As a former creationist that watched through this series, thank you. I grew up creationist and only went to creationist schools my whole life, even in college. I've literally never been to a public school. And so when I finally left I realized just how much a gap I had in understanding about, well, any of this. And series like this are incredibly helpful in giving my a base of understanding that I was never given growing up
I can barely believe there are schools all the way into college that teach/endorse creationism. I live in a country where religion in school is *strictly* forbidden unless a part of courses on history and social movements, so hearing of places where it's regularly taught or endorsed, even into adulthood, is crazy to me
Welcome to reality! Have a look around. The answers to *nearly* every question can be found. We've got mountains of science, some understandable, most not :). No matter how much stuff we know, theres more to be sought!
Your videos were what initially inspired me years ago in elementary school to become an evolutionary biologist. Now I’m a senior-year high school student interning with the largest research college in my state. Thanks Professor Dave!
@@ProfessorDaveExplains I know! It doesn’t feel real sometimes. I don’t remember which video of yours it was, but I grew up in a very science-denying Christian family, and one of your videos made me think, “Huh. I want to become an expert on how this works.”
@@pketchum08i don’t know if you know how inspiring your story is too, just reading this myself makes me want to go on to higher learning to help expand the puzzle we are filling in as a team. you’re an awesome person, and i hope to hear more about your journey, both here and in the primary scientific literature! go get em!
Thanks Dave! I appreciate all your efforts in debunking pseudoscience and nonsense and I enjoy watching your content. I have even used some of your educational videos to fill some of the gaps in my knowledge. Mech Engineering classes are pretty light on chemistry so its nice to have a good knowledgeable resource to fall back on in an easy to digest format.
@FallusWren quit projecting. know who is actually a PDF? the xtian god, he got Mary preggers at 14. that's messed up, seems like something only PDF would be into and openly worship.
People pirate so much stuff without a 2nd thought. You don't need to feel bad learning from something created from the ground up to be freely disseminated my friend 😊
@@Koifin3 you know that bot was created by a christian. probably projecting the guilt they feel that a lot of major leaders in their religion are well known kiddie diddlers.
3:00:00 One detail to clarify here is that evolution doesn't actually suggest "survival of the fittest". The reason there is so much variety comes from the fact that while there is competition over resources, there isn't a necessity in all circumstances to compete for resources. Evolution is effectively "survival of what doesn't get killed before it reproduces." Only the lowest competitors are selected out, not necessarily the best being selected for in all circumstances.
i think you might misunderstand what fitness means. a organism’s fitness might be that it survives the longest, others might be to have the most fertile offspring, some might be the largest or the fastest or the fattest. even a complex fitness like has the most numerous, robust, fertile, successful offspring might not apply to all or most organisms. “fitness”, as I understand it, is a term that refers to plasticity to a niche in an environment. as niches are a transforming landscape themselves, the labels we put on fitness and niche, and even environment, are necessarily always incomplete.
@@Didomate no, that’s not at all what it means. but here-you can easily learn something very quickly. an organism has two offspring: one has the ability to reproduce offspring very well, making a dozen every year, and the other doesn’t, making one every few years. the one that reproduces with many offspring every year isn’t able to care for them properly, they outpace their ability to gather resources and every offspring from that group dies before sexual maturity. meanwhile the one that produces one every few years has a successful lineage, and so much so that its genes dominate the gene pool as a result. a very simple, easy to understand example that demonstrably shows you that you were wrong.
@@TeslaGengar I put it in more simple terms. It all boils down to how well you can reproduce. In the example you show, one of the offspring outpaced the other because it was more resourceful by having less children, making it more likely for them to reproduce, and so they have a higher fitness. The other was less likely to reproduce because it exhausted its resources, so it has a lower fitness. You don't need all that other stuff, fitness is just simply "How well can you reproduce". This is literally a google search away, just search what the definition of fitness in biology.
Here's my go to response for any creationist: evolution is at this point an applied science, like materials engineering. We understand it so well that we use it in technology, like medicine and agriculture. Even if you were somehow able to disprove natural selection - itself a pretty much insurmountable hurdle - you haven't disproven that evolution exists. You've just disproven the mechanism for it and science needs to hypothesize and test a new one.
I’m late to this but thank you for making it Dave. I grew up in a fundamentalist household and have had to spend many years trying to educate myself on both science and history in a non religious context. Videos like this have been immensely helpful for me.
About dinosaurs to birds, it should be noted that we now know that almost all small therapods like the raptors were feathered from head to tail, like modern birds. So an ostrich and large raptor would resemble one another even more than the picture shown on screen here
Your content and style are both top shelf! This should be shown to students at all levels. Well done. Finally some sanity and serious skill on RUclips!
Hey Dave, I’m a university student and I’d just like to give a thousand thanks for your channels existence. I was using your videos to study for my exam a few days ago, and didn’t realize the extent of your channel. The effort you put into your videos and the clarity and cohesiveness of their structure genuinely amazes me and I can tell you have a passion for what you do. You are a beacon of hope in the alarming state of stupidity this world is currently experiencing. Keep doing what you do!
If creationists chose to believe and accept nonbelievers for what they are instead of thinking of their kind as an existential threat, we wouldn't be here. I wish we all lived in peace, man
@@scott3177 most atheists in America are secular humanists. There's still believers in those 2 countries you mentioned btw, they just have a vastly different government system. ... Britain is mostly secular... even among believers... weird you didn't mention them, you instead equated atheism to... communism? A very specific form of communism at that Should I talk about the current theocracies and how well they're also doing if you wanna play that game or...?
@@phantomstarsx9343 they have recently started to shift towards atheism and look what’s happening in the country. America at its peak was no question a religious nation, know they don’t even know how many genders there are. Also none of the current theocracies u can think of are run according to sharia law they are influenced by the west
Grew up in YEC and I must commend you for doing your homework. You hit on every single talking point I think I've ever heard in 35+ years of Christian Fundamentalism. It must have taken an incredible amount of patience to listen to and address each one.
Aside from helping to debunk, this video is also good for gaining a better understanding of science and how specifically evolution and all related fields work. There was a lot of information here that I either didn’t know, forgot, or was interpreting incorrectly that this video helped to clarify.
I believe in the Bible... That is, I believe that it exists. It's a pretty cool book. The things in it obviously didn't happen, but it's still a pretty neat book
@stargazzer9166 well, it's a book that exists. It can be sold to many people, and the Bible has undergone several revisions over thousands of years. It does not mean that the stories written in the Bible actually happened in reality.
I've had mushroom trips that were eerily similar to the Book of Revelations. Eyes and wings and horns on everything? Absolutely. I promise that large parts of biblical mythology was written by stoners using any number of natural hallucinagens.
Incredible video! What a great summation of decades worth of intensive education placed into one well done survey video… Thanks! I haven't been to college in over 20 years, not only was there great review in this video, but I learned a lot of new stuff! I love your channel! All the videos are incredible! You are an asset to human culture. Huge thank you for fighting ignorance.
They are dumb, but not stupid😁 They won't respond directly...debate through any media only works for them if both parties and audience are unsophisticated. Professor Dave doesn't qualify😆
Man Dave, I was watching a Mini minute man video the other day. When he was debunking the Google debunkers guy. And he says just be lucky Professor Dave didn't get to you first😆💯🤘 I was laughing my ass off. You are the A team Dave!
