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  • Love the guitar work ... like the politics

  • Love the guitar work ... like the politics

  • damn you, zimmerman! damn you...

  • Thanks for the video! Epic song!

  • "God: Hidden Science" - Google it!

  • I'm gonna need a guitar for this, am I not?

  • How could I avoid subscribing?  Subscribed!

  • Never thought a how-to video would be a great opportunity express political views.

  • And don't forget about Ron Paul. After the debate, he said he misunderstood the question. So, there were actually four boneheads that deny evolution in that debate. Nice song BTW; I wish I had a guitar and knew how to play it; that looks like fun.

  • Is it tuned down half a step?

  • Great video Roy, if you do one of these for Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual I will be doubly impressed!

  • PMSL@"close to yakety yax but not close enough to be actionable"

  • you, my friend are a genius! I cannot wait until November when you are somewhere in FL!

  • absolutely beautiful touch to the channel.

  • "Who's a backward bonehead?" "Me!"

    :-D

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  • Excellent!

  • To not believe is to choose to do that.

  • I love all your stuff, you are so funny!

  • Thanks Roy! You're a pretty funny guy; the "Probably qualifies me for a scholarship somewhere" bit had me rolling.

    Here's to random genetic mutations causing nonrandom changes in species over time!

  • Don't forget - if there's no evolution, how can the bird flu become an epidemic threat? After all, it doesn't transfer to humans very successfully right now, so why should it change?

  • "Many of them coherent..." Ha.

  • haha, i love how he explains he's not jewish intermitantly

  • Is there a choice to belief in god? I don't think so.

    This quote is just stupid.

  • Yes. Yes there is. It is totally a choice.

  • Ahhhh No?

  • I don't understand you. You can either choose to believe something or you can choose not to. Some people are just more naturally susceptible to it than others. I don't think it's a case of 'some people believe, others don't, that's the way it is' because if it were what would be the point of prosteletysing religions like Christianity, the entire basis of which is to spread 'the Word'. It's entirely about choice and free will, and this is one of the central themes in Abrahamic religions.

  • you don't choose to believe.

  • I did. I totally decided to get more into it and it's payed dividends.

    Yes, there's probably a predetermined mindset some people have that allows them to get into the whole mass conformism thing but I'm fairly confident that beyond that it's an entirely conscious decision at first.

  • It may be a conscious decision to gain information or investigate something. I mean naturally you feel sceptical about certain things you are told, so you can't help it if you don't believe something. Its the result of your information gathering that lead you to the conclusion of belief or non belief regardless of your will.

  • can you choose to disbelieve?

  • ah, pascale's wager...

    I would rather go through life not believing in any god and be wrong, than go through life believing in the wrong god.

  • I find it thoroughly ironic that my complaint about not being able to settle debates via youtube has turned into a youtube debate.

    Thoroughly, thoroughly ironic.

  • You're all wrong - we are basically inhabited by aliens, who will one day come back down and take the chosen ones back to the homeworld. Tom Cruise will be among us.

    See what I'm getting at?

    Also, without wishing to turn this comment into a forum reply, do you REALLY think you're going to solve this millenia-old problem with a few sentences exchanged over a rather excellent YouTube video? (Two birds with one stone, there.)

  • I love it when christians talk about hell... without knowing that the notion of "hell" didn't appear until a very late edition of the bible, king janes I believe. And prior to that... the original word that "hell" replaced was in reference to a "garbage dump" outside the limits of a very prominant biblical city...

    Shows exactly how much they know about their bible... =)

    I wonder why they never taught us this in bible school...

  • "But I'm not him." You sure? It would be pretty awesome if you were...

  • (I'm adding him to my list of people who are god, just to be safe)

  • This video is slightly ADHD... I like it :)

  • by frank i mean, roy is unreal

  • how dare you! wait, what did you say?

  • fail

  • Breaking news: Mountains of proof for evolution...

    Bird flu mutations

    Nylon-eating bacteria

    Synthetic Abiogenisis

    I can't get through the list in 500 characters or less. sorry guys. LOL

  • but you're attacking atheism

    unless you're not going to attack atheism you can't use that as an argument.

    I do attack practiced institutional Religion because it's a complete mockery of Science.

    It's a backwards way of thinking, and it enables some very mean hearted people to profit.

    Frank, you're attacking Atheism because you have a gang of people just as deluded as yourself to back you up.

