The Peanut Butter Earth Hypothesis

This stuff is just hilarious:

Yes, it’s also sad, but I choose to laugh. As PZ Myers puts it, no scientist gives much credibility to the ancient Peanut Butter Earth hypothesis (I couldn’t stop laughing after having read that sentence, it really made my day!). If I had intended to create a strawman to beat up in order to make people like these look bad, I couldn’t possibly have come up with something even remotely as moronic as this stuff. Or as the first commenter at Pharyngula notes: I don’t even know how Creationists come up with their bullshit. It’s like they’re trying to look stupid on purpose.

Quote of the day

The tale science tells about how we got here (and got to the point where we could ask such questions) is not just truer than the bronze-age claptrap of The Bible (or Qu’ran or stories about Marduk or whatever…) but more compelling. We are DNA on the right-handed scroll and it has taken four billion years to make us. We are that amazing. Isn’t that more compelling than some old shit about talking snakes and a job done in six days? Is it not a truly grand narrative?

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Link, via samizdata. I think it is, and I can’t but believe that the reason why some people think differently is that they’ve either never been told this narrative, or have never given it a shot, even if they have. If you’re one of those people for whom using multiple senses at the same time increases your susceptibility level and the impact level of that which is communicated (most people are, and the fairy tale guy with the long white beard up there has nothing to do with this either), I would expect the video from Nick M’s post to increase the force of the argument further: