Hal Hackett? I went to middle school with that guy! We were both devotees of Ken Ham. He got a degree in geology, I got a degree in physics. And unsurprisingly, we both were forced by our studies to denounce young earth creationism.
But it really is necessary... A few years ago, I read an article written by a medical doctor and a professor at a very prestigious Korean university arguing the scientific plausibility of the bloody Noah's Ark.
it doesn't help when our elected legislators publically profess a belief in Creationism, and openly attempt to discredit actual science as "just a theory"....
because there is a problem in the public school Science if this has to be taught on RUclips. which doesn't matter anyway anymore, The average adult in the States lag behind most developed countries in their fundamental understanding and knowledge in STEM, that there really less incentive for multinational companies to hire from a shrinking pool of qualified applicants in the U.S. when they can hire in places like China that have put tremendous investment in STEM. -no critical thinking skills to do research and investigation when the answer is "God did it" -Mining companies hire Geologists, not water dowsers -pharmaceutical companies hire those with Chemistry, Biochemistry and lab experience, not alchemists and faith healers. There is a side to this whole anti-Science and dumbing down of the Education system that is seldom discussed and looked into, and that is the Economic impact for career prospects of children growing up in a stilted education system.
Duane, I think you have to understand that people can both accept the science of geology and also sort of believe in Noah's Ark & the Flood. The schools do teach geology. STEM education in China & India is a bit overrated. Some people have the impression that everybody from those countries is either a scientist or an engineer. That's because the elite few from their vast population comes to the USA to get a STEM degree. Those two nations combined have over 8 times the population of the USA, so it's no surprise that they can find a few good STEM students out of that massive pool. Not trying to be mean, but do you realize that over 25% of the Indian population is illiterate? Multinational companies are hiring from China & India because they can get them to work for a fraction of Americans with the same qualifications. Abuse of the H-1B Visa system is absolutely rampant. There are actually people who conduct seminars teaching companies how to cheat the H-1B Visa rules. This is what is discouraging American students from going into STEM, not religion. Why work hard to get a STEM degree if they're just going to give my job to someone from another country?
Its actually well documented that there was widespread (not global) fllooding at the end of the glaciation period. Of course the mythology differs from this, but its still based on real events
There is a kind of sudden flood called a “jökulhlaup”, caused by glacial melting. A lake of water forms behind an ice dam. And due to a quirk of physics, solid water (ice) is less dense than liquid water. So the ice dam is dislodged from its moorings, suddenly letting loose a massive deluge that can cover a wide area (like hundreds of square kilometres) in just a few hours or days. Note that there is no rain involved, not even for “forty days and forty nights”. There is this amazing place called the Scablands, in 🇺🇸 Washington State. There is evidence there of this sort of flooding happening, not once, but dozens or even hundreds of times, over hundreds of thousands of years.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Nobody is trying to claim that floodings aren't real bruh But people actually believe there was a god created flood with water covering *mountains* and the entire planet
I nearly got fired from a job in Utah because people were talking about how "They found Noah's arc" and my question was, "how did a 300 year old man build a boat big enough to hold ten MILLION animals and their food?" NONE of the people who attacked me for the question got into trouble, but I did for simply asking it and "starting a fight"
Science can't answer everything but will continue to investigate and study until answers are forthcoming. You are correct, religion answers nothing, it only makes me ask more questions.
@@richardk.3140 "This guy looks weird kinda like who I been warned against..." You mean, like grown up men wearing long dresses, cloaks and pointy hats? Priests?
@@apokalypse7777 "God is a woman look at it nigga" you actually just typed that on purpose. Tell me what state you live in so I can never go there in my entire life
@@proculusjulius7035 no, I don't want to sin. I just dont want to be wrong. Why believe a contradictory book filled with incorrect information when I can learn about science, which I can research myself if I want to see it with my own eyes and make sure its correct.
I mean the oceans are the dominant water on the planet but I still got your point. Yes if there was a flood all water except for in aquifers and the light would likely all be saltwater
My 3 science teachers in junior high and high school were like this guy. Intelligent and articulated. I learned so much from them. I love science today largely because of them.
Same here.. I was lucky to have passionate science/biology teachers as well. Got me interested in why things are the way they are and I’m still searching for the answers to everything.. obviously won’t find them all but it’s all about the journey.. looking for the answers is half the fun. Don’t ever stop looking.
@@fredarroyo7429 way to completely contradict yourself in two sentences. Should have said " I love science when I can cherry pick things and shoehorn them into my creationist believes" You’re welcome. I win.. goodbye
"In those articles, he thinks the earth was only 6,000 years old simply because the bible said so" Did you know that Spider-Man was an actual local superhero that was genetically mutated after being bitten by a radioactive spider and gained powers as a result such as shooting webs out his wrist and climbing up skyscrapers, and used these powers to fight evil and save innocents in 1960's New York City? We have no archeology or physical evidence to support this, but it was written in a book and something I definitely believe, so, therefore, it must be true.
@@atrocity2606 I wasn't aware that the humourous analogy needed or demanded your approval grade, nor do I remember asking whether you were a fellow "Atheist/skeptic", nor do I really give a damn, but either way, it doesn't make the logic of the average theist and their argument (which is to the level of the example I posted 10 months ago) for their fairy tale beliefs any less absurd.
We are a minuscule planet in an average galaxy. One galaxy of billions. Yet, we think we have the creation of the universe all figured out. God did it. How arrogant human beings are to think we know it all. If there is or was a creator or creators, we'll never know. Carl Sagan said it best: "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
It's pity that people with amazing skills and potentials such as yours have to waste their time to disprove things which are widely know to be false everywhere else in the world. But in a situation such as yours, your work is extremely valuable!
To be fair Muslims have 1.5 billion people of which about 70 percent (according to gallop) belive in such nonsense as well. There's still much, much work to do.
Yes, I suppose you are right, Ideally Jekyl. :/ It's just mind bending that people still believe in such nonsense. I guess the entire education system has to be redone in order to fix the problem.
I know. I am not saying that his job is useless. It is extremely good work. Just though that it would be good if there were no need for it :). I like Aron Ra a lot. Probably my favourite of all activists in US. His videos actually helped me to go over some irrational fears fuelled by some Christian stuff (I was also raised in such environment).
Moment Of Faith none of these would help Brazil. economic development on the other side wood help a lot. the benefits of education come back in long term. education should be secular. this doesn't mean that there should be no religion. religion however should be practiced in temples and should be something personal. also shouldn't be used as political tool. How do you know if religion is used as political tool? well if it requires you to ignore facts, then you know that the people preaching religion are not honest. there is nothing wrong being religious, but you need to be careful not to be misled and taken advantage of.
This is actually an integral part of the scientific method: dialectical and empirical analysis. We interrogate an idea or theory based on the empirical evidence to determine it's truth
I can't believe the Noah's story is actually treated like a real historical event. It defies common sense, mathematics, logic, reason, engineering, geology, history, meteorology...... I could go on. It's a ludicrous story that's not even fathomable! How could anyone be duped into believing it?
The ark is BS, and much of the story as well... the flood though it turns out, probably was a thing. The younger dryas flood is almost certainly where the ancient world got the flood stories. I mean, the boat, the animals, living for three hundred years or whatever, totally ridiculous, but the flood. That's the part that actually happened, just not the way it's described in the bible.
First time I heard someone argue for Creationism I actually thought it is a joke. You know, kind of like so many other internet memes, like the Jedis trying to get their "religion" considered in a census. I still kinda can't really fathom it. From over here in Europe, it's like watching some documentary about a stone age tribe in the Amazon donning feathered masks and dancing around a fire to appease some ancestor spirits. And that in the country I admired as the pinnacle of technological progress in my youth. It's so surreal.
It’s crazy how me at 13 years old after living a full life in a cult realized Noah’s ark is bs. And then people with facts can’t even bat an eye, simply crazy
Indoctrination is a scary thing. Also sometimes intelligence does interfere with seeing the truth. Am adult mind is less malleable than a teenager (biologically speaking. I consider teens adults as adults don't really act much different) and they have facts to back up strong beliefs. More intelligent minds typically use that to better counter arguments made from someone else. I could actually see a smarter creationist using ad homenim and appeal to authority fallacies in this exact video while ignoring the fact a fallacy doesn't discredit an argument if it still has proper evidence.
@@iami3rian394 their are a lot of different christian cults with differing levels of control over there members, which brings us back to the question of which one the OP grew up with
@@garethbaus5471 *their That's a valid point. I am one of the very, very few it seems, who saw through the BS at an early age. I think I was four when I knew Santa wasn't real, but I KNOW I was 6 when I finally told my mother I was done with CCD. That was two years in the making, and I remember having a talk with her about it when I was five. A four year old seeing through the obvious lies is pretty remarkable, apparently. It's important to point out that my mother taught religion classes at a Catholic school. I remember being very, very, very young when I had to ask her which one we believed in... since they were all equally stupid. Potentially one if the first actual conversations I ever had.
Aaron is incredibly well educated in the subject. Just the amount of real information he is conveying makes me think, why would anyone trade that over a few pages of Creation fable, why????
