The Eye of the Python
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Right! Stop that! It's SILLY! Dear friends, if you're not familiar with the timeless genius of Monty Python then this one might be a bit over your head. It's an adaptation of the following classic sketch:
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I got the idea for this from, unsurprisingly, reading Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show On Earth. Particularly the chapter which deals with the enormous amount of evidence pointing to life having NOT been designed by an intelligent agency, given all the incredible design flaws that can be seen throughout all of biology. The vertebrate eye is a very good example of this, for the reasons you can hear herein.
I usually like to give detailed references where I can, but the research for this one was just a wild goose-chase around the net picking up bits of info here and there, mainly from Wikipedia. So: tough, you'll have to take my word for it.
Yes, yes, its all a bit exaggerated. I am very grateful for my eyes and am in fact one of the lucky ones who cannot complain of any eye weakness of any kind. So far.
ONLY MONTY PYTHON PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO DMCA ME ON THIS ONE. AND IF YOU DO, GUYS, CAN I GET THE COURT PAPERS AUTOGRAPHED?! I definitely won't put an ad on this one, its definitely NOT exclusively my own material!
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Let’s not be so harsh he only had six days to finish his project
Find me a camera that has a layer of wires in front of the photo-receptive light sensors and a massive blind patch, with computer software that attempts to fill in the gaps in the paltry image the camera catches.
If the eye is so badly designed then build you own and put them in you head I mean it's all random anyway right I mean we're intelligent with a purpose to show we all come from random acts with no intelligence or purpose so does that mean you're argument is random with no purpose as well? Mmmm😂😂
@@jvonwilliams3034 random with no purpose? At least learn something about what atheists believe before you try to debate one. And maybe use some punctuation next time.
@@jvonwilliams3034 i would happily replace it with something more sensible, but we can't directly interface with nerve cells that well yet.
@@RunstarHomer you believe in no God random with no purpose
@RadioTSM {Operator Teddy Timis} funny how you think something comes from nothing
From now on every time I do something wrong or stupid I will say it was fiddled around with by the devil. LOL
Fiddled around with by the devil?!
"It must have been fiddled around with by the devil" - Oh that is pure genius. I'm nearly crying with laughter.
yep, more post hoc insanity
I love this. A religious homage to the glorious Monty Python dead parrot sketch.
+MrAnimeopera
*irreligious
+MrAnimeopera ellow poly!!!! poly!!! smack smack smack!!! wake up poly!!!!!!........... this bird is deceased, dead, no more, no longer among the living.............. absolute genius........and all those guys in the python troop would be tickled shitless about the homage paid and the content here.
fingal113
Especially since they did Life of Brian which basically says everything that needs to be when it comes to religion.
"This is a late parrot"
It had ceased to be!
God humming 'Our God is an Awesome God' is the best few seconds of all your videos. Cracks me up every time. "Why won't these people worship me?!"
Ryan Urban I need to be reminded I exist lol
I have astigmatism and when a creationist says the human eye could not have evolved so it must be god, I want to question their sanity. I can't see anything without glasses how the heck is this intelligently designed 😭😭😭
"That ocular organ is definitely shit."
Dear NSC. I know you are busy being a parent and we wont get anymore videos ...but thanks a lot for your body of work. I used to watch them when feeding my son...Now HE watched and loves them...Did we know how good they were back then?? Do they seem extra good because standards have fallen.??? i dont know...but you are a funny clever guy and I hope we hear more from you one day. I know you said you werent interested in lampooning Islam...but have a read of the koran and Hadith....they are begging for a pisstake...It might make you smile at least...
as an ex-muslim who can't express herself properly, a video by nonstampcollector would be great to help me explain to my family.
@@HN-kr1nf I may be able to help with that
"Zeus?"
"What did you say?"
"...I'm sorry I have a cold." I knew as soon as I heard that. XD
There. Now you have 69 likes.
@@bettertobethoughtafool Nice
omg i love the banana hand diagram in the background
Thomas Neal iykukhvvjhvh
Man jxjgfThomas Neal &b
Same! "The atheist's nightmare!"
+Vincent Michael Champion
My man is having a stroke
Nice video
But you had to say PALESTINIAN BIGOTS, even though they were Jewish (Israelites), because you are a pussy that won't dare to swear at Jewish people.
