America evolved from Britain. American English in terms of looseness is superior. Americans evolved in both directions. We are the stupidest smart folks in the universe. We have the best boxers yet we celibrate the brutes. We are at the top of the nutcase chain and we don't even realize it. Reverend Lennox Thomas was once the absolute best of all our specially theologians until he got run over by a tour bus. Again, evolution in action. It goes both ways!
But if Adam and Eve never existed, then there was no Fall, no original sin, no need for atonement, and therefore no need for a savior. The entire christian religion implodes.
Joe Smith do you know that if you can’t explain how nothing produced something or where what evolved came from and what made them do what they did to evolve, that evolution theory implodes. Firstly explain how, why, what etc of nothing making something or exploding then theorise about evolution. You have to have a lot of faith to believe that nothing made something however a genius you are.
@@imagery3210 I donot know where God came from. No creation will ever know that either. The Bible tells us that He has always been there. We believe that by faith. By world definition that is a religion.
Not really. If Adam and Eve never existed people would still be sinful and flawed. If you take the idea of original sin out of the equation that doesn't excuse all the sins people commit. There's a reason the majority of Christians accept evolution and theologians have been saying Genesis is meant to be allegorical for well over a thousand years.
@East West South Slavs United have YOU read the Bible? I mean actually read it, not just accept everything as true because it's in the Bible despite contradictions.
I legitimately tried to explain evolution to my friends family, when i asked what their view of evolution was they described something like evolution in pokemon, after that i gave up on trying to explain this to people
@Pastor Craig know its garbage? the evidence is in biology, youve been mislead into thinking it is something else and you dont bother looking into it further why do fossils NEVER appear in the wrong layer of sediments? why do you think the earth is 10 000 years old when there are radioactive isotopes that have decayed well past their half lives of millions of years? You know nothing except fairy tales written by the ill educated who had no idea where the sun went at night and you have the audacity to claim their superstitions as true
The theory of evolution is where it started for me to start questioning Catholicism. After a while, one contradiction with science led to historical contradictions, moral contradictions, logical contradictions, until I noticed nothing made sense and the realities I have lived up until then split.
The Herald how does evolution fail? that video is from PragerU which isn't a very factual place to go for anything. I can give a argument if you present something.
+The Church of Silly Beggars Atheism is growing. If you were born a few generations on you probably wouldn't be... As we evolve we learn to think & question.... & SOME of us evolve enough to leave believing in fairytales behind us. Those should be for children.
5:55: This reminds me of that one episode of Futurama where Dr. Banjo says there is no fossils between humans and apes and Prof. Farnsworth keeps pointing out over a dozen fossils between them until there is finally a gap in which there isn't a fossil record and Dr. Banjo goes on that it proves that evolution doesn't exist, despite all the other fossils that prove the contrary. I feel like that's what a lot of these evolution deniers do.
Everyone does believe in science but some people don't believe in specific parts of it because their holy book is right and science and all other religions are wrong
also, almost all christians here in iceland think adam and eve are just stories and still believe in evolution. but they are not as homophobic either...
+Mike52300 A lot of gravitational theory doesn't make sense to me... The equation is a fractional reduction, which means it will never reach zero without an equal & opposite gravitational force. How many billions of gravitational masses are in the Universe? With all those fractional reductions never reaching zero, then gravity should be overlapping throughout the Universe and intensely strong in between galaxies, shouldn't it?
Griexxt Mathematically, that only works if they're equal on all sides... Galaxy clusters aren't even & we should be feeling considerably more gravity from the galaxy cluster our galaxy is heading towards on a converging path with the Andromeda galaxy
Nowan Inparticular "Mathematically, that only works if they're equal on all sides..." If you have forces acting on you from a large number of random directions they will tend to cancel out. Meaning that the resultant force will typically be much weaker than the scalar sum of all the forces acting on you. "Galaxy clusters aren't even & we should be feeling considerably more gravity from the galaxy cluster our galaxy is heading towards on a converging path with the Andromeda galaxy" Not sure I understand the problem. Of course we are getting more gravitational pull from objects closer to us. But we are falling freely through space, so we don't actually feel the force.
Biblical literalism and science are incompatible. Those who reconcile science and religion do so by either distorting science or, more commonly, not taking the whole bible literally.
Fortunately, contrary to what many Christians and the vast majority of Atheists say, you're not actually required to take the Bible literally to be a Christian.
Scientific fact and scientific fiction cannot both be used in a biblical account. Let us take evolutionary theory. There are ten major problems with that thing. Scientific fact and not theory states that it takes information from here to the moon simply to make skin and this is scientific fact. Our greatest machine from CERN and that thing cost billions of dollars can barely make a single atom. I also have a great deal of difficulty reconciling how something which cannot think for itself just develop and birth itself. And also basic 9th grade biology tells us that between parents and its offspring that certain genes are turned on or off between the parents and their offspring, but evolutionary theory that information is added. What I do not understand is how that measures up to scientific fact because it states that multiple experiments by geneticists have been done which make an overwhelming case that adding information to smaller organisms cause them to explode. Also in humans we find that down syndrome is indeed caused by adding an extra gene which results in retardation so the scientific fact goes against the theory a great deal and I have not even listed the rest of problems or went into detail on either.
My parents used to make me go to an Anglican church. For a short while our priest (or whatever he was called forgot) was doing a Christian mission in a different country. My father who was a scientist and was studying evolution at the time gave a book about it to the priest. He came to talk to me a few days later. I expected him to slander it, bit he told me this: "It's obvious that anyone who doesn't believe in evolution is sticking their head in the sand, but you understand, this stuff is beyond me." The ironic thing was that what he said to me prompted me to study religion and science, and now I'm an atheist because of his humble answer. Kind of ironic.
Last school year, our English teacher showed us a text about Scottish sheep, which became smaller because of the climate change. Between the 1970s and the 2010s the average Scottish sheep became 5% smaller. During the 1970s the winters there still were really rough, and most of the smaller sheep died every year while the big ones reproduced. When the Earth started to heat up more and more over decades, more and more smaller Scottish sheep could survive and reproduce.
+Andy McStab *_"Its natural selection, not evolution"_* This alone shows that you STILL have abso-fucking-lutely no idea about what evolution is. Natural selection is a mechanism by which evolution occurs. You STILL deliberately spread misinformation about evolution in order to deceive people. evolution: change of allele frequencies of species over time. Proven. Observed. Case closed. I have a serious problem for your mythology: How can an immaterial (not even energy, because energy and matter are equivalent) person (which itself is self-contradictory, because you cannot make sense of a person without first materializing it) interact with the material world? Please, do not respond with one of your childish excuses in the name of god! Go for it!
Andy McStab You implied that natural selection has nothing to do with evolution. And this view of yours is WRONG as it can only be. It is people like you that claim »it's just micro, it's just adaptation, and not evolution« *_"Evolution likewise is not merely change over time, or "allele frequencies", as you put it, as mere change could lead to ever decreasing states of complexity and function, something called "devolution", which, by necessity, is not evolution."_* Do you see? You are wrong AGAIN and thereby, you confirmed my view regarding your ignorance about evolution. How can you seriously thnk that a change in one direction is evolution, but not in the other direction? Do you still don't get it? Nature has no goals to accomplish. But you think it has to. You utterly failed. Try again. Why do I flame you? Because people like you are shameful and audacious individuals .
We have never seen a transitional species. Also there are animals that have remained the same for many millions if years. I have asked people to demonstrate evolution starting with an existing animal. This raises a question: Evolution can't explain the genesis of even the smallest creatures, yet you want to insist that it is totally true, and that it is science. If it isn't logical, it isn't science. So how does evolution start, seeing that nobody has seen it happen? No single work has ever been created over millions of years. Of course, you'll be waiting for millions of years and more to see it happen. Now maybe you're talking about "morphing" into some other form, but machines don't morph. They are many parts working together. "Transitional species" is also a joke, because you can never tell that a species that is complete came from another, unless of course God did it. So show me how an animal emerges from a preexisting organism.
One of the reasons i lost interest in Christianity as a teenager was when i was being taught creation in church and evolution in school. Christianity will die if they are going to keep fighting against science.
+Honkarakiri Come on, even mattpatt acknowledges the difference between a game theory and a scientific theory. This is 1 of the few cases where the game theory joke is useless.
On the subject of evolution, I think I've figured out why some men prefer foreign women. I think it could be a deep, subconscious desire for genetic diversity, which helps give evolution along. Any thoughts?
Malina Kimm I feel like this would be more plausible: Incest eventually got weeded out from humans because results of incest were less fit, and more likely to die before reproducing, leaving us with genes that hate incest. BEEELEEE I doubt it is that. It is probably just that people see local women a lot so it looks "normal" to them, which makes foreigners stand out. I'm no expert though.
How to explain evolution: You know that game, Pokémon? Well, the evolution process is a LOT slower than that. Each and every species, including you is Eevee.
@Andre R. Nazario Except that the Noah's Ark story is a myth. It's based on a small kernel of truth, but it's nothing like the impossible, infantile story in the bible, which has been blown out of all proportion.
@Andre R. Nazario " all things become true in theory of strings," There are a lot of problems with String Theory. Still, if you believe all things are true, please come and meet me with £5K in cash, and we can see if you really believe that.
