HH42 Trailer TheLivingDinosaur 2017-06-06 | Sorry. Fucked up. Typo on the release date - serves me right for rushing. Should have been JUNE 12th (week Friday).The last two videos I released were after another (albeit shorter) prolonged absence, and it seems that Youtube took it upon itself to not publicize them among most of my subscribers. I dread to think what will happen after a two-year gap between videos.It would be a real shame if this one doesn’t get the views it deserves because I think it’s a doozy, so I’d appreciate it (and take it as a personal favor) if you could either mirror this trailer, or publicize it in any way you can.In the meantime I’ll be working to finish this on off in time for all of to enjoy.All the best,TLD.Music:O Fortuna by Carl OrffPerformed by the MIT Concert ChoirNoncommercial Creative Commons 3.0 United States License.
Shout-Out: Bob Smeerfak TheLivingDinosaur 2021-09-06 | Do yourself a favor while supporting this superb video-maker by going to his channel and subscribing _now_!Channel:youtube.com/user/bobsmeerfakOriginal video:youtube.com/watch?v=paXOyUK8Ht0
Holy Hallucinations 47: Loonies For Lucifer TheLivingDinosaur 2021-07-18 | Well, it seems that I’m not the only one who’s been busy these past four years, and that Pastor Carl and his lapdog Pisspants have been up their usual shenanigans in my absence. And while most of my time is still being taken up with work, when I saw this particularly repulsive piece of disinformation floating in their cesspit, I felt the ethical obligation to put them right on their lies tugging a little too insistently on my heartstrings for me to resist.Original:youtube.com/watch?v=5mnxjq7XQd8Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES. Please check out his channel here:youtube.com/user/ONESPECIES---------------------------------------------------Although I’m not currently and don’t plan to collect donations unless I fall onto hard times, my Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaurTwitter:twitter.com/livingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 47 in D Major (K 97)Scripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmReferences:1. Wall, E.C. et al. (2021). Neutralising antibody activity against SARS-CoV-2 VOCs B.1.617.2 and B.1.351 by BNT162b2 vaccination. The Lancet 397: 2331-3.2. Luker, K.E. and Luker, G.D. (2008). Applications of bioluminescence imaging to antiviral research and therapy: multiple luciferase enzymes and quantitation. Antiviral Res.78:179-87.3. Koo, V., Hamilton, P.W. and Williamson, K. (2006). Non-invasive in vivo imaging in small animal research. Cell Oncol. 28:127-39.4. Willmann, J.K., van Bruggen, N., Dinkelborg, L.M. and Gambhir, S.S. (2008). Molecular imaging in drug development. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 7:591-6075. FALSE: Coronavirus vaccine will contain luciferin in order to track down who has been vaccinated. Vaccination will be compulsory which will alter human DNA and will be aimed at universal chipping. poynter.org/?ifcn_misinformation=coronavirus-vaccine-will-contain-luciferin-in-order-to-track-down-who-has-been-vaccinated-vaccination-will-be-compulsory-which-will-alter-human-dna-and-will-be-aimed-at-universal-chipping6. Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Authorized in the United States. cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/covid-19-vaccines-us.html7. Bachmair, A., Finley, D. and Varshavsky, A. (1986). In vivo half-life of a protein is a function of its amino-terminal residue. Science. 234:179-86.8. Pardi, N., Hogan, M.J., Porter, F.W. and Weissman, D. (2018). mRNA vaccines - a new era in vaccinology. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 17:261-279.9. Chen, C.Y., Ezzeddine, N. and Shyu, A.B. (2008). Messenger RNA half-life measurements in mammalian cells. Methods Enzymol. 448:335-57.10. Lee, J. (2008). Bioluminescence: the First 3000 Years (Review). J. Siberian Fed. Univ. 3: 194-205.
Also Sprach Simmonistra TheLivingDinosaur 2021-07-08 | Music:Sascha Ende/Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30Licensed under CC 4.0commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sascha_Ende_-_Also_Sprach_Zarathustra_(feat._Richard_Strauss)_(cc-by)_(filmmusic).mp3
Channel Update TheLivingDinosaur 2018-06-25 | TheLivingDinosaur on Twitter:twitter.com/LivingDinosaurToccata and Fugue in D Minor Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Cat-Dog TheLivingDinosaur 2018-06-24 | This just happened this morning and I couldn't resist sharing. Never seen a cat do this in all my life. Come to think of it... I've never seen a cat this cute in all my life, so he's breaking all the rules.
False-Flagged Video (and Shout-Out): Godless Cranium TheLivingDinosaur 2017-12-13 | This video was false flagged and Godless Cranium has asked that it be mirrored to send a message to the mouse-happy piss-stain who did it. Please consider doing so yourself. As it happens, GC has been on my shout-out list, so perhaps this can serve two purposes. If you're unaware of this Youtuber, then please check him out and consider subscribing.His channel:youtube.com/channel/UCewUkuIHNuwuMNWMa96q9ZQOriginal video:youtube.com/watch?v=Z69CnnDDhks&bpctr=1513172716On another note, apologies for the long delay in HH releases, but the past couple of months have been incredibly busy for me. Rest assured that I have not left again, but my free time comes in fits and starts, so I can't commit to a regular release schedule. I have selected a new target video but have only just begun going through it. Nevertheless, there will be an HH47 - you'll just have to be patient with me. Hope you all have a great holiday season, and thank you all for your continued kind support.Creators in this video:Inane Dragon: youtube.com/channel/UC0gudMAW4REHrqdX8co07-QBionic Dance: youtube.com/user/BionicDanceHoly Koolaid: youtube.com/channel/UCzvoUDoDu-cKIb11rg4ODDQRationality Rules: youtube.com/channel/UCqZMgLgGlYAWvSU8lZ9xiVgEmperor Atheist: youtube.com/channel/UCCb4gMGQjON4h3ZmjvVwYbwPaulogia: youtube.com/channel/UCIS4cWaXgWpznjwovFYQBJQZoe Does Life: youtube.com/channel/UCegU7jX7WASluuwSPhU0PsABilly Bong: youtube.com/channel/UCFmFlC3ljBb7WlRdzOh3TeQGenetically Modified Skeptic: youtube.com/channel/UCG1uayRlzz3ahT8ISRdyw7QProphet of Zod: youtube.com/channel/UCm0VjekR-4a-sUftCHzAAvgNightmare Fuel: youtube.com/channel/UCyOOQJzQSNMjFJqb3gQENtgChaosism: youtube.com/channel/UCU9mpr38IhsbMzGwfCJ5JIwGodless Engineer: youtube.com/user/godlessengineerThe Geek Room: youtube.com/channel/UCBELcxCMIUBhP7lgWspKn0QProfessor Stick: youtube.com/channel/UCbjw7dE_hxJT-VGLTqCjlJARachel Oates: youtube.com/channel/UCC6ue7UYt1yeS621xmTMKrQThe Savage Atheist: youtube.com/channel/UCtV08YNRvYEH2x-t5NCKwqQ
Shout-Out: Prophet of Zod TheLivingDinosaur 2017-11-16 | Very under-subscribed channel:youtube.com/channel/UCm0VjekR-4a-sUftCHzAAvgAlso check out Chocolate Hat who provides one of the voices - his videos are top-notch too:youtube.com/channel/UCyM7SByfijTbWwhIoOpo8BAOriginal Video:youtube.com/watch?v=VVwFF9tJKC4
Shout-Out: Microblogganism TheLivingDinosaur 2017-09-30 | Fucking awesome channel. Informative, intelligent and, most importantly. ball-bustingly, dumb-fuckeringly, pwn-tastically funny. A must-sub if you enjoy watching idiots being introduced to their own anuses.His Channel:youtube.com/channel/UCwQS6FHGsHuzjenaILWkkPAOriginal Video:youtube.com/watch?v=GOT5HbZdlW0
Holy Hallucinations 46: Two Dicks and a Johnny, Part 2 TheLivingDinosaur 2017-09-23 | So, here’s the concluding part of Two Dicks and a Johnny. Last time we looked into Pastor Carl’s and Pisspants’ horrendous bigotry but this time we switch gears and look into the Dynamic Dumbucks’ chortle-inducing denial of generally accepted science and physical reality. Hopefully this episode will serve as a testimony to the noxious effects that religion can have on human minds, particularly when those minds are short of a marble or two in the first place.Bert and Ernie’s original video can be found here (don’t forget to bring your barf-bag):youtube.com/watch?v=YxpabB3DLgg&t=7sIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES. Please check out his channel here:youtube.com/user/ONESPECIES---------------------------------------------------Although I’m not currently and don’t plan to collect donations unless I fall onto hard times, my Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaurTwitter:twitter.com/livingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 27 In G Major (K 199)Scripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmReferences:Bionumbers. HIV diameter. f. Accessed, August 18, 2017. http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?&id=101667&ver=10&trm=HIVBionumbers. E. coli wet weight f. Accessed, August 18, 2017. http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?&id=103905&ver=13&trm=e.%20coli%20weightClass II Special Controls Guidance Document: Labeling for Natural Rubber Latex Condoms Classified Under 21 CFR 884.5300. Accessed, August 18, 2017. fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm107076.htmCondom Fact Sheet In Brief. Accessed, August 18, 2017. cdc.gov/condomeffectiveness/brief.htmlHolmes, K.K. et al. (2004). Effectiveness of condoms in preventing sexually transmitted infections. Bull. WHO 82: 454–61.Kohler, P.K. et al. (2008). Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy. J. Adolesc. Health 42: 344-351.Sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Accessed, August 18, 2017. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs110/en/Vinches , L, Hallé1, S., Peyrot, C. and Wilkinson, K.J. (2014). Which gloves are efficient to protect against titanium dioxide nanoparticles In work conditions? Int. J. Theoret. Appl. Nanotech. 1: 24-29.
