I have been a scientist my entire adult life. I am just wondering how long until I am let in on the conspiracy about how everything I have learned is false & we are just pulling a fast one on creationists? Please let me in on it. I promise I will still continue to push science. lol Love your vids . Good Day !!
@WildwoodClaire1 Well, I know A secret handshake. The one that gets you into the Sunday night student spaghetti dinner (yes, it was poking fun at the flying spaghetti monster) but not THE secret handshake. :(
I hope you don't need tenure to be privy to these secrets as I have gone the clinical route. I may never be let into the club. lol Good Day !!
@WildwoodClaire1 Well, I know A secret handshake. The one that gets you into the Sunday night student spaghetti dinner (yes, it was poking fun at the flying spaghetti monster) but not THE secret handshake. :(
I hope you don't need tenure to be privy to these secrets as I have gone the clinical route. I may never be let into the club. lol Good Day !!
ok who emailed me and said gallop polls have no bearing ? are you serious ? atheists are rediculas in denial and are doubters. if truth came and fell into a atheistic lap they would doubt it happened
I submit becoming atheist is not beneficial to one's happiness. Gallup Polls in the U.S. published in October and December of 2010 present statistical data showing people who are considered “highly religious” are happier, mentally more stable, and less prone to serious depression.
@hinc1mike Gallup polls are not conducted in a rigorous, scientific manner and are therefore invalid for this type of research. Also, one's level of "happiness" says nothing about the validity of one's beliefs. As George Bernard Shaw once observed, "it is also true that a drunken man is often happier than a sober one. That is simply irrelevant."
I guess I can understand the governor's reasoning. By slashing education budgets, the paeople in Kentucky will become stupid enough to actually believe that creationist nonsense the Ark Encounter Park wants to sell.
So in a way, he wants to make sure that there will be enough clients for the Ark Park to vindicate his decision to give those yahoos millions of dollars in tax breaks.
Stay far away from Megasage. His arguments are just painful to hear, he mixes up just about every definition he talks about, and (as expected of a fundie creationist) loves censorship.
@hinc1mike Of course horse come from horses. Were a horse to be borne from another species, that would disprove evolution. Evolution works through genetic drift in breeding populations, not from the birth of chimeras. Really, don't you think it would be best for you to learn at least some of the basics of evolution in order to avoid making yourself such an a pitiable object of derision and public ridicule?
I know what video you are referring to: the one where Dawkins doesn't answer a question and the video CUTS to another scene! The cut immediately rids the video of any and all credibility! Also, the integrity of modern Biological science does not rest on an interview of Dawkins! Now please do yourself a favor and pick up an elementary school Biology book and start reading! Start small and then pick up more detailed texts later on. If you need any help, refer to Potholer54!
Can you explain why a creator would deliberately write bits and pieces of viral codings into our genome? Can you explain how we would be carrying 13 ERVs in particular that occur in exactly the same places in exactly the same chromosomes in our primate cousins if those ERVs weren't passed on to divergent descendant clades?
Or how we and every other Eukaryote on the planet uses the same protein codings for cellular respiration with Only functional variations?
@hinc1mike I believe I know the video you're talking about. Unfortunately you have been misled. Most "copies" of it on youtube are dishonest edits/cuts (sex-change interviewer, pause 4x as long, etc).
What really happened was that he was told the interview was for a serious documentary. But when that stupid question was asked he realized that he had been lied to and was in fact dealing with creationist con-artists. In spite of that he still answered the question. Watch the full interview.
@hinc1mike If a bat gave birth to a horse, you would disprove evolution, you can maybe try to find it.
Also when you have chemical interactions, a gene shift can be bring a different result. "Information" and "genetic complexity" are nice words creationists like to use in order to straw-man the actual mechanics of evolution. Read a text book.
You should know how chromosomes are gained and lost of course... If you are intelligent enough to learn about it.
8:07 I was just wondering, is it moral to mock someone for having low intelligence since it's something that you're born with and it's something you can't alter?
I find it amazing that scientists tried to demonastrate how to make fake life like have life make itself like athiests say and were unsuccessful. Well they were sucessful until they had to include oxagen and it all foiled
@hinc1mike What has a religious viewpoint, atheism, to do with the study of the early atmosphere and hydrosphere of Earth, and the organic chemistry necessary for the origin of life? Surely you are not suggesting that "god dun it" is any sort of answer to the question of how life originated.
@hinc1mike By the way, by studying the chemistry of the oldest surviving rocks on Earth, geochemists know that the early atmosphere was virtually devoid of free oxygen.
You have to check out paulbegley34's video titled "The Devil Throws The Crucifix At Pastor Paul Begley". People are so gullible and are believing that it was either the devil or God that did it. What I noticed is that all his videos prior to this one had no crucifix in the background. Then the first video where the crucifix is on the shelf, it falls off the shelf. On his other videos prior to this there were cups on the shelf instead of the crucifix.
I hereby challenge eight creationists to recreate what Noah and his seven family members actually did. Get the animals, two of each (seven of the "clean"), put them on an ark, take care of them for a year, and then successfully breed them. Do that, and then we can talk. Until then, you will be seen as an embarrassing throwback as the rest of the world moves above and beyond you, leaving you to ungratefully benefit and leech off the fruits of the science you don't believe in.
@DarkMatter2525 I think they should also be required to cut the wood for the ark, using stone or bronze axes, cut the board, plane the wood and assemble the ship without benefit of modern heavy equipment
@WildwoodClaire1 "I think they should also be required to cut the wood for the ark, using stone or bronze axes,....." Are you forgetting that the Egyptians built the pyramids using primitive tools as well. Egyptians for instance had to somehow transport massive slabs of stones, weighing several tons a piece, from many miles away and then hoist them up hundreds of feet into the air to intricately position each one in place.
@theabiotictheory So? Did I suggest it couldn't be done? I just want to see four guys do it with bronze age tools before they die of old age. And remember, they don't just need to build a boat, they need to cut and prepare all the wood, construct any heavy equipment they need to move the heavy planks into place, and also construct a large framework upon which the ark could be built.
@theabiotictheory There was a lot more than one Egyptian building the pyramids.
The bible makes no mention of anyone other than Noah building the ark. A single 600 year old man supposedly managed a ship construction feat that wouldn't be equalled for thousands of years.
The problem with your trying to compare the construction of the pyramids with construction of a wooden ship is that constructing a pyramid requires very little more than brute force and enormous amounts of physical labor. The only person who thinks their construction was an amazing technical challenge is Erik Von Daniken.
A pyramid isn't subject to exacting engineering and is subject to no dynamic loads. It's a mound built out of stone... It just sits there.
A pyramid doesn't require "lifting" stone blocks "hundreds of feet in the air."
You want to get a block to the next storey? You build a ramp out of sand and drag the damned thing up with brute force.
You want the stone to fit? You pick a block that fits and beat the surface high spots till it settles on the lower storey, or you just fill the space with mortar. It isn't rocket science.
Building a boat hull requires actual engineering skill.
@DeathofSpeech The mortar used is of an unknown origin. It has been analyzed and it's chemical composition is known but it can't be reproduced. It is stronger than the stone and still holding up today.
Is it unknown because you didn't do your homework? Because it isn't much of a mystery to anyone else.
