@petehjr1 It is fun to imagine that as the feeling of a rather large, heavily tattooed man nicknamed "Stovepipe," who happens to share a 10 x 10 cell with Mitt.
Hi Claire, love the videos and am a big fan of your Appalachian series. Do you have a reference for the tree stump pic at 2:47? Looks like it was taken in an open cast mine. Thanks!
"if you want to believe a dog can give birth to a non-dog, your going outside the realm of science"
and pure logic and sanity
and how did anyone think that the 6 types of evolution is a argument that holds any ground? and evolution of origin of life? Ain’t that called abiogeneis?
they make my head hurt.
and i wont call onision a dim bulb, but his fans who eat his crap without thinking at all. some of those argument to defend the sepsis lie where disturbing.
I want to coin some new science terms - mirco and macro gravity. Micro gravity makes things fall to earth - i.e. observable, yet macro gravitation between stars and galaxies is just a theory as the universe is held together by the invisible hand of god.
I have heard about those trees being buried in a straight way before, although I very rarely hear about that topic. I first heard about this most likely around November or December of 2007. It was from a video made at that time by Kabane52 responding to a creationist video from a username I think its called "MisadventureFilms" or something like that.
(part 1) ~ This was made and posted at the midnight just after Wed. 1/17/2012 ended in the Pacific Time Zone I live in.
I must say, Hovind's "Minority Report" style special effects are damn impressive. What a piss off that an anti-science a-hole like him is so quick to reap it's benefits.
Isn't ironic that creatards look like such poorly evolved creatures. CreationLiberty looks almost Neandertal but to assume he has a higher percentage of their gene pool than the average non-african would be an insult to Neandertals.
Great video, and well done debunking the polystrat "argument".
FYI, dead trees can remain intact not only for decades, but for millennia, depending on the specific composition of the wood and the environment. I've seen perfect Agathis australis trunks which had been buried in marshes for 50,000 years.
Clarie, as usual an excellent video. And as usual, one criticism, too short. *smiles* It seems to be over way to soon. Looking forward to more of your videos. I am an armchair and very amateur geologist; in that, in most cases, I can tell the difference between a rock and a living plant. I really like your videos covering the topic of geology.
Odd, I don't recall ever praying to the almighty evolution god/deity/creator/thing/whatever to promote evolution as a religion. What amazes me is that anyone could actually sit through just a few minutes of any creationliberty video without falling asleep! Great video and I would love to see a geology section in your great series. Loved the Randy Newman song there.
I have coffee with Claire on Mondays. It's usually the first thing I do when I get to the office on Monday morning, get my coffee, sit at desk, watch Claire pwn while enjoying a Monday morning.
actully, claire, you are kinda wrong on one point there.
evolution DOES say that "dogs" came from "non-dogs". if nothing more, dogs came from wolves, or "k9's". now you can say these are just other names for dogs, so just go farther back the tree.
dog's came from a non dog mammal.
can dogs produce non dogs? well, if you (and enough ppl) decide that a chawawa is so "not looking like a dog" that it should no longer be called a dog, you'll have a "non dog" coming from a dog.
@cadeere74 well, in that case, yea, it never happens.
a speciation event basically happens when we (men/scientists) decide to draw a line and call one group "species A" and another "species B".
sure, you may claim that "can/can't produce an offspring" is an objective way to differentiate between species, but than you run into ring-species, where your way of classifying, break down, and you realize that all species are basically like this, and there is no black and white, just shades
There is nothing I like better than to wake up, make myself my morning coffee, sit at my PC (which auto switches on at 6:30am) check the emails, and find out there is a new coffee with Claire waiting, cheers!
Isn't it something that for religious people to cast doubt on evolution or indeed atheism, they have to first transform them into religion? They have to drag everything they refuse to understand into the realm of "belief" in order to cast doubt on its validity.
Excellent choice for this week's dim bulb Claire. I can't believe there really are people that stupid. If I were a new subscriber on YouTube and saw Chris Johnson's video without knowing better, I would swear it was parody.
@BluJugganaut On another subject, and one which may trouble you not at all, has Arsene "Whinger" ever lost a game without blaming the officials? I really must ask an Arsenal fan.
Re Polystrate trees this is precisely the problem that creotards just cannot grapple with i.e. within an old earth, rapid events will occur e.g. Surtsey. They seem to think that one catastrophic event proves a young earth. However, unfortunately for them, it is exactly the opposite.
In theory, every single geologic event could be proven as occuring 6K years ago but only ONE event, millions of years ago, is necessary to eclipse these. Think about it because it doesn't work the other way round.
*drinks some hazelnut* The ghost forest pictures makes me feel sad... Every time I watch Onision I can feel neurons inside my brain committing suicide.
I think it would be better to keep the coffee and the geology mostly separated. It can be hard to dig up a specific geological topic you dealt with when it's buried in the backlog of coffee videos.
@KaroKoenich That's true. And anything I talk about would need to be brief and easily explained, or I would need to follow up with a stand alone video.
"evolve" simply means "change over time." Every use of it DOES NOT automatically refer to the Theory of Evolution. Cosmic evolution ONLY refers to how the universe changes over time. Stellar evolution ONLY refers to how stars change over tome.
There is this think called "scope" in science, which refers to what is covered by a specific theory. The scope of the Theory of Evolution ONLY covers how ALREADY EXISTING life changes over time. Not how life started, not how non living things change (cnt)
The fact that creotards continually overextend the scope of Evolution to any reference of the word "evolve" cannot be just stupidity. It is so far beyond stupidity that It can only be a deliberate misrepresentation. This is even beyond the misrepresentation of what the scientific definition of "theory" is verses the common definition.
It destroys my faith in humanity that there are people like that that will spread such outright lies, and feel sorry for those who are taken in.
Well according to the Bible, the flood covered the tallest mountain. The earth was apparently waterlogged for an entire YEAR. Wouldn't this indeed mean that all the earth's trees and fauna were underwater? That would kill them all and deplete the world of oxygen, so Noah and his family and the remaining animals would perish. Not too mention, what would that leave for food once they exited the ark?
