Five MORE Reasons Young Earth Creationism is Impossible
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- This is just a little video to remind folks of some of my favorite damning issues for Young Earth Creationism (and in some cases, Old Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design).
This will be a review for long time viewers of the channel, as we cover some "greatest hits" of precautionary data to some pseudoscience. It's a quick vid this week (only around 50 minutes).
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I grew up wanting to be a scientist but had religious parents that home schooled me and would sharpie-out information in my science textbooks that didn’t match their YEC beliefs. It made it incredibly hard to know fact from fiction. I really appreciate your videos and all the work you do debunking the bs 🤘🏽♥️
That sounds like a good way to make the sharpied information much more interesting.
It's child abuse, plain and simple. I would have no problem with YECcers if they didn't insist on brainwashing their (and everyone else's) kids this way.
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Hopefully you do get to be a scientist, if you so choose
^This all day, Erika. I had a barebones Georgia public school education, but I luckily had awesome parents that fed my curiosity in biology. Your videos have taught me a lot, and are even more important to others. Keep it up.
The commonality and overlap between creationists or what could be termed "human excepitonalists" and the "American exceptionalist" movement is pretty obvious, and pretty easy to figure out the reason for. People with certain egos, namely ones who believe themselves innately superior, really don't like it when they're given proof that they aren't. Thank you, Erica, for continuing to pop their balloons.
My husband worked in the dendrochronology lab at the U of AZ in the 80s as a research assistant. Very interesting subject. For the times I debated YEC, I found bringing up physics or chemistry usually ended the conversation with most people. They don't have the background to understand the issues.
They don't have the background or understanding of ANY of the issues.
The number of times I have said “in order to understand how wrong you are, you’d need an education” is concerning regarding YEC topics
@@Mostlyharmless1985 It's not even a need for a "formal education" either, they simply need the desire to learn. As part of the indoctrination process exploration of free and critical thought is suppressed and they're made to believe that any time an explanation isn't simple it's an attempt to confuse them. That's why their ideas about complex topics are always so reductive i.e. The Big Bang is "how can an explosion make something?" Evolution is "If I'm descended from a monkey why are their still monkeys?" Creation is "well how do you know, were you there?"
@@douglasboyle6544 my personal favorite stupid is Kent Hovind "we came from a rock" strawman
@@mwperk02 indeed he didn't like when told he believes Adam came from a rock and eve was a transgender clone of Adam.
YEC's: All nature reveals God's existence and the accuracy of the Bible
Nature: Yeah no
YEC’s: Did we say nature? We meant to say, God’s magic does all the impossible stuff.
Isn't the mythical, invisible Sky wizard clever. Spending all his time ensuring that humans lives are as miserable as possible.
@@terenceingledew1442 The issue of evil is tough. One has to be committed to God to not be swayed by it. Especially people who are more thoughtful about these issues. Then its all or nothing. You have to start with God as your first principle, then fight to make sense of any seeming absurdity that apparently follows from that first principle. But, that don't follow necessarily.
@@ChessArmyCommander YEC protocol:
Step 1: Assume God.
Step 2: Deny everything that discredits the already shaky Bible.
@@Ferretic "If it doesn't fit our model, then physics is wrong." - YEC's
I was told as a child that if the Bible has one error in it, the whole thing falls apart.
I found out about its erroneous assertions of creation and a global flood by age thirteen and said so be it.
While I'm no longer a Christian, I have so much more respect for the Christians who admit their holy book is flawed and who find, and then live out, the beauty they find in it anyway, as opposed to the Evangelicals who base their faith on the house of cards that is *Biblical Inerrancy*.
@EC Welling Only one. Ishmael was the only spn of Abraham, not Isaac.
@EC Welling You should familiarize yourself with the explanations that exist.
@EC Welling Yes, they did. I found it with an easy search.
@EC Welling Springer had Luke and Mathew on before he went off the air. They talked at length about the whole thing.
I always love how they try to use science to refute science.
Yes. This needs to a central point of any rebuttal of their conspiracy theory, delusional BS.
To start I would challenge the flagrant duplicitous BS that is them having "experts".
People who have university degrees from state accredited, legitimate universities. Which can only be earned by using knowledge and methods that comport to actual reality. And can NOT be earned if the subject is not fully understood, with all its YEC exclusionary facts.
Grifty Georgia didn't get a fkn PhD in molecular biology from Ohio State by 'just going along with' the curriculum. She has to have a level of knowledge in various biology subjects to defend her dissertation and earn that degree. That is not possible if you can't grasp evolutionary sciences, or believe that everything taught is BS.
There is also the utter BS that is them using a secular, atheist, evolutionist school educated expert, for the level of authority and expertise they have.... To smear and lie about studies done by such institutions. To claim that they're all god denying, Christian persecuting, evolutionist BS artists. Wildly misrepresenting all the data to deny the Bible.
I would very much like them to reconcile the many irreconcilable facets of this particular BS.
yes some creationists have the view that the science has some discrepancies. maybe people will study even if for that reason just like some atheists know a lot about scripture. Even if creationists don't refute any science maybe if they're honest they can learn stuff
Scientists: "Then how do you explain..." Young Earth Creationists: "A MAGIC MAN DONE IT"
@@davesisonn Yeah spineless, trimless and mattress!
Cue Heart’s “Magic Man.”
Yup! A "MAGIC MAN" or equivalent who can create everything, even itself, in a day or week or whatever.
Still better then nothing done it...
@@janekkouril But much worse than "We don't know".
Hi I’m K; I’m a follower of yours 🙂 I just want to say that what you do is immensely important and your presentation is awesome (Carl Sagan would be proud) Please keep up the good work because the world would be a better place if there were more people like you in the world. Please continue to poke holes in the obvious flaws in modern yec and keep evolutionary biology interesting for people who don’t closely follow the information.