By the principle of Occam's Razor, beween two equally sufficient explanations, you dismiss the one with the most assumptions, which is of course that God "guided" evolution. In other words, if you don't NEED God for evolution to happen, then he most likely didn't have anything to do with it at all. lmao
Great video. One suggestion, as a biologist, I would recommend not using "survival of the fittest" because fitness has a specific meaning in biology and this phrase causes unnecessary confusion.
Nepali Ninja: Fitness in this context means "fit for purpose" (or fit for the particular environment) which makes perfect sense......that's why polar bears don't live in the Sahara desert.
The one where they say "it's only a theory" ...well , they're mixing it up with the word hypothesis. Theory is based upon reason and some facts and needs to have some evidence to support it while a hypothesis is, just an idea. Basically religion is a hypothesis.
Great video! You did a very good job researching the topic! The only (very small) inaccuracy I found was at 2:23 you say, "every living thing is evolving." Which is not entirely true, populations evolve, organisms do not. Again, I love the video and all of your other videos, keep up the great work!
+Thomas Coard That's actually a very good point. It seems like that's something that a lot of people don't understand. And something that confuses a lot of people.
+Thomas Coard Also, Evolution and the Theory of Evolution are separate but related things. Evolution is the observation that new species come into existence. The Theory of evolution is the explanation of how that happens. Similar to Gravity and Gravitational Theory.
Thomas Coard Can't you say, evolution of species is basically Mutation? ( which can happen in single organism also) e.g- polar bears. (Black/Brown bear's one gene mutated which defines the fur color, turning into white, thus increasing the surviving chances in the snowy area.)
I believe your are mistaken, Thomas, or else you are inexact with your terminology. Organisms do evolve, but only by reproducing. The offspring are different from the parents, hence they have evolved.
Great idea comparing theory of evolution to puzzle, we might miss few pieces here and there, but we are already able to see whole picture. :-) Remembered for later use. :-)
hi Hemant. Another excellent video, thank you. The book that finally made me get evolution is "The Blind Watchmaker", also by Richard Dawkins. It made me realize just how coherent a theory evolution is. I also would recommend the book that got it all started, the Origin of Species. Darwin wrote in deferential, unassuming style, and given the period in which it was written, is a simply wonderful book. I first read the first and last chapters (because reading the whole book is quite an endeavor), but that was enough to inspire me to read the whole thing. One other thing I'd point out about the idea that the gods guide evolution somehow: evolution is cruel. it takes like forever. it tries just about every conceivable wrong way to do something before a better way is found. there is much waste and suffering associated with the evolutionary process. most mutations are bad news for the individual. why would the gods generate new species in such an indifferent, monstrous way?
Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist who believes in evolution, but I have a legitimate question. What happened to all the species that evolved from apes before humans? Like Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo habilis, etc.? How did they all die out?
+Tango Down Some of them continued evolving into us, others mixed with us, others didn't. Everyone dies. A branch of an still existing species can die. An entire species can die. Imagine it like a family if it makes it easier. Every time somebody dies without progeny, that bit of their family tree dies out, if that is prevalent in the tree, it dies back even further, eventually it might die back to the initial branch which defined that family.
I was explaining my dad about natural selection he kept on blabbing oh well we breath! Were did that come from?? Me: oxygen How come everything is so perfect (i'm not saying it is my dad who said that) Me: natural selection What keeps the planets up? Me: gravity Who created you? Me: my mom So basically he keeps on asking me questions so one day I'll get stuck on one and then I'll be like "Omg! Dad you're so right! I can't prove it! God exists!" I'm just thinking, I'm okay with people being christan (like him) why aren't they okay with me being an athiest? Lol people can be so closed minded i believe people can be entitled to their own opinions I respect his why doesn't he respect mine lol. I'm not saying that I have authority over my dad that would be stupid of me to say, but can I have my own opinions??
U can have ur own belief but think ur dads side. He believes that Christianity is true ( I agree, Orthodoxy ofc), and knows his son doesn't all he can do as a father worried about his son's soul is to try make him believe and prey. If u are so determined to refuse God don't be bothered by a worried dad. That's my opinion 🙌
+Mark Whitson Alright you were a pastor... I have to ask. Are you guys trained to gloss over the nastier parts of the bible or.... what's the deal there?
+Jak perhaps trained indirectly. When you grow up seeing people you trust accept the entirety of scripture, and try and spin the gruesome aspects into life lessons, it makes it palatable. You don't really understand what you're being taught as a youngster. There really are quite a few variables.
Evolution evident in humans: 1 - bulging tendon that connects forearm to hand. Most Millennial or younger people do not have this tendon, as humans no longer require the extra strength it offered to climb trees with ease. Older humans do tend to have this. 2 - wisdom teeth - our jaws have become smaller as we no longer need to project our voices as much, or rip apart food with our mouths (hence cutlery). Wisdom teeth are missing from younger people as with our smaller jaws they are actually to the detriment of our health, and therefore have been excluded from new generations. And what's this about no transitional fossils? The lung fish and archaeopteryx are two prime examples of transitional fossils. The lung fish is evidence of life starting in the seas, and transitioning to land. The archaeopteryx is evidence (well I believe and other scientists believe) it's evidence for dinosaurs turning into birds, or at last one type of dinosaur.
Traditional evolutionary theory focuses primarily on the work of natural selection. Are there challenges to this emphasis by claiming that strong biases in the rates at which traits can arrive through variation may direct evolution towards outcomes that are not simply 'beneficial'? Could it be that instead, the most genetically available mutations dominated the changes in traits? Is it possible that nine out of 10 species on Earth today, including humans, came into being 100,000 to 200,000 years ago? It is a fact that species with large, far-flung populations-think ants, rats, humans-will become more genetically diverse over time?
For a big portion of my life, I always believed evolution was not real and that it was a silly concept. Also I was never properly taught about evolution from K-12 nor did my parents understood the theory either so it wasn't completely my fault why I did not understand a complex theory like evolution. It wasn't until I sat down to one of my first college classes that I found out how awesome evolution was. It's funny too because everyone hated the professor (he was super strict) but I am ever so thankful towards him that he was able to break down biology and explain evolution to me, who had no clue and was amazed by it all. When I began to critically think about my life and understanding science and how the world works and then my own religious views began to break down. So it's very true that people who are against evolution also don't understand it. And I am a strong advocate about the theory of evolution being taught in public schools and should have a more stronger stance within the curriculum. Because if evolution taught me to finally understand science and critical thinking then we are truly holding back our own kids in this country.
There are ten major problems with it. The original purpose of college was to give you both sides of the argument and let you make your mind up which you will follow but unfortunately that is no longer the case. It is good to be exposed to multiple ideas, but when you are given only one side to choose of course you would say that this has to be the right answer, but what is not often discussed are the problems of this theory. Why that is I cannot say, but there are ten scientifically factual flaws with this theory. I say this because most people do not tend to separate scientific fact from theory in this context often. I will list some of these flaws here. In the first place, how does something generate from nothing? In the second place, it takes a combination of knowledge in chemistry large enough to go from here to the moon just to make skin. How much more will it take to make a person let alone the universe. Genetic experiments have confirmed that adding information to smaller organisms causes them to explode and we know that the disease called down syndrome happens when extra genetic material is added to a human which causes humans to be retarded. I say this in part because both sides should be known before reaching a premature conclusion. It is only fair that college students know the whole story before reaching a final conclusion.
+TheAtheistVoice The Ancestors Tale is an amazing book ive read.. and it really explains the wonder of evolution. Ritchard Dawkins is a great man with great writing.
I'm Catholic but I have no problem of working in evolution into my believes and pd pretend it plays role in Gods creation. Yhe, if you take Darwins or Dawkins book, sizzorees and cut out all the things that contradict religion it leaves a little place for them but if you want you can have them work side by side. Many people did this way. So there you go ;)
+hillsidecomixinc1 it's not so much to make sure everything makes perfect sense, but rather enough sense in a bit of an arbitrary way to make oneself comfortable with the scientific ideas that they feel are true, but without abandoning the religious ideas that they fear sacrificing. It's not perfectly logical but if it allows people to become knowledgeable on scientific ideas and still hold on to their religious beliefs to make them feel safe, I find no issue.
Oh boy, that's some atrocious spelling/grammar. Oh well. I have a question to ask you. How exactly could u possibly maintain ur beliefs if u also accept evolution. U say it's possible and many people but just consider this. If evolution is true, then there was no adam and eve, right? Well that also means there was no original sin either, right? So, if there wasn't ever an original sin, then what's the point of having a jesus? It's clear that in the bible, Jesus's primary purpose was to sacrifice himself and in doing so forgive humanity of it's original sin. But, wait! If evolution is true, there was no original sin, which means that there is no need for jesus to sacrifice himself for humanity... RIGHT?
+Joseph Mott Ask the pope, he and most previous popes and catholics accept both. They dont take the bible literaly. A previous pope awarded the scientists who figured out the Big bang. Young earth creationists say the world is less than 10,000 yrs old complete with evidence that it was older. You might as well say it was created yesterday with all our memories. Its possible but not many people believe me, I cant proove it, but I have faith the gods created it yesterday. Can anyone proove it wasnt created yesterday.
#30 Which evolved first: blood, the heart, or the blood vessels for the blood to travel through? #31 Which evolved first: the mouth, the stomach, the digestive fluids, or the ability to poop? #32 Which evolved first: the windpipe, the lungs, or the ability of the body to use oxygen? #33 Which evolved first: the bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or the muscles to move the bones?