Well according to the Bible, the flood covered the tallest mountain. The earth was apparently waterlogged for an entire YEAR. Wouldn't this indeed mean that all the earth's trees and fauna were underwater? That would kill them all and deplete the world of oxygen, so Noah and his family and the remaining animals would perish. Not too mention, what would that leave for food once they exited the ark?
Hrm, is there a specific medical term for that particular allergic reaction? Is it an unusual reaction your IgE starts, or some other path entirely?
As someone who studies biology (not exactly professionally, IE I don't get paid to do it.), I can confidently state; I don't attempt to explain polystrate trees. Although I find the explanation geology provides quite fascinating. I'd love to see what's living in that ghost forest.
Oooooh, maybe someone will explain what "kind" means.
@WildwoodClaire1 An excellent show as always, Claire. My sole complaint is the use of a gorgeous song like ABBA's "Money, Money, Money" in association with a disgusting shitstain like Mitt Romney.
@WildwoodClaire1 Whew I feel dense. I finally did a search on him. I never really knew the guy's first name. I just always thought of him as "Miyazaki", even though I've seen most of his movies (and yes, I enjoyed them).
@complexadaptive Actually, it is a ploy to force people who are knowledgeable of a particular branch of science to defend the ideas of a branch of science in which they are not expert, an attempt to level the playing field somewhat, because the creationist is usually no expert in any field of science.
@WildwoodClaire Good point, look at the creationist boob Ian Juby who you have roasted on many occasions, the creationist "Professor"....an expert at knowing nothing.
I will be visiting the Big Valley Creation Museum here in Alberta in the spring/summer...Always wanted to barf on Alberta and thought this might be the place to start.
I thought that your en passant approach was appropriate. Talking about what we are all bleating about is what Coffee with Claire does best, and there are a lot of us bleating about OnisiPrick. :)
There is a ghost forest close to me at Erith on the banks of the Thames. It is laid down in peat and as a result, hundreds of Neolithic artefacts have been found around the trees. It's a spooky place.
Thank you Claire for your excellent video, and how you clear up the confusion of the so-called "polystrate tree fossils". Yes, it's obvious that strata would be deposited much faster in a swamp or flood plane, where as, stratified layers are deposited much more slowly in other regions that are not flood planes. People need to be aware that rock strata are not deposited at the same rate everywhere while much faster in flood planes. These creatards seriously need to do their home work.
Dog gives birth to a dog, a monkey gives birth to a monkey, a cat gives birth to a cat ...,( they "think" that scientists "believe" that the new species appears in a single generation, pure idiocy!), and so on to infinity nonsense. Creationists are really persistent in the fact that no matter how many times you explain to them and prove evolution, genetics, geology, they will continue again and again and repeat one and the same "arguments".
And creationliberty, UGH! I am so tired of those pathetic strawman arguments that I could scream! "There is no evidence that a dog can come from a cat, so evolution is a religion!" DERP!!
Hi Claire, I enjoyed your explanation on so-called "polystrate" trees. However I do have a minor kibitz, I refuse to use the term "polystrate." It is not a recognized geological term. It was invented by Nicholas Rupke in 1968 when he briefly flirted with creationism and published an article in the Creation Research Society Quarterly using the term. Rupke became an historian of science teaching at Oxford. The term "polystrate" has remained. I use insitu fossils instead.
There are cedar stumps in the tidal zone of Stratten Island Maine that have been dated to 6,000 years old. They didn't look to me to be old at all, though I was very puzzled by how they ended up in the tidal zone.
Anoxious conditions like those found in the Black Sea are another mechanism for the creation and preservation of polysriated tree trunks.
I see 'Dim Bulb Awards' don't seem to give these asshats pause or reason to address their dimness. Sad that they cannot understand the shit they spew or even retrospectively analyze their shit after you point out their asshatness.
Shit, Claire, it's 22:40 here. Do you know how long I'm gonna be awake and how I'm going to look at work tomorrow if I drink a coffee now? Ah, fine... you win.
Your video was just avery good excuse to have a coffee now. I love that stuff even more than beer (wich is... unusual for a german, I think).
Concerning your vid - you are SO right about that repetition of creationist arguments.
I was thinking about setting my cam up and start making videos myself some time ago. By now I'm so bored by their repetetive crap, that I don't want to engage them anymore. Maybe I'll do other stuff some time. Time will show...
It would be nice to see one of these creationist fadmonsters come up with something new every now and then, but with a mind in shackles, perhaps their imaginations can't travel very far. Ray Comfort comes up with the banana thing, so I typically expect one of his kind to essentially serve up a dish of bananas foster and act like it's a groundbreaking new piece of evidence. It's about as convincing as Mitt Romney pretending he's like the rest of us.
Claire, I like your videos, and I know you show photographic evidence of what you're saying, but I think what would be even better would be using animations demonstrating what it is you're saying as you say it.
I'm not sure how easy that is to do, and you've probably already considered it, but just thought I'd put the thought down while I think of it :)
On the subject of Ray Cumfart, do you think he and Kirk really believe the bullshit they spew out or do you think they are concious charlatans? Personally I think that Ray is a con man who doesn't believe a word he says but uses Christianity to extract money from credulous people who do believe his bullshit.
It makes me uber angry that people like Christian evangelists are allowed to extract money from credulous people as I work with people who have learning difficulties, mental health issues and other problems. Christian evangelists prey on these sort of people to line their own pockets and have no shame. T
hey are not human beings in my eyes. *boils with anger* >:(
@Zed1967 I know you weren't addressing me, but I think Ray knows full-well his arguments are nonsense. When he phoned The Atheist Experience, Matt Dilahunty shredded what he was saying, and all Ray had to say was 'okay. you got me'.
I think he thinks that those that disagree with him are playing the same games he is. He knows the 'crocoduck' thing is a joke. Despite what some might say, he's not a stupid man, just a disingenuous one, but I do still believe he believes in his god.