Luuuve this comment 100% agree xx 😎🏵️💜👍
@@aliwright1016 ❤️ your comment 😀anything with more than 3 🧐must be profound 😉
thanks :) I grew up without access to actual science and immersed in young earth creationism, intelligent design, the whole nine yards. So this is super helpful to me.
Big same, as i believe the youth vernacular would have it
You are about to discover so many interesting things, I almost envy you. Not kidding. Just look at some of potholer54 old creationism debunking videos. You'll have a blast.
Remember! YEC was invented in the 20th century, and took its present form in ≈1961. It actually has nothing to do with historic Christianity. Watch @InspiringPhilosophy's "The Origins of Young Earth Creationism" video.
Historically, Jews & Christians did not read Genesis "as a science textbook," and would've had no problem with an old Earth or evolution.
Here is InspiringPhilosophy's "The Origins of Young Earth Creationism" video, if the links are working: ruclips.net/video/RLcNTAi0Cw4/видео.html
@@you2uber220 "Oi, Hovind! We can't carbon date this! There's no f***ing carbon in it!" Gets me every time 😅😅
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge pretty much ruins young earth creationism as well. There are so many many things to point to, like the Pando Aspen Grove and Specimen Ridge in Yellowstone Park. (You can tell I watch Aron Ra videos, LOL)
how does putting assumptions on things disprove creation? None of your arguments are factual. why is it that atheists don't get how logic works?
@@notstayinsdowns none of these are assumptions, though. Not one of them is an assumption. The fact that physics would literally have to be broken in multiple ways for YEC to be even remotely true, and we know physics doesn't break, simply falsifies the YEC ideas, completely.
The fact that other peoples have records - including written records - going back farther than your necessary 6K years, and coming forward, uninterrupted, to the present, also completely falsifies your YEC ideas, too. Notice I don't call YEC a theory, as it isn't. It isn't even robust enough to be a hypothesis. And it's definitely falsified by enough different facts that there is less than zero chance for it to have happened. There is zero chance for anything anywhere NEAR it, anything _remotely similar to it,_ to have happened. Period. End of subject.
@@notstayinsdowns YEC is essentially like believing in a flat earth - you have to make such convoluted ways to account for observable phenomena that it just rules itself out.
@@carlpeberdy9086 Looks like a significant number of flat earthers are also YECs.
@@MaryAnnNytowl the lineage of the Egyptian Kings/pharaohs totally debunks the flood.
Thank you for your videos. I’ve been deconstructing for the past few years from a YEC background. It really helps to have a series of solidly scientific videos specially focused at refuting the beliefs ingrained in me for my life. Literally the first time I ever watched a video of yours I cried. I wish I had been open minded enough to discover this when I was younger.
How does hypothesis and unproven theories over ride actual observation? Why are you people so gullible. Her first 5 claims against creationists were shown to be wrong for years. I don't know how you people think a new voice makes wrong things be right?
It's never too late to learn! Good for you.
@@notstayinsdowns flip that question on its head. How do yec believe in fairy tales passed down through the generation? It’s brainwashing. I was raised to ignore facts not rooted in the Bible. Any doubts that you have are labeled as unfaithfulness and therefore sinful. Mix that with a general distrust of secular scientists and you can see why many people put on blinders. Sound familiar?
Edit: maybe don’t invade spaces just to argue with people on bad faith arguments
@@notstayinsdowns Could you explain the solution to the Heat Problem? If it's already been settled years ago, I haven't seen it.
Also, no, super hurricanes don't eject enough heat into space, even if you had literally thousands of them cloaking the planet end to end for an entire year.
Explain to me how the continents broke apart and came together in the span of 40 days AND all of the impact events we saw hit the earth over time AND radioactive decay, all without boiling the oceans, everything alive in them, and Noah and his fictitious boat. Show math and hard numbers. Then get it peer reviewed since actually achieving all that would literally prove that magic IS real after all, and every scientist ever employed would immediately quit their jobs to go search for Bigfoot and he best bro, the unicorn.
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Quick IQ test...
Solve: 4, 5, 14, 185, ...
You need to write a book - "Why Young Earth Creationism is Impossible".
I've thinking about write a kid's book about evolution.
It would be a very, very long book. Pretty much all of science, at least in points poops on YEC.
It's not impossible but according to the accepted model it just doesn't work.
@@ryublueblanka No, as many of Erika's video demonstrate, it is impossible.
@@almcdermid9669 maybe but you don't know that.
"But God could have created stalactites with that appearance." -- Every YEC response to ignore your facts.
And they then need to show how it was 'created' and also explain why this god was being deceitful. Which, of course they never do.
And they’re right. Except that suggests that we can’t demonstrate that the Universe isn’t five years old.
@@atomicsquirrel6457 But five years old is the exact mental age of a young earth creationists.
If god created the world appearing old, than he probably just dont want to be noticed.
And everyone who is yelling "there is a god!" is acting against gods plan :P
Stalactites don't take "millions of years" to form. You know this.
Thank you from a recovering YEC. When I was a teen I practically worshipped at the altar of Ham&AiG. I am slightly ashamed of being duped by many of their weak arguments and simply repeating their mantras. Keep using your meat computers people.
Welcome back to reality friend.
You realised it was ludicrous, You should be proud of that. Escaping a cult is difficult.
Hey, you keep using yours as well.
Unfortunately, their arguments aren't 'weak', they are lies. Creationists are either the liars or the believers of lies.
Trying to teach a YEC science is like trying to teach bacteria they're not wearing clothes.
Not even fig leaves ?
