I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore.

[@potaterjim]

“Merely a theory, like the shape of the earth!” When futurama was ahead of its time

[@MegaChickenfish]

I think it's more that creationists are around 7000 years *behind* their time.

[@zigzoinks5493]

It lives up to its name.

[@roguishpaladin]

No...sadly we were fighting this battle back then, too, and before that.

[@kingdavid7516]

​@@MegaChickenfish I consider myself a "creationist", but not a "young earth creationist". I believe something greater than ourselves exists and our universe is not what it seems. The universe itself only exists with consciousness, or at least it behaves differently - depending on if someone's observing it nor not. There's all sorts of power laws that determine our universe, and the fibonacci sequence is everywhere. Everything else would be personal, subjective Faith, and existential dread. But I do believe in natural selection. Darwin never criticized the Church and in fact they buried him in Westminster Abbey. I think, like Copernicus telling us that we were not the center of the universe - this new science frightens and confuses _some_ religious people. Of course, no one today would find this basic fact controversial when it comes to having faith. I think Soren Kierkegaard, a very religious man, but it best here: _"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion-and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority."_

[@kingdavid7516]

Also, maybe I'm out of touch, but you don't have too many people fighting evolution these days, do you? Right now a lot of the anti-science people - from my experience, anyways - are coming from far-left ideologues arguing about "gender fluidity" and gender dysphoria. You've also got people saying a human life is not a life, until it is "viable outside of the womb". There's also anti-science people in climate change. On both sides. Those flat out denying its existence, or the human intervention is speeding it up - but also climate change alarmists spreading misinformation and think if half of the world goes vegan and switches light bulbs, we can reverse climate change. We can't. Pseudoscience comes from the left, the right, the center, religious, atheist, agnostic - whatever. It's what happens when you become an ideologue and put your beliefs ahead of the *scientific method*. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to realign my chakras and take my homeopathic medicine.

[@plywoodruntz]

What I like about this scene is that it makes fun of people misusing the word "theory".

[@devilmonkey427]

I don't remember that...

[@The_Dragon_Tiamat]

@@devilmonkey427 "It's just a theory like gravity or the earth being round." Doctor banjo 3000ish

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

A theory in casual conversation is an idea, a theory in academia is a concept that has been established, peer reviewed, demonstrated as replicable (this can be mathematical or physical so long as the results can be achieved time and time again while obeying other established laws of physics, thermodynamics, etc), and confirmed as fact (which will inevitably be expanded upon and disproven, but is for now fact).

[@juangrille1310]

@@shadowspider9 Exactly so, people confuse theory with hypothesis all the time... It's so popular that you have channels like the Game Theorists and stuff

[@imaloser5689]

@@juangrille1310 mostly because of the outdated term "law" if we stopped teaching that then people would probably catch on.

[@jiado6893]

This is an example of "moving the goal posts."

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

We see it all the time from the Naturalist Evolutionist types when it is pointed out that it takes a greater leap of faith to believe the Universe, the specific values of the universal constants which dictate its Laws, and Life itself, are all one giant coincidence, rather than the deliberate and intentional creation of an intelligent mind who made it with purpose and focus. So they move the goalposts to a position that is unscientific and can never be proven. The idea of a Multiverse. All God has to do is to condescend (in the original and literal meaning of the word) and step down and show Himself in the flesh and bone and like any archaeological find you could then observe and measure Him. Whereas inanimate objects like separate universes cannot and never can be proven to exist, as part of the definition of being separate from our universe means they cannot be observed or measured, and thus are not a scientifically provable hypothesis.

[@John231984]

@@GreyWolfLeaderTW Oh, the ironic stupidity of your post. And inaccuracy.

[@bleachmaster1545]

@@GreyWolfLeaderTW Whether you believe in God or not science does not disprove God.

[@zoidmaster88]

BleachMaster15 that’s not entirely true we can use science to observe relics of the past and come to a conclusion. I.e fossils and artifacts their carbon dating shows that they existed before the Bible says the world was created and the fact that those examples have survived a supposedly great flood which would destroy them. That and science says their are more than just our planet out their and the worlds isn’t flat where religion does says the world is flat and only our planet earth is the only planet and the only one with life.

[@bleachmaster1545]

@@zoidmaster88 Disproving the bible also does not disprove the existence of a higher being.

[@thomaslegg5362]

"things dont exist simply because you believe in them" "Thus sayeth the almighty creature in the sky!"

[@DgardsGaming]

That’s not controversial at all

[@viirinsoftworks1304]

His extremely obvious hypocrisy is the joke.

[@jasonbuckley4118]

@@viirinsoftworks1304 and repeating the joke was tottaly Him missing the joke. so you had to be the guy that had to explain the joke, thus ruining the joke.

[@maeschder]

@@DgardsGaming controversial to mouth-breathers maybe

[@fabrypetty1689]

@Kamen Rider Kuuga Yeah with the main difference evolution has full documented proof, in many forms.

[@ShyBiiteVT]

Professor Banjo perfectly embodying the phrase ,"I reject your reality, and substitute my own".

[@stingywingy1607]

Replace your reality with just reality

[@exoticjamm]

I REJECT YOUR REALITY, JOJO!

[@Dalipsingh111111]

Nice! Dungeon Masters! ^^

[@Vazin2727]

Susan Bones I can’t believe I’m seeing an SAO abridged quote here.

[@mrfafaa96]

@@user-bo1pz7fh5c Oh, and I was so happy there for a second.

[@Kiriyamare1]

"Evolution is merely a theory, like gravity, or the shape of the earth" This has aged so well it's giving me shivers.

[@The_Mighty_Fiction]

"Or the gender binary and sexual dimorphism."

[@LisaAnn777]

@@The_Mighty_Fiction I'm pretty sure that's because those are two separate things, sexual dimorphism refers to biological sex, gender spectrum refers to gender identities.

