How we found out evolution is true: John van Wyhe at TEDxNTU

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2013
  • John van Wyhe is a historian of science at the National University of Singapore. He is the Director of Darwin Online and Wallace Online, the author of eight books and lectures and broadcasts around the world.
    In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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  • @jdmitchell6559
    @jdmitchell6559 2 года назад +85

    "I had roasted dinosaur for dinner last night."
    "Oh, what did it taste like ?"
    "Er ... it tasted like chicken..."

    • @parheliaa
      @parheliaa 2 года назад +5

      Technically today's chickens are evolutionary descendants of the dinosaurs

    • @jdmitchell6559
      @jdmitchell6559 2 года назад +5

      @@parheliaa Exactly ! As in the well known joke: "Why did the dinosaur cross the road ?"

    • @brontehauptmann4217
      @brontehauptmann4217 2 года назад

      According to dino Jack Horner, birds are dinosaurs. This also means that dinosaurs are birds. Since a chicken is a bird and also a dinosaur, a t rex tastes like chicken. Now that's science at work in the kitchen

    • @jdmitchell6559
      @jdmitchell6559 2 года назад +2

      @@brontehauptmann4217 My father in law was once attacked by a dinosaur.
      He went down the garden wearing his red slippers and inadvertently entered the territory of a robin (English type). They are fiercely territorial and will attack anything red. My F-i-L beat a hasty retreat and changed his slippers in the kitchen before venturing out again.

    • @seriouscat2231
      @seriouscat2231 Год назад

      So science is word games. No wonder I felt silly paying attention to it.

  • @numbersix9477
    @numbersix9477 Год назад +30

    Laws describe relationships. The ideal gas Law, PV = nRT, gives us the relationship between pressure, volume, temperature and number of atoms plus a constant to make make units of measurement line up (of an "ideal" gas).
    Theories explain laws. Atomic theory EXPLAINS the ideal gas law as well as others.

    • @Detson404
      @Detson404 Год назад +12

      I blame science education. At least when I was in school, they didn’t go a great job explaining how a hypothesis, a theory, and a law relate to one another. That seems to be a common deficiency, at least for folks my age and older.

    • @grumpysanta6318
      @grumpysanta6318 Год назад +9

      I'd tweak that a little... scientific theories explain facts. Laws describe them.

    • @Ericwvb2
      @Ericwvb2 Год назад +5

      A law of nature is simply a generalized description of the natural world. I.e., we've never seen the natural world not behave this way (e.g., the laws of thermodynamics).

    • @kelliepatrick519
      @kelliepatrick519 Год назад

      @@grumpysanta6318 A scientific theory contains ALL the information about the subject, including facts and the laws that describe them. A fact is What it is; a law is How it is, and a Theory is Why it is.

  • @garywalker447
    @garywalker447 Год назад +166

    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin

    • @numberpirate
      @numberpirate Год назад +9

      Dunning Kruger effect

    • @brontehauptmann4217
      @brontehauptmann4217 Год назад +1

      Wanna have an ignorance contest?
      Evolution Theorists are in the lead and pulling away.
      Charles Darwin was a Mason and therefore a Luciferian and a liar.

    • @garywalker447
      @garywalker447 Год назад +31

      @@brontehauptmann4217 Actually you lose with your starting post. It does not matter what Darwin thought about anything else, the Theory of Evolution has been tested and evolved over the past 160 years and today's version better models what we see in nature.
      Darwin started the ball rolling with our evolution but that ball as kept rolling.
      We do not worship Darwin, we do not hold him as the "Holy Man of Evolution". He is respected but his books are NOT "Holy Writ".
      You have not presented evidence that Darwin was a Mason and it would not matter if you did, Biological Evolution is an observed FACT and the Theory of Evolution is our explanation of that FACT.

    • @YMEJake
      @YMEJake Год назад +2

      You do know that Darwin, in later life, believed that sight could not have been evolved? The age old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg, gets evolution in trouble as well. Care to explain that and how it was possible? Today we need a hen AND a rooster to produce the egg and to incubate it. Without that body warmth, the cycle ends. Read up on Louis Pasteur and know that the theory of evolution must either disprove Pasteur's theory or conform to it. That is the scientific way.
      Perhaps you can list the beings that existed without sight and the intermediate stages on the road to full sight including the connection to the brain, the sockets forming for the eyes, and include the eyelids, tears, muscles for movement in concert so the many wonders of sight can be appreciated. Light control, focus and even responding to only a very narrow band of frequencies. How did the body know of the existence of those frequencies and how to change the body to accommodate them.
      Or do we just believe that because they are here and working, that they were evolved. Just creating the eyeballs is a wondrous miracle, almost like they were created?

    • @garywalker447
      @garywalker447 Год назад

      @@YMEJake You do know that Darwin, in later life, believed that sight could not have been evolved?
      The age old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg, gets evolution in trouble as well. Care to explain that and how it was possible? Today we need a hen AND a rooster to produce the egg and to incubate it. Without that body warmth, the cycle ends. Read up on Louis Pasteur and know that the theory of evolution must either disprove Pasteur's theory or conform to it. That is the scientific way.
      Perhaps you can list the beings that existed without sight and the intermediate stages on the road to full sight including the connection to the brain, the sockets forming for the eyes, and include the eyelids, tears, muscles for movement in concert so the many wonders of sight can be appreciated. Light control, focus and even responding to only a very narrow band of frequencies. How did the body know of the existence of those frequencies and how to change the body to accommodate them.

  • @vince6252
    @vince6252 Год назад +61

    "unimaginably ancient"
    This sticks with me.
    I'm now thinking of life that lived right here, just over times really long ago.
    Many, many lives. Many eras.
    Many fights, meals, explorations, matings, deaths, births, lineages....
    Unimaginably ancient.

    • @masterlee9822
      @masterlee9822 Год назад

      Fossils are only persevered in the right conditions , most animals don't leave much in the way of fossils. Almost impossible to accuracy determine a species age by using fossils and bones . Youngest and oldest found is a very inaccurate guess. Hope scientist find new explanations and if the theory of evolution is wrong it needs to be ripped down and crushed underfoot and a more accurate one raised up.

    • @johnfitzgerald8879
      @johnfitzgerald8879 Год назад +1

      What we know is in relation to other things of which we are familiar. Intuition is based upon a foundation of the familiar. The magnitudes of many things; geological history; the size, distance to and energy of the sun; the size of the Earth; the size of human population upon it; the microscopic size of an atom; the level of detail and combined scientific knowledge of humanity; are beyond our intuition.

    • @masterlee9822
      @masterlee9822 Год назад

      @@johnfitzgerald8879 Nothing is based upon gravity that keep planets from losing their orbits and positions that has a impact on seasons.

    • @johnfitzgerald8879
      @johnfitzgerald8879 Год назад +1

      @@masterlee9822 " Nothing is based upon gravity that keep planets from losing their orbits and positions that has a impact on seasons."
      What does that even mean? That the Jupiter doesn't cause winter? I agree with you there. Jupiter doesn't cause winter.

    • @hilakummins3104
      @hilakummins3104 Год назад +2

      @@johnfitzgerald8879 if only kids learned .0001% of what you just wrote in Sunday School, church, even home-schooling; read real books on history or saw popular films like Inherit the Wind. Just imagine what life would be like if more ppl actually learned critical thinking 🤔

  • @nicosteffen364
    @nicosteffen364 3 года назад +28

    17:00
    "Sweet heart, whats for dinner?"
    "Dinonsaur!"
    "Ah come on, how about something new? Its so old fashioned!"
    "Honey, eat it and be thankfull that it doesnt eat you!"

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 3 года назад +1

      @May Ling
      Easterners!!! In my part of the U.S., dinosaur meat is fried, not baked.

    • @elinabalibado5982
      @elinabalibado5982 3 года назад

      Hahah!! What is the lunch i can do today a reptiles?

    • @AtheisticAtheist
      @AtheisticAtheist 2 дня назад

      Monster munch.

  • @legalvampire8136
    @legalvampire8136 3 года назад +229

    'It's not always survival of the fittest. Sometimes it's survival of the luckiest'

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 3 года назад +26

      Of the three rabbit that were chased by the fox, the fastest two (the fittest) lived. Of the five thousand rabbits that were NOT chased by the fox, five thousand lived - despite their levels of "fitness." It is almost always "survival of the luckiest."

    • @mysterymaverick1982
      @mysterymaverick1982 2 года назад +26

      It's actually survival of the best adapted in evolutionary terms.

    • @madams3478
      @madams3478 2 года назад +5

      But over time, survival of the fittest, right? Time being at least hundreds of thousands of years, or more.
      And we still haven’t talked about “punctuated equilibrium” as developed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972! 😊 Gould was the better writer, so he’s the guy we remember.
      Basically, this is the idea that there are long periods of statis and brief periods of rapid change. And since we’re talking geological time, these periods of “rapid” change might be 10,000 years. But then the period of statis may be ten million years.
      Nature is interesting, and fun! 🏔 🚴🏽‍♂️ 🏕

    • @davevaness4172
      @davevaness4172 Год назад +4

      Yes buy thr fitter you are the luckier you are!

    • @jamespeace1237
      @jamespeace1237 Год назад

      In better terms. I agree.

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 Год назад +8

    I sometimes play a game where I google "giant prehistoric" and fill in the name of an animal. It's surprising what comes up.

  • @ruperterskin2117
    @ruperterskin2117 Год назад +4

    Right on. Thanks for sharing.

  • @fite-4-ever876
    @fite-4-ever876 5 лет назад +325

    The beauty of this is that it reminds us how science isn't bold individuals pushing their fields forward in great leaps and bounds, it's building on the work of those who came before.

    • @claudearmstrong9232
      @claudearmstrong9232 5 лет назад +14

      Fite, then why does your "science" ignore the fact that Darwin renounced his biased lies of evolution? No, current evolution promoters Do Not follow those before them, IF those former leaders changed their mind as deeper facts were discovered. "Is Genesis History" details their lies.

    • @fite-4-ever876
      @fite-4-ever876 5 лет назад +47

      @@claudearmstrong9232 Darwin's own son made it clear that story was false. And even if it was true, the evidence gathered since the. Overwhelming support his theoru

    • @claudearmstrong9232
      @claudearmstrong9232 5 лет назад +12

      @@fite-4-ever876 are you to scared to actually allow yourself to go behind the curtain the evolution theory people cover up their real agenda with and discover that they are really just blindly determined to destroy all the honest facts that Hebrew Scripture records? Is blind faith in these liars really that valuable to you?

    • @fite-4-ever876
      @fite-4-ever876 5 лет назад +49

      @@claudearmstrong9232 I don't have faith in anything. I trust things. Things like how a rational scientific process based on observation and experimentation offers a better explanation for the universe than what a bunch of goat herders guessed the deal was 2500+ years ago.

    • @claudearmstrong9232
      @claudearmstrong9232 5 лет назад +13

      HaHa! Well, how about this concrete fact that you, and no one else can disprove, Fite - The hard, vetted facts of peer reviewed archeologists that continue uncovering artifacts only recorded in Bible records cannot be dismissed. Do you turn a blind eye to these just because they do not fir with your assumptions?

