Natural Selection - Baba Brinkman - Rap Guide to Evolution Music Videos

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Lyrics and Performance by Baba Brinkman

Music by Tom Caruana

Directed by Felix Harrison

Animation by Tommy Nagle

Supported by The Wellcome Trust

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Music

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• natural selection
• richard dawkins
• evolution
• charles darwin
• rap
• hip-hop
• sarah palin
• michel foucault
• god
• religion

[daemonowner]

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." - Galileo

[TheChrisMedico]

He looks like the ninth doctor.

[FraggedMind]

@daemonowner I believe Thomas Jefferson said something very similar in his writings as well.

[tacuahoms]

This guy is way better than Alpinekat

[anthropic1]

@babasword I have a new hero. Thanks mate, you made my afternoon.

[ProphetJephri]

@bikri08 "accept it without question" wrong. Textbooks report what scientists have found and teach the current evidence.

SCIENCE does not accept things without evidence. In fact, science itself does not accept anything without proper review. A text book ten years old will content factually inaccurate evidence and interoperation so a new textbook is written.

Where as the Bible, disproven historically and scientifically, is set in stone and treated as such. THAT is not how the world works.

[ProphetJephri]

Furthermore, life exists in extremely hostile places on earth, and could possible exist elsewhere. OUr very bodies, and how we replicate are no different than a jelly fish or a Crystal growing in a cave. The chemistry for life is complex simply because we try to categorize a process we still need to understand better but that does not negate the science in favour of magical fairytales created by bronze aged, superstitious primitives.

[ProphetJephri]

@bikri08 Check out io9 they have a great article on the origins of oxygen breaking and protein folds. These are lab experiments that simulate the natural world.

Want other "impossible in nature" events? How about the discovery of Quasi Crystals, once thought in theory and then only replicated in labs under controlled situations, have been found to exist in nature!

I could spend hours linking you to proofs, evidence, millions of documents that correlate and prove science. interested in learning

[ProphetJephri]

@bikri08 no it isn't. it uses reasoning and extrapolation, as well as our understandings of biology. we have dozens of transitional hominid species. We observe and have PROOF of evolution happening now. We can recreate the fundamentals in a lab. Hell, scientists are turning a chicken into a dinosaur like creature simply because that bird has the defunct and non functioning genes of it's ancestors.

The burden of proof favours evolution and science. cherry picking specific details is dishonest.

[ProphetJephri]

@bikri08 If God is real, where does God exist? within a universe. a point in space and time of its devices. If you were to use the even more esoteric construct of God, then you're admitting that God isn't real but in our own minds and we can get into an intellectual debate on the quantum mechanics of spirituality. If we were to use logic, having some vast creator making a universe 14 billion years old, massive in scale and hostile to life,  doesn't make sense.

[bikri08]

@ProphetJephri I still feel I need evidence. Scientists cannot reproduce in ideal conditions what supposedly happened by chance in adverse conditions (creation of amino acids and proteins). Pointing out similarities in a "progression" of skull fragments that are entirely disproportionate in size and calling it evidence is dishonest, but most science textbooks accept it without question.

[bikri08]

@ProphetJephri I don't know why you keep insisting I am "intellectually dishonest." I disagree with your point of "no one made God so he can't exist" so I'm being intellectually dishonest?

Much of evolution, as an other poster here noted, is reactionary against 19th century dogmatic religion, it does not come from a state of tabula rasa. I find it quite presumptuous on your part to make accusations about my mental methodology when you have no idea what it is.