[@The_Mighty_Fiction]

@@LisaAnn777 Uh-huh. That's your 'theory,' is it?

[@LisaAnn777]

@@The_Mighty_Fiction not mine that's what others says. I honestly don't give a rats a$$

[@MLBlue30]

@@The_Mighty_Fiction Pretty easy to figure out. Just google some shit or make friends with some non binary people, coward.

[@thisaccountnameiscompletel8949]

Doesn’t banjo disprove himself when he agrees that Homo sapiens evolved from Homo Erectus at the start.

[@ninetails6218]

It literally got whittled down to "apes evolved into slightly bigger apes", so yes

[@willphoenix5464]

He also disproved himself when he said his ancestors were orangutans as well

[@birritan5479]

He’s moving the goalposts in between each of these question-answer cycles. It’s a shitty debate tactic, but you can see it get used pretty frequently once you know to look for it

[@Diego-zz1df]

Denialists don't defend their arguments, they use troll logic, obfuscating stupidity and nitpicking to poke holes at other people's arguments, then claim theirs are the correct ones because their opponents failed to meet some arbitrary, completely irrelevant criteria they set up.

[@yeager1957]

His belief is that the two aren’t actually related and the others are just extinct. As a side note a uplifted animal like banjo not believing in evolution actually makes some degree of sense because he was created by intelligent design, granted by humans instead of a deity.

[@hewhomustnotbenamed5912]

When comedy is to accurate of a representation of reality. Edit on 10 July 2023: Islam is not "especially bad". I was a fool who didn't understand that religion evolves with the culture that adopts it, that culture is held back by poverty, and that poverty is created by imperialism. History repeats itself, so if powerful nations such as the US stopped invading and economically dominating Islamic nations, then they would become more socially progressive. This can be proven by observing Islamic communities living in Christian societies. Furthermore, there are plenty of other things I've said in this reply section that I no longer belief. I warn against assuming anything about my beliefs based off anything I wrote more than a year ago. I do however, still hold that the state of religious domination in the US is a depressing sight. I do not however, see religion is the single largest causer of modern society's problems. I no longer wish to engage in long debates about the ethics of books that most people haven't personally read.

[@guillermoolivaiii9550]

That is the key irony to mock the idiotic nature of us Humans.

[@ethanwinters1469]

@@guillermoolivaiii9550 speak for yourself elmo is very smart

[@juangrille1310]

@@guillermoolivaiii9550 I bet you love The Onion

[@killthemwithfirelol]

Sounds like someone has never heard the phrase, "it's funny because it's true."

[@hewhomustnotbenamed5912]

@@killthemwithfirelol usually the truth isn't that depressing tough.

[@davidsmith8826]

“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” Mark Twain P.S Comment section is about to turn cancerous I don’t want to live in this comment section any more

[@alexschalk5439]

That's a Mark Twain quote, not Bismark.

[@kymattok]

@@alexschalk5439 hush. It soulds better if it comes from the iron chancellor

[@Andy-hd6fi]

Mark Twain also said " There once was a black guy named nigger bob" so maybe not everything he said was correct.

[@catxborsuq1]

@@Andy-hd6fi Ah, a fan of Louis CK, I see xD

[@loganhall3769]

@@Andy-hd6fi wasn't it "Jim"

[@randalthor394]

Aww, you cut off the best part, which is them immediately actually leaving the planet.

[@JonathanLundkvist]

FASTER FASTER!

[@SystemUpdate310]

And the conclusion of the episode, that robotic lifeform, although evolved originally came from a creator. Implying that the first organic life on earth could also came from a creator. That is the lesson of the whole episode if you watch it carefully.

[@rabbit0664]

I was hoping they'd show that part.

[@courier6945]

@@SystemUpdate310 BUNK!

[@ryuzakikun96]

We are not at all able to prove that life somehow spontaneously popped into existence from a non-living molecule. Hell, we can't even really get a complete picture of Earth's prehistory yet. Do we have evidence for evolution? Sure. But is evolution the only possible to answer to the questions of the origins of life? I'd say no. There is way too much that we do not yet know, and may never know. Does this mean I believe in God? Not necessarily.

[@tomperzelan5775]

“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain

[@Grebnedlo]

Not mark twain but a fun quote

[@thejuiceking2219]

it's not that they're idiots, it's that they just don't care

[@MetalGameRising]

"I don't understand evolution and I must protect my kids from understanding it." The realest Karens are beyond their time...

[@huntercool2232]

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[@abstract5249]

Replace evolution with critical race theory and it's up to date.

[@timothylewis7492]

What episode is this?

[@The_Mighty_Fiction]

You might want to check in on some of the school board hearings that have been taking place recently (that the media have been _frantically_ ignoring) and learn some of the consequences of state education forcibly removing parents from the teaching of their own children. Find out what some elementary school kids now understand about handjob techniques, for example.

[@rafaelmartinez9259]

@@The_Mighty_Fiction how about stop lying for clout?

[@legathar8558]

Fun fact: the Flying Spaghetti Monster was created in order to make fun of creationists. When Kansa allowed intelligent design to be taught alongside evolution, Bobby Henderson demanded Pastafarianism to be taught as well. He also said that pirates were the original Pastafarians and that the decline of pirates is the cause of global warming.

[@PointsofData]

Its also been used to mock religions in general and how much leeway they get legally

[@jacebagley3025]

And now it's a legit religion

[@maxxor-overworldhero6730]

@@jacebagley3025 Honestly, I think that just cements that Atheism is ridiculous. And I mean in the terms of how the particularly hostile Atheists (arguably the majority of them) insist that you don't need religion or such, and how it's all bull. And yet here it is, one of their mockeries unironically becoming exactly what it was meant to mock. And quite frankly, I say the same about Atheism - it's a secular religion of vehemently and vitriolically opposing any (but especially Judeo-Christian) religion.