Although he missed the fact at the end of glaciation period there actually was intense flooding. A lot of myths are just retelling of real events in a way thst doesnt reflect what actuallly happened
AronRa, I am in awe. You are a modern "Renaissance Man". I love and admire the breadth and depth of your knowledge and the way you connect it all together. Thank you so much for everything you do.
This turned me atheist. I was fundamentalist Christian. I was left so shocked I started researching how else the bible was a lie. Spoiler alert: All of it is a lie. I was left in a daze for a few weeks, took me almost a month to snap out of it. Never going back. Thank you for teaching me actual science. I needed this.
Doesn't it feel good now though? You now have controll of you own thoughts. Stoeies like yours gives the human race hope. Ty for sharing your experience.
@@GeklmintendontofAwesome Ah, the no true Scotsman fallacy. I don't expect you to deprogram many atheists or non-believers with that kind of faulty reasoning.
@@GeklmintendontofAwesome Yes, but that concerns only those who've fallen away. Those who've yet or potentially will never fall away are still, according to the exact definition, Christian.
Where else did you research cause I’d also like to research more. I’m no longer a Christian but I remember a time when I was and when I used to go to church and teach and minister. But I’m so glad I actually found out I was lied to
Likes Heavy Metal - Check Is Atheist - Check Knows his science - Check Promotes it endlessly - Check Has kickass family (micro-Ra is going to be bad ass!!!) - Check You surprise me at every video. You are well educated, well spoken, well researched, and stay on focus. Keep doing what you are doing. It is obviously making waves - and not the Noadic type. :)
What keeps running through my mind? This world is an AMAZING place! It’s so exciting to see all this stuff. I’m in awe. To hell with Oprah! This is much more awesome than some moldy old god!
I took meteorology which helped me later when I got into farming. But I do wish I could have also gotten the basics of geology. I was scared off because I still believed “flood geology” DARN YOU WALT BROWN. Well, I’m catching up now.
Even creationists can see the puzzle pieces for Pangea, but figuring out the existence of six pre-Pangea supercontinents, and their plate orientations, required the divine work of scientists.
A-Ra, I appreciate everything you’ve done and do. I hope to acquire the knowledge and curiosity you have to be able to speak to these topics in such a succinct manner.
My mom's explanation of how God supposedly fit all those animals in the arc: "Because God can fit a city in a cup if he wanted to" 😑 do i need to explain how much of a cop out this is?
Tim Webb Unlike those who possess faith in a higher deity, an atheist (in most cases) possesses intellectual honesty and can admit if they do not know something and do not try to put a positive claim on it, if they do not have the evidence for it. The burden of proof lies on you to prove whether there is a god. Saying, "you don't have proof he doesn't exist" is a negative claim. You do not have to disprove something if it hasn't been proved in the first place. And yes, there is definite proof of the Big Bang happening. It is a scientific fact the Big Bang happened, we just do not know how and why. Scientists do not just slap God on it and call it a day. Many are researching intensely, their entire lives to find out that mystery.
Lapis Septo Flufftail Yes I too was told fairy tails about magic but I flunked out of Hogwarts for computer science. I refuse to credit a sky fairy for my exsistantce when such wizzard can't even show up to defend his Holy book when it's being proved wrong.
Thank you for continuing to produce these videos. I am a science teacher and get tired hearing kids interject, Gawd did it. Loving NGSS videos too, I show them in my classroom.
Must be at least the 5th or 6th time I've watched this series. This and Aron's "Systematic Classification of Life", which I must have watched an equal number of times are definitely my joint favourite series of his; that's saying something given his awesome compendium of works. If I ever win the lottery big, he's definitely getting a chunk; not least to help him with the Phylogeny Explorer project!!
@@reeseexplains8935 The argument from mental causation: Premise 1. The causal closure of the universe - all events are caused by events that are of the same type. Premise 2. The irreducibility of consciousness - the mental is subjective and qualitative in type. Premise 3. The causal efficacy of consciousness - mental events cause physical events. Conclusion: Physical events are mental in type - idealism is true. Source for the argument: ruclips.net/video/FuuUJc__KDo/видео.html Btw, idealism leads to a universal consciousness (God) since we are contingent beings.
The knowledge you display is breathtaking. Thank you so much for making these videos. Religiously fueled ignorance needs to be countered wherever it is found.
The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life......
@@poweroftruth9258 I am not trying to be mean or anything by saying this next statement. However despite all of this evidence that says Creation did not happen, you still talk about how there is a God who loves us _so much,_ he sent His only son to die on a cross for our supposed sins (only to be resurrected and lifted to heaven 3 days later, thus nullifying there being any sacrifice), _and_ added the extra benefit of Hell for those who do not hear of Him! Plus, there are more than just this episode that AronRa has made to disprove Noah's Flood. I suggest you look into those, and a channel named DarkMatter2525. Also, another for more biology: Stated Clearly. I know you mean well, and I am glad you seem to be such a nice person as to try to help others. But before doing so, help yourself to some knowledge of the world. Look at what I have shown you, and more, and question anything that comes to mind for truth.
AronRa, your videos are just so awesome. Even though I don't understand a lot of them, I'm able to understand why the earth has to be older than 6000 years old and how evolution really works.
I'm going through this series of videos because I didn't have time to watch them when they were first released and it's amazing how many of them there are representing different fields. I've thought at several points "surely this is the last video, no other field could possibly disprove this even more" but there's always another one. This really is an example of mountains of evidence.
I looked up the Washington floodplains, aka the Scablands. That's amazing to look at. I'm surprised they haven't tried filming more sci-fi shows/movies in that environment, because it really looks like nothing else.
Washington State, home of the largest ancient waterfall in the world. Dry Falls. It is estimated that the falls were five times the width of Niagara Falls, with ten times the flow of all the current rivers in the world combined. Interesting history. And then there's the Gingko Petrified Forest.
I would love to watch a TV where people react to the actual continental drifts from our history, but over the course of one month or so. There would be 31 episodes, each detailing 1 day of change and the effects it would have on our weather patterns, tectonics, etc.
The mantra for the believers is "it's too difficult for me to understand so it can't be true", and anyway there is no point discussing with people that declare they will never listen to anything they do not believe in, the only way is to educate their children and give them the opportunity to get out of the vicious loop of lies
Just think how hard it must be to change when your mind on any given subject when anytime you come across something that you don’t understand or can’t explain you can use an all knowing all powerful being like God as a get out of jail card
@Samuel Jesse Jonah and all this time I thought I was named after and grandpa, how little do I know. Hmm so a mythical person made out of clay and mud by a mythical being. Who didn’t know the difference between right and wrong was talked into eat fruit from a certain tree by a talking (yes that’s a TALKING serpent). Then thousands of years later another guy (who no one can either prove or disprove exist’s) allowed himself to be killed for my ‘sins’ even tho I wouldn’t be born for another 2000+years?? Doesn’t that sound a bit absurd?? And if he did die for my sins then why do I need to repent my sins as some guy has already done that for me thousands of years ago. And if his wants me to repent then surly he/she/it should appear to me in person and explain to me why I should take him/she/it seriously and why I should repent my sins?
@Samuel Jesse Jonah wow….. just wow… please tell me your kidding right?? You know that the Big Bang theory and the theory of evolution are two completely different things?? You do know that in science there is nothing better than a theory?? That when scientists say that somethings a theory its been through several levels of peer review tests and is ultimately the best know explanation of what conforms to reality? You also realise that there a lot (and I mean infinity more) evidence for both the Big Bang theory and evolution then there is for most religious claims about a God or gods?
I thought your presentations on Gilgamesh, Ziusudra, Atrahasis, and the historical Shuruppak already pretty well obliterated Noah. Thanks by the way for that video; I have invoked those facts often since watching it. I can't tell you how much I respect your breadth and depth of knowledge...and how much I appreciate your sharing it.
Aron is incredibly intelligent and one of most honest people in breaking down this world flood myth with state of the art geology. Unbelievably educated and informative
"billions of dead things buried under rock layers laid down by water" Mr Ra you have reminded me of the song Ken Ham uses in his propaganda that contains this and my brain hurts now. ...fortunately there's a lot more of you talking through this series with your soothing voice to help heal my traumatized brain, and I thank you for that.
Aron may be in the top 3 youtubers I'd like to hug. It's this individuality, idiosyncracies, and intrinsically interesting information illustrated intently in informative instances I injoy. Yeah, that's right, injoy. I didn't even bother, just to annoy you :P This has been and remains one of my favourite subs, and what you bring Aron, is what makes youtube so worthwhile. We'd never see that brightness you have, just by being you, we'd never see it all shiny on TV. We'd never get illuminated by someone incandescently intimidating the darkness with which we are surrounded. You do you Aron, I'm just, damn happy people like you are people we get to see and enjoy. Because, fuckin', before youtube, when all we had was TV, we just did not see this sort of detailed deep and third d word content. Yay for youtube, yay for reason, yay for learning, yay for how fortunate we are when we use the internet to learn and to liberate. We've not been using it as best we could in the last little while. We've been wasting the win of the internet's innate third i word.
religion always moves the "goal posts" whenever they need to, to keep the money coming in...because its ALL about money now...it used to be about total power, but now, they just need money.