  • @zachterry4710
    @zachterry4710 4 года назад +42

    I don’t know what I don’t know. More people should realize this while they are being pompous.

    • @zachterry4710
      @zachterry4710 4 года назад +7

      Imagine what tedtalk will be like in 2119(presuming there will be a 2119) when they talk about the people in 2019 and what they “know”. Will it be similar to how we view the commonly accepted beliefs of the 1600’s?

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 4 года назад +1

      @@zachterry4710
      --- No, it will not.

    • @antimechanistic4631
      @antimechanistic4631 4 года назад +1

      That's a good starting point, Zach. That's why we have a built-in drive to understand why things are the way they are. That's not coincidental.

    • @punkydoodle9899
      @punkydoodle9899 3 года назад

      @MAD GRUMPYMAN "All you can really KNOW is that which is EVIDENT!" If you actually knew then you wouldn't need evidence.

    • @punkydoodle9899
      @punkydoodle9899 3 года назад

      @MAD GRUMPYMAN Not true. One can observe and by observing one can know. When one is reduced to reviewing evidence that means that one has to infer and can not know for sure. What we call evidence can be manufactured or misinterpreted. What we call facts can be up for grabs. For this reason lawyers and not scientists, run the world.

  • @maclanty5324
    @maclanty5324 Год назад +3

    Lecture okay, would of been so grand to see the ilistraytions up close to see what you were discribing

  • @redmatters9318
    @redmatters9318 Год назад +16

    Yes a big topic to cover in 15 mins or so. No mean feat. He did well . G'day from Australia 🇦🇺.

    • @TheHairyHeathen
      @TheHairyHeathen Год назад +2

      Djavagoodweegend? Just check'n ya really speak stryne?

    • @redmatters9318
      @redmatters9318 Год назад +1

      @@TheHairyHeathen haveagoodday cobber.WIKIREDSTAR Australia 🇦🇺.

    • @swampy6194
      @swampy6194 Год назад

      Bloody oath cobber barcoo gumtree mate!

  • @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia
    @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia 5 лет назад +64

    It's amazing how many have no idea the real history of science and where it stems from.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 5 лет назад +17

      Thank God we have you to explain it to us.
      Proceed!

    • @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia
      @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia 5 лет назад +13

      @@numbersix9477 The majority of all the scientific laws were created by those of deeply religious beliefs. Plenty of books out there on that fact. Today, people want to believe in a false religion because it relives you of any moral delemas. Problem being, you lack any real morals. Your religion is resonsible for the most deaths in the past 100 years than all the rest of history combined. Yet those facts don't seem to bother people with your similar beliefs. You buy the falsehoods as facts. So, no reason to believe a reasonable exchange of ideas is even possible here.

    • @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia
      @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia 5 лет назад +6

      @May Ling Well now, isn't that an interesting twist on words. Sure, we can spin it your way. The discovery of many laws, such as gravity, we're put into writings by people of Christian faith. No not all laws.
      Next, in regards to your question of what religion? The religion of evolution. I have yet to see one example of evolution anywhere. Ever. It's not from failing to look. Every claim has been debunked over and over. It takes a zombie to buy evolution in any form.
      By the way, do some digging and see if you can continue to claim my lack of scientific knowledge. This should be good.

    • @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia
      @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia 5 лет назад +2

      Which is why so much of their work gets debunked or is poison. (Scientist come in all faiths or no faith at all. Scientists (biologists) are 97%+ atheists, other sciences are composed of 90%+ atheists.)
      Create, when you sit down and write a paper, you are creating are you not? You create written laws. Those laws were not on the books before. You didn't create the observations, but you created the works showing your observations. Also, please show evidence of your claim, (Scientists (biologists) are 97%+ atheists, other sciences are composed of 90%+ atheists.)
      I can make statistics say anything I want them to. So where are these numbers coming from? So new medicines are never created in a lab, they are only discovered? A work of art is not a new creation, it is simply work already in existence that was uncovered by someone? Great.

    • @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia
      @ChuckThompsonTTCMedia 5 лет назад

      FYI, cre·ate
      krēˈāt/Submit
      verb
      bring (something) into existence.
      "he created a thirty-acre lake"
      synonyms: produce, generate, bring into being, make, fabricate, fashion, build, construct; More
      cause (something) to happen as a result of one's actions.
      "divorce only created problems for children"
      synonyms: bring about, give rise to, lead to, result in, cause, breed, generate, engender, produce, make for, promote, foster, sow the seeds of, contribute to
      "regular socializing creates good team spirit"

  • @buckcubmandingo6772
    @buckcubmandingo6772 4 года назад +61

    Who has opposable thumbs and found this topic interesting? This guy

    • @alainbellemare2168
      @alainbellemare2168 3 года назад +1

      racoons in my back yard

    • @NoName-uf6rf
      @NoName-uf6rf 3 года назад

      Used mine to like this comment

    • @Greenie-43x
      @Greenie-43x 3 года назад

      I used one of mine to like the comment, but then I used my other thumb to double-like the comment and something went wrong...

  • @republica7337
    @republica7337 Год назад

    A simple request. Can you fill in those arrows?

  • @lrvogt1257
    @lrvogt1257 Год назад +9

    I am asking that anyone who cares anything about the subject PLEASE learn what it is before criticizing. 90% of the critics clearly don't know what it is so they are arguing against false premises. And PLEASE try to learn the terms like Scientific Method, Scientific Theory, Law, Hypothesis, and Fact. So many pretend they care and base their criticism on mistaken understanding of the process.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад +2

      Sadly, I have a $20 bill that says not a single creationist on this thread will follow your suggestion.

    • @lrvogt1257
      @lrvogt1257 Год назад +2

      @@numbersix9477 : They never do. The intentional ignorance is appalling. Occasionally there is a coherent argument but usually it's just a complete ignorance of the subject.

    • @billonesty
      @billonesty Год назад

      You are exactly right. And sadly it is usually those who are most convinced of a hypothesis being true who cannot see the evidence against it.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      @@billonesty
      Define "scientific theory" for us, Bill.

    • @billonesty
      @billonesty Год назад +3

      @@numbersix9477 Generally, the word theory means a hypothesis that has stood the test of repeated experimentation without being falsified. Often people use the word incorrectly to mean something that might be but can't be proven. Calling it that puts the idea in the realm of speculation and not science.

  • @johndehaan2764
    @johndehaan2764 3 года назад +33

    At the end of the lecture all the audience went back to primary school to have a glass of milk and a nice sleep.

  • @shawnsimmons1308
    @shawnsimmons1308 5 лет назад +491

    "Odd that many people who embrace the discoveries of science will disagree ONLY when the results conflict with their religion or politics." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay 5 лет назад +22

      Shawn Simmons It's not odd. Odd means unusual. Nothing unusual about hypocrisy

    • @pleasesubscribe7659
      @pleasesubscribe7659 5 лет назад +38

      Shawn Simmons There is no evidence for evolution

    • @shawnsimmons1308
      @shawnsimmons1308 5 лет назад +52

      mudu abdi...There is evidence, everywhere, that be repeated, tested, and demonstrated by anyone, anywhere, at any time. You're even sitting on evidence. Your coccyx bone. But, in this modern age of information, if someone doesn't value evidence, then what evidence can one provide?

    • @pleasesubscribe7659
      @pleasesubscribe7659 5 лет назад +17

      Shawn Simmons There is no evidence for such a hoax apart from parroting
      It's a myth that there is a vestigial organs, update your science
      The human coccyx has pretty many functions

    • @pleasesubscribe7659
      @pleasesubscribe7659 5 лет назад +14

      Shawn Simmons I reject Darwinism because of information

  • @johnfitzgerald8879
    @johnfitzgerald8879 Год назад +9

    How does a woolly mammoth hide? He paint's his toenails red and stands in a strawberry patch.

    • @trishmurphy1941
      @trishmurphy1941 Год назад +1

      I know…. Have you ever seen a wooly mammoth? No see how well it works. Thanks for the laugh from the past

    • @kensanity178
      @kensanity178 Год назад +2

      Yeah, the Russians are called reds because fire engines are red, and they're always Rushin around,

  • @seeker9241
    @seeker9241 3 года назад +17

    I've a better shorthand:- "Survival of 'that will do'".

  • @kristiandoon8976
    @kristiandoon8976 3 года назад +26

    I love logic and reason. Science is begging you to prove it wrong.

    • @lareytogba9984
      @lareytogba9984 3 года назад +2

      The world of the scientific world is based on imperialism which is full of so much error. Based that that alone is plenty of reason to have a lot of doubt.

    • @kristiandoon8976
      @kristiandoon8976 3 года назад +12

      Larey Togba
      The great thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it
      ~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

    • @louiekilleen3276
      @louiekilleen3276 3 года назад +5

      @@lareytogba9984 You need to go back to high-school. It's empiricism, not 'imperialism'. Start there.

    • @frankrivera8719
      @frankrivera8719 3 года назад +1

      Lol BS all opinion no hard facts or way to prove it. He literally starts by saying the common concept of evolution is wrong. So he is literally presenting another theory. Oh and this video stopped counting dislikes on comments. Just to show you the support and manipulation of opinion.

    • @wernerstapela4616
      @wernerstapela4616 2 года назад +2

      Larey Togba: that's the whole point of science. Why not apply the same rigour to religion (or politics, etc.).

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ 2 месяца назад

    Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 17:39

  • @Mermaid2261
    @Mermaid2261 4 года назад +6

    The way he makes it sound its as though none of us has had a class in biology, general science,or chemistry. I have, but I still think our understanding is still........"evolving"! Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.............

    • @neilreinhardt556
      @neilreinhardt556 3 года назад

      DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU THAT MANY HAVE NOT?

  • @youtubeuser8393
    @youtubeuser8393 4 года назад +59

    Hated that he had to rush to round up at the end. Enjoyed the presentation

    • @unclepatrick2
      @unclepatrick2 3 года назад +2

      Agree . I love to here him cover this material with more time.

  • @noneatthistime
    @noneatthistime 11 месяцев назад +3

    We seen his Cladogram in Biolgy class today. His nodes are on point.

  • @user-td3ut4tg3v
    @user-td3ut4tg3v Год назад +2

    We are.... becoming more moral and beautiful healthy and strong and more generous

    • @ronbyrd1616
      @ronbyrd1616 15 дней назад

      As a lifelong news buff, I respectfully disagree . At the bottom line, we now have the ability to destroy every living thing on earth 200+ times over.

  • @mtobrien1
    @mtobrien1 4 года назад +53

    So, he is basically saying that we fail to teach the history of science.

    • @rondoclark45
      @rondoclark45 4 года назад +7

      We do, and he's doing a terrible job of remedying that. Darwin didn't invent the idea of evolution, that's a popular misconception and the presenter here is promoting it. Most naturalists in his day accepted the "transformation of species". Lamarcke's theory, Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics, was the most widely accepted explanation. Lamarcke's theory promoted the idea of orthogenesis, that evolution had an end goal, so everyone could assume that end goal was, of course, us.
      The misconception that Darwin invented the idea comes from Origin of Species itself. Darwin spends a great deal of time on the evidence for evolution. However, Origin was written for the general public NOT other naturalists.
      Darwin's theory was controversial for two reasons. Common descent, a prediction that we would discover that all life is related, had the consequence that we evolved from "lower forms". (Two generations earlier Linnaeus had already classed humans with the apes in his taxonomic classification system.)
      And second, Darwin originally attributed no action to a supernatural deity, although he caved on a later edition and added the word "creator" to his closing statement.
      All said, I would flunk this "science historian" for continuing these misconceptions.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 4 года назад +3

      @@rondoclark45
      --- You used a presentation on the history of acceptance of the theory as a basis for attacks on Darwin and van Wyhe. Do you have anything to contribute with regard to the theory itself?