[@The_Wolf_At_Your_Door]

@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Yea it would be great if atheist didn't exist. I mean, if only someone can PROVE their religion true with solid evidence instead of following stories that are thousands of years old.

[@maxxor-overworldhero6730]

@@The_Wolf_At_Your_Door Just because Faith is involved doesn't mean that there isn't evidence. For example, the only reason that we confirmed that the Hittites, King Nimrod, the Assyrian capital of Ninevah, Gath and various other named places all existed is because of Archeologists using the Bible for reference. Archeological digs have found evidence of a battle where David and Goliath fought. Expanding on the Tel Aviv airport's runways had construction workers stumble upon the remains of a gate to a Biblical city thought either lost or made up. And then you have records of the Romans officially talking about Jesus on a bureaucratic level. There's even preserved records from Magi orders that show extremely strange astronomical phenomena near or right at the star Regulus of the constellation Leo, which gives credence to the story of the Magi, since not only in Astrology does that have a literal "King of Kings" symbology (Regulus is known as the "King Star", and Leo as a Lion held obvious ties to kinghood symbolically), but we know that Magi living during the Babylonian Exile interacted frequently with the Jews in exile, and they would have been as a result well-versed in the prophecies of Isaiah and such. I ramble a bit, but my point is that even if you don't believe the supernatural stuff, there's so much that doesn't get talked about nearly as much as it should. And it's truly, truly fascinating.

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

"We will not give in to the thinkers!" wow these types of people actually exist now, it's not even a joke

[@aitipsea3909]

Is sad, isn't it?

[@Ricardowieringa]

Mr マックラ o they always existed but now they have twitter and a tumbler blog

[@HighKingOfSkyrim37]

I find it funny a woman in a suit said it.

[@unintentionallydramatic]

They've always existed. You're more aware of them because there's an industry dedicated to delivering the worst of humanity right to your forebrain now.

[@Wurmo]

Thinkers can always be bought.$$$

[@Thrifty032781]

The debate with Dr. Banjo was a spot on commentary on the way creationists, and other advocates of weak scientific ideas, shift the goalposts around when they start to fail

[@BlehhhXP]

I think there’s no reason god and evolution can’t both exist

[@Thrifty032781]

@@BlehhhXP I agree. It seems arrogant to believe God could not have used evolution to create life.

[@ZeroX7649]

@@BlehhhXP The problem is people deny God because they think it makes them smarter. The reason goalposts shift is because Science is finite and changing and God is infinite and absolute. When you ask enough questions, evolution without creation is an impossibility. In reality, you could view the two as one in the same.

[@user-wb8iu1hl6i]

@@BlehhhXP You can believe in some deist conception of God that created the universe and then went away, but Darwinian evolution pretty much precludes the idea of a personal god

[@muslymier]

@@Thrifty032781 Actually that's impossible. But only because evolution is the change in existing life, not the creation of it. Evolution needs life to be already present for it to happen.

[@darkglass3011]

This just goes to show just how irritating it is when the goal post is continuously moved away from you every time you prove the opposition wrong.

[@TheIndieGamesNL]

@Stale Bagelz to be fair you must be exceptionally stupid to read the bible literally as its meant methaphorically and symbolically, theres a symbolical psychological truth within these ancient texts - Carl Jung

[@fupoflapo2386]

@Stale Bagelz seriously?

[@skwills1629]

@Stale Bagelz Athists like you reveal one thing to me. This is not about being angry at Religin, its being angry at only Christianity, and not because Christians oppose Science, but because you need to push your own Religion. By the way Atheists move goal posts all the Time. Like when Atheists use Timothy McVeig as an example of Christian Terrorism, ven though he was an agnostic, and eventhiugh his motivations were political, but deny Atheismhad anything to do with COmmunism, and claim it was urely political...

[@AlexBrown230]

@@skwills1629 Because Tmothy McVeigh is the only example of religious atrocities, Albigensian Crusade ring a bell? how about the Salem Witch Burnings? The other Crusades? The Inquisition? Yes, communism is a political belief, like any extreme political ideology and has noting to do with religion. So yeah, these backward ideology of creationism should be mocked back to the stone ages where it belongs, along with other backward idiotic ideas.

[@andyroobrick-a-brack9355]

@@AlexBrown230 Just because someone commits an attrocity in the name of a religion, doesn't mean that religion is violent.

[@NameName2.0]

I like how much fun the professor seems to have, naming off each and every link between apes and humans

[@nachomolaolivera7580]

Actually those weren't apes, they are ancestors of both humans and apes.

[@pavelgorokhov2976]

@@nachomolaolivera7580 they were apes because humans are apes.

[@nachomolaolivera7580]

@@pavelgorokhov2976 NO, that common ancestor both apes and humans have cannot be called an ape, it has differences towards apes like the ones apes have towards humans, it's a completely different genre.

[@omeke9336]

@@nachomolaolivera7580 Bruh, humans are apes.

[@omeke9336]

@@nachomolaolivera7580 that thing was an ape too

[@grinsmckenzie7122]

There are a lot of good jokes in this scene, but "undisprovable science" is really underappreciated.

[@duckqueak]

disunderappreciated

[@insertobligatoryreferenceh489]

My favorite was "Thus saith the almighty creature in the sky!"

[@napiersh1]

@@insertobligatoryreferenceh489 The line Dr. Banjo says before that makes that line you mentioned even better. "Things don't exist simply because you believe in them!"

[@The_Mighty_Fiction]

'Undisprovable science,' huh? I wonder if you could tell me, what sex is a birth-giving person?

[@grinsmckenzie7122]

@@The_Mighty_Fiction The joke is that "undisprovable science" is an oxymoron. A valid scientific hypothesis must be disprovable so it can be tested. The orangutan in the scene is arguing nonsense, like anyone who puts forward undisprovable claims.

