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  • As always loved the ending few seconds.

  • funny though very true

  • Wow that was hilarious!

  • Uh, third wish?

  • I wonder what his third wish was...

  • @AeonPhoenixZero For a 2 crocoducks to chase Comfort and Cameron ... for all eternity.

  • Wait a minute! I thought non-avian dinos went extinct after the KT extinction event -- which would have been 500,000 yrs before the beginning of your excursion. ;-)

    Seriously though, very nice vid. I especially like the ending. I'm sorry it took me so long to find it.

  • You die then wake up the next day fully rested? Dying is a short cut back to camp? Someone's been playing Minecraft after they put beds in! ;p

  • @Velox415

    i thought the same thing.

  • Loved the ending

  • this could be a good movie O.o

  • I was expecting that the would've captain walked through the door got on the floor everybody walk the dinosaur at the end of the video.

  • The* not my.

  • My mass extinction event may have killed him every day before he could have woken up. So he would have spent an expansive about of years dying before he could wake.

  • Soooo, I think you got robbed of your 3rd wish sir.

    Fantastic thought experiment. Would love to watch more videos like this.

  • That was brilliant. Truly. Thanks for making this video.

  • so... what did you do with the third wish?

  • This vid also shows why heaven would suck. Imagine an eternity with these people.

  • what i miss is that you could meet jesus and see him not perform miracles. but you didnt.

  • Brilliant Video ... KEEP WATCHING! it is worth it.

  • Excellent 

  • Subtle genius in the punchline...

  • This is AWESOME...The only problem I have is there is no mention of the K-T extinction event! Your characters would have lived through it, but there was no mention of a meteorite impact, or anything else that might have caused the mass extinction!

  • @FrankSlade1983 they would just die over and over unless they were underground.

  • @FrankSlade1983 he believes he came after it! I try'd explaining that to him.

  • that was beutifull

  • watched it a few times now, and it's still a brilliant piece of work. You got some real talent for storytelling.

  • Wish you would do more of these kinds of whimsical videos. This was funny.

  • Nice idea, but you left out the "good" bit: a rock the size of Everest slamming into the Earth and the following giant earthquake, tsunami, global firestorm, nuclear winter, all the big dinosaurs gone, some of the small fuzzy ones left etc. Must have happened while you were having those "I am a God" issues. :)

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  • Dude, being a 'Clever fellow' being in the time of dinosaurs you would have clearly known to stay out of the tall grass.

  • Some of my Atheist friends don't understand the end -.-''

    Not watched this in a while and still an epic vid :D ty for making it :D

  • This was on my b-day may 19

  • brilliant. and im american so it means more over here! lol

  • This is so fucking awesome! You have a talent.

  • FORGET FUCKING JESUS !!!!... EXPLAIN THE FUCKING GENI*

  • @Tyrotvxxx Same explanation for both - MAGIC! ;)

  • Different* (autocorrect)

  • Ageing has nothing to do with evolution. You are not evolving. If you have a child, that child will be slightly fifteenth from you. That's it, that's evolution. Differences so small you would never notice them day to day. That's what he is getting at.

  • Absolutely BRILLIANT !!!

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  • I love this vid! would make a great movie to.

  • When you saw those birds at the beginning of the video, wasn't that the day when 65 million years have passed?

  • Thats one cruel genie... i mean there ARE female creationists. I can think of one in particular.

  • I completely understood this. Witnessing slow, gradual changes of a dinosaur's transformation into a bird would be SO GRADUAL you wouldn't see it change. Just like a relative... as the years go by 'they still look the same' and remain being the same person.

  • Story bugged me. Not for it's overall intent, but just some of the oddities. If every time they were eaten, they woke up the next day and had forgotten about it; how would they ever remember seeing evolution anyway?

    Also after 555 million years, would the two of them have evolved into some type of insanely superior humans? Would the birds have evolved beyond our current birds?

    I get the joke, but it's the little things that bug me.

  • @jbourg333

    If you don't age, you don't evolve.

  • @jbourg333 they forgot the moment before they were eaten, not the whole day, a human can't evolve by himself, he needs to have a kid a little different from him, the birds would evolve to just as they are now, since he went back in time. This story is actually pretty consistent.

  • That was awsome

  • Imagine having eternal life.

    Now imagine that eternal life does not include eternal youth.

  • Unfortunately you did not travel back in time far enough to witness the evolution of birds from dinosaurs, which occurred 165 million years ago, so birds would have already existed, meaning there is not excuse for you to not understand the difference between a bird and dinosaur. Also non-avian dinosaurs would have been extinct before you got there, as the extinction level event that killed them occurred 65.5 million years ago.

