Almost every invention ever was about making labor more efficient, increasing leisure time, or making something to do during leisure time.
Agriculture and Animal Domestication: Growing all your food at home so you don't have to wonder miles looking for food.
Plow: Beats hoeing.
Steam engine: Beats having slaves row the boat.
Bow and Arrow: Easier than chasing your prey with a spear.
Spear: Easier than beating it to death with your bare hands.
Computer: Beats doing all the airline reservations by hand.
Boat: A bit easier than swimming or walking.

Straw man arguments begin at 2:15. "Random" is really not the right word and shows that he doesn't understand biochemistry. It's like saying a steam engine is random because individual gas particles in it move somewhat randomly. Then he conflates evolution with abiogenesis. There seems to be a lot of the word "random" going around as a substitute for "I don't know". They're not interchangeable.

Super cute! Reminds me of my son at that age, feeding him was like shoveling coal in to a steam engine. He would grunt..."UNGGGGGGH!" as you would bring a new spoonful towards him as if to say "FASTER!"

Haha this could be like pulling teeth.

Well, I'm not a complete lurker, but I'm not the most vocal of sifters. I did post a couple of SiftTalk entries, but they never showed up...

Anyway, to celebrate Delurking Week, I've created a brand-new collective: 1stTube. It's a celebration of the era of television -- a technology that is soon to be as historic as the steam engine. All postings are welcome!

Budzos... I'm not 30 yet, and it bothers me. Some time ago, while watching some footage of a launch (not this one), I started thinking to myself... boy... these rockets, the way they shake and rattle, the steam they produce when the engine starts and burns the water on the pits below, the smoke it makes rising up, it all makes it look like a really really old fashioned technology, like steam.
It then hit me, just how primitive our space technology is. We're still in the steam engine stage. We've got a lot of work to do to reach the Maglev era