Piltdown Man - HD version

[tazgrento]

Holy crap, I have that exact same phone!

[Albukhshi]

@ 2:48

Shane, you know the English don't recognize the word "French"; they only recognize "Frog".

perhaps that's why the fella is unable to respond; trying to hide his confusion?

:P

[AHPMB]

Wow, working out some issues with the British on this video huh Shane.

[shanedk]

I'm a bit of an Anglophile; I just love ribbing them, though.

[Surhotchaperchlorome]

As much British television you seem to like, I kind of figured.

:P

[Surhotchaperchlorome]

@AHPMB: I just thought he was messing around for comedic effect.

[AHPMB]

I'm sure he was, I was just taking the piss out of him a bit.

[prschuster]

The jaw & teeth were from an orangutan - not a chimpanzee. Otherwise I found your video entertaining and informative. Even Stephen Hawking learned a thing or two from it. ;o)

[Leehofooks]

Hey... that sounds like a Speak 'n' Spell.

[saqib09]

How hard is it to admit that there are people who want to prove evolution and they will do anything to do that?

[shanedk]

Evolution IS proven. It's better supported than even gravity.

[saqib09]

I should have said this more clearly. I wasn't questioning Evolution. You could have said 'this has happened and evidently some dishonest blokes thought they would prove evolution by making up stuff. If from this anyone doubts evolution I can understand that. But hey, Its proven now so that doesn't matter'. Anyway, never mind. cheers

[shoepebble]

why don't you go evolve!

[shoepebble]

what about the creation of evolution? any proof yet?

[DahStranger]

What about the creation of the creation, or the creation of the creation of the cre.........I think you get the point.

[shoepebble]

evolution is something from nothing? Or is it something from something? If it is something from something, how did the first something come about?....(the response from an evolutionist will either consist of cuss words or insults). When in reality, this thought must have crossed their mind before they decided to believe the evolution theory.

[intelligentfalling]

"Something from nothing" is known as "creationism"

Scientists, not being creationists, do not adhere to this idea.

Evolution on the other hand is merely how life forms diversify. the first life arose most likely by abiogenesis from organic compounds. This however has nothing really to do with evolution. Evolution only acts on life. Its a different branch of study.

[intelligentfalling]

Also, the act of being intellectually honest and saying either "i dont know" or "we dont have a comprehensive understanding" of where something came from is NOT the same as saying it came from nothing. If I found an unknown object on the side of the road and asked you where it came from and you said "Im not sure" I wouldnt then say "So what, youre saying it CAME FROM NOTHING??" You wouldnt either, so why make an exception in this case?

[MirabiliaMania]

And Santa Claus remember Shane you also believe in Santa Clause. You have about as much poof.

[shanedk]

None of my contracts have ever had a Santa clause.

[DahStranger]

Better supposed than gravity?That seems a bit exaggerated, but I do not know much about evolution so I cannot talk. It is funny how people think they got it beat, when they do not even know what the theory states.

[klixxz]

Kinda cheezy, but informative.

[bwzes03]

Nice video ... I'd love to get a phone(y) call from Stephen Hawking. Not sure why he'd even want to contact me though.....

Damn, I guess I am just "too white and nerdy"....

[bwzes03]

Okay, where's the GAS in FUEL ! ;-)

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

2:43 Even a black squirrel finds a nut?

Excuse me?

[robokill387]

a blind squirrel. :)

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Ah. Thanks. Is this some southern expression? I've lived with two non-releasable squirrels, and had never heard this one.

[AndroidAR]

What text-to-speech program did you use, Shane? I can't get my program to say pwn.

[shanedk]

I spelled it "pone."

[AndroidAR]

Thanks, Shane! Now I'm ready for the YouTube Pwnlympics!

[shanedk]

Think so? You'll have to compete with me ;^)

[DaggerPolitics]

Actually there is organic matter in fossils.

[Walabio]

¡Lying creationists!

[yourcamden]

Sadly, it wasn't three years later, it was only proved in the 1950's by Weiner that it was a hoax.

It was a very English hoax because the teeth were stained with tea. However, English people don't make tea with salt water, unlike the people of Boston.

[NorProductions]

congrats dude your videos are ube awesome

[RestlessThoughts]

LOL. Never heard of Stephen Hawking?

[Chick6517]

Wow This video explains a lot i guess. haha Pretty cool video (= I need to work on windows movie maker and see if I could do the same thing

[AnasaziDan]

Yeah!  Go James Randi!

[TheFallibleFiend]

Heck.  I didn't know all the details myself. Very Good. Thanks for the vid.

[HazelEhren]

The interesting question is who did the human part of it come from.

[shanedk]

Someone who'd been dead for 500 years. Back then, it was very common for paupers to be buried in unmarked mass graves (not all at once, of course).