This series of videos was the thing that led me out of Christianity. I think that this is the perfect thing to show a creationist. Informative and only containing facts and evidence
@@jordancox8294 There's plenty in xtian theology that should cause anyone who's thinking to abandon it. The god of the bible is competent, wicked, petty, insecure and ethnocentric. Yeah, I'm not worshiping any deity who is less moral and has less common sense than I do.
@David Anewman You believe in an incompetent god, talking bushes, human sacrifice, zombies, people living in fishes, a foreskin-loving deity, .... you are not in any position to call anyone a fool. Explain to us what you know about science, and why Aron is wrong. And since you believe in the evil god of the bible: "But I say to you ...whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell." Matthew 5:22
The person or persons who wrote the flood story was completely oblivious of just how vastly huge the earth actually is and obviously had no clue that other races/tribes of people were settled in other parts of the world.
It's disturbing that in some schools teachers have to warn students about how flood never happened. The only thing that doesn't make sense in this video is why Aron has so many buttons on his jacket 8))
@@korosu_oda The flood story? Tell that to 99.9% of christians. Coz we know)) Tho I personally believe it is simply ultra-exaggerated story about local flood of some sort. Which is a common practice even today.
This was amazing to me as I didn't actually realize how many times the continents have shifted around. Also was a good explanation for me as to why Hapgood's ideas about rapid polar shift couldn't happen.
I liked the diagram at the end. All of those fields of science, all those studies, experiments and data proving those theories - all of that is wrong, but this one little book is correct.
I am a licensed professional geologist. I only have a BS but I have published papers. I am a stratigrapher and structural geologist. I actually get out and look at the rocks. I always challenges creationists to actually go out and look at the rocks with me...they never do. Kenorland is the best supercontinent!
14:26 I love it. You've tremendously improved your video quality, good job! Image and audio are both much better than historically. I'm looking forward to the next one!
I just realized thinking back, that Answers In Genesis was my first example of the crankery of apologetics. We had AiG slip into my childhood baptist church. The people presenting it didn't really know much (church was emotion/belief not argument). So they showed their videos and worksheets they put out. It looked like crank science even back then. They loved that line that the Flood accounts for "everything weird the evolutionists say". What a nice blanket statement to attempt to sweep away an entire body of science. I left the religion for other reasons (it's not even internally consistent within their own made up rules). But I think the tingling I got when they actually dipped their toes into "science\arguments" was my first taste of how anti-science they really are. Even the most basic understanding of other sciences made them sound like the frauds they are.
I love that chart at 18:25. It barely scratches the surface of the problems with the Genesis myth. My question for YEC is " _If what you say is true, how does a light switch work_ ?"
Can't creationists test their theory that all the layers where formed at once by taking samples from each layer and test to see if they settle in the same order?
Mr Ra I really appreciate your solid science. I wish Graham Hancock would look at this as he constantly says there must have been a world flood because so many cultures have stories about it.
He's Aron not Aaron. If i remember correctly he said in an old video that it's actually a completely different name with a different origin from Aaron. Regardless, his videos are brilliant and i hope they keep coming for a long time yet. =)
"If you believe in Noah's flood now, you won't by next week." I didn't believe it when I was 10. By the age of of 8 I looked at the kid's book about the flood in the doctor's office and thought it was a little like the other kids books. Dr Seuss books sounded as plausible to me at the time. Oooooo I need to clean up this house before Mom comes home so I should make a big giant mess first.
I was the same. I saw stories of the bible as stories that you can get a cute little message from, kind of like how the camel got its hump, how the leopard got it's spots, and how the elephant got its trunk.
If God wanted us to believe that He exists, He wouldn't have given us so much evidence and so many methods to refute His existence, while leaving us with a "holey" bible, full of ambiguous stories written by imaginative and/or crazy people.
@@Joshcaldwell24 Oh did he split sky in half, to prove his existence? Tell me why he did all that miracles in nation which didn't have even advanced language in that time? Why he didn't show himself in China which had way more advanced language and even means to preserve that language on paper?
@@tgstudio85 oh I didn’t know you was referring to a genie that is supposed to do every wish we command? And Israel at the time is where civilization started, they clearly could preserve the text as they clearly have. You can do they why and what if games all day. If that satisfies you while you probably stand by the belief we are a cosmetic freak accident I got some questions for you to see if you actually got legs to stand on. So I’ll start this way, what worldview do you hold that makes more sense of the world we currently live in than Christianity?
@@tgstudio85 the point of my other comment was that God was right in front of them and they killed him. Some people think they want God to come in front of him but have you ever thought it was mercy? Say he appears to you and proves it. Then wants you to go spread the word to where they will likely eat you alive. Would you still do it? This is a hypothetical question, in before you throw another genie like comment
@@fredarroyo7429 It's satire. The creationist only "figuratively" throws the virgin into the volcano. You do know that the Hebrews worshiped a volcano....right?
It scares me that well educated intelligent people are having to waste their time disproving nonsense like a worldwide flood they could be using their time far more constructively. Most of us worked it out before our tenth birthday.
Welcome to 2017 America. We would like to think this stuff were already dismissed as the fairy tale it is. However, God needs money and that is the fuel what keeps the poppycock machine running. Religion is an industry out of nothing, to paraphrase one of its chief critics.
Noah and his family built a 450-foot boat by themselves without any equipment? A flood that covered the world would be at least 29000 feet deep. Where did the water go?
so if god created the earth with the wave of his hand or the power of his word.......WOULDN'T HE BE ABLE TO DESTROY WITH THE WORD OF HIS MOUTH???? I don't see the reason for the flood to destroy everything>>>>
Had to stop and comment 25 seconds in. I stumbled on to Wildwood Claire searching for videos on the geology of the Bay of Fundy and finding a series called "Appalachian Geology". And from there stumbled on to your site and many, many others. Looking forward to this video... OK, back to the show....
Wow! I don't recall ever having a conversation with any Xitians that claimed a "6,000 year old earth". Those young-earth creationist must be in the minority & living in the southern United States or in Utah. 🤔🤨🤔🤨
@@rickharmony2940 they would learn it's utter nonsense. Quite a valuable lesson, considering the child will face many people trying to convince them it happened
Aron, you’re great but the scientific level of this presentation is WAY over the heads of most creationists . The first rule of public speaking is "know your audience." You’re using terms like kinetic energy, entropy, redox conditions, carbonates, conservation of energy, cosmic rays, radioisotope ratios, geochemical equilibrium conditions, runaway greenhouse effect etc. Tough stuff even for educated non-scientists. How can you expect a creationist listener who gets his all his “science” from the bible to have ANY idea what “redox” or “isotope” means? They will just write all your facts off as incomprehensible “scientific gibberish” used as a tool by Satan to confuse true believers and get them to question their faith.
Well, on the one hand, you are right, but on the other hand you have to set the bar a little bit high, so people actually want to grab it. There could be some creationists (or "I'm-undecided"-people) out there who will look up the therms and words they don't understand and therefor will actually begin to learn to think scientifically.
Gage Blackwood They are responsible to educate themselves enough to be able to form an argument no matter what is thrown at them. The fact that you stated they will just write it off is the problem. They write everything off that forces them to do research into their belief, and that’s the issue.
I agree with what you're saying, but the reality is that science is quite complex. Sometimes, there is no way to dumb down the technical jargon to what a layperson can understand without tossing out important, relevant information. That is the true dilemma faced by science. Even if science provides a much more accurate explanation of objective reality verses religion, many people will simply reject it because it is too complicated for them to make sense of. Likewise, even if religious dogma is just a fairy tail, people will be more inclined to go along with it because it is easier to understand.
Well, shame on them. God will be very disappointed in them. He loves abortion. In the bible, which christians never ever read because it inhibits making shit up, Gawd implies, "better to abort a child that might be yours than raise one that might NOT be yours." You notice those god fearing christians never ever quote god on it do you? I'll give you a biblical quote. Numbers 5 14-22. It also allows the ruffian husband to also get rid of a wife he doesn't like permanently. The tabernacle floor has burnt meat & burnt wheat, an excellent stewing ground for botulism & mold.
Since I'm an atheist, wrong on all counts dummy. If the woman is pregnant she & her baby will both die. It still counts as abortion. Because, that is what the priest is trying to perform. You know, there's nothing quite so lovely as seeing a good god fearing creationist lying through his teeth. Next you'll say, "oh, they wouldn't let him do that if she was really pregnant."LOL And the priests were the one leaving the crap around. You need to go back to school & learn to read.
And you agree with abortion? so its ok for someone to terminate a baby because they cant afford it and use the excuse its not fully developed , well a child is not fully developed until they are 18, so should the parent also have the right to kill that child , and the pro abortion people always use the word foetus when in actual fact this word in latin means small baby.. so why cant they say its ok to terminate it as it is only a small baby.. there is so many parents wanting to adopt ..there are no excuses ..
