I mean, I would hope that these delusional "god" people understand that they look ridiculous.

What I think is going on here is that the religious and pious are starting to feel that their beliefs are threatened, and so they are pouring money into crap like this in a effort to confuse idiots into thinking evolution is not possible.

Religion feels threatened by science.

Science does not, nor cannot be threatened by religion.

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Mr Missler Please bring your jar of peanut butter to the next lecture that Richard Dawkins presents. I would pay a $1000.00 dollars to see him eat you alive and expose you for the complete fraud that you are. here is a link so you can get tickets for you and your jar of peanut butter http://thenewhumanism.org/
chuck wilson

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Nope, no desperation there. I find it almost impossible to believe that these 'upright', 'god-fearing', 'pious', apparent dimwits could actually believe the nonsense they spout. Far more likely they know it's a proven way to keep the gullible flock in line, to ensure the money keeps pouring in.

I particularly loved the ridiculous woman at the beginning, talking as if to a kindergarten class: "Of course, evolution is just a fairy tale." I just can't imagine how I'd get through the week without someone like her telling me what I should think every Sunday.

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One of the things that bothers me about many of these people is that they take things extremely literally, to the point of being thoroughly brain dead. (But I repeat myself.) Love the way this fellow uses "heat" as though there are no differences in degrees of degrees, hate that there actually are people who accept that without question. The "God said it, I believe it, that settles it." syndrome.
However, did you notice that he actually disproves his own position by introducing what I believe would be introduced in an actual scientific explanation--contamination?
He may have proved his point after the first third of the tape, I simply couldn't watch it any longer.

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And leave the jar out for, oh, say a few million years.

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Beyond the obvious idiocy of the "proof" presented in the video, here's a few more things to consider
1) The energy input hypothesized by scientists to create life from non-life are very high, like lightning bolts and boiling magma, not lightbulbs
2) He posits that humans have conducted this "experiment" (hey where's the replication and blocking, what's the control experiment???) billions of times, but i'm wondering how many billions of times lightning struck the earth in the billion+ years that the earth existed prior to life's emergence plus the billions of volcanic explosions and other seismically driven events in said time-period.
3) He opens the PB and visually observes it and declares there is no life in it, ever heard of a microscope? The first organisms were if anything very tiny, not macrovertebrate mammals or whatever.
Not that rational thought means anything to people who buy into this crap, which is why religion can be favorably compared to a virus, it infects its host, prepares exact copies of its information to be passed on to the next infected host (evangelism etc.) and propagates itself again. Rational thought prevents the unaltered replication of the infecting information. PLEASE EVERYONE!!!, get yourself innoculated against this horribly infectious, deadly and dangerous disease!!!!

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That, easily, is one of the most HILARIOUS clips I'VE EVER SEEN. I've played it at least 367 times and IT GETS FUNNIER EVERY TIME I PLAY IT!! LOL

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As a friend of mine said, the theologian might actually have a point had the Theory of Evolution stated that life first appeared in unopened jars of peanut butter around 3.7 billion years ago.

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in that the guy never actually examines the PB microscopically. Leaving aside the fact that the peanut butter milieu is nothing like that of primordial earth (i.e. non-aqueous, severely hyperosmotic when compared with known forms of cellular life, etc.) and therefore this argument rests on a false premise, if a new self-replicating molecule or system happened to arise in the peanut butter, it would be immediately overrun and destroyed by our ubiquitous microflora, which (due to billions of years of natural selection, ha!) would be infinitely better adapted to compete for the resources in the peanut butter than any new form of life that might arise, the instant you opened the jar and exposed it to the air.

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Dude's been around for years and his stock in trade is 'debunking' secular thought and cataclysmic consequences of the secular activity that results. His primary methodology is setting up straw men and then knocking them down.

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Amazing.