"It is stronger than the stone and still holding up today."
No actually it's crumbling and it's made of gypsum and sand... a bit like sheetrock texturing compound. Earlier mortars where made of sand and clay... nothing terribly special.
@DeathofSpeech Computer calculations indicated 40,745 casing stones were used averaging 40 tons each before the face angle was cut.
The average casing stone on the lowest level was 5 ft. long by 5 ft. high by 6 ft. deep and weighed 15 tons. The casing stones weighing as much as 20 tons were placed with an accuracy of 5/1000ths of an inch, and an intentional gap of about 2/100ths of an inch for mortar.
The exposed limestone blocks have inches of space between them in places.
The heads on Easter Island have been demonstrated to be movable over hills from the quarry and placeable by a crew of a dozen scrawny desk-bound academics using traditional techniques and materials.
@DeathofSpeech Computer calculations indicate 590,712 stone blocks were used in the Great Pyramid's construction. It area covers 13.6 acres with each side greater than 5 acres in area.
There are supposedly 144,000 casing stones, all highly polished and flat to an accuracy of 1/100th of an inch, about 100 inches thick and weighing about 15 tons each with nearly perfect right angles for all six sides. Con'd
Moving a large number of stones only requires a large number of workers, something available in abundance in ancient Egypt (especially considering that they were paid as skilled labor).
Want to know how to mill two pieces of stone to near perfect flatness?
Put sand and water between two of them and move the top one around a bit.
It's called "lapping" and it's where the term lapidary comes from.
Finer grit produces a finer cut, and volcanic ash to polish.
The problem with construction of a pile of stones is mostly brute force labor.
Provided that you begin on a bedrock foundation (see the "Bent Pyramid") load bearing really isn't a problem since the material is only subject to static compressional loading.
Building a wooden boat hull longer than about 50 meters begins to test the strength of the materials... at 100 meters it requires iron reinforcement or the wood breaks under its own weight.
... A boat hull has to be able to endure dynamic loads. Swells produce flexional, tensional, and shearing stresses at midline and at the rib joints, and roll produces torsional stresses on the keelson and bow and stern stems as well.
Large timber boats tear themselves apart just from the action of the waves.
Wood has structural limits. A boat of over 100 meters require something stronger than wood alone or one good sized wave would snap it like a twig.
@DeathofSpeech "The exposed limestone blocks have inches of space between them in places" That's because the protective outer stone casings were stolen by Arab looters approximately 600 years ago. This left the limestone subjected to the elements and weathering is the result. Some of this plundered material ended up being used in the construction of mosques.
@DeathofSpeech "Building a wooden boat hull longer than about 50 meters begins to test the strength of the materials... at 100 meters it requires iron reinforcement or the wood breaks under its own weight." Genesis 4:22 states that both iron and bronze were being smelted prior to the flood. Interestingly the dimensions of the ark are a perfect 6 to 1 ratio of depth to length for a vessel that size. These specs are from a people who weren't particularly know for sea navigation.
@DeathofSpeech "The heads on Easter Island have been demonstrated to be movable over hills from the quarry and placeable by a crew of a dozen scrawny desk-bound academics using traditional techniques and materials" You're comparing constructing the Egyptian pyramids to that of the statues of Easter Island? The typical Easter Island statue is less than two stories high.
@DeathofSpeech "A pyramid doesn't require "lifting" stone blocks "hundreds of feet in the air." You want to get a block to the next storey? You build a ramp out of sand and drag the damned thing up with brute force." I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Check out these numbers:
@DeathofSpeech "The Bible makes no mention of anyone other than Noah building the ark." No the Bible makes no mention of God telling anyone else to build an ark except Noah. Nowhere in God's instructions to Noah, does God say Noah must do all the work himself.
@DarkMatter2525 "leaving you to ungratefully benefit and leech off the fruits of the science you don't believe in." For one thing some of history's most legendary scientists were theists, Newton, Copernicus, Boyle, Euler, Mendel, I could go on. Second there is a distinct difference between observable operational science which no one denies as a discipline (including Christians) and historical science, like the theory of evolution and big bang cosmology. Christians disagree with the latter.
@theabiotictheory In point of fact, many scientists today are Christians and virtually all accept the theory of evolution and the big bang. Christians who reject everything learned over the past 200 years are a minority.
@DarkMatter2525 even with the use of modern devices so that they could make the ark, they would have a rude awakening in the physics rule of scale. Wood would bend and break off minutes after its placed in a body of water, assuming it doesn't sink from all the leaks that was the problems from big wooden ships a century ago.
Food will spoil without modern refrigeration, and the whole ship would become a septic tank from all the animal waste. LOL!
@emancoy "Wood would bend and break off minutes after its placed in a body of water," It is possible the ark may not have been constructed entirely of wood. In Genesis 4:22 we are told man was already smelting iron prior to the flood. It's conceivable the ark may have been primarily wood but the hull may have been reinforced with iron. There is also a book written on the subject from a scientific perspective, Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study by John Woodmorappe
@theabiotictheory Ancient iron tended to be rather brittle, which is why Noah, et al would have needed bronze. Among other things, that is why cannon were made of bronze until the Bessemer process was invented in the 1850s. So, besides the problem of hewing and preparing the wood, Noah's intrepid band also needed a large supply of tin and copper to make bronze. Maybe they walked to Cornwall to mine it or buy it from the local Celts.
@WildwoodClaire1 "Ancient iron tended to be rather brittle, which is why Noah, et al would have needed bronze." Genesis 4:22 also mentions that bronze was being smelted prior to the flood as well.
@WildwoodClaire1 to quarantine the sick and declare any vessels associated with them as unclean. All these stipulations seem to point to the same conclusion, that God didn't need to wait around for man to invent the microscope to be aware of the existence of pathogens. During the time when Black Death was sweeping across Europe, a segment of Jews returned to these OT principles and dramatically reduced their infection and mortality rates.
@WildwoodClaire1 In many of the OT's 613 laws we see, we see God exhorting his people not to wash their clothing and articles in stagnant pools of standing water and to use running water only. They are instructed to avoid touching human corpses and animal carcasses, that only meat from freshly slaughtered animals should be consumed, to remove all their human generated waste products and securely bury them in a ditch outside their cities or encampments, Con'd
@fdasherv "Wow! Fresh water is cleaner than stagnant water? Your God is truly amazing" You post with such derision while enjoying the benefits of living in a society where germ theory is well established. You seem oblivious to the fact that when it was first proposed in the mid 19th century, germ theory was ridiculed and scorned by a majority in the medical community, yet its principles appear in the Bible from some 3500 years ago.
@WildwoodClaire1 "I just want to see four guys do it with bronze age tools before they die of old age." The Bible never specifies the number of people who actually worked on building the ark, so it's possible craftsmen from the surrounding areas could have been involved. "Christians who reject everything learned over the past 200 years are a minority." Neither the Bible nor Christians are anti-science. We don't reject such well established principles as atomic and germ theories for example.
@WildwoodClaire1 "Thanks for the citation, I enjoy fantasy novels." I just so happen to enjoy a good fantasy novel from time to time myself. My all time favorite being the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
@DarkMatter2525 Id like to challenge eight American creationists to why they only focus on Christian based creationism, a 6000 year old earth and ignore and dismiss other creation myths like Hindu, Native American, Shinto, Greek myth just as quickly as evolution. None of the above creation myths shown at the creation museums its all flood, talking with snakes and feeding carrots to raptors. Bias or what there?! Methinks they push a Christian agenda.