I love seeing AronRa debunking fantasy land. Being intellectually honest means something. Many religious people think it doesn’t mean a dam thing. It’s sad
My grandmother always go angry at me because I questioned a lot of things about religion but because of my questioning I know that humans have been here a lot longer than 6000 years and that was what she believed 🙄
I'm born and raised in Cincinnati calvanist church. Most of us never took it too seriously we had a smoking section😂 I had more exposure to the Cincinnati natural History museum before I started Church so nothing has ever squared with me logically. that's true for most I think. I'll be back to the Tri-County soon I've been in Florida 23yrs. Religion ruins everything & IM DONE❤ I hope I can find/join be a part of your organization up there . I'm going to need it!😂
IF this guy AronRa is not reading, he's the best speaker, very prolific that I've ever seen in my life!! Congrats!! But I think Aron writes the text, then reads when recording the video !! :)
I was thinking the same, as he rarely if never pauses or stuck on any words. He sounds very rehearsed, but has enough inflection that it's not obvious he's reading a script line by line.
@@dollarbill2208 he has bullet points, but he's given these speeches dozens of times, and it's not like he's "remembering" stuff, per se. It's things he knows. Keep in mind, he's been doing this for twenty years. It's amazing to watch though, no doubt.
The problem is how YECs will not change their mind no matter how true evolution is, nor how untrue the flood fable is. The whole thing reads like a fairy tale, the hard part is convincing these people.
We have evidence of the dispersal of humans from around the area of Iran both toward Europe, Siberia, and Southern Asia. This happened around 35 - 45 thousand years ago. Also how does one explain the existence of so many languages (most of the thousands and thousands have been lost over the last 45,000 years)? My personal opinion, God wanted to slow down the technological progress of the human race. What has happened to us over the last 600 years (1400 - 2000 AD), could have happened at Babel 45,000 years ago.
What do you think about the gag order (executive order) placed on scientists recently, concerning the usda? I'm worried it's a very scary sign of what is to come.
Trump actually had nothing to do with that one. It was an internal memo to hold off any public statements or releases until they could see what the new administration would bring. It was redacted a few days later, saying that it really should have been worded better. Apparently this often happens in government science agencies when there's an administration change, so they can see what the new administration is going to do. IMO, they should just report the science as it is, and screw the politicians opinions.
Cookie, the large majority of crazy gun-toting morons are Trump supporters so he's probably safe. I actually worry more about Pence taking over the top spot.
JosephM1750 gun-toting morons? Let's see. the liberal mindset and the status quo of the Democratic Party has been killing people by the tens of thousands every week in other countries on your dime in and. your name. you might not have been the one pulling the trigger but the allowed to continue has got to stop. the vast majority of us gun-toting morons are sick and tired of government in general and it's us that's going to put an end to it so we can get back to the original freedoms and Liberties the founding fathers had originally intended. all men are created equal and we are not the World Police.
All men are created equal ??? Lol thats is the biggest load of crap , I hate that quote . Tell that to someone born with down syndrome or another disability . All people should be treated equally unless they break that trust e.g rape or murder . Sorry if thats not what you meant but I fucking hate that quote
“Computers basically give us the power to look at to back of the book to check the answers before we turn in our homework” - AronRa on computer mapped geology, 2017
It would seem those17th C geologists started the Biblical Flood hypothesis, but most treated it as a hypothesis to be tested by accepted scientific methodology.
Hal Hackett? I went to middle school with that guy! We were both devotees of Ken Ham. He got a degree in geology, I got a degree in physics. And unsurprisingly, we both were forced by our studies to denounce young earth creationism.
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It saddens me that a refutation of the biblical flood is even necessary in the 21st century.
It's infinitely sad. Makes me scared for the future of the human race.
But it really is necessary... A few years ago, I read an article written by a medical doctor and a professor at a very prestigious Korean university arguing the scientific plausibility of the bloody Noah's Ark.
it doesn't help when our elected legislators publically profess a belief in Creationism, and openly attempt to discredit actual science as "just a theory"....
because there is a problem in the public school Science if this has to be taught on RUclips.
which doesn't matter anyway anymore,
The average adult in the States lag behind most developed countries in their fundamental understanding and knowledge in STEM, that there really less incentive for multinational companies to hire from a shrinking pool of qualified applicants in the U.S. when they can hire in places like China that have put tremendous investment in STEM.
-no critical thinking skills to do research and investigation when the answer is "God did it"
-Mining companies hire Geologists, not water dowsers
-pharmaceutical companies hire those with Chemistry, Biochemistry and lab experience, not alchemists and faith healers.
There is a side to this whole anti-Science and dumbing down of the Education system that is seldom discussed and looked into, and that is the Economic impact for career prospects of children growing up in a stilted education system.
Duane, I think you have to understand that people can both accept the science of geology and also sort of believe in Noah's Ark & the Flood. The schools do teach geology.
STEM education in China & India is a bit overrated. Some people have the impression that everybody from those countries is either a scientist or an engineer. That's because the elite few from their vast population comes to the USA to get a STEM degree. Those two nations combined have over 8 times the population of the USA, so it's no surprise that they can find a few good STEM students out of that massive pool. Not trying to be mean, but do you realize that over 25% of the Indian population is illiterate?
Multinational companies are hiring from China & India because they can get them to work for a fraction of Americans with the same qualifications. Abuse of the H-1B Visa system is absolutely rampant. There are actually people who conduct seminars teaching companies how to cheat the H-1B Visa rules. This is what is discouraging American students from going into STEM, not religion. Why work hard to get a STEM degree if they're just going to give my job to someone from another country?
"How reality disproves fantasy"
Nice 👍
I love it……
That line is so good. Thank you.
Its actually well documented that there was widespread (not global) fllooding at the end of the glaciation period. Of course the mythology differs from this, but its still based on real events
There is a kind of sudden flood called a “jökulhlaup”, caused by glacial melting. A lake of water forms behind an ice dam. And due to a quirk of physics, solid water (ice) is less dense than liquid water. So the ice dam is dislodged from its moorings, suddenly letting loose a massive deluge that can cover a wide area (like hundreds of square kilometres) in just a few hours or days.
Note that there is no rain involved, not even for “forty days and forty nights”.
There is this amazing place called the Scablands, in 🇺🇸 Washington State. There is evidence there of this sort of flooding happening, not once, but dozens or even hundreds of times, over hundreds of thousands of years.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104
Nobody is trying to claim that floodings aren't real bruh
But people actually believe there was a god created flood with water covering *mountains* and the entire planet
I nearly got fired from a job in Utah because people were talking about how "They found Noah's arc" and my question was, "how did a 300 year old man build a boat big enough to hold ten MILLION animals and their food?" NONE of the people who attacked me for the question got into trouble, but I did for simply asking it and "starting a fight"
Noah was 600, not 300, years old.
Fuck the stupid idiots.
@@MrHat. yeah because that's a meaningful distinction and totally not missing the point of the anecdote.
@@ohhgeez865 Well of course, nobody in recent time has ever lived long enough to go near 600 for us to see their God-given powers come to play
You should spread this story anonymously.
Let people know that this happens, that they will feel more able to report their own attacks.
Science asks questions that may never be answered; religion preaches answers that may never be questioned.
I believe in science
Science can't answer everything.
Religion can't answer anything.
@@kinglyzard The gaps in science grow ever narrower as we develop new techniques and new technology. The gaps in theism have never narrowed.
@@ktb919_
My point exactly
Science can't answer everything but will continue to investigate and study until answers are forthcoming. You are correct, religion answers nothing, it only makes me ask more questions.
I rewatch this whole mini series regularly and it never gets old
Every few weeks I come back through here and I never regret it
Yep, here I am watching it again.
ruclips.net/video/n2ANUKSF2BE/видео.html
Me too
Unlike the Earth😉
Noah's flood is unbelievable, I'm just here for the geology lesson.
SPOT ON.
Well by reading your comments you didn't get a geology lesson from this.This guy looks weird kinda like who I been warned against...
@@richardk.3140 And who have you been warned against?
@@mobilegamereviewer.1936 He's been warned against logic and science
@@richardk.3140 "This guy looks weird kinda like who I been warned against..." You mean, like grown up men wearing long dresses, cloaks and pointy hats? Priests?
"how thermodynamics disproves Santa Claus"
Yes his sled couldn't possibly carry enough fuel to run all night all around the world 🌎
It would have to be the size of a spaceship.
😂😂😂
@@apokalypse7777 "God is a woman look at it nigga" you actually just typed that on purpose.
Tell me what state you live in so I can never go there in my entire life
@@apokalypse7777 god is also fictional
Aerodynamics disproves the myth of Santa too. Well, at least the part about the flying reindeers.
L DG PROVE IT😇
If there was a flood, wouldn't that have killed off all the fresh water animals when the ocean became the dominant body of water on earth?
You just want to sin 😂
No
@@proculusjulius7035 no, I don't want to sin. I just dont want to be wrong. Why believe a contradictory book filled with incorrect information when I can learn about science, which I can research myself if I want to see it with my own eyes and make sure its correct.