@Skindoggiedog Comfort's arguments are easy, all you have to do is know his line of sales patter, and then come up with an answer to each and every question, trapping HIM into saying stuff he does not want to say. "Are you a liar" "Yes, I sometimes lie, are you" that kind of thing.
@dangerouslytalented As for the "trapping HIM into saying stuff he does not want to say. "Are you a liar" "Yes, I sometimes lie, are you" that kind of thing" .... I don't think you know what you're talking about.
He readily admits to being a liar. He will cede any position. It doesn't bother him if his stance is inconsistent. He just admits it and changes the subject to something else.
This idea of being able to 'beat' him demonstrates ignorance of what he actually does.
@Zed1967 It sounds very much like a line of sales patter by a guy selling cleaning products. He has obviously learned sales techniques, and does not care whether those selling techniques are bogus or not, because he makes the sale, enough to live off it. And it is not really the people in the street he is selling to. He is selling his ministry, people give him money because he believes he is making conversions, far more than he actually does.
@Zed1967 I don't know, I remember once hearing Ray defend christianity as the one true religion, because it's the only religion that answers the problems... set forth by christianity. That is too stupid for anyone not actually that dumb to come up with. That argument can't even sound good to most creationists...
You have to feel bad for those guys that buy into the Hovind bile. Normal people's BS detection should kick in within the first 30 seconds of one of their videos. I wish people would truly learn about evolution and see that its amazing & simple and complex at the same time. But i know some people put themselves inside a small box of their own preconceived notions and think its the world.
Wasn't our distinguished dim bulb winner also featured in a potholer video? I'm pretty sure he was even giving the exact same spiel, and potholer played the clip of Pappa Hovind giving the same speech in one of his original lectures. Funny how people never learn...
@Larvemannenz001 I don't know. Maybe it has to do with the fact he is a 30 year old guy who's YouTube demographic is, disturbingly, 13 year old girls, and he's a disingenuous, emo asshole.
@WildwoodClaire1 You are probably right. In retrospect I've decided to remove the comment. I found it humorous, but would rather not draw any attention to him.
Hey, Aunty Claire, glad to see you included a piece about one of the most sinister and dangerous minds on YouTube, Onision. I could rant about that low life, insidious muppet, but I won't (plenty of sources out there for my fellow subs can go find for ourselves),,,But just thank you, thank you for linking someone who talks about him in an intelligent way :)
Uncle Harry drew yesterday...But we're still in the top 3 :)
@MrShannonite I was surprised, and a bit disappointed, that the Spurs only drew. It would be nice to see someone other than the usual suspects win the Prem.
@WildwoodClaire1 I don't think we ever won an end of season top spot since we came out of the old division 2, and that was either when I was a toddler, or before I was born and I'm 42 now. I think I'm sticking with calling you Aunty, you remind me of a few relatives I once had on my father's side of the family...They always spoke the truth and with your tone. Yep, you're my new adopted aunt :D
-"Atheism/Evolution is a religion" is the most revealing thing a theist/creationist can say. It's not funny only because it's wrong (which it is), but because of the inherit assumption it has about religion being a bad thing. In that at least, they are correct.
@Moh5Itachi1 I have a whole stash of clips of Eric Hovind simultaneously arguing for teaching creation in science classes while calling it science but admitting its a religious viewpoint. One of these days, I'll put together a video of creatards trying to have their cake and eat it too.
@brettppalmer Not a problem. Sorry I couldn't make a whole video out of the topic, but the answer is so basic, so simple, that making a video longer than about one minute would be unjustifiable.
@CasesAndMaterials "For those reading this I pose a question to you. Is intelligence a curse? It is a question I have mulled over many times in my life. I suspect those largely bereft of it tend find happiness more easily. "
From your profile. I take it you're a VERY happy person. Your lone thumbs down looks a little cold and lonely......
@CasesAndMaterials you do of course realize that, by posting a link, you're simply inviting abuse from my viewers, right? Perhaps you are simply desperate for attention and views on your pathetic little video. I advise my viewers to simply ignore you.
@WildwoodClaire1 I suspect you discovered its cleverly 'hidden' motive right away, a pathetic case of attention seeking. I think I will scratch the dogs ears instead of bothering with this one. :)
Since I have gotten away from christianity, I can see that it is used for control. Even Charles Manson seems to have used the bible as a means of control. I wish that others would wake from the nightmare that is religion.
Good job on the trees. I like to use geolgoy to show YECs they are wrong. They always change the subject to God or move the goal posts to the big bang theory, '' where did it all come from''.
@Claire, I'm a bit depressed over the UNC loss to FSU yesterday. If the Tarheels had played well, I wouldn't have minded the loss, but they 'stunk up the joint'. :-(
Last night, I thought of a funny line that might cheer the rest of your weekend: "The Tebow placebo failed to deliver a Bronco playoff victory"
@aikimark1955 I've been a Tar Heel fan since the days when George Karl had hair like mine and I've seen games like that before, even when the Heels went on to win a national championship. It stinks to lose like that but one game isn't all that important at this point. I'm sure the players feel worse about that game than any of us, I am confident that Coach Roy, et al will address the situation and the players will respond positively.
@WildwoodClaire1 I remember my dad complaining about the long hair on the Tarheel players like George Karl when we watched games in the late 60s even though he liked the way they played. I'm absolutely sure that Roy will 'address' the situation and don't envy the players this week.
We are about the same age and have seen a LOT of Tarheel hoops over the years -- the good and bad, the pretty and ugly, the awesome and terrible.