Shout-Out: Oskar Jungell TheLivingDinosaur 2017-09-08 | For all those who thought there was not such thing as a German with a sense of humor!CORRECTION: It has been pointed out that the gentleman in question, despite his somewhat Teutonic moniker, is actually Swedish. With this in mind, this video is for those who think that all Swedes have silly accents. Oh, wait...Original Video:youtube.com/watch?v=4Ll44f_W7bEHis Channel:youtube.com/channel/UCZJUuPIFk7VsgboB4cFwsSA
Holy Hallucinations 45: Two Dicks and a Johnny, Part 1 TheLivingDinosaur 2017-09-01 | So here we are again, preparing to take yet another journey into that bizarre alternative universe that passes for reality in Pastor Carl Gallups’ murky consciousness. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), it seems that we’re due a double dose of religious psychedelia, because when we knocked on the door to the PPSimmons channel and Pastor Carl answered, we discovered that our old friend Pisspants had popped in for a visit.Because the final script for this lesson would have clocked in at 45 minutes or so, I decided to make it a two-parter. As a result, the first half is a little light on the science and primarily address Bert and Ernie’s somewhat bigoted views on anyone who isn’t heterosexual and their amazement that said views lead some to call them… well… bigots.Stay tuned for Part 2, where things will get a little more technical and substantially more amusing when we take a look at Pastor Carl’s fiendishly convoluted yet uproariously inept views on polymer chemistry, medical devices and public health. The resulting collision of immeasurable ignorance with cold hard facts is a horrific sight to behold, even though it’s also somehow strangely hilarious.The dull-witted duo’s video (if you can stomach it) can be found here:youtube.com/watch?v=YxpabB3DLgg&t=7s---------------------------------------------------Although I’m not currently and don’t plan to collect donations unless I fall onto hard times, my Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaurTwitter:twitter.com/livingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 5 In D Flat Major (K 22)Scripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmReferences:Unemo, M. and Shafer, W.M. (2011). Antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: origin, evolution, and lessons learned for the future. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1230: E19-E28.Tao, G. (2008). Sexual Orientation and Related Viral Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates Among US Women Aged 15 to 44 Years. Am. J. Public Health 98(6): 1007–1009
An Eclipse and a Question TheLivingDinosaur 2017-08-23 | ---------------------------------------------------Although I’m not currently and don’t plan to collect donations unless I fall onto hard times, my Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaurTwitter:twitter.com/livingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------Music: Johan Pachelbel. Canon in D Major.Canon in D Major Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Shout-Out: HolyKoolaid TheLivingDinosaur 2017-08-17 | I normally reserve shout-outs for smaller channels, but there's something about this one I really like. Most of you have probably heard of it, but I'm putting it out in case there are a few of you who haven't.With regards to HH, I'm about half-way through the script for #45, and that tends to be the bottleneck for me, so keep your fingers crossed and with a bit of luck we'll have something new in Spetember.HolyKoolaid's channel: youtube.com/channel/UCzvoUDoDu-cKIb11rg4ODDQOriginal video: youtube.com/watch?v=hPxZKV3sDcwHe also did an interview recently with AronRa (who I recently discovered Youtube decided to unsubscribe me from - fuckers). I thought there was a lot of common sense talked by both sides on the subject of "nuance":youtube.com/watch?v=5VpUZwHBQio
Holy Hallucinations 44: Homo vs Homo, Part 3 TheLivingDinosaur 2017-08-04 | So here we are with the final part in a trilogy of probings with regard to Pastor Carl Gallups’ (aka PPSimmons) musings on the subject of Homo floresiensis. In this final instalment we examine a few subconscious slips that the Good Pastor made during the course of his exposition that provide some clues as to the inner workings of the gelatinous sludge that resides between his ears, as well as a truly astonishing display of the kind of feat of unmitigated ignorance that can only be performed by those under the influence of a full ounce of uncut heavenly host and a gallon of Jesus juice. I present this lesson to all sane Christians out there who may be interested in knowing exactly how stupid Carl and his ilk are making their religion and their God look, and in the hope that more of them may start playing an active role in putting an end to this particular flavor of mind-numbingly inane delusion.Carl’s festeringly foul brain-spat can be found here:youtube.com/watch?v=Tp9OTueGk48Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES. Please check out his channel here:youtube.com/user/ONESPECIESGary Edwards’ channel is highly recommended and can be found here:youtube.com/user/GEdwardsPhilosophyNoel Plum, Youtube’s seemingly only voice of reason, can be found here:youtube.com/user/noelplum99---------------------------------------------------Although I’m not currently and don’t plan to collect donations unless I fall onto hard times, my Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaurTwitter:twitter.com/livingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 4 In D Major (K 19)Scripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmReferences:Brown, P. et al. (2004). A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 431: 1055-1061.Morwood, M.J. et al. (2005). Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 437: 1012-1017.Larson, S.G. et al. (2009). Descriptions of the upper limb skeleton of Homo floresiensis. J. Human Evol. 57: 555-570.Atelier Daynes. Accessed, July 13, 2017. http://www.daynes.com/en/hominids-reconstructions/homo-floresiensis-lb1-flores-21.htmlForensic Facial Reconstruction. Accessed, July 13, 2017. http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/facial_reconstruction.htmlHobbit banned as title of lecture on prehistoric 'hobbit'. Accessed, July 15.. theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/30/hobbit-banned-prehistoric-hobbit'The Hobbit' Producers Sue 'Age of the Hobbits' Studio for Trademark Infringement Accessed, July 15. 2017. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hobbit-movie-producers-sue-age-387585Why Kristi Winters’ PhD was encased by quotation marks:youtube.com/watch?v=QS5LIeQVju0youtube.com/watch?v=vYB_lxJPyW4youtube.com/watch?v=264nVj_E8yY&t=118s
Holy Hallucinations 43: Homo vs Homo, Part 2 TheLivingDinosaur 2017-07-04 | Well, it seems like only yesterday, but here we are again for the second installment of my reasoned and scholarly critique of Pastor Gallups’ magnum opus, one that he himself opined is the ”best critique of evolution you will ever hear”.As we discovered in the previous episode, however, it appears that Pastor Carl must be under the impression that “best” is a synonym of “funniest”, because his evidently laughably over-optimistic evaluation of his argument provided us all with a most excellent source for merriment. In this episode, we therefore move on from listening to the good Pastor’s opinion on the stylistic merits of scientific writing to examining his careful and meticulous approach to doing his own research.Unfortunately for Carl, however, his inanity did not become any less profound in the second half of his video and so, as you will see, the tutelage table got another extensive and vigorous workout and so is starting to look a little worse for wear. If anyone out there has some good carpentry skills then please let me know, because it looks like it’s in need of some serious preventive maintenance.Carl’s original festering excuses for thought can be found here:youtube.com/watch?v=Tp9OTueGk48Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES. Please check out his channel here:youtube.com/user/ONESPECIESFOR MY PATRONS:A special and heart-felt thank you to those of you who have reached out and supported this channel via Patreon. I really do appreciate your gesture and, more importantly, the sentiment behind it. At the moment I am fortunate not to need the money, so I do not plan to charge for videos, but it’s nice to know that a potential modest income stream Is available to me should I need it. Thanks again for your kind support – it really means a lot more to me than the money.All the best,TLD.---------------------------------------------------My Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 46 In C Major (K 96)Scripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmReferences:Adams, J. (2008). Human Evolutionary Tree. Nature Education 1(1):145Argue, D. et al. (2017). The affinities of Homo floresiensis based on phylogenetic analyses zzof cranial, dental, and postcranial characters. J. Human Evol. 107: 107-133.Benson, D.A. et al. (2010). Genbank. Nuc. Acids Res. 38: D46-51.Jacob, T. (2006). Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 (36): 13421–13426.Kaifu, Y. (2005). Taxonomic affinities and evolutionary history of the Early Pleistocene hominids of Java: dentognathic evidence. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 128(4): 709-26.López, S. (2015). Human Dispersal Out of Africa: A Lasting Debate. Evol. Bioinformatics 11: 57-68.Templeton, A.R. (2002). Out of Africa again and again. Nature 416: 45-51.Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Paleobiology Collections. Accessed, June 28, 2017. http://paleobiology.si.edu/collections/paleoCollections.html
Holy Hallucinations 42: Homo vs Homo, Part 1 TheLivingDinosaur 2017-06-11 | Firstly, thanks to everyone who made the effort to kindly mirror or otherwise promote my trailer – you’re the type of people that help me manage to hang on tenuously to my faith in humanity. I really appreciate it!And so, after a long absence, you can all thank Pastor Carl’s decision to start making anti-science videos again for calling me out of semi-retirement. Do feel free to pop over to his channel and express your gratitude to him for facilitating my return if you’re so inclined.When I first saw Pastor Carl’s offering, I was particularly galling to see that he was not only disparaging the Theory of Biological Evolution with his laughably inane “argumentation”, but had also reverted to type and had taken to sneering smugly at scientists again, just as he had back in Holy Hallucinations 8 when this particularly loathsome crap-sack first came to my attention.It is therefore with great pleasure that I present for your delectation, a particularly vicious fact-raping of a particularly reprehensible creationist fucktard. Stay tuned for part two, since there was more material in his video than I could possible cram into one episode (or rectum, for that matter), though be patient as my other commitments mean that it will probably be several months before I can serve the next course.The preposterous excuse for an argument to which I am responding can be found here:youtube.com/watch?v=Tp9OTueGk48Thank you to Lord Crocosquirrel for bring Pastor Carl’s new activities to my attention. Please check out his channel and his videos here:youtube.com/user/KageSpartan132Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES. Please check out his channel here:youtube.com/user/ONESPECIESFOR MY PATRONS:A special and heart-felt thank you to those of you who have reached out and supported this channel via Patreon. I really do appreciate your gesture and, more importantly, the sentiment behind it. At the moment I am fortunate not to need the money, so I do not plan to charge for videos, but it’s nice to know that a potential modest income stream Is available to me should I need it. Thanks again for your kind support – it really means a lot more to me than the money.All the best,TLD.---------------------------------------------------My Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 10 In G Major (K 74)Scripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmReferences:Argue, D. et al. (2017). The affinities of Homo floresiensis based on phylogenetic analyses zzof cranial, dental, and postcranial characters. J. Human Evol. 107: 107-133.Brazil, T.J. et al. (2005). Kinetics of pulmonary neutrophil recruitment and clearance in a natural and spontaneously resolving model of airway inflammation. Clin. Exp. Allergy 35: 854-865.Ochiai, M. and Ashida, M. (2000). A pattern-recognition protein for β-1,3-glucan. J. Biol. Chem. 275 (7): 4995-5002.