@MsOneiroi77 The first three verses of Genesis accurately express all known aspects of the creation (Genesis 1:1-3). Science expresses the universe in terms of: time, space, matter, and energy. In Genesis chapter one we read: “In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)…Then God said, “Let there be light (energy).” No other creation account agrees with the observable evidence.
The bombadier beetle would surely have been out of place in the herbivore only garden of eden. I cannot understand why creatards continual use contadictions of their own theology to try to support it. Oh wait, yes I can. It's because they are creatards.
@Huttate1 Yeah, creatures with defense mechanisms and tools perfect for killing would certainly have been out of place in this supposed perfect world ^^
Cells dident just randomly form and become alive. force had to be added. A spark. Its like a wonderfully made Frankenstein. Dead and no life. Thats the cell. until a spark hit it then it sprang to life. God sparked it to life
Why not? If we can synthesize the organic chemistry and stick the parts together like a watch and it reproduces, the only part of the process missing is the eons of time required for chemistry to randomly construct out of an entire ocean of raw material, a single cell that barely did anything. All it would take is chemistry and heat and time and the result would be pretty much inevitable in one form or the other. No magic is actually required.
You know you can combine chemical substances together and they'll react without you doing ANYTHING to them right?
You also know that the needed components for life to begin can occur naturally? Now tell me, where is this spark? Point me to it, provide quantifiable evidence for it, demonstrate it, repeat it and explain it.
I see no evidence for any spark of god nor any need for one. You are free to prove me wrong with actual science though.
@hinc1mike A human truth, human beings will always be curious, always seek to find out, and seek to know how "stuff" works, and knowing that you have already stopped all of that, and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about that truth, it singes the hair on your ass....Your already left behind in an vacuous bubble of theistic nonsensical sewage.
@hinc1mike So wait a minute. There are cells without life, they just got there somehow, right? And they just sit there, being bored? And then, your sky daddy gives them an electroshock therapy? Wow, this is even more retarded than Genesis, which you obviously completely reject, right? Every time I think it can't get any sillier, you guys prove me wrong...
@hinc1mike Spoken like a true ignorant. Life is not a "spark", it's a beautifully intricate chemical process that we are just beginning to understand. It's electrons being shuffled from place to place, allosteric enzymes pumping molecules from place to place. It's membranes and potentials wrapping the whole shebang up into a self-replicating molecular factory. It's a wonder of the universe, but still just chemistry.
I guess these fcktard religious fools who have long gone dead cant get thier god to show shit for the world even if they BEG after death to prove the afterlife ? lol just not going to happen as its all false !
Being a resident of Kentucky, the thing I find most ironic is that, aside from the HUGE tax break for the ark park, government has also been trying to legalize gambling for years. I guess it's a case of the christian hand not knowing what the heathen hand is doing.
I guess they've already worked out that you don't need an education to serve hot-dogs and pick up litter in a theme park so they might as well cut funding to the education budget seeing as the ark park is going to be such a major employer in the area and the only thing folks need to be able to do is sign their own name on a statement of faith proclaiming that they believe in Jebus to be able to work there.
if you need proof of evolution, just look up how perfectly phylogenetics fits with the tree of life. you know you aren't misinterpreting data when the entire chemical backbone of life fits the evolutionary theory perfectly. oh yes, and if you challenge me on the meaning of 'theory', i will rape you. you've been warned, creotard.
Noah's Ark theme park? Wouldn't is consist of a giant lake that's too deep for anyone to stand in and a boat in the middle that you're not allowed to get on? Come and drown your whole family just like in biblical times. It's jesusrific!
Claire! Why did god take such a long time to make an animal, us "omnivores" btw, in his own likeness? Of course we are not physically like or similar. We are Intellectually or mindfully like god! We can tell good from evil. So, do you think it is possible, that the age of reptiles (think T-Rex, everyone does) could have been god's first attempt at creating an animal in his likeness? Obviously god became angry and destroyed his "Precious". But he kept the flood rick up his sleeve for another go.
@listen2meokidoki But what about the Cambrian? Do you think huge toads that eat giant insects could have been his first attempt? Now I keep seeing, in my mind's eye, YODA from Star Wars. He was in God's image. Wasn't he a frog or something?
well, if economic development means the gov needs more people taking tickets at the ark park and making change selling corn dogs there, his plan just might work, claire!the more stupid the base, the less chance they will question the "facts" of young earth and the world wide flood, also.
Claire - keep up the informative stuff on geology, methods and history. Mockery of anti-science types goes down all the sweeter when we're able to demonstrate the alternative.
Is the current crop of Republican Nominees a sign of a belief system entering its death throes? Hopefully, because Mitt, Newt, Mr Frothy et al are batshit crazy and getting worse.
It's truly bewildering that the US can be such a leader in science, yet be populated by such superstitious dolts, resistant to any type of education beyond abstinence and "goddidit".
Why do the majority of politicians seem to be well below average intelligence? Shouldn't they be specialist or at least understand high school science?
@WildwoodClaire1 how depressing. Makes me want to run for office in my local area. Maybe it's because people who are in the know generally try and do something in their field. Politics must not generally be it.
People like megasage can be glad that modern secular society accomodates and sustains vigorously regressive non-thinkers like him. While they whine and flail and cut education (and get rich) in their sustained effort to drag the world back to the first century, the world continues to move on and offer them improving medicine, infrastructure and technology. If it weren't so anti-humanistic, I'd propose shipping them all off to their own, completely secluded country and let them have their way.
Nice how the governor wants to limit education while promoting fantasy. There are so many problems with the ark story it is going to be fascinating watching them try to explain them all.
I always get a kick out of people who cite "authorities" in unrelated fields (i.e.: dentistry) to discuss things like evolution, abiogenesis, and, -- more oddly when considering the topic concerned biology and/or chemistry, -- cosmogony. I suppose it's a matter of hoping that the audience for this shit is credulous enough to buy it; all you need are hordes of scientifically ignorant assholes chanting and praying in unison to really get a message across -- "We're proudly stupid for Jesus!"
Nice to see you using the good old Scottish word 'numpty', one of my all time favourite general purpose insults. I would like to suggest you might consider using another little Scottish insult that came to global light recently due to some slightly windy weather. i.e 'bawbag', as in 'hurricane bawbag'. It's meaning is simply 'testical' but its coloquial meaning is more or less the same as numpty, as in 'William Lane Craig is a total bawbag'. ;O)
@curlew0609 Never mind. Pardon my stupidity. I got distracted briefly and got it wrong. When I did the sensible thing and went back to look, I could see that.
i would like to see numbers for the economic feasibility of such a park here in Europe. :-) You'lld be filing for bankruptcy faster than you can say "ALL ABOARD!! "
Thanks, Claire, for the geology bits! Can you post the sources of some of your music? Especially the banjo and whistling. Keep up the great work! Thanks.
lol I love your dim bulb of the week. That guy is completely nuts. I just randomly watched one of his vids that fell into my stream some days ago and left what I would consider a pretty darn mild comment. BAM! Insta-ban. I think he just felt he needed to have the last word against every comment directed at him =P
Here in Indiana we have our own dim bulbs, Republican Sen. Dennis Kruse proposed a bill to allow local school boards to teach "creation science". and he got others to agree with him, the bill has passed out of his committee on a vote of 8-2.