@@bokononbokomaru8156 not even a dot of a fig leaf
The problem I’ve always had with trying to develop any sort of robust, multifaceted, well-corroborated argument to “disprove” the religionists’ fairy tale books is that ultimately, you’re arguing with people who are convinced to a lesser or greater extent that magic is real and the universe is the playset of some flavor of ultimate superwizard who can choose to suspend, tweak, change, or temporarily ignore whatever rules he may have set in place for the daily mundane operation of this system. And for those people, that is so thoroughgoing and satisfying an explanation that it trumps anything you can throw at it, because fundamentally they think they live in a different kind of universe than the universe that the more scientifically literate among us do.
You have to get them to first commit to a claim that their god isn't deceptive, at which point making all the evidence of X event disappear and leaving the world looking like it is old becomes a contradiction.
*Presents evidence*
uh... a wizard did it!
Personally I have zero problems with the religious people that believe in magic, as long as they don't try to pollute science with bs. If you believe that there is a wizard in the sky, or an invisible pink unicorn watching over us that's fine. The infuriating trend of YEC is that they try to push their stupid beliefs inside schools and scientific circles. That is unacceptable. Fortunately, when they infiltrate science they must conform with the science method, which does not accept "god-did-it" explanations, and they fall apart. But the damage is still there, as you can see in this comment section there are several adults who were raised by YEC and had to "revert" those beliefs.
@@Kyeudo So do we have free will or is it all part of gods plan? If we have free will god isn't all powerful and if we are all part of gods plan then we don't have free will. So I think gods plan prevents free will and condemns people to their imaginary hell or heaven with no choice or say in the matter.
exactly my thought. its the same problem with people who believe in conspiracy theories like flat earth - if you can literally just answer every critique with "all scientist and people in general are just lying about it", then no one can ever convince you of ANYTHING. its really sad somehow.
As a curious nerd, i wondered exactly how fast the Earth would have to be moving in order to complete 120,000 years in one Noahacian flood year.
The answer is 12 times light speed. Which, as we all know, is physically impossible in about a dozen different ways.
In Star Trek TOS warp factor, that is Warp 2.3
What are you talking about? Jesus loves you!
Maybe the sun started out as a super mega black hole and the first 2000 years we lived inside it? :p
@@stylis666 I suppose then moving 12 times the speed of light could possibly provide enough energy to escape an event horizon.
@@MichaelAChristian1 Science.
@@MichaelAChristian1 I'm curious why you think the love of someone probably killed roughly 2000 years ago has to do with the inaccuracy of the Noachian flood?
Have you not actually read the Bible?
I should also note that if Noah’s worldwide flood explained the cave contents AT ALL, then the cave contents would indicate extremely wet conditions in both hemispheres during each 23,000 year cycle; however, since data from these caves indicates alternating wet and DRY seasons for each interval, that means that there was no worldwide flood, because flooding in both hemispheres simultaneously would rule out the indicated dry seasons that happened in these caves. Thanks for this video, it was SO validating for me to hear as an ex-creationist!
Simply not having a worldwide flood layer utteryl debunks noah´s flood. Such an enormous flood would leave a huge flood layer, but we have nothing. Some embarrass themselves by claiming to fossil record is the flood layer. Yea sure because what floods are really known for is how tidy and neat they leave everything behind, with each fossil always sopärted in it´s respectivbe layer or layers, no exceptions,. and all the layers neatly neatly organized. Have they ever seen the result of flooding and the chaos it creates ?
That being said, I love your content, Erika. I love your voice and your vibe and you are such a delight to watch. Thank you for making my day brighter every time I watch your videos.
👆 ditto!
Same! She can speak so clearly while speaking fast. That articulation though lol
Amen!
This is the first video of hers I've ever seen. I read this comment while waiting to skip the ad and thought wow what a fanboy lol. Then the video started and now I see where you're coming from haha, she's great! (One of us, one of us..)
Lol...the idea is correct....
She's great.
My problem, is the way the idea began.
"That being said".....lol..with no words in front of it, I'm scratching my head while thinking "what was being said?"
Uh oh.....voices in his head
I wish I'd had a science teacher like you when I was in school. Keep up the fantastic work and thanks :)
Seriously! I've always loved science, but in junior high and high school most of my science teachers were real jerks.
@@stefanlaskowski6660 The teachers, and lack thereof, killed science for me.
There a really good science teacher here of you tube, Kent Hovind, he taught high school science for 15 years you know. Sorry I couldn't resist.🤣
@@kiwiruna9077 lol yeah I would have trolled him hard till he hit me then I'd have got him fired hehe
@@kiwiruna9077 I didn't know toddler storytime counted as highschool science 😂😂
I went to some place in New Mexico or Arizona about a decade ago on holiday from here in Norway.
It was a meteor hole, I visited, but the passion + knowledge of those wonderful geologists had my head spin out of control, it made me question everything. Somehow I found you, and your channel, and I question it all now. Your knowledge and take on reality is astounding, physical geography is inescapable. You have inspired me to appreciate us realists all the more. It's too big to sum up in one sentence or comment but please stay being you sweetheart, I love us and I love science xxx
This sounds like it was probably Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona. I've been there several times. It's incredible.
GG! Your competence and knowledge in these subjects are such a delight to listen to! Also your vocabulary way surpasses most people in your generation, makes an old man so happy. Don't ever lose that contagious optimistic personality, that's an order!
I love your videos, Erica. Your level of intelligence, mixed with your busting of young Earth nonsense, soothing voice and overall cuteness keeps me coming back. Keep up the good work, love!
Yikes
@@laterbot are compliments not allowed anymore?
"soothing"? LOL, no.
Sagan was soothing.
@@Shan_Dalamani Sagan was creepy. Who talks like that?
@@sirsaint88 A man who was extremely passionate about his work and sharing his knowledge with others. For anyone who doesn't like it - I feel incredibly sorry for you.
Haven't even watched this yet and I already know how this is going to go:
5 very rational explanations about how science conflicts so very heavily against claims from the religious.
