The best videos for or against evolution.
Posted on: November 21, 2007 - 2:52pm
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The best videos for or against evolution.
I am asking you to bring forth the best videos you know of which best clarify either point of view.
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Here are two of mine
And heres the other one...
Alright, the second one is more a joke...
Does anyone have one that summarizes the rest of the processes of evolution well?
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I'm just an old fart, I guess, but when I was your age, television was called books!
(Ten bonus points if anyone knows the slightly paraphrased reference.)
I don't pretend to call myself an expert on evolution, but it's a real puzzle to me how someone could get through even one book by Dawkins and not understand it enough to recognize its existence. I know folks don't have time to actually learn things today. They just want the summary in a nice video format. Even so, I just don't know if the concept of evolution can be sufficiently explained in a youtube video. It's kind of involved.
I'm not trying to rag on your question. It's a reasonable thing to ask. My answer to your question is that no matter how good a video is, I have my doubts as to the format's capability to truly explain evolution.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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Here's a two hour one by Ken Miller
Two hours?! Crike.
I revise my previous comment. One good college lecture would be enough. I thought we were talking about five minute shit.
Now, I'm just the old fart who doesn't watch youtube because I'd rather read. I'll go get my BB gun and sit on the porch to wait for some damn kids to walk through my yard. It's a good distraction when I get tired of reading.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
What books are you reading now?
Books:
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
4 books at once? Impressive, I could only ever commit myself to a maximum of 2 if I really wanted to take it all in, lol
At the moment, I'm reading:
I just noticed that when the above picture was taken, it was only a national bestseller.
My copy has INTERnational bestseller at the top. woohoo!
I'm reading:
Then on my list:
It will take me a while to get through them all, I'm not a heavy reader.
I'm still up for suggestions.
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I haven't read a book in about two years, aside from my Guitarist Grimoires... but those are about as much like a book as a keyboard is.
I'm more of a reader of articles online. Depending on the size (some are really long) I could take as much as 30 minutes to 3 days, most of them are insuficient in their information though.
Of course, I don't read just stuff on evolution. In fact, I read about one long articles worth of information on evolution a month. Most of the stuff I read is usually on the science of sound, COSM modelling, music (in general), and music theory.
When I was your age, we didn't even have a year for it. We just called it "hard times". In hard times, it was dark ALL the time. The sun came up on a Wednesday I think. And if yo' ass wasn't up early, you missed it!
Luxury!
When I were a lad we used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle,........ if we were lucky!
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
A mere flesh wound!
When I was a little younger than that, every morning we would have to wake up at 10pm the night before, a full HOUR before we went to bed. For breakfast we would have poison before walking to the mill in bare feet uphill on broken glass in the snow to work a 12 hour shift of back breaking manual labour for a wage of 8 cents a lifetime. The weather was usually worse on the way home and also more steeply uphill. We then had to dig holes in the back yard for 3 hours, after which time our father would beat us to a bloody pulp with the severed head of our mother.
Kids these days don't know the meaning of a fair day's wage for a fair day's work!
And you try to tell that to kids these days, they won't believe you!
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
Yep, pretty funny how the world has turned out.
Thanks to Cpt Pineapple for the link, I've seen bits and pieces of that Ken Miller lecture before, but never all of it all in one.
Now to contribute, and as I'm on a Carl Sagan kick at the moment, I present to you, Evolution: Carl Sagan Style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZtRn1fst-g
[mode=stealth][action] move away from lawn [/action][/mode]Good night, funny man, and thanks for the laughter.
Pineapple your my new best freind. I've been looking for a book on introduction to critical thinking. Thanks!
I hope they cannot see
the limitless potential
living inside of me
to murder everything.
I hope they cannot see
I am the great destroyer.
That was a really good video. I enjoyed it.
But let me just point out that Ken Miller is a Roman Catholic!
Yes he is, you should read his book (I linked to it in another post).
Yes indeed, it was a great link.
I've just finished Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors now. I think more books on evolution need the phrases "Let's fuck" and "Fuck you" in them, it really brings the subject to life lol
cdk makes some pretty good videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/cdk007