I LOVE your videos :D :D
nij682 1 month ago
Romney is one sexy bitch
petehjr1 1 month ago
@petehjr1 It is fun to imagine that as the feeling of a rather large, heavily tattooed man nicknamed "Stovepipe," who happens to share a 10 x 10 cell with Mitt.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
Hi Claire, love the videos and am a big fan of your Appalachian series. Do you have a reference for the tree stump pic at 2:47? Looks like it was taken in an open cast mine. Thanks!
m0nkt0n 1 month ago
@m0nkt0n Thank you. I do not have a reference for the photo but I think it was taken in an open mine out west somewhere.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
"if you want to believe a dog can give birth to a non-dog, your going outside the realm of science"
and pure logic and sanity
and how did anyone think that the 6 types of evolution is a argument that holds any ground? and evolution of origin of life? Ain’t that called abiogeneis?
they make my head hurt.
and i wont call onision a dim bulb, but his fans who eat his crap without thinking at all. some of those argument to defend the sepsis lie where disturbing.
jakiedark 1 month ago in playlist Meer video's van WildwoodClaire1
As always, entertaining & delightful. : )
PiskieBenWa 1 month ago
I want to coin some new science terms - mirco and macro gravity. Micro gravity makes things fall to earth - i.e. observable, yet macro gravitation between stars and galaxies is just a theory as the universe is held together by the invisible hand of god.
Ill be the new creatard hero. Where's my check?
TheJudoKevin 1 month ago 4
@TheJudoKevin I like it!
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
I have heard about those trees being buried in a straight way before, although I very rarely hear about that topic. I first heard about this most likely around November or December of 2007. It was from a video made at that time by Kabane52 responding to a creationist video from a username I think its called "MisadventureFilms" or something like that.
(part 1) ~ This was made and posted at the midnight just after Wed. 1/17/2012 ended in the Pacific Time Zone I live in.
mbarrera47 1 month ago
I must say, Hovind's "Minority Report" style special effects are damn impressive. What a piss off that an anti-science a-hole like him is so quick to reap it's benefits.
dstachon2002 1 month ago
OMFG! That asshole even looks and sounds like Kent Hovind!
tbdonnelly67 1 month ago
An Anchor Steam drinking Tarheel fan?
You rock, Claire. :)
drgoldteef 1 month ago
@drgoldteef And a Fulham fan too!
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
Those tree trunks on the shoreline looked very surreal.
great video :)
BlueJupiter91 1 month ago
This week's winner is serious facepalm and douchebaggery material
KalimaShaktide 1 month ago
Why do so many creationists wear the bowl-cut hair style?
ZephZhang 1 month ago
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@ZephZhang "Why do so many creationists wear the bowl-cut hair style?"
It's evolution at work. If you see this hairstyle, do NOT breed with it.
Typhoonbladefist 1 month ago
Claire, I love ya darlin. Consider me subbed.
alianchild 1 month ago
Isn't ironic that creatards look like such poorly evolved creatures. CreationLiberty looks almost Neandertal but to assume he has a higher percentage of their gene pool than the average non-african would be an insult to Neandertals.
fishypaw 1 month ago
@fishypaw I think Chris looks precisely like Lurch in "The Addams Family."
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
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@WildwoodClaire1 Yea, I wouldn't want to have a door answered by either of them. XD
fishypaw 1 month ago
It would be a great idea to have some geology in your coffee chats.
gaboentropy 1 month ago
So many global floods. I wonder if local floods ever happened...
MrStillmans 1 month ago 3
@MrStillmans It does seem as though YECs cannot conceive of such a thing.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
I'd love to have a bit of geology every Sunday. I enjoy learning about it, and I enjoy your delivery of it
k0vert 1 month ago
Oh, this is a good way to unwind after my resent encounter with a creationist.
Diamonddavej 1 month ago
Great video, and well done debunking the polystrat "argument".
FYI, dead trees can remain intact not only for decades, but for millennia, depending on the specific composition of the wood and the environment. I've seen perfect Agathis australis trunks which had been buried in marshes for 50,000 years.
Kattarina98 1 month ago
Clarie, as usual an excellent video. And as usual, one criticism, too short. *smiles* It seems to be over way to soon. Looking forward to more of your videos. I am an armchair and very amateur geologist; in that, in most cases, I can tell the difference between a rock and a living plant. I really like your videos covering the topic of geology.
AthenaSchroedinger 1 month ago
I agree about onision. That is some WEIRD type of character, and I don't want to see more of him again.
BelieveNoGod 1 month ago
Odd, I don't recall ever praying to the almighty evolution god/deity/creator/thing/whatever to promote evolution as a religion. What amazes me is that anyone could actually sit through just a few minutes of any creationliberty video without falling asleep! Great video and I would love to see a geology section in your great series. Loved the Randy Newman song there.
Bear5177 1 month ago
I have coffee with Claire on Mondays. It's usually the first thing I do when I get to the office on Monday morning, get my coffee, sit at desk, watch Claire pwn while enjoying a Monday morning.
BMReaves1 1 month ago
Me like Claire...hee hee hee
cadeere74 1 month ago
You've got to love it when the creatards vomit back the Hovind talks. Good grief. Speaking of good grief, Arsenal and Fulham...UGH!
EmpiricalTruth 1 month ago
actully, claire, you are kinda wrong on one point there.
evolution DOES say that "dogs" came from "non-dogs". if nothing more, dogs came from wolves, or "k9's". now you can say these are just other names for dogs, so just go farther back the tree.
dog's came from a non dog mammal.
can dogs produce non dogs? well, if you (and enough ppl) decide that a chawawa is so "not looking like a dog" that it should no longer be called a dog, you'll have a "non dog" coming from a dog.
eyallev 1 month ago
@eyallev I believe the point was demonstrable change, in real time
cadeere74 1 month ago
@cadeere74 well, in that case, yea, it never happens.
a speciation event basically happens when we (men/scientists) decide to draw a line and call one group "species A" and another "species B".
sure, you may claim that "can/can't produce an offspring" is an objective way to differentiate between species, but than you run into ring-species, where your way of classifying, break down, and you realize that all species are basically like this, and there is no black and white, just shades
eyallev 1 month ago
There is nothing I like better than to wake up, make myself my morning coffee, sit at my PC (which auto switches on at 6:30am) check the emails, and find out there is a new coffee with Claire waiting, cheers!
