Here’s another youtube bandwagon to jump on: I Am Darwin. Get in front of your webcam and talk about how Darwin has influenced you, concluding with “I am Darwin”, and send the youtube link to Tom Barbalet. How many Darwins are out there, anyway?
There’s one ‘Darwin’ that can use some bandwagon support – Digital Cuttlefish has a book of their Molly Award winning verse out!! http://tinyurl.com/digitalcuttlefish
Get the book out for the ‘I don’t celebrate that holiday’ season!
ggabsays
There are those who call me…Tim.
How about “We are Devo”
When I was 3-4 yrsold,I used to play in the backyard with ants, putting them through suicide missions in bottles and bowls of various fluids, like water, oil, dirty water etc. and then put them into various nests, according to the trials I had put them thru. Some survived, some didn’t. when I met the Rev. Darwin immediately thought I’d met an old intellectual friend.I went to a private catholic school which taught Darwinian (and Aquinian) concepts. the only time they baulked, was when, in the early 1960’s in religion class, I asked (b4 the discovery of quarks),”If a proton is One and Indivisable , is a proton god. They then took me aside asked me if I still believed in Catholic teachings; when i said “er,No…” they excused me from attending any further religious events (on condition I wouldn’t try to convert anyone to my views (at school). I think that head nun, was a bit of a free thinker herself. Your Aussie mate, Mindlesley
Crap. I don’t have a webcam, but I wrote something recently about what a difference evolution made in my life, setting me free of the last of that Deep South childhood racism.
Maybe I’ll see if anybody I know here in Schenectady has one.
“I was the walrus –
Paul wasn’t the walrus!
I was just saying that to be nice, but i was actually the walrus!”
teammartysays
ARE WE NOT MEN??
WE ARE DEVO!!
Aaaahhhh!!!
Childhood memories
noncarborundumsays
So, is this based on “I am PC”? Are we really going to fall for this one?
It beats being based on “I am Joe the Plumber!”
RickrOllsays
I am the Individual Eleven! (that actually predates the “i am pc” thing, by a long shot.) Darwin is the Individual Eleven. Our individual egos will carry out our collective will!!
The “Joe the Plumber” thing has put me off Spartacus references for now.
Iansays
“How many Darwins are out there, anyway?”
If Darwin is a unit of evolutionary change, there must be trillions of ’em!
ihedeniussays
I am not a Darwinist. Darwin is not an authority. But Darwins farreaching insight about the totality of life otoh has been developed and strengthed for 150 years.
Though just a layman I’m guessing (and hoping) we’re standing at the dawn of an ‘genetic age’ having amassed a critical mass of information (and computer power) to really begin taking advantage. To make biologic matter work for us at the molecular level, for medicine, food, fuel and areas we have not yet imagined.
I that sense I’m Darwin.
Quiet_Desperationsays
He really annoyed me. I mean, if you are going to have a show with a talking dolphin with an electronic translator, why make the translator voice sound like the dolphin so it’s all hard to understand? Just give it a normal voice. Sheesh.
I am Charles Darwin–ninety-nine point nine percent
There’s a little variation that I don’t share with the gent
But we share a common blueprint, which is kinda what he meant
When he came to the conclusion that we’re all of shared descent
I am Charles Darwin–what I mean is, I am Man
I’m a billion trillion accidents instead of One Big Plan
Just a step or two from chimpanzee or from orangutan
Maybe more than distant cousins, but you recognize the clan
I am Charles Darwin–I can’t help it; it’s my genes
We’re mutation and selection, see, when no one intervenes
Like a god with claimed omnipotence, or alien machines
None better and none worse than us, is really what it means
I am Charles Darwin–I was never Eden-cursed
I am just another animal, I’m neither best nor worst
From primordial beginnings, look how widely I’ve dispersed
Such a beautiful idea…Charles Darwin saw it first.
Sven DiMilo says
We Are All Darwin Now.
Sven DiMilo says
um, except for me, that is.
I am Spartacus.
Kel says
I think I might give this a go.
Teleprompter says
No, I am Darwin! (And Spartacus)
Glen Davidson says
Could play into the “Darwinist” claptrap of the IDiots, you know.
Why not “I am Lewontin” or some such thing?
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Dana D says
I’M Darwin, and so’s my wife! I mean, and so’s my domestic-partner-until-that’s-illegal-too!
spgreenlaw says
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
(Spartacus was already taken.)
Podblack says
There’s one ‘Darwin’ that can use some bandwagon support – Digital Cuttlefish has a book of their Molly Award winning verse out!!
http://tinyurl.com/digitalcuttlefish
Get the book out for the ‘I don’t celebrate that holiday’ season!
ggab says
There are those who call me…Tim.
How about “We are Devo”
Moody834 says
@ #9:
Are we not men?
Nick Gotts says
Since she’s not here to do it for herself:
SC is Kropotkin!
(Minus the beard, I’m guessing.)
