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  • This is a case where simply stating the facts openly mocks creationism. Academically it is impossible to discuss the facts as to why creationism cannot be real and not come off as mocking it. "Believe"? I don't "believe" in evolution. I agree with the facts the theory is built upon. Without the facts it would be a hypothesis. Creationism is a failed hypothesis only the uneducated could still think is correct since.  When creationism is tested it fails to become a theory.

  • Cenk, making fun of a creation myth in a college level world history class is not only acceptable, it should be expected. Agnosticism and Atheism don't make ridiculous claims that are, academically speaking, complete bullshit and worthy of being mocked. The shoe doesn't fit the feet in your example bro so quit talking about the other foot.

  • Why do you hate God so much?

  • @Mogley52 - Nice try wannabe scientist; now go out and actually get some formal training in biology before making more of a fool of yourself.

    All that you have just proven is that you have absolutely no understanding of ERVs, protein evolution, nor evolutionary theory in general.

    You have given us a good laugh, though. I guess we have different definitions of what "studying" a subject entails.

  • I don`t agree that creationism or any religion shouldn't be mocked. It`s normal behavior to make fun of those who are proud of their stupidity. If a 40 year old man believed in Santa, everyone would be making fun of him and with good reason. People who believe Elvis is still alive are being laughed at because they are ridiculous.

  • In other words, cretinists can dish it out but they can't take it - FUCK 'EM!

    

  • Cenk always makes sense no matter what the subject. He even sticks up for the other side as necessary. If wonder if he was president and had a house and senate behind him what we could achieve or would Washington corrupt him as it does everybody else?

  • @DeJach You're welcome to speak as you wish. I would want to understand your point of view.

  • @AllahuRabbi I always speak as I wish. If you want a more expanded form of parts of my view, click the link to my blog on my channel and look at my posts tagged with 'atheism', in reverse order. (That is, most recently written first.)

  • i agree with ana. classrooms are not the right place to mock peoples beliefs, as its not the teachers job or right to mock the beliefs of the children in his class, but to teach them the truth so that they wont believe the bullshit.

  • Creationism is a concept that's trying to be seen to have legitimate scientific relevance. When people go around,claiming it's an attack on their religion for someone to say it's magic, they discredit their peers attempts to further that attempt of separating Creationism from religion as a scientific principle. Can't get mad at people, even teachers, for discrediting a theory that still has little to no evidential standing in the scientific community,even if the theory's root is from a religion.

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  • I argued with teachers (and sometimes I won) but other than one that marked me down for disagreeing and proving her wrong, I had no problem with them teaching. Creationism is worthy of ridicule, but he probably shouldn't mock it. Just prove that it is a joke and let the students see it for themselves.

  • I'm not religious but I don't think religion should be mocked in front of children who believe in it. Have a heart or something.

  • "Magic"? But it is magic. That's not making fun of it, it's a fact. What God does is JRR. Tolkien-Lord of the Rings-style magic.

    Until you can show evidence that shows it isn't, that's all it is.

  • Actually, you SHOULD mock creationism as a *SCIENCE* as a religion, sure not, but the so called science of creationism is BS.

    Just like you can mock antigravity as a science. (it is just like gravity but in the other direction)

  • College is not adults, University is adults.

  • @Vids4Dinner Only technically.

  • @FlourescentPotato well, you can possibly find exceptions.

    Generally, I have experienced only childish people in College.

  • @Vids4Dinner That's a shame.

  • Creationism is obvious nonsense. Christianity is also obvious nonsense. The only difference is that people didn't start pointing out the idiocies of Christianity until recently and so it's been able to illegally steal some degree of "respectability". Both deserve to be mocked and kicked out of existence.

  • Extremely stupid things should be mocked. Also, I want to put my dick in Ana's mouth.

  • Christianity/Islam: What's not to mock? LOL

  • not mocked but objectively critiqued

  • Of course it WOULD be someone called Chad who started the whole thing...

  • i say creastion sould be on the table of a possiblity but not be taken to very serious because while the chances are low tht something may have influenced us be it aliens or god u never know

  • Teachers should be able to make fun of ANYTHING that is grounded in fanciful thinking contrary to the facts. The characterization of making fun of religion is off the mark. The teacher was teaching evolution, he made little of creationism ; but it is creationism itself that attempts to set itself up as a scientific alternative to what he was teaching. Besides, creationism DOES propose a magical explanation for biological diversity, how is that even making fun of it?

  • †.. I poop on you. 

    (ºڸº)

  • Ridiculous thing (religion) is being ridiculous...

  • Religion deserves to be ridiculed

  • Shooting down magic in a science classroom is similar to shooting down a denial of the holocaust in a history classroom.