    • @rondoclark45
      @rondoclark45 4 года назад +4

      @@numbersix9477
      Where did I attack Darwin??

    • @mtobrien1
      @mtobrien1 4 года назад +3

      ron clark, lamarcke's theory was about traits changing within the lifespan of an individual within a species. That was not the theory of evolution.

    • @mtobrien1
      @mtobrien1 4 года назад

      @Michael Brown, it is well known what Lamarcke believed about how species evolved; facts like that don't change. Lamarcke believed that an organism's effort to change created a characteristic change... the leaves are high in the trees, so a giraffe's attempts to reach the leaves creates longer necks in its offspring (as a classic example). That is a fact. Fact. That was his theory. That is not evolution as it is accepted as a theory.

  • @chrish.4686
    @chrish.4686 5 лет назад +6

    People would rather ascribe everything to magic than to do the hard work of teasing truths out b/c the latter is such hard work.

  • @marcosariel8323
    @marcosariel8323 Год назад

    Vou colocar em português...no livro Full House do Stephen Jay Gould há um gráfico sobre complexidade. Partindo do pressuposto de que maior biomassa, maior aptidão chegamos a conclusão óbvia de que as bactérias, espécie eterna, são as mais aptas...o que vem depois é menos apto... cadê a seleção natural? Se o planeta explodir, as bactérias podem resistir, se formos ao espaço, as bactérias vão junto...

  • @daviddredge1178
    @daviddredge1178 Год назад

    Great speaker but shame we cannot see the diagrams shown.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      It might have been poor videography. It might have been that van Wyhe used copyrighted material in some of his slides and the videographer was directed to not videotape them.

  • @justinwmusic
    @justinwmusic 5 лет назад +18

    14:07 It's comforting to know how similar his thoughts on the pros and cons of marriage are to my own :)

    • @joshgoodman6534
      @joshgoodman6534 4 года назад +1

      @Robert B. tax breaks?

    • @martymcmannis8662
      @martymcmannis8662 2 года назад +1

      Marriage: a bond between a man woman and a God.
      A church wedding...
      I can see a lot of people having problems with marriage. Probably cause no one wants to believe God exists. Which means that no one wants to listen to him... maybe that's why most marriages will fail. That's all on the ones getting Wed.

    • @jonathandevereaux298
      @jonathandevereaux298 Год назад

      Someone agrees with you on RUclips, very comforting 🥴

    • @aapesos
      @aapesos Год назад

      @@martymcmannis8662 I love my wife and god has nothing to do with it.

    • @thereaction18
      @thereaction18 Год назад +2

      @@aapesos God is love. God created man in his image, male and female. God has everything to do with it.

  • @ArroEL922
    @ArroEL922 Год назад +220

    At 15:33, John used embryology as part of this presentation to explain why evolution became accepted in the early days of this "theory". And that is true. What John failed to add (and thus left the current viewer with the impression that this line of evidence is valid) is that those pictures were shown to be deceptive by its originator (Ernest Heckel) to promote the evolution "theory" in Germany, and were discredited over 100 years ago. Modern textbooks on evolution do NOT use (those discredited pictures of) embryology as evidence of neo-Darwinian evolution.

    • @misterbonzoid5623
      @misterbonzoid5623 Год назад +31

      It's not a 'theory'; it's fact.

    • @danniebana3602
      @danniebana3602 Год назад +12

      @@misterbonzoid5623 true that

    • @July41776DedicatedtoTheProposi
      @July41776DedicatedtoTheProposi Год назад +16

      But evolution still explains all life on earth, despite the clumsy and John’s profound lack of knowledge of geology, the key role of stromatolites creating all the oxygen that exists today, and the first animals that evolved from these stromatolites who created every single animal in the air, on the land, and in the oceans, as they all have the same DNA and genes found in stromatolites. John just blew it in his talk.

    • @ArroEL922
      @ArroEL922 Год назад +1

      @@misterbonzoid5623 Neo-Darwinian evolution is not a scientific theory. Even Darwinian evolution is not a fact. Darwin originally used the word "theory" of evolution in the sense of it being theoretical and not what is considered today as a scientific theory. So just when did Darwin's theoretical theory become a scientific theory? A scientific theory is repeatable, falsifiable, and it makes predictions. None of this is true of neo-Darwinian "theory" of evolution. So it isn't even a scientific theory; it is merely a hypothesis. But after 160 years, it needs to be discarded. And yes, the millions of missing transition fossils that Darwin said (in 1859) will be soon discovered are STILL missing.

    • @TheDjcarter1966
      @TheDjcarter1966 Год назад +56

      Well he assumes a lot and explains very little as is common when explaining the theory of evolution.

  • @khinrunite
    @khinrunite Год назад +15

    In those NatGeo and Discovery channel docus that I've seen when I was a child it's always portrayed as a creature evolving by adapting to its environment. Like a fish developing legs so it can move out of the water. This confused me. I always found it unlikely for a creature to be able to "will" a change in its dna or offspring's dna. This "survival of the luckiest" seems more plausible.

    • @DrMontgomeryMontgomery
      @DrMontgomeryMontgomery Год назад +7

      That's more a version of Lamarckian inheritance than it is anything Nat-Geo or the Discovery Channel would be pushing. Given the fact you saw it as a child, its probably more your rationalisation of the science than it was their missteps in explaining it. I say this because a certain sort of fish would have developed legs so it can move out of the water. You seem to have imposed the will part through intuition. It got their not by will, but because luckily developing a 'predecessory' version of that trait increased the likelihood of them passing on their genes. Add time, randomness and luck and you get legs. Say we restarted that process we may have gotten and even greater version with more luck, or never have gotten any legs at all. That's really what I find amazing about it all.

    • @Rabbitland2000
      @Rabbitland2000 Год назад +3

      @@DrMontgomeryMontgomery Hmm , so a fish by luck got legs then they say to themselves oh I guess since I’m too smart I should use them to walk out of the water ! Lol leave alone that such one mutation wouldn’t help that much hence you need to have lungs that can breathe air oxygen. That sounds legit.

    • @DrMontgomeryMontgomery
      @DrMontgomeryMontgomery Год назад +4

      @@Rabbitland2000 - You do realise that you can hold your breath right? Wtf is even your response.

    • @MultiMolly21
      @MultiMolly21 Год назад +2

      Random mutations are the lucky part, the weather defines who makes it. The tendency of mutations to affect all off spring at once and the resultant inbreeding speeds up the process; but we're still talking millions of years.

    • @warren52nz
      @warren52nz Год назад +3

      LJ. Look up the discovery of Tiktaalic. A fish with legs found where scientists expected to find it

  • @watchtowerdragon7098
    @watchtowerdragon7098 Год назад +9

    My girlfriend works in a pet store. I can't express how much I have learned/ had reinforced about genetic traits, mutations, and natural selection vs human/commercial selection. Everything didn't fall into place perfectly. An uncountable number of living things throught all of time have been born with something different about them. If that difference wasn't advantageous, those lives would starve, not survive predators and/or experience a short life of discomfort and suffering. Nature is not as beautiful as she appears on the surface or at a distance. She is also callous and cruel.

    • @Cantstanya
      @Cantstanya Год назад +2

      I quickly read the beginning and end of your statement - had to reread it to see why your girlfriend was callous and cruel. Ha

    • @watchtowerdragon7098
      @watchtowerdragon7098 Год назад

      @@Cantstanya 🤣

    • @jounisuninen
      @jounisuninen Год назад +3

      And still no new species. Only variations of the existing species.

  • @AnubisSolvang
    @AnubisSolvang 5 лет назад +7

    Someone get this poor man a glass of water!

  • @Mischief6467
    @Mischief6467 4 года назад +66

    When he said the world has become much more secular my immediate thought was "Thank god!" I am highly amused by this!

    • @debunkerofatheism6874
      @debunkerofatheism6874 4 года назад +9

      Oh, it may seem a good thing now, but wait twenty years and you'll see that it really isn't.

    • @kennethbransford820
      @kennethbransford820 4 года назад +4

      @@debunkerofatheism6874 Sad to say I do not think we have 20 years. What is that famous saying . "What can go wrong will go wrong" Soon these nuclear weapons would be unleashed on our world if it were not for divine intervention or Armageddon which is not the end of the world like Hollywood says or even a lot of religions say ( liars ) but is actually the beginning of a restored paradise earth where the dead will be brought back to life or those who never had a chance to now god. Revelation 21:1-4

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 4 года назад +2

      @J S
      --- Are you indirectly referring to the WWII German army belt buckle slogan, "Gott Mit Uns"?

    • @kseke25
      @kseke25 4 года назад

      Same thought

    • @kseke25
      @kseke25 4 года назад +6

      @@kennethbransford820 And all of this will happen in 20 years or less? You realize that is a very short time, right? Another "prophecy" that won't come true? Remember, you said that the dead will rise in about 20 years. Okay.

  • @garywalker447
    @garywalker447 Год назад +11

    Dr Neil Shubin wanted to find the first fish that could crawl up onto land. Eusthenopteron of 385 million years ago was similar to the later Acanthostega of 365 million years ago but there was too much difference for there not to be an intermediate species so he looked for exposed sedimentary rock of the right type and age and found this in the Canadian Arctic on Ellesmere Island and found the intermediate species that was then named Tiktaalik.

  • @Andrew-ep4kw
    @Andrew-ep4kw 5 лет назад +9

    Perhaps the most accurate version of "survival of the fittest" is "survival of the luckiest, but luck favors the prepared"

    • @R3ptile
      @R3ptile 5 лет назад

      and the bold

    • @powerdriller4124
      @powerdriller4124 Год назад

      Creatures do not "prepare", they adapt. But if they adapt too much to an environment, that is: if they overspecialized in an environment where they can thrive in thanks to that specialization, then they are in great danger if the conditions change drastically.

    • @jm505
      @jm505 Год назад

      I prefer “survival of the survivors”.

  • @sierraflorez5015
    @sierraflorez5015 Год назад +25

    Good speaker. Easy to understand. Thanks for the video

    • @bodyer2120
      @bodyer2120 Год назад +1

      A chancer more like.

    • @BigBri550
      @BigBri550 Год назад +4

      @Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Thank you for demonstrating yet again the irrelevance of religion when inserted into a discussion for learning.

  • @vince6252
    @vince6252 Год назад +4

    14:14 to the punchline: I laughed out rather loudly.

  • @sidstovell2177
    @sidstovell2177 Год назад +8

    Great book: Wonderful Life, the story of the Burgess Shale, by Stephen Jay Gould.

  • @markkururangi7846
    @markkururangi7846 3 года назад +25

    He reminds me of George McFly haha. Great presentation by the way!