[@whynot-tomorrow_1945]

I love how Dr. Banjo is talking about the "great creature in the sky" while they are, quite literally, in the sky on a space station 😂

[@SweatierAcorn]

You know people still gonna argue about dumb shit like this while literally standing on proof they're wrong.

[@striker8961]

He’s in space, and calls the shape of the earth… a theory

[@greysnake2903]

Is he a discworld reference?

[@ALittleBitOfGay]

​@@SweatierAcornthey already do, or drive anyway. Oil companies quite literally find oil using radiometric dating. But obviously radiometric dating doesn't work because it's contrary to the Bible. Good thing there's that one creationist oil company that doesn't use radiometric dating since it's bunk. Hmm, I wonder how much oil its prospectors find, or what its stock price looks like.

[@parker-boy98]

The fact that the guy who literally stated his ancestors were orangutans is against the idea of evolution is turning me for a loop. Really says a lot about society, doesn't it?

[@echo5327]

Parker Green I mean cuz he is an orangutan which is saying that his own ancestors are also orangutans, thus he didn’t evolve, this evolution doesn’t exist

[@autismobinch135]

Parker Green We live in a society gamers rise up

[@Hyper_Drud]

And to think, this episode was aired somewhere between the late 2000s and 2010s.

[@parker-boy98]

@@echo5327 Okay, I get your point

[@parker-boy98]

@@autismobinch135 Oh shut the fuck up "we live in a society" what's that supposed to mean?

[@shizumeru_]

The thing about this slideshow device is that the professor only presses a button to display the next species, which means all the images were already loaded onto the device. Dr. Banjo presents each step as a missing piece, yet the answer to his own question is on his own data drive.

[@justsomeguy6545]

Mabey he was downloading images from the internet

[@scrittle]

Judging from the fact you can have ads inserted into your dreams, Farnsworth probably projected it there via his own thoughts.

[@persepolis4237]

This scene It's so good it reminds me of a debate I've seen on a podcast. The creationist brought several printed articles saying the data in there disproved the scientist point but the scientist knew those papers firsthand and they were actually going against what the creationist was saying. Funny thing the creationist was also a scientist.

[@codyeaster290]

@@persepolis4237 "Funny thing the creationist was also a scientist." Surely any scientist other than an evolutionist, right?

[@petitnicollas]

"Merely a theory like gravity or the shape of the earth" I'm going to create the anti-gravity movement. The prophecy will be fulfilled.

[@pyroshell5652]

Thing is, Einstein stated that you can't tell the difference between gravity and sufficient acceleration. So it would tie in with the Flat Earth theory, and if anything, would give them more ammunition to use.

[@petitnicollas]

@@pyroshell5652 Yeah exactly. Buy my new book: "Gravity doesn't exist, the Earth is Flat and Vaccines are bad for you. Now give me your money"

[@IronLegionnaire1]

@@pyroshell5652 except since gravity is an acceleration of 9.81m/s/s, if a flat Earth was accelerating upwards at that speed, it would eventually move beyond the speed of light or (in a realistic scenario, but we're talking about a flat Earth here) become unable to speed up because it's impossible to move beyond the speed of light, meaning we'd no longer be speeding up, which would mean there'd be nothing keeping us on Earth as we'd be moving at the same speed as earth with nothing pulling us towards it.

[@octaviusroosevelt7355]

Little late for that, my friend.

[@bskec2177]

look up the book "Gravity is a Push".

[@psychee1]

"Pshaw! Things don't exist just because you believe in them. THUS SAYETH THE ALMIGHTY CREATURE IN THE SKY!" Futurama's writing is just too good.

[@muigokublack6487]

Alot of the writers had masters degrees and PhDs. I think Groning said to the effect of "We were probably the smartest people in the world writing for an animated comedy"

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

*Groening

[@PC.NickRowan]

Funnily enough, to say "I don't want to live on this planet anymore, in the year 3000 is a very reasonable statement and viable plan of action.

[@johnnygang9836]

The funny thing is that instantly after they say ¨I dont want to live on this planet anymore¨ they immediatly leave the planet

[@kraigshall]

Sadly it's not so viable back in 2022... Because fuck me I don't want to live on this world anymore

[@windows7504]

I mean, you can just leave... It's not rocket science!

[@ninakrishnamurthy6674]

Except… it literally IS rocket science. How else would you leave the planet?

[@TheUltraDinoboy]

​@@ninakrishnamurthy6674It's the year 3000, they could be using a teleporter or something. Not rocket science smh

[@dingochungis6814]

i think i saw this episode when i was like 12 or something and the jokes seemed weak to me back then, outside of "i don't wanna live on this planet anymore" gotta say, as an adult... the jokes are better, and painfully accurate to many people

[@Toneill029]

There are only somethings that can be appreciated when you are older.

[@nate3487]

This episode didn't come out thaaat long ago, if you saw it when you were 12 you'd be... Oh god, you'd be 21. This episode is nearly 10 years old

[@claudevandog]

That's how a lot of Futurama is to me, it was kinda funny to 12 year old me, but when I watch it now it's way funnier cuz I get most of the jokes. Most people think of "adult humor" as just sex jokes and innuendos, but it can also be stuff like this

[@sjakierulez]

@@claudevandog The idea that adult humor is just sex is mainly American .

[@米空軍パイロット]

@@claudevandog Because it's inaccurately named. That stuff is more for teenagers who are just starting to explore sex.

[@corruptangel6793]

The Professor: "I've traveled through time, I literally saw us evolve! I witnessed the Big Bang! Several times! Bender, you were there, tell them!" Bender: "I've met God."