1 very loud screech from the religious: "SCIENTISTS LIE!!!"
I grew up in Mexico and was taught about evolution in 5th grade. Had to memorize the human ancestors that were listed in the textbook. I can't imagine being a young kid in school and being taught pseudoscience b.s.
Scary indeed, The teachers would loose their jobs in Europe, The US is very backwards.
I'm loving the upgrade to audio!
Sincerely: someone who listens to you primarily as I'm working!
Thank you Erika for this channel and the effort you put into it. I know you get numerous religious channels who challenge you but you must keep going. There are so many children who are spoon fed religious nonsense and censored from scientific truths. If they see this channel it may free them from a lifetime of stupidity. You are truly enlightening, keep it up! ❤❤❤
Hi Eirica! I'm currently in University and am studying from the geography textbook in your video. What a coincidence.
I’m sorry that you are.
Bravo on mic. Opening song is still loud compared to your voice, but you'll nail it soon. You and content are awesome, especially because I know there are young YECs out there whose eyes are being opened by you, I'm sure. Keep up the great work!
I like the fact that the opening is a little louder than her voice. That is how TV shows do it. The difference is subtle so you never have to change your volume.
Great new mike! One thing that I would suggest, particularly for your longer videos, is time-stamps in the video description, which RUclips will parse and show in the video's progress bar. So, something like this:
0:00 - Intro
2:59 - #1: Earth's Tilt and Precession
15:53 - #2: Soft Tissue In Dinosaur Remains
26:17 - #3: Plankton
29:31 - #4: Human Genetics
35:15 - #5: Plants
48:47 - Conclusion/Summary
Secondly, several times you say, "Link in the description." You haven't put those in as of this writing. so, here's a friendly reminder. :-)
Thanks again for your presentation of all of this awesome information. :-)
Link in the description - I find that missing on a lot of channels. Makes me laugh and I have to go searching.
One thing you didn't bring up (or I didn't catch) things in orbit can not speed up or slow down without getting closer or farther from the thing it is orbiting. Orbital mechanics is something YECs shouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole
Not to mention the mechanisms involved in changing earth's velocity. I may do the maths for fun but I would imagine it would take unimaginable amounts of energy
God** snaps fingers** "that was easy"🤣
Depending on if they decide to argue for an instantaneous speed-up or one that builds over the year of the flood, it's probably going to slightly affect the input, I believe. But either way, at a speed fast enough to cram that many cycles into 365 days, you're breaking escape velocity by approximately *A WHOLE DANG LOT.*
So, congrats to the YEC crowd for once again having a situation where their "everything just happened faster during the flood" excuse now has created its own problems they have to explain, in this case why the hell Earth isn't a rogue planet.
@@Ferretic ,
How does your assumption of how things got into orbit change the fact that God put things in orbit at the right speed to begin with? We don't have to explain your solution to have a solution.
@@notstayinsdowns your solutions is no solution and was already mentioned in the first reply as a joke.
Exactly, it's a miracle and therefore must be true and proves the whole of the bible! (sarcasm, just in case)
Just popping in to say I love this channel so much! If I were religious, which at present I’m not, I would say that we are able to observe the natural world with objectively reliable practices and developments in the gathering of precise information. We are able to take an unobstructed view of the history of the earth without needing to selectively ignore things for the purposes of satisfying narrow beliefs in our puny human minds. Just using the basic principle of Occam’s Razor, if you’re going to believe in God with a capital G, it makes far more sense that we have been given the magnificent ability to create and use tools that allow us to more perfectly marvel at the series of natural events set into motion by our creator that ultimately brought us into existence. How wonderful, how magnificent that we are able to worship the one and only Truth in so many different ways.
If one tries to ignore all of that and instead create a thin and self-contradictory story of the world, that in itself seems much more akin to heresy, to deny ourselves the wonder of fully appreciating all of God’s creation. The effort and deception alone involved in such a task of denying the science of present day shows the falsehood from which they draw their conclusions and points us to greater Truths. The difficulty they feel in trying to justify these lies is God’s way of telling them that they and their misguided followers are on the wrong path, and that they need to do the mental and emotional work to humble themselves and get on board (pun intended) with reality. It’s far easier to interpret ancient religious texts in ways that validate science than trying to do it the other way around; God would not have purposely given us such an impossible task. Rather we need to use our God-given abilities to use sacred texts in ways that best serve humanity, and let go of those principles which no longer align with the common good.
Also I love your intro song and animation!! Kudos to you or whoever animated it. And I love long-form content I can listen to and learn from while going about my daily business.
I'm loving everything on this channel. I don't have anything to add, I'm just commenting for the algorithm/hoping this channel gets more notice
If nothing died before "the fall"... what did the PLANTS eat? in the real world they get their nutrients from various decomposition processes freeing the minerals/chemicals bound in living organisms, both plants and animals, which has lead to the term "circled of life"... but without death it wouldn't be a circle, but a very needy arrow of life... putting energy/chemicals into plants to then be used by animals to do their thing.
also was there pregnancy amongst animals before the fall?
Gutsick Gibbon,
The ultimate challenge for young Earth creationists, not be wrong without having to admit that you are only a young Earth creationist because you can’t accept reality
Interesting aside with regards to the AiG position of "nefesh" a.k.a. "plants and insects aren't alive because they don't draw breath into their lungs: By that position, human life doesn't begin until a baby exits the womb and takes its first breath. Yet they are of the "life begins at conception" camp. Just another bit of evidence of how their "answers" are a moving target of convenience that change as needed.
Love That Intro Music; Kiddo ~
Love The Channel To Boot, You're Fucking Fantastic and Your Insight Is Beyond Enlightning ~
Enjoyed having all ten together, good stuff. Should be mandatory viewing.
I appreciate you even bothering to argue sensibly against the young earth creationists. It’s maddening that it’s even required to go to such lengths.
