Creationists: "Bugs? Yeah, they can float on leaves and garbage for a year, who cares" Also creationists: "Wait, you think monkeys could just surf across the ocean on vegetation matts? ARE YOU INSANE?! LOL"
"Hey wait you might have a concussion!" Derik, running off with a severe concussion and massive brain trauma: "I BELIEVE IN YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISM!!!!"
@@NotSomeone68 Hey man, I just thought it was hilarious and wanted to imply that brain trauma led Derik to believe in a 6000 year old Earth where dinosaurs and humans lived together.
That movie already exists, it was called Wonder Woman part 2. Not only does the plane work at the museum but it's fully fueled and can fly for thousands of miles without a refill
Tim did say one thing correct! "Wait! You might have a concussion!" Yes, Tim. He almost certainly would. Derek was hit in the head hard enough to knock him out. That's concussion territory. He was out for an undetermined length of time. That is really serious. An ambulance should have been called and Derek taken to hospital to rule out bleeding on the brain or other possible results of a head injury. I sure hope he didn't drive after this. Very dangerous.
Iirc being knocked out for over 5 minutes is more than enough to cause irreversible brain damage. 5 minutes is probably the minimum amount of time it would take for Gigantor to find him. He could easily have gotten a concussion from the flashlight itself, the hardwood floor that he smacks against, etc. I would personally be surprised if he didn't have one, or another TBI
Yep, moral of the story is: brain does crazy shit and anecdotes are not evidence. In addition to that: the more gullible and ignorant you are, the easier it is to manipulate you. I wonder if they meant that movie to show that to drive more people toward rationality and away from superstitions like theism, or if completely debunking their own manipulative horseshit is just an inevitable side effect of stupid.
Usually, any loss of consciousness over a few seconds are reason for a trip to the hospital. Any blow hard enough to cause LoC should be followed up. And you can sustain a concussion without blacking out, a sharp blow to the head is really all that is needed, but concussions aren't necessarily all that dangerous. And Hollywood is wrong, you can absolutely take a nap while concussed, but get to a hospital first.
So one of the assessments done to determine how alert and orientated a person is, (especially after a suspected concussion) is to ask them the year, month, and the day of the week. I think the take away from this is to also ask if they believe the Earth to be 6 thousand years old. I know I would take myself to the hospital right away if I woke up believing that after passing out from a TBI.
Just going to say this: that display of one of the sons working metal upsets me to my core. I'm a hobbiest blacksmith and has devoted most of my adult life to learn that art; everything in that display is wrong. Noah's ark is set in the bronze age, why is he working iron? There's no fire in that shop, so he can't work that iron properly anyway. Bronze and copper takes heat to become liquid and a mold to be poured into. Bronze, copper, and iron takes a lot of fuel to get to temp and the fire gets stupid hot, no wood fire pit would survive the heat. And wouldn't they be spending more time shoveling crap and working feed to the animals, so why have a metal shop in the first place? Plus just about everything in tha boat would be organic materials; maybe a saw, ax, or knife, in there for fixing stuff if you're lucky.
@@EmeraldLavigne I doubt. Wooden shovels, pitchforks, or hoe-like tools were more likely. Plus bronze and copper are easier to work compared to Iron: you pour copper based metals into molds and forge iron based must be heated and beaten to form. Why use iron when you could use wood? You have a lot of it anyway making investing in making a forge, making the charcoal, making an anvil, tongs and a hammer then gather more iron to make stuff for the ark seems... silly. You'll be running around feeding animals and shoveling shit most of the time, making those two activities ALL that you do because of numbers. Ark sinks from lack of care.
They might want you to think it's large, but it's only about the size of a mid-war CVE or MS Estonia, which broke up and sank in a Baltic storm. Ferries of similar size are still common in the Baltic. She's dwarfed by even a Yorktown-class. She is however a bit bigger than Wyoming, which was the largest wooden ship ever built. Wyoming had iron cross-bracing, but still had substantial problems with her wooden members twisting and buckling, requiring constant pumping to keep her from sinking. She eventually couldn't keep up, foundered and sank with all hands in 1924. Oh and she had a small steam engine to keep up with the pumping. Point is to anyone who knows the least bit about ships, she's not impressive for even old metal ships and impossible for a wooden ship.
they didn't even get the "Dereck is an Atheist" part right. In the "Good vs Evil" fight one of them says that they blame their Moms cancer on God. Which means he's been a christian the whole time, just one who hates his God.
it's the angry "atheist" trope. if they can make it seem like atheists are only that because they hate god then they can lie to the ones they already brainwashed more.
Oh my God the part with the fish and insects had me yelling "liar!" at the screen. No way these guys have any clue about the psysiology of marine and freshwater organisms, or the detailed life cycles and histories of insects. It is fact that the global flood would have exterminated ALL freshwater life, probably all insect life, all coral reefs, and most fish except for maybe a few species of lucky fish that were able to overcome osmoregulatory or thermal shock. The wind, wave, and rain sweapt piles of dead vegetation mats were sure as hell not keeping anything alive for more than a few weeks at BEST, and insects are far too fragile to complete their entire life cycle on such things when they need fresh food and water, and a stable ecosystem. Insect populations now crash at the slightest disturbance! Fish species go extinct if you change the water quality by a little bit! In fact if I am to debate a creationist on anything it would be how fish and/or insects can survive a global flood off the Ark.
“It was a miracle.” Don’t waste your time arguing with them. They eventually all lead to “we don’t know gods unknowable.” It’s frustrating but you can’t argue with them reasonably
@@Catglittercrafts religion and faith by default have the great feature that they can stand in the absence of evidence and even when rational argument and evidence contradict it. That's why no 1on1 debate is useful. You can argue for the sake of the evidence, you can not argue against a religious person.
There was no salt in the ocean then. And even if there was, there are such a thing as estuaries which would have been huge during the flood, no to mention EVERYWHERE on the surface of the water because of the 40 day long rain. Also it's proven fact that fresh water fish can become salt water fish in mere generations. The experiments are done and the data is in. But the ammount of salt in the oceans that increases every day shows that when the flood happened, there was no salinity in the oceans, IF there even was an ocean. The Bible says, and it's confirmed by geology (unbiased) and a simple google earth check (check the bottom of the ocean between the continents, it's vizible from space), that "the fountains of the Earth broke open". It was boiling freshwater from under the Earth's crust that flooded the planet. Any land insect/air breathing insect, was safely aboard the ark, in a shoe box or drawer or jar that could fit every family of insect there is; we are talking about a handful of bugs here.
@@boooster101 I stated some FACTS: the ammount of increase in the salinity of the ocean, the ACTUAL BIBLE TEXT, the adaptability of fish, estuaries and something that i repeat " YOU CAN SEEE FROM SPACE" with google earth, on your very computer. And the families of insects CAN fit in a jar and a small one at that
The part about the saltwater is mostly impossible, because it would have killed pretty much all plantlife on the planet, leaving no primary producer for a new ecosystem. I've studied Salicornia europaea, one of the most freakish plants when it comes to salt tolerance and they prefer something between 1,5% and 3% (w/v) in their water in our greenhouse. They would tolerate up to 12% and keep on growing, so there is a lot of plasticity in those specialists. (Plant researchers try to hack their regulatory strategies, since they do use pretty basal mechanisms for it, but tweaked them for their needs. We hope to find solutions for the problems droughts and thus increased salinity poses for agriculture in many parts of the world) That being said: we compared it to Arabidopsis thaliana and they tapped out SO quickly, it was ridiculous. 0.5% was already pretty devastating to these freshwater plants and one application of salt was enough for this. So submerging the land with saltwater, even if we assume it was diluted, would have made plantlife as we know it completely impossible. And I'm ignoring the hypoxia here... roots need oxygen. If you submerge a plant thet has no adaptations for this, it will die pretty quickly. It's actually the most common way to kill houseplants...