Atheists Spokesperson Anybody? Not For Me, Thank You... Ive Had Enough. TheLivingDinosaur 2015-09-28 | Plagiarism is perhaps the lowest depth to which anyone aspiring to any kind of intellectualism can plunge, so when I heard about this I felt I couldn't let it pass.You may have heard me express my disillusionment with Youtube atheism for quite some time now, and while it obviously wasn't because of this incident, it does serve as a beautiful exemplar of _one_ of the reasons for my discontent. I don't generally watch Ms. Glenn's material because I've discovered that if I'd like experience a knife being dipped into water then it's a lot more efficient to just go into the kitchen and... well, dip a knife into some water. It was only because I was alerted to a new video by the excellent Meridian Frost that I came upon this shameful story:youtube.com/watch?v=qysjOxBqTwsOf course, it's bad enough that the Richard Dawkins Foundation decided that this is what amounts to one of atheism's bright lights on this site, but the fact that Ms. Glenn has removed the offending video and yet not admitted to her malfeasance but instead blithely brushed TBS's video off as being mere "inspiration" is nothing short of egregious:youtube.com/watch?v=JexlG4ZF0x8The decent thing to do here is to admit to a lack of judgement, apologize to TBS and to her fans, and then move on. I can only hope it will be forthcoming. In the meantime, if you think that atheists can't do any better than this for a 'standard bearer', then you're more than welcome to it. But for my part I would like to state for the record that Jaclyn Glenn does _not_ represent or speak for me.Thank you.Original video can be found on the Purdue Non-Theists channel here:youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=UsdwTo1Xk80TheoreticalBullshit's original video can be seen in all its glory here:youtube.com/watch?v=7NrKUCp7CGM
Holy Hallucinations 41: Mining Dawkins TheLivingDinosaur 2015-07-07 | Well, it seems that the PPSimmons simians managed to give me sufficient reason to spend some time on making a new video sooner than I’d planned. In this particular offering, the good Pastor Carl offers us a stupendous example of his world-class quote-mining skills, using Professor Richard Dawkins and his Foundation as a source for his frenetic misrepresentation. In this episode I take the time to explain to him the error of his way on this and several other matters, as well as bringing up a point I’ve been meaning to make for quite some time, that is: if creationists really believe what they say in their anti-science diarrhea, then why aren’t any of them expending the time and money on setting up laboratories and doing the research instead of spending it on the high life and writing laughably simple-mined “journal” articles that can be torn apart by a middle-schooler?The stain to which I am responding can be found here:youtube.com/watch?v=TIIchQu9wcY TO MY PATRONS:A special and heart-felt thank you to those of you who have reached out and supported this channel via Patreon. I really do appreciate your gesture and, more importantly, the sentiment behind it. Thanks again for your kind support – it really means the world to me.All the best,TLD.---------------------------------------------------My Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 42 In F Major (K 76)Scripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES:youtube.com/user/ONESPECIESReferences:Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design. Accessed, May 28, 2015. http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspxIpsos Global @dvisory: Supreme Being(s), the Afterlife and Evolution (April 25, 2011). Accessed, May 30, 2015. http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5217Joseph Boxhorn (1995). Observed Instances of Speciation. Accessed, June 29, 2015. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.htmlPublic’s Views on Human Evolution (December 30, 2013). Accessed, May 30, 2015. http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolutionSawamura, K. et al. (2012). Mechanisms of Speciation. Int. J. Evol. Biol. doi: 10.1155/2012/820358.Stassen, C., Meritt, J., Lilje, A. and Davis, L.D. (1997). Some More Observed Speciation Events. Accessed, June 29, 2015. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html
Holy Hallucinations 40: Blood and What? TheLivingDinosaur 2015-05-19 | Apologies for the confusion. First render had a major glitch in it. Anyway, as I was saying: It seemed only fitting that upon my return to video making I choose an offering from my erstwhile nemesis, Pastor Carl Gallups, who regularly defecates cranially on the PPSimmons channel. The digital vomit I’m addressing can be found here:youtube.com/watch?v=roeP1SaJhwYIn this case the so-called “argument” presented was such a banal non-sequitur that I almost didn’t bother addressing it, but when I discovered that this odious brain-belch ended up generating one of the dumbest things ever said by a fucktard in the history of stupidity I just couldn’t resist pointing it out.---------------------------------------------------My Patreon page can be found here:patreon.com/thelivingdinosaur---------------------------------------------------“Dr.” Bergman’s resume can be found at:silkworm.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/bergmans-cv-and-publicationsA copy of the Science book review of “The Long Road to Man” can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/Book Review.pdfScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES:youtube.com/user/ONESPECIESMusic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 44 In D Major (K 81) and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , “Flight of the Bumblebee”References:Hochachka, P.W. and Somero, G.N. (2002). Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution. Oxford University Press.Macallum, A.B. (1927) The Paleochemistry of the Body Fluids and Tissues. Physiol. Rev. 6: 316-357.Quinton, R. (1898) Hypothese de l'eau de mer, milieu vital des organisimes eleves. Compt. Rend. de la Soc. de Biol. 935.Simpson, G.G. (1961). Book review: Biological sciences. Science 133: 1242-1247.
Holy Hallucinations 39: Homology and Dildos TheLivingDinosaur 2014-04-30 | Well, here we are again. Sorry for the delay, but I'm afraid that motivation has been sorely lacking of late though I was finally pushed into pulling my finger out of my arse and finishing this by the majesty of CoolHardLogic's latest offering debunking Geocentrism:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DppsN1oYyIYPart of this ennui has, I think, has been brought about by the stagnation of the subscriber count on this channel. It seems in today's Youtube views are more easily garnered by turning on a webcam on a daily basis and blithely spouting tired old tropes. Since my videos take a considerable amount of effort and a fucking shit-load of time to produce, and high output frequency appears to be crucial to success here, I'm afraid that content like this is becoming, somewhat ironically, a dinosaur. I find this particularly sad because I was lucky enough to catch the end of the "golden age" and garner more than my fair share of subscribers, but now I see dozens of wonderful newer channels floundering with less than 5000 subscribers and no real hope of getting more. All the while the "big fish" posture as "leaders" of this "community" while at the same time doing absolutely fuck all to promote it. Be that as it may, I'd be lying if I said I didn't still enjoy making these, so this probably won't be the last -- I'm just not as driven to make them as frequently. So until next time, I hope you enjoy watching this latest offering of dumbfuck bashing as much as he deserves getting it.This is a response to onceforgivennowfree's (Matt's) monument to human stupidity and egocentrism and is dedicated to Drs. Dunning and Kruger. There were many other points I could have brought up here but didn't due to restrictions on my time, not least of which was Twat's... I mean, Matt's... peculiar impression that science is consists of nothing but deductive reasoning as opposed to an amalgam of deducting, inductive and abductive reasoning and a metric fuck-ton of empirical observation and prediction testing. I can see no other reason why else he would think that the outrageous strawman that he presents is an example of circular reasoning -- unless of course he knows very well that real science isn't as woefully simplistic as he portrays and he's just being a deliberate lying little cunt. I'll leave it to you to judge which. The disingenuous little pissant's video can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNl6QQT2q4QThe PHYLIP package can be download for free here:http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.htmlAn archive of the phylogeny data set used in the analysis and the PHYLIP input and output files can be downloaded here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/HH39%20Supplements.7zMichael Ruse's article can be found here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ruse/is-darwinism-a-religion_b_904828.htmlA PDF of Gavin de Beer's "Homology, An Unsolved Problem" can be downloaded here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/De%20Beer%20Homology.pdfScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIESMusic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 20 in D Major (K 133)References:Archie, J.W, et al. (1989). A randomization test for phylogenetic information in systematic data. Syst. Zool. 38: 239 - 252.Klassen, G.J., et al. (1991). Consistency indices and random data. Syst. Zool. 40: 446 - 457.Sanger, F. and Coulson, A.R. (1975). A rapid method for determining sequences in DNA by primed synthesis with DNA polymerase. J. Mol. Biol. 94t: 441--448.Thwaites, W, et al. (1980). Another favorite creationist argument. Creation/Evolution J. 2: 243-45.
Holy Hallucinations 38: Hydrolases and Hucksters TheLivingDinosaur 2013-07-28 | Well, I suppose I just couldn't stay away. Thanks to all those who sent me such kind words of support and encouragement in both comments and PMs. It's likely that without them this video would not exist. I've enjoyed my break, and I think I've learned the value of taking things a little easier. These videos take an incredible amount of time and effort to make, and I think I will be easing off the accelerator in the future. Thus while it's likely that this won't be the last HH, please be patient with me as the gaps between episodes will probably be a lot larger than you've been used to in the past. Thank you for your patience and, as ever, your kind and undeserved support.Anyway, for this episode, I thought it most appropriate to sodomize the PPSimmons channel again, since it appears that they neglected to accept my counter with regards to their disingenuous debate offer. I think it is highly fitting, therefore, that Pastor Carl's anus pay the price for their cowardice. You can find the stain to which I'm responding here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVBNaP0zomcThe eccentric-gentleman-at-the-end-of-the-video's channel can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/user/dangerouslytalentedScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES"Endless forms most beautiful" quote courtesy of Mr. C. Darwin.Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 19 in E flat major (K 132)References:Jermutus, L., Honegger, A., Schwesinger, F., Hanes, J., and Plückthun, A. (2001). Tailoring in vitro evolution for protein affinity or stability. Proc. natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98: 75--80.Kaltenbach, M. and Hollfelder, F. (2012). SNAP display: in vitro protein evolution in microdroplets. Methods Mol. Biol. 805: 101-11.Kashiwagi, K., Isogai, Y., Nishiguchi, K-.I., and Shiba, K. (2006). Frame shuffling: a novel method for in vitro protein evolution. Protein Eng Des Sel., 19: 135-40Lipovsek, D. and Plückthun, A. (2004). In-vitro protein evolution by ribosome display and mRNA display. J. Immunol. Methods. .290: 51-67.Moore, J.C. , Jin, H-.M., Kuchner , O. and Arnold, F.H. (1997). Strategies for the in vitro evolution of protein function: Enzyme evolution by random recombination of Improved Sequences. J. Mol. Biol., 272: 336-47.Nishikawa, T., Sunami, T., Matsuura, T. and Yomo, T. (2012). Evolution of proteins through in vitro protein synthesis in liposomes. doi: 10.1155/2012/923214.Soramoto, S., Ueno, S., Tabuchi, I. and Husimi, Y. (2002). Design of various high quality random libraries for in vitro protein evolution. Genome Informatics, 13: 527-8.Tabuchi, I., Soramoto, S., Nemoto, N. and Husimi, Y. (2001). An in vitro DNA virus for in vitro protein evolution. FEBS Lett., 508: 309-12.Voigt, C.A., Kauffman, S. and Wang, Z.G. (2000). Rational evolutionary design: the theory of in vitro protein evolution. Adv. Protein. Chem. 55: 79-160.Wackett, L.P. (1998). Directed evolution of new enzymes and pathways for environmental biocatalysis. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 864: 142-52.Yuan1, L., Kurek, I., English, J. and Keenan, R. (2005). Laboratory-directed protein evolution. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev., 69: 373-92.Seelig, B. and Szostak, J.W. (2007). Selection and evolution of enzymes from a partially randomized non-catalytic scaffold. Nature, 448: 828-31.Chao, F.-A., et al. (2012). Structure and dynamics of a primordial catalytic fold generated by in vitro evolution. Nature Chem. Biol., 9: 81-83.Singh, R.K. et al. (2013) From protein engineering to immobilization: Promising strategies for the upgrade of industrial enzymes. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 14, 1232-77.Tobe, S. et al. (2006). Expression of Bacillus protease (Protease BYA) from Bacillus sp. Y in Bacillus subtilis and enhancement of its specific activity by site-directed mutagenesis-improvement in productivity of detergent enzyme. Biol Pharm Bull., 29: 26-33.
