# [The] Third [problem with Darwinism], which I think is overwhelming, and just sort of blows the whole theory of Random Mutation out of the water, is, at least, let me say, raises big questions, that is. Assuming it all did happen by Random Mutation and Natural Selection, where did the laws of gravity come from. Where did the laws of thermodynamics come from? Where did the laws of motion and, of heat come from? Where, I guess that's the same as thermodynamics. Where did all these laws, that make it possible for the universe to function, where did they all come from? Why isn't all just chaos and everything collapsing in on itself and killing everything?
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He is a whore for money, from what I've read around blogs.
Why must he have huge logic gaps all the same though? Why? X_x
Throwing un- or barely related subjects of science together doesn't work for defending an argument. I'm sorry, Mr. Stein, but if you can't see that, then you probably need some more Clear Eyes.
Wow.
Why is this a problem for "Darwinism" and not a problem for any other scientific theory?
Example: Even if the Doppler Effect does explain frequency shifts in light or sound emitted from objects in relative motion, where does the first law of thermodynamics come from?
See, Ben? Your reasoning is retarded. Evolutionary theory doesn't claim to explain EVERYTHING*, just the origins and distributions of biological diversity on a single planet. Maybe you should stick to writing speeches for criminals instead of making them yourself, you jackass. Or maybe you should return to your most successful role in life-- that of a basic cable game show host. I'd be happy to win your money any time you feel like putting it up.
The worst part, is I know damn well that Stein is smarter than this. He's just playing to the crowd.
Does this asshole even believe in God? Nah, he's just a media whore.
I need to send every fundie I can find a clip of him constantly bowing to peoples Buddha nature on his game show.
holy shit I am tired of these backwards arguments!! the reason that all the fundamental laws of physics work the way that they do is because if they were different the universe wouldn't be able to exist. the laws enable the universe, the universe doesn't exist for the laws to be present in!! the universe is how it is because of these laws ffs....
Ben, those laws are formulated by the science faculty at the College of St. Engelbert the Deranged, near Tacoma. It's highly rated academically, but its football team sucks.
There is no way he does not know the basics to these answers. If it hadn't been for Win Ben Stein's Money , I'd assume he's arguing from ignorance, but he wouldn't have done that show if he wasn't a trivia buff.
He's lying through his teeth, every single fucking word.
That's the first assumption of science: that things should work in a manner which repeats, and allows for predictions to be made. We identified these laws through observation, hypothesis, and testing... the scientific method.
Just because particles work in certain ways does not mean that some overbeing actually created them to do so. Just because life happened to develop on a planet, one of billions in the universe, that just happened to be within a (rather large) zone from its star, have water, carbon, etc. does not mean there is a creator.
Please stop taking things that are and using them as an excuse to push things that aren't.
LMAO you stupid fuck. Fail on a massive level.
Ben Stein has got to be one of THE most ignorant fucks EVER! Which is sad, because it also makes him the poster boy for fundie creationists. But thanks for the amusement, Stein. I needed a good laugh.
What does gravity have to do with evolution? What do the laws of thermodynamics have to do with evolution? And this is the person supposedly exposing evolution as false? The one people are believing?
Shit. The world is fucked.
Dear Aliens. Please bring back the funny and witty Ben Stein of the 70's and 80's, and please take back this mockery of a clone you sent here as a joke.
Seriously, it's not funny any more.
-Humanity.
The question is, why didn't someone this stupid die as a child, after saying, "Hey y'all, watch this!"?
Evolution should care why, exactly? Oh wait, you're talking about something called "darwinism".
Oh wait, I've seen this already
Why this and where that?
Why doesn't chicken taste like chocolate or broccoli like barbecue sauce? Why doesn't blue look like red instead?
God is why. If you have a question and you don't know know the answer, don't stress yourself looking for real explanations. The answer is GOD.
Case closed.
None of that has anything to do with Darwinian evolution, which is strictly a biological process.
Expelled? No, you were obviously just flunked.
I used to respect Ben Stein, he seemed like a rather intelligent individual. However, what the hell does evolution have to do with gravity, thermodynamics, or heat? Mutations and natural selection are biological.
Atoms are supposed to be simple. They make molecules in straightforward ways: one link for hydrogen, two for oxygen, four for carbon...
Since Mr. Stein is made up of atoms, where does the clinical insanity he amply demonstrates here come from?
in short Ben, though I suspect you already know this and are just being a ridiculous whore to try to save your failing career, you need look only to the anthropic principle. If the laws of physics didn't work as they do, but rather everything collapsed into itself and died, we wouldn't be here to observe it or ask such stupid questions. It's not the way it is for our benefit, rather, we are able to survive only because it is like that. If it were any other way we'd question why it is that way or not exist at all. For all we know there may have been several billion versions of the universe before this one where the laws of physics did not allow for life as we know it and as such it didn't exist and it's just by chance that after the last Big Crunch things changed around and here we are. Of course we have no way of ever knowing that, but it's at least a bit more likely than 'Goddidit'.
@ Toothache,
Chocolate sings blue.
Physics != Biology, Ben, you shit-for-brains.
Now go in the Naughty Corner, and don't come back till you've evolved a brain.
Wow, that's a lot of interjections there.
Sorry,
Wow, that is, let me say, GOD, that's a whole lot, yes, many, commas in there, that is.
Confused?
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