Excellent video, well referenced, well thought out..subscribed!
I have ridiculous ADHD that's exacerbated by excessive consumption of entertainment media, and your videos are really healthy for me. When watching most video content, I can afford to zone out for 45 seconds or get totally sidetracked with another activity. With yours, the information is saturated and I'm clueless enough about the science that I don't know what you're talking about anymore if I miss a few sentences. I have to either make a conscious choice to pause the video or else end up rewinding or even rewatching the whole thing (if I've really been on my worst behavior). While watching this video, I started fantasizing about growing stalactites from my ceiling, and I couldn't resist researching the possibility to see if there is a way to do it without growing mold. (I rent my place, so this isn't even something I could consider regardless.) Unsurprisingly, I had to close that tab pretty quickly and rewind. Video is paused currently. I'm enjoying the explanation about the difference between fossils and "bones."
You should check out PBS space time for some more interesting, information dense videos! I have to watch their videos multiple times to catch everything, and even then I would need to do research alongside the video on the specific terms and concepts to *fully* understand all of the more advanced parts. I've learned a fair amount watching them, and I even had one of my comments featured at the end of an episode because of how many people were debating the question I asked! One of the highlights of my life so far 😂
Absolutely love the content, I thoroughly enjoy being educated on things by someone in the relevant fields
So you believe a hypothesis, which means not proven, can predict something else that is a hypothesis and not proven and therefore become a fact? do you people really not understand logic?
@@notstayinsdowns you've never watched any of her videos have you?
@@nebulan ,
Of course I have watched them and have seen these arguments before. She is very good at tell basic true things then make you think the hypothesis and theories are fact while dismissing the honesty of creationists.
@@notstayinsdowns "the honesty of creationists" That's funny. How do you solve the plant problem? Where's the dino dna if they dies so recently?
@@almcdermid9669 ,
Why don't you look it up as we have answered those question many times. It is dishonest to not check out what the other side actually said instead of agreeing with a bias opinion without cause.
You youngins don't get it. I've been tilted and seasoned for years now.
That's the energy I need to bring to 2022!
I love that you brought up the soft tissue argument, that's the one my dad always uses. He got it from this crack pot creationist Trey Smith, I would love to see your reaction to his dinosaur "documentary"
Would not stand a chance against trey smith, soft tissue 70 millions years iron preserve this material chance,s of that doesn't make sense erosion today is vast and fast .
Evolution us non existing and traditional changes non existing. And if coal is formed in with the forestry rements then surley it should be surrounded by materials such as dirt for which the vegetation to grow in . Its just not year .
And all the polystaite tree fossils standing through the geological collum .
There earths water of fountains of the deep has petrifying properties due to its ingredients all over the world theses fountains of the deep are used for fast petrifying.
I,E John Wayne hat at mother shiptons cave in England .
Evolution observes on Sea salt water bur fountains of the deep is the Atlantic drift .xx
Greetings from Oaxaca, I thoroughly enjoy your videos. You're right debunking lousy theories is a heck of a good time. I've been watching your videos for over a year now but as I'm pushing 70 all these new fangled contraptions take me while to figure out. I studied Mathematics Philosophy Languages, Classical Music, and I read a lot. Fortunately I was spared a lot of religious trauma by reading Plato Nietzsche etc from ages 12-18. But enough about me. I admire your hard work and dedication. And I learn a lot from your videos. You have a marvellous wry sense of humor which I appreciate. My vet here in Oaxaca had a young spider monkey at one point and I sat next to him (maybe her I didn't check) we kind of looked at each other and I recalled what simians did from TV documentaries so I gave her a light tap on the head. She put her long arms around my waist and we just kind of sat there a while. After about an hour I had to go so I started standing up and she let out a heart breaking cry. Poor dear she didn't want to let me go. I felt bad but in a small house with 7 cats and a large dog I just couldn't have a tree climbing agile young ward on top of everthing else. Thought you'd enjoy the tale. A Gentle Ape from the wilds of NJ - JIM
I was always funneled into history/English/arts (which I do love!) and was mostly excluded from science and math in school because I was seen as girly and artsy (which I am)..BUT now that I’m older, I’m so grateful to have found people like YOU, Erika, who make science accessible, inclusive, and entertaining. I know this is an old video, but I just had to finally say it while I was binge watching your old stuff!
Great video very informative and on point. The way the information is presented is so clear and easy to follow and digest. 👍
I live in Australia, our aboriginal first nation people are fiercely proud of the fact that they've been here for 65,000+ year's. I'd love to see a religious person try to explain to an intelligent Aboriginal activist how the bible says they've got it all wrong. Until a couple of hundred years ago no one knew Australia was here. Love to hear that conversation.
I would pay to see that.
Um, surely the first nation people knew? But I suppose they never called their ancient homeland Australia.
@@alanthompson8515 well of course not. Duhh
The young earth cult forgets there is a world outside of north America!
@Dog Walker They are also surprised that their favorite fantasy novel comes from the Middle East. The racist ones especially fume about that.
I love that your ‘quick’ videos are almost an hour long ⏳😂
Hi GG! I'm sorry if you knew this already, but just in case I wanted to let you know that for the best results in audio, you shouldn't speak into the top of the Blue Yeti mic that you have there. It has all of it's receivers in the front, sides and back of the mesh, but none on the top. So for the best audio you want to speak into the front of it. It's a bit weird but you'll notice a difference right away. Again, if you knew this already, I'm sorry, I just had a Blue Yeti mic and didn't know this until about a month of using it for a podcast.
Love the channel and content, and this was another great one. :) Have a great day!
I stumbled across your channel yesterday and I love the way you debunk things. Also gotta say your song choice for your intro is amazing, plus I love that animation :)
An excellent presentation 🙋🏼♀️
Excellent video! The only one of these 5 reasons that you listed that I had prior knowledge of is the soft-tissue problem, the rest are all new to me.
