[Fundies ambush people in the street. No, this is not a comedy skit.]
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8047087636458478893&q=way+of+the+master ">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8047087636458478893&q=way+of+the+master </a>
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Couldn't watch the whole thing since these fuckers are notorious for quote mining so who knows what they do in the edit. Plus Ray "Clueless" Comfort starts off with their classic lie...evolution=big bang. NO WHERE does evolution deal with cosmology, just the history of life on the planet. But hey, it ain't lying if it's for jeebus.
Okay, so I kept watching -- it actually gets HILARIOUS. They spend ten minutes "disproving" Evolution by, get this, showing that an Orangutan doesn't behave well at a dinner table. Therefore man could not have evolved from apes.
It really pissed me off when they skimmed through Darwin's writings to "prove" that evolution is sexist and racist. I mean, Christians would never suggest that women are inferior to men, nor would they condone slavery based on the colour of one's skin/place of origin...right? And it's not like any part of the Bible could ever be interpreted in such a way as to justify such behaviour...
So disingenuous it hurts. Couldn't watch more than a few minutes of it. But now that I've learned that there's evidently an orangutan throwing food in there somewhere, I might have to give it another go.
"We are continually told that primates are our relatives. So we decided we'd have a little fun, and call a number of airlines, and ask if we can have a 'relative' fly on the plane with us."
Here is the most telling statement made by Kirk Cameron at approximately 22:00 min into the video-
Nauseating...
If you had, ez-c, do you really think that your "interview" would have been allowed to remain in the final cut of this execrable project? You might have won over any fence-sitters in the immediate vicinity, but you probably couldn't have deconverted these fanatics, and your oratory would later play to rave reviews on the cutting-room floor.
My favourite parts were definitely the focusing in on the kids using words like 'probably' etc. That right there shows superior potential for rationalizing in non-fundamentalists. For anything to be scientific, it must be disprovable, right? Which is why God isn't a scientific idea - there is no way to disprove there is a God, because he is not evidence based in any way. God, that video pissed me off soooo much, and the way they treated that monkey - I'd like to see them handle a stubborn 3-year old at the table.. does that mean humans only become humans once they are 'civilized'? Arrrgh..
It was good of them to make a video exposing the appalling state of biology education in our high schools. I thought that was something pur side was going to have to do. I like that they defend creationism by calling it "easier." Oh. You're right. That is easy. God, I wish they'd asked more questions like that in my school.
I managed to get through about 4:00 of the film before I felt the urge to spit my steak quesadilla all over the floor.
I wonder why they didnt ask scientists, just random people off the street? Actually I don't wonder, I know full well why.
I also loved the airplane analogy. Going by the logic presented in that scene, the moment the Wright Flyer flew we were capable of building F-22s and space shuttles. After all, our understanding of mechanics, material science and aerospace science didn't need to develop or evolve in any way- all we needed to do was tweak the original Flyer specs a bit and *BAM*, an SR-71 Blackbird! Hell, why didn't anyone tell us!? We could have saved ourselves ALOT of money and trouble in R&D.
This is wrong on so many points. So I'll high light a few of the worst.
I couldn't force myself to watch the whole thing, but my favorite part was definitely where he said something along the lines of "People directly state that they're not experts on the subject matter, and then turn out to not know everything about it. Clearly, the subject matter is deeply flawed."
My comment was as follows.
Ray Comfort? Kirk Cameron? I applaude your blatant douchebaggery. Unless you know what you're talking about, shut up. Research evolution. It's a lot more plausable than some ever-present man in the sky. You are downright offensive. Oh, and Ray? Lose the Village People moustache. You're not Freddie Mercury and you never will be. Let it go.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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