To refute this "reasoning" I would think is beneath the average human but apparently there are plenty of people that seem to be effectively led but such misunderstanding, making them potentially dangerous and in need of enlightenment.
Missler seems to have no conception of time in the very good Theory of Evolution. Nine months self life is not enough time for large, visable life to evolve from organic compounds in peanut butter (to point out that it takes millions of years means nothing to people who want to believe, against scientific evidence, that the Earth is only 6,000 years old - the truth is the enemy in their carefully constructed house of myths).
The ignorance expressed by Missler is nothing short of grotesque. No wonder religious irrationals hate and want to pervert science.
The lady in the beginning contends that the Theory of Evolution is a "Fairy Tale". Based on what? Religious propagandists need no proof and need not exhibit good reasoning - just pre-K name calling.
There is no evidence that deity based religion is anything but a fairy tale.
Dawkins is right. Whether you are a "believer" or not to allow such ignorance to prevail and infect our society without challenge is inexcusable.

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and they want their music back! There's a British TV Show called "Look Around You" - basically, a look at the wonderful world of 70s science television through a skewed Python-esque lens. This farce would fit right in... except it's too scary.

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of the stupidity of this 'argument'. Brilliantly simple and dumb. Sadly, I have some family members who would see this clip and buy into this garbage.

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Missler dishonestly equates abiogenesis with evolution.

The theory of evolution applies as long as life exists. How that life came to exist is not relevant to evolution. Claiming that evolution does not apply without a theory of abiogenesis makes as much sense as saying that umbrellas do not work without a theory of meteorology. [1]

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I will remember this for the rest of my life!

Meaning, I will remember the STUPIDEST attempt to debunk evolution that I have ever heard. These micro/macroevolution people sound like downright brainiacs compared to this nutjob!

"I don't see life in this jar of peanut butter" is a fallacy on so many levels I don't even need to post them.. it's obvious. And to corrupt the word "experiment" the way that they've corrupted "theory" is just appalling. *sigh* There's a reason I moved to Canada..

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I can't believe this. Someone please tell me that this is a joke. Please have John Stewart hovering somewhere on the fringe because this cannot be serious.

If it is meant to be serious, what a bunch of loons. People that believe in evolution don't need to say a word, just let these nuts for God dig their own graves, so to speak.

Worse of it all is their somewhat subjective interpretation of evolution, which (as far as I have heard) made it very clear that the combination of elements that brought about life on this planet were very rare.

Much rarer than a jar of peanut butter, in fact.

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bc i am hungry!

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It looks like foil seal had been previously opened. Maybe they thought to themselves "What if we're wrong about this one... don't want to look like fools, we better double check to make sure there's no peanut creatures before we film this"
Or maybe someone was hungry.

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No peanut ants in my peanut butter, therefore evolution is false and the only way for life to come about is through God's will!

This is even funnier than the story about dinosaurs living in the garden of eden and the T-rex needing sharp teeth to open coconuts.

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Make the exact same video and replace anytime they say "new life" with "god".

Basically you can use the exact same argument to disprove god...lol

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Tut Tut Mr. Missler what happened to "cuz the bible tell us so"?

Conducting an experiment to prove Faith?

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They must have arrived at this theory before the massive peanut butter recall recently. It was just crawling with "new life"...brrr!

Besides, any six year old knows that the "peanut butter origin of life theory" requires the introduction of grape jelly in sufficient quantities for it to work !

As noted scientist Bugs Bunny would say, "Sheesh, whatta maroon !!!"

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The American penchant for madness is never-ending, their proponents relentless in their efforts to steer others to ever-deepening levels of derangement.

Teach your children to resist the madness. Start by asking that they visit WVCSR every morning.

Rev. El

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I've seen the light! Praise the lord almighty! ;-)

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...education level (to be kind) of the people he is trying to reach.

That is why these people have such a vested interest in destroying the public education system. When it is DOA, they can feed us all any BS they want...like peanut butter!

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Lightning. He didn't try the lightning.

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According to the 1987 classic, The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace, Dr. Scott Peck defines the spiritual life as fluid and that one may pass back and forth repeatedly through any of the four-probably more-stages of the soul...


...Stage two souls have not yet been set fully free and prefer the security of a higher human authority than themselves for guidance.

They submit to institutions, scripture, dogma, ritual, ministers, or gurus. This is the most appropriate stage for older children and most adults who live busy lives just trying to keep bread on the table and a dry roof above.