They must have taken plant life onto the ark as well. I guess they had a desalination factory to get enough fresh water for all those animals and plants.
@Kenghym - Great points. I was in a hurricane on Cape Cod, not even on the ocean side, but bordering Black Fish Creek inlet. The side of the all the plants - trees, shrubs, flowers - that took the onshore wind were coated in a fine salt spray that caused them to wither and that side of the plants to die. It took a few years for the trees and shrubs to recover.
Ripping on YECs aside, I really liked how you praised the cinematography when the "boat" was rocking. I appreciate fairly minded people who give praise when it's deserved, even about projects they might not be fond of. If I was a kid and saw that, I'd likely be fucking BLOWN AWAY.
Yes, while I really do wonder why you endure this self-inflicted torture, I had a reminder set for it because I can’t get enough of these installments. Waiting for part three of your book review as well lol
Apologetics is like a plane crash... you really don't want to look, but can't drag your eyes away... Except for the fact that plane crashes ACTUALLY happen on occasion (sadly) - but the worldwide flood NEVER happened.
@@werdw4849 Erika picks on easy targets. Christians are nice folks. They don't fight back. Erika avoids taking on us race realists. We are the other right-wingers. She knows we'll clean her clock.
I was thinking something similar . I have a hard time Looking at pictures of the fiasco called the Ark Encounter .. Shes got a brass pair and quite the fortitude to be able to do this .. Id be needing medication after being there . Cheers mate
I do like the implication inherent in the film. That the best way to convince a skeptic would be an irrational fever dream, inspired by brain trauma. Come to think of it, the claims and content come close to an infliction of brain trauma. Oh and the overused "I used to be an atheist" shtick is embarrassing enough already, without making an even more obviously fictional story with a security guard being convinced. But then expecting them to make good arguments would be expecting a bit much.
Entire foundational documents of religions have been written by people memorizing the babbling of a man having a seizure, then written down generations later. For someone to start believing in one as a result of brain trauma doesn't seem that far-fetched.
@@hamletksquid2702 that reminds me of muhammad, some ways he supposedly gets his "revelations" is via loud sounds of bells followed by cold sweat and something similar to epileptic seizure
@@manusiabumi7673 - Yup, that's who I had in mind. Plenty of religions have used the babblings of people who were prone to seizures or states of incoherence induced by drugs, fumes, and the like, and hysterically-induced pseudo-seizures are a common feature of the practices of quite a few sects, often accompanied by babbling nonsense words. Paula White's calling in angels from Africa comes to mind. Anything that can't be explained can be seen as supernatural.
This feels like the beginning of a satire series where Derek works for places showing ever more absurd ideologies, and converts to each in succession, from various religions to bunk science, to political parties, to diets, to buying any product a salesman sells to him. It might be possible to get a bunch of people who actually believe their propaganda to make fools of themselves without realizing it, I mean more than they already do.
He apparently signed no paperwork or presented any ID before showing up, receiving no training (not even number/location of exits he is monitoring), being handed the keys and left there alone all night. Just like every job I’VE ever had, for sure! Not that i want to watch Derek act out a realistic onboarding process, but he could’ve said something like “this looked interesting when i got hired the other day, can’t wait to explore!” to gesture at offscreen happenings
Also in both "movies" he was telling his family on the phone "I'm guarding some museum or something" maybe he's a temp or something but I still think it's weird that you can show up to a job that you have no idea what or where it is lol. And if he is a temp it's even less likely that he can afford that car.
Wasn't the ark Encounter built by that guy who said it was 100% real then promised to build the way That they described in the bible and by the end of it he was using steel joints and construction cranes?
The whole ark is artistic license. I guess the dimensions are roughly the size of the fictional boat but literally everything else in it from the urns to the cage size/number, the number of kinds, what the animals looked like, the names of Noah's wives, their cabins, the feeding and caring of the animals, and all the flood geology stuff... it is all made up and based on no science or Biblical evidence. The ram bow and flange on the stern do what exactly and is that design even found in the ancient world ~4000BC?
@@Rayrard it is based on no science I agree, but nevertheless the reconstructions of the extinct mammals I saw look pretty good as well as some sets of Noah's pretty cosy personal cabins. I think I even spotted a Thoatherium, an extinct Sout American ungulate, which not related to horses, developped the same one-toe feeth. But they also included Dimetrodon, the sailbacked predator from the Perm, which isn't a dinosaur at all, but nevertheless sold at the same shelf in the giftshop.
There is only really 1 possible way that an Ark would fit everything on it, and that would be to keep the male and female DNA of every type of animal on a large ship that was very disaster-proof. More Sci-Fi than religion in that way though
I’d pay to watch a movie reimagining the Abrahamic Flood myth as an advanced sci-fi race being behind it all, probably something akin to the Isu trying to find a way to avert or survive disaster in the Assassin’s Creed series.
With all the miracles required to make the story possible, they may as well pull a Tardis out and stuff everything in there. It's as plausible as all the rest of the claims they make.
It's so great that Noah was able to get all the dinosaurs on the ark. I do love seeing all the t-rex's and raptors running around everywhere. Yep, no questioning that as it really happened. So many dinosaurs running around everywhere. Too many to count.
Silly skeptic Everyone knows the air was too thin for them after the flood. And then the 8 human beings that had taken care of them for a year onboard the ark hunted and killed off all of them
My pet hypothesis is that creationists keep using the word 'evidences' as a kind of way to rebel against those snooty evolutionists who keep correcting them. Similar to teenagers using slang that they know their parents won't like. Whatever the reason, it must be a conscious decision at this point, right?
They're entire goal is to reindoctrinate the congregations of believer who make them rich with tax free "donations", that's why they $eek to $ave $ouls. Their target is not science minded people, that's just how they frame it. Their target is the constant reindoctrination of their own flock to sustain the ideological power structure that has alot of social, economic and political power, and makes them alot of money
Kind of like you snooty left-wing evolutionists who deny race realism? Y'all keep using that phrase evidence when you push your "race is a social construct" crap. We race realists ask for some evidence. An y'all clam up like a Barnacle in Darwin's pre-Origin 1850s private collection.
@@brunozeigerts6379 Racists are those who deny race realism. A racist is one who wants to pretend we are all the same; one that doesn't value specialization in our species, and uniqueness of modern human subspecies. Are you one of those who denies human variation?
As a rhetoric nerd, thank you for actually pointing out how the "kinds" argument works rhetorically. On average, engagement with this creationist device is to question what "kind" means without looking at the wider implications of the argument. It does not hurt that rhetoric is about as fascinating a subject to most people as underwater basket weaving, but I feel that this particular dodge of the problem of species diversity for the Ark legend is rarely engaged with. Thanks again.
The oldest flood myth we have (the Epic of Gilgamesh) has the flood last 2 weeks. Utapishtim (Noah) basically just brings livestock, his employees and anything else he can find at short notice. But the biggest difference is that there are two major gods involved. Enlil, the wrathful god of storms, wants to kill EVERYONE, and swears the other gods to secrecy. Ea, the wise god of the sea, appears to Utnapishtim in a dream. He suggests Utnapishtim build a giant boat and fill it with supplies, but is cagey about the reasons. Then, when Utnapishtim survives the flood, Enlil wants to know who spilled the beans. Ea (and all the other gods) call Enlil out for his disproportionate punishment, and he promises not to flood the world again. The characters make WAY more sense when they’re split up.
