Banana Man & CrocoDuck Boy - E01 - The Challenge

[SuperImready]

I didn't have to be told this "challenge" was rigged, only how! What loathsome creatures both of these guys are.

[theshiznojudge]

who was the artist and what's with the awkward sized bulges? they were almost as bullshit as their arguments.

[AtheismTV]

@theshiznojudge I made them myself. They're both happy to see each other.

And the funniest thing is, this challenge is for real.

[theshiznojudge]

@AtheismTV

if they wanted to make a real challenge that nobody would pass, just give a million dollars to anyone who can watch one of their videos without laughing or screaming at the screen. i fail every time.

[mwwood79]

''Evolutionism is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless." Louis Bounoure - President of the Biological Society of Strasbourg and Director of the Strasbourg Zoological Museum

[AtheismTV]

@mwwood79 This quote is incorrect. You should verify your sources before you copy nonsense from a creatard web site. The first sentence is from Jean Rostand in 1959 and it should read "Transformism is a fairy tale for adults."

The rest of the sentence is paraphrased from an out-of-context (quote mined) paragraph of Bounoure's book. Moreover he was never director there.

[pochopaz7381]

Are they the good guys?

[AtheismTV]

@pochopaz7381 It's 100% sarcasm.

[JerezJulio]

This is funny as hell.

Maybe change the the Bath Cave to the Plantain Cave, or the Banana Cave.

[AtheismTV]

@JerezJulio This is in reference to the "Bat cave" in Batman.

[JerezJulio]

@AtheismTV

I know, I know it is an reference to batman, I just thought that Banana Cave would related more to the character than Bath cave.

But it is all good, and very funny an in good taste, awesome.

I believe even Ray Comfort himself have to laugh at this if he sees it.

[OutOfTheBoxThinker]

Very realistic ! ! ! ;-D

[alienisuntverus]

If you watch parodies of creationists, and a video by Ray Comfort, they're indistinguishable.

[SuperImready]

"Full body massage"? Shades of Dr. Wertram!

[dechha1981]

... I jusrt did that. And, yep there is indeed a loophole that prevents an actual transitional form from counting. They want a living animal that gave birth to a child from a completely different genus in one generation. This is like us demanding that they prove Creationism by providing us with Thor's Hammer.

[dechha1981]

Mexican Walking Fish. Give me money!

(Actually, I'm gonna try that. They'll already have some kind of loophole to make sure it doesn't count but I'm gonna try it anyway.

[Sevenfish0]

o.o ......... buahahahaha ><

[suppachrisholland]

I LOVE JESUS!

[ArteTuga2]

@suppachrisholland

why?

[yuo252]

Now why does crocoduck boy sound like a mistake of evolution? Lime half sheep half man! HES SHEEPLE!

[yuo252]

Please look at the almighty unicorn for a transitional forum its how those narwals horses and rhinos came to be this is how it happend. Noah said to them " oh no you arnt comin on my boat you prove evolution!" then he kicked them off and a few million years later the horses narwals and rhinos came to

[WillGo7]

Ohmaigawd. I went to the website. It's full of context-free quotes and false claims. "Excited scientists thought they had found one when they discovered “Archaeopteryx.” The fossil led to the theory that the dinosaurs did not become extinct, but rather all turned into birds." turned into birds? no, some dinosaur lineages evolved into birds over many generations. the dinosaurs however, still went extinct.

[nothingtoyouatall]

crocoduck boy sounds like Christopher Walken having his balls jiggled.

[airihi]

The Kiwi accent is way off the mark - you are to say 50 "hail fush n' chups" and practice with the tongue twister "quaking Christchurch’s churches collapse crushing churchgoers"

[KingHeathen]

it would be hysterically funny if it weren't so TRUE!

[Octoschizare]

Every living thing IS a live transitional species...

[Akatam0t0ma]

Can't mudskippers be considered as a sort of "living transitions"? Not that it would matter to cretards, but still...

