Slog - Comments on "Still Not Convinced?": The Day in Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories

Comment by konstantconsumer

konstantconsumer — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:54:47 -0800

wow. i'm not sure which was funnier. sadly, it's very obvious which is scarier.

Comment by steve

steve — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:54:58 -0800

Wow. I totally get it now. It makes all the sense in the world. Those scienticians and their "primordial sandwich" lies are finished!

Comment by him

him — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:01:37 -0800

Holy what the fuck, Batman!

Comment by Sachi

Sachi — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:03:57 -0800

Steve, according to Missler the only primordial sandwich would have been made with peanut butter. (No doubt with a banana, God's Perfect Food, on the side.)

Comment by MvB

MvB — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:06:31 -0800

That's all very good, Mr. Missler. But I believe that there's a jar of peanut butter out there that's got life in it. And I don't need your "science" to prove such things don't happen. I have my faith.

Comment by Mr. Designer

Mr. Designer — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:24:48 -0800

Even if life did form inside a peanut butter jar, it wouldn't just jump out when the lid is opened and bite ya in the ass.

Comment by gfish

gfish — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:27:07 -0800

Basic failure of education here. They don't understand just how huge the numbers involved are. Obviously the creation of life from lifelessness is very, very, very improbable, but it had a very, very, very long time in which to happen. If you could check several septillion jars of peanut butter, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find the beginnings of new life.

Most importantly, it only had to happen once. It could have been so improbable it only happens once every 10 billion years and that would still be enough.

Comment by SDA in SEA

SDA in SEA — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:30:27 -0800

Wow. The entire theory of evolution, debunked by a jar of peanut butter. Who knew?

Comment by Cate

Cate — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:35:16 -0800

OMG, I've been wrong all these years! Peanut Butter can't turn into monkeys!! Stupid, stupid me.

Comment by Monique

Monique — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:36:19 -0800

Damn you peanut butter and your vast knowledge of science, your infalliable logic, and sense of fashion!

DAMN YOU!!!!! *shakes fists*

Comment by Angel

Angel — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:46:43 -0800

mmmmm peanut butter and banana sandwiches...

Comment by A-Train

A-Train — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:13:05 -0800

So, if the jar was open a crack and the hand if God could slither in there, we might open it to find little peanut butter people made in His image? That would be so like Him.

Comment by montex

montex — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:56:02 -0800

What an awesomely profound misunderstanding of the definition of evolution. This experiment equates the Theory of Evolution to magic by insisting that unless fully formed life forms crawl out of a jar of peanut butter, evolution must be false.

The frustration that the educated feel towards the blissfully or willfully ignorant is that they are incapable of getting even the most basic aspects of Evolutionary Theory correct. We can dismiss them as delusional fools, but with propaganda like this they become a dangerous distraction to real education. Here is the reason that public education is so lousy and sub-par to the rest of the world. While we so painstakingly try to refute ridiculous "Peanut-butter" postulates, time is wasted just catching up to the basics other industrialized countries have gone far beyond.

Comment by butterw

butterw — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:19:00 -0800

Let's go over this again. Evolution is a theory about how life, once started, changes over time. Evolution is almost universally accepted by the scientifically literate. Theories on the origin of life from non-living matter, aka abiogenesis, are more speculative, and no single theory is widely accepted over all others. Confusion of evolution with abiogenesis, as evidenced by the video, is a mark of profound scientific illiteracy.

Also, his choice of peanut butter sucks.
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