What I really love about the logic of the kinds argument is that there are still only 8 people on the ark to care for 1400 "Kinds of animals" or 2800 pairs. The SF zoo has a minimum of 50 employees and only 250 species. Then you have Noah tossing out the Raven and it never came back, but we still have Ravens!! After the flood waters receded Noah breaks out the fire and offers the genocidal God a burnt offering. I am guessing Noah burnt up him some dinosaurs .
They brought seven pairs of clean animals and did the same for every kind of bird, it was from the clean animals that sacrifices were made. Which makes it even worse care wise.
Not only that... they actually wanted to have live animals in the monstrosity, but they couldn't find a way to manage that... so they are using dolls instead. Yet they're still saying they did all the 'calculations' about the animals...
Imagine the amount of shit. Constantly shoveling hills and mounds of feces because once you think you are finished the elephants and brachios filled another room.
@@boooster101 Imagine those poor urns on the bottom of their Ark (there are hundreds of them) that they claimed the reptiles and amphibians lived in. Imagine them sitting in their filth and moldy food on the bottom of the Ark which would have been leaky and wet in the best conditions, and every once in a while Noah's family dumps some more fetid water on top of them.
The sad and sinister thing is that this thing does actually more damage than the actual titanic sinking. Because people unanymously agreed the sinking of the titanic was an actual tragedy.
Just wanted to say how much I appreciate and enjoy your comment section as well as your videos. There are so many intelligent and eloquent and funny people sharing interesting facts, I could read it for ages.
You’re gonna hate me for this, but I’m wishing that there was a third attraction for them to make a film about that you could rip to pieces. Excellent work! Wait a minute: Dinosaur Adventure Land! They could do… What? Matt who?…
I gotta say. The moon pie segment at 32:00 was the best thing that’s happened to me all week. And I got a 3 hour nap one day this week as a college student, in a sorority, on a sports team. AND I got to take that nap in a real bed. Fucking fantastic you groovy little scientist
I laughed when he was tossing around on the "dream Ark" at sea and there are electric lights all over the place, and the floors are nicely varnished. I'm sure that dream sequence was exactly how it would have been for Noah... lol. In reality it would have been dirty, smelly, dark, and damp, with the 8 people running around like madmen with shovels, torches, water buckets and food.
Not to mention the swaying seemed rather extreme in that dream. I suppose that's realistic if there's accelerated continental drift under the water, but still, must be uncomfortable for both the humans and the animals on board.
@@BrandonPilcher To be honest it was not bad. If a mile-wide asteroid hit the global ocean at any point, the wave would have made the Perfect Storm seem minor. I can't see what would have happened if the wave caught ark broadside. There would have been nothing to prevent it capsizing. Not to mention the tossing sea would have made the lives of the animals absolute hell. I think the worst part of the speeding continents would have been the boiling water the Ark would be tossing in.
Hey! Congrats on 20k subscribers! At this pace you'll hit 50k in just a couple months. I wonder if Ken Ham realizes his facilities are literally making the careers of some of the better counter-apologetics sources out there. First Paulogia, now you, and I'm sure a couple in between. Keep up the good work!
If I was to use my fictional time machine to produce a world in which dinosaurs and humans lived together - I wonder how many Creationists would be interested in living there.....
Your voice is soft and sweet. Plus all the effort you put into this. Such as taking the time to put all the animals into a spread sheet. If knowledge is power, your clearly a very powerful lady.
As Viced Rhino says "Take that with a grain of Lot's wife." 😹 This whole Ark is a neat story....but a story nonetheless. Ancient people trying to explain the world they lived in. Where did we come from? When/how is it going to end? Etc...
One of the saddest things about this, to me, is getting a glimpse of skeptic, aka “bad” Eric - the rational person he could have been had he not been brainwashed growing up. Also, I have the same visceral reaction to Tim that Erica does. There’s something extremely off-putting about that guy.
Ok, I know they have a very tiny budget for this thing, but whats with the premise? so Derek is supposed to be transported onto the real Ark, right? He's rocking and sliding about, but then there's just, museum exhibits? Arn't there parts of the Ark Encounter that are more set piece like? the kind that would better serve as "the real ark"? for that part of the film?
I don’t see how you kept your cool! Watching this parade of straw men really got to me this time around, and I’m usually pretty jaded about this. The ending, especially, showed me the truly evil and nefarious new lows that they are going to to push their agenda and vilify their opponents. Oh, and I loved it when you called Timmy a “dingdong”! Laughed right out loud here at work!
Guilty of numerous rapes and murders? .. no problem.. just give yourself to the Lord and he will forgive you of all your sins. Religion is f--king perverted.
Holy shit I've never seen a video of yours (haven't even really started this one) but so much respect for The Mind Electric in the intro! Great song. Great album. And slowing it down a little was nice.
Can I just point out that when Derek learned he was in a global flood he never even thought about the fact that that would mean his family is drowning right that very second?
Love your content! Apparently the first big wave of atheist RUclips took a really bad political turn, so it's great that waves of young professionals are always coming in to bolster or replace the old guard.
@@ericdondero5810 Apparently RUclips took "debunk tube" success and slowly turned it into "shame people for appearing illogical." Maybe I misread and put the blame on rhe creators instead of the RUclips algorithm. But somehow, atheism RUclips started to send people into "anti-woke" spaces that were more ideologically right wing. There were all kinds of gaming channels that were really harboring a lot of hatred, but on the surface they appeared just like any other Christian debunk video. I'm lucky my gf at the time was very well educated and taught me a lot. The "RUclips alt-right pipeline" totally missed me. I suggest you go find any video essay on this, I can't explain very well.
@@ericdondero5810 Mostly Anti-SJW like forerunners of that group "Sargon of Akkad" and Thunderf00t. Although i think they saw themselves less as Internet Atheists and more as "RUclips skeptics". Until that one flew right out of the window over some crazy women saying stuff they disliked.
@@chaotickreg7024 Very similar story here, my ex-gf, my current gf and a few other persons I've met after going to college have got me out of the alt-right pipeline. Amazing how much perspective changes once you quit your little bubble and actually meet other people with different views.
I didn't see anyone else mention it (and you probably won't read it) but Gabby is Gabriel, like the Arch Angel that communicated God's will to the people.
As someone who wants to be a professional writer (I’m 17 currently) and has spent hours a day studying how to craft dialog, characters, plot, and setting: this made me reel back in horror at how badly this is written 😂 (the ark movie, not you Erika; You’re videos are actually incredibly entertaining and well paced)
Aaaand these two movie reviews are what got me hooked on Gutsick Gibbon and all she has to say about apes and evolution! Went from just watching funny people react to/review awful movies... ended up excited about science again.
I saw this scheduled 6 days ago and now three days after it was released I finally have enough time to watch it. Been looking forward to it so hard. :)
Best part is that it's not even a real boat nor seaworthy. They wasted all of that [tax free] money from [tax deductible] donations for something that doesn't even prove the ark's worthiness. They also make an educated guess on what a cubit is. There was more than 1 builder, how did they get accurate measurements (past a miracle)? - Was there just a reference man (or woman) that was around just for measurement purposes? - How easily can you add arm lengths together while cutting with primitive tools, while maintaining a high level of accuracy? The largest class of wooden ships leaked horribly, required pumps, weren't sea worthy (past coastal runs). - Built in the early 1900s with significantly better technology than in Noah's time (Wyoming). - Six-mast schooner. - These ships still weren't the size of the Ark. The more questions you ask, the more holes this story has.