  • You should seriously write a book, this is an amazing story xP I would love to read it

  • The only way I would ever wish for infinite life is to live infinite lives, not just one and forget the previous life after I died. That wouldn't be too bad.

  • Terrific video with a punchline that is subtle genius.

  • interesting joke. The irony of course is the inclusion of a supernatural genie used to disprove the supernatural... did I say "interesting"? I meant funny as hell.

  • Great video! You managed to communicate the grand scale of time and evolution in a way that (maybe) even a creationist might understand. The ending was satisfying and poignant. Excellent work.

  • now that was an amazing story :) kudos

  • i dont really get the ending and 'message' in this story? Anyone care to explain?

  • @pinodewildegekste The point is that if you actually live for that long you wouldn't actually notice any changes. You only notice them when you jump through time.

    If you ever look at an old photo you will see it. You will notice how old things look by today's standards, things like clothes and cars. The difference will be obvious but you will not have noticed those changes as you actually grew up.

  • @pinodewildegekste they still thought the birds were dinosaurs , evolution happened before their very eyes , but they failed to notice anything lolz

  • Great video!

  • I wouldn't mind having this experience, actually.

  • I'm a bit late to this video, but I gota say that just hit the sweet spot. Thank you so much for a Fantastic story Phil 8)

  • This man just knows how to hit the spot

  • Boy, talk about dying to get out of the rain ;) . Great story, Phil.

  • Holy shit....... That was really good. It had a hint of Douglas Adams to it, but damn, that was good.

  • what the fuck, this is great story, but the ending punch line just threw me off -_-

  • @concretecubes The point is that there are no set "species", "intermediate-species" and such. There is just an extremely long, slow changing, continium of animals.

  • @N3CR1S wrong person?

  • That was freakin' hilarious, Mr. Phil! :D I was rolling with laughter by the time you got to the part about complaining about the climate change, because you were enjoying freezing to death under the glaciers. Damned hilarious! Thanks!

  • Wait, they die and then respawn near where the slept? Sounds like MineCraft!

  • Bravo. the ending was magnificent. such a brilliant story. simply brill "Phil the Brill"

  • Bravo! The ending was a real joy.

  • lol

    Great ending

  • Congratulations

    It is one hell story! Publish it in some magazines! Earn some by sheering with others!

    Or write a book and become one of the big atheists Guys :P - panels, more books - fun!

    Good job!

    Jakub

  • @Overkillerr I would like to see a TV show about it :D would be awesome in my opinion .. its a good start with the genie and you can make a lot of episodes about each day until they get to our age ... (if they will show one day in an hour and they would publish 1 episode a day event then they will never catch up with us technically :) but we can skip some boring days )

    Cheers love your work philhellenes

  • Wow, this is great. Awesome idea! Could make a great sci fi book! Loved the ending!

  • 3. To be able to grant anyone I choose immortality too along with me or to take it away in the case that they become a detroment to the world such as they try takeing it over or if they abuse there powers because eventually I will find a Love or have kids and I would not want them dieing while I live forever.

  • 1. Imortality would live forever as the age I am now forever able to learn grow and advance along with humanity and no matter what I would never die or get scars etc to be invincible essentually.

    2. Wish to be able to control all atoms and minipulate them at my chooseing like Dr. Manhattan from watchmen except still look like me.

  • Very well made video. Very good job. It sent shivers down my spine. I just can't imagine what it would be like to live for several hundred million years...

  • So, what was your third wish?

  • Zee obligatory nitpick: I'm surprised no mention was made of the huge asteroid impact... regardless of their actual position on the globe, they should have seen it.

  • Incredible.

  • STAY OUT OF THE LONG GRASS!

  • Here's a way you could convince that captain: show him your miles-thick diary! O_o

  • This is why I love being British. :)

  • This was an awesome vid! Well done!

  • I don't see how anyone could wish to have eternal life.

    A measly 65 million years itself would be entirely too much.

  • Very creative...

  • 2 UNDERSTAND TIME, SPACE,US, EVERTHING IS SO HARD THAT IS WHY THERE WILL BE NO HUMAN ENLIGHTENMENT BEFORE ANIMAL INSTINCT KICKS IT AND WE KILL HALF OF THE POPULATION ON EARTH..AM I WRONG...I THINK NOT

  • You are an amazing storyteller. Start the video with birds, and at the end the sounds fade in, then the topic shifts. You lead our minds throughout the clip in a nice way so that we form the conlusions at the moment when they happen.

