The Eye of the Python

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The Eye of the Python

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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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@NonStampCollector 11 жыл бұрын

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.

@jvonwilliams3034 4 жыл бұрын

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😂😂

@RunstarHomer 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@CaedmonOS 4 жыл бұрын

@@jvonwilliams3034 i would happily replace it with something more sensible, but we can't directly interface with nerve cells that well yet.

@jvonwilliams3034 4 жыл бұрын

@@RunstarHomer you believe in no God random with no purpose

@jvonwilliams3034 4 жыл бұрын

@RadioTSM {Operator Teddy Timis} funny how you think something comes from nothing

@katawhampus9879 3 жыл бұрын

Let’s not be so harsh he only had six days to finish his project

@Gargoyle_Guy 9 жыл бұрын

I love this. A religious homage to the glorious Monty Python dead parrot sketch.

@NonStampCollector 9 жыл бұрын

+MrAnimeopera *irreligious

@fingal113 8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@Gargoyle_Guy 8 жыл бұрын

fingal113 Especially since they did Life of Brian which basically says everything that needs to be when it comes to religion.

@HandsomeMoose 6 жыл бұрын

"This is a late parrot"

@mattpurvis927 6 жыл бұрын

It had ceased to be!

@Crashbanksbuysilver 10 жыл бұрын

From now on every time I do something wrong or stupid I will say it was fiddled around with by the devil. LOL

@superleipoman 5 жыл бұрын

Fiddled around with by the devil?!

@19perception83 11 жыл бұрын

"It must have been fiddled around with by the devil" - Oh that is pure genius. I'm nearly crying with laughter.

@haydenwalton2766 9 ай бұрын

yep, more post hoc insanity

@middynighty 12 жыл бұрын

"Zeus?" "What did you say?" "...I'm sorry I have a cold." I knew as soon as I heard that. XD

@crso6830 4 ай бұрын

There. Now you have 69 likes.

@middynighty 4 ай бұрын

@@crso6830 Nice

@edgarman9394 8 жыл бұрын

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?!"

@kennythelenny6819 6 жыл бұрын

Ryan Urban I need to be reminded I exist lol

@rei-rei 2 жыл бұрын

10 years later it's as relevant as it ever was.

@gagaplex 9 ай бұрын

Largely because apologetics never get better. There's nothing new under the sun. 😅

@SpontaneouslyDeliberate 8 күн бұрын

Maybe God will release upgraded eyes in the next 10 years.

@MoonlitHistory 9 жыл бұрын

"That ocular organ is definitely shit."

@minim-ms 4 жыл бұрын

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

@gotellbossc4t-vb9hz 11 жыл бұрын

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.

@Jethorus 8 жыл бұрын

omg i love the banana hand diagram in the background

@ch13jo8ca4 6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Neal iykukhvvjhvh

@ch13jo8ca4 6 жыл бұрын

Man jxjgfThomas Neal &b

@viddork 5 жыл бұрын

Same! "The atheist's nightmare!"

@JpegDog 4 жыл бұрын

+Vincent Michael Champion My man is having a stroke

@lastman2759 4 жыл бұрын

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

@puravidadew7031 8 ай бұрын

Love how this reminds me of Monty Python. And after watching the end of the video now I know why.

@LusciousTwinkle 6 жыл бұрын

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...

@HN-kr1nf 3 жыл бұрын

as an ex-muslim who can't express herself properly, a video by nonstampcollector would be great to help me explain to my family.

@ziyaaddhorat 3 жыл бұрын

@@HN-kr1nf I may be able to help with that

@england9530 6 жыл бұрын

As someone with glaucoma this is slightly cathartic.

@alltheblueskies 5 ай бұрын

I see what you did there

@midnightrambler8866 3 жыл бұрын

My perfectly designed eyes need glasses to see in focus.

@breveth Жыл бұрын

I didn't even notice the hand and banana on the computer.

@Lunar.67 2 жыл бұрын

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 😭😭😭

@telemangreek 4 жыл бұрын

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!

@sophienugre4161 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@Kariakas 11 жыл бұрын

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!

@joemiller947 8 жыл бұрын

John Cleese would laugh his head off at this

@Dragonblaster1 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@_Alex_Zer0_ 2 жыл бұрын

Could you give a few examples?

