And here was me thinking peanut butter was a simple food source and not a living, breathing organism.

You win again religion.

Brilliant, Mr. Missler. Over 100 whole years? Using peanuts, sugar and hydogenated palm oil as the media, not perhaps mineral salts dissolved in a brine solution and over billions of years.

It's just like the Einsteins who experience a cold day and declare that global warming is just a myth because of such an insufficient sampling.

Yeah, they passed any science course they ever took.

In spite of the irradiation, killer pesticides, sterile conditions, vacuum seal, growth inhibiting preservatives, and genetically modified peanuts; there's always life in my jar of Jiff.

Oh, why do you taunt my faith with this unequivocal proof of Evolution?

Why me , oh Lord?

Ow, I think that almost made my head explode.

Perhaps we should quit looking for new life on Mars and start searching jars of peanut butter.

So that's why God has peanut butter grow on trees in plastic jars.

When Christians give me a viable answer as to where God came from (supposedly life, out of... nothing? Older than forever?), I will pretend their other theories make more sense.

Even if God created Earth life, what created God? If God has always been, how can this be? Why is believing in Evolution any less viable than suggesting a living being created life as we know it?

The living being has to have come from somewhere, if we're to believe that life cannot be created out of non-life. Did life create God? If so, shouldn't we be worshiping whatever birthed God? To clarify, I don't mean The Virgin Mary.

Really, every single one of us is probably clueless, sans those we consider crazies. They might have a clue, but nobody would believe them.

Even if time is some kind of wonky Mobius Strip for The Big Guy, nobody can explain where he came from.

This is why I don't claim to know anything for sure. Makes me feel like less of an ass more often.

A tiny race of people evolved in my peanut butter once, ironically they started believing in creationalism too! :(

I wish I had more time to deliberate this nonsense, but I just got home from work, and my brand-new lifeform pets, Crunchy and Creamy, both really need to be taken for a walk so they can poop some new life out..
Thank god for Science...

I would have to say that stupidity such as this is often the strongest argument against creationism and people who argue for it

What a douche bag.

1. Who is Chuck Missler?

2. How did he get so stupid?

3. Superchunk rules!!!

i've never heard of this guy and i kinda doubt he earned that title of 'engineer.' just saying engineer doesnt really tell you anything since there's so many different types, i doubt this man is any of them because he's failed to notice that last step of opening a jar of peanut butter where he takes off the vacuum seal.

this one definatly wasnt as good as the banana. my guess is that the next 'nightmares' in the series will be bread, chips, and soy milk. athiests everywhere will have to start avoiding lunch.

I don't think people like this understand that there are people like me who were in the middle ground, not knowing if I was religious or not, who are persuaded against religion when they use stupid arguements like this to try to make a point.

Sure, Christians always make all their theories and stated facts possible because "With God all things are possible". At the same time, Ahteists and Evolutionists replace God with Time. "With Time all things are possible". To say that one organism morphs into another seems very rediculous. But, then say that it happened over billions of year, now it seems more possible. That sort of deductive reasoning doesn't seem much more intelligent than the belief in God.

Also, someone asked, "Where did God come from?". Here's a more realistic question: "Where did matter come from?" Theoretically, the Big Bang started from concetrated mass, then expanded out creating the universe as we know it. Where did that first mass come from? Anyone want to answer this?

Just to help you out, there are a few theories:

1. Matter is eternal (meaning, it has always existed)
2. Time is circular, not linear (meaning, again, matter has always existed)
3. This is all a dream (Matrix theory, meaning, matter doesn't actually exist at all)
4. Something willed it into existence.

These people are terribly childish. It's much akin to when a small child tries to convince everyone else that their dad is better than any other, so they come up with increasingly bizarre claims of his abilities. However, there comes a point in the child's life when he matures and accepts that there are faults in his logic. These nuts have clearly missed that maturation.

On a more personal note...

As an engineer, I shudder to think that he is one too. At what point does he begin saying, "I don't need to calculate the stress on that beam; God will hold it up."? Granted, that's not too likely, but still, when I'm working with other engineers, I like to know that they have both feet on the ground.

I have a question for Mr. Missler.

Is your God so great and all powerful that it could create a jar of peanut butter so big, that not even he could finish all of it?

I love it when this site puts up a creationist's point of view... this video actually had some factual evidence, but nope... becuase it has to do with peanut butter, obviously an all too common and not a very serious example to base beliefs off of, you all get rowdied up and ban together to make jokes and wisecracks of the situation, just to make sure any bit of seriousness is diluted so theres no worries in your mind.

However when M&C puts up an episode of Bullshit with Penn, a highly acredited individual who would never try and deceive a soul... you all really like that sort of thing... watching that fat ponytailed man cuss, ridicule and just try to make his opposition look like complete morons... that really gives you guys a sense of security and you all attempt to leave serious and thought provoking comments on the particular subject.

Well i expect some sarcastic remarks and cheap shots from this comment, but I dont really care, i have much more security from my beliefs than most of you do, i dont have to live my life proving other people are wrong, if people want to listen they will listen.