  • thanks, you too

  • Lets say there is a god of some kind, there is about a one hundred percent chance that not one religion has got it right. Don't you think that god would be more upset with misrepresentation than with people who think for themselves? Don't quote the bible to back your claim this is an argument that can't be countered with holy books. This is the answer to pascals wager.

  • a rather irrelevant comment, I could say the same about theists/deists, where does god come from? I think it's safe to say no one knows how the universe was made, or what was before it was there, we can speculate, and we might even know one day.

    but by all means, stay Ignorant, put your trust in dark age mythology, just don't call us idiots because we know better than to join you

  • I'm not going to go around disproving every single myth, because Frankly "frank" I don't have the time, there's a lot more religions out there, why don't you disprove them? Unless you believe in every single religion?

    It'd almost be better if you ignored the bible... written by man, a decade after Jesus died, contradicts itself on more than one occasion, really if there is any proof in favour of God, the bible is far from being it...

  • It wasn't started until 50 years after jesus was dead and was not completed until about 1500ce.

  • We're not ignoring the fact that there is a bible; we just know enough to see that it makes absolutely no difference.

    Example, Some 2000 year old book book says that... I don't know... people who wear denim and cotton at the same time should be stoned to death in the town square. that doesn't make it true or right, just because someone says so.

    (by the way, if that claim sounded outlandish, too bad, it's in the bible.)

  • Christians are just fucked up, seriously, you are just full of paradoxes. You can't even follow the "good book" as it should be.

    Atheist understand that life isn't so damn obvious. But we can live with it. And we evolve , we progress through history. Sorry for the expression but you religious people are just so shallow and to be honest fucked up. You take things for granted, thinking life is so damn obivous and easy.

    But To be honest. I really don't care if some gets totaly brain washed.

  • how can you see life as "easy" when you must turn to a "god" that is full of shit. First of all. If you follow god. I have a question. What do you do if your son would work on a sunday? Look it up in the BIBLE what you SHOULD DO, not what you think is moraly right. I guess you don't do that, would you?

  • You're avoiding my point, coward.

    I don't understand your statement about Atheists being nothing without christians. perhaps you will elucidate?

  • and what do you Christians have of god, non! you believe something because it says so in a book? Well it seams some are just too dumb to realize when they are insulting them selfs. Understand, you are a scum, chosing religion instead of science. It Causing wars, conflicts and more shit. It stops free thinking, and just restricts people.

    Religion is just a an excuse for, instead of understand that life ISN*T so damn clear, for admitting your incompetence.

  • Oh my! You are beyond ignorant, you ARE dumb Frank.

  • Scientific fact: Atheists are idiots! LOL

  • Frank just calling people dumb isn't an argument. A more accurate name for Christianity would be Paulism. Do you understand what I am saying or have you not read the bible.

  • Ooooo Paulism! good point there, thumbs up!

  • It wasn't nothing. YOu really need a better understanding of science before commenting. Energy was transformed to matter. Not nothing it didn't start from nothing moron.

  • " But; I'm not him."

    Perfect!

    Dude, you must be a great hang.

  • Huckabee has admitted that he believes the earth is 6000 yrs. old and that he eats fried squirrel from a popcorn popper AND HE'S STILL IN THE RACE!

    Are you people kidding Me!

    Man! this Country deserves every bit of scorn that the rest of the world wants to hurl at US.

  • Isn't it sad who is leading our country?

  • it's so good to hear a comedian that sings and is intelligent

    listening to your commentary is as enjoyable as learning to play the song

  • It's like a lighter-hearted  Bill Hicks with an acoustic Guitar.

    Awsome!

  • I like the acoustic version best. The girl dancing to the other version is a fox, though. P.S. You're gonna get sick of adapting "___" is Completely Heterosexual if this gay repub thing keeps going the way it does. sheesh...

  • your very charitable . ide stop them recieving ellectricity and synthetic materials and any technollogy beyond sharp stones. it was good enough for noah so let them have it and see how long thier ridiculouse beliefs last.

  • Google the following:

    MSNBC Article about 70 Million Year Old TRex found intact. It's there!

  • Hey! Someone hit this comment with a thumbs-down! How dare they! that was a good comment!

  • i love the little rants in between

  • my hole collegde is singing your song´s, it´s great!! hope more is comming.

  • I'm guessing you're not majoring in english.

  • It was well preserved. Mammoths thousands of years old are found under ice.

  • But isn't there a small difference between thousands of years in ice and 70 million years in dirt?