@@Oddball5.0 my objection is, a religious organization built a modern-day version of what they believe to be the ark and are claiming this is history/scientifically plausible. But, the thing they built doesn't do anything and proves literally nothing. - Just an easy example - with numerous builders how did they standardize the cubit? And then they make the claim of science/history while enjoying tax deductions for donators and operating largely tax-free. I don't understand how my objections are not relevant. Without invoking miracles, they have sought to essentially explain nothing.
It does my heart good to see a logical and fierce rebuttal to a gish-galllop of faith-based "lying for Jesus". You do a good job of conveying the depth of the kaleidoscope of evidence from a wide variety of fields - a powerful consillience (to use Edmund Wilson's term) which supports the theory of evolution. It's dramatic to see the whole "Answer's in Genesis" rationale for biblical literalism laid out in a large museum and then explicitly put in an evangelical messaging video. The juxtaposition makes it crystal clear how Young Earth Creationism is part of a particular kind of religious practice and is about the cultural mechanisms of proving group identity rather than logic.
I just got done watching Paulogia and Shannon Q's Hammy New Year's video on this, and now I'm watching yours. I watched your part one before I saw their part one. Let the show begin. 🙂
My favorite thing about this comment section is people from other specialties debunking other absurdities in the Ark exhibit like the blacksmithing and the boat itself
40:10 Excellent insight. Why don't researchers in non-western countries look at the evidence of biology, and naturally come to the conclusion that the Earth is 6k years young and evolution is bogus? Why is it only people already raised as Evangelicals?
9:13 Love how one of their first arguments is basically just "jet fuel doesnt melt steel beams" level shit, almost exactly even... Now, as a blacksmith, I fear I have some bad news for Eric...
The organic death bit made me think, if nothing, not even animals died before the fall- shouldn't Christians all be vegan in an attempt to be more like how things were in gods perfect ~uptopic garden~ ? Or i guess that'll go under shellfish and mixed fabrics as "things that dont count anymore"
Boy that "Babies eat less" argument about megafauna. Having recently hand raised a liter of abandoned kittens and knowing how much food I put into each of them vs how much my adult cat went through in the same day... these guys are either completely ignorant of the caloric needs of growing animals or they are willfully misrepresenting it.
Lol I was raised as a Jehovah's witness and there are sooooo many similarities. The sheer amount of mental gymnastics that is required to "accept" creationism is insane
Hopefully I am not committing too early but another problem with Noah's boat ride is Atmospheric Pressure, all that water would have increased the pressure so much it would crush all lungs on Earth.
19:00 not just salinity, temperature, but also pressure, not everyone live at the same depth, also, how the plants survived and the fed all the herbivores?
God: "one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate" AIG: They took dinosaur babies, because they're smaller. Those babies weren't mating yet, buddies.
...you do realize the plan wasn't to watch animals fuck on the boat right? Obviously the story is horseshit but you're being intentionally dense. The plan is to release the animals back onto dry land to rekindle their _'kinds,'_ not to start communities on the boat.
I can't tell you how many times I have to pause your videos from laughing so hard... If your video is 45 minutes, it takes me over an hour to watch... I dunno if you come up with these jokes off the cuff or you have some kind of outline... But the combination of what you're saying and the faces you make... Put me in tears sometimes... I fucking love this channel... Lol
That explains why Kent Hovind loved to tell his little dentist annecdote about beating Eric to a pulp for not being a brave little soldier of christ in the chair.
Even after first coming around from his dream, Eric did not even question the fact that it w as all a dream and went straight to the belief babble. Brilliant video.
Love your channel. I’d love it if Mary Schweitzer would come on your show. She might have something to say on the subject of YECs perverting her research on soft tissue discovery in Dino bones.
And the lesson is, head trauma causes creationism.
lol
More like if you believe in evolution, then you suffer from head trauma.
lol
And then follows a severe lack in the ability to critically think, unable to accept science facts/evidence and in many cases dishonesty.
Bwahahaa
Night at the Ark Encounter teaches us that brain damage leads to creationism? Sounds legit.
Creationists: "Bugs? Yeah, they can float on leaves and garbage for a year, who cares"
Also creationists: "Wait, you think monkeys could just surf across the ocean on vegetation matts? ARE YOU INSANE?! LOL"
"Hey wait you might have a concussion!" Derik, running off with a severe concussion and massive brain trauma: "I BELIEVE IN YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISM!!!!"
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@@NotSomeone68 Hey man, I just thought it was hilarious and wanted to imply that brain trauma led Derik to believe in a 6000 year old Earth where dinosaurs and humans lived together.
@@NotSomeone68 you care... why?
@@BlazeNStar The comment is literally a cut/paste I use on videos I like - to increase engagement statistics.
_Gets a concussion._
_Immediately converts to Young Earth Creationism._
I feel like they didn't think this one through.
Clearly, there's an invisible higher power secretly, subliminally guiding the production:
Common sense.
The smithsonian is even bigger, in case any other viewers would like to know.
Always leaves me satisfied and smiling
Yeah and probably doesn’t reek of bs and bad science
I want a movie where people stay at the air and space museum and the airplanes become functional and the protagonist gets to fly them all
That movie already exists, it was called Wonder Woman part 2. Not only does the plane work at the museum but it's fully fueled and can fly for thousands of miles without a refill
@@appa609 - Also see "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian".
"Eat a Moon Pie -- Quit murderin' people." My day is complete. Thank you.
I ducking lost it at that part
Let us pray for a heavenly moon pie.
With a RC!
Tim did say one thing correct! "Wait! You might have a concussion!"
Yes, Tim. He almost certainly would. Derek was hit in the head hard enough to knock him out. That's concussion territory. He was out for an undetermined length of time. That is really serious. An ambulance should have been called and Derek taken to hospital to rule out bleeding on the brain or other possible results of a head injury. I sure hope he didn't drive after this. Very dangerous.
Iirc being knocked out for over 5 minutes is more than enough to cause irreversible brain damage. 5 minutes is probably the minimum amount of time it would take for Gigantor to find him. He could easily have gotten a concussion from the flashlight itself, the hardwood floor that he smacks against, etc. I would personally be surprised if he didn't have one, or another TBI
Yep, moral of the story is: brain does crazy shit and anecdotes are not evidence.
In addition to that: the more gullible and ignorant you are, the easier it is to manipulate you.
I wonder if they meant that movie to show that to drive more people toward rationality and away from superstitions like theism, or if completely debunking their own manipulative horseshit is just an inevitable side effect of stupid.
Usually, any loss of consciousness over a few seconds are reason for a trip to the hospital. Any blow hard enough to cause LoC should be followed up. And you can sustain a concussion without blacking out, a sharp blow to the head is really all that is needed, but concussions aren't necessarily all that dangerous. And Hollywood is wrong, you can absolutely take a nap while concussed, but get to a hospital first.
Acquired Brain injury leads to creationism. That pretty much my takeaway from the movie. Watch out for head trauma folks.
So one of the assessments done to determine how alert and orientated a person is, (especially after a suspected concussion) is to ask them the year, month, and the day of the week. I think the take away from this is to also ask if they believe the Earth to be 6 thousand years old. I know I would take myself to the hospital right away if I woke up believing that after passing out from a TBI.
My favorite fact about the ark encounter is that in 2018 it suffered $1 million in damage.... from water
Just going to say this: that display of one of the sons working metal upsets me to my core.
I'm a hobbiest blacksmith and has devoted most of my adult life to learn that art; everything in that display is wrong.
Noah's ark is set in the bronze age, why is he working iron?
There's no fire in that shop, so he can't work that iron properly anyway.
Bronze and copper takes heat to become liquid and a mold to be poured into. Bronze, copper, and iron takes a lot of fuel to get to temp and the fire gets stupid hot, no wood fire pit would survive the heat.
