

Amen Brian. I always enjoy your posts, but today you had me laughing so hard I was in tears. I loved that you worked “fundie” and “Doritos” into the same post.