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   Glen Davidson

   14 January 2013 at 12:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Doesn’t explain the evolution of a demigod like Jesus, thus is inadequate.

   Or at least why it won’t be watched by the kids who need to see it.

   Glen Davidson

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   sinned34

   14 January 2013 at 2:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Forget the kids, this needs to be shown to most adults.

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   Ogvorbis

   14 January 2013 at 3:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Wow. After watching that shocking and disgusting video, I understand why the religious view evolution by natural selection as the horror story that it is.

   (attempted humour)

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   Naked Bunny with a Whip

   14 January 2013 at 3:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Doesn’t explain the evolution of a demigod like Jesus

   I think Professor Charles Xavier has a video explaining that somewhere.

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   Naked Bunny with a Whip

   14 January 2013 at 4:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I just hope it’s not on XTube.

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   tccc

   14 January 2013 at 8:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   They got 5 bucks out of me for that one. Very well done. I love the style, animation, voice over, everything.

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   Leanchoilia

   14 January 2013 at 8:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   If you like the art, the artist has a website full of biology comics. http://birdandmoon.com/

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   Charlie Foxtrot

   14 January 2013 at 8:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Is good! But my favorite is still the Horrible Histories version. :)

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   doktorzoom

   14 January 2013 at 11:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I rather liked the reference to “banana trees” at 5:48. I will choose to think that was not coincidental

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    muskiet

    15 January 2013 at 4:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I would like to point out Potholer54′s “made easy” series on YouTube.
    It’s not this fancy, but every episode explains things like natural selection, evolution and the origin of life in a simple way while at the same time making fun of people like Hovind.

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    Lofty

    15 January 2013 at 5:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Potholer54′s vids are cool.

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    Aratina Cage

    16 January 2013 at 4:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Larry Moran thinks the video is mostly right but somewhat wrong:

    According to the video “evolution … has officially occurred.” This is incorrect. Populations evolve, not individuals. It’s quite possible for the individuals in a given generation to have different combinations of traits than either of their parents while the frequency of alleles in the population remains unchanged. Thus, evolution has NOT occurred.

    http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-exactly-is-evolution-stated.html

    It seems like all the video needs to do is change the word “occurred” into “started”, or perhaps the word “officially” into “potentially”, to align with Larry Moran’s thoughts.

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    trigley

    19 January 2013 at 10:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I know that the biologists and evolutionists believe they have an airtight accounting for the amazing variety of organisms and genes in the world, but the variety of domestic dog breeds doesn’t seem to convincingly demonstrate the process by which new genes arise. Aren’t domestic dogs pretty much just expressions of artificial sorting pressure on genes already present? Am I right to think that, since all the dog breeds appear able to interbreed, that speciation hasn’t occurred? Seems like the Darwinian “new synthesis” might have problems explaining how truly new genes arise. It seems that processes that alter the frequency of expression of a gene, or alter its regulation in some way, can change the superficial appearance of a species, but won’t easily give rise to new features. And, in creatures that reproduce sexually, wouldn’t a speciating change have to appear simultaneously in both a male and female for it to survive? Just asking.