And wouldn't they be spending more time shoveling crap and working feed to the animals, so why have a metal shop in the first place? Plus just about everything in tha boat would be organic materials; maybe a saw, ax, or knife, in there for fixing stuff if you're lucky.
He was makeing metal for a metal shovel to shovel waste!
Checkmate, artheist!
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I doubt. Wooden shovels, pitchforks, or hoe-like tools were more likely. Plus bronze and copper are easier to work compared to Iron: you pour copper based metals into molds and forge iron based must be heated and beaten to form.
Why use iron when you could use wood? You have a lot of it anyway making investing in making a forge, making the charcoal, making an anvil, tongs and a hammer then gather more iron to make stuff for the ark seems... silly.
You'll be running around feeding animals and shoveling shit most of the time, making those two activities ALL that you do because of numbers.
Ark sinks from lack of care.
I’ll have you know that every single wooden ark i have ever built included a forge, and a glassblowing shop too!
Probably had a Starbucks too
It's all a Fairy Story. So the details don't matter, You've just got to be daft to believe any of it !!!
They might want you to think it's large, but it's only about the size of a mid-war CVE or MS Estonia, which broke up and sank in a Baltic storm. Ferries of similar size are still common in the Baltic. She's dwarfed by even a Yorktown-class. She is however a bit bigger than Wyoming, which was the largest wooden ship ever built. Wyoming had iron cross-bracing, but still had substantial problems with her wooden members twisting and buckling, requiring constant pumping to keep her from sinking. She eventually couldn't keep up, foundered and sank with all hands in 1924. Oh and she had a small steam engine to keep up with the pumping. Point is to anyone who knows the least bit about ships, she's not impressive for even old metal ships and impossible for a wooden ship.
they didn't even get the "Dereck is an Atheist" part right. In the "Good vs Evil" fight one of them says that they blame their Moms cancer on God. Which means he's been a christian the whole time, just one who hates his God.
it's the angry "atheist" trope. if they can make it seem like atheists are only that because they hate god then they can lie to the ones they already brainwashed more.
Oh my God the part with the fish and insects had me yelling "liar!" at the screen. No way these guys have any clue about the psysiology of marine and freshwater organisms, or the detailed life cycles and histories of insects. It is fact that the global flood would have exterminated ALL freshwater life, probably all insect life, all coral reefs, and most fish except for maybe a few species of lucky fish that were able to overcome osmoregulatory or thermal shock. The wind, wave, and rain sweapt piles of dead vegetation mats were sure as hell not keeping anything alive for more than a few weeks at BEST, and insects are far too fragile to complete their entire life cycle on such things when they need fresh food and water, and a stable ecosystem. Insect populations now crash at the slightest disturbance! Fish species go extinct if you change the water quality by a little bit! In fact if I am to debate a creationist on anything it would be how fish and/or insects can survive a global flood off the Ark.
“It was a miracle.”
Don’t waste your time arguing with them. They eventually all lead to “we don’t know gods unknowable.” It’s frustrating but you can’t argue with them reasonably
@@Catglittercrafts religion and faith by default have the great feature that they can stand in the absence of evidence and even when rational argument and evidence contradict it.
That's why no 1on1 debate is useful. You can argue for the sake of the evidence, you can not argue against a religious person.
There was no salt in the ocean then. And even if there was, there are such a thing as estuaries which would have been huge during the flood, no to mention EVERYWHERE on the surface of the water because of the 40 day long rain. Also it's proven fact that fresh water fish can become salt water fish in mere generations. The experiments are done and the data is in. But the ammount of salt in the oceans that increases every day shows that when the flood happened, there was no salinity in the oceans, IF there even was an ocean. The Bible says, and it's confirmed by geology (unbiased) and a simple google earth check (check the bottom of the ocean between the continents, it's vizible from space), that "the fountains of the Earth broke open". It was boiling freshwater from under the Earth's crust that flooded the planet. Any land insect/air breathing insect, was safely aboard the ark, in a shoe box or drawer or jar that could fit every family of insect there is; we are talking about a handful of bugs here.
@@oldscorp your profile picture is fitting.
Such a gish gallop of unproven claims.
@@boooster101 I stated some FACTS: the ammount of increase in the salinity of the ocean, the ACTUAL BIBLE TEXT, the adaptability of fish, estuaries and something that i repeat " YOU CAN SEEE FROM SPACE" with google earth, on your very computer. And the families of insects CAN fit in a jar and a small one at that
“How do you know god is real?”
*Points to bendy rock*
The part about the saltwater is mostly impossible, because it would have killed pretty much all plantlife on the planet, leaving no primary producer for a new ecosystem.
I've studied Salicornia europaea, one of the most freakish plants when it comes to salt tolerance and they prefer something between 1,5% and 3% (w/v) in their water in our greenhouse. They would tolerate up to 12% and keep on growing, so there is a lot of plasticity in those specialists. (Plant researchers try to hack their regulatory strategies, since they do use pretty basal mechanisms for it, but tweaked them for their needs. We hope to find solutions for the problems droughts and thus increased salinity poses for agriculture in many parts of the world)
That being said: we compared it to Arabidopsis thaliana and they tapped out SO quickly, it was ridiculous. 0.5% was already pretty devastating to these freshwater plants and one application of salt was enough for this. So submerging the land with saltwater, even if we assume it was diluted, would have made plantlife as we know it completely impossible. And I'm ignoring the hypoxia here... roots need oxygen. If you submerge a plant thet has no adaptations for this, it will die pretty quickly. It's actually the most common way to kill houseplants...
Great comment
Thank you for your service!!!
So then the ark must have been make out of living trees.
They must have taken plant life onto the ark as well. I guess they had a desalination factory to get enough fresh water for all those animals and plants.
@Kenghym - Great points. I was in a hurricane on Cape Cod, not even on the ocean side, but bordering Black Fish Creek inlet. The side of the all the plants - trees, shrubs, flowers - that took the onshore wind were coated in a fine salt spray that caused them to wither and that side of the plants to die. It took a few years for the trees and shrubs to recover.
Ripping on YECs aside, I really liked how you praised the cinematography when the "boat" was rocking. I appreciate fairly minded people who give praise when it's deserved, even about projects they might not be fond of. If I was a kid and saw that, I'd likely be fucking BLOWN AWAY.
Yes, while I really do wonder why you endure this self-inflicted torture, I had a reminder set for it because I can’t get enough of these installments. Waiting for part three of your book review as well lol
Isn't this a form of Torture? Someone call the UN for a War Crime against Humanity. Great video like always!
Apologetics is like a plane crash... you really don't want to look, but can't drag your eyes away... Except for the fact that plane crashes ACTUALLY happen on occasion (sadly) - but the worldwide flood NEVER happened.
@@werdw4849 Erika picks on easy targets. Christians are nice folks. They don't fight back. Erika avoids taking on us race realists. We are the other right-wingers. She knows we'll clean her clock.
I was thinking something similar . I have a hard time Looking at pictures of the fiasco called the Ark Encounter .. Shes got a brass pair and quite the fortitude to be able to do this .. Id be needing medication after being there . Cheers mate
@@fetus2280 Youll be needing medication alright.
I do like the implication inherent in the film.
That the best way to convince a skeptic would be an irrational fever dream, inspired by brain trauma.
Come to think of it, the claims and content come close to an infliction of brain trauma.
Oh and the overused "I used to be an atheist" shtick is embarrassing enough already, without making an even more obviously fictional story with a security guard being convinced.
But then expecting them to make good arguments would be expecting a bit much.
Entire foundational documents of religions have been written by people memorizing the babbling of a man having a seizure, then written down generations later. For someone to start believing in one as a result of brain trauma doesn't seem that far-fetched.
