Holy Hallucinations 20

Well, it's been a whirlwind few weeks since the last Holy Hallucinations and a lot of water and about 5000 new subscribers have passed under the bridge. My heartfelt thanks again to everyone who gave me a shout-out recently, particularly JaguarJ0nes, Desertphile, chattiestspike2, PZ Meyers/Pharyngula, The AtheistExperience and dprjones.

During all the furor, the user FranksVoice paid a couple of little visits to my channel to leave a comment. In the first he opined that this channel needs some serious prayer but, funnily enough, didn't offer to provide any himself. Following this particularly good example of Christian compassion he returned and destroyed the whole of modern physical and biological science by decisively disproving with the quote "Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Game over!"

Needless to say, having been confronted with an intellect of this magnitude, I felt compelled to surf over to his channel to see what I could see and found a mirror of the video I'm addressing here. The original, by user onceforgivennowfree can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTaBdD5XicM

Although the original is now 6 months old, and the argument tired and stale, I was so astounded by the disingenuousness with which it was presented that I really had to respond.

Although I keep the other possibilities open in the video, having watched a few other offerings from this user I'm coming to the conclusion that he's actually an intelligent individual who's either refusing to critically read the evidence for the science he's desperately trying to debunk or avoiding it like the plague and reading nothing other than what he can find from creationist sources. In either case it's a downright waste of a perfectly good mind and a testament to the crippling effect of fundamentalist religion on the human brain.

Music: Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E minor (Opus 98).

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[TheDreadedlife]

TLD and Potholer54 need to make a video together.

[TheLivingDinosaur]

@TheDreadedlife As far as I'm aware he's not aware that I exist, but thanks for the complement. ;-)

[Drweavil]

Did the little toerag respond to this TLD ?

[TheLivingDinosaur]

@Drweavil He did. HH21 is dedicated to my response to that. He made further responses after that but I gave up because his style is to make a weak rebuttal to one or two points and then introduce another 3 or 4 new ones to make it look like he can defend himself. I couldn't keep up with the sheer volume of bullshit he was generating so I moved on to pastures new.

[Jakster840]

Are you a conure owner?!?!?

[TheLivingDinosaur]

@Jakster840 I was, but he died a few months ago. That's him on my icon.

[choongd]

What Christians think evolution is, is completely different from what scientists and properly educated people think it is. All scientists and properly educated people will concur that the distorted and false Christian version is bullshit. I mean really...is it THAT difficult to pick up a book and read what evolution is ACTUALLY about??? Stupid lazy idiotic Christians...makes me weep to be living under the rule of you delusional pricks. First chance I get, I'm moving to a secular country!!!

[NightimeShadow]

Hilarious that he uses the giraffe clip, given the hilariousness that is its recurrent laryngeal nerve...

[RapeJesusWithAStick]

that last horrific quote mine was from Inside Natures Giants. Where they disect a giraffe

Very interesting program and notice how they always talk about evolution. Within the context of that quote. The guy means designed by natural selection

[Kailoa36]

"Mechanical Engineer" In his case, I suspect that means he assembles model airplanes, which he purchases with his unemployment/SSI checks, all day.

[geyza0711]

@hollywoodt00 so we all live in sin because we fly about in airplanes, allthough god didnt want us to fly because the he would have given us wings! this is brilliant. from now on I´ll pwn every christian by asking him if he ever traveled by plane. :D

[THEDaegan]

@sheepfax Umm... It's called entertainment. He doesn't need to explain anything. This is a satire of a previous video made by some idiot who enjoys misrepresentation. If it's data and information you want, I'd suggest you do some research instead of hoping for someone to make a youtube video and force-feed it to you. This isn't church, bro.

[sheepfax]

You don't have a clue. WTF, what is an "unguided law of nature?" No one gives a crap about colorful spew with a British accent, we can get that on Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers right here in the states. Why don't you STFU? You try to sound smart but it fails. You're not giving us any data. Why can't you just haul out your pocket genome map and give us tour instead of framing your pretend knowledge with crayon magic. Nothing you've said even comes close to explaining of anything.

[PayasYouListen]

I find it weird that engineers are even susceptible to believing intelligent design. Us engineers should be most qualified to see the flaws in nature's "designs" and be able to improve on them. As an engineer myself I know that good design leads to simplicity, not complexity. If life on Earth was designed it was by a moron of the highest order.