Stage two souls seek to "let their light shine" and will live virtuous lives and do many good works. They also can be judgmental of others, self-righteous, rigid of thought, cold of heart, legalistic concrete literal thinkers and may even be guilty of a lukewarm faith. They want to do right and they even may desire to love and please God, but have not yet fully opened up to the Inner Light, as Joan of Ark did when she challenged church and state and persisted that she had intuited God within -even while being fried...

The rest of Mystics in the Marketplace

http://www.wearewideawake.org/

Under the WAWA Banner: Eileen's Early Editorials

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I found something in my peanut butter...it is growing quickly.. it is like nothing I ever saw before. It has latched on to the roof of my mouth. It is pulling me in .....Help! Help! Send Jelly

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I wonder what type of engineering degree he has. Of course an Engineering degree in BS. Then he became a Preacher to spread that BS. It all fits. hehehehe

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Be careful not to equate religious people with fundamentalists. The two are not synonomous. Most people who believe in God, and are part of an organized religion -- you may be surprised to hear -- do believe in evolution as well. This includes Catholics, who have no trouble with science teaching that evolution exists. It's the smaller, but much more vocal, minority of evangelical fundamentalists who cling to such nonsense as demonstrated in this video.

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explode. New life arising?

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Yup! You folk seem to miss the point that this preacher is making a mockery of Darwinian evolutionary theory. I found it funny as well but I didn't miss his point. He is absolutely correct that there isn't a single evolutionary step to be demonstrated...period. Oh! There is a lot of postulation and "it might be trues" and "I wish it so" that we all "evolved" from a single organism eons ago but there hasn't been a single shread of hard evidence (and we've been reviewing the fossil records for 150 years) that any animal or insect on the planet did anything but spontaneously appear. I'll leave the when it happened to G/D. I know you folks that distain the I.D. theories won't let go of your faith in the blatant canard of evolutionary biology but I've discovered that you seem less and less willing to challenge I.D. with anything other than invective and law suits. Shows that proponents of I.D. are getting there views out and are making inroads. You can tell by the ever escalating level of unreasonable discourse from the adherants to the religion of Darwinism.

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That was my favorite phrase. The irony of it is delicious. "So-called scientific" -- as if the ludicrous "intelligent design" pipe dream was somehow more scientific -- as if science mattered at all.

And that's the rub -- "as if science mattered at all." For an inerrantist, science is not only unnecessary, but heretical, because it's a way of knowing and examining the world which does not support God's Word. Science is not science if its results are judged, not on observed data, but on biblical orthodoxy.

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Christ almighty, these fools put this out just how many weeks after the recent peanut butter recall in the States? I started to laugh, and then I began choking as I realized that this was NOT humor...

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How wrong he is . I have a new life form in my peanut butter and it looks kinda fuzzy but does not move .Lots of food devolves into mold her in Fl. I have several other science projects in my fridge.They were food when I put them in the fridge and now they have devolved into unknown fuzzy green to purple life forms. I believe that is what happened to the preacher's brain.It devolved into a new life form. Fuzzy or moldy brain syndrome.

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My only question is, What kind of drugs is Missler on and where can I get some ?????

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Bull! We peanuts know that the "Barren Peanut Butter" conclusion is only a theory. Only Peter Pan can create life.

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It creeps, it leaps....

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Tripe, bullshit and more bullshit. How stupid do you have to be to be a Jesus Freak? Any one that takes this seriously had better go and join John McCain in the "safe" streets of Baghdad. Or they could just stop breathing and stop wasting our oxygen.

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Everyone knows that if you plan to demonstrate evolution using grocery store products the key ingredient you have to start with is a can of Campbell's (low-sodium) Primordial Soup.

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If you left the jar of peanut butter on the shelf, sealed, for a million years, (give or take), you would find something living in it.
Christians have a hard time with the time element of evolution. This isn't suprising. Evolutionary time, geologic time, astrologic time, none of these things can fit into a Christian universe that's only a few thousand years old.

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I look just like God. Phew! It is safe to eat peanut butter.
I'm laughing so much right now, but I'm going to laugh even harder when I see Colbert/Stewart/Olbermann do their thing with it.