@@hamletksquid2702 that reminds me of muhammad, some ways he supposedly gets his "revelations" is via loud sounds of bells followed by cold sweat and something similar to epileptic seizure
@@manusiabumi7673 - Yup, that's who I had in mind. Plenty of religions have used the babblings of people who were prone to seizures or states of incoherence induced by drugs, fumes, and the like, and hysterically-induced pseudo-seizures are a common feature of the practices of quite a few sects, often accompanied by babbling nonsense words. Paula White's calling in angels from Africa comes to mind.
Anything that can't be explained can be seen as supernatural.
He didn't know where he was going to work until he came up on it?
I'm not sure if Derek is completely clueless, or if the security company he works for is just REALLY bad at communicating with their employees.
This feels like the beginning of a satire series where Derek works for places showing ever more absurd ideologies, and converts to each in succession, from various religions to bunk science, to political parties, to diets, to buying any product a salesman sells to him. It might be possible to get a bunch of people who actually believe their propaganda to make fools of themselves without realizing it, I mean more than they already do.
Omg that would be amazing. It would capitalize on the fact he does a sense of how to be funny for the camera.
He apparently signed no paperwork or presented any ID before showing up, receiving no training (not even number/location of exits he is monitoring), being handed the keys and left there alone all night. Just like every job I’VE ever had, for sure!
Not that i want to watch Derek act out a realistic onboarding process, but he could’ve said something like “this looked interesting when i got hired the other day, can’t wait to explore!” to gesture at offscreen happenings
I’ve known a lot of security guards in my day. None of them owned a car like that. Hard to own a late model canary yellow Camaro on minimum wage
It must be Bumblebee, he chose our hero!
Also in both "movies" he was telling his family on the phone "I'm guarding some museum or something" maybe he's a temp or something but I still think it's weird that you can show up to a job that you have no idea what or where it is lol. And if he is a temp it's even less likely that he can afford that car.
Tim Schaffe, pointing at a sign that says MARS in big letters: Do you know where all this is found
Derek: [rolls a 1 on his perception] no
Wasn't the ark Encounter built by that guy who said it was 100% real then promised to build the way That they described in the bible and by the end of it he was using steel joints and construction cranes?
No, the Ark Encounter is by the cheat who built a building instead of a boat which would not float.
They couldn't even put animals in there because everyone would die of trapped methane release. Literally.
It was built by that meth addict who just beat his ex wife.
The whole ark is artistic license. I guess the dimensions are roughly the size of the fictional boat but literally everything else in it from the urns to the cage size/number, the number of kinds, what the animals looked like, the names of Noah's wives, their cabins, the feeding and caring of the animals, and all the flood geology stuff... it is all made up and based on no science or Biblical evidence. The ram bow and flange on the stern do what exactly and is that design even found in the ancient world ~4000BC?
@@Rayrard it is based on no science I agree, but nevertheless the reconstructions of the extinct mammals I saw look pretty good as well as some sets of Noah's pretty cosy personal cabins. I think I even spotted a Thoatherium, an extinct Sout American ungulate, which not related to horses, developped the same one-toe feeth.
But they also included Dimetrodon, the sailbacked predator from the Perm, which isn't a dinosaur at all, but nevertheless sold at the same shelf in the giftshop.
There is only really 1 possible way that an Ark would fit everything on it, and that would be to keep the male and female DNA of every type of animal on a large ship that was very disaster-proof. More Sci-Fi than religion in that way though
I’d pay to watch a movie reimagining the Abrahamic Flood myth as an advanced sci-fi race being behind it all, probably something akin to the Isu trying to find a way to avert or survive disaster in the Assassin’s Creed series.
With all the miracles required to make the story possible, they may as well pull a Tardis out and stuff everything in there. It's as plausible as all the rest of the claims they make.
@@flamingsickle the halo video game series kinda has something similar going
@@flamingsickle this is basically just the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still
Oh god no, you’re gonna summon the “ancient aliens” fanbois
🥲
The "heat problem" is easily dealt with by apologists - they just ignore it.
or they jingle keys
It's so great that Noah was able to get all the dinosaurs on the ark. I do love seeing all the t-rex's and raptors running around everywhere.
Yep, no questioning that as it really happened. So many dinosaurs running around everywhere. Too many to count.
Silly skeptic
Everyone knows the air was too thin for them after the flood.
And then the 8 human beings that had taken care of them for a year onboard the ark hunted and killed off all of them
@@kenbee1957 lmfao
@@kenbee1957 Human reasoning. What ever you think has to be how it was.
Yet bugs out number people and dinosaurs and bugs were not even allowed in the ark😂
My pet hypothesis is that creationists keep using the word 'evidences' as a kind of way to rebel against those snooty evolutionists who keep correcting them. Similar to teenagers using slang that they know their parents won't like.
Whatever the reason, it must be a conscious decision at this point, right?
They're entire goal is to reindoctrinate the congregations of believer who make them rich with tax free "donations", that's why they $eek to $ave $ouls.
Their target is not science minded people, that's just how they frame it. Their target is the constant reindoctrination of their own flock to sustain the ideological power structure that has alot of social, economic and political power, and makes them alot of money
I really think they just can't grasp why "evidences" is not plural... just like they don't understand anything else regarding evidence.
Kind of like you snooty left-wing evolutionists who deny race realism? Y'all keep using that phrase evidence when you push your "race is a social construct" crap. We race realists ask for some evidence. An y'all clam up like a Barnacle in Darwin's pre-Origin 1850s private collection.
@@ericdondero5810 Or you racists... er, race realists... hear the evidence... then dismiss it because you don't want to give up your worldview.
@@brunozeigerts6379 Racists are those who deny race realism. A racist is one who wants to pretend we are all the same; one that doesn't value specialization in our species, and uniqueness of modern human subspecies. Are you one of those who denies human variation?
It's such a shame. These people could be amazing, creative, and innovative. Yet they waste all of that to make stuff like this monstrosity.
As a rhetoric nerd, thank you for actually pointing out how the "kinds" argument works rhetorically. On average, engagement with this creationist device is to question what "kind" means without looking at the wider implications of the argument. It does not hurt that rhetoric is about as fascinating a subject to most people as underwater basket weaving, but I feel that this particular dodge of the problem of species diversity for the Ark legend is rarely engaged with. Thanks again.
I suspect that a "kind" is what looks similar.
The oldest flood myth we have (the Epic of Gilgamesh) has the flood last 2 weeks. Utapishtim (Noah) basically just brings livestock, his employees and anything else he can find at short notice.
But the biggest difference is that there are two major gods involved. Enlil, the wrathful god of storms, wants to kill EVERYONE, and swears the other gods to secrecy. Ea, the wise god of the sea, appears to Utnapishtim in a dream. He suggests Utnapishtim build a giant boat and fill it with supplies, but is cagey about the reasons. Then, when Utnapishtim survives the flood, Enlil wants to know who spilled the beans. Ea (and all the other gods) call Enlil out for his disproportionate punishment, and he promises not to flood the world again. The characters make WAY more sense when they’re split up.
A perfect blend of caustic yet eloquent scorn and dank memage. Loved it.
Thank you for the entertaining and comprehensive review. And thank you twice over for showing so little of the film :)
What I really love about the logic of the kinds argument is that there are still only 8 people on the ark to care for 1400 "Kinds of animals" or 2800 pairs. The SF zoo has a minimum of 50 employees and only 250 species. Then you have Noah tossing out the Raven and it never came back, but we still have Ravens!! After the flood waters receded Noah breaks out the fire and offers the genocidal God a burnt offering. I am guessing Noah burnt up him some dinosaurs .