I’ve gone to church all my life and I remember in a youth group meeting once they were teaching apologetics. Their main tactic was to make sure you’re the one asking the questions because if the other side is able to ask a question then you might be backed into a corner and not know the answer. Further more I was taught that if they don’t answer your question and instead provide a counter question then you don’t respond or continue the conversation until they answer. If they were unable to answer then “you win”. Looking back at this it’s actually kind of wild and it shows a total lack of understanding and a really bad way to try to “win”.
I was raised as a catholic. My childhood began with the assumption that I would be a priest. In my early teen years, I read the bible. When I encountered proverbs3:5-6, I KNEW I WAS ON THE WRONG PATH. Proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in the lord with all thine heart; and lean NOT unto thine own understanding. In ALL ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." I acknowledged. I asked. I begged. I pleaded, denied, rationalized. I received no answer. So, I went and looked myself. Let's just say that I'm no longer a religious person, and my quality of life has improved exponentially. Thank you, Dave, for your extremely valuable efforts to curb ignorance. You are helping some people encounter sanity for the first time in their lives. Thank you, not from the bottom of my heart, but by all that I am.
The verse you are referencing says not to lean on your own understanding. It sounds like you rejected the verse and leaned on your own understanding anyways. Is this correct?
This is getting beyond ridiculous ! Speaking as a PhD Scientist the nonsense that is getting presented as science on channels like the one debunked here this evening is astonishing and I have great difficulty not calling it what it is.I am tired of being polite about it! I once thought Prof Sagans fears aired in his Demon Haunted World were a little alarmist, but they weren’t and they are materialising before our eyes! Keep fighting the good fight Dave!
@@Didomate @ UK Russel Group University five years pre doctoral and subsequently post doctoral Research Fellow in Faculty of Medicine for 10 year prior to gaining tenure and staff position. How about you?!!!
@ What Scientific fact “Creation Science” ? It isn’t science fact most of it centres around the same tired old arguments that have been disproven time and time again since the era of Thomas Aquinas, and the deliberate pseudoscience presented as apologetics!
@@Didomate Dude you completely misread what they were saying lol, reread it again but very slowly. Albeit it was very confusing how they worded it, but they are talking about the creationists, not this video
I was watching each installment as they appeared, but I enjoyed/learned from them to the point I had to tune in here to ensure I did not miss anything!
smh he didn’t even try to debunk wave conjugations and the sacred 19 overlapping circles, this is nothing compared to the reality bending genius of terryology
This is an amazing breakdown. I think one slight addition that could be useful would be to refer back to the slide where you show the different "levels" of creationists. For example, if there is a certain logical fallacy you are debunking, you could show which categories you originally described with labels of which typically assert these fallacies, vs which do not. Thank you for this video. For some reason I find this stuff fascinating
Excellent succinct summary of astronomy. It is not easy to condense it so much. Well done. FYI: as a physics educator I tend to avoid using ambulances to illustrate the Doppler effect. The wavelengths of their sirens change even when they are stationary. It is enough to just mention a motorcycle engine or car horn heard while driving past a pedestrian. The observer hears a change in pitch. (As well as a change in volume which must be distinguished)
I'm a reformed Catholic with family members that don't even talk with me anymore. I get bullied when I talk about atheism and get treated poorly except by my Mom and Dad. I wish the world would accept certain fundamental understandings that we are here and we have each other. That we don't need a deity to live and we are responsible for the wellbeing of all not just under the pretense of a God.
It's crazy how the religion that everyone claims has an all loving god that teaches love and acceptance, even if people different than you in faith, is the most religiously intolerant religion possible
@@FALLUSWREN-n3d Yes, That is why religious leaders hide pedophiles and say god is above all common law and will forgive pedophiles as long as they accept the lord jesus christ as their lord and Savior they get a pass to assault more children. You are a pedophile yourself. that is just projecting on Professor Dave.
@xJunkScienceGaming As a former Catholic apologist, when dealing with hypocrisy among current Catholics, I default to a 2 point system and 2 questions: 1, they have some personal belief that is a heracy by Church doctrine. 2, the pope himself has estimated 10% of Catholic priests to be pedophiles. 3, Why do you believe a two-thousand year promise for an imminent return that gives power to 1 in 10 of pedophile priests saying they are holy, but we are going to burn in hell as we are both apostate. 4, If you reject the priesthood as the source of moral authority, how is the holy book decided? The first step is the hardest if you are dealing with strangers, but with family, there are some obvious ones you probably know: transubstantiation is a literal transformation into blood and flesh, while the physical structure of the wine and bread is preserved; the pope may speak infallibly on matters of faith and morals; or, money is a suitable replacement for promised moral punishment.
Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making. Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or belief in a deity. It does not, however, assume that humans are either inherently good or evil, nor does it present humans as being superior to nature. Rather, the humanist life stance emphasizes the unique responsibility facing humanity and the ethical consequences of human decisions. Fundamental to the concept of secular humanism is the strongly held viewpoint that ideology be it religious or political must be thoroughly examined by each individual and not simply accepted or rejected on faith. Along with this, an essential part of secular humanism is a continually adapting search for truth, primarily through science and philosophy.
Hi Dave, just want to say thank you for this video. Extremely informative, and you absolutely go over pretty much all the points all kinds of creationists use to argue against evolution of life and this planet. My family are all Jehovahs Witnesses (as I used to be as well) and it's tough seeing otherwise intelligent people deny basic scientific fact and understanding. Even my own father who was a physics professor previously in his life does not believe in evolution of life. Thank you for providing ample evidence and solid arguments against basically all arguments I heard growing up as a JW. The toughest part is always presenting this in a way that does not appear to be an attack on their beliefs but unfortunately theres never an easy way to do this. Again, THANK YOU!
Thank you for making this series; I’ve watched every single one and I feel much more comfortable. I studied geology in college and most of my friend group/family are creationists, and I have had to lie and various other things that I’m not comfortable with to try to belong. It’s been painful but I feel much more at peace knowing others think the same way I do, thank you !
The fact that mutations that have no benefit and no hinderance happen in nature and survive in nature immediately destroys the irreducible complexity argument singlehandedly
Can you do the same thing for debunking climate change skeptics and doomists. I think that is a huge problem in our time and more education on the topic is important
This is the best most educational video on the internet to help educate young earth creationists. I used to be a creationist all the way up to a few years ago after I graduated from College with a degree in science. I wish this video existed in 2019 when I started learning the truth of evolution and more scientific truth. Not only would this video had taken me out of YEC much much earlier but also would’ve been beneficial for college students taking classes like biology for example. I probably would’ve gotten a A instead of a B. Keep going Dave!
1:49:35 wait a minute… this example really really makes me desperately want a website or even a physical computer that contains the entire known evolutionary tree of life completely contained in folders just like this. Starting with the oldest known common ancestor, a picture of the creature, and then folders that branch off into different species. And in then in each one of those folders, a picture of that species and folders branching out into other species. That would help normal people visualize evolution in such a fun and interactive way. That would be so cool
it doesn't really go into the evolution thing, more the universe scale (and it gets a bit silly), but if you search up "orteil nested", you get a site with a nested structure of objects, and components of them, for example: universe-galaxy supercluster-galaxy-galactic center-star system-star-helium-proton-up quark-(sillyness with multiverses)
I grew up in a school that only taught young earth creationism and regarded evolution and the big bang as evil and devilish. The first time I even heard the science behind the big bang was after high school from a youtube video called “the history of the entire world, i guess” and that has led me here a few years later. i can’t emphasize how important this content is in reprogramming millions of our population to progress as a species.