Also likely the salt water dependant animals too as all the supposed rain would have made the resulting water brackish
I mean the oceans are the dominant water on the planet but I still got your point. Yes if there was a flood all water except for in aquifers and the light would likely all be saltwater
My 3 science teachers in junior high and high school were like this guy. Intelligent and articulated. I learned so much from them. I love science today largely because of them.
Articulate* or well articulated*
sorry, I'll show myself out
@@definitelynotcrazyrei3890
You dropped your Grammar Nazi badge!
(LOL! I thought exactly the same thing!)
{:-:-:}
Same here.. I was lucky to have passionate science/biology teachers as well. Got me interested in why things are the way they are and I’m still searching for the answers to everything.. obviously won’t find them all but it’s all about the journey.. looking for the answers is half the fun. Don’t ever stop looking.
Im a Christian and I love science. I hate bad science like unreliable dating methods and the absurd common descent
@@fredarroyo7429 way to completely contradict yourself in two sentences. Should have said " I love science when I can cherry pick things and shoehorn them into my creationist believes" You’re welcome. I win.. goodbye
“...they only last so many tens of millions of years.”
That’s geologic time for you!
millions of years is a myth too.... believed by many, even the consensus, but a myth nonetheless
"In those articles, he thinks the earth was only 6,000 years old simply because the bible said so"
Did you know that Spider-Man was an actual local superhero that was genetically mutated after being bitten by a radioactive spider and gained powers as a result such as shooting webs out his wrist and climbing up skyscrapers, and used these powers to fight evil and save innocents in 1960's New York City? We have no archeology or physical evidence to support this, but it was written in a book and something I definitely believe, so, therefore, it must be true.
You can’t prove that it didn’t happen
I’m an atheist, but that was cringe bro...
@@atrocity2606 I wasn't aware that the humourous analogy needed or demanded your approval grade, nor do I remember asking whether you were a fellow "Atheist/skeptic", nor do I really give a damn, but either way, it doesn't make the logic of the average theist and their argument (which is to the level of the example I posted 10 months ago) for their fairy tale beliefs any less absurd.
Thomas Foster its impossible therefore it didnt happen.
@@manofgod7622 But it's not impossible! It's in a book!
We are a minuscule planet in an average galaxy. One galaxy of billions. Yet, we think we have the creation of the universe all figured out. God did it. How arrogant human beings are to think we know it all. If there is or was a creator or creators, we'll never know. Carl Sagan said it best: "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Actually, I found a god doing it unsatisfying & not at all reassuring. I mean, the joker was a total nut job.
Michael L. Isn’t it the same with religion every creationists thinks they know how the universe was created
Michael i just read that quoted Carl Satan's yesterday. He was a genius. When Cosmos was on back in the day I never missed it
Ha right yet the Bible teaches to be humble they are hypocrites in every way
@RadioTSM {Operator Teddy Timis} autocorrect my guy
It's pity that people with amazing skills and potentials such as yours have to waste their time to disprove things which are widely know to be false everywhere else in the world. But in a situation such as yours, your work is extremely valuable!
To be fair Muslims have 1.5 billion people of which about 70 percent (according to gallop) belive in such nonsense as well. There's still much, much work to do.
Yes, I suppose you are right, Ideally Jekyl. :/ It's just mind bending that people still believe in such nonsense. I guess the entire education system has to be redone in order to fix the problem.
I know. I am not saying that his job is useless. It is extremely good work. Just though that it would be good if there were no need for it :).
I like Aron Ra a lot. Probably my favourite of all activists in US. His videos actually helped me to go over some irrational fears fuelled by some Christian stuff (I was also raised in such environment).
Moment Of Faith yes, man you are totally "not" insane
Moment Of Faith none of these would help Brazil. economic development on the other side wood help a lot. the benefits of education come back in long term. education should be secular. this doesn't mean that there should be no religion. religion however should be practiced in temples and should be something personal. also shouldn't be used as political tool. How do you know if religion is used as political tool? well if it requires you to ignore facts, then you know that the people preaching religion are not honest. there is nothing wrong being religious, but you need to be careful not to be misled and taken advantage of.
This angle of disproving someone else's claims is a fantastic way to learn about science.
This is actually an integral part of the scientific method: dialectical and empirical analysis. We interrogate an idea or theory based on the empirical evidence to determine it's truth
@Robin I hate that your sentence is grammatically both correct and incorrect at the same time..
I can't believe the Noah's story is actually treated like a real historical event. It defies common sense, mathematics, logic, reason, engineering, geology, history, meteorology...... I could go on. It's a ludicrous story that's not even fathomable! How could anyone be duped into believing it?
Simply look at ken ham...he is obsessed with it...look at his "ark park"...
The ark is BS, and much of the story as well... the flood though it turns out, probably was a thing.
The younger dryas flood is almost certainly where the ancient world got the flood stories.
I mean, the boat, the animals, living for three hundred years or whatever, totally ridiculous, but the flood. That's the part that actually happened, just not the way it's described in the bible.
The same reason that organized religion still exists in the first place; childhood indoctrination.
it's history
Childhood indoctrination.
It freaks the shit outta m,e that this video is necessary.
I know, it seems like a joke, but unfortunately it isn't.
First time I heard someone argue for Creationism I actually thought it is a joke. You know, kind of like so many other internet memes, like the Jedis trying to get their "religion" considered in a census. I still kinda can't really fathom it. From over here in Europe, it's like watching some documentary about a stone age tribe in the Amazon donning feathered masks and dancing around a fire to appease some ancestor spirits.
And that in the country I admired as the pinnacle of technological progress in my youth. It's so surreal.
Gravity was needed
Yeah. Sadly, almost the entire US population believes that this global flood happened.
@@averygamerdude7911 Nah, maybe a third. Even this is way to much tbh
It’s crazy how me at 13 years old after living a full life in a cult realized Noah’s ark is bs. And then people with facts can’t even bat an eye, simply crazy
Which cult there’s a few of em
@@wwiacmmvn1542 I'm betting on Christianity.
Indoctrination is a scary thing. Also sometimes intelligence does interfere with seeing the truth. Am adult mind is less malleable than a teenager (biologically speaking. I consider teens adults as adults don't really act much different) and they have facts to back up strong beliefs. More intelligent minds typically use that to better counter arguments made from someone else. I could actually see a smarter creationist using ad homenim and appeal to authority fallacies in this exact video while ignoring the fact a fallacy doesn't discredit an argument if it still has proper evidence.
@@iami3rian394 their are a lot of different christian cults with differing levels of control over there members, which brings us back to the question of which one the OP grew up with
@@garethbaus5471 *their
That's a valid point. I am one of the very, very few it seems, who saw through the BS at an early age.
I think I was four when I knew Santa wasn't real, but I KNOW I was 6 when I finally told my mother I was done with CCD. That was two years in the making, and I remember having a talk with her about it when I was five.
A four year old seeing through the obvious lies is pretty remarkable, apparently. It's important to point out that my mother taught religion classes at a Catholic school.
I remember being very, very, very young when I had to ask her which one we believed in... since they were all equally stupid. Potentially one if the first actual conversations I ever had.
Aaron is incredibly well educated in the subject. Just the amount of real information he is conveying makes me think, why would anyone trade that over a few pages of Creation fable, why????
Although he missed the fact at the end of glaciation period there actually was intense flooding. A lot of myths are just retelling of real events in a way thst doesnt reflect what actuallly happened
@@enterpassword3313 You're trying to tell yourself the book is real.
@@Kometheus no
@@Kometheus by real i assume you mean historical account
The power of science compels you!
You watch too many movies.
Mike Carter The power of ignorance compels you!
my head stopped spinning when science and atheism exorcised me lol.
LOL!
Aron Ramen noodles for brains.
AronRa, I am in awe. You are a modern "Renaissance Man". I love and admire the breadth and depth of your knowledge and the way you connect it all together. Thank you so much for everything you do.
This turned me atheist. I was fundamentalist Christian. I was left so shocked I started researching how else the bible was a lie. Spoiler alert: All of it is a lie. I was left in a daze for a few weeks, took me almost a month to snap out of it. Never going back. Thank you for teaching me actual science. I needed this.
This is very brave of you,,but you are correct,,the Bible is a book merely filled with fairy stories,,warmest regards from England 👏👏👏🇬🇧
Doesn't it feel good now though? You now have controll of you own thoughts. Stoeies like yours gives the human race hope. Ty for sharing your experience.
@@GeklmintendontofAwesome Ah, the no true Scotsman fallacy. I don't expect you to deprogram many atheists or non-believers with that kind of faulty reasoning.
@@GeklmintendontofAwesome
Yes, but that concerns only those who've fallen away. Those who've yet or potentially will never fall away are still, according to the exact definition, Christian.
Where else did you research cause I’d also like to research more. I’m no longer a Christian but I remember a time when I was and when I used to go to church and teach and minister. But I’m so glad I actually found out I was lied to
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Promotes it endlessly - Check
Has kickass family (micro-Ra is going to be bad ass!!!) - Check
You surprise me at every video. You are well educated, well spoken, well researched, and stay on focus.
Keep doing what you are doing. It is obviously making waves - and not the Noadic type. :)
Haha good one.
@@proculusjulius7035 how so?
