Here's another youtube bandwagon to jump on: I Am Darwin. Get in front of your webcam and talk about how Darwin has influenced you, concluding with "I am Darwin", and send the youtube link to Tom Barbalet. How many Darwins are out there, anyway?
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I am Darwin?
Category: Evolution
Posted on: November 16, 2008 7:21 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Sven DiMilo | November 16, 2008 7:24 PM
We Are All Darwin Now.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | November 16, 2008 7:27 PM
um, except for me, that is.
I am Spartacus.
Posted by: Kel | November 16, 2008 7:32 PM
I think I might give this a go.
Posted by: Teleprompter | November 16, 2008 7:49 PM
No, I am Darwin! (And Spartacus)
Posted by: Glen Davidson | November 16, 2008 7:51 PM
Could play into the "Darwinist" claptrap of the IDiots, you know.
Why not "I am Lewontin" or some such thing?
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Dana D | November 16, 2008 7:51 PM
I'M Darwin, and so's my wife! I mean, and so's my domestic-partner-until-that's-illegal-too!
Posted by: spgreenlaw | November 16, 2008 7:53 PM
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
(Spartacus was already taken.)
Posted by: Podblack | November 16, 2008 7:56 PM
There's one 'Darwin' that can use some bandwagon support - Digital Cuttlefish has a book of their Molly Award winning verse out!!
http://tinyurl.com/digitalcuttlefish
Get the book out for the 'I don't celebrate that holiday' season!
Posted by: ggab | November 16, 2008 7:56 PM
There are those who call me...Tim.
How about "We are Devo"
Posted by: Moody834 | November 16, 2008 8:13 PM
@ #9:
Are we not men?
Posted by: Nick Gotts | November 16, 2008 8:16 PM
Since she's not here to do it for herself:
SC is Kropotkin!
(Minus the beard, I'm guessing.)
Posted by: TSC | November 16, 2008 8:30 PM
The ID version: I am dumbass.
Posted by: mindlesley | November 16, 2008 8:32 PM
When I was 3-4 yrsold,I used to play in the backyard with ants, putting them through suicide missions in bottles and bowls of various fluids, like water, oil, dirty water etc. and then put them into various nests, according to the trials I had put them thru. Some survived, some didn't. when I met the Rev. Darwin immediately thought I'd met an old intellectual friend.I went to a private catholic school which taught Darwinian (and Aquinian) concepts. the only time they baulked, was when, in the early 1960's in religion class, I asked (b4 the discovery of quarks),"If a proton is One and Indivisable , is a proton god. They then took me aside asked me if I still believed in Catholic teachings; when i said "er,No..." they excused me from attending any further religious events (on condition I wouldn't try to convert anyone to my views (at school). I think that head nun, was a bit of a free thinker herself. Your Aussie mate, Mindlesley
Posted by: mindlesley | November 16, 2008 8:34 PM
Can't get the utube thing together hence text.
Posted by: Zaius | November 16, 2008 8:54 PM
I am a Darwin-shaped stain:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin
Posted by: 6for2 | November 16, 2008 9:00 PM
We are DEVO. D-E-V-O!
Posted by: greg laden | November 16, 2008 9:15 PM
So, is this based on "I am PC"? Are we really going to fall for this one?
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | November 16, 2008 9:20 PM
Glen, on Lewontin's 200th birthday you can do "I am Lewontin." If anybody still remembers him then.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | November 16, 2008 9:34 PM
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
Posted by: John S. Wilkins | November 16, 2008 9:38 PM
Hello. I'm a Mac. I run on Darwin.
Posted by: Patricia | November 16, 2008 9:54 PM
I'm an ignorant slut.
Posted by: ggab | November 16, 2008 9:56 PM
I am the walrus.
coocoocuchoo
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | November 16, 2008 9:58 PM
If you were really the walrus, you'd be able to speak walrusian witout that accent: "goo goo goo joob."
Posted by: Patricia | November 16, 2008 10:14 PM
Huzzah for the Cuttlefish!
Posted by: Dale Husband | November 16, 2008 10:25 PM
I am Carl Sagan.
