It's Not a Controversy

My entry for the Project Reason 2011 video contest. Why evolution is not a controversy among scientists and why it shouldn't be taught as if it is.

Resources:

A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scientific_Dissent_From_Darwinism
Kansas evolution hearings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_evolution_hearings

Dissent from Darwin:
http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/
Project Steve:
http://ncse.com/taking-action/list-steves

Dogs and Cabbages:
http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolution/dp/1416594787

Two Human Hairs:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(6000/3.5+billion)*100+yards

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DonExodus's criticism of the Dissent from Darwin list as it was in 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1Bo6GmPqM

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All excerpts used in this video are either copyright-free or covered under "fair use" in Title 17 § 107 of the USC.

Vector Attributions:
A huge thanks to Snap2Objects for the many businessmen vectors I use:
http://www.snap2objects.com/freebies/
Business Women:
http://all-silhouettes.com/vectorbusinesswomen/
Other Business People Vectors:
http://all-silhouettes.com

Tree of Life:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_of_life_SVG.svg
Genetics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gene-duplication.svg
Football Field:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AmFBfield.svg

Image Attributions:
Gold Watch:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Innards_of_a_G._Seifert_mechanical_gol...
Biology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biology_organism_collage.png
Genetics:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_Repair.jpg

Pye Dog:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Dog_Novorossiysk.jpg
Chiuaua:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Degaen.jpg
Dachshund
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Short-haired-Dachshund.jpg
Great Dane:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xenaslegacydanes2.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harlis.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dogge_Odin.jpg

Weed:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brassica_oleracea0.jpg
Broccoli:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Broccoli2.jpg
Cauliflower:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woolworths-cauliflower.jpg
Cabbage:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%87%E...

Wild Banana:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Inside_a_wild-type_banana.jpg
Cultivated Banana:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banana_and_cross_section.jpg

Abiogenesis:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PDB_2aqc_EBI.jpg

Blades of Grass:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blades_of_grass.jpg
Human Hair:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menschenhaar_200_fach.jpg

Relativity:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Innards_of_a_G._Seifert_mechanical_gol...
Newtonian Mechanics:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Tir_parab%C3%B2lic.png

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Music:
Self-Authored using GarageBand '09

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[ChipArgyle]

If evolution doesn't happen, vaccines don't work.

If evolution doesn't happen, why do I have a tailbone and an appendix?

If evolution doesn't happen, why has there been not one piece of theory-killing evidence brought forth in over 250,000 studies of evolutionary biology?

If evolution doesn't happen, why have we directly observed speciation in plants, bacteria, insects, and worms?

I can't believe people still argue about this to bolster their outdated superstitious beliefs.

[MrShoeguy]

What's great about evolution is that the older form is out competed by the new improved version until the older forms go extinct and leave nothing to show they ever existed.

When people deserve to be tortured for their IQ there is NO statement stupid enough to make them sick. When people deserve to be tortured for their IQ statements only need to support their cause.

1:30 “Without [evolution] research in [biology] would not exist.”

I dream of a world after mass extinction.

[ChipArgyle]

@psychoh13 I know, you were just bringing new information into the old argument about the appendix. I like da Vinci's take on it. So many of the great minds throughout history also had weak thoughts. I just had to throw it in there.

[psychoh13]

@ChipArgyle Because evolution is a bad designer... :P Don't get me wrong, I totally acknowledge evolution as a fact, as a real scientific theory. Unlike piece of crap like ID.

[ChipArgyle]

@psychoh13 In the early 1500s, Leonardo Da Vinci opined that the appendix was there to suppress farts so that they didn't rupture the caecum. Research continues into the appendix's use.

Consider this as a replacement for appendix in my list. As the ultimate divinely designed living thing according to the Bible, why does the human being have blind spots in its eyes?

[psychoh13]

@ChipArgyle Well, the appendix seems to have its use in restoring the bacterial flora of your intestines after diarrhea and other problems.

[FreeSilio]

@jomastretch ID proponents don't use "reasonable arguments". They've (as you said) only an HYPOTHESIS (=unproven facts), while on the other side there's a SOLID SCIENTIFIC THEORY (= coherent well documented explanation for large amounts of proven facts), and still they claim there's a controversy.

Furthermore, when TRUE scientists explain them why their arguments are flawed, they don't dismiss the argument but keep it for the next audience. Not reasonable nor honest.

[TheDreadedlife]

@jomastretch Nobody is confusing the terms, they're just trying to use intelligent design as a new label because creationism gives off a obvious religious vibe. The game is to sound as scientific as you can without actually doing anything scientific, while reaping benefits from modern medicine that depend solely off evolution.

[jomastretch]

I dont know if this is intelligent design or not, but for an agnostic, i find the possibility of an intelligent creator equally as possible as not. There are very reasonable arguments for both sides. Putting evolution side by side with "intelligent design" is strange because evolution is a biology theory, and intelligent design, i thought was a hypothesis about the creation of the universe. I think people are confusing intelligent design with creationism. Can someone correct me?

[FrankLightheart]

I think I like Steve.