@Dragonblaster1 2 жыл бұрын

@@_Alex_Zer0_ Octopus and squids.

@_Alex_Zer0_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dragonblaster1 Thank you.

@phenax1144 8 ай бұрын

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

@phenax1144 8 ай бұрын

Also the squid should have a fliped image aswell since it only has one lens

@duaneburris7ate9 8 ай бұрын

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...

@mohamedthepedophile4789 10 жыл бұрын

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!

@louistournas120 7 жыл бұрын

+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?

@jilliansmith7123 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@gameinsane4718 5 жыл бұрын

@@jilliansmith7123 That sounds like the North Korean prison system

@jilliansmith7123 5 жыл бұрын

Game Insane: it does, doesn't it? (And it should say "thy" not "they")

@gameinsane4718 5 жыл бұрын

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

@erikkartman1213 9 жыл бұрын

@NonStampCollector please make new videos. I really miss this channel.

@691bxm3 7 жыл бұрын

Erik Kartman hOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL TODAY

@7Z7A7C7K7 6 жыл бұрын

Same

@ahmadjundi2578 6 жыл бұрын

same

@user-pb1cf4lr2s 6 жыл бұрын

Ditto.

@GumboRyan 6 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@CosmosGamingChannel 8 жыл бұрын

Oh ya?!? What if a tornado blew through a junkya-

@Road_Rash 3 жыл бұрын

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! 👏👏👏

@WunHungLo99 4 жыл бұрын

Salute to Ray Comfort on the laptop. Brilliant.

@late8641 4 жыл бұрын

The atheists' nightmare. 😂

@Henpitts 10 жыл бұрын

beautiful plumage.

@mattpuchalski2873 6 жыл бұрын

Henry Pitts The plumage didn't enter into it!

@C4lmaria 9 ай бұрын

5:22 That's actually pretty cool since we can get away with a couple of them suffering paralysis.

@maryrogers6316 10 жыл бұрын

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"

@maryrogers6316 10 жыл бұрын

Sorry "herbavore" (I was tired when I posted this) ;)

@---cl9qf 10 жыл бұрын

Mary Rogers Herbivore ;)

@ram29jackson 7 жыл бұрын

actually, women are supposed to be more upright to make childbirth easier

@LusciousTwinkle 6 жыл бұрын

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...

@LusciousTwinkle 6 жыл бұрын

TOTALLY worth it though..

@PFWoody488 14 жыл бұрын

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.

@sueneilson896 3 жыл бұрын

10/10 for piss-taking on so many levels .

@The_Bromodo 14 жыл бұрын

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.

@isawadelapradera6490 6 жыл бұрын

Not to be unpopular, but I for once _DID_ expect the spanish inquisition.

@thespanishinquisition5659 6 жыл бұрын

*NOBODY EXPECTS THE-* ...oh, _bugger,_ nevermind.

@ZOMGitsCriss 14 жыл бұрын

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

@wakeupthisisntreal8168 2 жыл бұрын

Am I replying late?

@visforvegan8 4 жыл бұрын

This never gets old.

@YouBloodyFool 13 жыл бұрын

NonStampCollector's videos are underrated. This video should have far more views: it's hilarious! :D

@dbjaeger2834 9 жыл бұрын

Haha that Ray Comfort reference

@TKOblue 14 жыл бұрын

"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

@epsteinisms1483 9 жыл бұрын

Somebody once sent a fax to my office. I couldn't read it - it was upside down. I sent it back.

@skeletorrobo 5 жыл бұрын

Imperfect design. Eye should know.

@itsmarki8068 3 жыл бұрын

This makes me wonder what perfectly designed humans would be like

@BoardGameMaker4108 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@youtubestudiosucks978 9 ай бұрын

Skeleton, just a animated skeleton. It would solve racism and sexism

@RedRabbitEntertainment 8 ай бұрын

I don't think a perfectly designed organism would resemble humans anymore.

@brucebaker810 8 жыл бұрын

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"...

@MrSelidor7 12 жыл бұрын

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.

@3rd.Eye.Saw.Destruction 9 ай бұрын

I could write something about everything in this but I wanna say quickly about the mole. Their eyes function as simple eyes, if they’re covered with skin to protect them from all the dirt, they will still be used in order to detect light changes.