  • @drche420

    Take it you read Dawkins book

  • @AdamHimself69

    I have. Does that make my statement any less true?

  • @drche420

    Nope! I was just trying to say you said something similar to him in the first chapter of The Greatest Show on Earth.

  • @AdamHimself69

    Haven't read that one. I've only read the God Delusion.

  • Making fun of agnostics/atheists isn't a good analogy. The teacher was mocking creationism, not Christianity or theism. Both Christians and atheists can accept evolution. It would be like a history teacher mocking people who deny the Holocaust.

  • Creationism should always be mocked, removed from the community and put in mental hospitals

  • @Xatasha6611

    Um... creationism is a concept. You can't put it in a mental hospital any more than you can put terrorism or sexism in one.

  • @Atriviality Mentally ill folk like creationist, terrorist and sexist can indeed be put in mental hospitals. I just used the wrong word creationism instead of creationist. Grammar errors happen

  • @Atriviality

    Duh. Anyone criticizing creationism is intelligent enough to know that.

  • If one of my teachers mocked atheism, my opinion of them may change a bit but they have the right to their own opinion.

  • they should mock it because......its stupid

  • can and should be mocked openly

  • @skippydeenice yes, the *science* should be mocked.

  • Mock Creationism to the full extent would be my motto. As you would if someone claimed the Earth was flat or Santa was real. Enough of the bullshit.

  • @Mogley52

    I remember you. You post the same message on every video. Nobody wants to read your nonsense, you do know that right?

  • @Mogley52 : Or time could work in a loop, and the end of this universe loops back around in time. So no 'magic' is needed.

  • @Mogley52 How does that work? Science can't prove the supernatural, therefore, the obvious of evidence ACTUALLY means that the supernatural is playing poltergeis hide-and-seekt? Where are you from? The Logic Lego Factory? How do you piece science--the investigation of evidence--with supernatural events--the definitive ABSENCE of scientific explanation or investigation. It's such a sky-meets-ground policy. But, sense you're under THAT dumb umbrella, prove dragons and unicorns. Love to hear it.

  • @Mogley52

    Were you dropped on your head as a child? When scientists say that the laws of physics break down at the time of the big-bang, it doesn't mean that it was a supernatural event, it means that we humans are at a nascent stage in scientific advancement and we need to keep working at it instead of chalking it up to some supreme intelligence - lets not forget that just 60 years ago we had no idea about star-cycles, genetics, particle zoos, human evolution, galactic evolution etc.

  • @Mogley52

    The war among evolutionists is regarding the interpretation of evidences for evolution alone and not about it's veracity. It's still scientific fact. As animals continue to evolve they occupy new ecological niches (more often than evolving to suit new conditions) - this why we humans are around as are other apes - we occupied new niches and they stayed where they were. P.S. Humans and worms share a lot of genes - it's only the decisive Hox genes that separate us (look it up)

  • @Mogley52 "How did species survive if their vital tissues, organs, reproductive systems were still evolving?"

    What in the holy fuck-wittery of shit makes you think a species would evolve before it's own vital organs?

    Have you ever opened a biology book and read the line "fish were swimming about with half a heart thinking 'bugger me I feel abit light headed' " or "millions of monkeys died from starvation as they were trying to ingest fruit through osmosis"

    Fuck sake, you people.

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  • @ColostomyCake

    You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Yes there are animals with partial hearts and there are animals with no heart, there is gradual slop of increasing complexity. 

  • @slr150 You clearly didn't understand what I said.

  • @ColostomyCake

    Keep repeating what I say, there is no argument in your false argument. Fact that your brain can't comprehend it, doesn't mean that it is not true. There is evidence so it is true.

  • @slr150 I really can't understand where you're going wrong here..

    the part of my comment in quotes was what someone else said.

    he thought evolution taught that a species would evolve before evolving the organs needed for it to survive.

    a "partial heart" when said in the context of complexity means something completely different to "half a heart" in the context of survival... I have no idea why you think what you said is even relevant.

  • yea, and genesis is a mystical, magical book full of falsehoods

  • Logic FTW!!!

  • The "peer review" is the most retarding thing in "pseudo sciences" like evolution. I don't know how someone who is supposed to be intelligent has not figured that out. It is a form of peer pressure to conform and anyone who presents the radical reality to them is looked upon as a threat to their jobs. Understand?

    In functional sciences that are not based on religious bullshit, it is OK. Peer review in evolution not a good thing because the PAID foxes are in charge of the chicken house.