  • Yes, exactly. A small difference :)

  • They didn't

  • Hey, this video is four minutes and 20 seconds long. 4:20. Just what I would expect from a New York liberal! J/K

    I envy those who can play the guitar so effortlessly. On top of that you are a great writer. Great stuff.

  • I love the comments you get out of these vids with all the morons who think they know what creationists believe or all the morons who think they can quote random scriptures or ask people to explain babies smiles. I am a christian who DOES beleive in micro-evolution which is the type of evolution that explains said bird flu but to believe in macro takes far more faith than to beleive in a supreme being... somebody argue with me with many curse words...NOW

  • Where's the ninth fret again? :)

  • I got that frigging 9th fret joke stuck in my head in band practice last night. Everyone just kept playing, but stared at me when I busted out laughing in the middle of a song. :)

  • Almost convincing but obviously contadictory.Just works the other way round in favour of creationists. Guess we're dealing with a whole lot of first time epidemics in the first time of our 250 billion year history..such a shame.

  • 250 billion, are you a creationist? only a creationist can't do maths and tend to be out by a few orders of magnitude when discussing the age of the earth.

  • No I'm not being sarcastic at all, it's a speach impediment.duh.

  • i was also being sarcastic, but any idiot that thinks the earth is 6000 years old really ought to be in a special school.

  • "whose the backward bonehead? ME!" LOL. Good stuff.

  • protein came before DNA since Archeobacteria (really freaking old bacteria) and other still existing procaryotes don't have DNA, DNA is considered a step up because the whole system just allows for alot more info to be stored and its reproduced in a more controlled and faithful fashion... basically RNA = cassettes. DNA = CD's...

  • oh, it also considered the "higher system" becuse we use it, and earlier scientists obeyed the classical religious theory that if humanity does it, its the top of the tree... but hey the other way works too...

  • RNA isn't made of proteins. It is made of amino acids like DNA is.

  • Proteins are made of amino acids while DNA is made of nucleotides constisting of a nitrogenous base, the sugar deoxyribose, and a phosphate group.

  • Differences between DNA and RNA:

    RNA contains the pentose unit B-D-ribose rather than B-2-deoxy-D-ribose (means the sugar contains one less hydroxyl group at postion 2)

    The pyrimidine (single ring) bases of RNA are uracil and cytosine rather than thymine and cytosine

    RNA is single stranded rather than double stranded

  • Ooops, my bad.

    Post in haste, repent in leisure...

  • You were certainly right about RNA not being made of proteins though.

  • Yeah, I meant nucleic acids, and wrote amino acids by mistake.

    Though it is possible that early reproduction was accomplished by proteins that path was probably a dead end.

    Some simple forms of RNA can self replicate and mutate. So I think that the earliest life was more likely to be RNA based, as the soup of support chemicals needed would be simpler.

    DNA needs more helper proteins to replicate and was likely a later adaptation.

  • 100 million year old human fossils on my channel

  • The code for each protein is contained IN the DNA/RNA system. However, proteins are REQUIRED in order to manufacture DNA. So which came first: proteins or DNA?

  • Easy answer there. RNA has been shown in the lab to have the capacity of self replication when the appropriate amino acids are present.

    So likely, they are all there... :)

  • Thanks for the lesson !!!

  • Think you for a nice song and lesson.

    Singing this in Kansas can get you burned at the stake though.

  • Fantastic, I learned about the guitar and I had a laugh, excellent work!

  • denying evolution is completely illogical.

    HOWEVER the denial of the theory that man and every other species evolved from what originally was an explosion has just as much legitimacy as the claim in itself.

  • Right, except that a scientific Primal Explosion Theory does not exist. I assume you refer to the Big Bang. It is theorized to have been an expansion from a singularity, not an explosion.

  • Hello, Roy!

    You are the best acoustic rocker AND musical satirist of this generation! I'd go further to say I'm glad you're on the thinker's side, but we know there's no such wit in the right wing camp. Thanks for sharing your talent with us, and humoring us guitarist wannabes.

    Kissing up aside, here's the prying question: when I try to play along with your live video, where the fingering looks like what you showed us here, it sounds like Ab. Do you play in a dropped tuning, and if so why?

  • where is the monkey with the cup? Maybe he could use a tranistional monkey/man with a cup might add proof to what he is whinning about. sounds like a little child.

  • Beautiful! What an old soul..most lovely, funny and wise...Rock on and teach as you are doing...wait, I think there really is a god!!