Your videos are so helpful for me to know what's wrong and right , I'm from India a very hollistic and diverse country , I'm from a Hindu family, but I don't believe in stories that this religion says, can you create a video about this topic with evidence and proofs . Thanks for sharing this type of knowledge that helped me a lot !😊
Your way of teaching complex science and making easily understandable to laymen like myself is truly a gift. Honestly, thanks for all you do!! I hope this starts a trend with other science communicators. We need to stop this frightening trend of anti-intellectualism. ✌️
2:18:57 - an interesting detail about the tail in humans is that an atavism occurs pretty regularly, where human babies are born with a full tail instead of just a vestigial coccyx
Imagine being God, creating something as amazing and complex as universe is. Imagine creating chemistry, physics, biology, tied together in the most complicated ways. Then somebody who claims being your larges believer says you did it in six days with finger snap. Poor guy this God, honestly.
After seeing apologists deny what is clearly in the Bible regarding God endorsing slavery and sex slavery, no amount of science will sway them. They will simply resort to God magic for any gap in human knowledge, no matter how unlikely. Unless you truly break down their text, throwing scientific facts at them often gets nowhere.
Thanks for this truly epic series.... great work. It's a Sisyphean task resisting anti-intellectuals such as Creationists. But we must never get so fatigued & fed up that we give up the arguments - because then they'll claim some sort of victory.
Why? There is no good reason to assume a deistic god exists, either. And you believe in something which is by definition undetectable, which is not in line with reason.
Davey boy already failed. Y’all still have to proof the the 3 main elements created the 100+ heavier elements….still waiting for that. 5 mins in and Davey boy already lying 😂
@David34981 great questions. In the same way that I think it's very probable that there are creatures, materials, and phenomena that we haven't yet (and maybe can't ever have) detected, I don't see a reason to dismiss the possible existence of a creator. (I know we hate the c-word, but hang on for the caveats.) - I think it's possible that he/she/it created the rules and systems by which a giraffe was eventually created - s/he/it did not breathe life into a clay giraffe. - Other people NOT believing the same thing is completely and totally fine, obviously, and has no bearing on their (or my) moral value. There's no concrete evidence of it, and therefore, no grounds to demand anyone else accept it. - I will always rely on evidence, science, and the scientific method to answer my questions. No part of something that is explained/explainable by science needs a mystical answer. A creator's purview (for me) is limited to WHY the laws of science are the way they are. I'm explaining this poorly, in a RUclips comment. :) But I haven't found any conflict with what I believe and the world of science, which I love, in practice. I just never let beliefs or feelings supercede evidence, and I'm generally good to go.
@David34981 I didn't even answer the "why," which was your actual question. :D It gives me hope sometimes, comfort sometimes, an explanation sometimes when "that's just the way things are" falls short. It just fills gaps that science can't (yet). For me! No one else should do what I do, and everyone should come to their own conclusions.
Wow, what a watch! Extremely well done, Professor Dave. Part of me holds out hope that humanity will survive long enough to see some mutations that lead to the rejection of faith being a positive selection criteria so the species can finally breed itself out of religion.
11:34 We have constants because that’s the universe we were born into, not because god did it. It could’ve been different, in a different universe. But, that’s not the universe in which we live
This is a very helpful and enjoyable video both from an educational standpoint and from a standpoint of debunking creationist propaganda; thank you for making it. That said, the picture at 44:42 which shows a frog captioned with "this thing is a mess" is incredibly relatable.
I'm a layman, and I debunk creationism every time I look up at the night sky. The idea that we should be able to know the answers to complex questions just by taking the Bible at its word is hubris and fascism. Locally we are not even in a position to understand stellar evolution without centuries of hard-won discoveries made against tremendous opposition from religious authorities. It will be a long time before we understand exoplanetary systems and other structures well enough to satisfy even the shallowest curiosity. We have millennia of work ahead of us. It is so wrong to think a dated concept like creationism explains any of it. It is nonsensical even in a philosophical, existential sense, much less a scientific one. Creationists do not even understand the irony of looking up at the darkness surrounding the stars and not wanting an explanation for why there is darkness instead of something else. Turns out, there is an explanation, but it has nothing to do with "and darkness was on the face of the deep". The ancients had none of our knowledge of the era of recombination, the first dark era, and how stellar evolution works. They decided their god put the sun, moon, and stars there as-is without the evolution that makes it possible. You can look up at night and see our parochial place in galactic history that is neither special or intentional. It all means our understanding of the long-term evolution of cosmic history is barely out of baby steps. I have no idea why a trivial book like the Bible that is forced on us through cultural and colonial imperialism is in any way correct.
Christian here! I call myself a Theistic Evolutionist, but would define that as more how he defines "deistic" evolutionism. I tend to shy away from that term as "Deism" as a theology is not orthodox Christianity, but of course this isn't a theological subject at all really. Thanks for making this! My goal is to have as many Christians as possible renounce the silly (and modern) young earth creationism. Most Christians throughout history would have loved to learn about evolution, and many of them did so happily before the crazy YEC sect gained so much ground!
Can you admit that you're starting from the assumption that the god of the bible is true and existent, and you're working backwards to justify it? Or do you have physical evidence that the god-of-the-gaps must've been the deity depicted in the bible and no other god throughout history?
@synthetic240 I believe the Bible because I believe the evidence of the resurrection of Jesus, I don't believe in Jesus because I believe in the Bible. In the same way, I believe all truth is God's truth and fits together. Evolution is true, and the Bible is true theologically, therefore they work together to build a full picture of the world. The Bible says nothing about science. And I don't subscribe to the God of the Gaps fallacy, I think it's a terrible way to view the world. Can you admit you're starting from the assumption that there is no god?
@@TheWoodlandSeamstress Okay, but Muslims, Jews, and Hindus (to name a few) might also accept science and their own religions as fact with just as much conviction as you. They can't prove their god(s) created the universe any more than you can. If I'm going to believe in a god and its bible being the first and final word of that god, it should absolutely say everything about science and including science we don't even have yet. Otherwise it's just mythology. Human-created mythology to explain the things we don't understand. "And I don't subscribe to the God of the Gaps fallacy, I think it's a terrible way to view the world." How so? Is your god responsible for creating the universe or not? Is your god intervening in physics to enforce or contravene universal laws on a whim to perform miracles or were they just defined once billions of years ago and off we go?
I love this series 💪🏼 I'm from Europe and christians here, Catholics or otherwise are not as crazy as american christians, there is little opposition to reason - religion provides people with much needed hope and value hierarchy to give them firm ground to stand on in life, but there is no real force against science etc. I know people who are against vaccines for example, none are religious. I have never met anyone (and I come from a very religious family and community, I used to be a devoted Christian) that would believe in the Bible literally, that would believe the world was created in 7 days etc. This whole phenomenon seems very American to me
1:58:00 I'm surprised you didn't bring up the palmaris longus muscle. It's absent in about 1 in 7 people (iirc) and has no purpose in the body. It's often harvested by doctors to repair or replace other tendons throughout the body.
Hey Professor Dave, love your videos, you saved my ass more than a few times in high school and college. I have a quick question regarding the fallibility of radiometric dating, the logic is that we can determine the half-life of a material by observing the amount of decay that occurs in a relatively short timespan, and we assume that the decay rate is constant. Later on, you mention that creationists often use the decay rate of Earth's magnetic field as evidence for a young Earth, but that it's just an example of them extrapolating a temporally local trend. Would someone be able to argue something similar for radiometric dating, i.e. that we're just extrapolating the current decay rate over billions of years? Or is the magnetic field argument specifically bad because they're extrapolating without considering other evidence that demonstrates that the magnetic field has been oscillating for millions of years, whereas we have no evidence that demonstrates a non-consistent decay rate of any material?