Holy Hallucinations 37: Debating Dickheads TheLivingDinosaur 2013-02-08 | My response to Pisspants' and Cockshite's disingenuous debate challenge and the ensuing unfortunate video that Pisspants indulged in without realizing what an unpleasant enema it would make once I got around to ramming his stupidity back up his arse with my size 11s.As explained in the video, despite Pisspants' assorted hallucinations, my rejection was not based on pusillanimity but rather on the quite reasonable expectation that these two jizz-stains would be as dishonest in such a format as they have proven to be everywhere else. Despite Pisspants' protestations as to how fair he would have been, it seems that the fucker doesn't realize that the complete dipshittery of him and the other creatures at PPSimmons has somewhat tarnished his reputation. If you insist on consistently acting like a dishonest, censoring cunt, then you shouldn't be surprised when people are suspicious that you might behave like a dishonest, censoring cunt.That said, I am taking the liberty to counter their kind offer with one where I shall be happy to debate either shit-stain by means of video exchange. This format carries the benefits of: (1) not requiring a moderator whose neutrality is as questionable as the behavior of a priest attending the choirboys' sleep-over; (2) allowing time for claims to be extensively fact-checked in the unlikely eventuality that one party might start spewing lies like an Atheism+ advocate making rape charges in an elevator, and (3) allow either party to request, and expect that their opponent furnish, credible sources for any claim they might make that smells as if it has been freshly fished from a colon. As a result, this format will facilitate the determination of which party has the best evidence and the best arguments on their side, rather than the best line in unmitigated bullshit.The conditions for this debate (and the documents referenced in this video) can be downloaded as a zip archive here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/HH37%20Docs.zipThe Pisspants video to which I'm responding:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUQW3ot29sSnakepliskinist's channel:youtube.com/user/DeirdreCrosseWisdominNature7's new channel (Gary Edwards):http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrnYMlsoyNeXuYNNh6xkv3QAnticitizenX's channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/AnticitizenXAtheismTV's channels and videos (now on their archive site):http://www.youtube.com/user/Atheismtvhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpWAnEyqRqchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQYbMkhCjcTrustinJC's channel and videos:http://www.youtube.com/user/TrustinJChttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B25p815LcUQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovs9vGz-Ad4CoolHardLogic's Channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/CoolHardLogicCockshite's webshite:http://www.shockawenow.netScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIESMusic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No.21 in A major (KV 134)
Holy Hallucinations 36: AIG III - Monkey Madness TheLivingDinosaur 2012-10-30 | Well, here's the third and final installment of my views on the attacks on Billy Nye by the trio of dishonest dumbfucks at the Creation Museum. As promised this time I address the two quislings of science that Ken Ham proudly referred to in his first video on this subject -- Georgia Purdom and David Menton.I should point out that in real life (that is, when I'm not dealing with creationists) I tend to be a polite and respectful individual. It was therefore a little difficult for me to apply my on-line style to an elderly gentleman and a lady, but having listened to what they had to say I maintain that my tone is fully deserved. Furthermore, I expect that there might be some that object to my referring to them as "Mr" and "Ms", so to forestall these I want to make it clear here that it is my contention that these two creatures relinquished any aspirations to the title "Dr" when they decided to take their education and training and use it to publically urinate not only on the work of people who they're unfit to mention, let alone claim a kinship to, but also on those whose time they wasted in giving them said education and training. Respect doesn't just have to be earned, it needs to be maintained and these two pitiful and sorry specimens forswore any such respect when they decided to lie about science to protect their fragile psyches instead of using it to do some actual good (or for that matter simply just shutting the fuck up and keeping their cranial flatulence to themselves).Finally, with regard to publications, I found Tweedle-Dum's maiden name on the AiG webshite and confirmed their claim that she had published three papers (though funnily enough AiG made no mention of here rather meager contributions) and could find no others. As for Tweedle-Dee, I conducted a thorough search on two databases (PubMed and Web of Science) and tried my hardest to identify all of his publications. I cannot, however, guarantee that a small number might have been missed. Thus the claim that Mr. Dee has 27 peer-reviewed papers may be an underestimate, but I am confident that if it is it's not by much and that it will not affect the general point I make with regard to his somewhat less-than-impressive productivity.Ken Ham's pathetic monkeys can be viewed here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AyDtD6sPAYou can see Mrs. Purdham's vomiting up her comments on the repugnance of little children (and other assorted luncay) all over Michael Shermer here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_CLIGJW6IcKen Ham's blog where he somewhat exaggerates the intellectual capabilities of his simian henchmen:http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2012/08/29/time-is-nye-for-a-rebuttalThe Tweedles' bios can be found here:http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/g_purdom.asphttp://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/d_menton.aspAfter I finished recording the audio for this episode I came across these two delightful entries in the Encyclopedia of American Loons, which I would have mentioned in the video had I known. Well worth a read:http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/05/329-georgia-purdom.htmlhttp://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/12/270-david-menton.htmlAtheistAusssie's new channel, TheWayOfThePasta, can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/user/thewayofthepastaScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIESMusic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 15 in G major (K 124)References:Cleland, C.E. (2001). Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method. Geology 29: 987-990.Du, X. et al. (2012). Mapping of H3N2 influenza antigenic evolution in China reveals a strategy for vaccine strain recommendation. Nature Comm. 3: 709.German, D.P. et al. (2004). Digestive Enzyme Activities in Herbivorous and Carnivorous Prickleback Fishes (Teleostei: Stichaeidae): Ontogenetic, Dietary, and Phylogenetic Effects. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 77: 789--804.Koretke, K.K. (2006). Evolution of Two-Component Signal Transduction. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17: 1956-1970.Laisney, J.A.C.G.et al. (2010). Lineage-specific co-evolution of the Egf receptor/ligand signaling system. BMC Evol. Biol. 10: doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-27.Pan, D. and Zhang, L. (2007). Quantifying the major mechanisms of recent gene duplications in the human and mouse genomes: a novel strategy to estimate gene duplication rates. Genome Biol. 8: doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-8-r158.
Holy Hallucinations 35: AIG II - Kens Tantrum TheLivingDinosaur 2012-10-09 | The video I'm responding to here is even further away from the topics I prefer to address than the previous one was, but the sight and sound of Ken Ham's pompous outrage at being called a lying fuck having just completed a full marathon of lie-fuckery, as well as his blatant misrepresentations of the motives of his critics and his foul aspersions on the character of the godless, demanded a response.So because of the slanders he threw up during his, whining, butt-hurt soliloquy, I felt it incumbent on me to not let this one slide. For this reason, and also for the sake of completeness, in this video I take time to explain to Mr. Ham exactly why he and his simian pets deserved every epithet hurled at them, and a good deal more besides, and why the remaining content of his second video was equally as foul and erroneous as his earlier offering. I'll be wrapping up this trilogy by showing Mr. Ham's monkeys the back of my hand in the next episode, which will hopefully bring some sense of closure to this whole sorry affair, and then we can get on with spanking the, unfortunately, very many other sorely deserving creationist arses out there.Thanks to everyone who took the time to download (and in some cases mirror) HH34. Looks like AIG may have learned its lesson about DMCA abuse, but just in case you might want to download this one too. No need to mirror as yet, but it would nice to have a few copies out there in case it needs to be done.Ken's whining girl's-blousery can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgGwnbFJBNUAntiCitizenX's channel (a must-sub) and his video on the psychology of morality can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/user/AntiCitizenXhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1a_ier3CjsBossman103's new channel (also well worth a sub) can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/user/PhoneybeetlemaniacxsScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIESMusic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major (K 16)
Holy Hallucinations 34: AIG I - Ham on Nye TheLivingDinosaur 2012-09-22 | Under normal circumstances I probably wouldn't have addressed a video like this because it's a little light on science, but since it was by one of the world's top-tier fucktards who happened to be rubbishing one of the most beloved educators in the country I decided that it was a golden opportunity to give the Reverend Ham the verbal drubbing he's been asking for for decades.As I said, a little light on science for a regular HH, but nevertheless also a good opportunity to address some of the filthy creationist political propaganda that Mr. Ham was projectile spewing in his surpisingly amateurish video. Not sure whether there will be a censoring reaction to this, so please do what you can to help forestall, or failing that ameliorate, that eventuality as it's not clear to me as yet that creationists are smart enough to have realized that censorship only results in the object of their ire being exposed to a vastly larger audience than it would have been had they acted like decent human beings.For those who don't know how, the video can be downloaded by pasting the URL into the box at www.keepvid.com.If you feel the need to hear Ken Ham vomiting up his worthless opinions you can do so here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxX11c1cSWUIf you want to see the Reverend Ham lying to children about biblical glasses you can do so here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5d3AaAL10UAnd if you want to have a laugh at Ken's monkeys, whom I mention in the video, you can find them in their enclosure here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AyDtD6sPABill Nye's Big Think video can be enjoyed here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOUKnownNoMore's channel is here (please watch and sub -- he's *excellent*):http://www.youtube.com/knownnomoreWisdominnature7's (now Gary Edwards) channel (see note above regarding KnownNoMore -- the same applies):http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrnYMlsoyNeXuYNNh6xkv3QScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIESMusic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 9 in C major (K 73)References:Arias-Montaño , A. (2011). Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Multi-Objective Aerodynamic Shape Optimization. Studies in Computational Intelligence 356: 211-240.Asoutia , V.G. and Giannakogloua, K.C. (2009). Aerodynamic optimization using a parallel asynchronous evolutionary algorithm controlled by strongly interacting demes. Engineering Optimization 41: 241-257.Berard, Y. (2003). Experiments with Hybridized Genetic Algorithms in Aerodynamics. EUROGEN 2003 International Congress on Evolutionary Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial Problems. pp 1-12.Giannakoglou ,K.C. et al. (2006). Aerodynamic shape design using evolutionaryalgorithms and new gradient-assisted metamodels. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 195: 6312--6329.Jones, B.R. et al. (2000). Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Optimization of Rotorcraft Airfoils via a Parallel Genetic Algorithm. Journal of Aircraft 37: 1088-1096.Obayashi, S. and Guruswamy, G.P., (1995). Convergence Acceleration of an Aeroelastic Navier-Stokes Solver. AIAA Journal 33: 1134-1141.Obayashi, S. et al. (2000). Transonic Wing Shape Optimization Based on Evolutionary Algorithms. ISHPC '00 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on High Performance Computing. PP Pages 172--181.Ong, Y.S. (2003). Global convergence of unconstrained and bound constrained surrogate-assisted evolutionary search in aerodynamic shape design. CEC '03 The 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. pp 1856-1863.Oyama, A. et al. (1999). Fractional Factorial Design of Genetic Coding for Aerodynamic Optimization. AIAA Paper 99-3298.Oyama, A et al. (2000). Aerodynamic Wing Optimization via Evolutionary Algorithms Based on Structured coding. CFD Journal 8: 570-577.Sasaki, D. (2001). Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Supersonic Wings by Adaptive Range Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms. EMO '01 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization. pp 639-652.Tubbs, A.D. and Wolfe, A.M. (1980). Evidence for Large Scale Uniformity of Physical Laws. Astrophy. J. 236: L105-L108.Webb, J. (2003). Are the laws of nature changing with time? Physics World 16(4): 33-38.
