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They make many videos attacking the <a href="/wiki/Theory_of_evolution" title="Theory of evolution">theory of evolution</a> and promoting <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design">intelligent design</a>. Additionally, they believe in <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Evil" class="mw-redirect" title="Evil">evil</a> influence of witches in the world. And just to round out the idiocy, they are also <a href="/wiki/Birther" class="mw-redirect" title="Birther">birthers</a>, often call <a href="/wiki/Obama" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama">Obama</a> the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Christ">anti-Christ</a> (they're <a href="/wiki/Just_asking_questions" title="Just asking questions">just asking questions</a>!), and believe that <a href="/wiki/Anthropogenic_global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthropogenic global warming">anthropogenic global warming</a> is a "profit-driven <a href="/wiki/Scam" class="mw-redirect" title="Scam">scam</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Where_we_give_opinion"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Where we give opinion</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Positive_side"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Positive side</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Demise"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Demise</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Where_we_give_opinion">Where we give opinion</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PPSIMMONS&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Where we give opinion">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The shapeless cloud of foolishness that is PPSIMMONS made many YouTube videos trying to demonstrate that evolution seems improbable to the point of impossibility until the channel was "terminated due to repeated or severe violations of… Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement" on April 25, 2012 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ppsimmons">Youtube</a>. Many of their videos are being re-uploaded to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/carlgallups">Carl Gallups' Youtube channel</a> and on their Facebook page. They search through any scientific articles that mention "design" or "creation" (in all forms and definitions) and <a href="/wiki/Quote_mining" title="Quote mining">use them to support an argument that all scientists recognize design</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> And, of course, if they recognize design in nature, then <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design">intelligent design</a> is really science! <i>Victory!</i> </p><p>PPSIMMONS/Gallups (like many other big creationists on YouTube) censors and blocks people for simply disagreeing with them/him. All negative comments, criticisms, and corrections are erased as if they never existed, and the user who posted them is banned from commenting further, giving <a href="/wiki/Gish_Gallop" title="Gish Gallop">Gallups</a> the appearance of being smart, in a wondrous feat of legerdemain that a more sinful commentator might call "ridiculously fucking deceitful". In some of his videos, the comment option has been disabled. </p><p>Luckily, many users have made wonderful rebuttal videos to PPSIMMONS' material.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> Unluckily, the unknowable fog of dumb that is PPSIMMONS refuses to allow video responses and (often in response to challengers) disables all comments on his videos that were refuted.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> </p><p>Unsurprisingly, the eluctable quantum field of moron that is PPSIMMONS promotes the <a href="/wiki/Question_Evolution" title="Question Evolution">Question Evolution</a> campaign,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> a creationist anti-evolution <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> machine hoping to get students and teachers to question and minimize (or eliminate) teaching evolution in science classes. </p><p>Like all good <a href="/wiki/Fundamentalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundamentalist">True Christians™</a>, they felt it necessary to chastise the late <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a> after his death.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Positive_side">Positive side</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PPSIMMONS&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Positive side">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>To non-American ears the voice behind the PPSIMMONS Youtube videos is so unutterably boringly soporific that it could easily be used as a sleeping aid for those suffering for insomnia. Listen and try it for yourself. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Demise">Demise</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PPSIMMONS&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Demise">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>On May 1<sup>st</sup>, 2012, YouTube pulled the plug on his account, stating "This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement." This resulted in <a href="/wiki/WND" title="WND">WND</a> <a href="/wiki/Persecution_complex" title="Persecution complex">howling</a> about how Christians are being targeted,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hypocrisy" title="Hypocrisy">even though their channel removes dissenting comments and bans those who made them in the first place</a>, and a call for a <a href="/wiki/Boycott" class="mw-redirect" title="Boycott">boycott</a> of YouTube by PPSimmons himself.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PPSIMMONS&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_internet_kooks" class="mw-redirect" title="List of internet kooks">List of internet kooks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rational_and_irrational_YouTubers" class="mw-redirect" title="Rational and irrational YouTubers">Rational and irrational YouTubers</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PPSIMMONS&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ppsimmons">YouTube channel</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4_tRgsXeV4">ZOMG RationalWiki gets pwned!</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2012/07/higgs-boson-discovery-no-threat-to.html">The Higgs boson proves God!</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ppsimmons.com">his website</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PPSIMMONS&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukq_9M60L_0">DEAR ATHEIST - Let's Talk</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2011/09/ppsimmons-slams-atheist-site.html">PPSIMMONS Slams Atheist Site Rationalwiki on Erroneous Posting</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkDfK7dYBuE">A mirror of PPSIMMONS video on an article of butterfly wings pointing to design</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW2gaAtQK5g">Holy Hallucinations 8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-BEBQBVg0I">Creationists Butcher Science Ep. 11 — ppsimmons</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxLILXjW3Bk">ppsimmons — Chickenshit Creationist</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790xcY2CaHs">PPSIMMONS "Question Evolution! 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JOIN US!"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHxjNcBZ9Tg">Christopher Hitchens — A WASTED Life — Get "THE ATHEISTS ARE WRONG" Today!</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/youtube-pulls-plug-on-christian-videos/">YouTube pulls plug on Christian videos</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2012/05/youtube-users-call-for-boycott-over.html">Youtube Users Call for BOYCOTT Over Closure of PPSIMMONS Channel</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div>    </div></div><div 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