I don't know what the "decay rate of Earth's magnetic field" is supposed to be. The field doesn't decay. It changes polarity and loses most of its dipole moment more or less periodically. That has nothing to do with radioactive decay. We are, by the way, NOT measuring the decay rate of long lived radioactive isotopes in a short amount of time. We are measuring the ratio between the number of observed decays vs. the total number of nuclei. If the decay rates were significantly non-constant, then the isotope ratios in old samples would be wrong, but they aren't. The world is consistent with constant decay rates.
1:41:10 I think it's important to note that 'good science' shouldn't only give a model to explain observations. I think the most important thing science does for us to provide predictions from the models which inherently builds refinement into science as long we are willing to update our models if our predictions are lacking. Something creationists can't seem to be able to understand is not a bug, but the most important feature of science and what separates it from religion and their attempts to '-ist' everything (like 'evolutionist') as if there can be any equivocation between scientific theory and religious belief. The mental gymnastics they perform are baffling to me. If your god could be tricking you (i.e. lying to you) by messing with the fossil record why would you believe that the book supposedly by the same guy is telling the truth then? If your god can lie somewhere, then it can lie anywhere. And if your god can't lie, it's not actually omnipotent, is it?
Oh you would lose your mind at the "experiment" we did in middle school science when I was learning from a creationist curriculum (note: I do NOT believe this now, but this was 6th grade in the 90s). We took a balloon filled with water and cornstarch and blew it up and shook it around and we were supposed to pop it and show that a universe didn't randomly form and therefore the universe couldnt have formed randomly. Thinking about that now makes me cringe myself into oblivion 😅
2:36:20 Yeah, they don't. And I don't think it's entirely wrong to do so. The discussion could framed as "is inifinite regress inevitable?" than asking if God has a cause as well. I side with cosmologists that infinite is not so absurd. Either actual or potential infinites. Check out that amazing video on SkyDivePhil answering the cosmological argument
As a former creationist that watched through this series, thank you. I grew up creationist and only went to creationist schools my whole life, even in college. I've literally never been to a public school. And so when I finally left I realized just how much a gap I had in understanding about, well, any of this. And series like this are incredibly helpful in giving my a base of understanding that I was never given growing up
Stories like yours give me faith 😂😂😂
YAY
I can barely believe there are schools all the way into college that teach/endorse creationism. I live in a country where religion in school is *strictly* forbidden unless a part of courses on history and social movements, so hearing of places where it's regularly taught or endorsed, even into adulthood, is crazy to me
So awesome to hear that!
Welcome to reality! Have a look around. The answers to *nearly* every question can be found. We've got mountains of science, some understandable, most not :). No matter how much stuff we know, theres more to be sought!
Your videos were what initially inspired me years ago in elementary school to become an evolutionary biologist. Now I’m a senior-year high school student interning with the largest research college in my state. Thanks Professor Dave!
Now that's a story!
@@ProfessorDaveExplains I know! It doesn’t feel real sometimes. I don’t remember which video of yours it was, but I grew up in a very science-denying Christian family, and one of your videos made me think, “Huh. I want to become an expert on how this works.”
@@pketchum08i don’t know if you know how inspiring your story is too, just reading this myself makes me want to go on to higher learning to help expand the puzzle we are filling in as a team. you’re an awesome person, and i hope to hear more about your journey, both here and in the primary scientific literature! go get em!
@@TeslaGengar 😊❤️❤️❤️
@FallusWren *GASP* 😱😱😱😱😱😭
Some would say this is god tier.
Hahaha
@@FALLUSWREN-n3d surely you know his viewers would like a peer reviewed paper on that accusation
science tier
Bravo!
If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Thanks Dave! I appreciate all your efforts in debunking pseudoscience and nonsense and I enjoy watching your content. I have even used some of your educational videos to fill some of the gaps in my knowledge. Mech Engineering classes are pretty light on chemistry so its nice to have a good knowledgeable resource to fall back on in an easy to digest format.
This is the single best collection of debunkery I've seen in years. Thank you so much for this!
it's a spiritual successor to Why Do People Laugh At Creationists, but even better
It feels unfair to be watching this for free. What great work, Dave!
He knows we're better armed to make fun of crazy.
Job satisfaction can't be underestimated.
@FallusWren quit projecting. know who is actually a PDF? the xtian god, he got Mary preggers at 14. that's messed up, seems like something only PDF would be into and openly worship.
we get it for free, and he gets ad-sense. it's not as much as he deserves, but he's happy to do it either way!
He's doing God's work
People pirate so much stuff without a 2nd thought. You don't need to feel bad learning from something created from the ground up to be freely disseminated my friend 😊
Gotta save this for later. Thank you for all the work you do in freeing minds from the chains of hypocrisy and BS
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@@Koifin3 you know that bot was created by a christian. probably projecting the guilt they feel that a lot of major leaders in their religion are well known kiddie diddlers.
Uh oh!
Looks like I need to watch this entire series for the 5th time! 😅
5th time? Rookie!
gotta pump them numbers up
Same!
Oof I'm on my 7th
@@FALLUSWREN-n3dProof? That's a hefty allegation you shouldn't throw wildly.
If I was limited to watching only one RUclips channel - I’d choose professor Dave! His videos are just the cream of the crop!
@FallusWren your name means penis. you are a phallic object.
Oh yeahhh. Science and drama!!!
3:00:00 One detail to clarify here is that evolution doesn't actually suggest "survival of the fittest". The reason there is so much variety comes from the fact that while there is competition over resources, there isn't a necessity in all circumstances to compete for resources. Evolution is effectively "survival of what doesn't get killed before it reproduces." Only the lowest competitors are selected out, not necessarily the best being selected for in all circumstances.
i think you might misunderstand what fitness means. a organism’s fitness might be that it survives the longest, others might be to have the most fertile offspring, some might be the largest or the fastest or the fattest. even a complex fitness like has the most numerous, robust, fertile, successful offspring might not apply to all or most organisms. “fitness”, as I understand it, is a term that refers to plasticity to a niche in an environment. as niches are a transforming landscape themselves, the labels we put on fitness and niche, and even environment, are necessarily always incomplete.
@@TeslaGengar No, fitness is just an animal's likelihood to reproduce. Simple as that.
@@TeslaGengarNo, it's a species ability to reproduce. Environmental Plasticity is a factor of that though.
@@Didomate no, that’s not at all what it means. but here-you can easily learn something very quickly. an organism has two offspring: one has the ability to reproduce offspring very well, making a dozen every year, and the other doesn’t, making one every few years. the one that reproduces with many offspring every year isn’t able to care for them properly, they outpace their ability to gather resources and every offspring from that group dies before sexual maturity. meanwhile the one that produces one every few years has a successful lineage, and so much so that its genes dominate the gene pool as a result.
a very simple, easy to understand example that demonstrably shows you that you were wrong.
@@TeslaGengar I put it in more simple terms. It all boils down to how well you can reproduce.
In the example you show, one of the offspring outpaced the other because it was more resourceful by having less children, making it more likely for them to reproduce, and so they have a higher fitness.
