Holy Hallucinations 9

Well, I've just about recovered from probably the most hectic and tiring two months of my life, but rather than take a well-earned break, I was stupid enough to get straight back into video-making. Hope you all enjoy.

This is my first response to NephilimFree, arguably the most reptilian creationist out there on YouTube. The original can be found here, though of course Neph does not allow the posting of video responses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6lKLVIQiCs

Neph's video was actually a response to the YouTube User owchywawa, whose channel and original video can be found at:

http://www.youtube.com/owchywawa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJAAC96C3lU

While I realize that it's rude to interrupt a conversation, some of the things Neph asserted in his video were so outrageous and his ignorant arrogance so irritating, that I felt obliged to toss in my two cent's worth.
You'll notice that there are some discontinuities in the clips I have used. I did this editing not only to save you from the sometimes mind-numbing tedium of Neph's tortuous ramblings, but also to give me enough time for my rebuttals (thankfully I now have 15 minutes). I don't think that my editing has changed the essence of the points Neph was trying to make.

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, KV. 459, First Movement

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[FSAthe1st]

What makes me laugh is his persistence in using Mark A McPeek as an example of "an EvolutionIST I squished". He used to make the same claim about Dr Per Ahlberg, but he was caught out in that lie rather badly some years back. The really surprising thing is that he no longer claims to have beaten Dr Ahlberg in debate.

I wonder why? He's not normally known for correcting a mistake... In any way, shape, or form.

[TheLivingDinosaur]

@FSAthe1st The explanation is easy when you come to realize that Nephy only has a limited number of synapses with which to navigate his way through life. As a result his brain must constantly re-wire itself to adapt to new situations as they arise. I suspect that the connections responsible for his delusion of besting Dr. Ahlberg were co-opted for other purposes one day when he realized that he needed to fart, and so the memory of that particular hallucination was erased.

[craniorectalectomist]

Ooh. Caught you in one.

Dissection. My pet peeve.

It's not pronounced "die-section," as if it were spelled "disection." This would mean you simply split the organism into two parts with no specific purpose or direction.

It's pronounced "dis-section," as it is proper spelling clearly reveals. This would mean you carefully took the organism apart with the clearly defined goal of learning where its organs are and what they do.

Hey, an English degree CAN be useful...once...

[TheLivingDinosaur]

@craniorectalectomist Ah. Thanks for the info - I stand corrected. I've always used that pronunciation and have never been called on it. I'll try to remember in the future, but it's hard wired now so I'll probably slip up.

[tacob0]

its not nice to make fun of special poeple...

[nash984954]

Goddamn it, I'm going to scream if I keep hearing people say the word 'evolutionist.' Though it is a noun and can be used as an adjective, creationists use it to equate creationism with evolution..

[nash984954]

A good magazine for kids is Skeptic magazine. In the back there is a section called Junior Skeptic, which covers a lot of nonsense kids may be exposed to and reveals real facts about pseudoscientific claims&such. Vol 16 No 3 reveals information on the Kraken, a Scandinavian sea monster. I mention this because a Bishop Pontoppidan, a scientist and a skeptic, but for some unknown reason believed the Kraken was real, he wrote a book on it&today 250 yrs later cryptozoologists make false claims.

[nash984954]

Neph is a puerile evolutionary throwback whose atavistic characteristics mimic a bats**t spewing, regurgatative vomitous belching mooncalf whose delusions overtake any neurotransmitters which may find themselves shortcircuited in their release from the synaptic vesicles, but rather than being pumped back into the synaptic end bulbs, in his feeble brain the surrounding nervous tissue negates any reuptake of them due to his colossal stupidity and willful ignorance. He ought to STFU!

[nash984954]

I keep asking WTF is an evolutionist?A twist on creationist, to try to somehow make the two equivalent?FAIL Neph has to be one of the best reasons for contraception and abortion there is. He wants to dumb down science with fairytales. He uses a few science words and he has no idea what they mean and then attacks his misconception.

[radelgratereaux]

You're brutally cruel I like that! jajajaja

[kandtell]

Since the movie industry seams to be in the habit for making squeals of the worst possible movies people can think of (was there really a need for "Miss Congeniality 2" for example?) I wonder if Ben Stein is perhaps planning "Expelled: No Lamarckism Allowed".

[kandtell]

@GuacamoleKun Lamarckism is considered so utterly disproved nowadays that Dawkins for example has said that "...to be painfully honest, I can think of few things that would more devastate my world view than a demonstrated need to return to the theory of evolution that is traditionally attributed to Lamarck." (in "The extended phenotype" 1982, p164-5 in the edition I have).

I'd say from the context he means more devastating than proof of deism, I'd love to be able to ask him :)

cont...

[Ilicium]

I have a polydactyl cat. He has thumbs. He is morphologically different and mutated from normal housecats. Is he a different kind, Neph?

[GuacamoleKun]

holy shit, I'd never heard of Lamarckism. (I just looked it up.) My education wasn't very good, so that's actually how I thought evolution was supposed to have worked for a while.

You know, it might actually be possible for that ability to evolve. I guess it's a good thing it hasn't yet, though, because that would be a pretty big red herring. We'd probably still be confused about how evolution really worked in the first place.

[omgwtfbbqxD]

Morphologically speaking, I found this episode to be particularly visually pleasing.