[@DiddyKong393]

LOL

[@softan]

Bender even was god for an episode

[@ELLE_3773]

For once I actually appreciate that this whole clip wasn't just simply a freebooted couple of minutes from a show, nor a 15 second clip for our ever reducing attention span, instead it actually gave previous scenes as context for what was essentially a punchline already anticipated by the title. gg.

[@codyeaster290]

"For once I actually appreciate that this whole clip wasn't just simply a freebooted couple of minutes from a show, nor a 15 second clip for our ever reducing attention span" This was 13 years ago.

[@baconsir1159]

You’d think the whole episode was making fun of creationism, but the punchline is that Farnsworth creates evolving robots that turn into a copy of human civilisation and don’t believe he (or anyone) created them. This episode was fantastic all around.

[@Popebug]

It does make fun of creationists. Because they're annoying morons.

[@baconsir1159]

@@Popebug Oh boy, way to neither read nor respond to anything past the first comma

[@axldave9940]

@@baconsir1159 Well, technically he's right. It does make fun of creationists, but then adds an ironic twist at the end as a sort of "Wouldn't it be funny if they were actually right?" thing.

[@axldave9940]

@@MrGamis No, that is the focus. That's why this entire scene exists, to highlight the lengths of work and evidence that go into proving evolution, and the kind of ignorant jackassery that creationist apologists come up with in response to it. The part at the end is more a commentary on how the idea of a creator itself has not been disproven. But that doesn't change the fact that creationists are such ignorant jackasses that nothing they say can be taken seriously.

[@AbysmalGaming]

@@axldave9940 You’re acting equally as jackassish as the creationist you call jackasses. You are no different to them in your jackarsery. Equally jackassis. I too, also am. By telling you that you are equally as jackassish, I have become a jackass.

[@Anglomachian]

It's terrifying how accurate this all was. I like the Piltdown man reference.

[@TattiePeeler]

Don't forget Manfred Mann! ☝️

[@skwills1629]

It is not really accurate though. It feeds on a sterype of what Creatinism is. Or what Religion is.

[@GeneralKenobi75]

@@skwills1629 No, its pretty accurate. Creationists live in a fantasy world.

[@skwills1629]

@@GeneralKenobi75 No more so than Evolutinists. Insulting people neer proves anything, and in caes like this, when you use Insults to be dismissive it proves how childish you are an dhow invalid anything you say is.

[@GeneralKenobi75]

@@skwills1629 Neither does making up crap. Which is the whole basis for creationism. Speaking of childish, who taught you grammar?

[@TheBigGMan123]

"I don't want to live on this planet anymore" yeah neither do the rest of us but untill they perfect hyperspace travel the rest of us are stuck here with all the other nuts jobs.

[@darthbradmedia8929]

gvirus00 well said!

[@Storming360]

Faster than light travel might never be a reality but at least there is mars and rest of solar system. That should put hundred of thousands kilometers between them and us.

[@muoi_art]

did you just say in till

[@santinoofnapa566]

Get of your high horse, you’re just as bad, I’ll warrant.

[@TheBigGMan123]

@@muoi_art yes yes I did thank you for letting me know ;)

[@seededsoul]

I like how Banjo's powerpoint already had the missing links queued up.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

He was ready for it.

[@alexisthetransgenderduelis4211]

This joke has aged extremely well it's scary

[@definitelynotempty]

It's kind of depressing when you think about it. Then again, the number of people who are against thinking is growing

[@bigfudge2031]

if anything the joke was 985 years late.

[@julianbeldham8684]

We even have an orangutan to deal with

[@rickvandam3238]

Look at America Illuminati was so 2018 now its Q

@@rickvandam3238 Less educated people will always find something to latch onto in order to confirm their biases. Illuminati, QAnon, Birtherism, all of them share the same purpose.

[@JohnCena8351]

I love how they even say "7000 years ago" because this takes place in the year 3000. I wonder if we still have to deal with people like this in a 1000 years.

[@Hyper_Drud]

Im pretty sure we’ve always had to deal with dumb people.

[@JohnCena8351]

@@Hyper_Drud Unfortnuately you're probably right.

[@vfaulkon]

No we won't. We'll be dead, thankfully. Our descendants, however...

[@medexamtoolscom]

Of course if there were anyone to be around in a trillion years, they would all be saying the universe is a trillion years old. They'd have to be mighty optimistic to still think Jesus was coming back at that point though.

[@ballpython1001]

@Waut Dooghe Joe Biden isn't president

[@edgargarred4319]

"A far more logical explanation is the undisprovable science of creaturism"

[@Lurch4302]

Undisprovable lol

[@Diiablox]

That is another gem hidden in this, making fun of people legitimately pushing unfalsifiable beliefs as though they had any value whatsoever. In science, something that has been proven wrong is STILL more valuable than something that physically cannot be proven wrong no matter what, as at least you've learned something ;) if a hypothesis cannot be disproved, it is a worthless hypothesis

[@skwills1629]

@@Diiablox I've herd Dakisn say Evolutin can't be disporoven...

[@skwills1629]

@Eitra Ardania I don;t want to get into a Creation VS Evolution debate here. I am not a Creationist fart all. But I wil say Creationists actually accept changes over Time. They call them Microevolution as ppoed to Macro and claim Species have a certain degree of Plasticity, but never change into new species. And the point I was really makings more about how Creationists aren't simple minded idiots and do form Evidence based arguments. I disagree with them, but its not really a fair portrayal of them to say they have no evidence at all. Jut "A book". Its nonsensical to pretend this is all there is to it.

[@LordProteus]

@@Lurch4302 I claim Creaturism is wrong, since it cannot be proven I am wrong, therefore, I am automatically right, and Creaturism is wrong. CHECK-MATE Dr. Banjo!

[@khazzen]

"fake science is real science" dude, that's 2019 in a nutshell.

[@janesullivan692]

My ignorance is equal to your knowledge! Now let's go inject lysol and shine UV light down our throats!

