The evolution of Homer
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Posted on: March 26, 2007 12:44 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: The Atheist Jew | March 26, 2007 12:53 PM
I just posted a message under the Blasphemy Challenge post asking when you are going to post this. Psychic phenomenon or coincidence? Coincidence. I went to your blog originally looking to see if you posted it.
Posted by: DaveX | March 26, 2007 1:06 PM
Nuh-uh! Delamer Duverus teaches that THIS is the work of cholesterol... basically, the same thing as psychic phenomenon, yeah. *lol*
Posted by: Kevin | March 26, 2007 1:36 PM
for something else funny go to minute 2:26 in the ad below.
man she is funny looking....(and good looking too but look at that face!)
(The fire retard ad)
Posted by: Kevin | March 26, 2007 1:40 PM
err that's 2:10
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Posted by: AL | March 26, 2007 1:44 PM
Cool video. But you know when evolution is presented in cartoon form as a single individual turning from a cell to a fish to a lizard to a monkey then to a man, the Creationists Bible literalists are going to do what they do best with regard to that -- interpret it literally!
"I've never seen a man turn into a monkey, and that's what evolutionists say! It's so absurd!"
Posted by: Jeebus | March 26, 2007 1:44 PM
What's with "Moe" (a hominid) de-evolving into a rodent?
Posted by: CCP | March 26, 2007 1:51 PM
I thought the Lisasaurus was pretty good...
Posted by: DaveX | March 26, 2007 1:51 PM
She's definitely an animated speaker. There's lots of funny moments. Here's my favorites:
1:59 - Demented!
1:47 - Ate something strange?
0:59 - Joining the Raelians!
Posted by: Dennis | March 26, 2007 1:54 PM
My favorite part was Skinner's mom as a vulture (I guess she was a vulture.)
Posted by: TAW | March 26, 2007 2:45 PM
That is officially my favorite intro ever. I think the music was a nice touch.
Posted by: NC Paul | March 26, 2007 3:26 PM
I know it's not, but that DuPont ad is about as close as you can get to parody without actually being the White House Press Secretary.
As for the Simpson thing - that's pretty cool too. Though, as AL says the Creationists will take it literally.
PYGMIES + DWARVES!
Posted by: Ritchie Annand | March 26, 2007 3:26 PM
That was a long intro, too. Seeing Homerzoans going "doh" when they split... I felt compelled to lean forward in my chair.
I have to say, between this and the Monkey Suit episode, it's really nice to have that sort of a friendly face on evolution on prime time television.
I want to know where on the Internet they're denouncing the intro :)
Posted by: Jack Hynes | March 26, 2007 3:47 PM
I love Moe de-evolving, great gag!
Posted by: Nicolas Demers | March 26, 2007 4:38 PM
Awesome. I missed this yesterday when it aired, since I don't watch Simpsons regularly anymore. Two little touches I especially liked:
-Dimetrodon Homer. Good call on making him a synapsid and not a dinosaur.
-The fight between Bartosaurus Rex and Lisasaurus was a nice homage to Fantasia.
Posted by: Steve Sutton | March 26, 2007 5:35 PM
That was great.
Posted by: Baratos | March 26, 2007 6:28 PM
Moe turning into a rat made my day.
Posted by: JJ | March 26, 2007 7:30 PM
Nice clip. In the same vein I like this famous compilation of Family Guy vs Christianity ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZQfAYfH7s). Check especially the last bit.
Posted by: Tom Buckner | March 26, 2007 8:21 PM
Epic! Absotively epic! Nick Cage's birth in "Adaptation" might be a reference too (fresh in my mind because I just went to an orchid show. Orchids are freaky Darwinian).
Posted by: Tim. | March 26, 2007 8:49 PM
Must....share....with ....students.
Unfortunately our district has a bandwidth (Head Technology Admin.) issue and wont allow us untrustworthy teacher types access to video streaming sites like YouTube etc.
Posted by: maurile | March 27, 2007 12:34 AM
Here's another one:
"Creation Science 101" by Roy Zimmerman
Posted by: Stephen Ockham | March 27, 2007 1:47 AM
Hey JJ, the youtube link you posted for the Family Guy v. Christianity clipreel returned an error:
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The url contained a malformed video id.
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Do you have a properly formed link? ;)
Posted by: JCfromNC | March 27, 2007 4:51 AM
Stephen Ockham said:
I also got an error, but found it by searching "Family Guy" and christianity on the YouTube site. However, as far as I can tell, I ended up on the same URL as the one JJ posted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZQfAYfH7s
Posted by: Stegve | March 27, 2007 9:44 AM
Not only that, but Godzilla, too -- listen to the roar!
Posted by: Stegve | March 27, 2007 9:49 AM
My 8-year-old daughter recently learned about dinosaurs in school. I was happy, watching the show with her on TV last Sunday, that she picked up on the meteor impact as the extinction event. At least some education is taking place in the public schools!
Posted by: Darren Naish | March 27, 2007 10:18 AM
Especially liked the dehominization of Moe and the dinosaur sound effects. But did fish really evolve from cnidarians? Ah, details details. Are people familiar also with the 'march of progress' commercial produced by Guinness? It starts with people in a pub and shows them evolving backwards into mudskippers of all things, via archaeocetes, ichthyosaurs and all manner of other things.
Posted by: Keith Douglas | March 28, 2007 11:58 AM
mmmm educational