Regards from Palestine
10 years later it's as relevant as it ever was.
Largely because apologetics never get better. There's nothing new under the sun. 😅
Maybe God will release upgraded eyes in the next 10 years.
There’s something so powerful about the idea of going up to god’s customer service desk, ripping out your eye, and then screaming at him about bad design and demanding compensation.
My inner Karen is singing
As someone with glaucoma this is slightly cathartic.
I see what you did there
I was so hoping you'd mention the cephalopods. And you did. You know your stuff. The bit with the asexual gene transfer too! Brilliant in so many ways.
This reminds me of where the bible claims that painful childbirth is a result of "the fall" Eve's curse. I wonder how any intelligent person can even believe that these days. The reason why it is painful is because women weren't designed to push something that big through their pelvis. The fact that childbirth has always been dangerous for a woman is a clue that this is not the best design. But evolution does not care about the "best design" as long as it is not a complete disasterous design. Despite the problems with the woman's design, most women survive childbirth so the human race is not in danger of becoming extinct.
Now Christians might claim that as a result of "the fall" Eve's design was changed. But that would be adding something to the bible that is not there. That is often what Christians do to try to make a text make sense.
It is the same nonsense when Christians claim that before "the flood" all animals were vegetarians. That would require a massive redesign of an animsls digestive system, teeth, claws and eyes (hunters have forward facing eyes plus if they hunt a night their eyes can reflect light back to increase their vision).
In fact if there were no predators then herbaphores would not need to have eyes on the sides of their heads in order to see an attack coming.
But logic and common sense fall by the wayside for the "believer"
Sorry "herbavore" (I was tired when I posted this) ;)
Mary Rogers Herbivore ;)
actually, women are supposed to be more upright to make childbirth easier
ram29jackson Yes... Animals give birth on all fours and its easier for us too... Gravity helps... But our bodies have changed from walking upright making childbirth difficult and painful. The pain is indescribable... It felt like the whole room was full of pain...
TOTALLY worth it though..
Oh ya?!? What if a tornado blew through a junkya-
John Cleese would laugh his head off at this
Your videos are really food for thought. This one had me look up vertebrate and cephalopod eye differences, the cornea and the blind spot. The portrayal of the almighty is so funny. Thank you. I wish you could make some more videos when you find the time!
I too am a non stamp collector, best damn hobby I've ever started, no expense, no damn books laying around, no researching anything. All i have to do is have faith that stamps exist and i do not have to give a shit any farther. Best hobby...
My perfectly designed eyes need glasses to see in focus.
@NonStampCollector please make new videos. I really miss this channel.
Erik Kartman hOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL TODAY
Same
same
Ditto.
Yup.
But he designed the human eye BEFORE the fall of man. God can't blame the poor design on the fall. :P
Great videos NSC. Keep em coming!
+Tatesa Spirit:
"No no you see the eye was perfect before the fall and then after the fall it was bad as a punishment for sin."
==A redesign took place automatically after Adam ate a fruit? How does that happen?
If it is a punishment for Adam, then why do all humans have the same eye design?
louis: for the sins of the father shall be visited upon the sons lo unto the tenth generation -- and forever as well, of course. Blessed god, for they great and powerful mercy...NOT.
@@jilliansmith7123 That sounds like the North Korean prison system
Game Insane: it does, doesn't it? (And it should say "thy" not "they")
Jillian Smith actually I’ve been arguing that for a long time. My favorite tangent (if I’m remembering it at all correctly) went a little something like:
If Eden is now heaven and we’re not there but on earth as a separation from heaven until a pre-determined time when we have the chance to return, that makes earth a multi-generational, inter-dimensional prison, where the entire population of the specie is to suffer upon birth due to the actions of 2 individuals who only received the original sentence due to actions coerced from them by an agent of the highest authority (going off the assumption that as God has a master plan that’s impossible to break, and that he requires Satan as a loophole for evil to exist for some reason so he may tempt and test our faith and virtues).
It’s a broken system, with absurd rules, run by the most corrupt being in all of fiction. That last part is more relevant when you consider that in literally ALL our media where there’s elves, aliens, and whatever else… humans suck entirely bar their ability to rise up and overcome insane odds. That’s like HALF of all fantasy and sci-fi. We’re made in god’s image, but our minds are LITERALLY wired like that of Satan who was the FIRST to have this mindset
beautiful plumage.