Isn't it something that for religious people to cast doubt on evolution or indeed atheism, they have to first transform them into religion? They have to drag everything they refuse to understand into the realm of "belief" in order to cast doubt on its validity.
Thirst4Facts 1 month ago
Excellent choice for this week's dim bulb Claire. I can't believe there really are people that stupid. If I were a new subscriber on YouTube and saw Chris Johnson's video without knowing better, I would swear it was parody.
ThomasTrue 1 month ago
Sorry, but I can't resist.... 3-1! =D
BluJugganaut 1 month ago
@BluJugganaut ARGH! To 10 MEN! It was a famously bad weekend for my sports teams. :) I bet Steve Kean is breathing easier.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 Unfortunately, yes. Kean still isn't good enough, and these results are only gonna make him stay longer!
Or maybe he IS good enough, and he's just taken far too long to show that. =P
BluJugganaut 1 month ago
@BluJugganaut Perhaps the worst thing ever to befall Rovers was the acquisition by Venkys.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 Don't even get me started!
BluJugganaut 1 month ago
@BluJugganaut On another subject, and one which may trouble you not at all, has Arsene "Whinger" ever lost a game without blaming the officials? I really must ask an Arsenal fan.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 No need. His reputation for cry-babyability is known worldwide. I don't remember a game they lost where he didnt have a good cry!
BluJugganaut 1 month ago
Yeah, Paul did an excellent Onionskin video. ProportionalResponse also did a most excellent video about him too.
DeeDemonwitch 1 month ago
I would love a geology section in each Coffe With Claire.
curlew0609 1 month ago
I really enjoyed this video Claire. I always learn something with a bit of laughter thrown in for good measure. Good way to start a Monday for me.
NonProphetess 1 month ago
Re Polystrate trees this is precisely the problem that creotards just cannot grapple with i.e. within an old earth, rapid events will occur e.g. Surtsey. They seem to think that one catastrophic event proves a young earth. However, unfortunately for them, it is exactly the opposite.
In theory, every single geologic event could be proven as occuring 6K years ago but only ONE event, millions of years ago, is necessary to eclipse these. Think about it because it doesn't work the other way round.
pilgrimpater 1 month ago
"evolution is a religion" haha... *sighs* don't you ever get tired of providing answers that they just ignore, Claire?
Epostaxis 1 month ago
@Epostaxis I don't really do it for them. I am simply providing answers to people who might engage these morons in conversation sometime.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 yes, please include a geology segment each week, I lov this stuff! simply fascinating
cruelbusiness1984 1 month ago
*drinks some hazelnut* The ghost forest pictures makes me feel sad... Every time I watch Onision I can feel neurons inside my brain committing suicide.
MistressArte 1 month ago
When all you can do is grasp at straws, it is only logical to build strawmen out of them.
panterguy 1 month ago
I think it would be better to keep the coffee and the geology mostly separated. It can be hard to dig up a specific geological topic you dealt with when it's buried in the backlog of coffee videos.
KaroKoenich 1 month ago
@KaroKoenich That's true. And anything I talk about would need to be brief and easily explained, or I would need to follow up with a stand alone video.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
"evolve" simply means "change over time." Every use of it DOES NOT automatically refer to the Theory of Evolution. Cosmic evolution ONLY refers to how the universe changes over time. Stellar evolution ONLY refers to how stars change over tome.
There is this think called "scope" in science, which refers to what is covered by a specific theory. The scope of the Theory of Evolution ONLY covers how ALREADY EXISTING life changes over time. Not how life started, not how non living things change (cnt)
NekuraCa 1 month ago
@NekuraCa *thing
The fact that creotards continually overextend the scope of Evolution to any reference of the word "evolve" cannot be just stupidity. It is so far beyond stupidity that It can only be a deliberate misrepresentation. This is even beyond the misrepresentation of what the scientific definition of "theory" is verses the common definition.
It destroys my faith in humanity that there are people like that that will spread such outright lies, and feel sorry for those who are taken in.
NekuraCa 1 month ago
maybe Jesus WANTED the trees to grow through solid rock. did he think of THAT?!!? by these peoples' logic it's perfectly probable. right?
docdrew87 1 month ago 2
Well according to the Bible, the flood covered the tallest mountain. The earth was apparently waterlogged for an entire YEAR. Wouldn't this indeed mean that all the earth's trees and fauna were underwater? That would kill them all and deplete the world of oxygen, so Noah and his family and the remaining animals would perish. Not too mention, what would that leave for food once they exited the ark?
TempleOfInanna2 1 month ago
Well according to the Bible, the flood covered the tallest mountain. The earth was apparently waterlogged for an entire YEAR. Wouldn't this indeed mean that all the earth's trees and fauna were underwater? That would kill them all and deplete the world of oxygen, so Noah and his family and the remaining animals would perish. Not too mention, what would that leave for food once they exited the ark?
TempleOfInanna2 1 month ago
Hrm, is there a specific medical term for that particular allergic reaction? Is it an unusual reaction your IgE starts, or some other path entirely?
As someone who studies biology (not exactly professionally, IE I don't get paid to do it.), I can confidently state; I don't attempt to explain polystrate trees. Although I find the explanation geology provides quite fascinating. I'd love to see what's living in that ghost forest.
Oooooh, maybe someone will explain what "kind" means.
sarcleaeolist 1 month ago
@sarcleaeolist Without question, the most appropriate person to consult regarding the inhabitants of a ghost forest is Hayao Miyazaki. :)
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 7
@WildwoodClaire1 An excellent show as always, Claire. My sole complaint is the use of a gorgeous song like ABBA's "Money, Money, Money" in association with a disgusting shitstain like Mitt Romney.