[@jamieohjamie]

2020 has entered the chat

[@kronos548]

oh my sweet child, 2019 had nothing on 2020, and i imagine 2021 will be just as fun

[@aidentate5567]

I'm from your future. People get dumber in 2020

[@toaster3715]

Waut Dooghe NPC detected

[@AllenQuid]

Young Earth Creationists believe the planet was created six thousand years ago and I greatly appreciate the writers having the attentiveness to make it seven thousand years ago in this episode.

[@snowman72891]

The minute somewhere else opens up, I'm there.

[@DwarfDaddy]

If only that plan to colonize Mars didn’t fail I’d have bribed my way on somehow

[@draconicusmathiusanytherio7630]

LordDeraj failed? It hasn’t even started yet

[@bellabrodie4740]

Elon musk wants to know your location

[@quentina5533]

The missing link is a misunderstanding of evolution and doesn't actually exist.

[@TheUltimateNatural]

Exactly. Evolution is not a straight line.

[@nachomolaolivera7580]

@@TheUltimateNatural it actually is for a certain individual.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

NACHO MOLA OLIVERA From a *certain* point of view padawan skywalker.

[@BestAnimeFreak]

Well, the missing link would exist, if it would be possible to have a fossil of every single generation. But because that is very improbable, due to fossilization being very rare, it's not possible to show a missing link. Or to say it in a different way. Take a picture of a kid every day until he is 40. Then show where he went from being a kid to being a teen on one single picture or from being a teen to being an adult ... That is the "missing link" problem creationists (or evolution deniers) don't understand. You can't show it, because it's not like a pokemon evolution.

[@nachomolaolivera7580]

@@BestAnimeFreak that's an unusually good explanation... awesome.

[@rrtkddigimon0]

"Like the shape of the Earth" Holy fuck, this has aged WELL

[@cryptotooth]

Wow. Even in 2021 the writers of this old show still manage to hit close to home. Futurama was something special that I always miss.

[@timothylewis7492]

What episode is this?

[@Alpharelic]

Ain't gotta miss it no longer, pal

[@piplup2009]

This aired in 2010

[@JetJockey87]

"Just because we haven't found it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist". Farnsworth proving Dr Banjos point. "Things don't exist just because we say they do." Dr. Banjo proving Farnsworth's point. Absolutely wonderful writing.

[@megasnowey7177]

Easily the best comment in this section since you are seeing both sides and not just one like all the reddit atheists

[@Bacon2000.]

Best comment tbh. Actually contributes to the video

[@TheCoder-o2d]

i dont get it

[@Isuream6331]

⁠@@TheCoder-o2d “Jest because we haven’t found it yet doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist” Means that there could be a creature in the sky, so Dr Banjo could be correct “Things don’t exist just because you believe in them!” No evidence to say the creature in the sky is real except belief, meaning Dr Farnsworth could be right

[@damianvaldez9390]

@@megasnowey7177very cool you make a comment about seeing both sides just to shit on one👍

[@MarkoNara]

This is why Futurama its a better show than the Simpson and Family Guy

[@ExpertExterminators]

Another show I would recommend that has a "slice of life" tropes would be King of The Hill.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Also because of Zoidberg.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Yeah, King of the Hill is really good.

[@frilliflove2424]

Those two trash piles aren't even kind of on the same wavelength as Futurama

[@ExpertExterminators]

@@frilliflove2424 Nerd alert

[@lordkaos31]

I whole heartedly believe that once space travel become trivial for us and people can come and go off planets as they please there will still be people calling earth flat.

[@UnknownUs3r0808]

no there won't. Because they have never went to the moon, let alone "travel". That's why people even question nasa and so on, because of all the bs and incosistencies. If you talk about space travel, why don't we have a real camera on the moon filming the earth 24/7 raw, not that bs looping footage from the supposed "ISS" from youtube, i've seen video games put up a better reality than that.

[@superbrain7852]

@@UnknownUs3r0808 The amount of arguments you have here is astounding, you must really be into this. However, its also pretty pathetic, looking at your arguments. Here, you simply fully misunderstood the original argument, apparently. He said once we travel to space frequently, and with we i mean us, all of us, there will still be people like you. You replied that there wont, because... people won't travel. That doesn't make sense whatsoever, in his scenario "they" *do*, you cant change that and then call the scenario false.

[@UnknownUs3r0808]

@@superbrain7852 whatever man, don't believe everything you're being told.

[@superbrain7852]

@@UnknownUs3r0808I don't, if i would, i would have believed you, or the guys you literally just believed for no apparent reason (yes, im callin' hypocrisy). I only believe what makes sense and is supported by a certain degree of evidence. A big chunk of the world lying about the earth being flat and faking evidence for that without a single piece of evidence speaking against it, without a single bit of scientific proof, without a single witness for LITERALLY no fucking reason whatsoever is not really on that list...

[@spacewhalemilk]

@@UnknownUs3r0808The reason we don't have a camera on the moon is that we did not put one when we went, there ( was not possible back then) and we did not go back. We will soon tho, the us wants to impress people again. How would you debunk the live iss footage? It does not loop and it is always accurate to the current location of the iss. I have seen the Iss orbit over my country with my own eyes. Like always, all talk no proof.

[@Marques2000]

The fact this aged like a fine wine is very sad...

[@albertbecerra]

In what way?

[@peep39]

"thing don't exist just because you believe in them." I've seen this episode several times and I just got that joke.

[@aitipsea3909]

This episode made me sick Not because of the commentary or the jokes, which are funny as well and thought provoking, but for this scene: is just too real, too relatable and it made me remember how hard it is to respect an opinion that you know is based on something false and, sometimes, harmful

[@jordanwhite8718]

Isn’t comedy just tragedy plus timing?

[@aitipsea3909]

@@jordanwhite8718 Yep I only laugh, because crying would hurt too much

[@gordonramsayfan327]

@@jordanwhite8718 I saw a deer today.