Richard Dawkins actually explained this. It's obvious I can't tell you the exact process of each system but the idea is that everything evolves at the same time, going from a simple cell that accepts 'food' and then releases it as well as accepting oxygen and develops a basic circulatory system to having a full functioning circulatory system, a digestive system, etc. Every system works that way. He threw the example of the eye, which is a complex organ; he said that at the very first start we can speculate it would be just a lens that captures light and dark, as slowly as it evolves, it begins to understand how light and dimensions works, what the space is. And gradually is being refined. Also the way to evolve is by improving stuff from our body to be comfortable and having less trouble. So things get more complex with the time to make itself work better. That is the basic idea of evolution and an estimate answer to your questions if you like.
The coolest evolution in real time is when species splits into many subspecies occupying large area. Very often the subspecies living next to each other can have fertile offspring, when the subspecies living farthest from each other cannot have fertile offspring. It means that subspecies living farthest from each other have become two different species. They evolved. Another scary example of evolution is when the germs evolve rapidly underneath the microscope. I sincerely believe that no major player will ever use Bio weapons for the very reason of fast evolution of the germs. In a secret Soviet city, they had an accident at the weaponized Anthrax factory. Everyone was preemptively vaccinated and meds were ready, and, yet, everyone exposed died! Because the strain of the weaponized Anthrax evolved while in storage!
The guy who made that chart did it to provide a very basic overview and feared it might be mistaken for the actual way it worked. Guess that fear was well founded. Thanks Christian education
One theist asked my. Then why not evolution is happening now😂🤦🏼♂️ Dude human history is 2 million years..... a human usually hardly lives 100 years and evolution is long ass process we can't see the difference evolution makes wtf typical stupid theists questions
thank you... you answered a question recently put forth to me by theist that I was unable to immediately answer (transitional fossils)..I loved your videos
#4: there are no transitional fossils Me: ... wait, are they being serious? Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t we have Archaeopteryx fossils which is a transition between (non-avian) feathered dinosaurs and modern birds?
You can always place god in the beginning. It can't be refuted. It can't be proven either. Sooooo, not really worth debating. What we can debate is his influence on the word AFTER that "beginning". Because that's where we can see inconsistencies with what we know, but even there, since we don'T know everything, you can always put god outside our light cone of knowledge, and whenever we reach further you just put him outside a little further.
+GreenOnionBrother Actually you can poke god out of the beginning also. That is as long as the opposing side claims that god "created" universe or "sparked" the Big Bang or whatever. All these are concepts of the first cause. Since god created time as well (surely, the creator created everything after all), there is an immediate contradiction. To "cause" a universe, there needs to be a causality or an equivalent relation between two consequent states (first universe does not exist, then it does) - this cannot be achieved without time or some sort of "supertime". Without time and causality already in place, god cannot perform the action of causing the universe, or creating the causality in the first place. This of course hold on the naive claim that universe came to be through action of god (literally caused or created). It is possible to concieve of sophisticated relations of god and the universe which do not need such constructs to take place. However these are far beyond comprehension of most people (since the universe needs to be understood from outside space-time concepts or at least relativistically), and thus can never be what religions actually assert. Since that is the case, the naive relation of god to the universe as propesed by religion is refutable. This is by the way only a "modern" rephrasing of an objection comming from India during time before Christ (after spread of the Old Tesament-based curture). Still not resolved by abrahamic religions, but still valid in modern scientific view. Oh, and sorry for writing so lenghtly comment.
+GreenOnionBrother The "God started it" bit is especially pointless, because obviously most believers do not just care about the idea of some distant creator, but imagine a god who considers mankind his masterpiece and still cares about them. But evolution clearly points to the idea that our human existence is just as much a rather random occurence as that of mice or cockroaches, however impressive we might seem. In any case, the fact that the universe existed for billions of years before the first life even started, then life existed for ages before humans came around (by which time 99% of all previously living things had already died) and the fact that life will continue long after fragile humans have died out makes it seems very unlikely that our occurence in time was in anyway planned or a particular highlight.
Jakub Pekárek Don't worry about the length, as long as it's interesting, I'll read it. I'm not terribly well versed in physics, but as far as I understand it, there are multiple levels of theories of the multiverse, do all of them assume that all universes where created at the same time? Then again, if he was just an entity from a different person, he'd still not be the first thing to ever exist. But there is a much simpler question that causes theists to stumble sometimes: If the human being is so complex and amazing, that it couldn't exist without and architect, then who create god, a being that is even more complex? Demian Haki True, most do, but I was talking theoretically. You could also argue, that he put everything in place in the very beginning, knowing that those building blocks of the universe would eventually lead to the existence of humans. So evolution etc. actually happened without intervention etc. Which effectively would still make humans the pinnacle of his plan or whatever. Bu Jakub does make a compelling case but I'm gonna have to read up on this.
According to bible earth existed with trees and grass before sun 😂 And the earth is merely 6000 gears old with no scope of dinosaurs and other extinct animals 😀. Even according to it many civilizations didn't even exist since they were older than earth 😂
People don't accept evolution "because they don't understand it?" I don't accept evolution because it doesn't make any sense. I could say the same thing about your beliefs. You don't accept The Bible because you don't understand it, which is probably true based on what I've seen in your videos. The common ancestor argument is absurd. Many people, when referring to evolving from primates, are not talking about modern primates. When somebody says "you believe we evolved from apes," they aren't talking about gorillas. The Australopithecus, although it may not be a modern ape, is still an ape. Saying that evolution is taking place is a complete joke. Adaptations and natural selection is taking place, and that may result in change in species and possibly even genus, but not families, orders, classes, phylums, and even kingdoms like you're suggesting. Evolution is a violation of the scientific method because it cannot be tested or observed, therefore making it not science. Evolution is a not a theory, all though it is labelled as that. It is simply a hypothesis with no evidence, failing to explain many basic things. There are many problems with evolution which prove it wrong. The "jigsaw piece which doesn't belong" is all over the puzzle. It cannot be tested or observed, and there's no evidence, so it is foolish to believe that evolution should even be defined as a theory. Give me one example of a transitional fossil that's been found. And even if you did find one, according to your theory, 99.9% of all species which have ever lived are now extinct. In order to prove that, we'd need to find at least five billion fossils, each being a different species.
+KingZam Ikr.. Not to mention all the false premises that further expose his incredulity on evolution..... P.S (Just in case op doesn't understand.. These are statements, not arguments.)
+KingZam Well to be fair, quite a few atheists haven't read the Bible but so have quite a few theists.. So I can understand where he might be coming from.. Many atheists actually were theists in the past until they realized the bs. So yes, many atheists understand the bible and have read the bible because they actually BELIEVED in it at one point.. Hell, to this day, I still go back and read the bible. Disclaimer: (Some theists have deconverted to atheism and some atheists have converted to theism. Some people haven't changed and some people have changed.)
***** There are thousands of hidden meanings, prophecies, connections, messages, and ideas in The Bible. It could take years of study to fully understand it. Most atheist I've seen saying bad things towards the Bible take things out of context, get confused by simple messages, and don't understand why certain things happened because instead of reading it all, they take out certain parts to try and turn more people against God.
Hey Honey Mehta said (7:07) "... all of us are transitional fossils." Well I'm not dead and in the ground for millions and millions of years. Isn't that silly? Whoa!!!!! What are you doing with that shovel? HELP (clunk) - HELp (clunk) - HElp (clunk) -Help (clunk) - help (clunk clunk clunk) Arg Arg arg
Smaller populations tend to evolve faster than large populations, not an absolute but a trend. Non-debilitating mutations are passed down with useful mutations. If it doesn't prevent you from reproducing your offspring will have it. Some mutations will not be apparent in a population until there are sufficient members with 2 copies of the same gene. This can cause jumps in evolution. Hybrids can sometimes reproduce. Two closely related species can sometimes interbreed and create a new viable species.
The problem with these videos is just that more likely you're going to only be receiving views and intelligent people who already accept and have studied evolution
Theoretically all living beings had to evolve to withstand drastic changes at their environment and not to be extincted but not all of them were successfully preserved.
Most of the confusion about it being "only" a theory comes, I think, from the colloquial use of the word "theory" - because in everyday life we often call a theory something that scientifically would be called thesis/hypothesis. So of course, the theory that the moon is made of cheese based on "oh, they look similar, how cool it would be if I was right!" isn't the same as a scientific theory basen on facts and evidence.
No, that 1animal wont evolve. It cant change in 1generation. Even if it lives 10.000.000.000. Years, but if it only gets 30, and the generations keep going a few million years, you will see changes. (Im sorry for my english im from the Netherlands and im tired😂😂)
Chihuahuas, pugs and poodles may not look the part, but if you trace their lineages far enough back in time, all dogs are descended from wolves alone. Genetic alterations, by man made breeding strategies, were alone responsible for the miniature poodle and all other current dog breeds......and yet there are still wolves. This was intentional rapid tinkering with the genes by humans in a relatively short time window. This evolutionary process also happens automatically in nature r/t natural selection, survival of the fittest, and favorable genetic mutations within species, that over time slowly and gradually branch out to other species, and everything in between. Picture the trunk of a large tree, and then all of the branches, and sub branches. But evolutionary time by means of natural selection, happens over thousands, millions, and ten of millions of years. Just like with the dogs genetically being "sculpted" from wolves, life has evolves like that over epochs of time. Over 99% of species that have ever existed on the earth have died out, over great spans of time that are incomprehensible to humans. There is so much evidence that Evolutionary Theory of Darwin puts all the puzzle pieces together, and is now considered scientific FACT (as are other theories such as The Theory of General and Special Relativity, Quantum Theory, the Pythagorean Theorem, etc). Also tracing mitochondrial DNA and the human genome completely verifies Darwin's THeory of evolution.
