But it sounds like I should go back for the interpreter. Keynote speaker Matt Inman introduces us to a new deity, enlightening the San Francisco audience in the process, in the first ever BAHFest West keynote at th. To be honest though, I stopped watching after a minute or so, when I realized that this was "The Oatmeal" guy, because I tend to get tired of his comics by the second cell it felt like the same thing. I think of this talk as a lost opportunity for some clever scientific humor. Are you going to include any of the Jibber Crabst characters. I'd love to see someone take the "principals" of baraminology and apply them to candy bars, or Marvel movies, or types of pasta - that would be a clever skewering of creationism's methods. It reminded me of a kid making fun of another kid named "Robert" by calling him "Poopert", over and over again. I, for one, welcome our new fire breathing overlord. The best one: Walmart is teaming with FEMA and the federal government to turn some of its stores into concentrations camps for American citizens particularly scared, gun. But Walmart conspiracy theories emerged right away. And while there are ways of engaging with creationism's bad science (I usually enjoy "actual biologist visits creationist museum" vids and podcasts), this didn't so much engage with it as taunt it. creations of a fire breathing lobster who lives behind Saturns rings known as Jibbers Crabst. aNewDomain Walmart closed five stores on short notice recently, supposedly due to plumbing problems. That comic you linked to, the one that inspired the event, poked fun at people who are scientific but are doing it badly. A Strong Argument for Jibbers Crabst Worship (OT obviously) - SuperTopos climbing discussion forum is the worlds most popular community discussion forum. Skewering of Christian creationism and science-denial seems eminently appropriate.
It's an event devoted to presenting, and laughing about, poor evolutionary science.