Holy Hallucinations 33: Laws of Attraction TheLivingDinosaur 2012-08-21 | It seems that Carl Gallups and his inbred cronies at the PPSimmons channel have been up to their disgusting old tricks during my absence and so it looks like it's business as usual. I should point out that while I was away PPSimmons had their channel falsely flagged and taken down by YouTube but then subsequently restored. I don't know what happened, but saw that a lot of fundies (Cockshite included) were blaming it on atheists. While that's certainly possible, it's also equally likely that the culprit was someone who was offended by the racist propaganda being peddled by these filthy scumbags. In any case, it obviously was unjustified because they managed to get their channel reinstated, so I just want to make it clear here that I find this kind of censoring behavior just as (and possibly more) abhorrent than the material in question. While I think that PPSimmons' videos are both vile and disgusting, suppression is unacceptable and the proper response is to pwn the living shit out of them to show them up for what they really are. If anyone at the PPSimmons channel happens to read this then I would like you to know that if this happens again I will be willing to mirror a video for you to publicize your plight, no matter how distasteful doing so would be to me.Anyway, apparently Carl et al. have been dumpster diving again at the Institute for Creation Research and came across an "article" about the discovery of the putative magnetoreceptor mechanism in salmon. Unfortunately, while this discovery is new, Pastor Carl's utilization of it isn't and he trots out the usual parade of predictable creationist canards that have been applied to countless other biological systems in the past. Here I take the opportunity to explain to Carl why his arguments are just as fallacious when applied to magnetoreception as they have been when applied to everything else. I hope I didn't rupture anything.It also seems that Pastor Gallups has still neglected to lift the block he has on me, so if you have the chance you might want to pop over to his video and let him know why his ears (and possibly his ringpiece) are burning. His original skid mark of a video can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3EUqSwREcvampiressae's channel and video:http://www.youtube.com/user/vampiressaehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Oi3U-L3Fgcdk007's excellent videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZdCxk0CnN4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUvLR2yyWuEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdwTwNPyR9wScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIESMusic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 35 in D major (K 385)References:Daeschler, E. B., Shubin, N. H., and Jenkins Jr, F. A. (2006). A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature 440: 757-763.Darwin, Charles (1871). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.Flower, W.H. (1883). On the arrangement of the orders and families of existing Mammalia. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 178-86. Judson, H. F. (1996) The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology. Cold Spring Harbor Press, Woodsbury, New York.May-Collado, L. and Agnarsson, I. (2006). Cytochrome b and Bayesian inference of whale phylogeny. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 38: 344--354.Rodgers, C.T. and Hore, P.J. (2009). Chemical Magnetoreception in Birds: The Radical Pair Mechanism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106: 353-360.Zuckerkandl, E. and Pauling, L. (1965) Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in Proteins. In: Evolving Genes and Proteins. V. Bryson and H. Vogel (Eds). Academic Press, New York, NY.
Holy Hallucinations 32: Wizooloo II - The Reamage Continues TheLivingDinosaur 2012-08-05 | Well, here we go again. Sorry for my extended absence, but here is my response to Holy Hallucination 31, which can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qq-EWBaeWY Since many other excellent Youtubers essentially covered Boobie's more irrelevant points, I will be referring you to them for those aspects of his smokescreen, and in this video I tackle Boobie's feeble attempts to rebut some of my more minor points. As to him completely ignoring the reasons I gave as to why his thesis is viciously fucked in the arse by the empirical evidence, well -- I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions. Anyway, it's nice to be back and, as always, thanks to all of you for your support.The videos and channels I mention:http://www.youtube.com/TheTruePookahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEo6nKtnowhttp://www.youtube.com/WisdomInNature7http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeu4tm9eBf0http://www.youtube.com/SoretaYukihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIxv1XEjIwhttp://www.youtube.com/NicolSDhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk4I_BCSnN4http://www.youtube.com/falchion49Kitch's sites:http://www.youtube.com/user/TheKitch2http://twitter.com/Bio_inspirationfacebook.com/BioinspirationScripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htmIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIESMusic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 14 in A major (K 114).References:Denham, .W.W. (1974). Population Structure, Infant Transport, and Infanticide among Pleistocene and Modern Hunter-Gatherers. J. Anthrop. Res. 30: 191-198.Elena, S.F. and Lenski, R.E. (2003). Evolution Experiments With Microorganisms: The Dynamics And Genetic Bases Of Adaptation. Nature Rev. Genet. 4: 57-69.Kimura, M. (1968). Evolutionary rate at the molecular level. Nature 217: 624--626.Kimura,M. (1983). The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.Kondrashov, A.S. (1995). Contamination of the Genome by Very Slightly Deleterious Mutations: Why Have We Not Died 100 Times Over? J. Theor. Biol. 175: 583--594Ohta, T. (1973). Slightly deleterious mutant substitutions in evolution. Nature 246: 96--98.Ohta, T. and Gillespie, J.H. (1996). Development of Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories. Theor. Pop. Biol. 49: 128--142."Phoenix history timeline. " The Arizona Republic. March 1, 2006. July 22, 2012.
Time For Some Culture! TheLivingDinosaur 2012-07-13 | As part of the (bad) poetry meme that's going around that was started by AtheistAussie and Andr0idthePoet, I thought I'd chip in my contribution, if nothing else but to remind myself of how to use my software. AtheistAussie has compiled a playlist if those who've contributed their crimes against literature:http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL802A8A5C1FC27620&feature=view_allThisIsTheTruthUncut Channel:http://www.youtube.com/thisisthetruthuncutbdwilson1000:http://www.youtube.com/bdwilson1000Underling's Website:http://introducedrat.com/evolution.htmGugaberg123's Channel and Websites:http://www.youtube.com/user/gugaberg123http://vimeo.com/43477705http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710922864/destroy-beautyJ.S. Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, 2nd Movement (Air on a G-String) (BWV 1068).
Holy Hallucinations 31: Wizooloo I - Population Pandemonium TheLivingDinosaur 2012-02-10 | My first response to the sickeningly smug and fatuous creationist Ian Juby, who for some reason known only to himself and his therapists decided to call himself 'wazooloo' here on YouTube, and whose original wanton display of pig ignorance, brazen lies and basic arithmetic can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40taNnr7Jww There is a slight difference in this video in that I've done something that I've shied away from in the past, and that is make fun of someone's appearance. While some might find my occasional light jabs at Mr. Juby's calorific condition offensive, rest assured that I didn't take this direction lightly. I personally found his implied assertions that humans have not been subject to food deprivation throughout history highly offensive, particularly coming from someone who's quite obviously luxuriating in the relative opulence in which we in the western world are allowed to live, in main part thanks to the science that he's so gleefully shitting on. As a result I feel that Mr. Juby deserves even less respect that the average creationist and more than deserves everything he gets in this video. People should take responsibility for their words, and Mr. Juby's words quite clearly show him to be an egotistical, self-absorbed, selfish, non-empathetic jerk who deserves everything he gets thrown back at him. As for anyone who feels like leaving a comment saying that my video is nothing more than an ad hominem attack, then please watch the video again and listen to the arguments that I intersperse amongst the piss-take and look up the difference between an ad hominem and an insult. Now this video was so strewn with the fecal nuggets that were cascading, fountain-like, from Mr. Juby's mind that I simply did not have the time to address them all without making a three-hour-long video. A prime example is his assumption in one of his bogus calculations of the human race starting 200,000 years ago with two individuals, an assumption that quite amazingly projects his own beliefs of people being conjured up by magic from mud and a short-rib onto the reality of evolving populations that we now understand from science. I therefore want to elaborate here on Mr. Juby's alleged Mensa membership. If we work under the assumption that when he mentions it he isn't lying for a change, then I want to reiterate here that intelligence is as useful as bottle of Viagra to a eunuch if one doesn't use that intelligence by learning to harness it with critical thinking and also educating oneself. As it stands it appears that Mr. Juby, who doesn't even seem to realize in his own captions that proper nouns such as "Earth" and "Wikipedia" need to be capitalized, has done absolutely fuck-all to avail himself of the supposed gift that his alleged God has bestowed upon him. I personally think that Mensa should seriously consider extending their membership criteria beyond a mere IQ score in order to avoid welcoming such embarrassments as Mr. Juby into their fold in the future, and I for one am very glad that I never bothered to apply to them. I would tentatively suggest you reconsider your own membership, if you have one, in order to minimize your possibility of exposure to arses such as he. Falchion49's channel can be found here (please check him out!): http://www.youtube.com/falchion49 Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!): http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No.. 13 in F major (K 112). References: Biraben, J. N. (1980). Essai sur l'évolution du nombre des homes. Population 34: 13--25. Durand, J.D. (1974). Historical Estimates of World Population: An Evaluation. University of Pennsylvania, Population Center, Analytical and Technical Reports, Number 10, table 2. Haub, C. (1995). How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" Population Today 30: 3-4. Hawks, J. et al. (2000). Population Bottlenecks and Pleistocene Human Evolution. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17: 2--22. McEvedy, C. et al. (1978). Atlas of World Population History. Facts on File, New York. Rosegrant, M.W. et al. (2002). "World Water And Food To 2025: Dealing With Scarcity". International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C. Thomlinson, R. (1975) Demographic Problems, Controversy Over Population Control. Second Edition, Dickenson Publishing Company, Ecino, CA. United Nations (1973). The Determinants and Consequences of Population Trends. Population Studies, No. 50, p.10. United Nations (1996). World Population From Year 0 to Stabilization. United Nations (2011). The State of Food Insecurity in the World. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Tribute to Kent Hovind TheLivingDinosaur 2012-01-27 | I was recently looking through some old material from the Golden Days of the YouTube Atheism/Theism debate and was reminded of this gem of a song by the one and only Eddy Goombah. What amazed me was that the original still has less 100,000 views and so it struck me that there might be a quite a few new Tubers who haven't seen this classic. I therefore decided to give the song a facelift with some new animation and put it out there again so that we can all have a few laughs at the expense of that old shit-bag, Kent Hovind. Thanks to Eddy for giving me permission to make this video and I hope that you all enjoy it! Feel free to redistribute and mirror so that everyone else can too! Original video and animation can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sEIiWKSzJA Written and Performed by EddyGoombah: http://www.youtube.com/eddygoombah Graphics and animation by TheLivingDinosaur: http://www.youtube.com/thelivingdinosaur
Holy Hallucinations 30: Everest, Everwrong TheLivingDinosaur 2012-01-23 | Not much to add to what I said in the video except to say that I hope that PPSimmons would stop hogging me and take a little break from disparaging evolution to perhaps concentrate on their unusual theories about the origins of Barack Obama so that I can concentrate on some of the other very deserving 'tards out there that are crying out for some attention. As it is, I felt compelled as usual to respond to this fecal stain on the internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oBwwWOB84 Additionally, I'm going to a very busy few weeks in real life, so you may notice a drop off in the frequency of my output for the next couple of months. That might be for the best as I think I'm in the need of a break from the insane bullshit being peddled by the like of PP and their ilk. Rest assured that I'll be sneaking in as much editing as I can in the meantime and will be back to full throttle as soon as work and home life calms down a little. James Uscroft's new channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ujames1978forever Meridianfrost's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/meridianfrost And his video castrating Pastor Carl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7NcsOAkkc Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!): http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 6 in F major (K 43). References: Gore, C.J. et al. (2007). Nonhematological mechanisms of improved sea-level performance after hypoxic exposure. Med. Sci .Sports Exerc. 39: 1600-9. Kinoshita, S. et al. (1975). Utilization of a cyclic dimer and linear oligomers of ε-aminocaproic acid by Achromobacter guttatus. Agr. Biol. Chem. 39: 1219−23. Kinoshita, S. et al. (1977). 6-aminohexanoic acid cyclic dimer hydrolase . A new cyclic amide hydrolase produced by Achronobacter guttatus KI72. Eur. J. Biochem. 80: 489-95. Kinoshita, S. et al. (1981). Purification and characterization of 6-aminohexanoic-acid-oligimer hydrolase of Flavobacterium sp. KI72. Eur. J. Biochem. 116: 547-51. Negoro, S. et al. (1980). Plasmid control of 6-aminohexanoic acid cyclic dimer degradation enzymes of Flavobacterium sp. KI72. J. Bacteriol. 43: 238-45. Negoro, S. et al. (2007). Nylon-oligomer degrading enzyme/substrate complex: catalytic mechanism of 6-aminohexanoate-dimer hydrolase. J. Mol. Biol. 370: 142-56. Ohno, S. (1984). Birth of a unique enzyme from an alternate reading frame of the preexisted, internally repititious coding sequence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 81: 2421-5. Okada, H. et al. (1983). Evolutionary adaptation of plasmid-encoded enzymes for degrading nylon oligomers. Nature 306: 203-6. Prijambada, I. et al. (1995). Emergence of Nylon Oligomer Degradation Enzymes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO through Experimental Evolution. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61: 2020-2.