  • @GoodScienceForYou I actually wrote a reinterpretation of information theory as it pertains to both classical entropy and Bose-Einstein statistics. In the shark tank of peer review every expert in the field tried to fault my math, but couldn't. Now it's regarded as "groundbreaking." This isn't because it conformed to accepted theory; it's in spite of it. It provided a theoretical framework that more accurately modeled known data. Even if there is fault with it, none of the experts could find

  • Creationism is junk science and deserves ridicule. it should be taught as an example of why it is bad science. i.e science is not cherry picking facts to argue your case.

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  • I rememeber arguing with everyone in my physics class in high school over the validity of religion. Not only was every single person in the class a Christian, the teacher was the most vociferous arguer of Christianity. He would often digress from the topic of physics to say some ridiculous Christian crap. Just an example of me not knowing when to quit. If the science teacher is spouting superstitious nonsense, the battle for rationality is as good as lost.

  • @Snakepliskinist The recent absolutely irrefutable evidence in DNA completely destroys this idea of evolution. It is a myth who's time has come. It took about 150 years to get rid of the flat earth faith and we had to wait for the last one to die in the late 1890's. There will be people who believe in the most ridiculous shit on this planet for as long as there are humans.

    /watch?v=emPINOUlfnE

  • @GoodScienceForYou I suppose it would be irrefutable if it weren't flat-out wrong about so many things. Not enough room for all. 1. Most mutations are harmless 2. single additional bases don't occur 3. That harmonica music makes me wish you were dead

    4. You claim 51% of mutations would have to be positive for evolution to occur. Show your math on that one. It sounds good to a moron, but I'd like some hard numbers. 5. "fittest" does not mean "strongest looking" or "smartest"

  • @Snakepliskinist Go fuck yourself! That is the best answer for someone as retarded as you. If MOST mutations are bad, then there is no evolution. The video is very conservative towards your religion. You cannot have a majority of the mutations cause diseases and expect to see any advancement.

  • @Snakepliskinist The evidence is that humans are sick and they have lost mental abilities along the way. You may be too genetically degraded to make it into a level of awareness required to be a free human. When people believe in cultural bullshit they are normally very weak willed.

  • @GoodScienceForYou Also even if everything you say is true, it only supports evolution and calls it de-evolution. And every species that ever existed is doomed to extinction..that's the natural outcome of evolution. And BTW what exactly are you proposing as an alternative origin of species?

  • @Snakepliskinist There are at the present time over 47,000 species on the "endangered list" for ready for extinction. Humans will be on that list in a few years. It is estimated that 1 trillion species are extinct. I think that is overwhelming evidence against evolution.

  • @GoodScienceForYou No it isn't. I'm trying to understand exactly what you think evolution is...Here's what I think you think: Evolution states that all species are somehow approaching a state of perfection. Evolution states that each generation is better than the one preceding it. Evolution states that random mutations are the mechanism of this continuous improvement. Am I close here? Because none of that is evolution, and you are correct in saying that it isn't true.

  • @Snakepliskinist Evolution states that all life came from simple one celled creatures. That these one celled creatures became marine life and then fish. Then fish walked on land and learned to breathe air and eat from the plants and animals on land. Then these walking fish became reptiles. The reptiles became mammals and birds. Eventually some primitive humans that look like apes evolved and we are magically here today because of this shit. This is the myth religion of evolution.

  • @GoodScienceForYou Let's not nitpick your minor errors there. Instead tell me how all of the extinct species disproves that. Where in that is the guarantee of survival? You say we only see degradation in DNA. Reality check: we don't look for improvements, and even if we did most traits are polygenic, and most genes are pleiotropic. Finding degradation is a lot easier by backtracking through previous generations. Also "degradation" is meaningless unless you have an absolute standard

  • @Snakepliskinist The absolute standard is health. 33% of humans in the US ages 15 to 64 will die from cancer. Source CDC. 129% increase in childhood invasive cancer in less than 20 years is not a good sign. 1 in 12 in US have diabetes, more prevelent in other countries. 1 in 10 have rare genetic diseases. 1 in 15 have heart disease. 29% will die from heart disease. That is not evolution. There are 7000 known genetic diseases and more found all the time.

  • @GoodScienceForYou Again, absolutely none of that in any way contradicts evolution. Evolutionary theory quite easily explains all of them, in fact. BTW...1 in 10 is not rare, unless you also consider southpaws rare. You say the absolute standard for degradation is health, but if that's the case, as I mentioned, neutral or beneficial mutations go unnoticed. In this case only "degradation" is observed. And evolutionary theory doesn't claim everyone has perfect health...that's ludicrous.

  • @Snakepliskinist Evolution: "that theory which sees in the history of all things organic and inorganic a development from simplicity to complexity, a gradual advance from a simple or rudimentary condition to one that is more complex and of a higher character." Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language.