Have an intellectual day!

Evolution is big enough for atheists, agnostics and believers alike. I would like to welcome all to the table of evolution, and to say that just because one believes in a "higher power" or considers oneself spiritual or even religious does not mean one is therefore a creationist.

I'm speechless. He could actually managed to look at that buttery smooth peanut spread without eating it. That is willpower. Praise be to God.

Uh matter and energy does create life, like bacteria. Also there is a difference between faith and theory: Theories are based on fact and testable. I suggest everyone look up the term scientific theory. Gravity, for example, is a theory.

Perhaps we should take some iron ore, a sort of primordial ooze if you will, put it all in an industrial strength dryer and let it spin around for about 200 years. Theoretically, something like an assembled, perfectly machined, Chevy 454 big block with a perfect paint job should fall onto the floor after this ludicrously long cycle. Seeing as how this engine, even perfectly machined and assembled... is thousands upon thousands times less complicated than something as trivial as a skin cell, the random events in the dryer over these 200 years should yield nothing, any less complicated than this combustion engine.

MMMMM peanut butter pie... mmmmmm

if the peanut was to "come to life" why not just say the jar would aswell ? or his clothes? The man needs a few classes in chemistry biology and physics, wee bit of understanding of the laws of entropy wouldn't do him any harm now would it ?

According to this MSNBC article 48% of Americans reject evolution....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17879317/site/newsweek/

Before I read the comments, I thought this video was going to be a spoof of that rather famous Kirk Cameron video: "The Atheist's Nightmare: The Banana" .

Instead, I now realize that this is merely another video in a long unwatchable series. What's next? "The Atheist's Nightmare: Chocolate"?

From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Missler:

In 1999, Chuck Missler received his Ph.D. from the unaccredited Louisiana Baptist University where he is currently a speaker.

First, I'd like to recommend a book entitled "Finding Faith: The Search for what Makes Sense" by Brian McLaren. There is a sister book called "Finding Faith: The Search for what is Real", which is irrelevant to this conversation. Pick up the "Makes Sense" title and I think you'll get into the head of those who seek faith, experience faith and even lose faith. It does not offer answers or empirical evidence. Rather, it suggests a proper way to explore faith issues, along with asking endless questions.

"Is there a God?", is a unique question in science, because it's inquiring about an architect that not only conceived of all time, matter, life and physical law, but also is not limited by those things, and likely doesn't occupy those confines like we do. How does one actually measure that?

The anwer to that question, for most, cannot be answered cognitively. It may be suggested by many things in this universe, but the universe doesn't truly offer any actual proof. The route by which someone can answer this for themselves is faith. And faith is something that stretches you way past the cognitive and into the non-cognitive.

But in reality, perhaps it's not much of a stretch for us, because that is how most of our lives are lives day to day- non-cognitively (thoughts, emotions, feelings, experiences, questions of purpose). Sceince and Evolutionary Theory may try to offer explanations behind those very things, but in the end show themselves to be rather irrelevant to our daily personal lives. We still seem to fall in love, feel alone, wonder if there is something more to this world, and have things happen around us that do not have any clear explanations. Regardless of data or scientific theory, this is how our lives will continue to be lived.

It is in that realm that we ask questions, real questions about God, because it has to do with our personal lives. Science and evolutionary theory don't have much to do with our personal lives in terms of "the real questions" we wrestle with daily. We will still have feelings, thoughts and experiences that science doesn't seem to satisfy. What will, then? That is when we start exploring faith.

We explore faith, because we're smart enough to know that science will not discover God for us. He must be discovered by some other means. Faith seems to be that vehicle. It is something sought, not always had. It can be allusive and frustrating, but at least it's a path worth exploring.

The problem with Theists is that they often claim that it's obvious and unquestionable that there is a God, as if there is actual scientific evidence. In doing so, they even try to leave the realm of their own faith to prove cognitively that there is a God. That's a big mistake on their part. Again, I do believe that the univserse suggests his existence, but certainly offers no proof of it.

Perhaps it is in man's desperate search and awareness of God, that the most convincing argument is built. He may very well be real, but I wouldn't wait for science to answer that for you. You must answer that for yourself. And so for those that deny his existence:

1. You don't have enough knowledge of the universe to truly make that claim in terms of absolutes. You're not an Atheist, you're an Agnostic, because you simply don't know if there is a God. At least for the sake of humility (which is a very good virtue), admit that you simply don't know. Otherwise you're claiming to know the expanse of the entire universe, and you don't.

2. You're only working with half of your brain when attempting to prove he exists through conventional means. Remember that there is a non-cognitive realm that needs to be investigated within all of us. I suggest operating and exploring on both levels.

In the meantime, it's a wonderful discussion and should cause everyone to question what they believe and why they believe it. It pushes us down the path a little more.

Thanks for the discussion, eveyone. It really made me think. I apologize anyone that I may have offended along the way. Hope we can consider one another friends.

Cheers