I believe that a supernatural being (like god but not god) created the big bang and everything after that was chance. Like the Being was doing an experiment. And that all God believing religions were created by very creative people. Smart people in fact. I do respect religions and religious people, but not those that will bully others for not having their same opinion.
As for #2, I think it's helpful to point to very visible cases of contemporary evolution in non-human animals, because it might provide more rigid evidence than in the case of humans. Case in point: Elephants of a new generation get born with smaller tusks, because the large-tusk specimens get hunted for ivory and so the small-tusk specimens have an advantage when it comes to procreation (Admittely, this isn't exactly natural selection, but human-caused evolution, but the principle applies. Humans are just another predator that forms part of an elephant's environment.)
+Demian Haki Isnt your example exactly natural selection? Humans as a predator is no different from all the other animal cases. Dont be shy to put the human species where it belongs. XD Artificial selection - done by humans, occurs when humans actively control populations for their ability to reproduce. Say, you breed meat cows and the thin ones dont get bred, while the thick ones do. Its far more deliberate and controlled, than what we select for by being a predator.
Good video! for Q #1, I've found a quicker, clearer answer is "if many Americans descended from Germans, why are there still Germans?". It's a present day example they can usually understand, and it nicely captures the process of allopatric speciation. Of course, no analogy is perfect, and your explanation is still corrrect - but you may find the German explanation useful. Your Catholic/Protestant explanation is pretty much the same thing too (the biggest difference being that an individual can change religion - unlike in speciation, where individuals don't change).
If religious people think that evolution is fake... Then why are people on other continents look different? Why are some people starting to not have some stuff in their body while their born?
Theory is a hypothesis extrapolated, tested, and backed up by scientific evidence. Hypothesis is an extrapolation of concepts and variables that needs to be tested by science.
How are humans evolving ? Well one way is more and more humans don't need their wisdom teeth taken out it's a small change but evolution starts with a small change creationists believe evolution is like it is in pokemon and that is simply not true
When scientists use the word theory, it has a different meaning to normal everyday use. In science, a theory is not a guess, not a hunch. It's a well-substantiated, well-supported, well-documented explanation for our observations. Some people think that in science, you have a theory, and once it's proven, it becomes a law. That's not how it works. A theory never becomes a law. In fact, if there was a hierarchy of science, theories would be higher than laws. There is nothing higher, or better, than a theory. These explanations are called theories, and will always be theories. They can't be changed into laws, because laws are different things. Laws describe, and theories explain. Just because it's called a theory of gravity, doesn't mean that it's just a guess. The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is our best explanation for the fact of evolution. Evolution is not just a theory, it's triumphantly a theory!
I love that channel. In China they found feathered dinosaur so that's proof of evolution is real. Look at everyone let's say 1700s and they were smaller than us today fast evolution and we live longer too.
I am not religious but believe that there is a Physical Evolution paralleled to a Spiritual Evolution... A Divine Spark that is also Evolving.... Most likely Love is the deeper evolutionary spark.. Australian Aboriginals see a Connectedness of Everything starting with the land as sacred. That rings true for me.
evolution is impossible because it needs genetic information to produce the characteristics of the individual, the information must come first, and the DNA information is not the product of natural laws or processes, and this impossibility becomes visible when an example of a species that Whether creating new organs or new functions (which is the basis of the evolutionary idea), there is adaptation, variation and speciation, but all "within" what the information contained in DNA allows. are there mutations? of course, but they are the product of the alteration, annulment or degeneration of the information contained in the DNA, everything points to the existence of a Superior Being that created everything = God
If Americans exist, why the British people still exist?
No it's not.
Americans came from British people.
Muy bueno...
Because we gotta get our tea and crumpets from somewhere. ;)
America evolved from Britain. American English in terms of looseness is superior. Americans evolved in both directions. We are the stupidest smart folks in the universe. We have the best boxers yet we celibrate the brutes. We are at the top of the nutcase chain and we don't even realize it. Reverend Lennox Thomas was once the absolute best of all our specially theologians until he got run over by a tour bus. Again, evolution in action. It goes both ways!
@@EinsteinKnowedIt American English is broken English.
wait, you're not suposed to throw shit?
God I thought I was the only one
+sansaction l It's optional. Here on YT, it's expected.
Politicians
Just means you have a reliable excuse if you do
People with dementia do exactly that. I've also seen them drink their own urine from their pee jug.
But if Adam and Eve never existed, then there was no Fall, no original sin, no need for atonement, and therefore no need for a savior. The entire christian religion implodes.
Joe Smith do you know that if you can’t explain how nothing produced something or where what evolved came from and what made them do what they did to evolve, that evolution theory implodes. Firstly explain how, why, what etc of nothing making something or exploding then theorise about evolution. You have to have a lot of faith to believe that nothing made something however a genius you are.
Sebente so how did god come from nothing? If everything has to have a creator then where did god come from?
@@imagery3210 I donot know where God came from. No creation will ever know that either. The Bible tells us that He has always been there. We believe that by faith. By world definition that is a religion.
Not really. If Adam and Eve never existed people would still be sinful and flawed. If you take the idea of original sin out of the equation that doesn't excuse all the sins people commit. There's a reason the majority of Christians accept evolution and theologians have been saying Genesis is meant to be allegorical for well over a thousand years.
im facepalming at this comment rn Dx
I'm an atheist and I just wanted to make sure that I understand evolution well enough.
Good
Well you might have the seed of an animal, I sure don't.
East West South Slavs United all atheist read bible
@East West South Slavs United have YOU read the Bible? I mean actually read it, not just accept everything as true because it's in the Bible despite contradictions.
Hear is what you can do. Put your hands together and pray for better understanding of evolution. And do it while we ain't looking.
If God created humans from dirt, why is there still dirt?
Checkmate theists.
Prithvi SANKAR
if God took Adam's rib cage to make Eve, then why is there still rib cages?
Checkmate Theists
lawrence lmaooo
lmao
Typical atheist trolls...
חסיד ישו the mighty god need to copy another rip cage when he could just make one
I legitimately tried to explain evolution to my friends family, when i asked what their view of evolution was they described something like evolution in pokemon, after that i gave up on trying to explain this to people
hahhaha
Which one rolls off the tongue better?
"He's evolving!"
He's metamorphosing!"
@@qaaris4280 Call it "morphing", then. Which one rolls the tongue better?
"It's evolving!
It's morphing!"
Good point.
@Pastor Craig know its garbage? the evidence is in biology, youve been mislead into thinking it is something else and you dont bother looking into it further
why do fossils NEVER appear in the wrong layer of sediments? why do you think the earth is 10 000 years old when there are radioactive isotopes that have decayed well past their half lives of millions of years?
You know nothing except fairy tales written by the ill educated who had no idea where the sun went at night and you have the audacity to claim their superstitions as true
Reason > Religion
Pure ignorance.
*SCIENCE* >>>>>> Religion
Science is the result of religion. Look it up and shut up.
Byzantine Servant shut the fuck up fuck god
Why you hate Jesus? One logical reason.
The theory of evolution is where it started for me to start questioning Catholicism. After a while, one contradiction with science led to historical contradictions, moral contradictions, logical contradictions, until I noticed nothing made sense and the realities I have lived up until then split.
Matthias de Boer
No, it doesn't. Shut up.
Matthias de Boer every theist says that.
Marco Cappelli
Woah, that's an argument. Careful, you might make me atheist.
What makes you think that, though?
The Herald how does evolution fail? that video is from PragerU which isn't a very factual place to go for anything. I can give a argument if you present something.
John Kittz
Wait, I didn't say that, I just wanted to see your point of view on this
If evolution is true, then why am I still a Christian?
Checkmate intelligent people.
You choose to stick with it
+The Church of Silly Beggars Atheism is growing. If you were born a few generations on you probably wouldn't be... As we evolve we learn to think & question.... & SOME of us evolve enough to leave believing in fairytales behind us. Those should be for children.
***** Ummmm.... Sorry.... Which beliefs shouldn't be left to take root? *Confused*
***** Thanks for clarification.... Now I can go ahead & "like" your coments... LOL ;)
Because you were indoctrinated into it since birth.
Evolution is true.. There, I said it.
End of conversation.
That's all you need to know.
+Lui Nonaka Because the internet is automatically incredulous...
+Milan Shilov You're brave. Now you're gonna have every fool & his Mother commenting to the contrary... LOL ;)
+Andy McStab As the kids would say, "fail troll is fail." But I'm certain you are extremely pleased with how clever you think you are.
+Milan Shilov The beauty of science is that it's true whether you believe it or not.
"Evolution is like aging, there is no point where you were once young and became old"
-Joe Hanson
5:55: This reminds me of that one episode of Futurama where Dr. Banjo says there is no fossils between humans and apes and Prof. Farnsworth keeps pointing out over a dozen fossils between them until there is finally a gap in which there isn't a fossil record and Dr. Banjo goes on that it proves that evolution doesn't exist, despite all the other fossils that prove the contrary. I feel like that's what a lot of these evolution deniers do.
Selective understanding 😂
Science is not something to believe in. Science just is. Laws. Science happens, whether or not you "believe".