Hey, WildwoodClaire, I have a Dim Bulb nominee for you. It's kind of unique: The State of Indiana Senate Educational Committee. Last Wendsday they passed a bill to the Senate,8-2, that would allow Creationism to be taught in Indiana Public Schools!
Wow. What a specimen to hold the position of a governor of a state. Just mind-boggling. I agree. He has to be the dim bulb of the week. Were it not for extreme creationist stupidity, I'd go ahead and nominate him for dim bulb of the year despite the fact that it's only January. But I already know not to hold my breath, someone, somewhere will demonstrate epic stupidity at an even higher level later throughout the year.
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the fact is that thre are no transitional forms that link unicelular and multicelular organisms, claiming that the cambrian explotion lasted 30M years and claiming that some multicelular animals evolved before the cambrian does not change the fact that there is a big gap in the fossil record.
sure you can prsent excuses, which would make evolution unfalsifiable., no gap will ever be big enough to falsify your dogma
@Answerquestions1 The gap in the fossil record you describe is irrelevant in light of the fact that both unicellular and multi-cellular organisms evolve, as documented by: (1) genetics; (2) comparative anatomy; (3) the fossil record; (4) embryology; (5) direct observation; and (6) other evidence, including atavisms and endogenous retroviruses. And your apparent devotion to some ancient fables concocted by scientific illiterates changes that not one whit.
@WildwoodClaire1 Your answer is probably better than mine to this idiot, but the same shit in the same pile, again and again...Like have a reasoned discussion with a shoe....
@complexadaptive I noticed that he was doing a tour of scientifically literate, rational channels and posting quatsch. No doubt he will grow bored of the exercise in futility eventually.
@Answerquestions1 You should talk to a biologist. I'm a geologist. I feel certain that EvoGenVideos would love to help you, particularly with your question concerning genetics. He is a friend of mine and if you would like, I would be happy to introduce you to him.
@Answerquestions1 It is not, geology is different from biology, geology is the study of the chemistry and physics and the earths structure. Biology is the the study of the complexity of life on this planet, and how the process works. The only gaps present is your understanding of the difference, and that no matter what the gaps are they will be filled in and explained by vaporous bearded male fart...
@Answerquestions1 Tiktaalik represents an order of fish that is transitional between fish and amphibians. The tetrapod footprints to which you allude demonstrate that Tiktaalik and its relatives had been around 20 million years longer than was initially thought. The footprints do nothing to falsify evolution.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!
soth3d 1 week ago
I have been a scientist my entire adult life. I am just wondering how long until I am let in on the conspiracy about how everything I have learned is false & we are just pulling a fast one on creationists? Please let me in on it. I promise I will still continue to push science. lol Love your vids . Good Day !!
shananagans5 3 weeks ago
@shananagans5 Alas, I haven't even learned the secret handshake. :)
WildwoodClaire1 3 weeks ago
@WildwoodClaire1 Well, I know A secret handshake. The one that gets you into the Sunday night student spaghetti dinner (yes, it was poking fun at the flying spaghetti monster) but not THE secret handshake. :(
I hope you don't need tenure to be privy to these secrets as I have gone the clinical route. I may never be let into the club. lol Good Day !!
shananagans5 3 weeks ago
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@WildwoodClaire1 Well, I know A secret handshake. The one that gets you into the Sunday night student spaghetti dinner (yes, it was poking fun at the flying spaghetti monster) but not THE secret handshake. :(
I hope you don't need tenure to be privy to these secrets as I have gone the clinical route. I may never be let into the club. lol Good Day !!
shananagans5 3 weeks ago
ok who emailed me and said gallop polls have no bearing ? are you serious ? atheists are rediculas in denial and are doubters. if truth came and fell into a atheistic lap they would doubt it happened
hinc1mike 3 weeks ago
@hinc1mike Thanks for the insight. Now go learn how to spell "ridiculous," numpty.
WildwoodClaire1 3 weeks ago 2
Just to be pedantic, it's professor Hawking! :-)
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I submit becoming atheist is not beneficial to one's happiness. Gallup Polls in the U.S. published in October and December of 2010 present statistical data showing people who are considered “highly religious” are happier, mentally more stable, and less prone to serious depression.
hinc1mike 3 weeks ago
@hinc1mike Gallup polls are not conducted in a rigorous, scientific manner and are therefore invalid for this type of research. Also, one's level of "happiness" says nothing about the validity of one's beliefs. As George Bernard Shaw once observed, "it is also true that a drunken man is often happier than a sober one. That is simply irrelevant."
WildwoodClaire1 3 weeks ago
I guess I can understand the governor's reasoning. By slashing education budgets, the paeople in Kentucky will become stupid enough to actually believe that creationist nonsense the Ark Encounter Park wants to sell.
So in a way, he wants to make sure that there will be enough clients for the Ark Park to vindicate his decision to give those yahoos millions of dollars in tax breaks.
SeekerFromAA 3 weeks ago
Stay far away from Megasage. His arguments are just painful to hear, he mixes up just about every definition he talks about, and (as expected of a fundie creationist) loves censorship.
Nidair 4 weeks ago in playlist Coffee with Claire
If he is the result of the KY education system it may be better to just shut it down all together.
Paetaor 1 month ago
Real evolution would require a increase in genetic complexity not just a shift in gene frequency (key point)
Rich dawkins asked can u name a evolution that had increase in genetic complexity and he stopped the interview!
Horses come from horses! Not bats ! We have variations within kinds! not a pig evolving into a horse
hinc1mike 1 month ago
@hinc1mike Of course horse come from horses. Were a horse to be borne from another species, that would disprove evolution. Evolution works through genetic drift in breeding populations, not from the birth of chimeras. Really, don't you think it would be best for you to learn at least some of the basics of evolution in order to avoid making yourself such an a pitiable object of derision and public ridicule?
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 4
@hinc1mike Most likely he stopped the interview because its a stupid question.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 2
@hinc1mike
I know what video you are referring to: the one where Dawkins doesn't answer a question and the video CUTS to another scene! The cut immediately rids the video of any and all credibility! Also, the integrity of modern Biological science does not rest on an interview of Dawkins! Now please do yourself a favor and pick up an elementary school Biology book and start reading! Start small and then pick up more detailed texts later on. If you need any help, refer to Potholer54!
June28July 1 month ago
@hinc1mike
A bit more than 90% or the human genome is rubbish... retired codings that no longer have any function and ERV segments.
If we aren't the product of added complexity in an emergent genome, explain how the vast majority of our genome became such a cluttered mess.
Is your imaginary friend just that bad a designer?
If he wrote a book would 90% of it be vapid nonsense?
oh, wait...
DeathofSpeech 4 weeks ago
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Can you explain why a creator would deliberately write bits and pieces of viral codings into our genome? Can you explain how we would be carrying 13 ERVs in particular that occur in exactly the same places in exactly the same chromosomes in our primate cousins if those ERVs weren't passed on to divergent descendant clades?
Or how we and every other Eukaryote on the planet uses the same protein codings for cellular respiration with Only functional variations?
