Comments | whythawk: First there were bananas

whythawk

First there were bananas - now peanut butter

May 06, 2007 23:09

You've got to love YouTube. I really enjoyed Kirk Cameron's take on why bananas are an atheist's worst nightmare (below), but this one is truly extraordinary. Apparently, the proof that evolution is a crock of excrement is purely because life does not spontaneously generate in a bottle of peanut butter.

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whythawk May 7 2007, 16:19:37 UTC

I've been ghost-writing this physics book where the chap I'm working for thinks he's produced a unification theory. I have boned up on my physics to the point where I'm now probably at graduate level. I don't have sufficient theory, though, to declare absolutely, but this guy has something that makes extraordinary sense. It doesn't outright conflict with string theory, but it isn't essential.

So I'm with you on the big bang.

There was a quote somewhere about certainty: "Why is it that idiots are so certain, while geniuses are so cautious, I think." I still think that a well placed doubt is an exceptionally powerful thing.

And, yes, the videos are old, but - hell - I still find them unbelievable. Spontaneous evolution, in a tub of peanut butter?

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whythawk May 7 2007, 19:24:14 UTC

I remember seeing a documentary on this. And so I have no problem with the theory, I can chart a fairly good account of how evolution occurred; from the thin-films created in intertidal foam, to the encapsulation of self-replicating bits of RNA giving them a competitive advantage and slowly, etc. But the idea that - without the incredible chaotic churn, heat, chemical soup and billions of years of mashing required to come up with a self-replicating thing we'd recognise as "life" - it would suddenly turn up in a jar of peanut-butter is bizarre ( ... )