Everyone does believe in science but some people don't believe in specific parts of it because their holy book is right and science and all other religions are wrong
And Darwin is infallible ?@@PopeUrbanX
Darwin is also a fraud .
If I ever hear someone say they don't believe in evolution, I'll probably automatically assume that they are idiots.
also, almost all christians here in iceland think adam and eve are just stories and still believe in evolution. but they are not as homophobic either...
***** you're*
Jade Monge D.I.Y Comedies and more Monge yeah
Am I Alive ? Same
Sesselja BS thats not very nice
"The Blind Watchmaker" by Dawkins is also good (although quite technical. Takes a bit of patience to read it).
Evolution isn't a ladder. It's a tree.
I have a book on my shelf "Music Theory". I guess might not be real either.
Same with the therory of gravity, that shit dosn't make sense.
+Mike52300 A lot of gravitational theory doesn't make sense to me... The equation is a fractional reduction, which means it will never reach zero without an equal & opposite gravitational force. How many billions of gravitational masses are in the Universe? With all those fractional reductions never reaching zero, then gravity should be overlapping throughout the Universe and intensely strong in between galaxies, shouldn't it?
+Nowan Inparticular You have forces pulling at you from all directions. Statistically they will tend to cancel out.
Griexxt Mathematically, that only works if they're equal on all sides... Galaxy clusters aren't even & we should be feeling considerably more gravity from the galaxy cluster our galaxy is heading towards on a converging path with the Andromeda galaxy
Nowan Inparticular
"Mathematically, that only works if they're equal on all sides..."
If you have forces acting on you from a large number of random directions they will tend to cancel out. Meaning that the resultant force will typically be much weaker than the scalar sum of all the forces acting on you.
"Galaxy clusters aren't even & we should be feeling considerably more gravity from the galaxy cluster our galaxy is heading towards on a converging path with the Andromeda galaxy"
Not sure I understand the problem. Of course we are getting more gravitational pull from objects closer to us. But we are falling freely through space, so we don't actually feel the force.
Biblical literalism and science are incompatible. Those who reconcile science and religion do so by either distorting science or, more commonly, not taking the whole bible literally.
Fortunately, contrary to what many Christians and the vast majority of Atheists say, you're not actually required to take the Bible literally to be a Christian.
Scientific fact and scientific fiction cannot both be used in a biblical account. Let us take evolutionary theory. There are ten major problems with that thing. Scientific fact and not theory states that it takes information from here to the moon simply to make skin and this is scientific fact. Our greatest machine from CERN and that thing cost billions of dollars can barely make a single atom. I also have a great deal of difficulty reconciling how something which cannot think for itself just develop and birth itself. And also basic 9th grade biology tells us that between parents and its offspring that certain genes are turned on or off between the parents and their offspring, but evolutionary theory that information is added. What I do not understand is how that measures up to scientific fact because it states that multiple experiments by geneticists have been done which make an overwhelming case that adding information to smaller organisms cause them to explode. Also in humans we find that down syndrome is indeed caused by adding an extra gene which results in retardation so the scientific fact goes against the theory a great deal and I have not even listed the rest of problems or went into detail on either.
@@marquisarms7397 You have to be a troll. No one could be that dumb and still know how to post on RUclips.
My parents used to make me go to an Anglican church. For a short while our priest (or whatever he was called forgot) was doing a Christian mission in a different country. My father who was a scientist and was studying evolution at the time gave a book about it to the priest. He came to talk to me a few days later. I expected him to slander it, bit he told me this: "It's obvious that anyone who doesn't believe in evolution is sticking their head in the sand, but you understand, this stuff is beyond me." The ironic thing was that what he said to me prompted me to study religion and science, and now I'm an atheist because of his humble answer. Kind of ironic.
2019 now and we have a spider with a scorpion tail preserve in ember xD
Last school year, our English teacher showed us a text about Scottish sheep, which became smaller because of the climate change. Between the 1970s and the 2010s the average Scottish sheep became 5% smaller. During the 1970s the winters there still were really rough, and most of the smaller sheep died every year while the big ones reproduced. When the Earth started to heat up more and more over decades, more and more smaller Scottish sheep could survive and reproduce.
+Andy McStab
*_"Its natural selection, not evolution"_*
This alone shows that you STILL have abso-fucking-lutely no idea about what evolution is. Natural selection is a mechanism by which evolution occurs. You STILL deliberately spread misinformation about evolution in order to deceive people.
evolution: change of allele frequencies of species over time. Proven. Observed. Case closed.
I have a serious problem for your mythology: How can an immaterial (not even energy, because energy and matter are equivalent) person (which itself is self-contradictory, because you cannot make sense of a person without first materializing it) interact with the material world? Please, do not respond with one of your childish excuses in the name of god! Go for it!
Too both of you: I never intended this comment for a flamewar. In fact, the video simply reminded me of he text I was talking about.
Andy McStab
You implied that natural selection has nothing to do with evolution. And this view of yours is WRONG as it can only be. It is people like you that claim »it's just micro, it's just adaptation, and not evolution«
*_"Evolution likewise is not merely change over time, or "allele frequencies", as you put it, as mere change could lead to ever decreasing states of complexity and function, something called "devolution", which, by necessity, is not evolution."_*
Do you see? You are wrong AGAIN and thereby, you confirmed my view regarding your ignorance about evolution.
How can you seriously thnk that a change in one direction is evolution, but not in the other direction? Do you still don't get it? Nature has no goals to accomplish. But you think it has to. You utterly failed. Try again.
Why do I flame you? Because people like you are shameful and audacious individuals .
TheBastius This one (Andy McStab) is dim.... do you really think he's worth the effort?
Birch Williams
Obviously not...
Actually there are thousands of transitional fossils for every specie including humans
We have never seen a transitional species. Also there are animals that have remained the same for many millions if years. I have asked people to demonstrate evolution starting with an existing animal. This raises a question: Evolution can't explain the genesis of even the smallest creatures, yet you want to insist that it is totally true, and that it is science. If it isn't logical, it isn't science. So how does evolution start, seeing that nobody has seen it happen? No single work has ever been created over millions of years. Of course, you'll be waiting for millions of years and more to see it happen. Now maybe you're talking about "morphing" into some other form, but machines don't morph. They are many parts working together. "Transitional species" is also a joke, because you can never tell that a species that is complete came from another, unless of course God did it. So show me how an animal emerges from a preexisting organism.
Hemant, your clips on these topics are the best on the net!! Thank you!
One of the reasons i lost interest in Christianity as a teenager was when i was being taught creation in church and evolution in school.
Christianity will die if they are going to keep fighting against science.
Christianity has stood the test of time!!
@@markjones4712In the last 5 years people who ticked no religion on the census in my country increased from 30% to 39%. Time is not on your side.
@@Artman1 where abouts do you live in the World?
@@markjones4712 Joined 6th July 2022. Did you start a new account just to troll people?
@@Artman1 Don't talk Daft, I'm not a Troll that's a bit over the Top..
4:13 Evolution is just a theory...
A GAME THEORY!
+Honkarakiri XD well..... played ... hehe.....he .. meh
+Honkarakiri chortles
+Honkarakiri Giggity!
+Honkarakiri Come on, even mattpatt acknowledges the difference between a game theory and a scientific theory. This is 1 of the few cases where the game theory joke is useless.
+Rendom Stranger some people still found it humorous, no need to kill it.
GOD IS REAL AND HE IS REALLY REAL HE DOES EXIST ANY DISBELIEVERS SHALL BE PUNISHED BECAUSE A GUY SAVED US BY BEING NAILED TO A PLUS SIGN.
yeah XD
+Krustacean Is this a joke?
The One And the Only Yes, it is
this was an obvious and hilarious joke lol!
Oh, I'm glad it made at least one person happy!
i am filipino from philippines. Proud atheist too.!
Like pokemon evolution when pokemon in one moment evolves into its next stage
On the subject of evolution, I think I've figured out why some men prefer foreign women. I think it could be a deep, subconscious desire for genetic diversity, which helps give evolution along. Any thoughts?
BEEELEEE sounds like a thought to me
probably also why most people don't do incest
Malina Kimm I feel like this would be more plausible: Incest eventually got weeded out from humans because results of incest were less fit, and more likely to die before reproducing, leaving us with genes that hate incest.
BEEELEEE I doubt it is that. It is probably just that people see local women a lot so it looks "normal" to them, which makes foreigners stand out.
I'm no expert though.
Cant be real it's just a tHeOry
How to explain evolution:
You know that game, Pokémon? Well, the evolution process is a LOT slower than that. Each and every species, including you is Eevee.
that is so perfect and awesome answer!!
@Andre R. Nazario Except that the Noah's Ark story is a myth.
It's based on a small kernel of truth, but it's nothing like the impossible, infantile story in the bible, which has been blown out of all proportion.
@Andre R. Nazario " all things become true in theory of strings,"
There are a lot of problems with String Theory.
Still, if you believe all things are true, please come and meet me with £5K in cash, and we can see if you really believe that.
@Andre R. Nazario "one cannot serve money and god."
And THAT is why you should NEVER trust a televangelist!
@Andre R. Nazario "unless he is serving god with his money"
Oh you know that none of them do that!
i liked your picture analogy
Imade i've finally found a good comment.
I find it extremely sad that there still are people for whom anything in this video isn't kinda obvious.