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  • @danbenson7587
    @danbenson7587 Год назад

    I think the correct question..and most puzzling.. is where the desire to live, the will to survive, springs from. Non existence is scientifically sound than existence. Everything is stacked against life. Yet the existential struggle.
    What is the provenance of this force?

    • @TheHairyHeathen
      @TheHairyHeathen Год назад

      In many organisms the imperative to reproduce clearly is stronger than the imperative for individuals to survive. It is fairly obvious then that this stems from the self replicating nature of the gene.
      Your assertion that _"everything is stacked against life"_ is vague and unsupported.
      It is self-contradiction for non-existence to have existence, so existence must be obligate.

    • @L.Ron_Dow
      @L.Ron_Dow Год назад

      You imagine that ALL living things have an intrinsic survival behavior - I would posit that the earliest organisms had no such 'bias' towards survival - behavior was random according to the sequences of compounds that had assembled to build their structure. Hydrophilic, Hydrophobic - just depends. Guess what happened to those organisms that didn't have the have a bias towards survival.

    • @danbenson7587
      @danbenson7587 Год назад

      As a retired mechanical engineer, solid effort is required first to design a product, get it to work, and make it last. This does not happen on its on. There are no serendipities in the process, just the opposite it’s stacked against you. It’s push, push, push uphill. Stop pushing, the product withers, folds, and to the dumpster.
      In nature evolution is a process in play, but does not account for the “push”. Chance and time are lame explanations when the natural trajectory is the dumpster. Merry Xmas. D

    • @TheHairyHeathen
      @TheHairyHeathen Год назад +2

      @@danbenson7587
      there is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning whereby you are trying to compare manufactured products, often designed with the objective of planned obsolescence in order to increase profit, to living things which take in energy from their surrounding environment, either chemical or electromagnetic (light), to build and maintain their integrity. The impetus or "push" for life is reproductive survival, and you miss that _"chance and time"_ are not the only factors in play, with chance variations being filtered into non-random variants by the struggle for reproductive survival in the current natural environment the organism exists in. In short, the filtering process of natural selection derandomizes chance.
      Merry Xmas to you and your family as well.

    • @danbenson7587
      @danbenson7587 Год назад

      @@TheHairyHeathen You’ve come back to my point “struggle for reproductive survival” ..... WHY struggle? WHY push? If the answer is “survival”, then WHY survive. The TED speaker spoke of extinct species...extinction IS -universally- the most sensible, attractive, and likely outcome. Life is the Exception ...why?
      These questions too leaden for the holiday season. I think I’ll watch football or read Chinese Political Economics for Dummies.
      BTW, engineers don’t design for planned obsolescence. This would imply foreknowledge of the next “mousetrap”. More correctly it’s ‘economic life’ design....when life even specified. Cheers

  • @NathanDSouza
    @NathanDSouza Год назад +1

    In my chewda (Indian mix) jar the smaller grains settle at bottom. The bigger flakes stay on top.

  • @Delfontes
    @Delfontes 6 лет назад +25

    Ironic that it gave me an ad for a religious college before a talk on evolution. :)

    • @Delfontes
      @Delfontes 6 лет назад +3

      Ricahrd P'Brien That's good to know I guess. If always assumed they taught that the six thousand year old Earth was the center of the universe.

    • @bengoins4366
      @bengoins4366 6 лет назад

      Because they’re both methods of controlling the masses. “You are an animal and need to be controlled”

    • @kedwa30
      @kedwa30 6 лет назад

      Evolution has never contradicted the religious. In fact, Hinduism was teaching 'Evolution' before it was even called Evolution.

    • @kennyw871
      @kennyw871 5 лет назад +4

      "religious college," isn't that an oxymoron?

    • @thegreatbehoover788
      @thegreatbehoover788 5 лет назад +1

      @@kedwa30
      In the BEGINNING God created...
      Wow. I guess it DOES CONFLICT.

  • @robtierney5653
    @robtierney5653 4 года назад +36

    Kentucky Fried Chickensaur

    • @doublew030
      @doublew030 4 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @SantiagoTM1
      @SantiagoTM1 3 года назад +2

      SIR, I'm now ROFLMFAOOOO!!! Brilliant indeed.

    • @seanjones2456
      @seanjones2456 3 года назад

      The mass murder boat ride with dr. Doolittle!

    • @michaelharris4651
      @michaelharris4651 3 года назад

      Kentucky Fried JABAWOKI , Monty Python !

  • @jacksimpson-rogers1069
    @jacksimpson-rogers1069 Год назад +1

    It has been noted that although Edsger Dijkstra says that a proper computer program would be one that like mathematics can sustain proof, a compiler or an operating system is complex enough that an apparent proof would be as difficult to prove as the software it's trying to prove.
    But to say that Evolution and Natural Selection (even with random causes) are not as proven as what we take for granted as certainty, is a misuse of logic. The ordinary notion of what a fact is, fits anything granted the name "Theory" by scientists.

    • @jesuschristislord4538
      @jesuschristislord4538 Год назад

      So your theory is true by definition of theory?

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 11 месяцев назад

      Help me with this please: Wherein lies the difference-if any, between being persuaded to believe X and finding X to be proved and does the number of those that find X proved have any bearing on whether or not X is, or is not, the case? When you speak of " proof", may one enquire two things of you, first proof to what standard and second proof to whom? Who is to decide what is proved to what standard and to whom?

  • @SCabralO
    @SCabralO Год назад +3

    Why can I only like this thing once?

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 11 месяцев назад

      Oh I don't know, take a wild guess, or ask a grownup if you know any.

  • @dudleyvasausage7879
    @dudleyvasausage7879 Год назад +42

    i love when everything just comes together and then you have to figure out how to articulate what you are visualizing.

    • @rajarsi6438
      @rajarsi6438 Год назад +1

      And, have you figured it out?

    • @mahwahazet4133
      @mahwahazet4133 Год назад +1

      ... I know, right? Isn’t God the most creative artist who makes a perfect creation every time....

    • @rajarsi6438
      @rajarsi6438 Год назад +5

      @@mahwahazet4133 You've only got childish medieval fantasies about "creation".

    • @rockman4952
      @rockman4952 Год назад +5

      @@georgeorwellsghost3833 One can only cram so many things into a 15 oral presentation. This talk isn't even "The tip of the iceberg." on the topic of evolution, it's more like the Cliff Notes of the Cliff Notes of evolution.

    • @greatbriton8425
      @greatbriton8425 Год назад

      @@georgeorwellsghost3833 Agreed. One of the biggest problems is that they confuse creation's programmed genetic variation (where the young are different from the parents not due to mutation but due to sophisticated processes of splicing within the genome) with evolution's mutating genetic variation. Thousands upon thousands of studies look at the programmed genetic variation and natural selection operating on it, like Darwin's finches, as if it was evolution. In fact, mutations are destroying the genome.

  • @aylbdrmadison1051
    @aylbdrmadison1051 4 года назад +218

    So basically he is saying that _evolution is quite literally set in stone._

    • @nazneentonse6768
      @nazneentonse6768 4 года назад +4

      Oh, well said!

    • @jimchumley6568
      @jimchumley6568 4 года назад +6

      Aylbdr Madison Believe a lie if you want to.

    • @biancadiviney5322
      @biancadiviney5322 4 года назад +28

      @Tim Webb It's based on assumption. They assume evolution is true (bc God is imposible to an atheist, so it HAS to be true), and all evidence comes w/ the assumption that evolution is involved.

    • @chiefdreambig9178
      @chiefdreambig9178 4 года назад +11

      @May Ling based on speculation, and speculation that they BELIEVE to be evidence, but still NO PROOF!

    • @chiefdreambig9178
      @chiefdreambig9178 4 года назад +26

      @May Ling Thank you for your comment, but unfortunately, Darwinian Evolution IS taught as a PROVEN TRUE science. Anything you read on the subject always starts off talking about it 'may' be, or 'could' be, or 'is thought to be', but after you get into the article, it will start taking about the situation as if it is real, stable, unshakeable, true and proven science! You said, "When all the evidence points to the same conclusion and nothing refutes it, we recognize it as a scientific theory." With all due respect, there are TONS of laws and evidence that totally refute evolution! For instance, TRUE science says that life can only come from living organisms, and THAT is the ONLY thing that TRUE science has ever seen or observed, or witnessed, and we know this to be true, yet evolution says that there is no God, and we are here, so that proves that life on this earth came from NON-LIVING matter, and THAT is ALL the evidence or proof that they have, and that is NOT true science, so that refutes evolution. Look at the earth as it is today with all of the complexity and everything working together in complete harmony, the trees breathe in CO2 and breathe out O2, we breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2. Common sense tells us that this complex world is the result of Intelligent Design, how else could a chaotic exploded pile of rocks, a planet of total ruin and chaos from a Big Bang, how did this order come out of such choas? That would be even more complex than a tornado blowing through a junk yard and leave a finely tunes 474 jet put together, greased and fueled up with the air conditioners on and working ready for take-off. That is very far fetched isn't it? But that is a lot more feasibly than this earth and life and the impossible complexities of DNA and everything else coming into be BY ACCIDENT, by non-thought, and non-caring nature and a pile of chaotic cooling rocks! Statistics and common sense and TRUE science tells us that complexities of this world and life would be impossible left to itself. TRUE science says that order (especially THIS kind of order) can't possibly come from choas. So does the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, the Law of Decay. EVERYTHING runs down, EVERYTHING decays, and NOTHING goes from a lower state to a higher state UNLESS it is from an outside factor. THESE things totally refute Darwinin evolution. And I haven't even scratched the surface yet about all of the evidence of TRUE science that totally refutes evolution!!! So why do you say that all of the evidence points in favor of evolution and that NOTHING refutes it??? You and I have been spoon fed and brainwashed on the 'attributes' of and the glorious heritage of the 'noble theory of evolution and therefor think that there are no scientific factors pointing in the opposite direction, but that it totlly untrue. I would love for you to give me the GREATEST evidence that you think of to support evolution. Not 10 or 5, but just “1”, and how come it is a proven fact. I really would like to hear your answer, thanks!

  • @lincolnwoodworkconstructio3072

    How can density be confused for age. If I shake soil in a bottle I'll get the same separation and layers. That would refure to age?

    • @buttonwizard6644
      @buttonwizard6644 Год назад

      In there real word geological layers aren't caused be density and sorting... it's not even close, you can't even begin to study or investigate the subject without discovering that.

    • @TheHairyHeathen
      @TheHairyHeathen Год назад

      You haven't actually put soil in a bottle and tried this, have you?
      Go and try it now, then come back and tell us what result you get.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      "If I shake soil in a bottle I'll get the same separation and layers."
      Forgive the personal implications but your statement is a lie.

    • @lincolnwoodworkconstructio3072
      @lincolnwoodworkconstructio3072 Год назад

      @@numbersix9477 shaking soil in bottle is a low tech way to sort its composition all that would be missing is pressure. Lie? So you don't know the sand, silt, clay. And organic matter will sort when settling after being suspended in a liquid?