  • Basically, there is not possible form of evolution in any physical evidence that we can test. When we test for it in DNA, there is ONLY genetic degradation shown. That is irrefutable physical evidence against any form of evolution.

  • @GoodScienceForYou My PhDs are admittedly both in physics. I'll also admit physicists like to make fun of biologists, like saying they are the scientists who suck at math. That said, they are no dummies. Watching your videos, I get the impression you are an engineer of sorts. Engineers are useful people to have around, but they generally suck at scientific theories because they tend to nail down the digits on each little thing instead of seeing the complex networks of relationships.

  • @Snakepliskinist No. I see the complex networks of energy moving according to the laws of science. Evotards think there is magical bullshit that violates science. People believe in magical bullshit because they cannot comprehend the complexity of the numbers of events taking place at any one time. They believe in shit like determinism and random, both of which are not real nor are they science.

  • @Snakepliskinist Evotards are in science because of political bullshit. Just like humans have always used academia to promote that which is lucrative for the people in power at any one time. When there is no evidence, humans create it. Humans as a rule are stupid. I have never allowed myself to believe in anything. Rather I wait for the evidence to tell the real story. In the last 12 years of the Human genome project it is clear that there is no mechanism for advancement.

  • @GoodScienceForYou Funny that you trust the human genome project, given that it's carried out by the very scientists whose views you repudiate. Sounds like someone got his feelings hurt because the big boy scientists wouldn't listen to him. Sad but true: If science was a porno, engineers would be the fluffers. And you keep talking about advancement. Nowhere at all does the theory of evolution contain "advancement" as a requisite product of evolution. Unless you're a fifth-grader.

  • @Snakepliskinist Evolution: "that theory which sees in the history of all things organic and inorganic a development from simplicity to complexity, a gradual advance from a simple or rudimentary condition to one that is more complex and of a higher character." Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language.

    I own this book. This is an authority on words. Genetic degradation does not fit this definition.

  • @GoodScienceForYou That definition that you just typed does not require that living things must "advance." As mentioned, "degradation" is in the eye of the beholder. We have psuedogenes for many types of proteins related to the constituent proteins of hemoglobin. If the modern constitution of hemoglobin was less efficient than the aboriginal forms, it would be "degradation." But it's more efficient, so it's not degradation. You are talking out the ass with your degradation talk.

  • @Snakepliskinist I don't like having to repeat my posting.

    Are you reading anything I type?

  • @Snakepliskinist The HGP has shown that the effect of "evolutoin" is to destroy already existing genetic structures that produce (or did produce) healthy cells. There are no positive mutations ever found in the human genome. All of the mutations have diseases associated with them.

    There is no evolution. Humans were designed organic mechanisms with consciousness, made and then set free to fuck up their own species (or to learn to not destroy the existing code). We are heading for extinction.

  • @GoodScienceForYou You can't quote the effects of evolution while disproving evolution....Also I know for a fact that you don't know dick about the human genome project. If ou did, you would know that the genetic variety available for every trait of logical necessity requires that some (by some standard) are better than others. From this you could draw a conclusion of degradation or improvement. The reality is of course described by a complex mathematical equilibrium. also, evolution=/=mutation

  • @Snakepliskinist Pay attention. Every mutation found has a disease associated with it. This is from all of the scientists trying to show evolution to me. They cannot come up with a single positive mutation that would improve fitness. Instead they all have genetic diseases associated with them.

    Why is that so difficult for you to understand?

    We know these 7000 diseases are from genetics because we can see the prior fit condition in the humans without this fucked up cell replication.

  • @GoodScienceForYou How exactly can we see this prior fit condition? On account of all the cutting edge analysis we had going for us through history? What about redheadedness? That's a mutation with no disease. What about alanine/glutamine replacement in liver enzyme CYPD6? That's going on all the time...yet the enzyme variants usually work anyway. What about mutation of surface proteins that gave rise to blood types? What about the mutation of the gene causing palmaris longus atrophy?

  • @Snakepliskinist I told you already. We know these 7000 and more genetic diseases are from mutations because we have samples of the PRIOR FIT CONDITION IN LIVING HUMAN BEINGS. It is how we know it is a fucking mutation and how it causes sickness.

    WTF is wrong with your mind. Could it be that the "bitch" denial is in there working overtime?

  • @GoodScienceForYou What about the mutation that allowed staphylococcus aureus to denature beta-lactam antibiotics? What about the mutation that confers immunity to HIV? What about that mutation you never heard about because its single amino acid substitution didn't alter the protein function? Oh yeah...that's most of them.