The other was less likely to reproduce because it exhausted its resources, so it has a lower fitness.
You don't need all that other stuff, fitness is just simply "How well can you reproduce". This is literally a google search away, just search what the definition of fitness in biology.
Here's my go to response for any creationist: evolution is at this point an applied science, like materials engineering. We understand it so well that we use it in technology, like medicine and agriculture. Even if you were somehow able to disprove natural selection - itself a pretty much insurmountable hurdle - you haven't disproven that evolution exists. You've just disproven the mechanism for it and science needs to hypothesize and test a new one.
Yeah but bible.
@@vooveksWorldview shifted
@@vooveks😂
@@FALLUSWREN-n3d nice try James Tour
@@FALLUSWREN-n3dChristian’s are pedophiles
"If we come from our grandparents, why are there still grandparents?" ;-)
Checkmate Atheists!
"If America comes from Britain, why do the British still exist?"
If we come from our grandparents why do I have cousins
If we came from God where tf is he
If i came from my dads balls, why does he still have balls?😂
I’m late to this but thank you for making it Dave. I grew up in a fundamentalist household and have had to spend many years trying to educate myself on both science and history in a non religious context. Videos like this have been immensely helpful for me.
About dinosaurs to birds, it should be noted that we now know that almost all small therapods like the raptors were feathered from head to tail, like modern birds. So an ostrich and large raptor would resemble one another even more than the picture shown on screen here
Your content and style are both top shelf! This should be shown to students at all levels. Well done. Finally some sanity and serious skill on RUclips!
Hey Dave, I’m a university student and I’d just like to give a thousand thanks for your channels existence. I was using your videos to study for my exam a few days ago, and didn’t realize the extent of your channel. The effort you put into your videos and the clarity and cohesiveness of their structure genuinely amazes me and I can tell you have a passion for what you do. You are a beacon of hope in the alarming state of stupidity this world is currently experiencing. Keep doing what you do!
If creationists chose to believe and accept nonbelievers for what they are instead of thinking of their kind as an existential threat, we wouldn't be here. I wish we all lived in peace, man
Some folk need to perceive external threats and beneficials that are not real. Similar to internal threats and beneficials that are not real😑
society under atheism is far worse look at china and soviet union
@@FALLUSWREN-n3d Coward! Show evidence or slink away like the last post, jerky
@@scott3177 most atheists in America are secular humanists. There's still believers in those 2 countries you mentioned btw, they just have a vastly different government system.
... Britain is mostly secular... even among believers... weird you didn't mention them, you instead equated atheism to... communism? A very specific form of communism at that
Should I talk about the current theocracies and how well they're also doing if you wanna play that game or...?
@@phantomstarsx9343 they have recently started to shift towards atheism and look what’s happening in the country. America at its peak was no question a religious nation, know they don’t even know how many genders there are. Also none of the current theocracies u can think of are run according to sharia law they are influenced by the west
Grew up in YEC and I must commend you for doing your homework. You hit on every single talking point I think I've ever heard in 35+ years of Christian Fundamentalism. It must have taken an incredible amount of patience to listen to and address each one.
Aside from helping to debunk, this video is also good for gaining a better understanding of science and how specifically evolution and all related fields work. There was a lot of information here that I either didn’t know, forgot, or was interpreting incorrectly that this video helped to clarify.
I believe in the Bible... That is, I believe that it exists. It's a pretty cool book. The things in it obviously didn't happen, but it's still a pretty neat book
Yeah, I’m not 100% sure that this book exists 🤔
@stargazzer9166 well, it's a book that exists. It can be sold to many people, and the Bible has undergone several revisions over thousands of years. It does not mean that the stories written in the Bible actually happened in reality.
I've had mushroom trips that were eerily similar to the Book of Revelations. Eyes and wings and horns on everything? Absolutely. I promise that large parts of biblical mythology was written by stoners using any number of natural hallucinagens.
@@FutureWorldX I was being sarcastic, the comment said that he believes the book exists, which it clearly does, it just isn’t true
@stargazzer9166 yep, I'm just adding it in case some creationists show up in this comment thread.
Incredible video! What a great summation of decades worth of intensive education placed into one well done survey video… Thanks! I haven't been to college in over 20 years, not only was there great review in this video, but I learned a lot of new stuff! I love your channel! All the videos are incredible! You are an asset to human culture. Huge thank you for fighting ignorance.
Can't wait to see the Discovery Institute's failing attempt to "debunk" this. With the follow up from Dave smacking them back down.
I think they may have figured out that ignoring me completely minimizes the attention I give to them which in turn minimizes their humiliation.
Don't get your hops up.
They are dumb, but not stupid😁 They won't respond directly...debate through any media only works for them if both parties and audience are unsophisticated. Professor Dave doesn't qualify😆
@@ProfessorDaveExplains wow. i never thought i would see the day! they actually took your advice!
@FallusWren show evidence or get a life
Man Dave, I was watching a Mini minute man video the other day. When he was debunking the Google debunkers guy. And he says just be lucky Professor Dave didn't get to you first😆💯🤘 I was laughing my ass off. You are the A team Dave!
@FallusWren you sure he's a pdf file? thought he was a .txt.. or maybe a .jar file
Context: guy I replied to called Dave a PDF file lol
@FallusWren yo, phallus, make your next account with your face posted if you're such a white knight
Yeah I hope he acknowledges Phil's existence at some point lol
This is driving me googledebunkers
@@papiderpy It's the measure-of-last-resort for these folks. They seem to use it each time someone does too good a job at refuting their bs.
I’ve gone to church all my life and I remember in a youth group meeting once they were teaching apologetics. Their main tactic was to make sure you’re the one asking the questions because if the other side is able to ask a question then you might be backed into a corner and not know the answer. Further more I was taught that if they don’t answer your question and instead provide a counter question then you don’t respond or continue the conversation until they answer. If they were unable to answer then “you win”.
Looking back at this it’s actually kind of wild and it shows a total lack of understanding and a really bad way to try to “win”.
I was raised as a catholic. My childhood began with the assumption that I would be a priest. In my early teen years, I read the bible. When I encountered proverbs3:5-6, I KNEW I WAS ON THE WRONG PATH. Proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in the lord with all thine heart; and lean NOT unto thine own understanding. In ALL ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
I acknowledged. I asked. I begged. I pleaded, denied, rationalized. I received no answer. So, I went and looked myself. Let's just say that I'm no longer a religious person, and my quality of life has improved exponentially. Thank you, Dave, for your extremely valuable efforts to curb ignorance. You are helping some people encounter sanity for the first time in their lives. Thank you, not from the bottom of my heart, but by all that I am.
The verse you are referencing says not to lean on your own understanding. It sounds like you rejected the verse and leaned on your own understanding anyways. Is this correct?
@@kw4093-v3p A religious text, advising the reader to not use their own intelligence to question anything? I wonder why it says that.
Tough one.
@@kw4093-v3p Yes, religion was always a Nigerian Prince scam. So what? So nothing. ;-)
@@kw4093-v3pAbso-effing-lutely. Congratulations. You can read.
@@leftpastsaturn67Truly, a mystery. 🤣✌ (wish i could like your comment more than once)️
Yay! A mega series full of facts, info, debunking and of course a lot of sass! Perfect for a lazy Sunday!
@FallusWrensure pal
@@krimzonnebula9341 just report for misinformation and move on
Come on why does he keep deleting, what is that troll saying!!!