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      @@lincolnwoodworkconstructio3072
      First off, you tried to move the goal posts. I'll pass on letting you do that; let's stick with your original claim. Cite ONE career geologist who claims that shaking soil in a bottle will yield "the same separation and layers" we find in geological strata.

  • @samhall3821
    @samhall3821 Год назад

    Grade school field trip to Mystic Aquarium, where I saw a poster of survival of the luckiest. Luckiest seal. One seal out of I forget how many to start with.

  • @paulesposito7055
    @paulesposito7055 4 года назад +84

    I got calluses on my hand from guitar playing. We are definitely an adaptive species

    • @poliincredible770
      @poliincredible770 4 года назад +28

      Paul Esposito, respectfully, people have been playing stringed instruments for a long time. God designed us to develop calluses so we can be better equipped to make beautiful music, not so we can become a new species. If or when you have kids, they probably won’t be born with hardened finger tips 😉

    • @agesilausii7759
      @agesilausii7759 4 года назад +32

      Why didn‘t god also design us in a way that our dna doesn‘t mutate?

    • @TomElijah1
      @TomElijah1 4 года назад +8

      It is called "anti-fragility" - a key feature of biology. That which stresses makes you stronger. That covers everything from immune systems, bones, psychological resilience and ... callouses :)

    • @KRIPP548
      @KRIPP548 4 года назад +9

      @@agesilausii7759 He did. Then there was sin.

    • @agesilausii7759
      @agesilausii7759 4 года назад +8

      @@KRIPP548 lol! So after the sin we started evolving. That's good for us!

  • @Sagar-wn1po
    @Sagar-wn1po 4 года назад +6

    You should have shown those pics in video instead of screen projections.

  • @caonexpeguero9984
    @caonexpeguero9984 Год назад +1

    Far away and long ago the nose tried to hook with the lungs but it was still at knee level, while one of the lungs was around the buttocks. Luckily we were still living under water at the moment.

  • @JacobPatrick1
    @JacobPatrick1 Год назад +6

    We have created many machines and though the machines may be very different from each other and used for very different purposes most of them share similar parts.

    • @TheHairyHeathen
      @TheHairyHeathen Год назад +5

      Exactly. They do not have unique features restricted only to individual ancestral lines, as you have with living things.

    • @Geraldster
      @Geraldster 10 месяцев назад +1

      And none of these machines came about by chance and random mutations.

  • @johnarizona3820
    @johnarizona3820 5 лет назад +212

    Anytime a person attempts to prove something with the primary goal of disproving another is misguided and their work is tainted by bias. If an argument cannot stand on it's own without attacking another it's merits will always remain in question.

    • @soothingtrax
      @soothingtrax 5 лет назад +3

      Valid point.

    • @collinskocmoc8888
      @collinskocmoc8888 5 лет назад +1

      Where is the missing link? Debunks Darwinism (:

    • @oskarhenriksen
      @oskarhenriksen 4 года назад +16

      @@collinskocmoc8888 Have you tried checking whether or not your own claim has been debunked?

    • @collinskocmoc8888
      @collinskocmoc8888 4 года назад +2

      @@oskarhenriksen It would be in the news! biggest news since news was born. You have a missing link or explain it?

    • @oskarhenriksen
      @oskarhenriksen 4 года назад +13

      @@collinskocmoc8888 Well, what exactly do you mean by a "missing link"?

  • @nigelsaunders9865
    @nigelsaunders9865 5 лет назад +30

    Why is this basic talk and content with no new perspectives or ideas or personal input from the speaker of any kind in a TED format?

    • @b-m605
      @b-m605 5 лет назад +12

      because it is promoting the atheist creation myth as if it were a fact. Simple as that, if you want to be heard promote it. They will make it happen

    • @flashgorgon188
      @flashgorgon188 5 лет назад +10

      @@b-m605 "atheist creation myth" lol if you have evidence that contradicts evolution you should submit it and collect your Nobel prize.
      ....
      Oh, you don't have any? I didn't think so.

    • @b-m605
      @b-m605 5 лет назад +6

      @@flashgorgon188 so you want to play that atheist game of "show me the evidence. That's not evidence!!" not interested. You are welcome to your delusions. The evidence is the same evidence that atheists pretend supports their myth. But magic without a magician is still magic, just less believable.

    • @flashgorgon188
      @flashgorgon188 5 лет назад +2

      @@b-m605 Oh, you don't have any? I didn't think so.

    • @b-m605
      @b-m605 5 лет назад +3

      @@flashgorgon188 let me simplify this for you. In a murder trial there is evidence. Both sides work with the evidence there is and make their arguments from it. So if you say there is no evidence for a creator, then there is no evidence for anything.
      Yours strategy is a rather tiresome Atheist game where they pretend that
      1. they are righteous, impartial judges, or judges at all
      2. that evidence just speaks for itself
      3. They can decide what is and isn't evidence.
      4. they pretend they would love to be proven wrong.
      In your delusions or little game, you always win; It's a silly little game and your willingness to play on and on at it, suggests you are convince you have a lot of time to waste, far more than I have. but carry on show me how smart you are.

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 Год назад +5

    I don't eat chickens but I have pet hens and I've seen things that totally make me believe they are theropods.

  • @glennshrom5801
    @glennshrom5801 Год назад

    Pretty good talk about how we know evolution is true. A minor critique about something at the beginning of the talk (around minute 1:23): Quite a number of evolutionists believe that the earth and the animals and plants in it have been created by a supernatural deity. It is not logical to pit one (evolution) against the other (creation by a supernatural god). The process of God's creation was pictured differently prior to the theory of evolution, but the fact of God's creation need not be any different taking evolution into account.

    • @miked412
      @miked412 Год назад

      Evolution does not include how "life" came to be, only how life became more complex through changes carried on by reproduction.
      Evolution does conflict with most creation stories.
      A God very well could have set everything in motion at the "Big Bang" or sometime (time is tricky here) before that. Or could have assembled the earliest versions of "life" on earth. The problem with this, is the lacking evidence; thus, faith. Is it possible, sure. Is there quality evidence for it, nope.

  • @frankytoad12
    @frankytoad12 4 года назад +80

    Did someone play this video for convention of mental asylum patients? I can't explain some of these comments, what are you people?

    • @quantumrobin4627
      @quantumrobin4627 4 года назад +41

      Frank Harrison
      Yea, religion poisons everything, it makes a virtue out of ignorance.

    • @quantumrobin4627
      @quantumrobin4627 4 года назад +8

      Steve
      when you realize you built your whole life on a sham....then just stay in the religion out of pride, good point! That’s the reason there are so many participants in the Clergy Project, it’s got thousands of members who are leaders of their churches that no longer buy bs but can’t leave their jobs, so they stay.

    • @quantumrobin4627
      @quantumrobin4627 4 года назад +23

      Steve
      Steve, you are the batshit crazy kook holding a “Jesus lives” cardboard sign, that nobody pays attention to on the street corner. Threatening me with your imaginary friend is not a threat, it only serves to make you look more pathetic, if that’s possible. You need medication, by all accounts your are very sick.

    • @quantumrobin4627
      @quantumrobin4627 4 года назад +4

      Not Steve
      Just when I think you couldn’t post a more bizarre comment, you go and surprise me.

    • @mentkansley6694
      @mentkansley6694 4 года назад +1

      @@quantumrobin4627 I'm agnostic, but is there a reason religion and science can't coexist?

  • @bilindalaw-morley161
    @bilindalaw-morley161 3 года назад +97

    Wonderful presentation, introduced me into looking at the subject from a different viewpoint. And it’s terrific when someone is so passionate about their subject

    • @jamespeace1237
      @jamespeace1237 Год назад

      You tube Dolores cannon 3 waves its long .but watch it.

    • @berniv7375
      @berniv7375 Год назад

      Thank you for a very interesting video. Near the end of the video you talked of people eating chicken. My belief is that in order for us to continue to evolve we need to stop eating the flesh of other animals or we are going to become extinct. 🌱

    • @charlytaylor1748
      @charlytaylor1748 Год назад +1

      I'm with you, berni

    • @davidsmithson865
      @davidsmithson865 Год назад +2

      Hey, all dogs are dogs!

    • @originalprime9798
      @originalprime9798 Год назад

      Of all the aspects of nature, humans are the only ones who still don't know the reason for their existence.

  • @margaretburnham5683
    @margaretburnham5683 Год назад +4

    I enjoyed this!

    • @wayneurquhart7192
      @wayneurquhart7192 Год назад

      Me too, did you think of any questions you'd like to ask?

  • @brucejanacek6263
    @brucejanacek6263 Год назад

    It sounds like proof of natural selection & adaptation. How did a woodpeckers tongue grow around its scull? What was the process as it changed?

    • @mayling8643
      @mayling8643 Год назад

      Evolution (for all 5 billion species during earth's history) occurred by natural processes: mutation, natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow.

    • @slingslang2934
      @slingslang2934 Год назад

      I suppose it grew that way somehow & had to go through with it. apparently anteater tongues roll up in the back of their head too

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 Год назад +1

      Woodpeckers with longer tongues had a better survival rate because they got more insects.

    • @jounisuninen
      @jounisuninen Год назад

      @@bobs182 The longer tongue would need many more linear adaptions. And that of course doesn't explain the genetic mechanism which would've produced the woodpecker in the first place. Who has seen the transitional forms that led to woodpecker? Or was woodpecker simply created?

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 Год назад

      @@jounisuninen Not all tongues are the same length and long tongued woodpeckers would have better survival rates. Natural selection "created" a population of woodpeckers that overall had longer tongues.

  • @silasjohnson555
    @silasjohnson555 Год назад +82

    Just as a note: John used the term “prove” when in scientific methodology you can never prove anything, only theory’s and facts.

    • @aaronhhill
      @aaronhhill Год назад +20

      While this is true I believe the distinction lies in the difference between the terms "accurate" and "proven." While the scientific method does not necessarily seek to prove something, what it does instead is measure the accuracy of a theory or hypothesis through rigorous testing and validation. As theories are continually improved or modified as more information is gathered, so too does the accuracy of the prediction become greater over time. A theory, then, does not get proven to be correct, but instead simply does not get proven wrong. The argument lies in the semantics. A theory is accurate until it is proven wrong.

    • @silasjohnson555
      @silasjohnson555 Год назад +5

      Hmmm I hadn’t seen thought as deeply about the distinction. I will still believe that it is essential to use proper terminology otherwise one’s language could appear misleading or manipulative

    • @walkergarya
      @walkergarya Год назад +27

      Not quite, we can prove things wrong, like creationism has been.

    • @silasjohnson555
      @silasjohnson555 Год назад

      Interesting. How so?

    • @aaronhhill
      @aaronhhill Год назад +18

      @@walkergarya Well, that's a bit disingenuous. Creationism has not been "proven" to be wrong. Even the renowned atheist Richard Dawkins will tell you that he is 99.99% sure that creationism is not factual, but that he wouldn't be a good scientist if he didn't allow for that .01% of inaccuracy. Creationism has merely been refuted. And that is the more factually accurate way to express it. It is not proven wrong, it has simply been refuted.

  • @prschuster
    @prschuster Год назад +10

    That was a lot in under 20 minutes. That was quite a feat.