By the principle of Occam's Razor, beween two equally sufficient explanations, you dismiss the one with the most assumptions, which is of course that God "guided" evolution. In other words, if you don't NEED God for evolution to happen, then he most likely didn't have anything to do with it at all. lmao
That Crocoduck thing is really stupid. Anyone with any sense would be looking for those Duckodiles, instead.
Great video. One suggestion, as a biologist, I would recommend not using "survival of the fittest" because fitness has a specific meaning in biology and this phrase causes unnecessary confusion.
Nepali Ninja: Fitness in this context means "fit for purpose" (or fit for the particular environment) which makes perfect sense......that's why polar bears don't live in the Sahara desert.
if evolution is true then why is there still mankeys? checkmate trainers.
+An Abra As soon as you reach level 16 everything will be revealed.
evolution it just like pokemon evolution my friend
not quite- pokemon "evolution" is really just metamorphisis
+An Abra If evolution is true, why don't we ever observe a speices go through macro evolution?
+Jesus-is LORD we actually did that with fruit flies.
4:13 Evolution is just a theory... A SCIENCE THEORY. Sorry, I'll see myself out.
Then why are scientists working with DNA to reproduce living creatures?
The one where they say "it's only a theory" ...well , they're mixing it up with the word hypothesis. Theory is based upon reason and some facts and needs to have some evidence to support it while a hypothesis is, just an idea. Basically religion is a hypothesis.
Great video! You did a very good job researching the topic! The only (very small) inaccuracy I found was at 2:23 you say, "every living thing is evolving." Which is not entirely true, populations evolve, organisms do not. Again, I love the video and all of your other videos, keep up the great work!
+Thomas Coard That's actually a very good point. It seems like that's something that a lot of people don't understand. And something that confuses a lot of people.
+Thomas Coard Needs more upvotes.
+Thomas Coard Also, Evolution and the Theory of Evolution are separate but related things. Evolution is the observation that new species come into existence. The Theory of evolution is the explanation of how that happens. Similar to Gravity and Gravitational Theory.
Thomas Coard Can't you say, evolution of species is basically Mutation? ( which can happen in single organism also) e.g- polar bears. (Black/Brown bear's one gene mutated which defines the fur color, turning into white, thus increasing the surviving chances in the snowy area.)
I believe your are mistaken, Thomas, or else you are inexact with your terminology. Organisms do evolve, but only by reproducing. The offspring are different from the parents, hence they have evolved.
My mom once asked me why I only believe things if there is evidence.
oye Wth?! 🤣 Your mom’s dumb! Why would you believe in something with no evidence of it?
Dont you dare call my mom dumb.
@@oye6124 The person who caused the most suffering in your life is pretty stupid
oye: I hope she doesn't work as a judge !!
@@1nv15BL3 i never said she caused me the most suffering keep your words out of my mouth
Great idea comparing theory of evolution to puzzle, we might miss few pieces here and there, but we are already able to see whole picture. :-) Remembered for later use. :-)
4:14 *A GAME THEORY !!* Uh wait no 😂😂😂
hi Hemant. Another excellent video, thank you. The book that finally made me get evolution is "The Blind Watchmaker", also by Richard Dawkins. It made me realize just how coherent a theory evolution is. I also would recommend the book that got it all started, the Origin of Species. Darwin wrote in deferential, unassuming style, and given the period in which it was written, is a simply wonderful book. I first read the first and last chapters (because reading the whole book is quite an endeavor), but that was enough to inspire me to read the whole thing. One other thing I'd point out about the idea that the gods guide evolution somehow: evolution is cruel. it takes like forever. it tries just about every conceivable wrong way to do something before a better way is found. there is much waste and suffering associated with the evolutionary process. most mutations are bad news for the individual. why would the gods generate new species in such an indifferent, monstrous way?
Scientist: That's the Theory of Evolution.
Christian: There's still monkey.
Time Traveler: Let's Find out.
Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist who believes in evolution, but I have a legitimate question. What happened to all the species that evolved from apes before humans? Like Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo habilis, etc.? How did they all die out?
***** Yeah, but there's not ONE branch of our ralatives still living?
+Tango Down
Some of them continued evolving into us, others mixed with us, others didn't.
Everyone dies. A branch of an still existing species can die. An entire species can die. Imagine it like a family if it makes it easier. Every time somebody dies without progeny, that bit of their family tree dies out, if that is prevalent in the tree, it dies back even further, eventually it might die back to the initial branch which defined that family.
They weren't well adapted to live anymore and becomes extinct.
+stormsasuke I imagine they competed with the newly evolved species over the same environment and the newer species killed them off.
ArchDemonGaming That or the new species were better adapted and the old species couldn't survive due to being worse at gathering food.
I was explaining my dad about natural selection he kept on blabbing oh well we breath! Were did that come from??
Me: oxygen
How come everything is so perfect (i'm not saying it is my dad who said that)
Me: natural selection
What keeps the planets up?
Me: gravity
Who created you?
Me: my mom
So basically he keeps on asking me questions so one day I'll get stuck on one and then I'll be like "Omg! Dad you're so right! I can't prove it! God exists!"
I'm just thinking, I'm okay with people being christan (like him) why aren't they okay with me being an athiest? Lol people can be so closed minded i believe people can be entitled to their own opinions I respect his why doesn't he respect mine lol.
I'm not saying that I have authority over my dad that would be stupid of me to say, but can I have my own opinions??
Just a nitpick, you were created by both your dad and mom. It takes two to tango. :)
U can have ur own belief but think ur dads side. He believes that Christianity is true ( I agree, Orthodoxy ofc), and knows his son doesn't all he can do as a father worried about his son's soul is to try make him believe and prey. If u are so determined to refuse God don't be bothered by a worried dad. That's my opinion 🙌
#2 THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT EVOLUTION IS SMALL CHANGES THROUGH MILLIONS OF YEARS TO MAKE A MAJOR CHANGE (improvement) IN THEIR SPECIES TO MAKE A NEW ONE
Lmao Christians say that public schools are bad well at least we learn about evolution lmao
Never heard them say that...
As a former pastor and believer, Hemant would be the number 1 person I'd like to share a beer with.
+Mark Whitson Alright you were a pastor... I have to ask. Are you guys trained to gloss over the nastier parts of the bible or.... what's the deal there?
+Jak perhaps trained indirectly. When you grow up seeing people you trust accept the entirety of scripture, and try and spin the gruesome aspects into life lessons, it makes it palatable. You don't really understand what you're being taught as a youngster. There really are quite a few variables.
We didn't come from apes, both apes and humans came from protohumans. It's the reason for different DNA segments of apes not matching our human DNA.
Evolution evident in humans:
1 - bulging tendon that connects forearm to hand. Most Millennial or younger people do not have this tendon, as humans no longer require the extra strength it offered to climb trees with ease. Older humans do tend to have this.
2 - wisdom teeth - our jaws have become smaller as we no longer need to project our voices as much, or rip apart food with our mouths (hence cutlery). Wisdom teeth are missing from younger people as with our smaller jaws they are actually to the detriment of our health, and therefore have been excluded from new generations.
And what's this about no transitional fossils? The lung fish and archaeopteryx are two prime examples of transitional fossils. The lung fish is evidence of life starting in the seas, and transitioning to land. The archaeopteryx is evidence (well I believe and other scientists believe) it's evidence for dinosaurs turning into birds, or at last one type of dinosaur.
Traditional evolutionary theory focuses primarily on the work of natural selection. Are there challenges to this emphasis by claiming that strong biases in the rates at which traits can arrive through variation may direct evolution towards outcomes that are not simply 'beneficial'?
Could it be that instead, the most genetically available mutations dominated the changes in traits?
Is it possible that nine out of 10 species on Earth today, including humans, came into being 100,000 to 200,000 years ago?
It is a fact that species with large, far-flung populations-think ants, rats, humans-will become more genetically diverse over time?
Laura Irwin: Don't forget the appendix.....an evolutionary "left over".
For a big portion of my life, I always believed evolution was not real and that it was a silly concept. Also I was never properly taught about evolution from K-12 nor did my parents understood the theory either so it wasn't completely my fault why I did not understand a complex theory like evolution.
It wasn't until I sat down to one of my first college classes that I found out how awesome evolution was. It's funny too because everyone hated the professor (he was super strict) but I am ever so thankful towards him that he was able to break down biology and explain evolution to me, who had no clue and was amazed by it all. When I began to critically think about my life and understanding science and how the world works and then my own religious views began to break down.
So it's very true that people who are against evolution also don't understand it. And I am a strong advocate about the theory of evolution being taught in public schools and should have a more stronger stance within the curriculum. Because if evolution taught me to finally understand science and critical thinking then we are truly holding back our own kids in this country.
There are ten major problems with it. The original purpose of college was to give you both sides of the argument and let you make your mind up which you will follow but unfortunately that is no longer the case. It is good to be exposed to multiple ideas, but when you are given only one side to choose of course you would say that this has to be the right answer, but what is not often discussed are the problems of this theory. Why that is I cannot say, but there are ten scientifically factual flaws with this theory. I say this because most people do not tend to separate scientific fact from theory in this context often. I will list some of these flaws here. In the first place, how does something generate from nothing? In the second place, it takes a combination of knowledge in chemistry large enough to go from here to the moon just to make skin. How much more will it take to make a person let alone the universe. Genetic experiments have confirmed that adding information to smaller organisms causes them to explode and we know that the disease called down syndrome happens when extra genetic material is added to a human which causes humans to be retarded. I say this in part because both sides should be known before reaching a premature conclusion. It is only fair that college students know the whole story before reaching a final conclusion.