Clues?
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ixiwildflowerixi 3 weeks ago
@hinc1mike I believe I know the video you're talking about. Unfortunately you have been misled. Most "copies" of it on youtube are dishonest edits/cuts (sex-change interviewer, pause 4x as long, etc).
What really happened was that he was told the interview was for a serious documentary. But when that stupid question was asked he realized that he had been lied to and was in fact dealing with creationist con-artists. In spite of that he still answered the question. Watch the full interview.
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hildegain 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from WildwoodClaire1
@hinc1mike If a bat gave birth to a horse, you would disprove evolution, you can maybe try to find it.
Also when you have chemical interactions, a gene shift can be bring a different result. "Information" and "genetic complexity" are nice words creationists like to use in order to straw-man the actual mechanics of evolution. Read a text book.
You should know how chromosomes are gained and lost of course... If you are intelligent enough to learn about it.
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LOL It's that santa guy again!
Typhoonbladefist 1 month ago
8:07 I was just wondering, is it moral to mock someone for having low intelligence since it's something that you're born with and it's something you can't alter?
Larvemannenz001 1 month ago
@Larvemannenz001 Perhaps not but I shall continue doing it for my own bloody amusement. Now, F*** off.
WildwoodClaire1 3 weeks ago 7
@WildwoodClaire1 Claire, I love you - few people make me laugh so hard!
ritchloui 3 weeks ago
Umm...
Doesn't timeless + space-less + immaterial = non-existent ?
Take care
akylae101 1 month ago
There were dinosaurs on the ark? That is so dumb that watching this video just blinded me in my left eye...
gabiotta 1 month ago
I find it amazing that scientists tried to demonastrate how to make fake life like have life make itself like athiests say and were unsuccessful. Well they were sucessful until they had to include oxagen and it all foiled
hinc1mike 1 month ago
@hinc1mike What has a religious viewpoint, atheism, to do with the study of the early atmosphere and hydrosphere of Earth, and the organic chemistry necessary for the origin of life? Surely you are not suggesting that "god dun it" is any sort of answer to the question of how life originated.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@hinc1mike By the way, by studying the chemistry of the oldest surviving rocks on Earth, geochemists know that the early atmosphere was virtually devoid of free oxygen.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
You have to check out paulbegley34's video titled "The Devil Throws The Crucifix At Pastor Paul Begley". People are so gullible and are believing that it was either the devil or God that did it. What I noticed is that all his videos prior to this one had no crucifix in the background. Then the first video where the crucifix is on the shelf, it falls off the shelf. On his other videos prior to this there were cups on the shelf instead of the crucifix.
VidsBySS 1 month ago
I hereby challenge eight creationists to recreate what Noah and his seven family members actually did. Get the animals, two of each (seven of the "clean"), put them on an ark, take care of them for a year, and then successfully breed them. Do that, and then we can talk. Until then, you will be seen as an embarrassing throwback as the rest of the world moves above and beyond you, leaving you to ungratefully benefit and leech off the fruits of the science you don't believe in.
DarkMatter2525 1 month ago 11
@DarkMatter2525 I think they should also be required to cut the wood for the ark, using stone or bronze axes, cut the board, plane the wood and assemble the ship without benefit of modern heavy equipment
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 2
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@WildwoodClaire1 "I think they should also be required to cut the wood for the ark, using stone or bronze axes,....." Are you forgetting that the Egyptians built the pyramids using primitive tools as well. Egyptians for instance had to somehow transport massive slabs of stones, weighing several tons a piece, from many miles away and then hoist them up hundreds of feet into the air to intricately position each one in place.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory So? Did I suggest it couldn't be done? I just want to see four guys do it with bronze age tools before they die of old age. And remember, they don't just need to build a boat, they need to cut and prepare all the wood, construct any heavy equipment they need to move the heavy planks into place, and also construct a large framework upon which the ark could be built.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory There was a lot more than one Egyptian building the pyramids.
The bible makes no mention of anyone other than Noah building the ark. A single 600 year old man supposedly managed a ship construction feat that wouldn't be equalled for thousands of years.
TychoCelchu 1 month ago
@TychoCelchu Apparently using wood from a tree that rarely grows beyond about 20 feet in height.
WildwoodClaire1 3 weeks ago
@theabiotictheory
The problem with your trying to compare the construction of the pyramids with construction of a wooden ship is that constructing a pyramid requires very little more than brute force and enormous amounts of physical labor. The only person who thinks their construction was an amazing technical challenge is Erik Von Daniken.
A pyramid isn't subject to exacting engineering and is subject to no dynamic loads. It's a mound built out of stone... It just sits there.
DeathofSpeech 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory
A pyramid doesn't require "lifting" stone blocks "hundreds of feet in the air."
You want to get a block to the next storey? You build a ramp out of sand and drag the damned thing up with brute force.
You want the stone to fit? You pick a block that fits and beat the surface high spots till it settles on the lower storey, or you just fill the space with mortar. It isn't rocket science.
Building a boat hull requires actual engineering skill.
DeathofSpeech 1 month ago
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@DeathofSpeech The mortar used is of an unknown origin. It has been analyzed and it's chemical composition is known but it can't be reproduced. It is stronger than the stone and still holding up today.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
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@theabiotictheory
"The mortar used is of an unknown origin."
Is it unknown because you didn't do your homework? Because it isn't much of a mystery to anyone else.
"It is stronger than the stone and still holding up today."
No actually it's crumbling and it's made of gypsum and sand... a bit like sheetrock texturing compound. Earlier mortars where made of sand and clay... nothing terribly special.
DeathofSpeech 4 weeks ago
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@DeathofSpeech Computer calculations indicated 40,745 casing stones were used averaging 40 tons each before the face angle was cut.
The average casing stone on the lowest level was 5 ft. long by 5 ft. high by 6 ft. deep and weighed 15 tons. The casing stones weighing as much as 20 tons were placed with an accuracy of 5/1000ths of an inch, and an intentional gap of about 2/100ths of an inch for mortar.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory
No to all of the silliness above...
The exposed limestone blocks have inches of space between them in places.
The heads on Easter Island have been demonstrated to be movable over hills from the quarry and placeable by a crew of a dozen scrawny desk-bound academics using traditional techniques and materials.
These weighed up to 82 tons.
There really is no magic or mystery here.
DeathofSpeech 4 weeks ago
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@DeathofSpeech Computer calculations indicate 590,712 stone blocks were used in the Great Pyramid's construction. It area covers 13.6 acres with each side greater than 5 acres in area.
There are supposedly 144,000 casing stones, all highly polished and flat to an accuracy of 1/100th of an inch, about 100 inches thick and weighing about 15 tons each with nearly perfect right angles for all six sides. Con'd
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory
Moving a large number of stones only requires a large number of workers, something available in abundance in ancient Egypt (especially considering that they were paid as skilled labor).
Want to know how to mill two pieces of stone to near perfect flatness?
Put sand and water between two of them and move the top one around a bit.
It's called "lapping" and it's where the term lapidary comes from.
Finer grit produces a finer cut, and volcanic ash to polish.
DeathofSpeech 4 weeks ago
@theabiotictheory
The problem with construction of a pile of stones is mostly brute force labor.
