TheLivingDinosaur's video: Holy Hallucinations 28: A Tale of Tiktaalik

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.