Claims to not know all of evolution... Still knows more than most people. You're doing something right hemnant
+TheAtheistVoice The Ancestors Tale is an amazing book ive read.. and it really explains the wonder of evolution. Ritchard Dawkins is a great man with great writing.
I'm Catholic but I have no problem of working in evolution into my believes and pd pretend it plays role in Gods creation. Yhe, if you take Darwins or Dawkins book, sizzorees and cut out all the things that contradict religion it leaves a little place for them but if you want you can have them work side by side. Many people did this way.
So there you go ;)
r+MissWordek So basically you can make it work by ignoring all the bits that contradict your religion? sounds kinda stupid to me
+hillsidecomixinc1 it's not so much to make sure everything makes perfect sense, but rather enough sense in a bit of an arbitrary way to make oneself comfortable with the scientific ideas that they feel are true, but without abandoning the religious ideas that they fear sacrificing. It's not perfectly logical but if it allows people to become knowledgeable on scientific ideas and still hold on to their religious beliefs to make them feel safe, I find no issue.
Oh boy, that's some atrocious spelling/grammar. Oh well. I have a question to ask you. How exactly could u possibly maintain ur beliefs if u also accept evolution. U say it's possible and many people but just consider this. If evolution is true, then there was no adam and eve, right? Well that also means there was no original sin either, right? So, if there wasn't ever an original sin, then what's the point of having a jesus? It's clear that in the bible, Jesus's primary purpose was to sacrifice himself and in doing so forgive humanity of it's original sin. But, wait! If evolution is true, there was no original sin, which means that there is no need for jesus to sacrifice himself for humanity... RIGHT?
*many people think the same
+Joseph Mott Ask the pope, he and most previous popes and catholics accept both. They dont take the bible literaly. A previous pope awarded the scientists who figured out the Big bang. Young earth creationists say the world is less than 10,000 yrs old complete with evidence that it was older. You might as well say it was created yesterday with all our memories. Its possible but not many people believe me, I cant proove it, but I have faith the gods created it yesterday. Can anyone proove it wasnt created yesterday.
#30 Which evolved first: blood, the heart, or the blood vessels for the blood to travel through?
#31 Which evolved first: the mouth, the stomach, the digestive fluids, or the ability to poop?
#32 Which evolved first: the windpipe, the lungs, or the ability of the body to use oxygen?
#33 Which evolved first: the bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or the muscles to move the bones?
Something tells me that you don't have the educational background to understand the answers you seek.
Larry Crabs who has the educational background when evolutionosts cant answer simple questions?
Richard Dawkins actually explained this. It's obvious I can't tell you the exact process of each system but the idea is that everything evolves at the same time, going from a simple cell that accepts 'food' and then releases it as well as accepting oxygen and develops a basic circulatory system to having a full functioning circulatory system, a digestive system, etc. Every system works that way.
He threw the example of the eye, which is a complex organ; he said that at the very first start we can speculate it would be just a lens that captures light and dark, as slowly as it evolves, it begins to understand how light and dimensions works, what the space is. And gradually is being refined.
Also the way to evolve is by improving stuff from our body to be comfortable and having less trouble. So things get more complex with the time to make itself work better. That is the basic idea of evolution and an estimate answer to your questions if you like.
Clerefor Sede The most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
The coolest evolution in real time is when species splits into many subspecies occupying large area. Very often the subspecies living next to each other can have fertile offspring, when the subspecies living farthest from each other cannot have fertile offspring. It means that subspecies living farthest from each other have become two different species. They evolved. Another scary example of evolution is when the germs evolve rapidly underneath the microscope. I sincerely believe that no major player will ever use Bio weapons for the very reason of fast evolution of the germs. In a secret Soviet city, they had an accident at the weaponized Anthrax factory. Everyone was preemptively vaccinated and meds were ready, and, yet, everyone exposed died! Because the strain of the weaponized Anthrax evolved while in storage!
Cool and simple
The guy who made that chart did it to provide a very basic overview and feared it might be mistaken for the actual way it worked. Guess that fear was well founded. Thanks Christian education
One theist asked my. Then why not evolution is happening now😂🤦🏼♂️
Dude human history is 2 million years..... a human usually hardly lives 100 years and evolution is long ass process we can't see the difference evolution makes wtf typical stupid theists questions
thank you... you answered a question recently put forth to me by theist that I was unable to immediately answer (transitional fossils)..I loved your videos
Best video you've had in a while.
#4: there are no transitional fossils
Me: ... wait, are they being serious? Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t we have Archaeopteryx fossils which is a transition between (non-avian) feathered dinosaurs and modern birds?
You can always place god in the beginning. It can't be refuted. It can't be proven either. Sooooo, not really worth debating. What we can debate is his influence on the word AFTER that "beginning". Because that's where we can see inconsistencies with what we know, but even there, since we don'T know everything, you can always put god outside our light cone of knowledge, and whenever we reach further you just put him outside a little further.
+GreenOnionBrother Actually you can poke god out of the beginning also. That is as long as the opposing side claims that god "created" universe or "sparked" the Big Bang or whatever. All these are concepts of the first cause. Since god created time as well (surely, the creator created everything after all), there is an immediate contradiction. To "cause" a universe, there needs to be a causality or an equivalent relation between two consequent states (first universe does not exist, then it does) - this cannot be achieved without time or some sort of "supertime". Without time and causality already in place, god cannot perform the action of causing the universe, or creating the causality in the first place.
This of course hold on the naive claim that universe came to be through action of god (literally caused or created). It is possible to concieve of sophisticated relations of god and the universe which do not need such constructs to take place. However these are far beyond comprehension of most people (since the universe needs to be understood from outside space-time concepts or at least relativistically), and thus can never be what religions actually assert. Since that is the case, the naive relation of god to the universe as propesed by religion is refutable.
This is by the way only a "modern" rephrasing of an objection comming from India during time before Christ (after spread of the Old Tesament-based curture). Still not resolved by abrahamic religions, but still valid in modern scientific view.
Oh, and sorry for writing so lenghtly comment.
+GreenOnionBrother "God" has logically contradictory properties. So, in a way, we know it doesn't exist.
+GreenOnionBrother The "God started it" bit is especially pointless, because obviously most believers do not just care about the idea of some distant creator, but imagine a god who considers mankind his masterpiece and still cares about them.
But evolution clearly points to the idea that our human existence is just as much a rather random occurence as that of mice or cockroaches, however impressive we might seem. In any case, the fact that the universe existed for billions of years before the first life even started, then life existed for ages before humans came around (by which time 99% of all previously living things had already died) and the fact that life will continue long after fragile humans have died out makes it seems very unlikely that our occurence in time was in anyway planned or a particular highlight.
have you got evidence of god.
No personal experiences
Jakub Pekárek
Don't worry about the length, as long as it's interesting, I'll read it.
I'm not terribly well versed in physics, but as far as I understand it, there are multiple levels of theories of the multiverse, do all of them assume that all universes where created at the same time?
Then again, if he was just an entity from a different person, he'd still not be the first thing to ever exist.
But there is a much simpler question that causes theists to stumble sometimes: If the human being is so complex and amazing, that it couldn't exist without and architect, then who create god, a being that is even more complex?
Demian Haki True, most do, but I was talking theoretically. You could also argue, that he put everything in place in the very beginning, knowing that those building blocks of the universe would eventually lead to the existence of humans. So evolution etc. actually happened without intervention etc.
Which effectively would still make humans the pinnacle of his plan or whatever.
Bu Jakub does make a compelling case but I'm gonna have to read up on this.
EVOLUTION IS JUST A THEORY!! END OF STORY!!! MOVE ON!!!!
It is a scientific theory! Please look it up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
The Kalidor Thank you!! Though in my opinion, I wouldnt use wikipedia, but that's just me!!
evolution is not a scientific theory it is just a theory
+sarud durdstrom Yeah exactly and either way, whether it be a scientific theory or just a theory, IT'S JUST A THEORY!! IT'S NOT PROVEN!!
+sarud durdstrom I'm not yelling at you!
According to bible earth existed with trees and grass before sun 😂
And the earth is merely 6000 gears old with no scope of dinosaurs and other extinct animals 😀. Even according to it many civilizations didn't even exist since they were older than earth 😂
People don't accept evolution "because they don't understand it?" I don't accept evolution because it doesn't make any sense. I could say the same thing about your beliefs. You don't accept The Bible because you don't understand it, which is probably true based on what I've seen in your videos.
The common ancestor argument is absurd. Many people, when referring to evolving from primates, are not talking about modern primates. When somebody says "you believe we evolved from apes," they aren't talking about gorillas. The Australopithecus, although it may not be a modern ape, is still an ape.
Saying that evolution is taking place is a complete joke. Adaptations and natural selection is taking place, and that may result in change in species and possibly even genus, but not families, orders, classes, phylums, and even kingdoms like you're suggesting. Evolution is a violation of the scientific method because it cannot be tested or observed, therefore making it not science.
Evolution is a not a theory, all though it is labelled as that. It is simply a hypothesis with no evidence, failing to explain many basic things. There are many problems with evolution which prove it wrong. The "jigsaw piece which doesn't belong" is all over the puzzle. It cannot be tested or observed, and there's no evidence, so it is foolish to believe that evolution should even be defined as a theory.