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  • @martinphilip8998
    @martinphilip8998 Год назад

    She sells seashells by the seashore. This tongue twister is said to be inspired by Mary Anningbof Lyme Regis. She’d sell her finds to tourists.

  • @adityashah5597
    @adityashah5597 3 года назад +68

    so calm, clear and interestingly presented. thank you. :)

    • @emmadabdelkrim3073
      @emmadabdelkrim3073 3 года назад +3

      He never mentioned How they found evolution is True!!!

    • @madisont3123
      @madisont3123 3 года назад +9

      @@emmadabdelkrim3073 uhhh... that's what the whole thing was. Maybe watch it again or as many times as you need to.

    • @hicow6075
      @hicow6075 3 года назад +6

      @@emmadabdelkrim3073 Weird how you people have no interest in actually properly understanding and viewing the evidence. It doesn't make it false because you can't comprehend it.

    • @ChrisFineganTunes
      @ChrisFineganTunes 3 года назад +2

      imad krimo
      Multiple fields of study with multiple lines of evidence that all point to the exact same conclusion.
      Kinda like being in a court room at a murder trial and having DNA evidence, a GSR test, witness testimony, CCTV footage, GPS records and tyre/shoe treads all pointing to the same person.
      Under those circumstances, some guy saying 'I've got an ancient book that I interpret as saying this man is innocent' doesn't really carry much water.

    • @emmadabdelkrim3073
      @emmadabdelkrim3073 3 года назад +1

      @@ChrisFineganTunes you can't apply this analogy to justify that evolution is so evident and we ! , the other people just can't aknwoledge the fact that it is Evolution
      Many scientist criticized evolution and pointed to flaws in its claims
      These scientist just pointed there May be A Creator behind Nature
      They were not treated with scientific respect and openmindness
      No
      they were Bullied
      It's more like Evolution is a doctrine
      And it's a Temple of Atheists
      Not a scientific theory

  • @roberthaley7317
    @roberthaley7317 Год назад +10

    Good presentation. Reminds of Stephen Jay Gould. Good story-teller and sophist.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад +1

      I fail to catch your point. What is your working definition of "sophist"?

    • @johnbrooks7144
      @johnbrooks7144 Год назад

      Gould now knows the error of his ways. He was a shill for evolution in spite of the lack of any explanation for origins. He was willing to play Harvard professor and accept a salaried sinecure basically in exchange for his soul. Pinker is just like him but perhaps not as well known. Gould is basically long forgotten except to you and his dwindling fan club. In the meantime, the government money of the NSF and academia cannot stifle the fact that God created everything out of nothing in six days with the day defined as one rotation of the earth before he even completed the earth. More people every day are becoming aware of this and other lies spoken by the demons who call themselves "government" and live off the labors of productive people.

    • @cryptocaddie
      @cryptocaddie Год назад

      @@numbersix9477 It would be the fallacious bits

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      @@cryptocaddie
      With you being the final authority on what was and wasn't fallacious about statements made by Gould and van Whye, ... That's cool!
      So, are you a final authority in scientific disciplines other than biology? Cosmology perhaps? On the topic of the big bang theory, can we learn from you which statements by cosmologists are/are not fallacious?

    • @cryptocaddie
      @cryptocaddie Год назад +1

      @@numbersix9477 No just answering your question via definitions available . "storytelling" connotates "make believe" . And a sophist can go on and on using fallacious substance. My scientific question remains. Did they find any more intermediary species or did they abandon primordial soup? I have some time to give but not to waste.

  • @Vurbanowicz
    @Vurbanowicz Год назад +5

    I remember reading that Darwin finally published because he didn't want to be scooped by Wallace, and also that he had hesitated to publish because of what could be called social conservatism: he feared the lower classes would be harder to govern if he published a theory that discounted the authority of the Bible. That seems somewhat consistent with his view of women: "better than a dog, anyhow."

    • @L.Ron_Dow
      @L.Ron_Dow Год назад +6

      Darwin came to believe that species are mutable while in the midst of a major campaign to edit and publish the scientific results of his voyage on HMS Beagle. *His ideas on evolution were drafted as early as 1842.* In 1844, Darwin's initial ideas on evolution had been sketched out and he prepared a memorandum for his wife requesting for it to be published in the event of his death. But he also asked her to see that it be "enlarged" and developed by an editor before it was published, because in his view the work was not yet ready. Evidence from Darwin's journals and private correspondence suggests that he was determined to *publish a massive, multi-volume work on species.* However, when he finished his long-term work on the Beagle voyage, he became preoccupied with research he was carrying out on invertebrates and particular barnacles - and in 1849 he wrote to Hukker advising him that he regarded this as a fascinating subject he would get through *before moving on to the species theory.* Ill health delayed the work further, pushing the work on species late into the 1850s. In 1858, however, Alfred Wallace hit on a strikingly similar theory, spurring Darwin to action and prompting him to publish *a much shorter account* - this became the *'Origin of Species.'* As we know, he then expanded on his ideas in later books to deal with the Descent of Man etc.
      Just to be clear, the paragraph above is a mash-up of John Van Wyhe's account of why it took Darwin so long to publish his ideas - JvW was rejecting the idea that Darwin was delaying publishing his ideas for fear of push-back from theologians and the 'believing' public. Darwin was simply a procrastinator who got obsessed with other matters of interest. It must be remembered that in the early C19th, there were many ideas being bandied about to try to explain what had become totally obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain - that Life on Earth is in a constant state of change. In fact one such observer, *Patrick Matthew.* who in 1831 wrote about trees being grown for use in ship-building, had included in the appendix some observations about how plastic species appear to be and after reading 'Origin' complained that Darwin had 'stolen' his ideas. Darwin, expressed ignorance of Matthew's rather obscure work but nevertheless acknowledged his insight in later editions of 'Origin'. The start of the industrial revolution in the UK, creating a need for coal-mining, meant that many more fossils were being unearthed than were being exposed by random erosion. More and more, 'scientific societies' were being formed and at their meetings, it is only natural that these findings would be the topic of conversations - with the result that the obvious Truth of Evolution by Natural Selection would be 'out' very soon - that Diversity *wasn't* created by Extinction followed by Special Creation of very similar species but that Species *'morphed'* by some means. Darwin got lucky and recognized 'Natural Selection' as the key mechanism in what everybody else was starting to acknowledge and was able to express this to the public in a way they could easily understand before anyone else did. Darwin had the foresight and breadth of experience to see its implications for ALL life on Earth, something Matthew didn't have and didn't spend 30 years developing into a full Theory - which is why you've probably never heard of him. Lots more detail Patrick Matthew's 'wiki' page. btw, Wallace could never let go of the idea that the *variation* life-forms experience was not *'guided'* by some interfering busy-body (between watching what people were doing in their bedrooms) - he couldn't prove it (I wonder why not) and so gave up on the idea.

    • @L.Ron_Dow
      @L.Ron_Dow Год назад +2

      Yes, I know 'Hukker' is not spelled that way, but YT won't let me spell it correctly.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад +1

      You obviously know a number of Darwin's thoughts and motivations. Did you know him personally? Did he confide in you? If so, why did he confide in you?

    • @allenjenkins7947
      @allenjenkins7947 Год назад +1

      I disagree with his views on the relative merits of women and dogs.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад +1

      @@allenjenkins7947
      Darwin has been dead for well over a century. I know of no mechanism whereby you could challenge him on the views that he held when he WAS alive.

  • @stevensarwat5189
    @stevensarwat5189 16 дней назад

    3:40 it becomes imbeded in the middel of a rock throgh an unimaginably strong flow of Water, hence the great flood of noah.
    I love how people can Interpret stuff as to fit their own Personal beliefs, good job guys👍

    • @TheHairyHeathen
      @TheHairyHeathen 15 дней назад

      Nobody said anything about _"an unimaginably strong flow of Water",_ duh! Do you think strong water flow pushes teeth inside of rocks? Fossils are formed in depositional *_sedimentary_* rock, which only happens in waters calm enough for deposits to settle. You don't find teeth pushed into igneous rocks.

  • @gerry5955
    @gerry5955 5 лет назад +14

    Pity the camera man is asleep or not following the talk.

    • @vikkibowers4301
      @vikkibowers4301 4 года назад +1

      That's because he was told to catch all the facts on camera...he never got to one.

    • @clickpause8732
      @clickpause8732 4 года назад

      @@vikkibowers4301 I can at least say that was clever.

  • @eriolduterion8855
    @eriolduterion8855 Год назад +18

    I would have been more impressed with the lecture if he had also mentioned Alexander Oparin, and the 60000+ generations of E. coli growth (the long-term evolution experiment [LTEE] ) at Michigan State University.

    • @L.Ron_Dow
      @L.Ron_Dow Год назад +8

      Why? This was a talk about how Darwin's Theory became the accepted explanation for the ever-changing diversity of Life on Earth.

    • @light5901
      @light5901 Год назад +1

      it does not prove evolution. Those E.coli (lost) information not gain. That's not evolution

    • @L.Ron_Dow
      @L.Ron_Dow Год назад +4

      @light E-coli in the lTEE *did* actually gain information - it was a copy & paste event where an 'On-switch' was copied in front of the Citrate processing gene (which had been switched Off) - so *more DNA and a change in Information.*

    • @L.Ron_Dow
      @L.Ron_Dow Год назад

      @@light5901 Your reply has been ghost-banned by YT.

    • @light5901
      @light5901 Год назад +5

      @@L.Ron_Dow the gene was already there. If something was copied or turned on or off that option was already existed

  • @yarnpower
    @yarnpower Год назад +7

    Wonderful presentation!

  • @poufter
    @poufter Год назад +8

    I think too many of the commenters here need to give our presenter a break. These are big topics with hard-to-simplify intricacies that he's been given 15 or so minutes to encapsulate. I do the same kind of thing for a living, and when there's a big topic to cover, sometimes one can't be as thorough as one would or could be.

    • @Vurbanowicz
      @Vurbanowicz Год назад +3

      I fully agree. Those who require more proof shouldn't expect it from a 15-minute presentation. They can do their own digging. The proof won't be hard to find.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 11 месяцев назад

      You mean respect al religions, even the absurd religion scientism?
      Be kind to him because he is obviously a sincere believer in mister evolution sort of thing eh?

  • @greglott4977
    @greglott4977 4 года назад +9

    Having dino fajitas tonight!

  • @domcizek
    @domcizek 6 лет назад +38

    I have seen several of these talks, great, but apparently there is no standard of recording these talks, I woujld like to see what is on the screen behind the talker, some standards of producing these talks must take place.......

    • @garetclaborn
      @garetclaborn 6 лет назад +5

      quick fact: TEDx (vs TED) are put together by random locals. Pretty much anyone can host a TEDx conference and put anything they want in the presentation.

    • @schmeckelgruben776
      @schmeckelgruben776 6 лет назад +2

      it would be nice to shoot the screen every time the slide changes, We know what the set and the presenter look like. Better yet switch to the graphic video directly. i would normally downvote inconsiderate production like this, but on this video a downvote would be misunderstood, so i won't vote at all. No like, no sub.

    • @Tzadeck
      @Tzadeck 5 лет назад +4

      I've been a photographer for many TEDx events; the video team is just a local group of volunteers.

