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The gospel of Gervais

by Adam Finley, posted Aug 21st 2006 6:20PM
ricky gervaisI always considered myself a pretty strict Darwinist, but I have to admit, Ricky Gervais, best known for The Office and Extras, does offer a compelling argument for Creationism. The clip after the jump is from Gervais' 2003 stage show Animals, in which he lectures in his own dry British way about the animal kingdom and whatever else pops into his head. It's not like watching a stand-up comedian, per se, but it's very funny, nonetheless. In fact, I'm fairly certain Gervais has said on more than one occasion that he doesn't consider himself a stand-up comedian. Either way, he's on a stage and people are laughing, so why split hairs? You can also buy the DVD with the entire show, but only if you live in the UK. Take that, Americans. Anyway, enjoy the clip, and then watch the second part of it here.

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Evolution vs. the Observations of Moses

The dictionary gives the following definitions for biological evolution:

1. Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive
generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic
variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of
new species.
2. The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny.

The definition for phylogeny is as follows:

The sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a
species or taxonomic group of organisms

Evolution is a fundamental concept in modern biology. Biology is defined
as being:
The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure,
function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution. It includes botany
and zoology. The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a
group or category of living organisms.

Now, we reach the point of discussing the history of living organisms. When
biology is taught to our students in public schools, what are they required to
learn? It is the theory of evolution, and any and all other explanations are
excluded. Secular science is dogmatic about trying to establish evolution
as an undeniable fact, and is not interested in accepting or exploring other
possibilities, no matter how plausible they may be.

Lets look deeper into evolution. The theory does not take the responsibility
of stating how life originated. It delegates that to the theory of the "Big
Bang", which states that all matter in the universe was somehow contained
In a very small dense hot atom, molecule, or singularity, which exploded
into all the elements and celestial bodies of the universe, about 16 billion
years ago. Never mind what caused that to happen, the origin of the
dense entity, or what was in existence thirty trillion Earth years ago.
Somehow, that explosion of inorganic matter is to have produced organic
attributes somewhere in outer space that would later find its way to
planet Earth and begin to grow.

But before we talk about the growth of life forms, we have to accept the
theory that our solar system was formed from a previous exploded star,
which condensed and re-exploded, much like the Big Bang theory.
However, this was on a relatively small scale. This is called the Nebular
Hypothesis, which has the cloud of gas and dust to start spinning and
flattening out to form the shape of a rotating pancake, with a bulge in
the middle. As the nebula collapses further, instabilities in the collapsing,
rotating cloud cause local regions to begin to contract gravitationally.
These local regions of condensation become the Sun (which was the
bulge in the center) and the planets, as well as their moons and other
debris in the Solar System. Never mind that the nebula was not uniform
and that the local regions had their own unique composition, and that
dust and gas somehow hardens to become gold, silver, copper, and
other metals. Also, never mind about the elliptical orbits.

Now, with supposition upon supposition, we have the Earth formed,
and many years passing by as it cools and becomes suitable for life.
I guess that the molecules of life had to remain in a holding pattern
around Earth until the conditions were "just right" to sustain life
and get the "primordial soup" ready. The Primordial Soup theory
suggests that life began in a pond or ocean as a result of the
combination of chemicals from Earth's atmosphere and some form
of energy to make amino acids, the building blocks of proteins,
which would then supposedly evolve into all the species. It seems
that secular science is only interested in theories that are the best
sounding fantasies, as long as it does not address the reality of
the supernatural.

For decades, evolutionists have been claiming, that the first life
on Earth appeared in that "primordial soup" consisting of some
body of water loaded with chemicals necessary for the start of life.
This "warm little pond" was believed to have been struck by an
electrical discharge (the energy source) which caused the chemicals
to form complex protein molecules, which eventually brought forth
life. From this first life, evolutionists hypothesize, all other life on
Earth evolved. Never mind how water formed on Earth, we will
only unravel just so much in this article.

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