Sterile jar of peanut butter disproves Darwinian evolution

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I guess the creationists have won:

(HT: Pandagon.) I've seen this before, but I didn't post it.

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AutismNewsBeat said…
The only thing this moron proves is Germ Theory.
5:18 PM, April 11, 2007
Anonymous said…
I'm not a scientist, so I wrote this with help from my friend Alden Loveshade. We would like to ask those who made this video a few questions.

First off, did they actually check a several-times-opened jar of peanut butter to see if there was microscopic life in it? We think there would be. And if they did check, did they then do a scientific analysis to see if that life was related to life as we know it or was a new form of life all together?

Second, are they proposing that exposing a vacuum-packed, sealed jar of peanut butter to the atmosphere and the energy from a light bulb, then keeping that jar closed for a few days or weeks until the peanut butter is eaten, is the equivalent of lightning and meteors striking an entire, open air planet over a period of millions or billions of years?

Third, if new life did spontaneously appear in that jar, are they saying it would be superior to already existing life, so that the already existing life wouldn't just eat it?

Fourth, are they aware that abiogenesis, which unlike evolution deals with life coming from non-life, replaced Aristotle's concept of spontaneous generation? This is the idea that maggots spontaneously generate from rotting meat, fleas from putrid matter, etc. Are they aware that the Christian church viewed Aristotle as the authority on such matters, and that it was the Christian church that for centuries promoted the idea that life spontaneously came from non-life?

Fifth, do they truly believe that planet Earth is a jar of peanut butter?
9:22 PM, July 26, 2008
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