  • @brianpistolwhip
    @brianpistolwhip Год назад +3

    I am amazed how closely people cling to their beliefs as if they have a better explanation of the world around us.

    • @stephenking4170
      @stephenking4170 Год назад

      Yes. This is as true of naturalistic evolutionists as it is for creationists. Both camps read the same facts and make them fit their own belief. As for me, purely naturalistic evolution makes a nice bedtime story but it flies in the face of logic when we consider the complexity of life, the inbuilt information systems of cells, extraordinary design and compare this to our real world experience and knowledge on how designs and information systems arise and knowing that they come from intelligence and mind., not mindless random processes.

    • @paulgarrett4474
      @paulgarrett4474 Год назад +3

      @@stephenking4170 that's great, but the natural process do just fine on their own, and there is no evidence of a designer aside from your unwillingness to accept that it could happen without one.

    • @eddyeldridge7427
      @eddyeldridge7427 Год назад +3

      @@stephenking4170
      Your personal incredulity is not evidence

    • @tudorrad5933
      @tudorrad5933 Год назад +3

      @@stephenking4170 but you're filling in gaps with whatever pre-conceived notions you had about the creation of the Universe. I would argue that if we would give a completely neutral and unbiased computer the data we have now from geology, paleontology, biology and all other relevant fields the conclusion wouldn't be that a "designer" made all this. There's no need for one when you know the rules of how biology works and have enough time on your side to let it play out.

    • @stephenking4170
      @stephenking4170 Год назад +1

      @@tudorrad5933 And why would the computer be neutral? It would completely depend on how it was setup. Classical evolutionists also fill in the gaps, very many in fact. . The different philosophical outlook produces different conclusions from the same observable data. Humans exploring biological origins are like blind men reporting on an elephant.

  • @nightwines
    @nightwines Год назад

    What was the first cause?

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад +1

      Shouldn't you be asking that question on a thread where religion, philosophy or astrophysics is the topic?

    • @TheHairyHeathen
      @TheHairyHeathen Год назад +1

      How can you tell there were such a thing?

    • @mayling8643
      @mayling8643 Год назад +2

      The first cause was an invention by religion, because they cannot explain where god(s) comes from --- so they invented the first cause.

    • @nightwines
      @nightwines Год назад

      @@mayling8643 So you don't know. You don't have an answer. Thank you.

    • @nightwines
      @nightwines Год назад

      @@numbersix9477 No. I see evolutionist chime in all the time on those topics.

  • @valor36az
    @valor36az 5 лет назад +9

    Great talk McFly

  • @stevo728822
    @stevo728822 5 лет назад +28

    Actually, Darwin worked out most of his theory before he travelled on the Beagle. Evidence can be found in his letters to his sisters.

    • @hermonghebresslasie3198
      @hermonghebresslasie3198 4 года назад +9

      Darwin has no evidence to prove his Theory

    • @hermonghebresslasie3198
      @hermonghebresslasie3198 4 года назад +2

      @Jasper Jack i understand ur confusion. Its only becuz ure blue pill right now. U re still deceived in the big lie. Once u start seein the truth, everything will get clearer. Behind every Event(9-11, moon landing, etc) There's an Agenda

    • @hermonghebresslasie3198
      @hermonghebresslasie3198 4 года назад +5

      @Jasper Jack i cant get mad at you cuz I was once there. I have a philosophy. If lions knew how to write or tell stories, u wpuld never see the Hunters as Heroes. The victor always modifies the Story. N we live in an era where all media(Bbc, CNN, CcTV, Fox n so on)is controlled by one Corporation(rotschild & Mackefellor aka Federal Reserve) by controllin the media, they control the world

    • @TheDaydreammaster
      @TheDaydreammaster 4 года назад

      @Jerry Sherman but they won't. Theyre only hope for their soft mooshie minds is bubble wrap and small cushioned rooms.

    • @TheDaydreammaster
      @TheDaydreammaster 4 года назад +2

      @@hermonghebresslasie3198 funny how all the comments for evolution seem to be peddled around propaganda on the fakestream media and the arguements for creation are nearly all derived from impericle objective researchable evidence.

  • @Icedcoffee03
    @Icedcoffee03 Год назад +21

    Ever since I started watching podcasts/videos on evolution from experts, I started to really appreciate the plasticity of life and how extraordinary it is that we can figure out where and how we got here as a species.

    • @TheHairyHeathen
      @TheHairyHeathen Год назад +1

      Love your user ID. "I am so smart, S-M-R-T" - one of my most favorite lines ever!

    • @alanadams5982
      @alanadams5982 Год назад +2

      Do you ever think we were created by GOD!? And that's how we got here.

    • @warren52nz
      @warren52nz Год назад +5

      @@alanadams5982 Maybe there's a creator and if so you can call it whatever you like. "God" is a reasonable placeholder but there's no evidence for this thing so "I don't know" is the best answer because that leads to discovery whereas assuming a god did it is a dead end. Why look for the answer if you think you already know?

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад +7

      @@alanadams5982
      Over the centuries, thousands of gods have been posited. Which one specifically is yours and how did you pick him. Most popular in your country? Best benefits package? Scariest threats to non worshipers? Family tradition? Live near place of worship? Best music?

    • @danielmoore4024
      @danielmoore4024 Год назад +2

      Smrt Homer,
      Are you aware Charles Darwin was autistic?
      It's because of behaviours like autistic traits why autism is still in the gene pool, there's a particular reason why most of the greatest scientists either are autistic or strongly suspected to of being autistic.
      Detail oriented, more attracted to objects than people, patten recognition, sequence recognition, narrow interests.
      Don't all these autism traits sound like behaviours required to make such scientific discoveries?

  • @kasuntharaka4344
    @kasuntharaka4344 4 месяца назад

    great

  • @hareecionelson5875
    @hareecionelson5875 4 года назад +6

    Man that crowd was tough, but they loosened up after coprolites (why is poo so funny? also coprolites can be auto-corrected to profiteroles, I leave you with that image.)

    • @alanthompson8515
      @alanthompson8515 4 года назад +1

      Hareece. I do agree re: coprolites. My middle school field trips to the Rhaetic bone bed regularly turned up fish scales, the odd fish tooth, and rarely a marine reptile vertebra. However, the undoubted star find was always plesiosaur poo. I would be queried about it at the next Parents' Evening - "Jimmy says he found some um you know on the field trip?" I became expert at keeping a straight face. More than one of my sixth form students later admitted that that trip and especially the you know what was a key point in their subject choice.

    • @bilindalaw-morley161
      @bilindalaw-morley161 3 года назад +1

      Hareecio Nelson well, thank you so much. Profiteroles are(were?) one of my favourite, rare, treats. One the other hand, I raised two kids. After some of the nappies, ‘accidents’, artistic wall painting, I don’t think dinosaur poo will put me off them

  • @e.mcguire1538
    @e.mcguire1538 2 года назад +23

    Excellent presentation. One of the best summaries I've seen. Thank you.

  • @v3student
    @v3student Год назад

    survival of organisms that can adapt to a particular environment

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      Individuals pass on their genes or they don't. If "significantly change the allele frequency of your population by dying before reproducing" is a synonym for "adapt" then, yeah, organisms "adapt."

    • @v3student
      @v3student Год назад

      @@numbersix9477 Gracias.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      @@v3student
      Por nada.

    • @v3student
      @v3student Год назад

      @@numbersix9477 The tone below is not intended to belittle any scientific
      process😎📚:
      1)Contemporary Sociology rejects 'survival of the fittest' ethic in human society, etc. 2)Feminists have questioned the patriarchal nature of modern biology {Philosophy of Science, et al}
      3)& all the best...

  • @numbersix9477
    @numbersix9477 4 месяца назад +2

    In the U.S., there are many, many times as many Christian fundamentalists who boldly claim there is scientific support of the creation model as there are career scientist working in biology related disciplines who have written so much as ONE peer reviewed paper supporting the theory of evolution.
    Yet I can find, IN ONE PLACE, cites of over 420,000 scientific papers addressing thousands of aspects of the theory of evolution - but can find almost no cites anywhere of peer reviewed scientific papers supporting the creation model.
    WHY?

    • @maylingng4107
      @maylingng4107 3 месяца назад +1

      Creationist do not write science articles; they publish only in creationist propaganda journals and in religious literature. The stuff they peddling cannot get past peer-review.

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ 2 года назад +17

    Watched it again, because it’s an amazing lecture

    • @Masterpeace777
      @Masterpeace777 Год назад +2

      Except nowhere does it prove evolution.

    • @chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236
      @chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236 Год назад

      @@Masterpeace777 there isn’t any evidence for Evolutionism

    • @nelsona3440
      @nelsona3440 Год назад +3

      No, I find more truth in Maury Povich show...

    • @revwillyg6450
      @revwillyg6450 Год назад +2

      @@nelsona3440 lol. You are not the father!!!😂

    • @BP7BlackPearl
      @BP7BlackPearl Год назад +1

      @@revwillyg6450 Of course he isn't, I am. lol. The amazing thing is this guy proves nothing.

  • @alainbellemare2168
    @alainbellemare2168 3 года назад +6

    most people don t understand that evolution and adaptation are linked , survival of the most adapted , the universe does one thing and one thing only , transform itself

    • @grainiac7824
      @grainiac7824 Год назад

      So why do we have more autism than ever before these days? And more cancer etc. Things are devolving; entropy is the law of the land.

    • @alainbellemare2168
      @alainbellemare2168 Год назад

      @@grainiac7824 there is a lot more people

  • @simonrodgers2375
    @simonrodgers2375 Год назад +1

    I've never understood evolution, how does it work. if I go and drown myself, and my kids drown themselves, and their kids do and so on and so on, would my lineage eventually develop gills?

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад +5

      No. But the median level of scientific literacy would tick up

    • @hammalammadingdong6244
      @hammalammadingdong6244 Год назад

      You're 100% correct...
      You DON'T understand evolution.

    • @pyhead9916
      @pyhead9916 Месяц назад

      @@numbersix9477You're already evolved into stupidity.

  • @maozedung7270
    @maozedung7270 Год назад +7

    Once we found out that there was somehow something like an evolution...old bones told us. Some of those old bones gave us the great idea of the possibility of a possible evolution. That is great! Because evolution did not end...We are in the process of evolution right now...physically, mentally and so on. To get the "right" direcction you just have to be aware of your decisiones! If you decide wrong, sooner or later you will die out. That simple.
    1😀

    • @toserveman9317
      @toserveman9317 Год назад

      @"To get the "right" direcction you just have to be aware of your decisiones!"
      Solipsism is UN-evidencable by its own measure: Any evidence showing the "Id's" perceptions come first can be presumed to come from the id's perceptions. Infinite regression is only possible resolution.
      Thus Naturalism (mechanical-ism) -- which has been evidenced -- has prevailed, LOGICALLY.
      In other words -- and bringing it back to a germane place the reader here can grock -- "freewill" is a _Useful Fiction._ ...Determinism [mechanical-ism] created the UF, determinism causes UFs to vary, and determinism [specifically Energy Conservation [LOT1] /"scarcity" bottlenecking (*selection*)] "allows" certain UF variants to persist [meme warfare (abstract [mind] layer of "pheromone warfare /selection" seen IN a hive; and ultimately between hiveS ['group selection']); All occurring over the "head" of the UF.

