Planet Earth-Dangerous Design
Posted by James on October 4, 2010 · 25 Comments
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science. Carl Sagan This present-day version of God of the gaps goes by a fresh name: intelligent design. The term suggests that some entity, endowed with a mental capacity far greater than the human mind can muster, created or enabled all the things in the physical world that we cannot explain through scientific methods. An interesting hypothesis. But why confine ourselves to things too wondrous or intricate for us to understand, whose existence and attributes we then credit to a superintelligence? Instead, why not tally all those things whose design is so clunky, goofy, impractical, or unworkable that they reflect the absence of intelligence? And what comedian designer configured the region between our legs-an entertainment complex built around a sewage system? Stupid design could fuel a movement unto itself. It may not be nature’s default, but it’s ubiquitous. Yet people seem to enjoy thinking that our bodies, our minds, and even our universe represent pinnacles of form and reason. Maybe it’s a good antidepressant to think so. But it’s not science-not now, not in the past, not ever. -Neil degrasse Tyson Religious fundamentalists may deny that evolution exists, but in the natural world it is religion that does not exist. -John Maisey of American Museum of Natural History Nature is telling us something and it …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
He forgot the killer fog. Yup, Earth is a dangerous place. Can ball lightnings do anything to you? They are suspicious and vicious! But good thing blue jets and red sprites don’t do anything to us. They’re too high! No, not on drugs. Up in the atmosphere.
Anyway, I agree with Neil. Everything is a bad design. We breathe and eat through the same pipes, and for some reason we have sexual intercourse with same organs for waste disposal. Did god create a cheap design? Saving on materials, huh?
Can we get some sad music please. I was practically smiling the whole way through.
I cant believe I’d never realized it: Tornados are SWEET
@RespectMyHate Ah. The truth comes out. Another religious nut who wishes harm or death on someone who doesn’t believe what they do. Notice how scientists don’t do that? Thank you for being the typical sterotype of a religious, close-minded nut job. If you had half a brain you’d understand that he’s saying that the earth wasn’t designed for us and uses examples. But no, you wish harm upon him because he’s disproved a lot of what you were brainwashed into. I tell you again, take a toaster bath.Fag
@RespectMyHate You clearly are a troll. Your comment is ignorant and your name is “RespectMyHate”. You’re the typical social cancer of this world. Do the universe a favor and take a toaster bath.
Every world has it’s natural way of creation and destruction, violent weather, and disasters. We just happen to be on this one. Take a look around the solar system at what other worlds go thru. we’re lucky
Planet Earth is dangerous…welcome to what we call life. Shit happens.
@AleximusMaximus I’m not a troll, neil tyson degrasse is a retard.
@RespectMyHate lol I see you get around, troll.
This is awesome!! What song is playing in the background?
pack your shit…we’re going away
the guy he is talking to is like holy crap i’m fucked and didn’t know it
I STILL BELIEVE IN GOD, I DON’T CARE IF THE EARTH SWALLOWS ME UP WHOLE.
mother nature = permanent pms
Yes, you must wonder where is the ‘intelligent designer (who still has to be prayed to) looking at, while you watch this video.
i can say more the religion = AK 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
xD a lightning bolt strikes 20 feet in front of him and he still only says “crap” I would’ve been cussin a lot more :p
poor man we don’t know how good things are sometimes,
haha oh my bad it just is hard to tell sarcasm in text format.
I was satirising the kind of comments that certain Christian fundamentalists often make on these sorts of videos.
what?
@nedwergs Absolutely, with the exception that life is largely explainable without God.
All of creation testifies to God’s nature! This world could not be the work of a loving, benevolent, wise, omnipotent creator! Only the petty, childish, uncaring, capricious sadist described in the holy bible could create a world like this!
yes very much so and i might say if he was real he suck at making things
Nice video and good choice of music.