Henry Pitts The plumage didn't enter into it!
10/10 for piss-taking on so many levels .
I didn't even notice the hand and banana on the computer.
"And voom! Then they'd all be sent straight to hell. Or something. It's complicated."
That had me in stitches for a good five to ten minutes. Thanks, NSC. 5/5
i only realised it was a monty python parody when the guy said "the cornea don't enter into it!" lol. great video
Say what you will about the eye. Beautiful plumage though, innit?
Brilliant!
Just fucken brilliant!
i see your cleaver
samuel lewis eye c yore cleaner
Love the hand and banana! Huge LOL!
I really appreciate the time you put into making these videos. The Python twist is an added bonus but you always make good points while keeping it humorous and entertaining. Cheers!
Not to be unpopular, but I for once _DID_ expect the spanish inquisition.
*NOBODY EXPECTS THE-* ...oh, _bugger,_ nevermind.
Yet it would be perfectly possible to have an eye with the retina the right way around (rods and cones facing the light, and all the nerves and blood vessels at the back, with consequently no blind spot, and even with an upright mage. And, in fact, t's not just possible, some animals have such an eye design. We're just not descended from one of those.
Could you give a few examples?
@@_Alex_Zer0_ Octopus and squids.
@@Dragonblaster1 Thank you.
Well there is realy no reason to add another lens to flip the image since you could just flip the wires around at the back instead
Also the squid should have a fliped image aswell since it only has one lens
I never see you around my videos these days, oh you SUPERSTAR!
My right eye is itchy for some reason now :/
I still love you though
Am I replying late?
@@wakeupthisisntreal8168 maybe
Another huge LOL! Parody of the Monty Python parrot sketch. Dude, you are a genius!,,
Haha that Ray Comfort reference
Non stamp collector says he was inspired by Monty python but his sketches stand on their own. Excellent work. Logical. Satirical. Well written and very funny.
As this vid played through, I kept hearing the original sketch in my mind, very clever as well and I hope to see a Holy Grail parody in the near future.
Love how this reminds me of Monty Python. And after watching the end of the video now I know why.
The whole time I was thinking this seems like the old dead parrot sketch, awesome to the credit to such comic genius as well as an awesome tribute! 👏👏👏
"the cornea don't enter into it!"
Somebody once sent a fax to my office. I couldn't read it - it was upside down. I sent it back.
The Bible is offensive to Monty Python fans. That character Jesus Christ even has the same initials as the comic Messiah John Cleese.
Salute to Ray Comfort on the laptop. Brilliant.
The atheists' nightmare. 😂
"Fiddled around with BY THE DEVIL?!" 🤣🤣🤣
1:50 things got a bit higgledy piggledy xD
@IMAHMS the most sophisticated computer man has ever been able to make can't even beat a small ant brain. because ants are conscious, they make choices, the cooperate, they can move left then stop and choose to move right, they can communicate with each other, they are "alive". this small ant brain, which is like 0.5 milimeter, is by far more great and more advance than the greatest and smartest computer technology ever made.
Monty Python fan. Haha didn't realize this the first few times I saw it
Love your work! This one is particularly good!
I have two questions for you.
1-What are you doing to YHWH's voice? (pitch shifting?)
2-Have you considered transcripts of your videos being turned into CC captions? I've looked into it and I'm willing to have a go at it for you!
As I was watching this, I kept thinking, "gee, this really reminds me of something, every time god says 'beautiful corneas, eh?' it sounds just like...something". And then I realized and it was made even more hilarious. good work.
Love the banana in the back! ;-)
I know that. It will burrow into anything, but it's actually visible when it's in the eye and it will chew through and do some pretty irreparable damage. Other parts of the body it can live in for some time and do relatively little damage.
Either way, if I was an intelligent designer, I think I'd make the whole body bot-fly proof.
Fiddled around with by the devil :-)
The all powerful creator of the universe can't stop a mere angel he created himself knowing said angel would screw things up.
