Evolution: The Animated Short
My sweetie, in response to my pleas, has just completed his latest animated short, based upon a funny song by the talented Marla Goodman. And what did I do? I, in my senility and YWCA-induced exercise ecstacy/tanning-and-tequila stupor forgot to post it!Well, I dare anyone to resist this charmer. It will warm the cockles of the heart of the most devoted creationist.
I must admit that there are times when I get a creepy sense of direction in evolution. I had it when I first read a piece by Jonathan Wells about intelligent design and cancer. PZ Myers took care of that one, but there have been other times. Such a perception always disintegrated upon closer inspection - until John told me about this video idea. As I learned in the Galapagos, most evolution is avoidance of a conflict rather than hooves crashing and horns tangling and blood flowing. So what if evolution does have a direction and a purpose, if not toward a distant goal, then away from something else?
What what could that something else possibly be? ;-)
UPDATED: Well, there's always gotta be one critic (although what it really seemed to have a problem with was me possibly fleeing to Oxford - awww, it would miss me, would it?). So I now issue this command - do not come here if you are no fun! I wouldn't want to press the "delete" button in my sleep. *Snore*
posted by Kristine | Monday, July 16, 2007
18 Comments:
Well, I'm now convinced that any progress is illusionary.
Oh, not quite. We evolutionary biologists love our jobs. Progress is obviously just a bit subtler.
Bob
Just the thing I needed to get me going this morning, to get ready for work.
Nice animation, but I don't think I will share it at work. Gotta be 110%, you know!
John and I are both hypocrites, BTW. We love our jobs!
As if computer simulations, with designed programs, accurately represent evolution.
This is the lie Dawkins has been promoting ever since he claimed that the Nilson and Pelger computer "model" demonstrated the evolution of the eye.
It did no such thing, there was no model, and it was concerned with an eyeball, not an eye.
He knows this, you know it, but he continues to spew his bile.
And you are an willfully ignorant accomplice to his spew.
WTF? Do you think he is going to make you an assisant at Oxford?
Gawd! What a STUFFED SHIRT! Can't you have a little fun? I think somebody is jealous! Well, dearie, I don't want to be an assistant at Oxford so don't worry. Oxford is too stuffy for me - like somebody else I could mention - and therefore my secret love with the man I'm living with is safe. (But don't spread it around, huh? I'm trying to keep my closet monogamy in the closet). ;-)
Maybe you should take this test and lighten up a little! You bore the shit out of me. WTF? What are you even doing here?
And what's with the Live Search all the time BTW? I don't merit a linky, sweetie?
Geez.
Who peed in Jack Off All Trades' cornflakes?
And who stole his biology book? Give it back, he obviously needs it desperately.
Kisses
He hates his job, that's all. ;-)
Jack doesn't know jack...
Jack needs a Jill I think.
But anyway, enough about the troll! What do you think of the animation?
That was very cute. What did he use for the animation software? My significant other has been wanting to do his own thing but we know nothing about software for that.
He used Flash, which I also want to learn.
For an example of what Flash can really do, go here.
May I congratulate you on your courage for choosing that moniker. ;-) I'm not that brave.
Well it was that or "whore".
Thanks for the tip!
That was deliciously wierd - a hearty monkey scream to John!
This is a Humanist expression of evolution however, - the notion that space will be a next level for humankind is Roddenberryish and was as well depicted in the vreality game "Sim Earth"
It doesn't bode well for us when creatures like bill O'Reilly and Pat Robertson and the guy who sits in the cube across from me can crawl out from the ooze.
I hate my Job.
Oh, dear friend Rev. Barky. I was afraid that you hated your job - I guessed that. I'm sorry that things suck for you right now. Take heart, things are going to get better soon, right?
As for me, there is a downside to being in a liberal arts setting, and that is, the pay can be low, although I'm certainly doing okay, and the people are great.
As for going into space, I just had an idea for my evo vs. ID Pleasurian space opera. I'm an unabashed fan of Roddenberry - maybe someday we can teleport the cubicle jerks (a great name for a band!) to another planet.
"Set phasers for stun, and circle the cubicle jerks!" Ahem.
Don't forget to include the space adventure "Orgasmatron" from the movie "Barbarella" - or perhaps futuristic "Sleeper".
Yes I am looking for a new job at the moment.
It will feature a dance-off between creationists and science advocates, along with a bacterial flagellum dance line. If it's a hit, I'll split the royalties with you. ;-)
Okay, okay!
Rev. Barky told me in person that he wants an orgasmatron in the story. But this time, I think the victim is male, and the perpetrator female. I'll get right on it.
When it's picked up by Broadway, we're all gonna be rich! (Yeah, right...)
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