@@TiedAlpaca00624 Just being a sad little troll accusing people of being inappropriate with children.
@@katieheys3007 oh.
This is getting beyond ridiculous ! Speaking as a PhD Scientist the nonsense that is getting presented as science on channels like the one debunked here this evening is astonishing and I have great difficulty not calling it what it is.I am tired of being polite about it! I once thought Prof Sagans fears aired in his Demon Haunted World were a little alarmist, but they weren’t and they are materialising before our eyes! Keep fighting the good fight Dave!
"PhD Scientist", yeah right
@@Didomate @ UK Russel Group University five years pre doctoral and subsequently post doctoral Research Fellow in Faculty of Medicine for 10 year prior to gaining tenure and staff position. How about you?!!!
@Frakka475 If that's the case, then there's no way you should call scientific fact ridiculous, or even use the term PhD Scientist
@ What Scientific fact “Creation Science” ? It isn’t science fact most of it centres around the same tired old arguments that have been disproven time and time again since the era of Thomas Aquinas, and the deliberate pseudoscience presented as apologetics!
@@Didomate Dude you completely misread what they were saying lol, reread it again but very slowly. Albeit it was very confusing how they worded it, but they are talking about the creationists, not this video
i missed a couple episodes, now i have a big thing to watch!
I was watching each installment as they appeared, but I enjoyed/learned from them to the point I had to tune in here to ensure I did not miss anything!
You change lives in such an important way. For so many reasons. You’re a hero
@@FALLUSWREN-n3d go away loser.
@@FALLUSWREN-n3dThis won’t work here, we’re the crowd which demands evidence for every claim
@@FALLUSWREN-n3dis a spam bot he's not human, just ignore him.
*MISTER FARINA!*
Write the Wave Conjugation ON THE *CHALKBOARD!!!*
🌊±√🌊= 1×1 = 2
lol.
@@BIayne Ah, yes, an idiot and a smart person with idiotic beliefs
smh he didn’t even try to debunk wave conjugations and the sacred 19 overlapping circles, this is nothing compared to the reality bending genius of terryology
@@wilhelmburgdorf9309 smh don't know what you're talking about. Duh.
@@wilhelmburgdorf9309LMAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAO this is satire right please tell me this is satire
This is an amazing breakdown. I think one slight addition that could be useful would be to refer back to the slide where you show the different "levels" of creationists. For example, if there is a certain logical fallacy you are debunking, you could show which categories you originally described with labels of which typically assert these fallacies, vs which do not. Thank you for this video. For some reason I find this stuff fascinating
It's incredibly fascinating!
I went to a shower. came back to "This thing is a MESS" with a frog.
Would watch again
I watched all five of these as you released them. Fantastic work! The take-downs are undeniable.
whoever made the caption for this 3-hr masterpiece is a saint.
Well it's easy, I just copy paste the script.
@@ProfessorDaveExplainslol
Excellent succinct summary of astronomy. It is not easy to condense it so much. Well done. FYI: as a physics educator I tend to avoid using ambulances to illustrate the Doppler effect. The wavelengths of their sirens change even when they are stationary. It is enough to just mention a motorcycle engine or car horn heard while driving past a pedestrian. The observer hears a change in pitch. (As well as a change in volume which must be distinguished)
I'm a reformed Catholic with family members that don't even talk with me anymore. I get bullied when I talk about atheism and get treated poorly except by my Mom and Dad. I wish the world would accept certain fundamental understandings that we are here and we have each other. That we don't need a deity to live and we are responsible for the wellbeing of all not just under the pretense of a God.
religion is inherently intolerant. its tribal. as long as religion exists, this world you wish for can't.
It's crazy how the religion that everyone claims has an all loving god that teaches love and acceptance, even if people different than you in faith, is the most religiously intolerant religion possible
@@FALLUSWREN-n3d Yes, That is why religious leaders hide pedophiles and say god is above all common law and will forgive pedophiles as long as they accept the lord jesus christ as their lord and Savior they get a pass to assault more children. You are a pedophile yourself. that is just projecting on Professor Dave.
@xJunkScienceGaming As a former Catholic apologist, when dealing with hypocrisy among current Catholics, I default to a 2 point system and 2 questions: 1, they have some personal belief that is a heracy by Church doctrine. 2, the pope himself has estimated 10% of Catholic priests to be pedophiles. 3, Why do you believe a two-thousand year promise for an imminent return that gives power to 1 in 10 of pedophile priests saying they are holy, but we are going to burn in hell as we are both apostate. 4, If you reject the priesthood as the source of moral authority, how is the holy book decided?
The first step is the hardest if you are dealing with strangers, but with family, there are some obvious ones you probably know: transubstantiation is a literal transformation into blood and flesh, while the physical structure of the wine and bread is preserved; the pope may speak infallibly on matters of faith and morals; or, money is a suitable replacement for promised moral punishment.
@@FALLUSWREN-n3d even if he was, still doesnt dismiss his arguments of a different topic entirely.
This video came out 2 hours after I binge watched all 5 parts separately... I'll rewatch just to make sure. Ya know, because reasons.
Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making.
Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or belief in a deity. It does not, however, assume that humans are either inherently good or evil, nor does it present humans as being superior to nature. Rather, the humanist life stance emphasizes the unique responsibility facing humanity and the ethical consequences of human decisions. Fundamental to the concept of secular humanism is the strongly held viewpoint that ideology be it religious or political must be thoroughly examined by each individual and not simply accepted or rejected on faith. Along with this, an essential part of secular humanism is a continually adapting search for truth, primarily through science and philosophy.
I saw u on Haunting tube channel too, panda
Hi Dave, just want to say thank you for this video. Extremely informative, and you absolutely go over pretty much all the points all kinds of creationists use to argue against evolution of life and this planet. My family are all Jehovahs Witnesses (as I used to be as well) and it's tough seeing otherwise intelligent people deny basic scientific fact and understanding. Even my own father who was a physics professor previously in his life does not believe in evolution of life. Thank you for providing ample evidence and solid arguments against basically all arguments I heard growing up as a JW. The toughest part is always presenting this in a way that does not appear to be an attack on their beliefs but unfortunately theres never an easy way to do this. Again, THANK YOU!
Dropping by just to like and algorithm boost 🙌
Me too because I've already watched the original series. And to take a look at the comments.
Thank you Dave for all you do! I have tremendously enjoyed this series!
Thank you for making this series; I’ve watched every single one and I feel much more comfortable. I studied geology in college and most of my friend group/family are creationists, and I have had to lie and various other things that I’m not comfortable with to try to belong. It’s been painful but I feel much more at peace knowing others think the same way I do, thank you !
@@FALLUSWREN-n3d Are you aware of how much baseless accusations like that can ruin someone's life?
@@FirethornYT That's what they're trying to do
@@FALLUSWREN-n3dgeez just because a scientist gives evidence that doesn’t support your world view you automatically go to defaming them. What a loser
This is amazing. Exposing all of creationism while teaching me molecular and evolutionary biology in depth like no other. Love this channel
we are saving humanity with this one
we educating with this one
@FallusWren nice burner ass bot account idiot. make a new one everyday do you?
@FallusWren coward
Sadly it'll be preaching to the converted.
The Indoctrinated won't change anything but their excuses.
@@LittleBigMediaCo yeah :(
This video should be show in school. Beautifully done man. I'm speechless. The amount of work out into this video. Great job man. ✨️💪
I was just about to rewatch the series as this dropped, nice!