That is because she made it up. We don't say the things she claimed. You should look it up and verify it.
@@notstayinsdowns made up WHAT? Did you even watch the video?
@@notstayinsdowns The Video is 5 things that make young earth creationism impossible. She presented 5 scientific evidence-based reasons. So why are you lying?
@@kelliepatrick519 ,
No, she made up 5 lies about creation. It is called strawmans. look them up from the creation view if you want to know the truth. That is what educated people do, get both sides before believing something.
Ha! Shows what you know. Even the poorest, most dirt encrusted, and least educated children of Ankh-Morpork know that the world is flat and held up by 4 immense elephants carried through space on the back of the giant star turtle!
If there was a so-called "tilt" the elephants would slide off the Great A'Tuin's shell and the world would end. 110% Busted!
Turtles all the way down ….. 🐢♾⤵️
@@garywhodunit2271 Nope. The Great A'Tuin floats through space, not standing on anything.
That world yes, but it's in an alternate universe to our own.
Another great video. Throughout the precessional period of ~26,000 years (not 23,000 years), the tilt remains fixed at ~23.5 degrees relative to the expected 90 degrees to Earth's orbital plane. The axial tilt gives rise to seasons as you explained. The role of precession is that it causes a very slow shift in the time that we experience the seasons. This is sometimes referred to as the precession of the equinoxes (or equinoces). For example, we currently experience the vernal equinox around March 21st which is how astronomers mark the beginning of spring and we experience summer in June/July/August in the Northern Hemisphere. This date seems relatively stable over "short" time periods. However, 13,000 years ago, or from now, the Northern Hemisphere will experience spring in September and Winter in June/July/August. I'm glad that you distinguished between the two periods. So, why do wet/dry seasons have this 23,000-year cycle, rather than following the same time period as Earth's actual precession? This is due to fact that Earth's orbit around the Sun is not a perfect circle. There is a small (roughly 3%) difference in the distance between the Earth and the Sun due to its slightly elliptical orbit. Right now, Earth is slightly closer to the Sun during Northern Hemisphere winter. The difference in the time periods occurs because the maximum heating in the northern hemisphere will occur when the summer solstice occurs when Earth is at perihelion (the point in Earth's orbit when it is closest to the Sun).
Some technical points RE definitions. Earth does not "precess" around the Sun. Precession describes the wobble of Earth's axis about the zero-degree tilt axis. So, rather than say "Earth's precession around the Sun", say "Earth's precession as it revolves around the Sun." Also note that astronomers differentiate between the word "rotate/rotation", to refer to its daily "spin" about its axis, and the word "revolve/revolution" to describe its yearly orbital path around the Sun.
This argument probably does not carry much weight with YECs because they believe that God can stop Earth's rotation and then restart it a day later with no noticeable ill-effects!
Hi, I'm trying to understand where the number 26000 comes from. You seem very knowledgeable and I hope you will explain it to me. Thank you so much.
I had once a discussion with creationists. In the end they claimed that god made it that way (trees with rings and fossilized ones in the ground, sediments and of course stalagmites). My question then was: "If that is true: How do you know everything was not created yesterday? God could have just created us all with all the memories and building and tree etc.". He did not like that and dismissed it, but without a solid argument. So my hypothesis is: They know that it is bollocks, but if they have to accept reality, they would have to reconsider many fundamental believes and privileges.
"God flicking the Earth..."
Now I have the image of God playing cosmic snooker with Satan stuck in my head.
Such good content. Loved learning this just for its own sake. Thank you.
Heard you on the Thinking Atheist. Like your stuff.
Hi GG. Another great and well-reasoned video.
PLEASE, consider putting your references in the description. It's incredibly helpful.
Thank you!!
Thank you, Gutsick! That's five more reasons I can add to my "repertoire" when debating with my creationist friends.
An over-achiever, after talking for 52 mins: "I hope you enjoyed this quick video... just a quick filler..." 🙂👍
Kent hovind: but wait a train cannot turn into an airplane
Forget surviving in fresh/salt water, at the rate that the water would have had to have been falling, all the plants, fossils, arks, etc... on the surface of the Earth would probably have been reduced to their component molecules, if that.
Let's be honest there's probably a million reasons why the flood would be physically impossible as described in the bible.
I see a lot of people talk about the plants and whatnot but that has an interesting side effect. I dont think we'd have crustaceans or even fish with how many issues there would be. Plants, pressure, the fresh water from the rain would likely make it brackish at best, so I doubt salt water fish would survive, temp fluctuations, and with all the murk and dead matter, which could spike the ammonia, more delicate species and the plants and corals dead. I can't say for sure but very few fish would survive such conditions, if any.
I LOVE your RUclips CHANNEL. You are supersmart and also super funny.
I randomly clicked this video bcuz I was bored and wasn't sure what to expect, *but this is beyond fascinating!* Keep up the good work!
(Your taste in music is a little weird though)
When Noah was watching the animals leave the Ark, he noticed that the two snakes were crying. When he asked them why they were crying, they replied "You said to go forth and multiply BUT, we are ADDERS."
So now they are fomenting division ?
Noah, being the resourceful man he was, immediately got busy cutting down trees and building a large table with the unfinished lumber therefrom.
And he saw that it was good.
The snakes were overjoyed when Noah picked them up and placed them on it. Noah and the snakes both knew that even adders could multiply on a log table.
@@alanthompson8515 I'm assuming he cut the trees down to the root and then made them square
@@bokononbokomaru8156 Brilliant!
The funny thing about people who like to think of the earth being young and fresh is that they also tend to think we’re living in the endtimes. Apparently the earth is set to die young and was never meant to be anything but a quick experiment. Out, out brief candle!