StrikaAmaru 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 Whew I feel dense. I finally did a search on him. I never really knew the guy's first name. I just always thought of him as "Miyazaki", even though I've seen most of his movies (and yes, I enjoyed them).
sarcleaeolist 1 month ago
i need the pink slip poster
cjeffers101 1 month ago
Creationists have to break up evolution into six different types, that way with their shoe like intellect they can misunderstand it even further.
complexadaptive 1 month ago 2
@complexadaptive Actually, it is a ploy to force people who are knowledgeable of a particular branch of science to defend the ideas of a branch of science in which they are not expert, an attempt to level the playing field somewhat, because the creationist is usually no expert in any field of science.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 5
@WildwoodClaire Good point, look at the creationist boob Ian Juby who you have roasted on many occasions, the creationist "Professor"....an expert at knowing nothing.
I will be visiting the Big Valley Creation Museum here in Alberta in the spring/summer...Always wanted to barf on Alberta and thought this might be the place to start.
complexadaptive 1 month ago
Yay Oregon! My home state...Welcome to the gray coast ;)
scottiepotie 1 month ago
I cannot understand why adults are talking about Onision.
gabiotta 1 month ago
@gabiotta Me either, but I did anyway. :))
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1
I thought that your en passant approach was appropriate. Talking about what we are all bleating about is what Coffee with Claire does best, and there are a lot of us bleating about OnisiPrick. :)
gabiotta 1 month ago
Oh Claire, when you pwn people it's utterly delightful. I can't wait for the next time we sit down and have our coffee together again.
FrillyDoom17 1 month ago
Nothing really constructive to add here, so, thanks for my favorite YouTube show!
n3rdm4n 1 month ago
@n3rdm4n Thanks, that's very nice to hear.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
that image at 06:50 is terrifying...... 0.o
0nlyHuman1 1 month ago
Great vid, as always. I would have gone with the Evolution Revolution guys, simply for their crimes against set decoration.
eddieboyky 1 month ago
I kayak in the bayous around Houston, and have been using some of the same snags as landmarks for almost 5 years.
SephieRothe 1 month ago
It's amazing how cheered I am by your theme song for Claire's coffee. Conditioned response, I suppose.
bmeissner 1 month ago 2
@bmeissner It does the same thing for me.
SecularMentat 1 month ago
Chris is merely stupid... oh wait, that's the point. He needs to learn about Dmitri Belyaev.
And the Joggins Cliffs is a World Heritage Site.
achtungcircus 1 month ago
There is a ghost forest close to me at Erith on the banks of the Thames. It is laid down in peat and as a result, hundreds of Neolithic artefacts have been found around the trees. It's a spooky place.
mrgodbehere 1 month ago
Thank you Claire for your excellent video, and how you clear up the confusion of the so-called "polystrate tree fossils". Yes, it's obvious that strata would be deposited much faster in a swamp or flood plane, where as, stratified layers are deposited much more slowly in other regions that are not flood planes. People need to be aware that rock strata are not deposited at the same rate everywhere while much faster in flood planes. These creatards seriously need to do their home work.
BigFatHeretic 1 month ago
Thumbs up for the Pulp Fiction clip!
JustOneEarth 1 month ago
And ironically Chris looks like an ape with that low brow...
AuntieDiluvian 1 month ago
So that was Onision. Glad I now don't have to go to his channel to see him. This was more than enough ;-/
skinnyjohnsen 1 month ago
Dog gives birth to a dog, a monkey gives birth to a monkey, a cat gives birth to a cat ...,( they "think" that scientists "believe" that the new species appears in a single generation, pure idiocy!), and so on to infinity nonsense. Creationists are really persistent in the fact that no matter how many times you explain to them and prove evolution, genetics, geology, they will continue again and again and repeat one and the same "arguments".
ExtremeMadnessX 1 month ago
Doug Sharp isn't so sharp. lol
And creationliberty, UGH! I am so tired of those pathetic strawman arguments that I could scream! "There is no evidence that a dog can come from a cat, so evolution is a religion!" DERP!!
shrikechan 1 month ago
once again, lol, good1
lardo444 1 month ago
Hi Claire, I enjoyed your explanation on so-called "polystrate" trees. However I do have a minor kibitz, I refuse to use the term "polystrate." It is not a recognized geological term. It was invented by Nicholas Rupke in 1968 when he briefly flirted with creationism and published an article in the Creation Research Society Quarterly using the term. Rupke became an historian of science teaching at Oxford. The term "polystrate" has remained. I use insitu fossils instead.
lawilson200 1 month ago
There are cedar stumps in the tidal zone of Stratten Island Maine that have been dated to 6,000 years old. They didn't look to me to be old at all, though I was very puzzled by how they ended up in the tidal zone.
Anoxious conditions like those found in the Black Sea are another mechanism for the creation and preservation of polysriated tree trunks.
deepashtray 1 month ago
Just the sight of Onision alone makes me ill.
shrikechan 1 month ago
I see 'Dim Bulb Awards' don't seem to give these asshats pause or reason to address their dimness. Sad that they cannot understand the shit they spew or even retrospectively analyze their shit after you point out their asshatness.
saxmanchiro 1 month ago
And I the only one that get the Creater explanation wrong?
Polystrate tree is an argument for an old age sedimentation, not for a flood.
Maybe somebody has to ask these Creatards to explain how Noah flood created the grand canyon, and yet there you we thsoe nice neat standing trees.
Maybe someone has to show then the power of Rapids water.
JerezJulio 1 month ago
Mitt Romney photoshopped into a woman...
MY EYES!!!!!
I am now blind. Thanks a lot! :-P
TheRedneckAtheist 1 month ago
11:58 Chemical Evolution?? Eh? ''One of the 6 types of Evolutions'' Bahahaha! Never heard that one before! Any takers on that one?
Juicexlx 1 month ago
Chris Johnson.... First for being full of it up to his eye balls. Two, for plagiarizing Hovind.
xdassinx 1 month ago
It's like the creationists are not living on this planet and seeing how fast some chage can take place, and others take longer and so on.
krapptacular 1 month ago
Shit, Claire, it's 22:40 here. Do you know how long I'm gonna be awake and how I'm going to look at work tomorrow if I drink a coffee now? Ah, fine... you win.