[Golkarian]

@Akatam0t0ma, the thing with transitional fossils, is you can never know if they are actual ancestors or just very closely related, obviously modern organisms can't be ancestors. But mudskippers aren't even related to land vertebrates, they're teleost fish, in the actinopterygii class, whereas lung fish and land vertebarates are members of the sarcopterygii class. As if fish are invading land a second time with mudskippers.

[KingHeathen]

@Akatam0t0ma Is it a fish with legs? Or a salamander with gills?!?! Either way, to the creationists, it means it's NOT a "transitional species" despite the fact that it gives them PRECISELY what they say a transitional species would be. Funnier than that is the platypus which IS their "description" of a transitional species, even though its evolutionary path is NOT that of a transition between birds and mammals.

[federationcaptain]

Fuck this is sad.

I don't mean the video, I mean these two assholes who'll do ANYTHING just to make MORE money and have a false sense of security and pseudo-intelligence.

For if they proxy for giving them the aforementioned vanishes, they know they'll have nothing else.

[endergt]

I wonder what they'd do if we gave them an actual transition from one species to another... or even better, one GENUS to another! You know, such as this one:

Phagotrophy by a flagellate selects for colonial prey: A possible origin of multicellularity

MARTIN E. Boraas, DIANNE B. Seale and JOSEPH E. Boxhorn

Evolutionary Ecology

Volume 12, Number 2, 153-164, DOI: 10.1023/A:1006527528063

[AtheismTV]

@endergt I'm familiar with this study. This is gold for those who accept evolution. Also another one is the nylon-eating bacteria.

[petehjr1]

At the end BananaMan just got wood.

[TheRationalizer]

That is the worst impersonation of a New Zealand accent I have ever heard. At one point I thought it was a chimney sweep from Victorian London :)

[jacktoe1]

Isn't it interesting that the arguments for creation and evolution aren't even trying to sound like arguments? They both just basically describe both the theories (and that's incredibly generous to the creationists) and then have either anti-evolution quotes or mined quotes of Darwin and other reasonable people.

[knightd00b]

It's A fraud!!! HEY, Those guys are great, big, fat Phoney's!

[AtheistinFundyLand]

The title alone is worth a "like"! I'm apoplectic with glee. And yes, I still love your green-cheeked conure.

Warning: Objects under Banana Man's pants may be smaller than they appear.

[savageecho]

@AtheistinFundyLand No, because its a banana in his pants...and he is not happy to see you...

[muzammilali007]

I just had a long argument with this creationist fellow whose caps lock was jammed yelling Protoavis. when I asked him to give me a credible link to this alleged bird fossil he disappeared.

[RELIGIONmustDIE]

Maybe atheists should work together and pool a little cash towards a court case.

A public court case which makes Ray cough up 10k and the media attention would be fun as well!

Would there still be a way for them to weasel out of it?

[skepticoz]

@RELIGIONmustDIE "Maybe atheists should work together and pool a little cash towards a court case."

Yes and since the media would be the real winner in this, wouldn't it be nice to get a media outlet to cough up? You even get a lawywer to work pro-bono or even donate the time for a good cause and so all you have to cover is the court costs if you loose - and you won't. The 10,000 swiped from the creationist lobby could donated to a worthy cause.

[RELIGIONmustDIE]

@skepticoz Yeah, the Richard Dawkins Foundation could get the 10k. I don't think Ray would notice 10k missing considering the money his "ministry" scam business rakes in. It would damage his credibility and make more people aware of this fraudster.

You can imagine how people like Ray would spin it into "I'm being persecuted and these godless heathens are taking over the world one court case at a time."

[managarm1349]

eeerm...not really funny

[owchywawa]

Cool idea. The music was a bit out of place and over kill in my opinion. A little distracting.

[macnutz]

Ha, big thumbs up for this

[bjam89]

the banana, perfect proof of evolution you can use at him, and he knows we have altered it...meaning we are mightier then his weak god, also that evolution is true

[Dar0A0Nakk]

Dude This was great - Please tell me the next eposide is going to have the board game thats on the site.