    • @brontehauptmann4217
      @brontehauptmann4217 Год назад +1

      old bones tell you only that an animal died

    • @robbiecoleuk
      @robbiecoleuk Год назад +2

      @@brontehauptmann4217 they can also tell you where they died, how they died, what they ate, what diseases they suffered from - so much stuff more than "yeah, it's dead".

    • @rollinsomethingbutiforgot
      @rollinsomethingbutiforgot Год назад

      @@robbiecoleuk bones don't tell you what a creature ate. They also don't tell you if a creature was feathered or scaled.
      Teeth might accurately tell us what type of diet they have i.e. carnivore v herbivore but that doesn't tell us if they cannibalize their own or if they digested toxic plants they wrre potentially resistant to
      Bones really just tell you a population existed at one point in time in a geographic location and potentially how they died I.e. in a massive flood which is why you find sights at raised elevations with packed fossil clusters... biblical flood anyone?

  • @brianmagee6595
    @brianmagee6595 6 лет назад +11

    Funny when he said when your eating Chicken you are eating Dinosaur. Because I had Chicken eariler.

    • @HUNDREDACREWOOD.
      @HUNDREDACREWOOD. 5 лет назад

      I had dinosaur... 😁

    • @L.Ron_Dow
      @L.Ron_Dow 5 лет назад

      I would recomment this short PBS video: *"The Dinosaur On Your Dinner Table"* posted by _'It's Okay To Be Smart'_

    • @richardfinnigan8982
      @richardfinnigan8982 5 лет назад

      @@HUNDREDACREWOOD. so then it was a man eating dinosaur

    • @reza3202
      @reza3202 3 года назад

      Do you know why its funny for you?because you could not understand evolution.

  • @mohdhafidz6268
    @mohdhafidz6268 5 лет назад +35

    The titles clearly says "how we found out evolution is true".. But somehow many comments down here make it sounds like the title is "how we found out how evolution denies God"...that I found out to be unrelated to the original topic at all..

    • @Espectador666
      @Espectador666 5 лет назад +6

      @May Ling He is irrelevant to all things. If you do not exist, you cannot be relevant.

    • @kennethbransford820
      @kennethbransford820 5 лет назад +2

      @May Ling You are saying that the most complex thing known to man, your brain is an accident? And to say our existence is of no value or has no value and we are all alone in the universe and Jehovah is not responsible for your existence. Life would have no direction or purpose and no meaning without our designer or maker our heavenly father .

    • @kennethbransford820
      @kennethbransford820 5 лет назад +2

      @May Ling So you are ok with man kind/ women kind having no regard for our planet earth? How we are causing animals to go extinct, using thermonuclear weapons on our home our nest egg, how man/women kind is exploiting our earth and its resource for the sake of greed, how wars, hate , no genuine fellow feeling for one another, racism, egos, ruining the earth, oceans, air, emotional damage caused by humankind against humankind, weapons,lack of food, corrupted nations and politicians, those killing in the name of god and nations, ect.....

    • @kennethbransford820
      @kennethbransford820 5 лет назад +1

      @May Ling It is obvious that you are oblivious to the serious harm society is inflicting on one another and our planet .Yes many,many live their lives without a thought as to were we came from and the infliction we cause on our planet and one another as a whole. Not being aware of your surroundings will not excuse you or save you from others who just simply do not care about all the wonderful things they have or possess, including their lives and where it came from.

    • @joshadkins9185
      @joshadkins9185 4 года назад +2

      May Ling eloquent responses to such assumptions based on nothing. I applaud your grace in responses. It's funny how a religious zealot would make claims about people destroying the earth. Most history books will reveal the simple truth religion has caused more wars and destruction than any other reason. Oh well.. have a goid day ma'am

  • @michaelnowak3570
    @michaelnowak3570 Год назад +1

    Because The Simple Believe Every Word

  • @danlhendl
    @danlhendl Год назад

    How did we find out evolution is true? By waiting a long time

    • @L.Ron_Dow
      @L.Ron_Dow Год назад +3

      No, by sequencing DNA - but Darwin didn't know anything about that. Tell me what you can find out about the Marbled Crayfish, Moscow salsify and the 44- Chromosome Man (9 generation Finnish families or the Chinese guy.)

  • @lyndasutherland6165
    @lyndasutherland6165 2 года назад +24

    Awesome, easy-to-understand description of evolution - thanks so much for the Ted-talk!

    • @raysalmon6566
      @raysalmon6566 2 года назад +2

      The creationists point to one or two examples of supposedly unreliable dates, but when three or more independent dating methods are run in different competing labs on the same rock and give the same answer, there is no chance that this is accident. \\
      nearly a century of analyses, with thousands of dates checked and rechecked like this, geologists are as confident about the reliability of radiometric dating as they are about gravity or any other well-established principle of science.
      The earth is about 4.567 billion years old; this is as much a fact as the observation that it is round! Creationists cannot abide the idea that the earth is more than a few thousand years old.
      Are Ironically, the idea that the earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old or that it was created in 4004 B.C.E. (originally calculated by Archbishop Ussher and still found in the margins of some Bibles) is not based on the scriptures but on much later theological extrapolations.\\
      There are too many gaps- and unrecorded intervals of time in the scriptures between the "begat" verses, such as "and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters" (Genesis 5:26) to allow a precise calculation of the age of the earth from biblical texts.
      Nevertheless, young-earth (but not day-age) creationists will not concede the hmillions of years that geologists have documented and seek to deny any kind of evidence for the great age of the earth or the universe.
      Steven Prothero...fossils
      first of all Prothero is only focused on one version of creation. And typically reuses the same iconic words that just some theists hold to.
      Well then I could pursue his own cloned rhetoric to the same assertions for evolution
      I serious doubt that there is hard-line consensus of the age of the earth 4.5b is just a popular statement

    • @lyndasutherland6165
      @lyndasutherland6165 2 года назад +1

      @@raysalmon6566 Thanks Ray! I have to say I don't have a creationist bone in my body. Frankly, I think evolution, the sciences etc are the most exciting things we can learn about in our very short lifetimes. Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.

    • @raysalmon6566
      @raysalmon6566 2 года назад

      @@lyndasutherland6165
      @ray salmon Thanks Ray! I have to say I don't have a creationist bone in my body. Frankly, I think evolution, the sciences etc are the most exciting things we can learn about in our very short lifetimes. Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.
      you might see that wasn't all that scientific if you read early history during Darwin's time

    • @555atU
      @555atU Год назад +1

      @@raysalmon6566 the mathematics of evolution isn't in evolution's favor and requires that life came from rocks. Besides science has never seen a change of kind...dogs birth dogs, horses birth horses. With recent discoveries of the enormous complexity of DNA is another thorn in theory that things are amazingly random. I think evolution theory is in big trouble. This presentation didn't show any evidence of evolution is fact.

    • @555atU
      @555atU Год назад

      @@raysalmon6566 also rock dating methods dated material from Mount St. Helens being 250k to 1.2 million years old. If I were to hand you two different pieces of limestone from different layers without knowing where it came from...how you know how old it was?

  • @shawnburnham1
    @shawnburnham1 Год назад

    3:00

  • @pepper419
    @pepper419 Год назад +8

    Absolutely brilliant follow-up to Charles Darwin. Love you, and thank you.
    Americans should hear this. They might actually learn something.

    • @mickeythompson9537
      @mickeythompson9537 Год назад +2

      Half of Americans are like Carl Sagan... but the much bigger half are like Donald Trump.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      @@mickeythompson9537
      With your permission, I'll take the former "like."

    • @grabes1980
      @grabes1980 Год назад +2

      Indeed they might. This American certainly *actually* learned something. Now, might I recommend then to citizens of your country a video on the hazards of perpetuating tired, cartoonish, stereotypes? Oh wait, then I’d have to watch yet another video on why generalizing any trait to an entire population requires a strong, verifiable, repeatedly testable and otherwise scientifically-grounded basis of evidence. Oh wait, not just this American, but all Americans. Right? Did I just *actually* learn something?

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 Год назад

      @@grabes1980
      "Did I just actually learn something?"
      Not in years, I suspect.

    • @bighairyfeet
      @bighairyfeet Год назад

      We learned not to listen.

  • @bahara2
    @bahara2 3 года назад +18

    Hmmm, birds being just dinosaurs evolved, was striking!! Loved it.

    • @jakew2111
      @jakew2111 Год назад

      No kidding. Just take a look at chickens. Look at their feet. Strikingly similar to a T. rex Right?

    • @notnuff2264
      @notnuff2264 Год назад +1

      Yes, that is a very modern discovery. Unlike we were taught in school, the dinosaurs did NOT go extinct. And such a wonderfully unique type of life! Could you imagine a world without birds? It is thought that scales evolved more feather like as it helped to scurry along, leading to short glides and eventually flight. Amazing!

    • @kamion53
      @kamion53 Год назад

      Almost right: Birds are a group of dinosaurs evolved.
      One of the strawman argument of a fraud like Kent Hovind is to state that it is ridiculous to believe that a T.rex turned/evolded into a chicken, when someone says dino's evolved into birds.
      It's also good to know that the probably most widespread group of bird that kept teeth and clawes on their wings; the Enantiornithes went extinct together with the non-avian dinosaurs a.ka. "The Dinosaurs"
      Could we timetravel back to the Cretaceous it would be likely impossible for a traveler to distinguish the smaller theropods from birds, unless one disected the gathered specimen, so 'birdlike"were those critters.

    • @Emmanuel-ti6ym
      @Emmanuel-ti6ym Год назад

      Yeah, and I though that he was going to mention Crocodiles and animals like that

  • @davidabbett7011
    @davidabbett7011 3 года назад +67

    Absolutely love it when objective evidence, that has stood up against tested skepticism, is presented is such a clear fashion. Excellently presented.

    • @Hfornos
      @Hfornos 3 года назад +14

      David, I strongly suggest you do your research. Evolution has already been debunked. What you are being taught is doctrine of a theory that hold no weight scientifically today. to be clear, depends what you call evolution, if it’s the process of natural selection and randomness, please fix form yourself. Unfortunately our schools and lives are indoctrinated and we take it for truth.

    • @paulford9120
      @paulford9120 3 года назад +25

      @@Hfornos Don't be ridiculous. Evolution is an observed fact. Try reading a few science books.

    • @davidabbett7011
      @davidabbett7011 3 года назад +13

      Harry Gonzalez ....... HAHAHAHAHAHA. You are an example of a clearly brainwashed, flat-earther, creationist that believes unprovable text from flawed human beings that created rules for controlling micro societies by a few. Science is fact based research and technologies .... such as this electronic media that allows you to declare this ridiculousness. Or has the internet been debunked as well. You are yet again confusing “truth” with facts.

    • @numbersix9477
      @numbersix9477 3 года назад +7

      @@Hfornos
      LOL!

    • @MrMarcusIndia
      @MrMarcusIndia 3 года назад +7

      Presumably your Nobel Prize for debunking evolution is about to be announced?
      Your comment is absolutely typical of its ilk - grand claims with no substantiation - and thus can be ignored without further debate.