2014-06-10
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So have you guys ever been to one of those really bizarre, dark places on the internet?
Like, let's say you're watching a video,
and then you click on a related video and you keep clicking on the next related video and the next one.
Smash cut to use six hours later and you're just watching Nyan Cat on a four-hour loop.
Well, deep inside the bowels of the internet, in one of these really weird places, there's a war being fought.
It's the YouTube video and comment war between fundamentalist Christians and science.
Really, the best way to describe it is a war zone.
I mean, seriously, you guys should see some of these comments.
There's some of the destructive, hateful things I've ever seen in my life.
Each one of these YouTube videos is its own unique, crazy battlefield.
Now, this battlefield is obviously an extreme caricature of what actually exists in reality,
but you have to acknowledge
that the dynamic that exists in an extreme form on these YouTube videos isn't completely unfounded.
You wouldn't say that there's a war between science and religion today,
but you definitely have to acknowledge that the two don't agree on many things.