@@FALLUSWREN-n3dProof?
Time to take all the notes and build myself a comprehensive library of these facts.
"God" bless you, Professor Dave!!! This series is AWESOME.
Just started this series - it's going to be educationally deeply enjoyable.
Thanks Dave, a lot of time and effort gone into a great series.
Ignore the spam bot.
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Thanks for uploading this as a whole. Much easier to share this way.
This is _so great_ that should be translated into as many languages as possible.
Not really. Only for Americans needed. Other people are smart.
The fact that mutations that have no benefit and no hinderance happen in nature and survive in nature immediately destroys the irreducible complexity argument singlehandedly
Can you do the same thing for debunking climate change skeptics and doomists. I think that is a huge problem in our time and more education on the topic is important
@@FALLUSWREN-n3djust stop lol
Potholer54 on youtube covers climate science deniers
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This is the best most educational video on the internet to help educate young earth creationists. I used to be a creationist all the way up to a few years ago after I graduated from College with a degree in science. I wish this video existed in 2019 when I started learning the truth of evolution and more scientific truth. Not only would this video had taken me out of YEC much much earlier but also would’ve been beneficial for college students taking classes like biology for example. I probably would’ve gotten a A instead of a B. Keep going Dave!
1:49:35 wait a minute… this example really really makes me desperately want a website or even a physical computer that contains the entire known evolutionary tree of life completely contained in folders just like this. Starting with the oldest known common ancestor, a picture of the creature, and then folders that branch off into different species. And in then in each one of those folders, a picture of that species and folders branching out into other species. That would help normal people visualize evolution in such a fun and interactive way. That would be so cool
well, you better get to making it then.
it doesn't really go into the evolution thing, more the universe scale (and it gets a bit silly), but if you search up "orteil nested", you get a site with a nested structure of objects, and components of them, for example: universe-galaxy supercluster-galaxy-galactic center-star system-star-helium-proton-up quark-(sillyness with multiverses)
There is Lifemap, Onezoom, and Open Tree of Life. They might be just what you're looking for.
Search google for "onezoom tree of life explorer". It's exactly what you asked for!
An evolution wiki is wild.
This was an incredibly well put together video that's hits the high points and even gets into the nitty gritty of much of the topics. Thanks!
I grew up in a school that only taught young earth creationism and regarded evolution and the big bang as evil and devilish. The first time I even heard the science behind the big bang was after high school from a youtube video called “the history of the entire world, i guess” and that has led me here a few years later. i can’t emphasize how important this content is in reprogramming millions of our population to progress as a species.
Is it ok to make my friends and family watch this video?
Handcuffed to a chain and eyes taped open.😅
Of course. By force if necessary
@davidwatson8118 No god, please no!😂😂
@@davidwatson8118
Good plan! 😅
"It's my birthday and I choose the movie"
Your videos are so helpful for me to know what's wrong and right , I'm from India a very hollistic and diverse country , I'm from a Hindu family, but I don't believe in stories that this religion says, can you create a video about this topic with evidence and proofs .
Thanks for sharing this type of knowledge that helped me a lot !😊
Your way of teaching complex science and making easily understandable to laymen like myself is truly a gift. Honestly, thanks for all you do!! I hope this starts a trend with other science communicators. We need to stop this frightening trend of anti-intellectualism. ✌️
2:18:57 - an interesting detail about the tail in humans is that an atavism occurs pretty regularly, where human babies are born with a full tail instead of just a vestigial coccyx
Goku
I have a tiny tail the size of a finger tip.
Thank you!! I appreciate what you are doing. Patience is strong with you,Dave. 👍🤙
Imagine being God, creating something as amazing and complex as universe is. Imagine creating chemistry, physics, biology, tied together in the most complicated ways.
Then somebody who claims being your larges believer says you did it in six days with finger snap. Poor guy this God, honestly.
All you need to "create" all of this is an empty three dimensional background and even the "three" follows from fairly simple stability arguments.
Man, I love this video and all your work, your channel is amazing! Many awkward thanksgiving meals after this one though
Thank you! This is amazing. I wish I could have it all in writing. I would study it, take notes and then teach it to my children!
You can use youtube automatic captions for that, and there are obviously books on the subject too
YESSSS ITS FINALLY HERE!!! NO MORE PLAYLISTSSS I GET TO WATCH IT A 7TH TIME!!!!!
After seeing apologists deny what is clearly in the Bible regarding God endorsing slavery and sex slavery, no amount of science will sway them.
They will simply resort to God magic for any gap in human knowledge, no matter how unlikely.
Unless you truly break down their text, throwing scientific facts at them often gets nowhere.
Thanks for this truly epic series.... great work.
It's a Sisyphean task resisting anti-intellectuals such as Creationists.
But we must never get so fatigued & fed up that we give up the arguments - because then they'll claim some sort of victory.
Bless your soul brother. Soon you will get the reward you seek!
Nice! I've been waiting for the supercut.
Okay. I did NOT roll into this thinking I would find out that I'm on the Creationist spectrum.
I'm a Borderline Deistic Evolutionist. I'm an 8!
Why? There is no good reason to assume a deistic god exists, either. And you believe in something which is by definition undetectable, which is not in line with reason.
Davey boy already failed. Y’all still have to proof the the 3 main elements created the 100+ heavier elements….still waiting for that. 5 mins in and Davey boy already lying 😂
@David34981 great questions. In the same way that I think it's very probable that there are creatures, materials, and phenomena that we haven't yet (and maybe can't ever have) detected, I don't see a reason to dismiss the possible existence of a creator. (I know we hate the c-word, but hang on for the caveats.)
- I think it's possible that he/she/it created the rules and systems by which a giraffe was eventually created - s/he/it did not breathe life into a clay giraffe.
- Other people NOT believing the same thing is completely and totally fine, obviously, and has no bearing on their (or my) moral value. There's no concrete evidence of it, and therefore, no grounds to demand anyone else accept it.
- I will always rely on evidence, science, and the scientific method to answer my questions. No part of something that is explained/explainable by science needs a mystical answer. A creator's purview (for me) is limited to WHY the laws of science are the way they are.
I'm explaining this poorly, in a RUclips comment. :) But I haven't found any conflict with what I believe and the world of science, which I love, in practice. I just never let beliefs or feelings supercede evidence, and I'm generally good to go.
@David34981 I didn't even answer the "why," which was your actual question. :D It gives me hope sometimes, comfort sometimes, an explanation sometimes when "that's just the way things are" falls short. It just fills gaps that science can't (yet). For me! No one else should do what I do, and everyone should come to their own conclusions.
@@niswr7319I have that one for you: Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Look it up!
What's so precious about your ignorance that you must maintain it?
Wow, what a watch! Extremely well done, Professor Dave. Part of me holds out hope that humanity will survive long enough to see some mutations that lead to the rejection of faith being a positive selection criteria so the species can finally breed itself out of religion.
11:34 We have constants because that’s the universe we were born into, not because god did it. It could’ve been different, in a different universe. But, that’s not the universe in which we live
he saying that could be one of the things god defined which is what triggered the big bang. he's saying that to make sense of diests
Yes!!!! This is just what i was trying to find more info on and now THIS!! Couldn’t of wished for a better video. Thank you Dave!!!!
@FallusWren just because you are a pedo doesn’t mean everyone else is. Grow up loser
I was waiting for this, thank you.
