Weekend Vid Picks: Kirk Cameron vs. YouTube

The wonderful and also terrible thing about the Internet is that everyone’s free to share their beliefs with each other — and everyone else is free to make fun of them for doing so.

This week, Kirk Cameron, former child star and current born-again Christian, released Origin Into Schools, a 5-minute video announcing that he and evangelist Rob Comfort had teamed up to honor the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species by distributing, for free, special editions of the book to universities. What makes the book special is a 50-page forward that “presents other options” to students — specifically, one assumes, creationism as opposed to evolution — in the hopes of stemming the tide of atheism allegedly sweeping our nation’s higher learning facilities.

This has, as you might imagine, gotten some reactions from the YouTube community. Users punkoutlaw76, MPARKER18311 and muddmonkeys777, for example, re-edited the video to insert their own comments:

But agnosticman77 took a different approach, creating a song, in the style of the band Disturbed, attacking Cameron and Comfort entitled Crocoduck, which he provided for free download on his web site and also created in music video form. It’s not the most lyrical of tunes, but there’s an understandable emphasis on message over quality here.

However, while the reactions to the Cameron video have a decidedly visceral quality, they don’t have nearly as many views as the original clip, which as of this writing was closing in on 150,000. How many of those views can be attributed to true believers, though? Probably not as many as Cameron would like. Origin Into Schools‘s rating was at 1.5 stars earlier today. Ratings have now been disabled.

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