@@theoffchannel2054 Actually, considering that temptation is a HUGE part of the earthly testing ground for humans, the devil is literally essential for God's plan
This channel? Yes probably
"This is schoolboy stuff. Why do you think it is good? "
It certainly went over your head.
What colour eyes? Brown? Or Norwegian Blue?
*** Bereft of light it has ceased to see. It has gone to meet its Macular.
Joined the Choir Invisibule. HellOOOO Poly Theist!
This eye wouldn't "Voom" unless you put 20,000 photons through it.
Same riff, different (potter's) field: When I got home, I discovered that the only reason he stayed on the cross...was that he had been NAILED there.
The parrot had "gone to meet its macaw"...
2:56 ROFL. I freaking love this dead parrot parody.
This makes me wonder what perfectly designed humans would be like
I remember a show where scientists tried to come up with some improvements to the human body. They recommended dog-like legs and feet, kangaroo pouch (instead of deadly child-birth), re-direction of some pointless blood-vessels, remove unnecessary bones, and change the eyes so we don't need all these lights. We have a blood vessel that for no discernible reason goes up through the neck and back down the neck again. Honestly the "ideal human" looks weird and really different, we definitely weren't perfectly designed.
Skeleton, just a animated skeleton.
It would solve racism and sexism
I don't think a perfectly designed organism would resemble humans anymore.
The only way this whole video could be made better would be if there were a transition from the adaptation of the "Parrot Sketch" to the adaptation of the "Lumberjack Song".
Sheer Brilliance! Awesome Interpretation! I LOVE IT!
Oh, this is precious, nonStampCollector. I love the botfly bit. Try exposing the bad design of the knee. It's a great example of band-aid and duct tape design. Or maybe the design of the gene mutation that causes sickle-cell anemia. What a charming bit of design that one is. Nice job on this video.
"I really am just a load of old bollocks arent I."
"Nothing to do with intelligent design"
Yeah, except for intelligent design being the topic of the video, featuring a cartoon representation of the intelligent designer, discussing a biological feature that intelligent design proponents claim he designed intelligently.
Yeah, maybe atheists are all stupid, but what the fuck does that make YOU?
Imperfect design. Eye should know.
When using because as a conjunction you do not need a semi colon. In fact, you do not even need a comma! Also, neither "Talking Snake", "Original Sin", nor "Magic Tree" should be capitalized as they are not proper nouns.
This is still funny to me 6 years after I first saw it and I just caught the switch between 10,000 and 10 million years he does. Top score🎩
He says 10 millennia, or 10,000 years.
Ingenious! Pun off the clever and very funny dead parrot skit of Monty Python!
I am one of the biggest Python fans in the world and this was fantastic.
I am sure that the Pythons would love it too. Most of them seem to have lost a lot of their respect for the church perhaps because of that famous debate over the banning of the Life of Brian. That was like one of NSC's parody interviews.
it's impossible for life to exist, yet it exists... Brilliant argument... it is like saying that it is impossible to get a six by throwing dices, yet it happens! kudos for your ability to negate your conclusion with your premises! You sir, are a genius! =P
I'll tell you what's wrong with it, it's dead. That's what's wrong with it.
No, no, no....'e's restin'!
I am sad to say that it has taken 10 years for me to see this. BRA - VO.
@goldenrebel1st OK, well I'm afraid you have me there.
However, I might suggest that an infinitely powerful being capable of doing absolutely anything he wanted wouldn't necessarily need to do it that way, and it is certainly interesting that if it is designed, it is designed in exactly the way we would expect if it were NOT designed. !!
As for the rest of the design faults... surely you wouldn't argue that they're the work of an intelligent designer? The retina I'll give you, but a blind spot?
@GNUPeaker
Upside down relative to the direction the light falls on the light receptive cell region. Which means, you actually see the world upside down, which the brain however aptly manages to balance out. (Note: if you don't believe me that it is your brain doing the trick, there are special glasses you can buy which turn your vision upside down. Give it a few hours, you'll see upright again, and when you remove the glasses, you'll have everything upside down again for a few hours.
Try it)
Nice tip of the hat to Monty Python.
They were masters of the comedy of the absurd.
"I've got a slug."
"Does it talk?"
"No. But it mumbles a bit."
Excellent vid Nonstamp.
