Padded Cell Evolution

[AuntieDiluvian]

You eviscerated him!

[skinnyjohnsen]

Glad I didn't miss this one! Great video ;-)

[defiythelie]

I evolved from a single cell organism in my mother womb. What, was this guy "delivered" by a stork ?

[felixthehuman]

Does Wes believe in the Great Chain of Being instead of a tree of life? He has some very odd ideas about biology.

[Puchicas9]

Here's a miracle: You had the patience to listen to that whole silly video of Wes's! Great response. I learned a few things myself. I didn't realize how great the proportion of unicellular organisms in our own bodies is!

[SecularMentat]

Also, in prokaryotes glycolysis (anerobic process) happens, in eukaryotes glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation (both anarobic and aerobic). shows that eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes... specifically with mitochondria being the source of oxidative phosphorylation.

I <3 Evolutionary science.

[Darwinsgift]

@SecularMentat - Quite right! I was trying to avoid words I find hard to say and remember though!

[sarcleaeolist]

@Darwinsgift But endosymbiosis just rolls off the tongue (and I really like the sound of it).

Although I doubt people would really want to sit through a detailed description of the whole electron transport chain. Much less a nice description of the basic microbial metabolic process (one that names secondary metabolites, enzymes, and all that horriby interconnected mess).

[shandcunt]

@Allosaurid77 Its a hard one to do but best of luck to you, heres something I found useful when talking to climate change denialists

Try pointing out that NASA, CERN, Every national academy of science, the smartest people in the world, recognise and agree with the theory of evolution. R they saying NASA is part of a international conspiracy to teach kids lies?? isnt that kind of crazy talk? if evolution is true then arent u lying for jesus? Galleleo anyone?

have fun!!

[Allosaurid77]

@shandcunt Thanks! I'll be sure to use that, I may also use evolution in action, I will do a video on it sooner or later

[4G3NTanon]

I just recently had the realization that the planet is just one big vat of biological soup.:)

[SecularMentat]

About 5 seconds into his argument I knew where it was going....

Then the image of the octopus attacking a school girl popped in my head and I turned to my girlfriend and said 'I've seen enough Creatard videos to know where this is going'

[kalsolarUK]

You've inspired me to re-read the Greatest Show on Earth. I noticed your copy in the background there. In the two years since reading it I've probably forgotten most of it.

[Darwinsgift]

@kalsolarUK _ I was freshening up on the bacterial evolution experiments. The audio version is also great for those long car journeys.

[imr22]

Life being created in a laboratory is actually used by creationists as proof. They believe that because someone had to do the experiment and put all of the elements in place it is proof that life needs an intelligent designer.

Of course they skip over the fact that the experiments are designed simply to replicate early environments on Earth and then see if anything happens.

[O2BSoLucky]

People are getting smarter (IQ tests need period updating to respond to this). People are getting taller, living longer some changes can be seen over a short period of time. Access to constant food and constant mental stimulation is showing a change that we can see, we can measure. Why is is so hard to think 3 billion years would not result in the cumulation of changes that make us?

It is about sticking heads in sand. Wishing to see dead granny so much that an old book is their silly guide.

[O2BSoLucky]

Every person on this earth was once a single celled organism. If we can get to us in 9 months why is it so hard for the morons to think 3 billion years another type of single cell could become us?

[BTheHeretic]

I think you missed one of his major misconceptions around 14:00. He seems to be under the impression that single celled life spread throughout the globe and separately evolved into humans independently from each other (as in Africans have different single celled ancestor than Asians) and at the same rate. You went on to explain how things don't evolve at equal rates, but sort of argued beside the point, I think.

[Darwinsgift]

@BTheHeretic - As an afterthought, that theory is so dumb and lacking evidence that I did not grasp fully what he was talking about. It seems mind blowingly dumb now I think about it. When a misconception of evolution is that bad then I have more work cut out than I realised.

[WildwoodClaire1]

@Darwinsgift I found his apparent misconception that evolutionary theory proposed that multi-cellular organisms separately evolved from single-celled organisms the funniest thing that I've ever heard from a creationist on YT.

[Darwinsgift]

@WildwoodClaire1 - Agreed. I love the way he describes it as inescapable fact! If he was just questioning the facts then I would be much kinder.

[goliathprime]

It's like PZ Myers said, when you break down creationist arguments to their most basic form, all you get it, "this is really complex, isn't that complex? See how complex it is? Someone must have made that."

[BlowDevilUp]

Scarcity*

The word you were looking for.

[Darwinsgift]

@BlowDevilUp - Sadly moments like that are less scarce than the word. :)

[itsasin1969]

Funny thing, I just watched a TED Talk regarding the same subject.

/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU

It's really far more mind blowing than we can imagine.

[detersgumig]

Ha, yeah that's the weirdest kind of logic: "this or that is impossible - unless it was done by magic" ;-)

[gettingolder2]

I hope you sent him your Video, for his answer..the way he explains it, none of us should be here.. nice Dog.

[Allosaurid77]

Cool video! I go to a catholic school and am using your videos to show everyone else the truth!

Go team Darwin!

[Darwinsgift]

@Allosaurid77 - Thank you for your reply. Messages of support like this mean a great deal to me.