[@papanurgle8393]

@@gordonramsayfan327 I did too (well today but...)

[@nachomolaolivera7580]

You basically described a libertarian.

[@PenneySounds]

I love how they brought this character back as an anti-vaxxer

[@MrMoros1]

This video was recommended to me by the YouTubne algorithm in mid November 2024. The timing couldn't possibly be more perfect.

[@killian9314]

You know what's funny? The episode made a parallel to how Fransworth created life exactly like banjo said in another world, causing a scientist from said world to repeat a cycle of ostracized genius creating life. Yet the joke still stands because of the contrivedness of such occurance

[@Etherealiser]

0:30 ITS WINSTON OVERWATCH

[@DoodleThis]

This is like arguing with someone on Twitter. They don’t accept fact and then push the goalpost

[@Ijpg456]

You are apart of the problem by being on twitter

[@DoodleThis]

@ I just follow cool artists and don’t partake in ppl’s craziness.

[@the_vanish]

I had a conversation like this with my father not too many days ago. At the end of it... I felt the exact same way.

[@sirkinsella9831]

This is well-suited for 2015-present.

[@warmachineuk]

Creationists seem to have given up with the missing link. Instead, claiming living matter can’t come from non-living matter, which is a different theory, or mutations can’t create new abilities, despite it happening all the time in microbes.

[@tumescent]

They'll push the goalpost to infinite heights

[@TheDMan2003]

Will they ever shut up, at least on their own?

[@EAV123_]

I never got this episode when I first saw it, because I was around 11, now as an adult I'm thinking, What proof did Dr. Banjo have?! He just put Homo Farnsworth on a dinosaur and said that's all the proof he needed to disprove evolution, and everyone just believed him. Anybody can put anything with dinosaurs, like I could just put a Xenomorph with them and say it's fact. I don't need evidence, I could just say it happened that way. It wasn't fucking evidence, it was just a display of his opinion. Also I wondered why Dr. Farnsworth didn't want to live on earth anymore, now I think it was because his evidence proved evolution was real and people just automatically discredited it after the "evidence" of Dr. Banjo. I feel like he realized how fucking stupid everyone was and just gave up, and I don't blame him.

[@PerfectAlibi1]

No shit, Sherlock...

[@EAV123_]

Radicaldanny Again I was 11, I mostly ignored the science aspect and cared more about the humor

[@longlivegarybusey6409]

Uh...yeah bud....that's...the joke.....

[@Googaliemoogalie]

I know your comment is a year old, but I wanna point out that the homo Farnsworth on a dinosaur disproving evolution is a reference to the American evangelical church (or one of them) putting Jesus on a dinosaur. Because dinosaurs would have been before humans that would have rectified the whole "Earth is older than 5000 years" "problem" and yes. It's a real thing people believe, Google it. And Farnsworth saying he doesn't want to live on the planet is because he's frustrated at how hard work in science just gets misconstrued without ANY evidence and he can't change it by just introducing more evidence.

[@razer0072073]

😂😂😂

[@sashabraus9422]

I like how the machine has two buttons, one to add a question mark and one to put the next evolutionary stage where the question mark used to be.

[@theklorg305]

Sign at 0:03: Nothing every changes. Futurama: Endlessly different then the present. Comedy gold.

[@shame2189]

Farnsworth is the ultimate high-intellect boomer and i wanna hang out with him.

[@memebase6652]

facts

[@mr.skippy4898]

Let's be honest, whenever a day doesn't go the way we want it to, we've all felt like the Professor at some point.

[@aitipsea3909]

*understatement of the fucking millennium* Also like Scar: "I'm surrounded by idiots"

[@katarinabrunk8698]

A slightly unfortunate truth lol 😂

[@matthewb9981]

"Things don't exist simply because you believe in them. THUS SAYETH THE ALMIGHTY CREATURE IN THE SKY!!"

[@ludrixte1938]

The best part of this is right after The Professor says this, he leaves Earth in search of a new planet to live on

[@cunningsmile4166]

1:04 If anyone thought at that moment that Farnsworth would shoot him in the head, I don't blame you.

[@ThePathStrider]

That orangutan is lucky he wasn't arguing with Rick Sanchez.

[@Jackboy019]

Robert Currie I hope the writers of R&M remember to keep consistent with Rick being also being a scientist rather than simply being a zany world traveller.

[@fastacker2]

Or at least give him a good poke with his finglonger!

[@ma3mc3mu-X]

Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius… Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius… Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius… Oh, Dr Zaius!

[@tommyrosilio4491]

Rock me dr zaius

[@oomusd]

he can talk ?! - I can siiiiiiing !

[@BenersantheBread]

"I've hit a rich vein of missing links" is so funny to me and I'm not even sure why.

[@jjwhyte14]

“Java man, Piltdown man, Manfred Mann” 😂

[@augustwhite930]

Feeling like this rn

[@basedbattledroid3507]

"Elitist East Coast Evolution"

[@autismobinch135]

Vegetarian Soylent-Green Blah blah evolution actually is east coast elitism Blah blah this clip actually about how only two genders Blah blah libs are stupid Blah blah climate change not real Blah blah I want to kill my wife

[@Starbat88]

I often feel like uttering Farnsworth's final line...

[@TheOverseer2077]

I utter it at least once a day

[@LeirdoMan64]

I would utter when I see people continue to make bad choices.

[@Pwerdna]

Why did this pop into my feed right after the 2024 election 😢

[@sharkdentures3247]

And thus was created the 2nd most popular meme from Futurama! Right behind, "SHUT UP & take my money!"

[@vanhunts6238]

0:00 I need to know which year Scott the Woz starts the “nerd academy!”

[@Indeside]

Finally, someone else who's noticed that!