TSC says
The ID version: I am dumbass.
mindlesley says
When I was 3-4 yrsold,I used to play in the backyard with ants, putting them through suicide missions in bottles and bowls of various fluids, like water, oil, dirty water etc. and then put them into various nests, according to the trials I had put them thru. Some survived, some didn’t. when I met the Rev. Darwin immediately thought I’d met an old intellectual friend.I went to a private catholic school which taught Darwinian (and Aquinian) concepts. the only time they baulked, was when, in the early 1960’s in religion class, I asked (b4 the discovery of quarks),”If a proton is One and Indivisable , is a proton god. They then took me aside asked me if I still believed in Catholic teachings; when i said “er,No…” they excused me from attending any further religious events (on condition I wouldn’t try to convert anyone to my views (at school). I think that head nun, was a bit of a free thinker herself. Your Aussie mate, Mindlesley
mindlesley says
Can’t get the utube thing together hence text.
Zaius says
I am a Darwin-shaped stain:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin
6for2 says
We are DEVO. D-E-V-O!
greg laden says
So, is this based on “I am PC”? Are we really going to fall for this one?
Sven DiMilo says
Glen, on Lewontin’s 200th birthday you can do “I am Lewontin.” If anybody still remembers him then.
Alan Kellogg says
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
John S. Wilkins says
Hello. I’m a Mac. I run on Darwin.
Patricia says
I’m an ignorant slut.
ggab says
I am the walrus.
coocoocuchoo
Sven DiMilo says
If you were really the walrus, you’d be able to speak walrusian witout that accent: “goo goo goo joob.”
Patricia says
Huzzah for the Cuttlefish!
Dale Husband says
I am Carl Sagan.
Nerd of Redhead says
Yep, the good ole Darwin kernel, running as I type.
Congratulations to Cuttlefish on his book. He’s beating PZ to publication.
I am Isaac Asimov.
Chris Larkin says
I’m not Darwin.
But I played him on TV.
Sphere Coupler says
I’m a Sphere Coupler…duh
Shamar says
We are all Darwin!
T. Bruce McNeely says
I am NOT Ben Stein.
Hank Fox says
Crap. I don’t have a webcam, but I wrote something recently about what a difference evolution made in my life, setting me free of the last of that Deep South childhood racism.
Maybe I’ll see if anybody I know here in Schenectady has one.
Ken Cope says
“I was the walrus –
Paul wasn’t the walrus!
I was just saying that to be nice, but i was actually the walrus!”
teammarty says
ARE WE NOT MEN??
WE ARE DEVO!!
Aaaahhhh!!!
Childhood memories
noncarborundum says
It beats being based on “I am Joe the Plumber!”
RickrOll says
I am the Individual Eleven! (that actually predates the “i am pc” thing, by a long shot.) Darwin is the Individual Eleven. Our individual egos will carry out our collective will!!
Tony Sidaway says
The “Joe the Plumber” thing has put me off Spartacus references for now.
Ian says
“How many Darwins are out there, anyway?”
If Darwin is a unit of evolutionary change, there must be trillions of ’em!
ihedenius says
I am not a Darwinist. Darwin is not an authority. But Darwins farreaching insight about the totality of life otoh has been developed and strengthed for 150 years.
Though just a layman I’m guessing (and hoping) we’re standing at the dawn of an ‘genetic age’ having amassed a critical mass of information (and computer power) to really begin taking advantage. To make biologic matter work for us at the molecular level, for medicine, food, fuel and areas we have not yet imagined.
I that sense I’m Darwin.
Quiet_Desperation says
He really annoyed me. I mean, if you are going to have a show with a talking dolphin with an electronic translator, why make the translator voice sound like the dolphin so it’s all hard to understand? Just give it a normal voice. Sheesh.
Oh, wait, there’s another Darwin?
Tom Barbalet says
Thanks for getting the word out, PZ. I look forward to seeing your I-Am-Darwin video!
Sili says
Ah yam what ah yam and dats all dat ah yam.
Brad D says
I’m not a doctor, I’m “The Doctor.”
Cuttlefish, OM says
I am Charles Darwin–ninety-nine point nine percent
There’s a little variation that I don’t share with the gent
But we share a common blueprint, which is kinda what he meant
When he came to the conclusion that we’re all of shared descent
I am Charles Darwin–what I mean is, I am Man
I’m a billion trillion accidents instead of One Big Plan
Just a step or two from chimpanzee or from orangutan
Maybe more than distant cousins, but you recognize the clan
I am Charles Darwin–I can’t help it; it’s my genes
We’re mutation and selection, see, when no one intervenes
Like a god with claimed omnipotence, or alien machines
None better and none worse than us, is really what it means
I am Charles Darwin–I was never Eden-cursed
I am just another animal, I’m neither best nor worst
From primordial beginnings, look how widely I’ve dispersed
Such a beautiful idea…Charles Darwin saw it first.
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-charles-darwin.html
Anon says
http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20031208.html
Kubenzi says
Posted on reddit for more clicks.upmod if you got em
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7e9wr/i_am_darwin/