[lowcomedy]

Google ring species of salamander and you'll find not only a speciation event but living intermediates or transitional forms as well. For a great (though sadly out of date) list of transitional fossil try talkorigins. Oh what the hell, I'll rattle a few off: Ardiopithecus ramidis. Australopithecus afarensis. Australopithecus africanus Australopithecus sediba Homo habilis Homo rudolfensis Homo ergaster Homo hidelbergensis Homo sapiens (archaic) Homo sapiens idaltu Homo sapiens sapiens.

[TBTabby]

Want an example of a liver transition form? ALL OF THEM.

[h8red42]

I like telling people that ask for a transitional form to look in a mirror,Evolution is a process not an event.the blank stare is priceless.

[NoNamesLeft0102]

I'm certain you meant to say Whales, not Wales in the description. After all, the later is a country in the British Isles.

[AtheismTV]

@NoNamesLeft0102 Tomato, tomato. Just kidding.

Good catch. I could correct the typo but then they'd say I tampered with the data. That plus I'm extremely lazy.

[mslewp]

@AtheismTV We do have living transitional fossils. A whale has hips and there are other vestigial organs.

[Astrobrant2]

@NoNamesLeft0102 "The later"??

LOL...I know, I know. It happens to the best of us.

[AtheismTV]

@Astrobrant2 Woo never add any problem whit ow word are speled?

[1234yersiman]

@NoNamesLeft0102 If they want live transitional forms, then why doesn't someone present a bacterium?

[Schneboll]

"Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory." - Scott D. Weitzenhoffer

[Ringwaul]

@Schneboll Best quote I've read in a loooong time... xD

[Schneboll]

@Ringwaul Yes, I know right!

[HonestMan395]

@Schneboll Brilliant quotation. I'll use that myself.

[chicarbiomed]

@Schneboll roflmao

[Mglosk]

Alll life is a transitional form.

[OukaKisa]

I don't know if suing would be allowed (going by what is in the video) but if it is why would the person only have to sue for $10,000. I would sue for my $10,000 and for them to pay all the expenses that would be needed directly involving the case (i.e. lawyers, travel, etc.) (I would probably try to get more but that's because I'm an ass)

[AtheismTV]

@OukaKisa If I were you I'd do it.

[OukaKisa]

@AtheismTV Except I'm broke ($0.00) so I couldn't get a lawyer to help me, and I have no examples of transitional forms of animals =P

[AtheismTV]

@OukaKisa Same here... $0.00

Transitional forms are a dime a dozen.

[OukaKisa]

@AtheismTV Interesting... I might just try and find somebody who will lawyer (<--word?) me pro-bono (unless we win =P )

[AtheismTV]

@OukaKisa I think the word you're looking for is "represent" but don't quote me.

If you ever find a pro-bono lawyer let me know. I may require his services later. :-)

[OukaKisa]

@AtheismTV will do =3

[WildcardHatesYou]

Now they'll run back to their followers claiming that "evolutionists" [I prefer the term Realityists] have failed to provide proof, and they'll all whoop, high5 each other and praise Jesus. Some people really shouldn't be allowed to vote and breed.

[wakeangel2001]

the nautilus is a pretty good living transition between shelled mollusks like Snails and free swimming mollusks like Squid, does that mean I win the ten grand?

[rationalmuscle]

I present Kirk Cameron.

He transitioned from a shitty actor into a shitty spokesperson.

AH... shit. Same difference?

[TheScienceFoundation]

You were probably too generous with Ray's crotch bulge

[AtheismTV]

@TheScienceFoundation He had a major hard-on.

[herbiepop]

@AtheismTV I think his banana's in their, can't you see the way it curves to fit his hand?

[herbiepop]

@AtheismTV I think his banana's in there, can't you see the way it curves to fit his hand?

[AtheismTV]

@herbiepop It fits in your mouth nicely.

[falchion49]

@TheScienceFoundation He's got to keep spare bullshit somewhere.