@MarvelousLXVII 10 жыл бұрын

Another huge LOL! Parody of the Monty Python parrot sketch. Dude, you are a genius!,,

@MarvelousLXVII 10 жыл бұрын

Love the hand and banana! Huge LOL!

@KincadeCeltoSlav 8 жыл бұрын

Sheer Brilliance! Awesome Interpretation! I LOVE IT!

@Everythings_Connected 6 ай бұрын

i only realised it was a monty python parody when the guy said "the cornea don't enter into it!" lol. great video

@Marcomanexists 10 ай бұрын

“You wanna stop believing in me because I really am a pile of bollocks anyway” “Yeah sure” Yep

@TruthThanks 10 жыл бұрын

"I really am just a load of old bollocks arent I."

@alistaircurmudgeon6563 8 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Just fucken brilliant!

@flazzorb 8 жыл бұрын

i see your cleaver

@Skulltaro 7 жыл бұрын

samuel lewis eye c yore cleaner

@mattgsm 5 жыл бұрын

"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

@davidbray5982 4 жыл бұрын

And the disclaimer at the end of the video saying "adapted from the monty python dead parrot sketch"

@Kaythor97 9 жыл бұрын

Monty Python fan. Haha didn't realize this the first few times I saw it

@xxXthekevXxx 6 жыл бұрын

Intelligent design? I wear glasses... thanks, *_gawd_*

@philb4462 3 жыл бұрын

The Bible is offensive to Monty Python fans. That character Jesus Christ even has the same initials as the comic Messiah John Cleese.

@2222thebeast 4 жыл бұрын

I was just about to say that this reminds me of Monty Python when the foot slammed down on the desk. Hilarious video!

@Artemis-zt7pb 6 жыл бұрын

I love this and how it perfectly gets the Parrot Sketch.

@aksukovala181 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@MichaelJones-gh4lq Жыл бұрын

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🎩

@gusgarrison9211 9 ай бұрын

He says 10 millennia, or 10,000 years.

@Trusseck 8 жыл бұрын

The title left me anticipating a Rocky-style training montage wherein Moses practices his snake-fighting skills. But this work, too.

@TheNuszAbides 11 жыл бұрын

"the cornea don't enter into it!"

@Winasaurus 9 ай бұрын

Say what you will about the eye. Beautiful plumage though, innit?

@D119heavy 14 жыл бұрын

5 stars for awesomeness as usual NSC, keep 'em comin brother I love all your vids

@ReligieVrij 8 ай бұрын

"And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell." Well, this guy was caused to stumble and gouged out his eye AND experienced hell by having to listen to bad apologetic answers. Bad design or not, as a photographer and visual storyteller I'm very very grateful for my eyes. 🙂

@goldenrebel1st 13 жыл бұрын

@NonStampCollector Your video is excellent. I would not argue that the eye is the work of an intelligent designer. I only had pause for that specific (inverted image) argument only and was itching to point it out.

@Plecter 14 жыл бұрын

"Mysterious...? Something to do with Noah's flood...?" lol!

@phillipmoore9012 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but what if you were walking along and you found a watch! Ha, Ha, Ha, Checkmate! LOL

@jilliansmith7123 6 жыл бұрын

Phillilp: and you bent over and picked it up and it was a. running backwards, b. upside-down with the numbers on the inside, c. broken from being dropped and d. ruined from the rain. So?

@tianamaycry 11 жыл бұрын

He was never disputing that that kind of software could exist or that it exists already, he was asking you to point out the camera that was made to require that software because of the wires in front of the photo receptors.

@cratonorogen9208 2 жыл бұрын

The universe seems to be finely tuned to create black holes. All baryonic (and dark? Idk) matter will become that eventually.

@AndrewKelley 8 жыл бұрын

1:50 things got a bit higgledy piggledy xD

@MartinIDavies 8 жыл бұрын

Fiddled around with by the devil :-)

@theoffchannel2054 5 жыл бұрын

The all powerful creator of the universe can't stop a mere angel he created himself knowing said angel would screw things up.

@gameinsane4718 5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@MO-xo5du 4 жыл бұрын

This channel? Yes probably

@camobeast100 13 жыл бұрын

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''.

@waynerainey2606 6 жыл бұрын

"Look Lordy, I've definitely had enough of this..... It's shit!"

@gtaivpcvids 14 жыл бұрын

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!

@renegade4dio 14 жыл бұрын

"Do you wanna just stop believing in me?" Priceless.