The 2nd law of thermodynamics provides an end date to the universe.
@@DustinTrowbridge-qg1ns It does indeed - that very fact happens to be a dramaturgical core premise in the theatre company I work with. Entropy is drama. Entropy bares the true nature of things.
@@whynottalklikeapirat entropy is a sign of the fall of man in the garden
@@DustinTrowbridge-qg1ns more reliably it’s a sign of the fall of A man in A garden 😄
@@whynottalklikeapirat we all sin and fall short of the glory of God
So that's how Jesus walked on water. The oceans were so thick with all that plankton, that you could just walk on it.
Hey, Erika. I always enjoy seeing people upgrade their equipment. Just be sure to speak into the correct side of the mic. The yeti is side address mic, not a top address mic. So, just make sure it is set to cardioid and then speak into the front of the mic for best results. Love your content. Cheers.
As a fellow atheist myself I want to thank you for what you do. You don't know how important is to fight delusions, lies, dishonesty that have plagued humanity and continue to do so. You have a big thumbs up fellow great ape. :P
Great content, Erika.
it is brought in a steady tempo and one have to keep ones wits together to follow it.
something YEC ( with maybe the exception of Paleologos) won't do. They rather fall back on the easy old faith(ful).
Great content as usual, Erika!
In other words, in order for YEC to be in any way credible, you have to completely break the laws of physics in dozens of ways or assume that God is intentionally trying to trick us. Nice.
Awesome video as always. Love the facts and rigorous science you bring against these YEC jackpot theories.
One word of advise (if I can) would be to maybe slow down a bit when reading from papers. It is hard to follow what you are saying and the text is too small to read well on screen.
Amazing job as always. Can't wait for your next video!
Just gotta say, I love your intro!
Keep up the good work
Another yummy video. Dendrochronology and soft tissue come up in Rocks 2, but so too legends of Papua New Guinea, so the new Wohns paper relating to that is excellent to note :)
I mean, aren't there like more reasons YEC is impossible than there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach?
Don't you mean "stars in the firmament" 🤡🤡🤡🤡
If god knows the number of hairs on your head, he also knows that number is smaller than the number of reasons he doesn't exist.. wait, what?
@@seionne85 If God knows the number of hairs on my head, he must be quite adept at counting backwards.
No that would be evolutionism ,
Johnny Graz at what negative number do you stop counting on hair?
So glad that the RUclips algorithm popped your videos into my recommended feed, Erika. You do a phenomenal job of presenting real science from a wide range of fields as a way to dunk hilariously and sarcastically on YEC.
YOUR INTRO IS SO COOL
I imagine YE creationist must be really good foraging.
With that level of cherry picking skills.
Great explanation of the changing monsoons. I understand that distance from the sun also has a small effect as the orbit is elliptical . Is this correct?
I believe the movement of the axis over time, aka precession, crates these cycles exactly because of that: Currently, we are closest to the sun in January, with winter in the north and summer in the south. If over time the axis tilt goes the other way, that means we're closest to the sun when it's summer in the north and winter in the south.
Here's another kink in the flood story... If the earth was covered by water for over a year, where did the dove get the olive branch to give to Noah? A salt water immersion would have killed all the olive trees...
It wasn't over a year it was 5 months. Study before you comment.
@@DustinTrowbridge-qg1ns I’ve studied religious text for a long time. I’ve read the gospels in the original Koine Greek…
@@DustinTrowbridge-qg1ns έγώ είμι ό άρτος της ζωής
@@DustinTrowbridge-qg1ns im not going to snap back at you and try to make derogatory comments but I would challenge you to read the story better. And if you’re up for it, teach yourself Koine Greek so that you will read the originals and not have someone else interpret them for you.
@@robertberatheon4213 you won't find a scholar who agrees with you
Your first obliteration of YEC can also be used to demolish the flat earth as well.
Ain’t science grand?
Thanks again for another great video, Ericka. You make science and learning interesting.
Indeed
I was wondering where you had gone and if your academic studies had overwhelmed you, then I found out that I was no longer subscribed to you. Sad face the good part is, however, now I get to watch all the videos you’ve posted for the past month! I just love your channel thank you so much for your information.
Oh look, more predictions made by science that confirm the age of the earth. "surprised Pikachu face" 🙃
not "predictions" - "observations" that confirm the age of the earth.
@@eniszita7353 Predictions are an integral part of the process as that discounts post-hoc rationalizations. It is the predictive power of each model, law and theory that effectively shows them to be correct.
Noah’s flood would have represented hundreds of years of rain, all within 3 months and at all places on the earth at once. Wouldn’t that be recorded in the stalactites/mites ?
You think it’s crazy for it to rain for three months , yet evolution claims it rained for two million years.
@@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264 no, "evolution" has no claim that it rained for two million years. however archeologists identified the Carnian pluvial episode where it rained a lot for a few million years. that is not a claim by "evolution" it is concluded by observed geologic evidence.
Wouldn't there be a layer in the recent fossil record of the greatest mass extinction of all time, worldwide?
@@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264 no it doesn’t. Evolution talks about the biological changes in living organisms over time, nothing else.
it would have been 725 feet a day, or 221 meters of rainfall in a day. that is around 9.2 meters an hour or 30 ft an hour. A 1000 litre cube tank, being 1 meter on a side, would have filled in about 6 and a half minutes. yes I am assuming that mount everest existed at the time the flood would have happened and that it is the tallest mountain at that time as I have 0 reason not to. If you assume it did not it makes the scenario worse for the survival of anything.
Wonderful. Your a treasure.
We come here for your dulcet tones and stay for the wisdom you impart with it
Concerning the plants one could add the fact that pollen is missing from most of the geologic collum. As anyone with a pollen allergy knows, pollen is everywhere and in a global flood you can only get rid of it by a magic vacuum cleaner!?!