I look forward to seeing God in the Upper Class Twit of the Year Competition.
meanwhile the people with visual snow would like to ask why they static like on a TV, some are questioning reality because of it (or 'energy' or whatever some are trying to rationalize it as)...
Intelligent design?
I wear glasses... thanks, *_gawd_*
An omnipotent / omniscient / omnibenevolent being would create the maximally loving world supremely possible, as defined by his characteristics. which would be contradicted by a poorly designed eye, especially since theists argue that we are the pinnacle of creation. you cannot have your cake and eat it.
This never gets old.
The funny thing about this is that in the Dead Parrot Sketch, one of them actually said that the parrot ''had risen up to the heavens to meet its maker''.
and we can only see a small fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum
From the big bang to today is approximately 13.7 BILLION YEARS.You do the math.Sorry,I know that even taking off your shoes won't help you count that high.Trust me,it"s a little more than 6000 years
God is the Yandere Dev of "reality"
It's the- Eye of the Python, it's the thrill of the fight..
"Mysterious...? Something to do with Noah's flood...?"
lol!
The universe seems to be finely tuned to create black holes. All baryonic (and dark? Idk) matter will become that eventually.
Brilliant, way too few views.
I did'nt read the description,but on 0:41 i catched the drift :D
Great job :D
Wonderful for gazing at fjords, though.
@IMAHMS Play is also a computation (their brain knows it is good to learn to hunt and socialise with group). Learning and understanding - its just intelligence, it has nothing to do with conciousenss and free will. I know it gives the impression of free will, but it's not. And to conclude it with one sentence: yes, I can make computer love/hate, play, learn and understand. I just can't make it able to disobey his program, just like animals (and most humans) can't disobey what they feel.
"This parrot is no more!"
This video reminds me of that Monty python sketch. By the title,I'm guessing that's what it's based off
And the disclaimer at the end of the video saying "adapted from the monty python dead parrot sketch"
It's funny because humans have already developed better versions. Cameras are proof that we are more intelligent than whatever made our eyes
Damn. I was really waiting for an up side down blurry image to follow at some point, but having watched your videos in a chronological order with this being my first "disappointment" you're doing one hell of a job.
I ended up here because people were spamming the comment praising their day when both you and darkmatter2525 uploaded a new video.
Heard in Australia they call it the "King Parrot" sketch.
I don't see the upside down image issue, as that much of a case against intelligent design. Sure it is interesting how the eye works that way, but it is very common in designed systems to do software offsets and software negation, in the event that the hardware produces a negative result or a shifted measurement.
By using our brain's "software" to reverse the image we see, this allowed the eye to be built with one lens instead of the two that would be needed for using "hardware" to correct the image. If you were building a digital camera in the same manner, you would likely not want to buy multiple special lenses just to flip the image, when data processing software can do it much cheaper in an economy of scale.
Unlike the human eye, real cameras don't work with flexible lenses, because our technology can solve this with two fixed shape lenses instead.
+carultch I think the idea is that rather than using flipping software at all, the 'camera' would be designed to film the right-way-around the first time. Imagine if, every time you ever took a picture, it was upside down. Then, you had to run it through a program to flip it back around. Wouldn't it be much more efficient -especially on an organism fighting to survive!- to design the 'camera' to film the right way the first time around?
Cody Kaufman It certainly would.
But if it does come down to an issue of needing two lenses vs one lens, and if it is "cheaper" to build using one lens and software to correct it, you would build it to take the image upside down, and then flip it with "software" to make the image seen appear to be the right side up.
Cody Kaufman Did you know that the famous "Blue Marble" photo of our planet was taken "upside down"?
+carultch It seems odd that an omnipotent creator that can bring the universe to existence should depend on what is "cheaper" when designing an organism.
+carultch Do you know that Creationism is completely false?
It's just pining for the fyords. I love the eye, just a terrible camera. We've made better, mostly because ours, are actually designed
This is a shit eye! LOL!!!
I didn't say it would become more exciting... I said more people would be willing to watch.
Your videos are amazing. Please continue to help the human race from the biggest lie and horrible deception and hypnotism of thousands.
Look here lordy. I laughed so hard water came out of my nose * note to self before watching anything of NSC I must not drink anything
Pining for the fjords?