Provided that you begin on a bedrock foundation (see the "Bent Pyramid") load bearing really isn't a problem since the material is only subject to static compressional loading.
Building a wooden boat hull longer than about 50 meters begins to test the strength of the materials... at 100 meters it requires iron reinforcement or the wood breaks under its own weight.
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DeathofSpeech 4 weeks ago
@theabiotictheory
... A boat hull has to be able to endure dynamic loads. Swells produce flexional, tensional, and shearing stresses at midline and at the rib joints, and roll produces torsional stresses on the keelson and bow and stern stems as well.
Large timber boats tear themselves apart just from the action of the waves.
Wood has structural limits. A boat of over 100 meters require something stronger than wood alone or one good sized wave would snap it like a twig.
DeathofSpeech 4 weeks ago
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@DeathofSpeech "The exposed limestone blocks have inches of space between them in places" That's because the protective outer stone casings were stolen by Arab looters approximately 600 years ago. This left the limestone subjected to the elements and weathering is the result. Some of this plundered material ended up being used in the construction of mosques.
theabiotictheory 4 weeks ago
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@DeathofSpeech "Building a wooden boat hull longer than about 50 meters begins to test the strength of the materials... at 100 meters it requires iron reinforcement or the wood breaks under its own weight." Genesis 4:22 states that both iron and bronze were being smelted prior to the flood. Interestingly the dimensions of the ark are a perfect 6 to 1 ratio of depth to length for a vessel that size. These specs are from a people who weren't particularly know for sea navigation.
theabiotictheory 4 weeks ago
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@DeathofSpeech "The heads on Easter Island have been demonstrated to be movable over hills from the quarry and placeable by a crew of a dozen scrawny desk-bound academics using traditional techniques and materials" You're comparing constructing the Egyptian pyramids to that of the statues of Easter Island? The typical Easter Island statue is less than two stories high.
theabiotictheory 4 weeks ago
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@DeathofSpeech "A pyramid doesn't require "lifting" stone blocks "hundreds of feet in the air." You want to get a block to the next storey? You build a ramp out of sand and drag the damned thing up with brute force." I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Check out these numbers:
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
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@DeathofSpeech "The Bible makes no mention of anyone other than Noah building the ark." No the Bible makes no mention of God telling anyone else to build an ark except Noah. Nowhere in God's instructions to Noah, does God say Noah must do all the work himself.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
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@DarkMatter2525 "leaving you to ungratefully benefit and leech off the fruits of the science you don't believe in." For one thing some of history's most legendary scientists were theists, Newton, Copernicus, Boyle, Euler, Mendel, I could go on. Second there is a distinct difference between observable operational science which no one denies as a discipline (including Christians) and historical science, like the theory of evolution and big bang cosmology. Christians disagree with the latter.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory In point of fact, many scientists today are Christians and virtually all accept the theory of evolution and the big bang. Christians who reject everything learned over the past 200 years are a minority.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 2
@DarkMatter2525 even with the use of modern devices so that they could make the ark, they would have a rude awakening in the physics rule of scale. Wood would bend and break off minutes after its placed in a body of water, assuming it doesn't sink from all the leaks that was the problems from big wooden ships a century ago.
Food will spoil without modern refrigeration, and the whole ship would become a septic tank from all the animal waste. LOL!
emancoy 1 month ago
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@emancoy "Wood would bend and break off minutes after its placed in a body of water," It is possible the ark may not have been constructed entirely of wood. In Genesis 4:22 we are told man was already smelting iron prior to the flood. It's conceivable the ark may have been primarily wood but the hull may have been reinforced with iron. There is also a book written on the subject from a scientific perspective, Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study by John Woodmorappe
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory Ancient iron tended to be rather brittle, which is why Noah, et al would have needed bronze. Among other things, that is why cannon were made of bronze until the Bessemer process was invented in the 1850s. So, besides the problem of hewing and preparing the wood, Noah's intrepid band also needed a large supply of tin and copper to make bronze. Maybe they walked to Cornwall to mine it or buy it from the local Celts.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
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@WildwoodClaire1 "Ancient iron tended to be rather brittle, which is why Noah, et al would have needed bronze." Genesis 4:22 also mentions that bronze was being smelted prior to the flood as well.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory Like I said, perhaps he walked to Corwal and mined the tin and copper himself.
WildwoodClaire1 3 weeks ago
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@WildwoodClaire1 to quarantine the sick and declare any vessels associated with them as unclean. All these stipulations seem to point to the same conclusion, that God didn't need to wait around for man to invent the microscope to be aware of the existence of pathogens. During the time when Black Death was sweeping across Europe, a segment of Jews returned to these OT principles and dramatically reduced their infection and mortality rates.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
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@WildwoodClaire1 In many of the OT's 613 laws we see, we see God exhorting his people not to wash their clothing and articles in stagnant pools of standing water and to use running water only. They are instructed to avoid touching human corpses and animal carcasses, that only meat from freshly slaughtered animals should be consumed, to remove all their human generated waste products and securely bury them in a ditch outside their cities or encampments, Con'd
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory "God exhorting his people not to wash their clothing and articles in stagnant pools of standing water and to use running water only"
Wow! Fresh water is cleaner than stagnant water? Your god is truly amazing!
"They are instructed to avoid touching human corpses and animal carcasses, that only meat from freshly slaughtered animals should be consumed"
Fresh meat is less likely to kill an individual? Your god truly is the only entity who can make such an observation!
fdasherv 1 month ago
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@fdasherv "Wow! Fresh water is cleaner than stagnant water? Your God is truly amazing" You post with such derision while enjoying the benefits of living in a society where germ theory is well established. You seem oblivious to the fact that when it was first proposed in the mid 19th century, germ theory was ridiculed and scorned by a majority in the medical community, yet its principles appear in the Bible from some 3500 years ago.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory
"germ theory was ridiculed and scorned by a majority in the medical community, yet its principles appear in the Bible from some 3500 years ago. "
Yeah... because disease being attributed to god's wrath exactly fits germ theory.
DeathofSpeech 1 month ago
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@WildwoodClaire1 "I just want to see four guys do it with bronze age tools before they die of old age." The Bible never specifies the number of people who actually worked on building the ark, so it's possible craftsmen from the surrounding areas could have been involved. "Christians who reject everything learned over the past 200 years are a minority." Neither the Bible nor Christians are anti-science. We don't reject such well established principles as atomic and germ theories for example.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
@theabiotictheory Thanks for the citation, I enjoy fantasy novels.
WildwoodClaire1 3 weeks ago
@WildwoodClaire1 "Thanks for the citation, I enjoy fantasy novels." I just so happen to enjoy a good fantasy novel from time to time myself. My all time favorite being the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
theabiotictheory 3 weeks ago
@DarkMatter2525 Id like to challenge eight American creationists to why they only focus on Christian based creationism, a 6000 year old earth and ignore and dismiss other creation myths like Hindu, Native American, Shinto, Greek myth just as quickly as evolution. None of the above creation myths shown at the creation museums its all flood, talking with snakes and feeding carrots to raptors. Bias or what there?! Methinks they push a Christian agenda.