Creationism sounded like magic when I first heard about it in grade school and it sounds like magic now that I’m 60🤷🏽♂️
What keeps running through my mind? This world is an AMAZING place! It’s so exciting to see all this stuff. I’m in awe. To hell with Oprah! This is much more awesome than some moldy old god!
God dosen't mold...but you will. Ask God to forgive you and seek Jesus while you still can.
@@Warpath1337 I will not ask forgiveness from something that does not exist, for things I have not done.
@@Warpath1337 What a useless, inane and empty threat. The day you can prove any of this, come back and we'll listen. Until then, piss off.
Funny how you don't believe in God, but you send Oprah to hell.
He created you, so you have a very bad opinion about yourself.
I chose to take Geology in college instead of the Astronomy most took. Always been so glad I did😃
Geology is insanely cool 😎
I took meteorology which helped me later when I got into farming. But I do wish I could have also gotten the basics of geology. I was scared off because I still believed “flood geology” DARN YOU WALT BROWN.
Well, I’m catching up now.
I am watching all these videos again. It's a great series.
Grown people with jobs ACTUALLY believe in Noah's Ark! Crazy!
Wanna get really scared?
They vote too!
@@NorthForkFisherman For Trump.
@@bradweir6993 The Horror...the horror
and they have children...
Why on Earth would fundamentalists double down on proving the flood. It’s a perfect early example of how inept God is as a ‘designer’.
Even creationists can see the puzzle pieces for Pangea, but figuring out the existence of six pre-Pangea supercontinents, and their plate orientations, required the divine work of scientists.
A-Ra, I appreciate everything you’ve done and do. I hope to acquire the knowledge and curiosity you have to be able to speak to these topics in such a succinct manner.
My mom's explanation of how God supposedly fit all those animals in the arc: "Because God can fit a city in a cup if he wanted to"
😑 do i need to explain how much of a cop out this is?
Tim Webb
Unlike those who possess faith in a higher deity, an atheist (in most cases) possesses intellectual honesty and can admit if they do not know something and do not try to put a positive claim on it, if they do not have the evidence for it.
The burden of proof lies on you to prove whether there is a god. Saying, "you don't have proof he doesn't exist" is a negative claim. You do not have to disprove something if it hasn't been proved in the first place.
And yes, there is definite proof of the Big Bang happening. It is a scientific fact the Big Bang happened, we just do not know how and why.
Scientists do not just slap God on it and call it a day. Many are researching intensely, their entire lives to find out that mystery.
Lapis Septo Flufftail Yes I too was told fairy tails about magic but I flunked out of Hogwarts for computer science. I refuse to credit a sky fairy for my exsistantce when such wizzard can't even show up to defend his Holy book when it's being proved wrong.
Tim Webb where did he/she say that
Mimu Mi Fuck! I am gonna sue god for being an abusive father.
Mimu Mi XD
Thank you for continuing to produce these videos. I am a science teacher and get tired hearing kids interject, Gawd did it. Loving NGSS videos too, I show them in my classroom.
Must be at least the 5th or 6th time I've watched this series. This and Aron's "Systematic Classification of Life", which I must have watched an equal number of times are definitely my joint favourite series of his; that's saying something given his awesome compendium of works. If I ever win the lottery big, he's definitely getting a chunk; not least to help him with the Phylogeny Explorer project!!
His series on Hovind‘s seminar was also pretty awesome
@@reeseexplains8935 Hello, did you know that God exists?
@@x-popone6817 I am pretty sure god doesn’t exist.
@@reeseexplains8935 The argument from mental causation:
Premise 1. The causal closure of the universe - all events are caused by events that are of the same type.
Premise 2. The irreducibility of consciousness - the mental is subjective and qualitative in type.
Premise 3. The causal efficacy of consciousness - mental events cause physical events.
Conclusion: Physical events are mental in type - idealism is true.
Source for the argument: ruclips.net/video/FuuUJc__KDo/видео.html
Btw, idealism leads to a universal consciousness (God) since we are contingent beings.
@@x-popone6817 no. I'll stick to science and get an accurate understanding of the world.
The knowledge you display is breathtaking. Thank you so much for making these videos. Religiously fueled ignorance needs to be countered wherever it is found.
an ad for tresemme played before this... with your locks they should just sponsor you ♡
The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life......
@@poweroftruth9258 Why do you preach despite being wrong
How am I wrong though
@@ZealousWins how am I wrong
@@poweroftruth9258 I am not trying to be mean or anything by saying this next statement. However despite all of this evidence that says Creation did not happen, you still talk about how there is a God who loves us _so much,_ he sent His only son to die on a cross for our supposed sins (only to be resurrected and lifted to heaven 3 days later, thus nullifying there being any sacrifice), _and_ added the extra benefit of Hell for those who do not hear of Him! Plus, there are more than just this episode that AronRa has made to disprove Noah's Flood. I suggest you look into those, and a channel named DarkMatter2525. Also, another for more biology: Stated Clearly.
I know you mean well, and I am glad you seem to be such a nice person as to try to help others. But before doing so, help yourself to some knowledge of the world. Look at what I have shown you, and more, and question anything that comes to mind for truth.
AronRa, your videos are just so awesome. Even though I don't understand a lot of them, I'm able to understand why the earth has to be older than 6000 years old and how evolution really works.
I'm going through this series of videos because I didn't have time to watch them when they were first released and it's amazing how many of them there are representing different fields. I've thought at several points "surely this is the last video, no other field could possibly disprove this even more" but there's always another one. This really is an example of mountains of evidence.
I looked up the Washington floodplains, aka the Scablands. That's amazing to look at. I'm surprised they haven't tried filming more sci-fi shows/movies in that environment, because it really looks like nothing else.
Washington State, home of the largest ancient waterfall in the world. Dry Falls. It is estimated that the falls were five times the width of Niagara Falls, with ten times the flow of all the current rivers in the world combined. Interesting history. And then there's the Gingko Petrified Forest.
As a Canadian who’s been to Niagara, just thinking about a waterfall of that size is astounding would be a hell of a sight to behold.
Phil leprechaun, I live in eastern WA, not far from Palouse Falls. I've been to Dry Falls and Vantage(Ginkgo Petrified Forest).
THAT Guy, all of these sites are very near my home in Dayton, WA. A pretty spectacular place to call home!
The whole "Noah" fable is just that...A fable. Only someone really stupid would buy into it.
I would love to watch a TV where people react to the actual continental drifts from our history, but over the course of one month or so. There would be 31 episodes, each detailing 1 day of change and the effects it would have on our weather patterns, tectonics, etc.
The mantra for the believers is "it's too difficult for me to understand so it can't be true", and anyway there is no point discussing with people that declare they will never listen to anything they do not believe in, the only way is to educate their children and give them the opportunity to get out of the vicious loop of lies
Just think how hard it must be to change when your mind on any given subject when anytime you come across something that you don’t understand or can’t explain you can use an all knowing all powerful being like God as a get out of jail card
@Samuel Jesse Jonah and all this time I thought I was named after and grandpa, how little do I know.
Hmm so a mythical person made out of clay and mud by a mythical being. Who didn’t know the difference between right and wrong was talked into eat fruit from a certain tree by a talking (yes that’s a TALKING serpent). Then thousands of years later another guy (who no one can either prove or disprove exist’s) allowed himself to be killed for my ‘sins’ even tho I wouldn’t be born for another 2000+years?? Doesn’t that sound a bit absurd?? And if he did die for my sins then why do I need to repent my sins as some guy has already done that for me thousands of years ago. And if his wants me to repent then surly he/she/it should appear to me in person and explain to me why I should take him/she/it seriously and why I should repent my sins?
@Samuel Jesse Jonah wow….. just wow… please tell me your kidding right??
You know that the Big Bang theory and the theory of evolution are two completely different things??
You do know that in science there is nothing better than a theory?? That when scientists say that somethings a theory its been through several levels of peer review tests and is ultimately the best know explanation of what conforms to reality?
You also realise that there a lot (and I mean infinity more) evidence for both the Big Bang theory and evolution then there is for most religious claims about a God or gods?
I thought your presentations on Gilgamesh, Ziusudra, Atrahasis, and the historical Shuruppak already pretty well obliterated Noah. Thanks by the way for that video; I have invoked those facts often since watching it. I can't tell you how much I respect your breadth and depth of knowledge...and how much I appreciate your sharing it.
Aron is incredibly intelligent and one of most honest people in breaking down this world flood myth with state of the art geology. Unbelievably educated and informative
Amazing series, Aron Ra. Thanks for disproving the flood .
He didn't disprove anything
@@davidbarnes1563 I suppose it is hard to disprove something that never happened
@@stephenhill8790 👍👏
"billions of dead things buried under rock layers laid down by water"
Mr Ra you have reminded me of the song Ken Ham uses in his propaganda that contains this and my brain hurts now. ...fortunately there's a lot more of you talking through this series with your soothing voice to help heal my traumatized brain, and I thank you for that.
