If you haven’t seen O’Reilly losing it at his teleprompter and crew, you obviously don’t use the same internet that I do. Check out the rant here if you haven’t seen it (again, I am very surprised if you haven’t seen it….go watch it if you haven’t!). Although this is bad, there are worse recordings of one of the worse TV personalities in the US.
Here is a clip of O’Reilly interviewing Richard Dawkins. I think that is actually worse than the one of O’Reilly losing it. It is one of the worst interviews I have ever seen. I can’t believe that FOX isn’t embarrassed to have this guy on the air. Check it out:
On a lighter side, here is the dance remix of O’Reilly losing it. Very funny….
That’s it.
The internet is populated with a lot of intelligent material, which is why I am addicted to it, but it is also filled with an enormous amount of ridiculous information. Creationists only contribute to one end of this spectrum and they bring the average of the whole internet down. The only thing that they are good for is a bit of cheap entertainment.
So here are the top 10 ridiculous creationists that I have found. If you can top these, please send your links in and I will add them to the list.
10. I wouldn’t want to miss anyone out, so #10 includes all creationists not covered below.
9. Becky Fischer from Jesus Camp.
8. Charley…just watch:
7. Quote – “One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues differently against a law that is accepted EVERYWHERE BY EVERYONE. Evolution says that we started out simple, and over time became more complex. That just isn’t possible: UNLESS there is a giant outside source of energy supplying the Earth with huge amounts of energy. If there were such a source, scientists would certainly know about it.” [via Measured Against Reality]
6. Ann Coulter definitely had to make this list. Even if she didn’t believe in creationism, she’d still be an idiot. Here’s a quote from her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism: “Throw in enough words like imagine, perhaps, and might have — and you’ve got yourself a scientific theory! How about this: Imagine a giant raccoon passed gas and perhaps the resulting gas might have created the vast variety of life we see on Earth. And if you don’t accept the giant raccoon flatulence theory for the origin of life, you must be a fundamentalist Christian nut who believes the Earth is flat. That’s basically how the argument for evolution goes [emphasis in original].”
5. Quote: “He needs to read the Bible. Noah did not save “all of the Earth’s animals species.” God sent TO Noah representatives of each LAND ANIMAL KIND. When one sees such incorrect information in a piece by a scientist, one has to worry whether the same lack of attention to accuracy is exhibited in his own research, or the research he supervises!” original [via Jeff the Fish]
4. Ben Stein for his movie expelled. Thanks for making lies seem respectable.
3. Animation from a creationist movie ( part of the series: Why people laugh at creationists on youtube)
2. The Atheist’s Nightmare: Peanut Butter
1. The Atheist’s Nightmare: The Banana
Unintentionally, this week is turning into creation week. I am looking at drafts of upcoming posts and they are all about creationists. I hereby declare this Creationism Week here at Observations of a Student.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Ben Stein’s movie Expelled, go watch the trailer and read a previous post I wrote about losing respect for Ben Stein. ‘Expelled: no intelligence allowed’ is a pro-creationist movie that is nothing more than religious propaganda.
In Exposed, Ben Stein is incredibly dishonest in manipulating his audience. It is sad that people without much scientific knowledge could come out of the movie believing the horrible things that Stein says. Actually, scientific knowledge is the wrong word. All the movie requires is a scientific mind, not specifically knowledge. There are many things that Stein gets wrong, and he makes some outrageous claims. Here are just a few:
“If Darwin wanted to challenge the consensus today, how would he do it? Science is not a hobby for rich aristocrats anymore, it’s a multi-million-dollar industry. And if you want a piece of the pie, you’ve got to be a good comrade.”
“Darwinism also has not one meaningful word to say on the origins of organic life, a striking lacuna in a theory supposedly explaining life” – ( Of course that’s not what Darwinism is about. The theory of magnetism doesn’t explain the origins of life either)
The site expelledexposed.com is one of the main forces trying to educate viewers and expose the truth behind the film. I have been looking at some stats for expelledexposed.com and think that it needs more promotion.
Here they are below:
I realize that stats aren’t everything, and that both of the stats are fundamentally flawed. With regards to “expelled” vs “expelled exposed” in google trends, the former will always outrank the later, just because it is a common word. Alexa rankings have some issues too, and should be viewed as more of a guideline. Even though these stats are flawed, I still believe that expelledexposed.com needs to be promoted more.
Go out and promote expelledexposed.com !!!!!!!! digg it, reddit it, stumble it…..tweet it…facebook it…whatever you can come up with.
Two of my buddies, Aiden and Tyler, have just left my home in Victoria, BC to bike across Canada. I went on a 100km ride with them for the first leg and I am glad that I am not going all the way. Just thinking about the whole trip makes me tired. This is the sort the thing that everyone talks about, but nobody actually does. Aiden and Tyler are actually doing it
They are planning on stopping at the Big Valley Creationist Museum in Alberta, which I have blogged about previously. Since last posting about it, the museum has produced a promotional video that I have embedded below. I am looking forward to Tyler and Aiden’s first hand report
Check out their blog and Tyler’s Fickr photostream. Good luck with the trip guys, all the best.
Here’s that Creationist Museum promo video for a quick laugh:
Yes Mom, you are the target audience of this post. I thought that this Dilbert strip was especially funny as your sewing machine is more advanced than your computer (which isn’t too shabby either).
Have a great day and thanks for being my Mom.
This isn’t really breaking news, but Pat Condell’s entire youtube collection was released as a DVD last week and is on sale at richarddawkins.net (don’t worry this isn’t an affiliate link).
Pat Condell is a very well spoken atheist among the youtube community. His accent does help him out as anything with an English accent normally sounds intelligent, except for scousers.
Here is a clip of him below addressing replies from some angry christians.
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