WarChicken78 1 month ago
@WarChicken78 so, have a muscle relaxant instead. :)
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 I have a rainbow outside because I have a rainbow inside :)
IzzySpeaks 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 Too late :)
Your video was just avery good excuse to have a coffee now. I love that stuff even more than beer (wich is... unusual for a german, I think).
Concerning your vid - you are SO right about that repetition of creationist arguments.
I was thinking about setting my cam up and start making videos myself some time ago. By now I'm so bored by their repetetive crap, that I don't want to engage them anymore. Maybe I'll do other stuff some time. Time will show...
WarChicken78 1 month ago
@WarChicken78 Add some whiskey to your coffee, should counteract the effects!
Killedkennyagain 1 month ago
It would be nice to see one of these creationist fadmonsters come up with something new every now and then, but with a mind in shackles, perhaps their imaginations can't travel very far. Ray Comfort comes up with the banana thing, so I typically expect one of his kind to essentially serve up a dish of bananas foster and act like it's a groundbreaking new piece of evidence. It's about as convincing as Mitt Romney pretending he's like the rest of us.
Tunnelfish2 1 month ago
Claire, I like your videos, and I know you show photographic evidence of what you're saying, but I think what would be even better would be using animations demonstrating what it is you're saying as you say it.
I'm not sure how easy that is to do, and you've probably already considered it, but just thought I'd put the thought down while I think of it :)
Skindoggiedog 1 month ago
I love you Claire.
ABitOfTheUniverse 1 month ago
On the subject of Ray Cumfart, do you think he and Kirk really believe the bullshit they spew out or do you think they are concious charlatans? Personally I think that Ray is a con man who doesn't believe a word he says but uses Christianity to extract money from credulous people who do believe his bullshit.
Zed1967 1 month ago
@Zed1967 I agree with your assessment of Ray. Kirk, I am less sure of. He may actually be that dim.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 5
@WildwoodClaire1
It makes me uber angry that people like Christian evangelists are allowed to extract money from credulous people as I work with people who have learning difficulties, mental health issues and other problems. Christian evangelists prey on these sort of people to line their own pockets and have no shame. T
hey are not human beings in my eyes. *boils with anger* >:(
Zed1967 1 month ago
@Zed1967 I know you weren't addressing me, but I think Ray knows full-well his arguments are nonsense. When he phoned The Atheist Experience, Matt Dilahunty shredded what he was saying, and all Ray had to say was 'okay. you got me'.
I think he thinks that those that disagree with him are playing the same games he is. He knows the 'crocoduck' thing is a joke. Despite what some might say, he's not a stupid man, just a disingenuous one, but I do still believe he believes in his god.
Skindoggiedog 1 month ago
@Skindoggiedog Comfort's arguments are easy, all you have to do is know his line of sales patter, and then come up with an answer to each and every question, trapping HIM into saying stuff he does not want to say. "Are you a liar" "Yes, I sometimes lie, are you" that kind of thing.
dangerouslytalented 1 month ago
@dangerouslytalented Thanks, but that's not information I didn't already have.
Skindoggiedog 1 month ago
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@dangerouslytalented As for the "trapping HIM into saying stuff he does not want to say. "Are you a liar" "Yes, I sometimes lie, are you" that kind of thing" .... I don't think you know what you're talking about.
He readily admits to being a liar. He will cede any position. It doesn't bother him if his stance is inconsistent. He just admits it and changes the subject to something else.
This idea of being able to 'beat' him demonstrates ignorance of what he actually does.
Skindoggiedog 1 month ago
@dangerouslytalented
Surely you have seen this little beuty /watch?v=a3o-M7e6WOA
I am in love with this woman... Ok ok and you too claire... Nacherely!
FatRakoon 1 month ago
@Zed1967 It sounds very much like a line of sales patter by a guy selling cleaning products. He has obviously learned sales techniques, and does not care whether those selling techniques are bogus or not, because he makes the sale, enough to live off it. And it is not really the people in the street he is selling to. He is selling his ministry, people give him money because he believes he is making conversions, far more than he actually does.
dangerouslytalented 1 month ago
@Zed1967 I don't know, I remember once hearing Ray defend christianity as the one true religion, because it's the only religion that answers the problems... set forth by christianity. That is too stupid for anyone not actually that dumb to come up with. That argument can't even sound good to most creationists...
Sines314 1 month ago
You have to feel bad for those guys that buy into the Hovind bile. Normal people's BS detection should kick in within the first 30 seconds of one of their videos. I wish people would truly learn about evolution and see that its amazing & simple and complex at the same time. But i know some people put themselves inside a small box of their own preconceived notions and think its the world.
finderfinder100 1 month ago
Wasn't our distinguished dim bulb winner also featured in a potholer video? I'm pretty sure he was even giving the exact same spiel, and potholer played the clip of Pappa Hovind giving the same speech in one of his original lectures. Funny how people never learn...
MagorianAx 1 month ago
@MagorianAx I think Chris was one of Potholer's Golden Crocoduck nominees.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 That sounds about right.
That's quite a resume he has going. Two dim bulb wins and a Golden Crocoduck nomination. He should be proud. :P
MagorianAx 1 month ago
@MagorianAx It is quite an accomplishment given his manifest limitations.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 Hahaha, indeed.
In any case, thanks again for making my Sunday enjoyable. I look forward to these every week.
MagorianAx 1 month ago
Why does everyone pick on Onision...
He is more enlightened than teenagers most.
Larvemannenz001 1 month ago
@Larvemannenz001 I don't know. Maybe it has to do with the fact he is a 30 year old guy who's YouTube demographic is, disturbingly, 13 year old girls, and he's a disingenuous, emo asshole.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 7
Claire , what was that documentary that exposed Romney ?
gaglamesh731 1 month ago
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jiberish001 1 month ago
@jiberish001 He's just some kid fucking around, most likely because he is bored and wants attention. Don't worry about it.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 You are probably right. In retrospect I've decided to remove the comment. I found it humorous, but would rather not draw any attention to him.
jiberish001 1 month ago
As soon as I hear PaulChartely's voice I prepare for a slug fest of mirth.