  • @Snakepliskinist What about the mutation that confers immunity to HIV? Do you ever research anything? All of those mutations are part of genetic disease in humans.

    The most common mutation is not a mutation? WTF is wrong with your mind?

    I have the HIV immunity, fucking retard! It is a primary mutation for type 1 diabetes in men. Fuck you!

    Bacteria has never evolved it remains a single cell or it dies. Not much to work with there...Retard!

    From US medical library:

    /watch?v=spuZtAa80qI

  • @GoodScienceForYou So what disease is being redheaded? Gingers are all patients? Try to follow: Bacteria has a specific genetic composition that will not make it resistant to beta-lactam...Then it has a genetic composition that confers such a resistance. Clearly a mutation occurred in between these states, and clearly this mutation was not fatal. What part of that is unclear. And BTW the HIV immunity won't cause diabetes without certain MHC subtypes. In all other cases: no disease.

  • @GoodScienceForYou And when did I say the most common mutation is not a mutation? I said most mutations don't have any observable difference in phenotypic expression. The Human Genome project you claim to know so much about could tell you as much. Incidentally, this very fact is the basis for mapping evolutionary history via amino acid substitution in proteins of the respirative chain.

  • @Snakepliskinist Pay attention. The definition of a mutation is a change to the DNA structure. If there is no change to the protein building then it is not a mutation. We have plenty of real mutations that are destroying humanity from the inside.

    Every mutation found in humans has been attributed to a disease, this includes bad eye site, cataracts, heart disease, stroke, eczema, one leg shorter than the next, weak backs in humans, poor hearing, bow legs, knocked knees, flat feet, on and on.

  • @GoodScienceForYou Yes, a mutation IS a change to the DNA structure. This is why a single replacement that doesn't change anything is still a mutation. The DNA is different.

    Just because it doesn't have a phenotypical change doesn't mean it's not a mutation.

    You literally just said it yourself.

    Oh, and one common mutation among most of humanity? Lactose tolerance.

    NOT intolerance. Tolerance.

  • @Snakepliskinist I had a discussion with an MD and asked him to produce any positive mutations. That was funny. These people don't know much of anything outside the cult that limits them. Then I asked him to come up with any disease that is not caused by infection or by accidents. That was really funny. I showed him the articles on DNA studies on each of those diseases he thought were "normal". Fuck this shit makes people stupid fuckers.

  • @Snakepliskinist Here is your problem. You have no idea the extent of my knowledge on this topic. You should be starting to get some idea. I have actually studied this for over 44 years and have read at least 28,000 papers on it. I read about 5 a day now. I figured if I was going to help people I would need to know more than they do and point out the real evidence.

  • @GoodScienceForYou I do understand the peer-review process of scientific literature. I know that any kind of assertion is relentlessly pick apart by critic of every kind. I know that modern evolutionary theory has undergone this process, and has therefore been subjected to every kind of valid logical criticism from the experts in the field. I know that despite this crucible for forging the strongest theory, you disagree. I also know you present patently spurious arguments. But you read...

  • @Snakepliskinist You need to listen to my video on falsification and how it perpetuates religious bullshit in science. There are not many people with intelligence enough to even understand this video.

    /watch?v=4--Frypeg00

  • @Snakepliskinist People use the thing they are most afraid of in arguments and it is telling on what controls your mind.

    "If you are concerned with other's opinions (being laughed at, like that is some horrible thing.) you will never find the Truth.

    You will be owned by others and will be their slave until you stop giving them power over your mind.

    How stupid do you have to be to allow others to control you?

    "Experts" WTF? Are you that lost? Propped up bullshit artists are never "experts".

  • @Snakepliskinist Exceptionally intelligent people simply use more of their brain than most humans, because they do not let emotional "reasons" control thoughts. They also don't fear anyone and they certainly do not find any need to conform to human beliefs, not founded on absolutely irrefutable evidence.

  • @Snakepliskinist I had a fucking medical doctor bring up that HIV mutation thing with me. After I told him what a fucking moron he was, and that his example was my disease, I never heard from him again. This is because moron believers never check out what these "positive" mutations are actually doing in people. I also survived polio as a child according to medical doctors who had worked with polio patients. I have an extremely powerful immune system that is out of control.

  • @Snakepliskinist Evolution is a fucking religion that has no foundational evidence. All the evidence only shows genetic degradation. There is no pathway mechanism for single celled creatures to evolve into billions of celled creatures. There is simply no evidence for this. Get real. In order to show evolution you must have a net of MORE than 50% positive mutations that lead to new features and more health.

    Here is what we know of mutation:

    /watch?v=spuZtAa80qI

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