  • "I have been the victim of anti-semitism, which...you know..qualifies me for a scholarship somewhere" !!

    Classic stuff!

  • ok Zimemr, you rock , i love how you took your popular song, and acually gave people what they want ,.. you gave tabs... alotta people wont give up the tabs, (takes the mystery away) but i love it, Thank you, I will learn how to play this

  • I really enjoyed the video, and I don't know anything about playing the guitar. More commentary/comedy would be great. :)

  • ...Huh?

  • I love the snippets of rant between instructions.

  • AIG Creation Museum refuted by fossils below museum pt.2 Paste that title in the search engine box to see my new video . Part 1 was a honored by You Tubes science news.Featured on several science / religous blogs .

  • Awsome! The song is amazing, but your comments are even better! Great job, you're great! Keep posting videos...

  • Hehhee.. you're going to take a vaccine distributed in the USA?  Hahahaha.. Bye bye.

    Now let's all sing along with me:

    Murcery in my veins is just OK

    Murcery is so good for me.

    Don't give a care,

    Dons't give a hoot,

    I'll be seeing the last of me

    squirting out from my poop-shoot.

  • And now for the spell-checked version in the key of D:

    Mercury in my veins is just OK

    Mercury is so good for me.

    Don't give a care,

    Don't give a hoot,

    I'll be seeing the last of me.

    squirting out from my poop-shoot.

    - Repeat

  • you are very funny, very to the point, and you play some pretty mean guitar - what else can you ask for? America (and Europe too)needs more people like you - lets stick it to to the Bush's and Blairs in any way possible - and play some good music along the way - my very best wishes xx

  • You are amazing! Your talent, your humor, your wit!

  • hey I like the way you play the guitar, very good player, and funny too. What if the beatles were Irish is the best. Please upload another like that song. Kevin, from Argentina.

  • If you look at many of Roy's videos on here, user "av1611truth" has been mass-posting this question about emotions not evolving from dead matter. Just an observation more than anything, but I guess he's casting a wide net to get a good answer?

  • So how did 'emotions' evolve from 'non-living' matter?

  • what an r tard

  • By denying the Bible you are Fulfilling the Bible, "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts" 2nd Peter 3:3

  • By fucking your mother you are fulfiling my theory that you fuck your mother

  • And here you are, right on cue, scoffing at the truth of evolution and walking after your own lust for power by trying to force your religion on the rest of us.

  • av1611truth: well, you better not deny the quran then. Or my evolution textbook "Essentials of Physical Anthropology 5th ed." by Jurmain et al, which also says that many people will deny what it teaches about evolution.

    I don't think you can in all honesty say that if someone rejects an idea it must be true.

  • You rule man.

  • Several lines of evidence converge to establish the historical reality of Jesus Christ

    (1) the New Testament documents;

    (2) ancient Jewish sources;

    (3) Roman writings;

    (4) early antagonists of Christianity;

    (5) the testimony of the patristic writers;

    (6) the art of the Roman catacombs;

    (7) the impact of Christianity in history. We base Time itself through Christ; B.C. and A.D.

  • Get a fucking life, christian!!!! You're not gonna convert anyone with that fairy tale! THERE IS NO GOD!!!!

  • How can you 'prove' something that cannot be ' observed or reproduced ' You were not there "billions of years" ago to observe anything. What you are doing is excercising FAITH. Be honest with yourself!

  • "How can you 'prove' something that cannot be ' observed or reproduced"

    Look at evolution in fruit flies.

    And also, next time you get a flue shot ask for last year's batch, because you don't believe things can evolve.

  • Unfortunately for you, evolution can and has been observed and reproduced. Every single vegitable and fruit you eat has been artificially evolved with selective breading. And that's just the tip of the iceburg. If you refuse to believe in evolution then you can never honestly take any vaccines for bacterial or viral infections, as evolution is used heavily to develop them.

  • @ av1611truth

    Care to share the rest of the Gould quote?

  • Harvard Evolutionist Professor of Palentology (study of fossils) Stephen Gould in his book, "Evolution fact and THEORY" states that "There Are NO Transitional Fossils To Observe Antwhere on this planet" But "you are smarter than him ? Go back to sleep gomer!

  • First of all "Evolution fact and THEORY" is not a book. "Evolution as fact and theory" is a chapter in Gould's book Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes.