Aron may be in the top 3 youtubers I'd like to hug. It's this individuality, idiosyncracies, and intrinsically interesting information illustrated intently in informative instances I injoy. Yeah, that's right, injoy. I didn't even bother, just to annoy you :P This has been and remains one of my favourite subs, and what you bring Aron, is what makes youtube so worthwhile. We'd never see that brightness you have, just by being you, we'd never see it all shiny on TV. We'd never get illuminated by someone incandescently intimidating the darkness with which we are surrounded.
You do you Aron, I'm just, damn happy people like you are people we get to see and enjoy. Because, fuckin', before youtube, when all we had was TV, we just did not see this sort of detailed deep and third d word content.
Yay for youtube, yay for reason, yay for learning, yay for how fortunate we are when we use the internet to learn and to liberate. We've not been using it as best we could in the last little while. We've been wasting the win of the internet's innate third i word.
religion always moves the "goal posts" whenever they need to, to keep the money coming in...because its ALL about money now...it used to be about total power, but now, they just need money.
Great video Aron. Big thanks to the people that contributed as well. Thanks!
This series of videos was the thing that led me out of Christianity. I think that this is the perfect thing to show a creationist. Informative and only containing facts and evidence
ShaneHart 02 I’m happy for you, Shane. 🙂
This shouldn't have led you out of Christianity but out of young Earth creationism.
@@jordancox8294 There's plenty in xtian theology that should cause anyone who's thinking to abandon it. The god of the bible is competent, wicked, petty, insecure and ethnocentric.
Yeah, I'm not worshiping any deity who is less moral and has less common sense than I do.
@David Anewman You believe in an incompetent god, talking bushes, human sacrifice, zombies, people living in fishes, a foreskin-loving deity, .... you are not in any position to call anyone a fool.
Explain to us what you know about science, and why Aron is wrong.
And since you believe in the evil god of the bible:
"But I say to you ...whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell."
Matthew 5:22
@David Anewman
Source please.
The person or persons who wrote the flood story was completely oblivious of just how vastly huge the earth actually is and obviously had no clue that other races/tribes of people were settled in other parts of the world.
I never thought I'd see a video of thick Vlad Tepes teaching geology. What a time to be alive.
It's disturbing that in some schools teachers have to warn students about how flood never happened.
The only thing that doesn't make sense in this video is why Aron has so many buttons on his jacket 8))
it was never suppose to be literal
@@korosu_oda The flood story? Tell that to 99.9% of christians. Coz we know))
Tho I personally believe it is simply ultra-exaggerated story about local flood of some sort. Which is a common practice even today.
This was amazing to me as I didn't actually realize how many times the continents have shifted around. Also was a good explanation for me as to why Hapgood's ideas about rapid polar shift couldn't happen.
Now that we are going to have a YEC in charge of education, videos like this are needed more than ever.
I liked the diagram at the end. All of those fields of science, all those studies, experiments and data proving those theories - all of that is wrong, but this one little book is correct.
I am a licensed professional geologist. I only have a BS but I have published papers. I am a stratigrapher and structural geologist. I actually get out and look at the rocks. I always challenges creationists to actually go out and look at the rocks with me...they never do.
Kenorland is the best supercontinent!
You could not be more wrong about your worldview. Rodinia is the best supercontinent...
No! It's Kenorland! Because. Reasons.
Ur is the best
Tim Webb he’s dead, he can’t go out with him.
And you’d better be a Catholic too.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Steno
Tim Webb what age are the strata?
www.google.ie/amp/s/www.yellowstonepark.com/.amp/things-to-do/yellowstones-petrified-forest
14:26 I love it.
You've tremendously improved your video quality, good job! Image and audio are both much better than historically. I'm looking forward to the next one!
I just realized thinking back, that Answers In Genesis was my first example of the crankery of apologetics. We had AiG slip into my childhood baptist church. The people presenting it didn't really know much (church was emotion/belief not argument). So they showed their videos and worksheets they put out. It looked like crank science even back then.
They loved that line that the Flood accounts for "everything weird the evolutionists say". What a nice blanket statement to attempt to sweep away an entire body of science. I left the religion for other reasons (it's not even internally consistent within their own made up rules). But I think the tingling I got when they actually dipped their toes into "science\arguments" was my first taste of how anti-science they really are. Even the most basic understanding of other sciences made them sound like the frauds they are.
I've been asking for years to YEC how they explain diferent coral reefs in the geollogical récord, and the answer I always find is a deep silence.
I love that chart at 18:25. It barely scratches the surface of the problems with the Genesis myth. My question for YEC is " _If what you say is true, how does a light switch work_ ?"
Um, gawd dun dood it?
Can't creationists test their theory that all the layers where formed at once by taking samples from each layer and test to see if they settle in the same order?
Why would they;) They know exactly that their experiment will fail, so they pretend no one didn't do that kind of experiment;)
*hypothesis
We need to stop using the term theory incorrectly
Mr Ra I really appreciate your solid science. I wish Graham Hancock would look at this as he constantly says there must have been a world flood because so many cultures have stories about it.
Christopher M Agreed. "There must have been a world flood because so many cultures" developed on the fertile flood plains of large rivers. Nuff said.
He looks like Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas. He is incredibly smart, I am humbled by his intelligence. I hope to get to his level of intellect.
Brilliant videos. Aron.
Please keep up the good work. 😉👌
He's Aron not Aaron. If i remember correctly he said in an old video that it's actually a completely different name with a different origin from Aaron.
Regardless, his videos are brilliant and i hope they keep coming for a long time yet. =)
Othelbark
Yes. You are absolutely right.
I should've noticed the auto correct of my spell checker misspelling his name.
I fixed it now. Thanks. 👌
he has commented that people routinely mispronouce his name... in one vid, he says it's "it's pronounced 'R-N", like a nurse...."
John Thimakis
Not brilliant, but feelings and hypotheses! No substantial hardcore facts...
built4speed101
Actually everything he mentioned were facts.
They were a summary, not a detailed account.
"If you believe in Noah's flood now, you won't by next week." I didn't believe it when I was 10. By the age of of 8 I looked at the kid's book about the flood in the doctor's office and thought it was a little like the other kids books. Dr Seuss books sounded as plausible to me at the time. Oooooo I need to clean up this house before Mom comes home so I should make a big giant mess first.
I was the same. I saw stories of the bible as stories that you can get a cute little message from, kind of like how the camel got its hump, how the leopard got it's spots, and how the elephant got its trunk.
When I sought answers from Genesis I sent an email to Phil Collins.
Probably got one more to the point and more entertaining than from Hamm.
Were you able to get something to happen on the way to heaven.
Haven't anything from Wildwoodclaire in ages. I miss her informative videos and her witty style.
If God wanted us to believe that He exists, He wouldn't have given us so much evidence and so many methods to refute His existence, while leaving us with a "holey" bible, full of ambiguous stories written by imaginative and/or crazy people.
@Seymour Skinner that didn’t seem to work when Jesus was right in front of them. They killed him instead.
@@Joshcaldwell24 Oh did he split sky in half, to prove his existence? Tell me why he did all that miracles in nation which didn't have even advanced language in that time? Why he didn't show himself in China which had way more advanced language and even means to preserve that language on paper?
@@tgstudio85 oh I didn’t know you was referring to a genie that is supposed to do every wish we command? And Israel at the time is where civilization started, they clearly could preserve the text as they clearly have. You can do they why and what if games all day. If that satisfies you while you probably stand by the belief we are a cosmetic freak accident I got some questions for you to see if you actually got legs to stand on. So I’ll start this way, what worldview do you hold that makes more sense of the world we currently live in than Christianity?
@@tgstudio85 the point of my other comment was that God was right in front of them and they killed him. Some people think they want God to come in front of him but have you ever thought it was mercy? Say he appears to you and proves it. Then wants you to go spread the word to where they will likely eat you alive. Would you still do it? This is a hypothetical question, in before you throw another genie like comment
Exactly.
The difference between a geologist and a creationist is: the geologist studies volcano, the creationist throws a virgin into one.
@@lucasbttger9988 : One of the fundamental tenants of religion is, you're not responsible for your actions. God's plan, and all that.
Strawman
@@fredarroyo7429 It's satire. The creationist only "figuratively" throws the virgin into the volcano. You do know that the Hebrews worshiped a volcano....right?
Thank you Aron another wonderful and enlightening series. Good work.
It scares me that well educated intelligent people are having to waste their time disproving nonsense like a worldwide flood they could be using their time far more constructively. Most of us worked it out before our tenth birthday.
Welcome to 2017 America. We would like to think this stuff were already dismissed as the fairy tale it is. However, God needs money and that is the fuel what keeps the poppycock machine running. Religion is an industry out of nothing, to paraphrase one of its chief critics.
Noah and his family built a 450-foot boat by themselves without any equipment? A flood that covered the world would be at least 29000 feet deep. Where did the water go?
And how did they survive after as all plants and insects would have died. The whole planet was salted!
It fell off the flat earth /sarcasm 😂
so if god created the earth with the wave of his hand or the power of his word.......WOULDN'T HE BE ABLE TO DESTROY WITH THE WORD OF HIS MOUTH???? I don't see the reason for the flood to destroy everything>>>>
read the story and find out why
Had to stop and comment 25 seconds in. I stumbled on to Wildwood Claire searching for videos on the geology of the Bay of Fundy and finding a series called "Appalachian Geology". And from there stumbled on to your site and many, many others. Looking forward to this video... OK, back to the show....