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead | November 16, 2008 10:31 PM
Yep, the good ole Darwin kernel, running as I type.Congratulations to Cuttlefish on his book. He's beating PZ to publication.
I am Isaac Asimov.
Posted by: Chris Larkin | November 16, 2008 10:42 PM
I'm not Darwin.
But I played him on TV.
Posted by: Sphere Coupler | November 16, 2008 11:06 PM
I'm a Sphere Coupler...duh
Posted by: Shamar | November 16, 2008 11:38 PM
We are all Darwin!
Posted by: T. Bruce McNeely | November 16, 2008 11:40 PM
I am NOT Ben Stein.
Posted by: Hank Fox | November 17, 2008 1:06 AM
Crap. I don't have a webcam, but I wrote something recently about what a difference evolution made in my life, setting me free of the last of that Deep South childhood racism.
Maybe I'll see if anybody I know here in Schenectady has one.
Posted by: Ken Cope | November 17, 2008 1:27 AM
"I was the walrus -
Paul wasn't the walrus!
I was just saying that to be nice, but i was actually the walrus!"
Posted by: teammarty | November 17, 2008 1:52 AM
ARE WE NOT MEN??
WE ARE DEVO!!
Aaaahhhh!!!
Childhood memories
Posted by: noncarborundum | November 17, 2008 2:02 AM
It beats being based on "I am Joe the Plumber!"
Posted by: RickrOll | November 17, 2008 2:11 AM
I am the Individual Eleven! (that actually predates the "i am pc" thing, by a long shot.) Darwin is the Individual Eleven. Our individual egos will carry out our collective will!!
Posted by: Tony Sidaway | November 17, 2008 4:56 AM
The "Joe the Plumber" thing has put me off Spartacus references for now.
Posted by: Ian | November 17, 2008 7:50 AM
"How many Darwins are out there, anyway?"
If Darwin is a unit of evolutionary change, there must be trillions of 'em!
Posted by: ihedenius | November 17, 2008 8:23 AM
I am not a Darwinist. Darwin is not an authority. But Darwins farreaching insight about the totality of life otoh has been developed and strengthed for 150 years.
Though just a layman I'm guessing (and hoping) we're standing at the dawn of an 'genetic age' having amassed a critical mass of information (and computer power) to really begin taking advantage. To make biologic matter work for us at the molecular level, for medicine, food, fuel and areas we have not yet imagined.
I that sense I'm Darwin.
Posted by: Quiet_Desperation | November 17, 2008 10:49 AM
He really annoyed me. I mean, if you are going to have a show with a talking dolphin with an electronic translator, why make the translator voice sound like the dolphin so it's all hard to understand? Just give it a normal voice. Sheesh.
Oh, wait, there's another Darwin?
Posted by: Tom Barbalet | November 17, 2008 12:59 PM
Thanks for getting the word out, PZ. I look forward to seeing your I-Am-Darwin video!
Posted by: Sili | November 17, 2008 3:32 PM
Ah yam what ah yam and dats all dat ah yam.
Posted by: Brad D | November 17, 2008 6:04 PM
I'm not a doctor, I'm "The Doctor."
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | November 17, 2008 7:21 PM
I am Charles Darwin--ninety-nine point nine percent
There's a little variation that I don't share with the gent
But we share a common blueprint, which is kinda what he meant
When he came to the conclusion that we're all of shared descent
I am Charles Darwin--what I mean is, I am Man
I'm a billion trillion accidents instead of One Big Plan
Just a step or two from chimpanzee or from orangutan
Maybe more than distant cousins, but you recognize the clan
I am Charles Darwin--I can't help it; it's my genes
We're mutation and selection, see, when no one intervenes
Like a god with claimed omnipotence, or alien machines
None better and none worse than us, is really what it means
I am Charles Darwin--I was never Eden-cursed
I am just another animal, I'm neither best nor worst
From primordial beginnings, look how widely I've dispersed
Such a beautiful idea...Charles Darwin saw it first.
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-charles-darwin.html
Posted by: Anon | November 18, 2008 5:44 PM
http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20031208.html
Posted by: Kubenzi | November 19, 2008 2:37 AM
Posted on reddit for more clicks.upmod if you got em
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7e9wr/i_am_darwin/