Evolution observed in action
Those who deny evolution have to ignore many facts—and, as this letter illustrates, totally misunderstand the facts that have accepted. (Note also the gratuitous insults and abuse the writer uses to bulk up his argument.)
But then we see this example of evolution being observed in action. And here’s another. So a person who believes that evolution does not happen has a serious problem in his or her reality-processing mechanism.
I’ll close with a nifty video I found via PZ Myers:
UPDATE: After thinking it over, I don’t much like this film as a whole. I do like the animation a lot, but the whole thing totally fails to be persuasive because of the distractors: the obscenities. I think the intent was to amuse, but if you really want to persuade, you don’t introduce irrelevancies that distract from the message—much as most love scenes do not include farts, though flatulence is perfectly natural. The film as presented includes, in effect, flatulence in a love scene.
UPDATE 2: Another thing that bothered me as I thought about the film is the strong self-congratulatory tone. Although the narrator is right on the facts, he’s completely wrong in his arrogant, condescending, uninformative stance. (He pretends to be informative, but as shown in his “difficulty” in recalling the name “aspirin”, he’s more interested in being insulting and presenting himself as superior.) Too competitive.