If the earth was 6000 years old why did god leave us evidence that points to the earth being far older?
The devil did it! -christians
Wow! I don't recall ever having a conversation with any Xitians that claimed a "6,000 year old earth". Those young-earth creationist must be in the minority & living in the southern United States or in Utah. 🤔🤨🤔🤨
John Martinez ive also seen “so god can test our faith” lmao no he isn’t
YOUR VIDEOS ARE MINDBLOWINGLY AMAZING AND SHOULD BE SHOWN IN ALL !!! REPEAT ... ALL SCHOOLS AROUND OUR EARTH!!!!
Why the hell would I want my child to learn about the flood fable?
@@rickharmony2940 what?
@@rickharmony2940 they would learn it's utter nonsense. Quite a valuable lesson, considering the child will face many people trying to convince them it happened
Aron, you’re great but the scientific level of this presentation is WAY over the heads of most creationists . The first rule of public speaking is "know your audience." You’re using terms like kinetic energy, entropy, redox conditions, carbonates, conservation of energy, cosmic rays, radioisotope ratios, geochemical equilibrium conditions, runaway greenhouse effect etc. Tough stuff even for educated non-scientists. How can you expect a creationist listener who gets his all his “science” from the bible to have ANY idea what “redox” or “isotope” means? They will just write all your facts off as incomprehensible “scientific gibberish” used as a tool by Satan to confuse true believers and get them to question their faith.
Well, on the one hand, you are right, but on the other hand you have to set the bar a little bit high, so people actually want to grab it.
There could be some creationists (or "I'm-undecided"-people) out there who will look up the therms and words they don't understand and therefor will actually begin to learn to think scientifically.
Gage Blackwood obviously the dumb ignorant Christian polemics will throw some of the dumbest excuses against this video.
Because CHRISTIANS ARE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING, Y PESTIS IS A MYTH, DEMONS CAUSED THE BLACK DEATH, DEMONS!!!!!!!!.
sorry, I've had a long day.
Gage Blackwood They are responsible to educate themselves enough to be able to form an argument no matter what is thrown at them. The fact that you stated they will just write it off is the problem. They write everything off that forces them to do research into their belief, and that’s the issue.
I agree with what you're saying, but the reality is that science is quite complex. Sometimes, there is no way to dumb down the technical jargon to what a layperson can understand without tossing out important, relevant information. That is the true dilemma faced by science. Even if science provides a much more accurate explanation of objective reality verses religion, many people will simply reject it because it is too complicated for them to make sense of. Likewise, even if religious dogma is just a fairy tail, people will be more inclined to go along with it because it is easier to understand.
What's sad is because today a boy in my math class is missing school tomorrow because his church is going to Washington D.C. To protest abortion.
People are entitled to their own opinions on morality. They're not entitled to their own facts about nature, however.
Well, shame on them. God will be very disappointed in them. He loves abortion. In the bible, which christians never ever read because it inhibits making shit up, Gawd implies, "better to abort a child that might be yours than raise one that might NOT be yours."
You notice those god fearing christians never ever quote god on it do you? I'll give you a biblical quote. Numbers 5 14-22. It also allows the ruffian husband to also get rid of a wife he doesn't like permanently. The tabernacle floor has burnt meat & burnt wheat, an excellent stewing ground for botulism & mold.
Since I'm an atheist, wrong on all counts dummy. If the woman is pregnant she & her baby will both die.
It still counts as abortion. Because, that is what the priest is trying to perform. You know, there's nothing quite so lovely as seeing a good god fearing creationist lying through his teeth.
Next you'll say, "oh, they wouldn't let him do that if she was really pregnant."LOL And the priests were the one leaving the crap around. You need to go back to school & learn to read.
Coming from a troll, that's rich.
And you agree with abortion? so its ok for someone to terminate a baby because they cant afford it and use the excuse its not fully developed , well a child is not fully developed until they are 18, so should the parent also have the right to kill that child , and the pro abortion people always use the word foetus when in actual fact this word in latin means small baby.. so why cant they say its ok to terminate it as it is only a small baby.. there is so many parents wanting to adopt ..there are no excuses ..
I love seeing AronRa debunking fantasy land. Being intellectually honest means something. Many religious people think it doesn’t mean a dam thing. It’s sad
My grandmother always go angry at me because I questioned a lot of things about religion but because of my questioning I know that humans have been here a lot longer than 6000 years and that was what she believed 🙄
If evidence can be based on the bible, it can be based on a youtube comment section as well. Try to think about that possibility and not be terrified.
I don't understand why you don't have, at least, a million subscribers.
It is great to see this series again!
I've watched this series 10 times, now. Just so clear and definitive. I have always been an atheist. Now I'm an anti-theist. Atta go Satanist.
I'm born and raised in Cincinnati calvanist church. Most of us never took it too seriously we had a smoking section😂 I had more exposure to the Cincinnati natural History museum before I started Church so nothing has ever squared with me logically. that's true for most I think. I'll be back to the Tri-County soon I've been in Florida 23yrs. Religion ruins everything & IM DONE❤ I hope I can find/join be a part of your organization up there . I'm going to need it!😂
it's funny that there's a Prager University ad on an aronra video
IF this guy AronRa is not reading, he's the best speaker, very prolific that I've ever seen in my life!! Congrats!! But I think Aron writes the text, then reads when recording the video !! :)
I was thinking the same, as he rarely if never pauses or stuck on any words. He sounds very rehearsed, but has enough inflection that it's not obvious he's reading a script line by line.
@@dollarbill2208 he has bullet points, but he's given these speeches dozens of times, and it's not like he's "remembering" stuff, per se. It's things he knows.
Keep in mind, he's been doing this for twenty years. It's amazing to watch though, no doubt.
Aron Radically seems like a hugable guy
how can you disprove something that has no proof to begin with?
Gino Foogle
You can.
Want Scientific proof.. Watch Trey Smith .. Noah the truth is bigger than you think
The problem is how YECs will not change their mind no matter how true evolution is, nor how untrue the flood fable is.
The whole thing reads like a fairy tale, the hard part is convincing these people.
@Suraj Nair
He can't.
@@glenshort5210 there never was a noah. Ever
AronRa is a genuinely ingenious mind 😊❤🎉 He deserves to be prized with a billion subscriptions ❤
noah's flood is absolutely a myth the one part of Genesis that made me say, "that's bullshit!!!!!!" was the tower of Babel
Lmfao!
"At the beginning God created.. "was enough for me to know it was all b.s.
One day you will see
We have evidence of the dispersal of humans from around the area of Iran both toward Europe, Siberia, and Southern Asia. This happened around 35 - 45 thousand years ago. Also how does one explain the existence of so many languages (most of the thousands and thousands have been lost over the last 45,000 years)? My personal opinion, God wanted to slow down the technological progress of the human race. What has happened to us over the last 600 years (1400 - 2000 AD), could have happened at Babel 45,000 years ago.
@@johniec5282 okay so you are atheist because you want to not because of reason
Your educational videos like this are awesome, thank you!
What do you think about the gag order (executive order) placed on scientists recently, concerning the usda? I'm worried it's a very scary sign of what is to come.
Trump actually had nothing to do with that one. It was an internal memo to hold off any public statements or releases until they could see what the new administration would bring. It was redacted a few days later, saying that it really should have been worded better.
Apparently this often happens in government science agencies when there's an administration change, so they can see what the new administration is going to do. IMO, they should just report the science as it is, and screw the politicians opinions.
Cookie, the large majority of crazy gun-toting morons are Trump supporters so he's probably safe. I actually worry more about Pence taking over the top spot.
JosephM1750 gun-toting morons? Let's see. the liberal mindset and the status quo of the Democratic Party has been killing people by the tens of thousands every week in other countries on your dime in and. your name. you might not have been the one pulling the trigger but the allowed to continue has got to stop. the vast majority of us gun-toting morons are sick and tired of government in general and it's us that's going to put an end to it so we can get back to the original freedoms and Liberties the founding fathers had originally intended. all men are created equal and we are not the World Police.
All men are created equal ???
Lol thats is the biggest load of crap , I hate that quote . Tell that to someone born with down syndrome or another disability . All people should be treated equally unless they break that trust e.g rape or murder . Sorry if thats not what you meant but I fucking hate that quote
mark reynolds of course I meant all men should be treated equally.
Long live Aron Ra for speaking truth and fighting falsehood.
THIS is a PERFECT source of ACTUAL PROPER EDUCATION!!
“Computers basically give us the power to look at to back of the book to check the answers before we turn in our homework”
- AronRa on computer mapped geology, 2017
Where did Noah get all that wood to have built a boat the size of an aircraft carrier?
It would seem those17th C geologists started the Biblical Flood hypothesis, but most treated it as a hypothesis to be tested by accepted scientific methodology.
I love having those kooky creationists as the prompt to learn more about science 🍿