MsOneiroi77 1 month ago
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@MsOneiroi77 The first three verses of Genesis accurately express all known aspects of the creation (Genesis 1:1-3). Science expresses the universe in terms of: time, space, matter, and energy. In Genesis chapter one we read: “In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)…Then God said, “Let there be light (energy).” No other creation account agrees with the observable evidence.
theabiotictheory 1 month ago
The bombadier beetle would surely have been out of place in the herbivore only garden of eden. I cannot understand why creatards continual use contadictions of their own theology to try to support it. Oh wait, yes I can. It's because they are creatards.
Huttate1 1 month ago
@Huttate1 Yeah, creatures with defense mechanisms and tools perfect for killing would certainly have been out of place in this supposed perfect world ^^
hildegain 1 month ago
@hildegain
Precisely!
Because as we all know, foot long, razor sharp teeth, had only one function for T Rex... shredding lettuce for salads.
I mean, you couldn't very well eat meat with teeth like that, now could you?
How would Noah have managed if half the stuff on his little boat were trying to eat the other half.
0,o
DeathofSpeech 1 month ago
Cells dident just randomly form and become alive. force had to be added. A spark. Its like a wonderfully made Frankenstein. Dead and no life. Thats the cell. until a spark hit it then it sprang to life. God sparked it to life
hinc1mike 1 month ago
@hinc1mike
Why not? If we can synthesize the organic chemistry and stick the parts together like a watch and it reproduces, the only part of the process missing is the eons of time required for chemistry to randomly construct out of an entire ocean of raw material, a single cell that barely did anything. All it would take is chemistry and heat and time and the result would be pretty much inevitable in one form or the other. No magic is actually required.
DeathofSpeech 1 month ago
@DeathofSpeech Telling him that no magic is required is like telling a conspiracy nut that there are no robots in the water.
hildegain 1 month ago
@hildegain
Well in all fairness, I can't actually say that magic wasn't involved. I just see any evidence that magic is necessary.
As to the robots in the water... shhhh. The international conspiracy to put tiny robots in your water supply don't want you to know about that.
DeathofSpeech 1 month ago
@hinc1mike "Dead and no life. Thats the cell. until a spark hit it then it sprang to life. God sparked it to life."
I'll take this quote at face value. What EVIDENCE (verifiable, empirical, observable, et al) do you have that 'God sparked it to life'?
vryc 1 month ago
@hinc1mike bullshit.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 9
@hinc1mike Would you like to prove that?
You know you can combine chemical substances together and they'll react without you doing ANYTHING to them right?
You also know that the needed components for life to begin can occur naturally? Now tell me, where is this spark? Point me to it, provide quantifiable evidence for it, demonstrate it, repeat it and explain it.
I see no evidence for any spark of god nor any need for one. You are free to prove me wrong with actual science though.
hildegain 1 month ago
@hinc1mike A human truth, human beings will always be curious, always seek to find out, and seek to know how "stuff" works, and knowing that you have already stopped all of that, and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about that truth, it singes the hair on your ass....Your already left behind in an vacuous bubble of theistic nonsensical sewage.
complexadaptive 1 month ago
@hinc1mike So wait a minute. There are cells without life, they just got there somehow, right? And they just sit there, being bored? And then, your sky daddy gives them an electroshock therapy? Wow, this is even more retarded than Genesis, which you obviously completely reject, right? Every time I think it can't get any sillier, you guys prove me wrong...
ronnystoehr 1 month ago
@hinc1mike Spoken like a true ignorant. Life is not a "spark", it's a beautifully intricate chemical process that we are just beginning to understand. It's electrons being shuffled from place to place, allosteric enzymes pumping molecules from place to place. It's membranes and potentials wrapping the whole shebang up into a self-replicating molecular factory. It's a wonder of the universe, but still just chemistry.
NorthForkFisherman 1 month ago
I guess these fcktard religious fools who have long gone dead cant get thier god to show shit for the world even if they BEG after death to prove the afterlife ? lol just not going to happen as its all false !
flexbrat 1 month ago
silly willy is 1 scary ass fcktard running in circles who makes no sense !!!
flexbrat 1 month ago
"..uncaused, spaceless, timeless, immaterial being.." = NON-EXISTENT! LOLOLOL!
mjh012363 1 month ago
@mjh012363 there is no point in debating someone like william craig
emancoy 1 month ago
Ediacara, its always fun to learn something new.
And now we have another "explosion", the Avalon Explosion. :)
Which lasted for about 40 million years before the Cambrian period.
And if I'm reading correctly we are lucky to even have any fossils at all from this era due to the soft bodies of the creatures from the time.
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RattyRandnums 1 month ago
Being a resident of Kentucky, the thing I find most ironic is that, aside from the HUGE tax break for the ark park, government has also been trying to legalize gambling for years. I guess it's a case of the christian hand not knowing what the heathen hand is doing.
saffiiru 1 month ago
It amuses me to no end that this trailer-dwelling redneck is trying to debunk STEPHEN fucking HAWKING
k0vert 1 month ago
Redneck taking on Hawkins. how entertaining! one always needs a good laugh after a long late shift.
oliesbw 1 month ago
Who the hell keeps thumbing down these videos?? that's insane.
1980albatros 1 month ago in playlist war crimes
I guess they've already worked out that you don't need an education to serve hot-dogs and pick up litter in a theme park so they might as well cut funding to the education budget seeing as the ark park is going to be such a major employer in the area and the only thing folks need to be able to do is sign their own name on a statement of faith proclaiming that they believe in Jebus to be able to work there.
paulchartley 1 month ago
if you need proof of evolution, just look up how perfectly phylogenetics fits with the tree of life. you know you aren't misinterpreting data when the entire chemical backbone of life fits the evolutionary theory perfectly. oh yes, and if you challenge me on the meaning of 'theory', i will rape you. you've been warned, creotard.
sinprelic 1 month ago
I like your Science, MissClaire =D
ishikawaml 1 month ago in playlist Coffee with Claire
Noah's Ark theme park? Wouldn't is consist of a giant lake that's too deep for anyone to stand in and a boat in the middle that you're not allowed to get on? Come and drown your whole family just like in biblical times. It's jesusrific!
antidonkey 1 month ago
Well congratulations, Kentucky!
KaroKoenich 1 month ago
Claire! Why did god take such a long time to make an animal, us "omnivores" btw, in his own likeness? Of course we are not physically like or similar. We are Intellectually or mindfully like god! We can tell good from evil. So, do you think it is possible, that the age of reptiles (think T-Rex, everyone does) could have been god's first attempt at creating an animal in his likeness? Obviously god became angry and destroyed his "Precious". But he kept the flood rick up his sleeve for another go.
listen2meokidoki 1 month ago
@listen2meokidoki But what about the Cambrian? Do you think huge toads that eat giant insects could have been his first attempt? Now I keep seeing, in my mind's eye, YODA from Star Wars. He was in God's image. Wasn't he a frog or something?
listen2meokidoki 1 month ago
well, if economic development means the gov needs more people taking tickets at the ark park and making change selling corn dogs there, his plan just might work, claire!the more stupid the base, the less chance they will question the "facts" of young earth and the world wide flood, also.
practicalmagic9 1 month ago
Claire - keep up the informative stuff on geology, methods and history. Mockery of anti-science types goes down all the sweeter when we're able to demonstrate the alternative.
paulgeoffreybrown1 1 month ago
Is the current crop of Republican Nominees a sign of a belief system entering its death throes? Hopefully, because Mitt, Newt, Mr Frothy et al are batshit crazy and getting worse.