Give me one example of a transitional fossil that's been found. And even if you did find one, according to your theory, 99.9% of all species which have ever lived are now extinct. In order to prove that, we'd need to find at least five billion fossils, each being a different species.
+KingZam Ikr.. Not to mention all the false premises that further expose his incredulity on evolution..... P.S (Just in case op doesn't understand.. These are statements, not arguments.)
+KingZam Well to be fair, quite a few atheists haven't read the Bible but so have quite a few theists.. So I can understand where he might be coming from.. Many atheists actually were theists in the past until they realized the bs. So yes, many atheists understand the bible and have read the bible because they actually BELIEVED in it at one point.. Hell, to this day, I still go back and read the bible. Disclaimer: (Some theists have deconverted to atheism and some atheists have converted to theism. Some people haven't changed and some people have changed.)
***** There are thousands of hidden meanings, prophecies, connections, messages, and ideas in The Bible. It could take years of study to fully understand it. Most atheist I've seen saying bad things towards the Bible take things out of context, get confused by simple messages, and don't understand why certain things happened because instead of reading it all, they take out certain parts to try and turn more people against God.
+Luckero "It could take years to fully understand it." Well, we've had enough time. 2020 years roughly.
Dude, you just proved Hemant's point.
Hey Honey Mehta said (7:07) "... all of us are transitional fossils." Well I'm not dead and in the ground for millions and millions of years. Isn't that silly?
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Hemant, I purchased a copy of the Extended Phenotype, although I haven't started reading it yet. Should I read the Ancestor's Tale first? Thank you.
My response to their "why are there still apes" is to say "if Eve came from Adam's rib, why are there still ribs?".
Jerry Coyne's "Why Evolution Is True" should be in everyone's library.
DAMN. I've used the photo analogy too.
Minor point, but humans actually ARE apes, we're not simply related to apes.
if you came from your parents.
Then why do you still have parents?
Well I dunno. Why do we still have parents??
😄Avatars of Vishnu:
1. Matsya (Fish) - Matsya Puran
2. Kurma (Turtle) - Kurma Puran
3. Varaha (Boar) - Varaha Puran
4. Narashimha (half man, half lion)
5. Vamana (Dwarf)
6. Parashurama (Ram with an Axe caveman)
7. Ram (Civilized Human form) - Ramayana; Hanuman, a Vanara (Primates) 11th Avatar of God of Shiva, who walked upright on two legs
8. Krishna (Jagat Guru) - Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita
9. Buddha (Enlightened) - Srimad Bhagavada Puran, Vishnu Puran, Dharmapad
10. Kalki (destroyer)
Smaller populations tend to evolve faster than large populations, not an absolute but a trend. Non-debilitating mutations are passed down with useful mutations. If it doesn't prevent you from reproducing your offspring will have it. Some mutations will not be apparent in a population until there are sufficient members with 2 copies of the same gene. This can cause jumps in evolution. Hybrids can sometimes reproduce. Two closely related species can sometimes interbreed and create a new viable species.
i am religious (roman pagan) and i belive in evolution
The problem with these videos is just that more likely you're going to only be receiving views and intelligent people who already accept and have studied evolution
Theoretically all living beings had to evolve to withstand drastic changes at their environment and not to be extincted but not all of them were successfully preserved.
How can a simple monkey brain can be transformed into complicated human brain through evolution??
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Both evolved separately.
@@upworkqureshi6665 : Why are all creationists obsessed with monkeys? Nobody claims that humans evolved from monkeys.
This video has been up for six years and the comments are still stupid af.
Most of the confusion about it being "only" a theory comes, I think, from the colloquial use of the word "theory" - because in everyday life we often call a theory something that scientifically would be called thesis/hypothesis. So of course, the theory that the moon is made of cheese based on "oh, they look similar, how cool it would be if I was right!" isn't the same as a scientific theory basen on facts and evidence.
Question if a animal lives a couple million years would he see himself evolve
No, that 1animal wont evolve. It cant change in 1generation. Even if it lives 10.000.000.000. Years, but if it only gets 30, and the generations keep going a few million years, you will see changes. (Im sorry for my english im from the Netherlands and im tired😂😂)
Chihuahuas, pugs and poodles may not look the part, but if you trace their lineages far enough back in time, all dogs are descended from wolves alone. Genetic alterations, by man made breeding strategies, were alone responsible for the miniature poodle and all other current dog breeds......and yet there are still wolves. This was intentional rapid tinkering with the genes by humans in a relatively short time window. This evolutionary process also happens automatically in nature r/t natural selection, survival of the fittest, and favorable genetic mutations within species, that over time slowly and gradually branch out to other species, and everything in between. Picture the trunk of a large tree, and then all of the branches, and sub branches. But evolutionary time by means of natural selection, happens over thousands, millions, and ten of millions of years. Just like with the dogs genetically being "sculpted" from wolves, life has evolves like that over epochs of time. Over 99% of species that have ever existed on the earth have died out, over great spans of time that are incomprehensible to humans. There is so much evidence that Evolutionary Theory of Darwin puts all the puzzle pieces together, and is now considered scientific FACT (as are other theories such as The Theory of General and Special Relativity, Quantum Theory, the Pythagorean Theorem, etc). Also tracing mitochondrial DNA and the human genome completely verifies Darwin's THeory of evolution.
Richard Dawkins is great god delusion is also great book
The number one misconception about macroevolution is that it is true.
I believe that a supernatural being (like god but not god) created the big bang and everything after that was chance. Like the Being was doing an experiment. And that all God believing religions were created by very creative people. Smart people in fact. I do respect religions and religious people, but not those that will bully others for not having their same opinion.
As for #2, I think it's helpful to point to very visible cases of contemporary evolution in non-human animals, because it might provide more rigid evidence than in the case of humans. Case in point: Elephants of a new generation get born with smaller tusks, because the large-tusk specimens get hunted for ivory and so the small-tusk specimens have an advantage when it comes to procreation (Admittely, this isn't exactly natural selection, but human-caused evolution, but the principle applies. Humans are just another predator that forms part of an elephant's environment.)
+Demian Haki Isnt your example exactly natural selection? Humans as a predator is no different from all the other animal cases. Dont be shy to put the human species where it belongs. XD
Artificial selection - done by humans, occurs when humans actively control populations for their ability to reproduce. Say, you breed meat cows and the thin ones dont get bred, while the thick ones do. Its far more deliberate and controlled, than what we select for by being a predator.
Good video! for Q #1, I've found a quicker, clearer answer is "if many Americans descended from Germans, why are there still Germans?". It's a present day example they can usually understand, and it nicely captures the process of allopatric speciation. Of course, no analogy is perfect, and your explanation is still corrrect - but you may find the German explanation useful. Your Catholic/Protestant explanation is pretty much the same thing too (the biggest difference being that an individual can change religion - unlike in speciation, where individuals don't change).
If religious people think that evolution is fake... Then why are people on other continents look different? Why are some people starting to not have some stuff in their body while their born?
Theory is a hypothesis extrapolated, tested, and backed up by scientific evidence. Hypothesis is an extrapolation of concepts and variables that needs to be tested by science.
Hemant Mehta , please could you talk about the Scientology Chruch . I'd like to know what it's all about and your take on it .
How are humans evolving ? Well one way is more and more humans don't need their wisdom teeth taken out it's a small change but evolution starts with a small change creationists believe evolution is like it is in pokemon and that is simply not true
When scientists use the word theory, it has a different meaning to normal everyday use. In science, a theory is not a guess, not a hunch. It's a well-substantiated, well-supported, well-documented explanation for our observations. Some people think that in science, you have a theory, and once it's proven, it becomes a law. That's not how it works. A theory never becomes a law. In fact, if there was a hierarchy of science, theories would be higher than laws. There is nothing higher, or better, than a theory. These explanations are called theories, and will always be theories. They can't be changed into laws, because laws are different things. Laws describe, and theories explain.
Just because it's called a theory of gravity, doesn't mean that it's just a guess. The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is our best explanation for the fact of evolution. Evolution is not just a theory, it's triumphantly a theory!
the first 20 seconds of this video are extremely important lmao
You should do a simple atheist guide to critical thought. Something really simple for people to get the message and understand what it is exactly.
I love that channel. In China they found feathered dinosaur so that's proof of evolution is real. Look at everyone let's say 1700s and they were smaller than us today fast evolution and we live longer too.
I am not religious but believe that there is a Physical Evolution paralleled to a Spiritual Evolution...
A Divine Spark that is also Evolving.... Most likely Love is the deeper evolutionary spark..
Australian Aboriginals see a Connectedness of Everything starting with the land as sacred. That rings true for me.
Lord said let there be evolution and there was evolution 😂😂.
Whom did the god say so?😂
Tell us about the library behind you too, looks cool
How about you make a video about that Introductory Calculus book behind your right shoulder? It would help me out a lot!
+McCawley07 Ha! Not a bad idea...
I'm taking Calculus for the first time. It is super hard for me! Always great videos btw!
evolution is impossible because it needs genetic information to produce the characteristics of the individual, the information must come first, and the DNA information is not the product of natural laws or processes, and this impossibility becomes visible when an example of a species that Whether creating new organs or new functions (which is the basis of the evolutionary idea), there is adaptation, variation and speciation, but all "within" what the information contained in DNA allows. are there mutations? of course, but they are the product of the alteration, annulment or degeneration of the information contained in the DNA, everything points to the existence of a Superior Being that created everything = God
True it is. These guys are crazy. Intelligent design makes sense.