Good and bad analogies for how evolutionary changes work.

Some thoughts on how Abiogenesis and more famously evolution are presented by Creationist.

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• Crocoduck
• Kirk Cameron
• Ray Comfort
• Hoyle's 747 analogy
• Creationism
• Richard Dawkins
• teleology
• design in nature
• evolution
• darwin
• Why do we still have monkeys?

[DeinosDinos]

Personally, based on what I see on the Internet, it's not that people don't understand it, it's that people don't want to understand it. You give them all the good evidence, al lthe good explanations and al lthe good implications of not being detached from reality, it enters their ears from one side and exits out the other. Then they continue to sprout nonsense about Crocoducks and Piltdown Man.

[YesIamJames]

Language is an almost perfect analogy, I think this argument could be taken a lot further.

[Beatnikzombie]

This wouldn't work for the super bible thumpers. The tower of babel created all the different languages. You and your silly facts are meaningless to these people.

[enalopez26]

Good video!

[MrStillmans]

Most people forget about the deadly competitive aspect of evolution. It's a brutal, unforgiving conquest out there. No hospitals for sissies.

So I prefer simplifying it to a litter of young wolves. The oddball wolf who is innately faster than his siblings hunts better, has more food energy to mate, is more attractive to the female wolves, and hogs all the food in the area. All his siblings DIE from starvation (this is a bit exaggerated, but it's simplifying).

Now, there are only fast wolves.

[baryonyx550]

I just finished reading "The Blind Watchmaker" and it addresses the 747 analogy nicely. The existence of complex structures like eyes through evolution don't make sense if you assume that it happens in one step (like the 747 analogy) or that the random mutations aren't later influenced by non-random selection. You're language analogy would've fit nicely in the book as well.

[gilless429]

I actually like the fact that the monstrous idiot Cameron is used the crocoduck "argument" (that's like calling Saddam Hussein a diplomat), because without that watching Zaunstar's videos wouldn't be as fun.

[SickMouth]

Good work!