    Secondly,"There Are NO Transitional Fossils To Observe Antwhere on this planet" is a COMPLETELY made-up quote. You obviously have not read this essay. The chapter is a rebuttal to several creationist claims against evolution.

    Advice: Do your research before posting.

  • ...and creation 101 isn't even in my RZ top 5. Wow (to the postings). I love the video response by the way. Keep up the good work.

  • "The THEORY of Evilution is UNPROVED and UNPROVEABLE WE BELIEVE IT ' ONLY ' BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IS SPECIAL CREATION...." Quote from Sir Arthur Keith ; Author of the Foreword for the book "Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of ' FAVORED RACES' " by Charles Darwin (100th Edition).

  • I told you to look at Ken Millers' video; the one that 1:57:10 long. Learn and understand some stuff and come back and have another crack at it. Right now all the smart people are wondering if there's a reason why you're still breathing cos you keep contributing brain dead matter. So go and have a listen at Ken. He's smarter than you pastor.

  • HAHA in my Birkenstocks. Come to the Pittsburgh area sometime.

  • 2701=the sum of creation.

  • Thank god for you, Roy Zimmerman.

  • You have been educated way beyond your intelligence. I choose to believe in a Supreme Being because the alternative leaves with no conclusion, no first cause , simply no 'why'? no meaning to life's existence. Everything is accidental, no purpose, random chance processes from 'goo' to 'you' by way of the 'zoo'!

  • @av1611truth: That's nice. There's nothing wrong with believing in God. You know there are many who simply believe that God created the world THROUGH evolution. It would just be nice if you didn't bash people so much.

  • God's Word the Bible always proclaimed the world was round! You still haven't answered how we judge Time thru a "myth"?

  • A couple of decennia from now Christians will be screaming that 'the Bible always proclaimed evolution was a fact!'

    Well, either that or civilisation will have collapsed and we'll all be religious lunatics.

  • I am 25 years old.If Jesus is all you say He is, then how is it that the ' world ' judges time through Him. What year are we living in 2007? Why? Because Jesus Christ was born 2007 years ago! How could a myth change history?

  • Whoa... You know in other countries around the world, it isn't 2007 AD. You need to open your eyes. Not every place in the world uses the Gregorian Calendar, like we do. Your argument is basically, "because most of the people where I live believe it, it must be true!" Not a good stance to take. Most of the people once believed the earth was flat. Did that make it true? No.

  • JESUS IS LORD!

  • Jesus is nothing more than a myth started by scammers to carry out the sting of the millennia - the top dogs larf and snigger all the way to their banks.

    It's all about Power and Money. Wake up!

  • I'm one of the many who sent you comments asking for you to post this. Thank you so much! Very comprehensive video tut, and you explained very clearly (I thought)

  • Great job Mr. Zimmerman. I've listened to it probably 40 times and almost memorized it. If I weren't so "musically challenged" and could play the guitar, I'd try to learn to play this song. I'm going to order a CD once I come to the States. I'm sure my friends will find at least 2 song hilarious: Chickenhawk and CS 101. Great satire.

  • Born agains should not get flu shots... because the flu could not possibly evolve over time. ;-) I have been saying this for a long time.

  • Fantastic. That's just beautiful

  • God's Word the Bible FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO stated that the world is round (Isaiah 40:22 hebrew word chuwg---shere) spins on an axis (Job 38:13-14) and hangs on nothig (Job 26:7 --gravity) The Muslim Quran says the Earth is in the shape of an EGG (Surah 79:30) Two seconds into eternity and you'll be the biggest biblebeliever in Hell! Where are you going to spend ETERNITY?

  • I've listened to Travis' new album from start to finish. Don't talk to me about eternity

  • So, do you do comedy elsewhere too?

    You're 40 years old and you STILL believe in the invisible man. Wow. Never outgrew the need for a security blanket, eh? Still wet the bed too, I suppose. Are you getting counselling for this delusion? Oh, your Priest, Pastor, Parson, Padre told you it's the truth. You haven't been giving them money, have you? You have?? Dickhead.

    Good luck spending eternity grovelling to a psychotic S&M god, mate. LOL

  • Hey roy looks like you have all the bases covered the Latte times berks but you forgot to hug a tree lol . Loved the vid thanks for the post

  • "... Which probably qualifies me for a scholarship somewhere." Soda, meet monitor. Rock on, my good man.

  • Great song, somtimes a little difficult (im swiss) but great the wordplays are very funny. i like it.

  • "There was a Jewish carpenter..." heh, heh. :)