A little palate cleanser

January 29th, 2013 by PZ Myers

I needed this. After seething over the ghastly McLeroy in The Revisionaries last night, it was a relief to see McLeroy meet Colbert.

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  1. Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort:

    January 29th, 2013 at 7:58 am

    Complexity, complexity, complexity. Flintstones. Misinterpretation of evolution. Complexity. Lies.

    I like the McLeroy didn’t seem to understand he was being made a fool of.

  2. coyotenose:

    January 29th, 2013 at 8:11 am

    I especially enjoyed how he claimed that the cell is so complex that the only plausible explanation for it is the simplest one he can imagine. It just poofed and was there!

    But something totes can’t come from nothing.

  3. twosheds1:

    January 29th, 2013 at 8:30 am

    They showed it on my local PBS station, but they called it “Antiques Roadshow.”

    Glad to see the liberal agenda has taken over the mainstream media, though.

  4. beccamauch:

    January 29th, 2013 at 9:10 am

    I can’t understand how you people can be taken in by PZed about this evilution stuff. You can see irrefutable evidence that dinosaurs lived with man. All you you have to do google the name PZ Meyers and you will find the very man trying to ride a triceratops onto the ark. Unfortunately neither was able to pass security.

  5. IslandBrewer:

    January 29th, 2013 at 9:22 am

    Who will stand up to the experts?!?! OMG!

    Fucking experts, how do they work

  6. Rob Grigjanis:

    January 29th, 2013 at 9:42 am

    For Canadians.

  7. Glen Davidson:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:03 am

    So, the one theory that doesn’t have life come from nothing is the one that has to be thrown out because something can’t come from nothing.

    Can’t have experts because they understand the illogic of McLeroy, I guess.

    I can’t say Don didn’t know he was being made fun of, though. I think he totally knew, he’s just pretty cool in those situations, and makes the best of it that he can. And he’s being laughed at for Jeebus, so it’s all good in the end.

    Glen Davidson

  8. peterh:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:08 am

    McLeroy & cohorts didn’t realize what they took from Aquinas started with Plato, a pagan; the “nothing from nothing” busines started with Lucretius, another pagan.

  9. spamamander, internet amphibian:

    January 29th, 2013 at 10:23 am

    “I agree with you- science can be a choice.” How I love Colbert.

  10. randay:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:20 pm

    Dumb reaches a new lower level. He should see Lawrence Krauss’s lecture, “A Universe from Nothing”.

  11. Jubal DiGriz:

    January 29th, 2013 at 12:37 pm

    I think this is the first time I’ve seen Colbert, in character, actually have to run and catch up to the idiotic statements being made. I’m not sure if this is brilliant satire on his part, or simply just nodding his head and letting the other guy speak.

  12. stevenbrown:

    January 29th, 2013 at 3:04 pm

    Fucking experts, how do they work

    Much like experts doing other things but with less clothes and more lubricating liquids.

  13. pascale68:

    January 29th, 2013 at 3:05 pm

    One of the many things that bothered me is when McLeroy said “I’m skeptical”. To me being skeptical is akin to saying “show me some evidence”, or am I off in my definition? In any case, since I like to think of myself as a skeptic, hearing him use that word to describe himself gave me the shivers.

  14. stevenbrown:

    January 29th, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    @13 I’d call him incredulous not sceptical.

  15. Menyambal --- son of a son of a bachelor:

    January 29th, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    When McLeroy says he’s skeptical, he means that he doesn’t believe it. And to him, personal belief is all there is.

  16. coyotenose:

    January 29th, 2013 at 6:44 pm

    One of the many things that bothered me is when McLeroy said “I’m skeptical”. To me being skeptical is akin to saying “show me some evidence”, or am I off in my definition? In any case, since I like to think of myself as a skeptic, hearing him use that word to describe himself gave me the shivers.

    Correct me if I’m wrong (the clip won’t load properly a second time for me), but I think what he said was, “I’m a skeptic.” That irked me. Certainly he can be skeptical of science, but in no meaningful way is he a skeptic.

  17. Feline:

    January 29th, 2013 at 6:55 pm

    pascale68 @13

    One of the many things that bothered me is when McLeroy said “I’m skeptical”. To me being skeptical is akin to saying “show me some evidence”, or am I off in my definition?

    You’ve not been here these last couple of years and seen what defines a sceptic, I gather.

  18. microraptor:

    January 29th, 2013 at 8:16 pm

    @stevenbrown #14- I’d say he’s simply in denial.

  19. stevenbrown:

    January 29th, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    @microraptor #14: That works better.

  20. DLC:

    January 29th, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    Macleroy is skeptical about evolution, because it doesn’t match his God-Evidence.You see, God-Evidence is provided by supernatural super duper metaphysical happy magical provided evidence. In their one single book of fables from antiquity. That was stolen from Babylonians. that was probably lifted from primitive animists.

  21. Owlglass:

    January 30th, 2013 at 5:29 am

    The foibles of science! For those like me who coulnd’t see the documentary yet, I could unearth some rare footage of Don McLeroy “Jenkins” heroically challenging expert opinions. Right so, as they are demonstrably false. The sad part is that scientist and their apologist, like Colbert, often appear to actually be able to think it trough, but somehow won’t let go the premise that stuff happend just by happenstance. Their atheistic, and often communist households have indoctrinated them so strongly to cling to their false and ridiculous beliefs of “no gods”, that they are no longer capable of using basic human faculties, like finding friends among imaginary forces. Having no supernatural friends, isn’t that terribly sad?

  22. twosheds1:

    January 30th, 2013 at 7:51 am

    One of the many things that bothered me is when McLeroy said “I’m skeptical”.

    He’s selectively skeptical. He’s skeptical when the evidence doesn’t conform to his preconceived worldview.

  23. Ichthyic:

    January 30th, 2013 at 8:15 am

    Having no supernatural friends, isn’t that terribly sad?

    only idiots need imaginary friends. and that IS terribly sad.

  24. dunmore:

    January 30th, 2013 at 10:27 am

    If anyone missed the broadcast of The Revisionaries, it is now (temporarily) streaming.

    http://video.pbs.org/video/2325563509

  25. edmundog:

    January 30th, 2013 at 1:02 pm

    I love the long pauses every time he’s about to say something he knows is idiotic.

  26. What a Maroon, el papa ateo:

    January 30th, 2013 at 7:41 pm

    only idiots need imaginary friends.

    Lots of highly intelligent kids have imaginary friends.

    Of course, the difference is that they know the friends are imaginary.