MacNutz2 1 month ago
@MacNutz2 Me too. Just the sound of his voice makes me smile.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
mutt romney has magic PINK underwear!wow...haha!
practicalmagic9 1 month ago
Hey, Aunty Claire, glad to see you included a piece about one of the most sinister and dangerous minds on YouTube, Onision. I could rant about that low life, insidious muppet, but I won't (plenty of sources out there for my fellow subs can go find for ourselves),,,But just thank you, thank you for linking someone who talks about him in an intelligent way :)
Uncle Harry drew yesterday...But we're still in the top 3 :)
MrShannonite 1 month ago
@MrShannonite I was surprised, and a bit disappointed, that the Spurs only drew. It would be nice to see someone other than the usual suspects win the Prem.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 I don't think we ever won an end of season top spot since we came out of the old division 2, and that was either when I was a toddler, or before I was born and I'm 42 now. I think I'm sticking with calling you Aunty, you remind me of a few relatives I once had on my father's side of the family...They always spoke the truth and with your tone. Yep, you're my new adopted aunt :D
MrShannonite 1 month ago
As always, enjoyed the coffee klatch. : )
phenixwryter 1 month ago
-"Atheism/Evolution is a religion" is the most revealing thing a theist/creationist can say. It's not funny only because it's wrong (which it is), but because of the inherit assumption it has about religion being a bad thing. In that at least, they are correct.
Moh5Itachi1 1 month ago 2
@Moh5Itachi1 I have a whole stash of clips of Eric Hovind simultaneously arguing for teaching creation in science classes while calling it science but admitting its a religious viewpoint. One of these days, I'll put together a video of creatards trying to have their cake and eat it too.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 2
AGGHHH CHRIS JOHNSON HOW I LOATHE YOU
killswell 1 month ago
Thanks for taking on the polystrates, Claire! I find them fascinating for some odd reason... :)
brettppalmer 1 month ago
@brettppalmer Not a problem. Sorry I couldn't make a whole video out of the topic, but the answer is so basic, so simple, that making a video longer than about one minute would be unjustifiable.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@Claire, Don't feed the trolls.
aikimark1955 1 month ago
@aikimark1955 Quite right. What was I thinking? :)
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@CasesAndMaterials "For those reading this I pose a question to you. Is intelligence a curse? It is a question I have mulled over many times in my life. I suspect those largely bereft of it tend find happiness more easily. "
From your profile. I take it you're a VERY happy person. Your lone thumbs down looks a little cold and lonely......
moopism 1 month ago
@moopism what an astute observation did you work that out all on your own?
CasesAndMaterials 1 month ago
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@CasesAndMaterials "what an astute observation did you work that out all on your own?"
Nope. My mommy helped me with the glitter, but my neighbor's dog, Harvey, acted as my philosophical adviser.
What's your excuse?
moopism 1 month ago
@CasesAndMaterials you do of course realize that, by posting a link, you're simply inviting abuse from my viewers, right? Perhaps you are simply desperate for attention and views on your pathetic little video. I advise my viewers to simply ignore you.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 7
@WildwoodClaire1 I suspect you discovered its cleverly 'hidden' motive right away, a pathetic case of attention seeking. I think I will scratch the dogs ears instead of bothering with this one. :)
MacNutz2 1 month ago
Hah, ABBA
AmsterdamHeavy 1 month ago
@AmsterdamHeavy I can never hear Abba without thinking of "Muriel's Wedding." Where have all the great Australian films gone?
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@CasesAndMaterials Dude! I don't care and neither do the vast majority of my viewers. :))
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 10
@WildwoodClaire1 No really I never knew! Here is an observation which will lead you to as great a consternation, as yours lead me. Grass is green!
CasesAndMaterials 1 month ago
Since I have gotten away from christianity, I can see that it is used for control. Even Charles Manson seems to have used the bible as a means of control. I wish that others would wake from the nightmare that is religion.
TomFuckery 1 month ago
I wouldn't call American politics in general and Republican politics specifically as a "minefield." It lacks even that much dignity.
RadarKat73080 1 month ago
Aren't dogs just the domesticated (and selectively bred) form of wolves?
TychoCelchu 1 month ago
Everyone likes claire! :D
Yahweigh 1 month ago
Paul's series Literally Genesis is well worth watching. The best interpretation of the bible out there.
TychoCelchu 1 month ago 2
@TychoCelchu As I said, he is one of the funniest guys I know.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
In some sense creationism is fun...
Wrath0fKhan 1 month ago 2
@Wrath0fKhan At least it gives an old lady a laugh on a peaceful Sunday.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 3
Always good work Claire!
bushonomics 1 month ago
Good job on the trees. I like to use geolgoy to show YECs they are wrong. They always change the subject to God or move the goal posts to the big bang theory, '' where did it all come from''.
gregrutz 1 month ago
@Claire, I'm a bit depressed over the UNC loss to FSU yesterday. If the Tarheels had played well, I wouldn't have minded the loss, but they 'stunk up the joint'. :-(
Last night, I thought of a funny line that might cheer the rest of your weekend: "The Tebow placebo failed to deliver a Bronco playoff victory"
aikimark1955 1 month ago
@aikimark1955 I've been a Tar Heel fan since the days when George Karl had hair like mine and I've seen games like that before, even when the Heels went on to win a national championship. It stinks to lose like that but one game isn't all that important at this point. I'm sure the players feel worse about that game than any of us, I am confident that Coach Roy, et al will address the situation and the players will respond positively.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 I remember my dad complaining about the long hair on the Tarheel players like George Karl when we watched games in the late 60s even though he liked the way they played. I'm absolutely sure that Roy will 'address' the situation and don't envy the players this week.
We are about the same age and have seen a LOT of Tarheel hoops over the years -- the good and bad, the pretty and ugly, the awesome and terrible.
aikimark1955 1 month ago
Chris Johnson loves to repeat verbatim both Hovinds, father and son, material. That makes him quite deserving of your award.
NicolSD 1 month ago