Miley Cyrus might have licked the sledgehammer first, but Dr. Carin Bondar’s remake of the infamous Wrecking Ball is spoof + science at its best. Whoever thinks Miley has cornered the market on licking strange objects is in for a real treat with Organisms Do Evolve (and I, for one, think Dr. Bondar rocks the white tank top, tighty-whities, and red lipstick far better). Though the aesthetics amuse, the video also focuses on the science, and smashes creationist notions that evolution isn’t true. As the lyrics state once and for all “organisms do evolve/That giant mystery’s been solved/Creationism’s proven false/Get familiar with our phylogeny.”
But does Dr. Bondar recreate the most infamous Miley moment? Well, I guess you’ll just have to watch to find out…
Can you put the words up please?
Here’s what Carin wrote on the YouTube page (you can read it below the video if you click through to YouTube):
I am always troubled by the lack of awareness surrounding the process of evolution by natural selection. Also, I am a crazy dorky scientist who enjoys many aspects of pop culture. I’m a Miley fan, and when I first saw ‘Wrecking Ball’ it was just irresistible for me to parody it! Here are the full lyrics:
They fought, they strained, their lives in vain
They thought, always asking why
Not blessed but shunned, the world was stunned
But facts, no one could deny
You might think you know, only just suppose
What you’re told isn’t true
Facts you can’t deny, science doesn’t lie
There is actual proof
That organisms do evolve
That giant mystery’s been solved
Creationism’s proven false
Get familiar with our phylogeny
Yes, our phylogeny.
There’s A, there’s C there’s T there’s G,
They’re called nucleotides
The helix turns with no concern
For Gods, or religious lives
Gene diversity, stochasticity
Just the fittest survive
Then they procreate, and some genes mutate
Varied forms are derived.
Yes organisms do evolve,
The experts have worked hard to solve
The complex processes involved
In the earth’s history
Yes organisms do evolve,
There’s no more mystery to solve,
Fundamental to life overall
Get familiar with our biology
Scholarship and science answer for
Absolute complexities within
Both extant and extinct creature forms
Understanding that is not a sin
Scholarship and science answer for
Incidents where divergence begins
Understanding that is not a sin
You might think you know, only just suppose
What you’re told isn’t true.
Cuz organisms do evolve,
There’s no more mystery to solve
Creationism’s proven false
Get familiar with our phylogeny
Yes organisms do evolve,
Such complex processes resolved
Fundamental to life overall
Aim to understand our biology
It’s our biology
I hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed making. EVOLUTION FTW!
Are you in love with the amazing vocals of Emily Hammel-Brisson? You can drop her a line at emilyhamel@inbox.com
thank you 🙂
Take care not to confuse weather with climate, science with God.
Disassemble a watch, put the parts in a bag, shake – no watch.
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/44/17272/F1.large.jpg
Dissolve hydrogen cyanide and ammonia in water, warm, shine in some light – adenine, ΔG = −53.7 kcal/mole.
Just because it works at will doesn’t mean it didn’t happen as a miracle. True love of God can overcome any rational thought or empirical circumstance. Ignorance is a form of knowing things, as is faith. Diversity demands you return its rights that you have stolen disguised as scholarship and productivity.
Even though I disagree with you, I appreciate that you provide a source for your information. You know as well as I do that too many people on the internet don’t bother.
Seriously?? She chose Miley Cyrus for a song about proof of evolution??? Lol. And I’m pretty sure she’s singing “I Love Jim Beam” at the end.
Miley Cyrus is proof of evolution in which direction again?
Young earth creationism has been proven false, but that in no way precludes creation by a divine being. The big bang, evolution, etc could just be the tools of a divine being.
I have no problem with someone choosing to believe or not believe in a deity as they see fit, but I get annoyed when people say that science definitively disproves the existence of a being that would be definitionally beyond the purview of science.
This video seems incoherent and arch, but the
thing is this..
Most of us have read of the famous account of the great scientist Laplace at the court of Napoleon. There are various versions, but the gist is: Napoleon, commenting on Laplace’s huge book on the System of the Universe, asks, “..where is the mention of
God in all this?” Laplace responds, “Sire, I have
no need of that hypothesis.”
The point is that modern science does not deny the existence of any god(s) (effectively unfalsifiable). It simple and clearly says that no gods were actually needed, in any manner, to explain the universe.
Physical nature seems to do quite well on its own, thank you.
Holy Neptune’s ghost, great creativity !
where did physical nature arise from ? science also proves you can’t get something out of nothing
that being said how beautiful is dr. carni?…..great parpdy
love to have a debate with her…..