[@wesleyward5901]

Me any time I see Twitter doing anything:

[@gordieboi2340]

Why did this age so well?

[@Ijpg456]

Because elections are fake and america is in a cycle. All Republicans and Democrats are the same

[@Pvzgirl423]

​@@Ijpg456okay smartass

[@Austrveg]

​@@Pvzgirl423 is your channel satire

[@Cannibal713]

0:47 The holy flying spagetti monster! The one true God! Let him into your heart, let him touch it with his noodly appendages.

[@DangoJoey]

I love how I knew all of the first few "missing links" from my Intro to Anthropology class and that it's even more poignant because I learned about them in the INTRO class. As in, Banjo should have already known all of them 😭

[@off-the-grounder568]

“I’m a monkey. Why should I take classes about humans?” - Professor Banjo, probably

[@KingQwertzlbrmpf]

The frightening thing about this scene is how accurate it is to reality...

[@TheOnlyWCC]

That quote at the end of this clip, proved that every species from any galaxies and universes are absolutely 100% agreed with Professor Farnsworth.

[@TyrannoKoenigsegg]

Wow 7 years and I'm the only comment to break that streak

[@Hydde87]

Futurama 10 years later being more relevant than ever.

[@wyattmund9286]

Whenever I encounter anti science and especially anti evolution conspiracy, this scene always plays in the corners of my mind.

[@Tasarran]

I feel this way more and more often these days...

[@UlforceGreymon]

Who’s watching this clip after 2024 election

[@Escobar224]

So the youtube recommendations finally tells me where this meme comes from.

[@KvaGram]

Dude, if this is the first you have seen of this, then you need to watch the full episode. And if you never watched Futurama before, trust me, you NEED to binge it. All of it. RIGHT NOW!

[@forssi1]

They fly around with spaceships but still debate over the shape of the world 😂

[@hermannmeier9405]

I love how the device conventielly has all the relevant pictures. Especially since Prof. Banjo brought it.

[@lanehale5669]

After two years of Anthropology courses, this whole clip is better than ever🤣🤣

[@WildsDreams45]

Well technically they both evolved from great apes and are actually still both great apes.

[@BenjaminSteber]

Darwin faced a similar problem to the one depicted in this episode. Sir Richard Owen was a higher ranking member in their research group (I think it was the Royal Archeological society). Darwin had already formulated his theory and was using it to demonstrate the likely inheritance of the common morphological features between Humans and the other great apes leading back to a common ancestor which Darwin also predicted in accurate and precise detail. Owen rejected Evolution out of hand and would go to great lengths to discredit the theory, even as it gained overwhelming evidence and support. Owen was finally dismissed from his position amid numerous examples of fraud, deceit and plagiarism. He was the first in a long line of anti-evolution bunk peddlers that the theory would disprove and out last. A trend which has continued unbroken to this day.

[@d-land7775]

"Wozniak Nerd Academy" "Director of Computer Graphics Scott Vanzo"

[@bigenemy000]

Jesus christ this comment section become what this episode tried to mock wtf... People stop regressing mentally, antivaxers, actual people who believea creationism, FLAT EARTHERS WTF GUYS

[@Torlik11]

That, kids, is what we call "moving the goalpost". Remember, you haven't lost as long as you can nitpick and missrepresent your oponent's argument.

[@djtjpain]

Wow I’ve used the professor quote in various acts of memery over the years but I never knew the context. It fits so well with how I’ve used it. This pleases me.

[@andrewobrien8325]

“I don’t want to live on this planet anymore” I’ll bet everyone who sees this comment as thought that at least 100 times since this joke came out.

[@babbit09]

This shouldn't be getting more relevant as time goes on but it is and I'm worried

[@daftwod]

It is set in the future, to be fair.

[@BlackIce3190]

It isn’t though, not the way this portraying anyway. The science denial is coming in the form of gender bullshit.

[@Hoshimaru57]

On the bright side maybe we’ve got Futurama too look forward to in the year 3000. On the downside, all those aliens would be a hell of a lot freakier if they were real. Even Leela would be nightmare fuel. Just look it up, she’s a mutant with a very real and terrifying mutation.

[@dynamicworlds1]

@@BlackIce3190 every academic field with anything to say on the matter rejects the idea of a sex-equivalent gender binary. Would you like to peddle "race realist" BS next to stay on brand?

[@leroture7750]

Brock Samson Yeah what is the science denial in the form of the concept of gender? What is being said and where is it wrong?

[@nocturno7660]

Love how this scene explains how infinite evidence is not enough to convince some special folks

[@flargarbason1740]

Nocturno common sense isn’t so common

[@davidbritt5020]

They don't want to understand, they want to be right.

[@DgardsGaming]

Yep

[@huntercool2232]

Christians: “So you don’t believe in Heaven?” Evolutionist: “Of course not lol” Christians: “So when you die you believe you actually die.” Evolutionist: “Yes” Christians: “How depressed are you?” Evolutionist: *”Very”*

[@huntercool2232]

What is the point in believing in scientific things if you’re not happy? So if your family member dies you’ll never see them again? You have anxiety constantly of the fear that you’ll die and everything you know will be over in a split second? I don’t care how much evidence they show what’s the point if you have nothing else to believe in? Why do y’all think depression is such a big issue today? Because there’s no point in living if you have nothing to live for.

[@removalldamme]

Me too i want to leave this planet...😢😢😢

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

When this became a documentary of modern civilization today.

[@hugoclarke3284]

At 2:18 you can hear Billy West's Fry gasp come out

[@DragonmanX90]

If I had a dollar for every time I've thought or felt the same as the Professor at the end of this video; I'd be able to buy my own planet and go live on that.

[@TheMpo1986]

Everything about this is accurate. You can Science all day long but someone dumber than you will underwit you every time.

[@dragowolfraven3806]

"I don't want to live on this planet anymore." had me laughing so hard.