@jwhipple5567 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but I was waiting for god to hit on him by saying "Do you want to come back to my place?" like Monty Python did in one of the versions of their parrot sketch... I don't have the punch line written in my head yet, but there's some meat on the bone there regarding whether anyone would actually want to go to "heaven" with that kind of god.

@renegade4dio 3 жыл бұрын

@@jwhipple5567 Wow. Blast from the past. I wish NonStampCollector was still more active... Though I guess everyone runs out of ideas. I know I did...

@cmillerg6306 4 ай бұрын

There IS some sense for the photo receptors to be "backward". In nocturnal animals with the reflective layer at the back of the retina, that allows each incoming photon two chances to excite a photoreceptor, one time as the photon comes in, the other when it bounces back off the reflective surface. This improves the night vision of those animals. Humans have black-pigmented retinas to prevent any reflection, which improves visual acuity, as those reflective layers are "bumpy" and not perfect mirrors. Signed, NotKenHam

@silvertail7131 Жыл бұрын

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

@quakers200 2 жыл бұрын

Actually it has been discovered that the appendix does have a purpose in that it has a supply of gut bacteria that can replace or add to our gut supply of bacteria when we lose ours say sickness or bad diet. But for the most part people with a decent diet can do very well without it. There are some other structures like the turbinate bone that has no purpose since we lost our tails.

@BR540E 2 жыл бұрын

6:14 God is the only one who can be passive-aggressive innocently XD

@goldenrebel1st 13 жыл бұрын

@NonStampCollector I was referring to the inverted image on the retina. The Cephalopod eye also has an inverted image. My argument is that that an inverted image is not an example of bad design.

@thecameraman6275 3 жыл бұрын

"Fiddled around with BY THE DEVIL?!" 🤣🤣🤣

@Pit.Gutzmann 7 жыл бұрын

Love the banana in the back! ;-)

@pinecone9619 6 жыл бұрын

I'll tell you what's wrong with it, it's dead. That's what's wrong with it.

@erikbaran7197 5 жыл бұрын

No, no, no....'e's restin'!

@RonDaSantis 2 ай бұрын

Now I have “our god is an awesome god” stuck in my head, thanks.

@kimweaver3323 3 жыл бұрын

You're just pinin' for the fjords, aren't ya?

@OrionoftheStar 8 жыл бұрын

Wonderful for gazing at fjords, though.

@stevep2448 8 ай бұрын

Pining for the fjords?

@protercool8474 4 жыл бұрын

It's funny because humans have already developed better versions. Cameras are proof that we are more intelligent than whatever made our eyes

@Robstailey 14 жыл бұрын

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.

@NonStampCollector 13 жыл бұрын

@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?

@carultch 9 жыл бұрын

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.

@codykaufman8047 9 жыл бұрын

+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?

@carultch 9 жыл бұрын

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.

@carultch 9 жыл бұрын

Cody Kaufman Did you know that the famous "Blue Marble" photo of our planet was taken "upside down"?

@rogerfvb 8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@R3tr0v1ru5 8 жыл бұрын

+carultch Do you know that Creationism is completely false?

@bleuscorpio 13 жыл бұрын

I love how the laptop in the background show a banana with an arrow pointing to a human hand? Haha, brilliant!

@Iruparazzo 12 жыл бұрын

OMG I love the 'banana->hand' on the counter laptop hahahahaha

@MrArkBuilder 10 жыл бұрын

cameras do not take upside down photos

@carerforever2118 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe not now days, but l think they used too decades ago.

@Mastervitro 6 жыл бұрын

and we can only see a small fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum

@jeff8605 14 жыл бұрын

@dirx103 and also, as stated in the movie, yes you can still see but its only due to the massive compensatory functions of the occipital lobe of the brain, particularly the V4 and V5 regions. If our brains did not arrange everything that we observe in the environment, and we only saw out of our eyes ALONE, the images would be upside down, reversed, w/o color and full of splotches.

@goldenrebel1st 13 жыл бұрын

An inverted image on the retina is actually wonderful. It simplifies the lens enormously *and* leads to higher quality images. It is an example of *good* design, not bad design. Man made cameras work that way. I can't imagine it any other way, whether it be designed (like a camera) or not (as a process of evolution). I don't get why camera designers and nature both get chastised for doing it this way.