[pandstar]

That was a fun vid!

Nice work.

How much you want to bet not a single creationist will post on it.

[DelphicExpanse]

this video was really entertaining

[mikeryzy]

Great video. Informative and entertaining.

[jamesjeffreypaul]

Why aren't you on TV, Shane?

[oilotnoM]

Oh my gosh, the hoaxer was named Charles D.

Evolution is falsified!!!!

*waits for it*

[TruthSurge]

Excellent! Loved the idea and having Hawking say that at the start was funny. heheheh

[hanzo138]

I want to watch Trainspotting with the Hawkman!

[personalsinr]

lol

[JaguarJ0nes]

That is 2000 lest ignorant people in the world. Nice JREF shirt!

[Faustuss1]

5 stars again :)

Btw, did you gain a good amount of subscribers from the kingheathen award he gave you?

[shanedk]

Hard to say. It happened about the same time as the League of Reason defending me from a creationist vote-bot.

[Andy120290Returns]

Behold, the magic, moving vase?

3:08 and 7:07

(I am such a jerk.)

[Longsday]

This is one of my favorite videos of yours. It just cracks me up.

(I have no idea why you don't have 10K subscribers.)

[snownet]

over 3k subscribers now :D

[ReligiousFiction]

"I think that's a basic math fail..." Ha! Loved having "Stephen" on the show :)

Great vid. I never knew all that about Piltdown man. Boy, am I tired of seeing snarky remarks from creationists/IDers like "Evidence? Yeah, like PILTDOWN MAN... Lol!" Now I'll have something more to add. Gracias.

[megagrey]

Hearing someone with a voice synthesizer saying 'pwn their asses'...epic lulz.

[FlashFizz]

I see you wore a JREF shirt. I don't think I noticed it in the original low-resolution version.

[OceanspiritKeiko]

Congratulations on the subscribers!

You deserve it. =)

Keep the quality videos coming - I'm looking forward to it.

[ren1997]

Excellent content.. and good humor too. Your videos are among my favorite.

[8WholeThing]

3200 subscribers is 110010000000 in binary, another meaningless base 2 milestone.

That video is hilarious.

[Cowinspace]

or 0xC80 in hex........................

[atlant80]

HAHAHA So corny at the beginning! But I could so see Stephen saying that!

[XChillX42]

Just coming. xD

[deconverts]

LOL, that was amusing :)

[RaymondDundas]

Haha, yes we Brits are jingoistic douches. Damn ye Irishmen, Killian!

[AlmightyAtheismo]

Ugh...

That was PAINFUL.

Please... no more vids in theater format.

[shanedk]

Why not?

[ludersatan]

your subjective idears arent objective truths

i think this was way better than normal informal videoes that can be boring

also: most of shanes videoes are informal

[Temuldjin]

of course its not Leeroy002!

[zeffii]

great video, thanks shane :)

[Leeroy002]

so, is that REALLY Professor Stephen W. Hawking?

[shanedk]

Did I SAY it was? I just said someone named Steve, nicknamed "Hawk." Could be anybody...

[Virgil0211]

It could be Lieutenant Stephen Hawk, the red-shirt who was assimilated in Star Trek: First Contact. Who knows what individual borg sound like after assimilation? =P

[mtanti87]

How stupid, British and Americans fighting over whose best. It doesn't matter who is better from the 2, the Maltese are better than both :P

[DefaultPosition]

I agree, it's stupid to fight.

We Brits are obviously superior.

[shanedk]

Yes, that's right, you are. [Pats his head.]

(Come on, people--we have to keep them thinking it so they won't try to get another empire going!)

Yes, and your penises are much bigger than ours, too...

[DefaultPosition]

Having invented gravity, evolution, modern mathematics, time, the industrial revolution, the Web and upright vacuum cleaners, large penises are the patriotic cherry on the cake.

[shanedk]

I thought Al Gore invented all that?

[Andy120290Returns]

Large penises on a cake... That sounds... not so tasty?

[shanedk]

Better than most British food...

[DefaultPosition]

OK. So we have an Achilles heel.

[Andy120290Returns]

Spotted Dick. 'Nuff said.

[DefaultPosition]

The pudding! Another great British invention!

[FSMUnicorn]

As Stephen Fry said: "This from the nation that invented spray-on cheese."

[DefaultPosition]

Food technology!

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Invented gravity eh?

[abhish1313]

A James Randi T shirt... lol!

[scikidus]

I was so confused when you released this, until I saw the "--HD Version" attached.

Congrats on 3600 subscribers!

[shanedk]

Thanks!

[mtanti87]

Don't pick on Stephen!!!

[Leeroy002]

lol