  • Brilliant

  • I really love this video. Phil, this is one of your best, and most entertaining. I think if I was going to do the "Hey...want to watch this video?" thing with an undecided or moderate, it's the kind of thing I think would engage them, while conveying a very vital message about Evolution.

  • who ells wants to see this as a real book or movie

  • Cool story, but now I'm stuck wondering... Whats his next wish?

  • sometimes on rainy days i commit suicide just to avoid 24 h of bad weather ... :))) EPIC

  • If I lived for sixty five million years, I would have traveled to different parts of the world, take notes on the animals and habitar, come back a million years later and see what has changed.

  • The thing that one would point out is that since you mentioned T-Rex, then of course you didn't seeany birds evolving. The earliest birds were discovered in Europe and china, not the USA lol.

  • @NUTCASE71733 yes because the magic genie and the immortal humans are true ~_~ you missed the fucking point

  • @crackthecorn

    No I didn't I got the whole premis. Just correcting one factual error, thats all. Awesome work on this video.

  • Excellent! Worthy of Mark Twain or Rudyard Kipling.

  • great!

    

  • i dont know why but i fucking LOVED this narrative. /favorite

    god bless you

  • Outstanding! I love it

  • I have to say, VERY well done sir

  • Wow... that was really well done :)

  • One of the best of YT. Well done.

  • This was fucking brilliant. *****

  • Mind Fuck ending.

  • NICE very good

  • This story cannot be true for one reason. Yes, only one. Djins and time travel are believable! Don't tell me otherwise!

    This is between 65 mya and the present day. So, they should have witnessed the extinction of the Dinosaurs within a million years, and witnessed the rise on the mammals. So, you should have been getting eaten by Basilosaurus and Smilodon, not Tyrannosaurus Rex millions of years after he went extinct (yes, only he. That's why he went extinct.)

  • Thats it. It is oficial. You are a genius!

  • I STILL have goosebumps from this, 5 minutes after watching it.

  • What a great story.

  • THE BEST truth in a comedic video on Youtube!!!! BRILLIANT!

  • How could he forget how to talk if he kept dying and getting restarted :) Sorry my atheist logic is working

  • @iliveon It is assumed that he retained the same mind throughout his multiple incarnations. Otherwise, how could he and the creationist ever hope to see the quantitative effects of evolution?

    Simply being restarted when he died did not reset his knowledge, nor renew any knowledge he once held.

  • @EppurSiMuove419 I figured, but if that is true, then how did they "forget" how they died each time

  • @iliveon Hm, yes, an interesting point.

    To further theorycraft over a hypothetical situation, perhaps the genie made it so that they couldnt remember exactly how they died, or it would have mentally crippled them from exploring. I mean, if you did something that killed you, and yet you lived on, you would prolly know enough not to do that again. But, since these guys keep dying ad infinitum, if they remembered how, eventually they would have a fear of doing just about everything. *shrug*

  • @EppurSiMuove419 which is quite hilarious. Scared to do anything hahaha I could see a creationist now lol

  • This is excellent, should be shown in class

  • Would be good if the creationist was a woman.

  • @LegionIscariot Pull out that Timothy 2:12

  • Explanatory, funny and poetic.

  • What's up with 240p only for arguably the best video I've ever seen on youtube?

  • Did anyone get the close character similarity to that of Jacob the island protector and the black smoke monster guy from LOST that of the storyteller and his friend.

  • You are one hell of a storyteller my friend.

  • @marcobucci a good story teller BUT Phill's understanding of evolution is wrong.

  • @matz1576

    I doubt it

    Whoever can make up that kind of a story, and whoever can understand the last sentences will understand evolution

  • @matz1576

    No, he's spot on. What's your beef with it?

  • @matz1576 That it takes a really long time? cause thats the only thing directly about evolution stated in this, that it takes so long that if you were able to watch it you would never notice.

  • @matz1576 It's an abstract point. He's trying to illustrate that creationists want to understand evolution NOW, in no uncertain terms, and in 20 words or less. That the evolutionary changes cannot and WILL not happen within a single person's observable lifespan. Trust me, he understands it all too well.

  • Well done sir

  • Lol, death is a shortcut.

  • 1) Wish that wishing for infinite wishes is allowed

    2) Wish for infinite wishes

    3) If all fails, wish for infinite genies

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  • @FHomeBrew

    1) Take it up with the union

    2) No

    3) Okay, I'll start with TeamFourstars Mr.Popo for your first genie. Enjoy the climb back up bitch!

  • @TheSkunkCat Infinite Popo's = DO NOT WANT! Also, would be pretty epic if they all fight each other for ultimate authority.