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Given that the science is too difficult for me to understand--it's right up there with the theory of relativity--I'm going to have to just stop eating peanut butter as a precaution. I'm afraid one of these days I might not notice the new life in my jar, and it'll turn out that I ate Jesus.

I can't be responsible for eating the Second Coming.

Can you take the risk?

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Well, Christianity was the religion (via the Catholic Church by the Jesuits) that came up with the doctrine (supposedly no longer used) of "holy deception." In other words, if the Church lies to you and your soul is 'saved' thereby, it is acceptable to God. It really means that the Church embraces the concept that "The ends justify the means," which Christ Himself rejected in the Bible these people claim to follow.

I think the Christians Church in all its forms in the US has long since stopped being a religious organization and has become a political pressure group. As such, I think ALL churches, Christian or not, that embark on missions of blatant political influence should immediately lose their IRS non-profit status and be treated as a PAC. No appeal, no mercy. They have gotten a free ride long enough at the taxpayer's expense.

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I've been bangin' my hammer for the past 43 years and still haven't split an atom. Where's my nuclear blast?

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Creationists have apparently not yet realized that the theory of evolution does not address the origin of life, which to me demonstrates that only Creationists have not evolved, whereas everyone else has.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4

Nothing like a little healthy competition for lunacy!

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God saw all the Peanut Butter He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was crunchy in the evening and there was smooth in the morning, on the sixth day.

Beware you unholy sinners, for I shall smite thee with thine holy Peanut Butter.

It's all there in the Buy-bull.

I just opened a new jar of Skippy, and lo and behold I saw the face of Jaysus in there, amidst the crunchies. I think I'll put some on my toast and then sell it on Ebay.

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My friend saw it at a church screening and bought a VHS copy that I borrowed. One of my employees also saw a screening at his church. One day I saw them talking about how Peanut Butter disproves evolution. I said it only disproved evolution IF the earth was made of peanut butter and IF the world was vacume packed and IF visible life was created within months. They did not get it. I hope to find a DVD copy someday.

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Sometimes it is better to keep ones mouth closed, and appear a fool. Then to open it, and remove all doubt...

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Evolution does come from Peanut butter! If I learned nothing else from commercials, it was that putting chocolate in the peanut butter jar gives you a Reeses Peanut butter Cup! Which is in fact a new life!

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Are none of you familiar with the "Chewbaca Defense"?

It's ironclad people.

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the Virgin Mary in my peanut butter sandwich! Does that count?

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wow, evolution seems like such an effective and successful process, I WONDER WHO CREATED IT?

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Ooops, there goes his theory.

From Yahoo News:
OMAHA, Neb. - ConAgra Foods said Thursday that moisture from a leaky roof and faulty sprinkler was the source of the salmonella bacteria that contaminated peanut butter at its Georgia plant last year, sickening more than 400 people nationwide.
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Hey Mr. Missler.
Look out the window.

Now. Out of the window of the plane you are now flying in.
(on?)
There's something on the wing!
I said....
There's someTHING
on the wing......

This guy is really serious and this is scary. He's using a weird twisted example of spontaneous generation theory combined w/too much personal exposure to radioactivity recently.
These people VOTE.
This is the most disturbing thing.

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If evolution was TRUE, I could wake up every morning... a NEW SPECIES! The shape of my BODY would change from riding my bike to work EVERY DAY! I would get lost on my way home from work, because things would have CHANGED SO MUCH from natural selection! The world would be so full of NEW LIFE spontaneously appearing that it would get too crowded to MOVE! Thank God evolution is a FAIRY TALE!

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I have been wondering for years how to connect the words "christian" and "science" and now I finally can.

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This type of thing is so disturbing. People like this guy and people like Kent Hovind, who have no issues spouting their gross oversimplification of a complex topic that many of them know little or nothing about.

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if there were new life in a jar of peanut butter, it would NOT be visible to us without a microscope, they would be simple, one celled organisms and not insects or mould, you tool!

how blantantly obvious is that? evolution, unlike religion says that things evolve and become better, rather than starting off complex. if your going to try and disprove something, at least get your facts right first before going straight into it or it makes you look like an idiot.

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