[jimthepleb]

@TheScienceFoundation thats clearly an 'atheists nightmare' in his pants...or mebbe he's just pleased to see us

[papasitoman]

Ray once said that he has a right to believe whatever he wants in a free country-and that´s true. But There is a difference between a personal belief ( shakira is hot) and a fact (We evolved, the earth is old, common ancestor etc. So, by his standards, if I believed X wasn´t ´real´ then I could produce videos, write books and give seminars and demand equal time for my beliefs and when real scientists want to show me the evidence and facts I just ignore them and continue doing it?

[AtheismTV]

@papasitoman I agree.

Moreover I think that, as the saying goes, his freedom ends where mine begins. If by his doing the schools teach his crap then we all lose.

[mwwood79]

@papasitoman 'youre just a real genius'

[garysim1612]

Dont forget the whip crocoduck boy!

[Feredir28]

I have heard of this challenge, but I had no idea that they were asking for a "live" transitional or that all challenges would be bounced. Thanks for sharing this.

[mikeloaf]

i love that these "prove evolution" challenges never have an accurate idea of what the theory of evolution is.

they want people to prove a theory that theyve doctored in their own minds to be impossible.

[mrpotatoheadie]

We're all living transitional forms :)

Do Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron (and their line of bible bashers) not qualify as "radically different than the previous species", they show a reduced capacity to think for themselves and an increased ability to lie and take from the gullible!

[brettppalmer]

Good job! But, I think the codpieces are a bit much.... ;P

[Vogter666]

LMAO Loved it!

[celestialsalamander]

crocoduck buy sounds like lazymuffin

[knightd00b]

I think the key word is "living" transitional form. They want a modern documentation of speciation that is radically different than the previous species. That will be impossible in 1 generation. It could take 1000s of generations to accomplish significant differences.

[AtheismTV]

@knightd00b Very good point. The word "living" makes this contest impossible. So the example they gave, Archaeopteryx, would be disqualified based on that.

I should make an annotation, but I need to make it short... Let me think of the wording.

[sincaid4]

I love how all of the arguments FOR evolution on the intelligentdesignversusevoluti­on website are cited as no later than 2001... really up to date guys! ;-) Additionally it seems as though Banana Man and Crocoduckboy think magazines are sources, instead of scientific journals.

LOL Creationists make me giggle.

[Dragonvalor53]

Are you sure that the website is owned by them? Maybe someone put it up to simply make it look like it was a site of theirs. I not arguing for them, far from it. I just want to make sure that you are mocking them and not what someone else did.

[AtheismTV]

@Dragonvalor53 Good point.

A quick lookup on the WHOIS database gives me the following owner for this site: Living Waters Publications, which is the organization operated by Ray Comfort. So I'm 99.9% positive that's a real site.

[sapunec7854]

Why don't we contact "the atheist experience", tell them to make a fundraiser for a lawyer and SUE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF HOMOBOY AND BANANABUTT?

[AtheismTV]

@sapunec7854 Brilliant!

[KaroKoenich]

Two true superheroes. How about adding Sarah Palin as "Fruitfly Girl"?

[smartarse001]

@KaroKoenich "Singlebraincell Woman"

[Ryagful]

ok, i searched the internet, and found a few thousands transitional fossils! dose that makes me the winner?

[AtheismTV]

@Ryagful Get a lawyer and sue them! :-)

[AtheismTV]

@ymalmsteen887 I'd like to do one per week, time allowing. It also depends if I can find some contributors...

[MsLightdragon]

Every time I see these "proof of evo" things, I think of Ali G taking the piss out of Kent Hovind.

[Engletroll]

sue them and make them cover your laywers fee as well :P

[AtheismTV]

@Engletroll Not worth my time. This is much more fun!

[Carutsu]

@AtheismTV Those who are subscribed to you get the video anyway.

[Klingschor]

lol

[AtheismTV]

@Klingschor How did you know about this video? It's unlisted.

[AtheismTV]

@AtheismTV Ok now it's public.