  • @FHomeBrew wish that you can grant your own wishes is another backup lol

  • @FHomeBrew It's amazing how people think the same. I think I thought of the infinite wishes when I was about 6.

  • I have a cunning plan

    i love this simply for the Baldrick refrence

  • so good

  • So they never noticed the change from dinosaurs to birds because it was so gradual, is that what the last line implies?

  • @HeyRuka basically, the problem being that when this is stated most creationists think "t-rex to Chicken" not "small feathery dinosaurs to small feathery creatures"

  • @deathman1021 Oh, right. Makes more sense now. Thanks for clarifying :)

  • The creationist got eaten today. ily <3

  • Holy shit what a good twist! If I was a publisher, I'd get this published right away.

  • You, sir, made a ground-breaking story. Magnificent. The plot is fabulous. This MUST be turned into a book. :DD

  • Pure story-telling genius!

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  • @TheRealBeeQue

    Whenever he or Anthony were eaten or killed, they would wake the next morning perfectly fine. I imagine a rainy day in the Cretaceous wilderness was only a minor annoyance, but when death is that cheap suicide is more like sleeping all day.

  • that was a really well written story. good job. you should make a book.

  • man this gotta suck to wait 65 milion before weed appairs and u can at least get high and lough at the mormon

  • Excellent

  • That is REALLY good!

  • Everyone watch this.

  • Brilliant ! ! ! :)

  • were the birds really dinos is this an alternate time line? or something

  • @FreeeeS No it's pointing out that birds are descendants of dinosaurs. And thats why they didn't see evolution in the story. Because the changes were so slow they didn't notice them. Much like you don't notice your dog getting bigger from the time it was a puppy to when its full grown because you see it everyday and everyday it seems like it was just the same as it was yesterday. Only in the story this happens on a MASSIVE timescale.

  • @xynth101088 I remember the first day i got my dog, he was small. and i remember how my dog was yesterday big. I can notice change, just not daily. Either way this may lead to evidence on how Human's may perceive certain situations but does not give evidence towards evolution.

  • @xynth101088 I remember the first day i got my dog, he was small. and i remember how my dog was yesterday big. I can notice change, just not daily. Either way this may lead to evidence on how Human's may perceive certain situations but does not give evidence towards to how Evolution works; It only beats around the bush... Remotely

  • @CYC4GOD You are right its not evidence for how evolution works, it just shows how futile it is to try and see it in action. Which creationists try to use to say it doesn't happen, or if they could see it they might accept it.

  • @xynth101088 That's true, but at the same time, after 3 years you do realize your dog is significantly different from when it was a puppy. It's bigger, and no longer a puppy. This story does not make sense. Just because you don't notice the slow, day-to-day changes in your child doesn't mean when she's 18 and someone says "what a beautiful young woman", that you'd respond, "she's not a woman, she's a baby".

  • @Erniesduck123 You missed the point. And your example of the woman doesn't really relate considering depending on who is saying and how old they are the 18 year old could be considered a baby and in a sense could be compared to the birds and dinosaurs. Regardless I only mentioned the puppy/dog thing as an example of something on a VERY short scale. Using the same thing on something that is much, much older is on a completely different playing field.

  • @xynth101088 I didn't miss the point. I pointed out the flaw in your puppy example. You may not notice the change from day 365 to day 366, but one would hope you'd notice a change from day 1 to day 365. I don't understand your comments on my example. An 18-year-old is fundamentally different from a baby. No one with both halves of their brain would honestly believe the 18-year-old is a baby, even if the person is 65 million-years-old.

  • @Erniesduck123 Yes but when exactly did the change occur from the girl being a baby to a woman? We know that it happened and that is not the point. The point is that you can't pin point it. Just like the pair in the video couldn't pin point when evolution of the dinosaurs took place. That is the point you are missing. That is why they consider the birds to be dinosaurs.

  • @xynth101088 That's not what he's saying though. It's not that he doesn't know WHEN they stopped being dinosaurs and started being birds, it's that he still think they ARE dinosaurs. Just because I can't pinpoint exactly when my brother stopped being a baby and became a child, doesn't mean I can't recognize he is no longer a baby.

  • @Erniesduck123 From an evolutionary point of view the birds are dinosaurs.

  • @xynth101088 From an evolutionary point of view the dinosaurs that gave way to birds evolved 165 mya. Being from the future and with birds in the sky long before they got there, in addition to the mass extinction killing all dinosaurs except birds around 65.5 mya, there is no excuse for him recognizing a boat, but not a seagull. I get what you're saying, birds are part of the clade that includes the bipedal dinosaurs, but based on when he arrived, the evolution would have taken place already