They brought seven pairs of clean animals and did the same for every kind of bird, it was from the clean animals that sacrifices were made. Which makes it even worse care wise.
Not only that... they actually wanted to have live animals in the monstrosity, but they couldn't find a way to manage that... so they are using dolls instead. Yet they're still saying they did all the 'calculations' about the animals...
Imagine the amount of shit.
Constantly shoveling hills and mounds of feces because once you think you are finished the elephants and brachios filled another room.
@@boooster101
Imagine trying to organize the birds so that their excrement doesn't dissolve a hole in the boat.
@@boooster101 Imagine those poor urns on the bottom of their Ark (there are hundreds of them) that they claimed the reptiles and amphibians lived in. Imagine them sitting in their filth and moldy food on the bottom of the Ark which would have been leaky and wet in the best conditions, and every once in a while Noah's family dumps some more fetid water on top of them.
The sad and sinister thing is that this thing does actually more damage than the actual titanic sinking. Because people unanymously agreed the sinking of the titanic was an actual tragedy.
Oh, man, even when they're the ones crafting the narrative, Young Earth Creationists portray head trauma as key to somebody joining them as an adult.
Just wanted to say how much I appreciate and enjoy your comment section as well as your videos.
There are so many intelligent and eloquent and funny people sharing interesting facts, I could read it for ages.
Sadly too many leftists here. Right-wing viewpoints not represented enough.
@@ericdondero5810 The fact that the funny, eloquent and intelligent people are Maninly leftist should say something.
@Burger King the irony of it sure. Leftists are all about climate science, yet deny race science. Amazingly hypocritical of them.
Just love your opening . It gets me excited to learn something new and I’m 62
You’re gonna hate me for this, but I’m wishing that there was a third attraction for them to make a film about that you could rip to pieces. Excellent work!
Wait a minute: Dinosaur Adventure Land! They could do… What? Matt who?…
I'm hoping to see Night at The Serpent Handling Pit.
They're building a Tower of Babel.
I don't think they understand the story.
@@NovaSaber not understanding happens to be their speciality.
@@NovaSaber that can only go well
Nooooo.... I could not stand more Matt the brainless.
I gotta say. The moon pie segment at 32:00 was the best thing that’s happened to me all week. And I got a 3 hour nap one day this week as a college student, in a sorority, on a sports team. AND I got to take that nap in a real bed. Fucking fantastic you groovy little scientist
I laughed when he was tossing around on the "dream Ark" at sea and there are electric lights all over the place, and the floors are nicely varnished. I'm sure that dream sequence was exactly how it would have been for Noah... lol. In reality it would have been dirty, smelly, dark, and damp, with the 8 people running around like madmen with shovels, torches, water buckets and food.
Not to mention the swaying seemed rather extreme in that dream. I suppose that's realistic if there's accelerated continental drift under the water, but still, must be uncomfortable for both the humans and the animals on board.
@@BrandonPilcher To be honest it was not bad. If a mile-wide asteroid hit the global ocean at any point, the wave would have made the Perfect Storm seem minor. I can't see what would have happened if the wave caught ark broadside. There would have been nothing to prevent it capsizing. Not to mention the tossing sea would have made the lives of the animals absolute hell. I think the worst part of the speeding continents would have been the boiling water the Ark would be tossing in.
To be fair, Eric leaping across an unlit museum corridor multiple times would probably be a safety concern
@@Rayrard You must be smart to think of all these things that prove the ark story is false. How did you get that smart? Wasit yrs of study?
@@bobdobbs943 He got smart by not reading the bible.
I'm surrounded on all sides of my family by Christian fundamentalists. Your videos keep me sane and make me feel less alone in jesus land
To be fair, Hovind not being able to keep the lore straight is very on brand for the bible.
Hey! Congrats on 20k subscribers! At this pace you'll hit 50k in just a couple months. I wonder if Ken Ham realizes his facilities are literally making the careers of some of the better counter-apologetics sources out there. First Paulogia, now you, and I'm sure a couple in between. Keep up the good work!
If I was to use my fictional time machine to produce a world in which dinosaurs and humans lived together - I wonder how many Creationists would be interested in living there.....
Your voice is soft and sweet. Plus all the effort you put into this. Such as taking the time to put all the animals into a spread sheet. If knowledge is power, your clearly a very powerful lady.
Even if it was a painful process - thanks for doing the review. Yes - mention of “kind” does activate the gag response.
"Drink a 7Up, eat a moonpie" has to be one of the most memorable lines in this video.
As Viced Rhino says "Take that with a grain of Lot's wife." 😹 This whole Ark is a neat story....but a story nonetheless. Ancient people trying to explain the world they lived in. Where did we come from? When/how is it going to end? Etc...
He saw the light alright in the form of his torch crashing down into his for head
One of the saddest things about this, to me, is getting a glimpse of skeptic, aka “bad” Eric - the rational person he could have been had he not been brainwashed growing up.
Also, I have the same visceral reaction to Tim that Erica does. There’s something extremely off-putting about that guy.
Every time she says the kids won’t understand Night at the Museum references I feel my hair graying…
Ok, I know they have a very tiny budget for this thing, but whats with the premise?
so Derek is supposed to be transported onto the real Ark, right? He's rocking and sliding about, but then there's just, museum exhibits?
Arn't there parts of the Ark Encounter that are more set piece like? the kind that would better serve as "the real ark"? for that part of the film?
I don’t see how you kept your cool! Watching this parade of straw men really got to me this time around, and I’m usually pretty jaded about this. The ending, especially, showed me the truly evil and nefarious new lows that they are going to to push their agenda and vilify their opponents.
Oh, and I loved it when you called Timmy a “dingdong”! Laughed right out loud here at work!
I think Chuck Tingle should get into Young Earth Creationist lore so we could finally get the book we all need. "Pounded by Pongids."
"with this new job I might be able to hang out every other weekend"
Me, who worked security, whose family has also worked security: x to doubt
If I “just wanted to sin,” I’d be a Christian. Then I could sin and be forgiven.
Guilty of numerous rapes and murders? .. no problem.. just give yourself to the Lord and he will forgive you of all your sins.
Religion is f--king perverted.
I wonder if Noah paid his construction workers. Like “here’s some money. Enjoy quick before you inevitably drown!”
And hopefully his wife is like, "Your a creationist now? Give me the number to the closest divorce lawyer. "
Holy shit I've never seen a video of yours (haven't even really started this one) but so much respect for The Mind Electric in the intro! Great song. Great album. And slowing it down a little was nice.
Can I just point out that when Derek learned he was in a global flood he never even thought about the fact that that would mean his family is drowning right that very second?
God will recognize his own. He shortened their suffering to reward their moral virtue.
@@hamletksquid2702 lol 😂
He was back in time so they didn't exist yet
@@hamletksquid2702 ah yes, because drowning is such a pleasant way to go lmfaoo
@@moonshadow1795 - God works in mysterious ways.
I will forever be captivated by your intro, it's such a vibe and addicting
Love your content!
Apparently the first big wave of atheist RUclips took a really bad political turn, so it's great that waves of young professionals are always coming in to bolster or replace the old guard.
What turn was that?
@@ericdondero5810 Apparently RUclips took "debunk tube" success and slowly turned it into "shame people for appearing illogical." Maybe I misread and put the blame on rhe creators instead of the RUclips algorithm. But somehow, atheism RUclips started to send people into "anti-woke" spaces that were more ideologically right wing. There were all kinds of gaming channels that were really harboring a lot of hatred, but on the surface they appeared just like any other Christian debunk video.
I'm lucky my gf at the time was very well educated and taught me a lot. The "RUclips alt-right pipeline" totally missed me.
I suggest you go find any video essay on this, I can't explain very well.
