We all hear the same tired and stupid Creationist arguments SO OFTEN that the folks at The Thinking Atheist decided to assemble their 10 favorites and address them in this amusing little video.

But, as Dr House once said: "If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people."

GrrlScientist's addendum [14 December 2010]: The Guardian's reader's editor forwarded an email to me today regarding one reader's concern about how the laws of thermodynamics are referred to in the above video. This reader points out that even though there are four laws of thermodynamics, they are numbered zero through three (not one through four) -- i. e.; the "Zeroth", "First", "Second", and "Third" laws of thermodynamics. Technically speaking, this reader is correct, however, the videographer, the Thinking Atheist (and possibly even the reader/complainant) would likely agree with me when I say that, when making a numbered list of items, as in the video, most humans (including most physicists) start with the number "1." But historically speaking, the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics was the last one discovered: its importance was recognised only after the first, second, and third laws had already been named and accepted by the physics community. This unusual numbering convention recognised both the fundamental importance of the Zeroth Law and it conveniently kept physicists (and publishers) from having to re-number all these laws, thereby avoiding confusion and rioting among physics students everywhere. Further -- and most important -- this semantic point affects neither the information nor the ideas being presented.