Happy Holidays! TheLivingDinosaur 2011-12-22 | Just a quick one to complete an amazing year for this channel; to thank you all for your support; to acknowledge those who've done so much to promote this channel; to wish you all a very happy and peaceful solstice season and a prosperous and successful New Year; and to give one final shout-out of 2012 to an educational and promising channel. All the best, and see you on the other side of New Year's Eve! Collin Maessen's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/CollinMaessen His original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEEstJLlBB0 The other channels mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/user Desertphile http://www.youtube.com/user JaguarJ0nes http://www.youtube.com/user TheAtheistExperience http://www.youtube.com/user brettppalmer http://www.youtube.com/user dprjones PZMeyer's excellent Pharyngula blog: http://www.scienceblogs.com/pharyngula
Holy Hallucinations 29: PP Meets His Match TheLivingDinosaur 2011-12-10 | I had been working on a response to another notorious YouTube fucktard when PPSimmons splattered the internet with their latest bout of explosive diarrhea. Since I've promised to not let these exceptionally vile shitheads get away with anything I put my other project on hold and got stuck into this one. Unfortunately their latest offering is so unbelievably puerile that even a child could point out to Mr. Gallups and his inept cronies exactly why they're more full of shit than his colostomy bag after a night of lagers and a dodgy mutton vindaloo. As a result this video is somewhat less heavy on science and technicalities since all that was needed to debunk this video was a barely cursory knowledge of the methodologies and history of science. As a result I took the opportunity to pad out the remainder of the video with a super heaping helping of insults and profanity which, while perhaps a little over-the-top, I feel are more than well deserved. Apologies if you don't find this episode as illuminating or educational, but I hope at least that you will find some entertainment within. In case you don't see anything else from me before the holidays, I'd like to take the opportunity here to thank all my subscribers for your support and kind words over the past year and to wish you all a very merry Winter Solstice and a Happy, pwnage-filled New Year! Carl and crew's original putrid video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sssKuWhc-NY Robert Roselli's shit-stain of a webshite can be found here: http://www.theoryoflivevolution.com Atheist LGBT Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/257889894257845 rriverstone1's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/rriverstone1 Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!): http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 55 in B flat major, (K 214). References: Blount, Z.D., Borland, C.Z., and Lenski, R.E. (2008). Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl.l Acad. Sci. USA 105: 7899-7906. Eldredge, N. and Gould, S.J. (1972). Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. In Models in Paleobiology, Schopf, T.J.M., ed., San Francisco: Freeman Cooper. pp. 82-115. Gould, S. J. (1977). Evolution's Erratic Pace. Natural History 86: 12-16. Video transcript: http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com//HH%20Transcripts/Holy%20Hallucinations%2029.rtf
Holy Hallucinations 28: A Tale of Tiktaalik TheLivingDinosaur 2011-10-26 | My 'favorite' Youtube creationists at the PPSimmons channel have been at it again so, as per my vow, here is my response. Apologies for how long this video is. I'd initially thought it was going to be a short one, but it was only as I read PP's "sources" and did a little research I realized the magnitude of the shit-heap underlying this seemingly innocuous little piece of typical creationist propaganda. As it is there were a number of areas I would also have liked to gone into in more detail, including how Carl can feel that a change of 18 million years in a phylogeny is significant when he actually believes the world to be 6000 years old, and a deeper explanation of why science can only be as accurate as the data set it has to work with and why this means it is critical that it is able to modify hypotheses and theories in the light of new observations. I have to say that putting together something this long has been very draining, so it's not something I'm planning to do again for a long, long time. Though, having said that, the record of creationist bullshittery seems to suggest that it is bound to happen again sometime (but hopefully not too soon). PP's video amazingly still has comments enabled as of this upload, so it will be interesting to see how long it will be before they take down the comments section on this one. You can find this particular tele-visual turd here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1JXqKdkrs Tas Wanker's 'article' can be found here: http://creation.com/polish-tetrapod-footprints-trample-tiktaalik Jonathan Farti's 'article' can be found here: http://creation.com/tiktaalik-roseae-a-fishy-missing-link Thanks to Lapkine77 for identifying the 'Guilt by Association' logical fallacy for me. Check out his channel at: http://www.youtube.com/lapkine77 Also thanks to DiscoveringReligion for sending me the "bible brainwashing" graphic. If you don't know him, he makes SUPERB videos, and you really should check him out: http://www.youtube.com/discoveringreligion Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!): http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 55 in B flat major, (K 214). References: Clack, J. A. (2002). An Early Tetrapod from "Romer's Gap." Nature 418:, 72-76. Daeschler, E. B., Shubin, N. H., and Jenkins, F. A. (2006). A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature 440:757-763. Downs, J.P., Daeschler, E. B., Jenkins Jr, F.A., and Shubin, N. H. (2008). The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik roseae. Nature 455:925-929. Niedzwiedzki, G. et al. (2010). Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland. Nature 463: 43-48. Shubin, N. H., Daeschler, E. B., and Jenkins, F. A. (2006). The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb. Nature 440:764-771.
AronRa on DVD TheLivingDinosaur 2011-10-05 | ========NEWSFLASH!========== The user Rytzch has kindly posted the iso and a zip of the individual mp4 files onto dropbox. You can download them here: ISO: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41994859/ffc2.iso ZIP: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41994859/Foundational%20Falsehoods%20of%20Creationism.zip ===================== I hope some of you find this useful. You can find the torrent file here (please try to leave the file on your hard drive for a few days with your client running in the background to seed out the torrent and make it easier for others to download the file): http://lostsig.net/ffc2.torrent One subscriber (bdwilson1000) has pointed out that he has a torrent of mp4 files of the series available too that you could watch on you computer or smartphone. The torrent is substantially smaller than the DVD, so if you have limited bandwidth then you might want to try that one: http://tinyurl.com/Aronra If you need instructions, then I've provided some further down in this description. BigLundi's black magic challenge video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Cjh9ih4Qw Thanks again to seanieb64 for setting this up. He's also kindly offered to help with any technical problems you might have, so you can PM him if you have any questions. He runs a webhosting company (and is kindly storing all my videos for free so he can quickly re-upload them if my channel ever goes down), so if you're looking around for a place to host your site, please do consider him (he's been fantastic helping me out and I'm not even paying him!). You can find his site here: lostsignalweb.com Finally, a big thanks to the one and only ONESPECIES for the AronRa graphic. Check him out using the link below: http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES Music: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain. INSTRUCTIONS If you don't know how to download a torrent then here's how. First, download and install a copy of a torrent client. Here are two for windows: http://www.bittorrent.com/downloads http://www.utorrent.com/downloads And for Mac: http://www.bittorrent.com/downloads/mac http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/mac And for Linux: http://hwcdn01.vuze.com/files/Vuze_Installer.tar.bz2 http://ktorrent.org/downloads/4.1.2/ktorrent-4.1.2.tar.bz2 The download the torrent file (see the link above), and open it by double-clicking 9f from within the client software. Everything else should be automatic. If you do get a firewall problem, then you may have to tell your firewall to add the torrent client as an exception or tell it to open the port that you client says it is using. Once you have downloaded the iso, it would be nice if your left it on your hard-drive for a few days with the torrent client running in the background. This will help spread the file around and allow other people to download a copy for themselves. Once you have the iso, you should be able to burn it using whatever burner you happen to be using at the moment using the "burn disc image" function (actual name may vary depending on your software). Failing that, here's a free burning program for Windows that has a "Write Image File to Disc" button right on it's start-up page: http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
Holy Hallucinations 27: Caseys Conundrums TheLivingDinosaur 2011-09-29 | Another slightly unusual episode, in that I'm not addressing a specific YouTube video but rather a series of questions posed by the Discovery Institute's resident asshat, Casey Luskin. I normally stay away from the atheism/theism debate and prefer to stick to probing creationists as roughly as possible, but in this instance Casey forced my hand and also led me into topics that I would normally avoid because they're not in my areas of expertise. As a result I've deliberately avoided getting too specific and can only hope I haven't, for the most part, made a complete twat of myself somewhere.Casey's questions were ones that he apparently felt would be difficult for atheists to answer, but I'm not entirely sure why he thought this unless his only exposure to atheists results from talking to some on the short bus he rides into work in the morning. I have to say that I didn't encounter any particular problems in finding my answers, but as I was doing it I was struck by the impression I got that Casey was asking his questions as if his alternative has somehow more explanatory power than the answers provided by science, or for that matter even simply saying "I don't know". As a result you may notice a running theme where I try to point this out to our neuronally challenged friend.The channels I mention (do check them out -- they're all fantastic):http://www.youtube.com/DPRJoneshttp://www.youtube.com/ProportionalResponsehttp://www.youtube.com/Brettppalmerhttp://www.youtube.com/GreatBigBoreIntro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out):http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIESReferences:Crick, F. and Koch, C. (2003). A framework for consciousness. Nature Neurosci. 6: 119-126.Soon, C.S. et al. (2008). Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. Nature Neurosci. 11: 543-545.Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major (543).