@@ericdondero5810 Mostly Anti-SJW like forerunners of that group "Sargon of Akkad" and Thunderf00t.
Although i think they saw themselves less as Internet Atheists and more as "RUclips skeptics". Until that one flew right out of the window over some crazy women saying stuff they disliked.
@@chaotickreg7024 Very similar story here, my ex-gf, my current gf and a few other persons I've met after going to college have got me out of the alt-right pipeline. Amazing how much perspective changes once you quit your little bubble and actually meet other people with different views.
So glad I found your channel. You're hilarious and brilliant.
"I hate to be a stickler" said no grad student ever. Stickle. That's how the work gets done.
I didn't see anyone else mention it (and you probably won't read it) but Gabby is Gabriel, like the Arch Angel that communicated God's will to the people.
"Flashlight? A flash-uh-light maybe!" The entire scripting budget went into this line.
"What if they just ended the film there?" This had me laughing as much as you were! I like the cut of your headcanon!
As someone who wants to be a professional writer (I’m 17 currently) and has spent hours a day studying how to craft dialog, characters, plot, and setting: this made me reel back in horror at how badly this is written 😂 (the ark movie, not you Erika; You’re videos are actually incredibly entertaining and well paced)
Creationists will say: "I never saw a monkey give birth to a human" yet they want us to believe that a wolf can give birth to a chihuahua.
I just realized I watched two reviews of this movie today. I need to rethink my life.
Aaaand these two movie reviews are what got me hooked on Gutsick Gibbon and all she has to say about apes and evolution! Went from just watching funny people react to/review awful movies... ended up excited about science again.
May I suggest a better name for the movie:
Night at the Creation Museum 2
Battle against the sciences
I saw this scheduled 6 days ago and now three days after it was released I finally have enough time to watch it. Been looking forward to it so hard. :)
Best part is that it's not even a real boat nor seaworthy.
They wasted all of that [tax free] money from [tax deductible] donations for something that doesn't even prove the ark's worthiness.
They also make an educated guess on what a cubit is.
There was more than 1 builder, how did they get accurate measurements (past a miracle)?
- Was there just a reference man (or woman) that was around just for measurement purposes?
- How easily can you add arm lengths together while cutting with primitive tools, while maintaining a high level of accuracy?
The largest class of wooden ships leaked horribly, required pumps, weren't sea worthy (past coastal runs).
- Built in the early 1900s with significantly better technology than in Noah's time (Wyoming).
- Six-mast schooner.
- These ships still weren't the size of the Ark.
The more questions you ask, the more holes this story has.
The story is bull, no doubt about it.
But your objections are based on modern ideas that don't apply in the ancient Near East.
@@Oddball5.0 my objection is, a religious organization built a modern-day version of what they believe to be the ark and are claiming this is history/scientifically plausible.
But, the thing they built doesn't do anything and proves literally nothing.
- Just an easy example - with numerous builders how did they standardize the cubit?
And then they make the claim of science/history while enjoying tax deductions for donators and operating largely tax-free.
I don't understand how my objections are not relevant.
Without invoking miracles, they have sought to essentially explain nothing.
It does my heart good to see a logical and fierce rebuttal to a gish-galllop of faith-based "lying for Jesus". You do a good job of conveying the depth of the kaleidoscope of evidence from a wide variety of fields - a powerful consillience (to use Edmund Wilson's term) which supports the theory of evolution. It's dramatic to see the whole "Answer's in Genesis" rationale for biblical literalism laid out in a large museum and then explicitly put in an evangelical messaging video. The juxtaposition makes it crystal clear how Young Earth Creationism is part of a particular kind of religious practice and is about the cultural mechanisms of proving group identity rather than logic.
I just got done watching Paulogia and Shannon Q's Hammy New Year's video on this, and now I'm watching yours. I watched your part one before I saw their part one.
Let the show begin. 🙂
I know I've just done the self same thing! Prior to that I watched a couple of Hovind debates. I need help big time
11:29 IS THAT A FUCKING BRASIL REFERENCE!?!?!?!?!?!
CIRILO MY BELOVED
You are too smart for this, but I get it. I was going to use "low hanging fruit" but those short neck giraffes kinda killed the punch line.
Loving this channel and I can't wait to see what comes next
Thanks!
I wish I had even just half of the amount of confidence as a yec without a relevant science degree
YEC: How would you explain that!
Scientists : (explains it)
YEC:... How would you explain that!
How and where did a sextillion gallons of water go after the "flood" and how/why...?
As my friend would tell me, "it went back into the Earth". Yeah, physics be damned.
My favorite thing about this comment section is people from other specialties debunking other absurdities in the Ark exhibit like the blacksmithing and the boat itself
40:10 Excellent insight. Why don't researchers in non-western countries look at the evidence of biology, and naturally come to the conclusion that the Earth is 6k years young and evolution is bogus? Why is it only people already raised as Evangelicals?
9:13 Love how one of their first arguments is basically just "jet fuel doesnt melt steel beams" level shit, almost exactly even...
Now, as a blacksmith, I fear I have some bad news for Eric...
The organic death bit made me think, if nothing, not even animals died before the fall- shouldn't Christians all be vegan in an attempt to be more like how things were in gods perfect ~uptopic garden~ ?
Or i guess that'll go under shellfish and mixed fabrics as "things that dont count anymore"
Thanks for saving us the effort of watching that crud.
Boy that "Babies eat less" argument about megafauna. Having recently hand raised a liter of abandoned kittens and knowing how much food I put into each of them vs how much my adult cat went through in the same day... these guys are either completely ignorant of the caloric needs of growing animals or they are willfully misrepresenting it.
Lol I was raised as a Jehovah's witness and there are sooooo many similarities. The sheer amount of mental gymnastics that is required to "accept" creationism is insane
Hopefully I am not committing too early but another problem with Noah's boat ride is Atmospheric Pressure, all that water would have increased the pressure so much it would crush all lungs on Earth.
19:00 not just salinity, temperature, but also pressure, not everyone live at the same depth, also, how the plants survived and the fed all the herbivores?
They like big boats and they cannot stop lying.
Just a huge, Dark Souls style YOU DIED after the flashlight hits him.
God: "one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate"
AIG: They took dinosaur babies, because they're smaller.
Those babies weren't mating yet, buddies.
No, but they would have grown up to mate and reproduce, if Noah hadn't accidentally grabbed all the GAY dinosaurs.
...you do realize the plan wasn't to watch animals fuck on the boat right? Obviously the story is horseshit but you're being intentionally dense. The plan is to release the animals back onto dry land to rekindle their _'kinds,'_ not to start communities on the boat.
I can't tell you how many times I have to pause your videos from laughing so hard... If your video is 45 minutes, it takes me over an hour to watch... I dunno if you come up with these jokes off the cuff or you have some kind of outline... But the combination of what you're saying and the faces you make... Put me in tears sometimes... I fucking love this channel... Lol
Moral of the story: Head trauma causes Young Earth Creationism.
That explains why Kent Hovind loved to tell his little dentist annecdote about beating Eric to a pulp for not being a brave little soldier of christ in the chair.
Fun fact: if you want to add enough water to drown everest it'd take about 3.3 times the total volume of the oceans in extra freshwater.
I like how Derek believes everything he says without question.
Just like every other christian!
Even after first coming around from his dream, Eric did not even question the fact that it w
as all a dream and went straight to the belief babble. Brilliant video.
Love your channel. I’d love it if Mary Schweitzer would come on your show. She might have something to say on the subject of YECs perverting her research on soft tissue discovery in Dino bones.
I really enjoy these videos. If you were a professor I would absolutely take your classes if I could.