This is a very helpful and enjoyable video both from an educational standpoint and from a standpoint of debunking creationist propaganda; thank you for making it. That said, the picture at 44:42 which shows a frog captioned with "this thing is a mess" is incredibly relatable.
Hey so….everyone sees the irony of creationists trying to argue against science using…….SCIENCE, right?
oh we see it nine ways to sunday. just funny to see them flop around trying to stand up but continuing to lose balance.
This is a fantastic series, Professor Dave.
Intelligent design is just three god of the gaps arguments in a trenchcoat.
I'm a layman, and I debunk creationism every time I look up at the night sky. The idea that we should be able to know the answers to complex questions just by taking the Bible at its word is hubris and fascism.
Locally we are not even in a position to understand stellar evolution without centuries of hard-won discoveries made against tremendous opposition from religious authorities. It will be a long time before we understand exoplanetary systems and other structures well enough to satisfy even the shallowest curiosity. We have millennia of work ahead of us. It is so wrong to think a dated concept like creationism explains any of it. It is nonsensical even in a philosophical, existential sense, much less a scientific one.
Creationists do not even understand the irony of looking up at the darkness surrounding the stars and not wanting an explanation for why there is darkness instead of something else. Turns out, there is an explanation, but it has nothing to do with "and darkness was on the face of the deep". The ancients had none of our knowledge of the era of recombination, the first dark era, and how stellar evolution works. They decided their god put the sun, moon, and stars there as-is without the evolution that makes it possible. You can look up at night and see our parochial place in galactic history that is neither special or intentional.
It all means our understanding of the long-term evolution of cosmic history is barely out of baby steps. I have no idea why a trivial book like the Bible that is forced on us through cultural and colonial imperialism is in any way correct.
7:05 “Kablooey graphic” 😂🤣 I love you Professor Dave.
Been holding my breath for this one
The fact that this video needs to be made in 2024…
Its videos like these that stop everybody from believing this bullshit
Awesome! Thank you for this consolidation, Dave.🙏🏾
Christian here! I call myself a Theistic Evolutionist, but would define that as more how he defines "deistic" evolutionism. I tend to shy away from that term as "Deism" as a theology is not orthodox Christianity, but of course this isn't a theological subject at all really.
Thanks for making this! My goal is to have as many Christians as possible renounce the silly (and modern) young earth creationism. Most Christians throughout history would have loved to learn about evolution, and many of them did so happily before the crazy YEC sect gained so much ground!
Can you admit that you're starting from the assumption that the god of the bible is true and existent, and you're working backwards to justify it? Or do you have physical evidence that the god-of-the-gaps must've been the deity depicted in the bible and no other god throughout history?
As my mom says, evolution is the how, god is the why
@synthetic240 I believe the Bible because I believe the evidence of the resurrection of Jesus, I don't believe in Jesus because I believe in the Bible. In the same way, I believe all truth is God's truth and fits together. Evolution is true, and the Bible is true theologically, therefore they work together to build a full picture of the world. The Bible says nothing about science. And I don't subscribe to the God of the Gaps fallacy, I think it's a terrible way to view the world.
Can you admit you're starting from the assumption that there is no god?
@@TheWoodlandSeamstress Okay, but Muslims, Jews, and Hindus (to name a few) might also accept science and their own religions as fact with just as much conviction as you. They can't prove their god(s) created the universe any more than you can. If I'm going to believe in a god and its bible being the first and final word of that god, it should absolutely say everything about science and including science we don't even have yet. Otherwise it's just mythology. Human-created mythology to explain the things we don't understand.
"And I don't subscribe to the God of the Gaps fallacy, I think it's a terrible way to view the world." How so? Is your god responsible for creating the universe or not? Is your god intervening in physics to enforce or contravene universal laws on a whim to perform miracles or were they just defined once billions of years ago and off we go?
@@TheWoodlandSeamstress _"evidence of the resurrection of Jesus"_
You and I have two very different definitions of 'evidence'.
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I'm from Europe and christians here, Catholics or otherwise are not as crazy as american christians, there is little opposition to reason - religion provides people with much needed hope and value hierarchy to give them firm ground to stand on in life, but there is no real force against science etc. I know people who are against vaccines for example, none are religious. I have never met anyone (and I come from a very religious family and community, I used to be a devoted Christian) that would believe in the Bible literally, that would believe the world was created in 7 days etc. This whole phenomenon seems very American to me
Same here. Being very religious may be a predictor of bigotry, but I don't see fundamentalism to this degree when it comes to science denial.
To me mutations actually have a positive connotation and is something to be proud of
Thank you Prof Dave! Needed this.
1:58:00 I'm surprised you didn't bring up the palmaris longus muscle. It's absent in about 1 in 7 people (iirc) and has no purpose in the body. It's often harvested by doctors to repair or replace other tendons throughout the body.
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Hey Professor Dave, love your videos, you saved my ass more than a few times in high school and college.
I have a quick question regarding the fallibility of radiometric dating, the logic is that we can determine the half-life of a material by observing the amount of decay that occurs in a relatively short timespan, and we assume that the decay rate is constant. Later on, you mention that creationists often use the decay rate of Earth's magnetic field as evidence for a young Earth, but that it's just an example of them extrapolating a temporally local trend. Would someone be able to argue something similar for radiometric dating, i.e. that we're just extrapolating the current decay rate over billions of years? Or is the magnetic field argument specifically bad because they're extrapolating without considering other evidence that demonstrates that the magnetic field has been oscillating for millions of years, whereas we have no evidence that demonstrates a non-consistent decay rate of any material?
I don't know what the "decay rate of Earth's magnetic field" is supposed to be. The field doesn't decay. It changes polarity and loses most of its dipole moment more or less periodically. That has nothing to do with radioactive decay. We are, by the way, NOT measuring the decay rate of long lived radioactive isotopes in a short amount of time. We are measuring the ratio between the number of observed decays vs. the total number of nuclei. If the decay rates were significantly non-constant, then the isotope ratios in old samples would be wrong, but they aren't. The world is consistent with constant decay rates.
@@lepidoptera9337 I'm referencing the creationist argument at 30:43.
1:41:10 I think it's important to note that 'good science' shouldn't only give a model to explain observations. I think the most important thing science does for us to provide predictions from the models which inherently builds refinement into science as long we are willing to update our models if our predictions are lacking. Something creationists can't seem to be able to understand is not a bug, but the most important feature of science and what separates it from religion and their attempts to '-ist' everything (like 'evolutionist') as if there can be any equivocation between scientific theory and religious belief.
The mental gymnastics they perform are baffling to me. If your god could be tricking you (i.e. lying to you) by messing with the fossil record why would you believe that the book supposedly by the same guy is telling the truth then? If your god can lie somewhere, then it can lie anywhere. And if your god can't lie, it's not actually omnipotent, is it?
Looking forward to wrapping up so many comments by linking to this.
Oh you would lose your mind at the "experiment" we did in middle school science when I was learning from a creationist curriculum (note: I do NOT believe this now, but this was 6th grade in the 90s). We took a balloon filled with water and cornstarch and blew it up and shook it around and we were supposed to pop it and show that a universe didn't randomly form and therefore the universe couldnt have formed randomly. Thinking about that now makes me cringe myself into oblivion 😅
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Yeah, they don't. And I don't think it's entirely wrong to do so.
The discussion could framed as "is inifinite regress inevitable?" than asking if God has a cause as well.
I side with cosmologists that infinite is not so absurd. Either actual or potential infinites.
Check out that amazing video on SkyDivePhil answering the cosmological argument