Living Godless (Tag) TheLivingDinosaur 2011-09-14 | I was tagged to make a video about what living my life without a god or gods is like by Macnutz2 (if you don't know him, pay the old git and visit and give him a pity-sub from me using the link below 8P). This is my light-hearted take on the matter, so don't take it too seriously. It's taken me a long time to get around to making this and this tag has pretty much died a death, so I'm not going to bother lumbering anyone else with it, and now that it's done I can get back to making HH 27. MacNutz2's channel: http://www.youtube.com/macnutz2 Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 16, 1st Movement (K545).
Holy Hallucinations 26: Aristotle On Arses TheLivingDinosaur 2011-09-07 | Thanks to everyone who saw my broadcast and responded by forwarded my message to PPSimmons via their comments page. Not only did the message get through loud and clear, but it also gave me a fucking good laugh. I very much appreciate your help in trying to keep these little dipshits in their place. So, as promised, here's my response to PPSimmons' latest attempt to butcher science in general, and evolutionary theory specifically, in order to propagate their primitive and grotesque belief system. Because they hadn't addressed this subject since the serial raping I'd administered to them in Holy Hallucinations 15-18, I was beginning to think that we'd heard the last from these particularly vile and repulsive creationists, but I suppose it just goes to show that you can't keep a good 'tard down. In the video I'm addressing, Carl/PP revisit those two creatard stalwarts; the conflation of evolution with abiogenesis, and the promulgation of the misrepresentation of science as being fickle and untrustworthy. I try my best to remind them why they would be better off sticking to making their racist conspiracy videos and trying to con money out of their "flock". If you feel that you really have to then you can watch their entire cesspit of a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tE7HqY4-0 Thanks to Phil Hellenes for pointing me in the right direction for the Hubble Deep-Field fly-by footage: http://www.youtube.com/philhellenes Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out): http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES Music: Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64.
Holy Hallucinations 25: Answering Questions Dumb TheLivingDinosaur 2011-08-10 | Pwn Factor 10, Mr. Sulu. The rest is pretty much self-explanatory. Sorry to everyone for the long delay between episodes, and thanks for your patience. Please do yourself a favor and go and subscribe to ONESPECIES now: http://www.youtube.com/onespecies Finally, thanks to everyone who took the time to pop over to the PPSimmons channel to drop off my message -- I do very much appreciate it, and was very touched by your response. I happened to be reading the comments page when your contributions started being deleted and then the next thing I knew the whole page was down. It seems that the cowardly tossers decided that discretion was the better part of valor, pulled the plug on the whole thing, and shut down comments entirely because of the shit-storm you folks were sending their way. Luckily I managed to save a copy of it before the end so I have the evidence. No need for anyone to guess what the subject of HH26 will be. References: Pew Research Poll. November 2009. (http://pewforum.org/Science-and-Bioethics/Scientists-and-Belief.aspx) Klassen, G. J. et al. (1991. Consistency indices and random data. Syst. Zool. 40:446-457. Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No 9 in D minor, Opus 125.
God, Evolution, and Our Place in the Cosmos (MIRROR) TheLivingDinosaur 2011-07-20 | In case some of you are puzzled as to why I decided to mirror this video, I did so because this is primarily not an atheist channel, but a pro-science and anti-dishonest douchebag channel. As an atheist I obviously disagree with these individuals' belief in a god generally, and in the divinity of Jesus Christ specifically, but, then again, I've yet to meet one person with whom I agree with 100% of the time on absolutely everything. It's not theism, I have a problem with, it's how *some* theists behave based on those beliefs. I've also tried pointing out to creationists in a number of my videos that accepting the beauty and nature of the reality that's been revealed by the scientific method is not incompatible with theism, just with certain specific scriptural claims about the mechanisms of creation. Obviously, coming from an atheist I can imagine that many YECs and IDers will dismiss this kind of appeal to reason out of hand, so here are five theists explaining how this is possible. I think this video is a great contribution to the anti-creationism cause because it clearly demonstrates how one can maintain belief without having to deny reality and some of the greatest accomplishments of the human mind and spirit. I encourage everyone who can mirror this video and spread it around the internet in any way possible. ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION All are free to mirror this video. There will be links to direct download soon, as well as links to downloads that split the video into two parts for those with limitations on their upload time. Please check out all these channels, as well as educational resources regarding evolution. http://www.youtube.com/user/jdelphiki42 http://www.youtube.com/user/Lapkine77 http://www.youtube.com/user/UNFFwildcard http://www.youtube.com/user/thunderbolt94 http://www.youtube.com/user/RationalRoundtable Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et el.: "The plaintiffs successfully argued that intelligent design is a form of creationism..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com Nature: http://www.nature.com
Please, Please, Please... Question Gravity TheLivingDinosaur 2011-07-15 | My little contribution towards promoting Chattiestspike2's hilarious parody of Creation Ministries International's ludicrous Question Evolution campaign. Anything you can do to help spread the word for him will be worthwhile as it will does a great job of showing up Creationism for the intellectual vacuum that it is. You can find his channel here: http://www.youtube.com/chattiestspike2 CS2's own description of the Question Gravity campaign: Why the campaign? To show how stupid it looks to act as though a well supported theory is still questionable at fundamentally basic levels- even though every single aspect questioned has an answer. A direct knockoff of creation.com's and ppsimmons' "Question Evolution" campaign where do they something similar to mine... but theirs isn't even satire... which is just sad. Here's what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790xcY2CaHs Question Gravity website http://questiongravity.blogspot.com chattiestspike2 Ministries International main site http://tinyurl.com/CS2ministriesinternational Purchase your Question Gravity shirts and pins http://spikeattire.spreadshirt.com Downloadable PDF pamphlet http://www.scribd.com/doc/57612675/Question-Gravity
What Grinds My Gears (Tag) TheLivingDinosaur 2011-07-11 | This tag was started by the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0I3jjmqCV8 I was tagged by Friendough: http://www.youtube.com/Friendough And I'm tagging: http://www.youtube.com/TheraminTrees http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES http://www.youtube.com/QualiaSoup http://www.youtube.com/ProfMTH http://www.youtube.com/Answersinbooks Music: Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D major.
Youre Probably a Dickhead (Tag) TheLivingDinosaur 2011-07-08 | My contribution to the "You're probably a Dickhead" tag which was started by this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eavwqVbA7M I have to say it was refreshing to be able to make an opinion video where I could hurl as many insults as I liked without having the words "ad hominem" even surface in my consciousness. Maybe I should do this more often. I was tagged by paulchartley: http://www.youtube.com/paulchartley And I'm tagging: http://www.youtube.com/GrapplingIgnorance http://www.youtube.com/falchion49 http://www.youtube.com/MacNutz2 http://www.youtube.com/notinmyname2050 http://www.youtube.com/SisyphusRedeemed All six channels are well worth checking out! Music: Johann Strauss II, Thunder And Lightning Polka, Op. 324.
Question Evolution: Question 5 TheLivingDinosaur 2011-07-06 | Well, Lapkine77 has finally released all of the 15 Questions videos so here's my contribution in all its unedited glory (the one that appears in the compilation was shortened by about two minutes to save space). For the record, the odious cesspool of an organization known as Creation Ministries International has produced and is promoting a fetid pamphlet named "Question Evolution" containing 15 Questions they seem to think pose some kind of problem for evolutionary theory. In addition, three particularly fecal-minded YouTubers, PPSimmons, NephilimFree and CockShite (ShockofGod) have also been doing their best to promote this pathetic little rag. The YouTuber Lapkine77 has organized a response to these questions from various YouTube free-thinkers and this is my contribution, addressing the fifth question specifically. The compilation videos can be found on Lapkine's channel (http://www.youtube.com/lapkine77) or by following the links below: PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ModNCJLZ3E PART2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YEthIfeqQ4 PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGRmm3KQg18 PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqh1-Hw8gMk The Full Monty (compilation all all 4 parts); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rHJfeW9sqY The creatard questions are read by SuperSoylent2: http://www.youtube.com/SuperSoylent2 The individual contributors (in order of appearance) in the video) are (please, please, please check them out and support them!!!): http://www.youtube.com/AnswersinBooks http://www.youtube.com/EvoGenVideos http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES http://www.youtube.com/Chthonios http://www.youtube.com/TheLivingDinosaur http://www.youtube.com/ChilledTea http://www.youtube.com/Chattiestspike2 http://www.youtube.com/LithodidMan http://www.youtube.com/notinmyname2050 http://www.youtube.com/Ainulindale21 http://www.youtube.com/Martymer81 http://www.youtube.com/lapkine77 http://www.youtube.com/owchywawa http://www.youtube.com/lefayad1991 http://www.youtube.com/TheKitch2 The user AnswersinNature has also produced a video answering these questions which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp9Gtkn0CcA Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Flute Concerto No. 2 In D, 1st Movement - Allegro Aperto (K314) The papers cited in the video: Chapman, D.J. and Ragan, M.A. (1980). Evolution of Biochemical Pathways: Evidence From Comparative Biochemistry. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 31: 639-67. Whitaker, R.J., Berry, A., Byng, G.S., Fiske, M.J. and Jensen, R.A. (1984). Clues from Xanthomonas campestris about the evolution of aromatic biosynthesis and its regulation. J. Mol. Evol. 21: 139-49. Jensen, R.A. (1985). Biochemical Pathways in Prokaryotes Can Be Traced Backward through Evolutionary Time. Mol. Biol. Evol. 2: 92-108. Ahmad, S. and Jensen, R.A. (1987). Evolution of the biochemical pathway for aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in Serpens flexibilis in relationship to its phylogenetic position. Arch. . Microbiol. 147: 8-12. Forst, C.V. and Schulten, K. (1999). Evolution of Metabolisms: A New Method for the Comparison of Metabolic Pathways Using Genomics Information. J. Comp. Biol. 6: 343-63. Behrman , E.J., Marzluf, G.A. and Bentley, R. (2004). Evidence from Biochemical Pathways in Favor of Unfinished Evolution rather than Intelligent Design. J. Chem. Educ. 81: 1051. Koes, R., Verweij, W. and Quattrocchio, F. (2005). Flavonoids: a colorful model for the regulation and evolution of biochemical pathways. Trends Plant Sci. 10: 236-42. Nacher, J.C., Ochiai, T., Yamada, T., Kanehisa, M. and Akutsu, T. (2006). The role of log-normal dynamics in the evolution of biochemical pathways. Biosystems 83: 26-37. Raymond, J. and Segrè, D. (2006). The Effect of Oxygen on Biochemical Networks and the Evolution of Complex Life. Science 311: 1764-1767. Harborne, J.B. (2008).Constraints on the evolution of biochemical pathways. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 39: 135--151. Fani, R. and Fondi, M. (2009). Origin and evolution of metabolic pathways. Phys. Life. Rev. 6: 23-52. Lenski, R.E. (2004). Phenotypic and genomic evolution during a 20,000-generation experiment with the bacterium Escherichia coli. Plant Breed. Rev. 24: 225-265. Ohno, S. (1984). Birth of a unique enzyme from an alternative reading frame of the preexisted, internally repetitious coding sequence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81: 2421-25. Okada, H.et al. (1983). Evolutionary adaptation of plasmid-encoded enzymes for degrading nylon oligomers. Nature 306, 203 - 206.