Thanks Erika for the hard work that goes into your informative and entertaining videos.
Greetings from Germany
The creators of the Christian myth certainly had no idea at the time that tying original sin to an impossible fairy tale would be eventually debunked by science. But people still cling to it and reject science, its insanity.
If there was a flood there would not be any venus fly traps. They would definitely have gone extinct, even in a weird universe where we don't assume that everything would go extinct.
But.. god though
@@mmaimmortals No, you couldn't.
@@mmaimmortals If saving plants on the ark is such an integral part of the story, then you will have no trouble telling me which babble verses contain the appropriate information; in other words, citation f*ing needed.
As for the existence of floating biomes: so?
Maybe some plants can go dormant for a long time. Centuries? Citation f*king needed. Do remember that seeds are not plants. They behave and react differently. 2000 year old fig seeds growing: citation f*king needed.
Do you not think that there is a reason I specially chose the venus fly trap as my example? I envy you that you still have the wonder of learning this ahead of you. Being carnivorous plants, venus fly traps get their nutrients from what goes in their "mouths", not what "soaks" into their "feet". They are very picky about not getting anything on their "shoes"; it kills them. To translate into nofun: they can only live in nutrient-free substrate, like sandy, rocky areas, and if you have them in your house you have to give them distilled water to drink or they will die from the extra stuff in the undistilled water you gave them you monster. How could you!? So a year of flood conditions on the entire globe would definitely mdk all the vft's and they would be gone.
Also the flood didn't last a year because it never happened and couldn't ever happen.
Shepherds eat sheep.
Hail Satan.
@@mmaimmortals Where'd ya go? I wanna know what you have to say about the totally unscientific venus fly trap info I gave you? You aren't pissy about that sheep thing, are you? Are all of Yahweh's flock so brave?
Great video! I really wish I was as intelligent as you!
PS this is not a snide comment but simply the honest truth!
Maybe not more intelligent just more educated.
However, in my case I do suspect that she is more intelligent. Which is nice as I can become more enlightened 👍
Gutsick Gibbon: come for the sass, stay for the oodles of great information.
Even of they brought seeds on a boat, they would have to wait for years before the salinity of the soil had dropped enough for the plants to grow.
Another great video, particularly the soft-tissue evidence, and how it would be ubiquitous if YEC were true. The Orbital mechanics stuff blew me away. And the plants! Can you recommend a book about plant evolution?
Also, have you done a video on Mitochondrial Eve?
One more questions, why is Gigantpithecus out of order in your opening animation, which I love by the way, though your Oreopithecus is having a bad time.
"And the plants! Can you recommend a book about plant evolution? "
If you planted cabbage would you expect to get tomatoes? And that is why you can't find a book on 'plant macro-evolution' because like with animals it never happened, and plants when they died don't leave mineralised dirt clumps behind for MILLYONS Of Years for some nitwit to place an interpretation upon.
@@wholiddleolme476 You know anything about plant domestication, crossbreeding, cross-pollination, grafting? Learn something about evolution and save yourself from looking so ill-informed.
@@wholiddleolme476 lol you may want to look into just how we got most of the crops we have today. I'd stay far away from plants if you're gonna try to make a case against "macro" evolution.
@@wholiddleolme476 Say you don't understand evolution without saying you don't understand evolution.
@@wholiddleolme476 'if you planted cabbage would you expect to get tomatoes?'
If you don't know what you are talking about, would you expect anyone to take you seriously?
As far as the idea of God speeding up the Earth's rotation, he would have had to not only speed it up, but do it with no wind up. It could not have taken any time at all for it to reach the necessary speed.
This would be like your car's tires spinning at 25 mhp, then instantaneously spinning at 60 mph with no 26, 27, 28, etc. mhp between the two rates of speed. I know there are cars with incredibly short acceleration times, like 0 to 60 in as little as 2.5 seconds, but is still an acceleration time, even though it's short. Nothing we know of can jump from one rate of acceleration to another with no transition. It would have to be magic. The g-force created by such an event would be catastrophic.
Only thing I can think of that might qualify are massless particles like photons.
Now I'm just imagining Noah and all those poor animals hanging onto something for dear life, their faces all stretched out like in a Loony Tunes character.
@J. C. ik,r? Like eggs flying of the backsides of the birds; sheep and llamas hanging onto their wool for dear life, like cartoon pinups trying not to lose their towels when they realize they're being peeped at right out of the bath; snakes wrapped around poles, stretched out like flags in the wind...
Horrifying 🤣🤣
@@mmaimmortals What about in 0 minutes?
@@mmaimmortals I mean, informed creationist is a bit of an oxymoron, but aside from that - Irisarc did. You know, the person who wrote the message you were replying to?
When I asked about some of the problems including plants, the response I got was, "do you doubt God's power"?
The YEC crowd loves their non-answers.
Not sure if you're an atheist, but to atheists it's an especially dumb question....
@@nagranoth_ yes, I am an atheist though I wasn't at the time I first asked it. It never made sense to me. If the Noah flood actually occurred, it required a huge number of miracles. So, when I was a Christian, it just seemed like such a convoluted way for God to kill everyone.
Iirc someone used that on me as a kid. "It makes God look stupid" wasn't the answer they were expecting.
@@DaveCM a clear attempt to shut down any unapproved questioning.
This was so very well laid out, Erika, that it should be getting a much larger audience! I love watching you just destroying any tiny little bit of the ideas of the yercs - they don't deserve the name hypothesis, much less theory, so they're just ideas, at best.
I'm looking forward to reading that paper from the tree ring/varves/C14 study! Thanks for what you do. You're a bright spot in my otherwise very dark world and I really appreciate it.
Game set and match. Take that young Earth creationist. Very well done Gutsick Gibbon.