Holy Hallucinations 24: SOG and WLC - The Blind Craptalkers TheLivingDinosaur 2011-06-28 | This is the first time I've addressed ShockofGod, mainly because he's generally more concerned with trying to bash atheism with his incredibly banal and ignorant mental flatulence than with attacking evolutionary biology. In this instance though I for some reason decided to check out the source he quotes in the video below and it was then that I felt compelled to respond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lcLcWnknQs Shock disingenuously claims he was converted to Christianity from atheism following his study of the subject of evolutionary biology under the auspices of that well know expert in the field, William Lane Craig, and in particular the festering, septic ulcer of a lecture that he calls "How evolution drove me to believe in God," and that can be found here: http://shockawenow.webs.com/apps/podcast Now, I've said it before but I'll say it again. I enjoy watching videos about philosophy, but that's about where it ends for me. I don't consider myself particularly knowledgeable in the area and avoid addressing these kinds of issues, so I've not had reason until now to comment of William Lane Craig. I have, however, seen countless criticisms of him in the past and am more than aware of his intellectual dishonesty and infuriatingly smug and self-satisfied demeanor. My opinion of him, however, plunged to previously unimagined depths when I heard this podcast. It is without doubt one of the most reprehensibly dishonest pieces of shit it's been my misfortune to hear. Craig claims to be discussing the current state of Science with regard to questions of origins and yet only quotes creationist propaganda. He claims that his mind remains undecided on the question of "God's involvement" in evolution and yet all he does is spout his pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo to the contrary with not even a nod in the direction of what the vast majority of biologists, paleontologists and geologists have to say on the matter. And all of this is dishonesty is delivered with a straight face to young, impressionable minds under the guise of "education." The man is a shit-bag of indescribable immensity and I personally would be hard pressed to bring myself to piss on him if her were on fire lest I waste some perfectly good urine. The lecture itself quite frankly deserves to be dissected in detail, but is so full of lies that I doubt there's enough room on my hard drive to hold the resulting HH episode. For the time being I've settled for explaining to Shock why his research methods leave a lot to be desired while telling exactly what I think of his source. As an aside, I'd like to thank everyone who help mirror the VFX video -- I very much. At almost 125K views I think I can safely say it was a success! Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No.45 in D major (K 95) -------------------------------- References --------------- Speciation: Crossley, S. A. (1974). Evolution 28: 631-647. de Wet, J. M. J. (1971). Taxon 20: 29-35. Dobzhansky, T. and Pavlovsky, O. (1971). Nature. 230: 289-292. Feder, J. L. et al. (1988). Nature 336: 61-64. Gottleib, L. D. (1973). Am. J. Bot. 60: 545-553. Macnair, M. R. and Christie, P. (1983). Heredity 50: 295-302. McPheron, B. A. et al. (1988). Nature 336: 64-66. Pasterniani, E. (1969). Evolution 23: 534-547. Shikano, S., et al. (1990). Ecology 20: 75-84. Smith, D. C. (1988). Nature 336: 66-67. Waring, G. L. et al. (1990). Evolution 44: 1648-1655. Weinberg, J. R. et al. (1992). Evolution 46: 1214-1220. Transitional Fossils: Ahlberg, P.E. and Johanson, Z. (1998). Nature 395: 792--794. Ahlberg, P.E., et al. (2008). Nature 453: 1199--1204. Anderson J. S., et al. (2008) Nature 453:515-518. Berman, D.S., et al. (1992). J. Paleontol. 66: 481--499. Brazeau, M.D. and Ahlberg, P.E. (2006). Nature 439: 318-321. Clack, J. A. (2002). Nature 418: 72--76. Ji, Q., et al. (2002). Nature 416: 816--822. McFadden, B.J. (1988). Evol. Biol. 22: 131-58. Paton, R.L., et al. (1999). Nature 398, 508-513. Shu, D.G., et al. (2003). Nature 421: 526--529. Thewissen, J.G.M., et al. (1994). Science 263: 210-212. Zhu M., el al. (2009): Nature 458: 469-474. Miscellaneous: Glassburn, T. (1995). Palaeontology, 38, 133-151. Joseph, L.. et al. (2008). Proc R Soc B 275: 2431-40. Kidwell, S.M. and Holland, S.M. (2002). Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 33: 561--88. Kidwell, S.M. and Sepkoski, J.J. (1999). Paleontological Society, Spec. Publ. vol. 9, ed. J. Scotchmoor and D. A. Springer, p.61-76
Some Questions For VenomFangX TheLivingDinosaur 2011-06-14 | The fact that Shawn tried to claim that the Big Bang was described in the Bible has always bugged me since I made Holy Hallucinations 19 and I've brought up the discrepancy a number of times to him but he's never had the decency or the testicles to explain himself. Luckily for me he's gone and damned himself from his own mouth and I'm putting out this video to draw a line under the subject now that I have clear evidence that he's still the same old dishonest little Christian that he's always been. I'm going to try and put this up as a response to Shawn's "9 Reasons Why It's Time for Thunderf00t to Quit" video, but I have absolutely no reason to believe that it will be accepted nor that Shawn will do anything to explain himself. With that in mind, I would at the very least like to embarrass him for his dishonesty as much as I can by having the video pop up in as many places as possible. If you agree and would like to help with that then please feel free to mirror this video on your channel, or anywhere else for that matter. If you don't know how to download videos from Youtube, you can get an HD copy from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?f1s7wqnnwbcs0h0 SOURCES: Holy Hallucinations 19: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsyvZQOTU4U 9 Reasons Why It's Time for Thunderf00t to Quit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftoe1FfqkIY Thunderf00t Serves Death: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKY4ssYZsRQ&feature=related Why Do People Laugh at Ccreationists? Parts 35 and 36: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEWVt6xyjLU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By17QNKQQ44 VenomFangX's four-part interview on Tuesday Afternoon (the clips used in this video are in part 1): http://12tuesday.com/podcast-31-interview-with-shawn-venomfangx-part-i-of-iv http://12tuesday.com/podcast-32-interview-with-shawn-%E2%80%9Cvenomfangx%E2%80%9D-part-ii-of-iv http://12tuesday.com/podcast-33-venomfangx-part-3 http://12tuesday.com/podcast-34-venomfangx-4 Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin and Two Cellos in C Major, 1st and 3rd Movements (RV561, 'Il Proteo')
Why I Despise Creationists TheLivingDinosaur 2011-06-09 | Now and again I get a comment saying that my use of the occasional tactical insult or profanity are detracting from the message of my videos and that I should take the high ground when dealing with the festering pustules otherwise known as creationists. There is certainly merit to this point of view, but I don't take my approach lightly and without having thought about it for some time. I spent over a year politely debating creationists in comments sections before I started making videos, so my perspective has been finely honed through the school of hard knocks. A recent exchange with a particular obnoxious fucktard in the comments section of one of my older videos provided a perfect example of exactly why I treat these people the way I do and inspired me to make this video to outline my motivations while using him to illustrate my point. You can find the comments referred to in this video here: http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=VC2JF898Wsc Finally, a very big thank you to you all for your very kind and consoling words following the death of my family's pet conure. We were all very touched by your sympathies and I'll try my best to keep Freddie's memory alive as an icon in the fight between rationality and ignorance. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto 26 in D Major (K537).
TEASER: Answering the 15 Questions Pamphlet TheLivingDinosaur 2011-06-09 | A trailer for a collaborative project organized by Lapkin77 and which I recently had the privilege to be asked to participate in. I'll be releasing the full-length version of my contribution once the final production is released. Also expect a new TLD release by the end of the week. An improved version of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UArBeZFlPE The original description: You wanted, asked and begged for Epic ? YOU GOT EPIC ! Here is a link to the questions that will be answered in detail : http://creation.com/images/pdfs/flyers/15-questions-for-evolutionists-s.pdf Link to all the participants in the upcoming collaboration video. They have made great efforts for this project to see the light, and they all deserve congratulations, so go check them : http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperSoylent2 http://www.youtube.com/user/chthonios http://www.youtube.com/user/ONESPECIES http://www.youtube.com/user/EvoGenVideos http://www.youtube.com/user/AnswersinBooks http://www.youtube.com/TheLivingDinosaur http://www.youtube.com/user/Chilledtea http://www.youtube.com/user/chattiestspike2 http://www.youtube.com/user/Lithodidman http://www.youtube.com/user/Martymer81 http://www.youtube.com/user/notinmyname2050 http://www.youtube.com/user/Ainulindale21 http://www.youtube.com/lapkine77 http://www.youtube.com/user/owchywawa http://www.youtube.com/user/TheKitch2 http://www.youtube.com/user/lefayad1991 Oh and bonus at the end :D