It's truly bewildering that the US can be such a leader in science, yet be populated by such superstitious dolts, resistant to any type of education beyond abstinence and "goddidit".
rohanwotan2 1 month ago
Why do the majority of politicians seem to be well below average intelligence? Shouldn't they be specialist or at least understand high school science?
osaka35 1 month ago
@osaka35 Because Americans are under-educated clown-shoes who want someone to represent them who is just as big a numpty as they.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1 how depressing. Makes me want to run for office in my local area. Maybe it's because people who are in the know generally try and do something in their field. Politics must not generally be it.
osaka35 1 month ago
Actually, everything up to iron was formed without supernovae.
thethegreenmachine 1 month ago
@thethegreenmachine yeah, someone else point that out. When I get a chance, I'll add a note to the video.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@thethegreenmachine true, dispersion is what required the nova events.
theskepticalheretic 1 month ago
I think im going to be sick. Cutting 50 million from education? you'll end up like the middle east
gingergreek 1 month ago
Clair.... you're a sweetie!!
leeroynaggins 1 month ago
People like megasage can be glad that modern secular society accomodates and sustains vigorously regressive non-thinkers like him. While they whine and flail and cut education (and get rich) in their sustained effort to drag the world back to the first century, the world continues to move on and offer them improving medicine, infrastructure and technology. If it weren't so anti-humanistic, I'd propose shipping them all off to their own, completely secluded country and let them have their way.
blackwolf1200 1 month ago
For a moment I thought those dim bulbs were getting dimmer.
Wrath0fKhan 1 month ago
Nice how the governor wants to limit education while promoting fantasy. There are so many problems with the ark story it is going to be fascinating watching them try to explain them all.
TheCurmudgen 1 month ago
In UK comedy, there is a cultural contest of trying not to laugh whilst saying the silliest thing.
Too silly and no one gets it.
Too dull and no one laughs.
If Comedian is visibly straining not to laugh, that is best.
The Ark Park would have most British Comedians pissing their pants uncontrollably.
calmreason 1 month ago
I just saw a governor's press conference wherein there was a serious back-and-forth about whether or not there will be dinosaurs on the ark of Noah.
Words fail sometimes. This has been one of those times.
smaakjeks 1 month ago
I always get a kick out of people who cite "authorities" in unrelated fields (i.e.: dentistry) to discuss things like evolution, abiogenesis, and, -- more oddly when considering the topic concerned biology and/or chemistry, -- cosmogony. I suppose it's a matter of hoping that the audience for this shit is credulous enough to buy it; all you need are hordes of scientifically ignorant assholes chanting and praying in unison to really get a message across -- "We're proudly stupid for Jesus!"
plasticiconoclastic 1 month ago
Nice to see you using the good old Scottish word 'numpty', one of my all time favourite general purpose insults. I would like to suggest you might consider using another little Scottish insult that came to global light recently due to some slightly windy weather. i.e 'bawbag', as in 'hurricane bawbag'. It's meaning is simply 'testical' but its coloquial meaning is more or less the same as numpty, as in 'William Lane Craig is a total bawbag'. ;O)
fishypaw 1 month ago
It's funny how most people find Geology boring but TURNS ME ON !
perrin6 1 month ago
@perrin6 "because the world is round, it turns me on" - J. Lennon. :O)
fishypaw 1 month ago
Oh, that was a good blast from the past. It gave this video a certain something, lent it.... erm what's the word.... GRAVITY!
Interesting and enlightening as always.
TheBoyFromNorfolk 1 month ago
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jock150 1 month ago
"he's an elected official"
OMG!!! Really? Did I understand you correctly that meganumbty is an elected official?
Where!?! As what!?!
curlew0609 1 month ago
@curlew0609 Never mind. Pardon my stupidity. I got distracted briefly and got it wrong. When I did the sensible thing and went back to look, I could see that.
curlew0609 1 month ago
@curlew0609 No, Steve Beshear is an elected official.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@complexadaptive
The reason you can't find 'evidence' is because you keep spelling it "evidance" and aren't using Google which will correct that for you.
COEXISTential 1 month ago
great video again. very informative.
Does Cambridge get it's name from the same derivation as the Cambrian period?
qtzlctl2012 1 month ago
@qtzlctl2012 Cambridge gets its name as being the place where there was a bridge over the river Cam. I don't know the derivation of the river's name
x42brown 1 month ago
@x42brown wow, how literal!
qtzlctl2012 1 month ago
Perhaps that Governor is after a ignorant compliant workforce that know their place. Not something I would want for any people.
x42brown 1 month ago
i would like to see numbers for the economic feasibility of such a park here in Europe. :-) You'lld be filing for bankruptcy faster than you can say "ALL ABOARD!! "
Epostaxis 1 month ago
Ah, Joe Martin's video is now private. Guess he got tired of being called out for being a complete idiot.
rrward 1 month ago
Thanks, Claire, for the geology bits! Can you post the sources of some of your music? Especially the banjo and whistling. Keep up the great work! Thanks.
crappydog56 1 month ago
@crappydog56 That's Carter Burwell playing "Way Out There," the theme for the movie "Raising Arizona."
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
Claire, I thought Curvier came up faunal succussion. True or false?
lawilson200 1 month ago
@lawilson200 Cuvier had the same idea. Smith named it "faunal succession."
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
lol I love your dim bulb of the week. That guy is completely nuts. I just randomly watched one of his vids that fell into my stream some days ago and left what I would consider a pretty darn mild comment. BAM! Insta-ban. I think he just felt he needed to have the last word against every comment directed at him =P
TheStigma 1 month ago
Nothing exists outside of fucking space-time if so prove otherwise other than that this can be waved off like the mythos of santa claus.
SuperSkepticism 1 month ago
@SuperSkepticism
Don't mention Santa's name, blashemer! Yes, Santa lives outside our space-time, but has aone of his own, so that is not a problem, all kids know that.
SwineNahNah 1 month ago
Great to see my old friend Desertphile doing his Isaac Newton impression, again!
8WholeThing 1 month ago
I've got a picture of a massive orthocone fossil of you're doing the Ordovician next. I'll send you a copy.
TheCraich 1 month ago
Math for creationists
1+1=2
2+2=4
6000yrs + 4.5Byrs = 6000yrs
Calculated by a uncaused, mindless (sorry timeless), spaceless, immaterial being of unfathomable power.
complexadaptive 1 month ago
Here in Indiana we have our own dim bulbs, Republican Sen. Dennis Kruse proposed a bill to allow local school boards to teach "creation science". and he got others to agree with him, the bill has passed out of his committee on a vote of 8-2.
I've never been so ashamed of being a Hoosier.
OtherGonzo 1 month ago
@OtherGonzo depressing. If I were a biology teacher in that state, I'd be packing my bags. There are plenty of states short of science teachers.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
Hey, WildwoodClaire, I have a Dim Bulb nominee for you. It's kind of unique: The State of Indiana Senate Educational Committee. Last Wendsday they passed a bill to the Senate,8-2, that would allow Creationism to be taught in Indiana Public Schools!
MrWill7980 1 month ago
Pardon My previous comment has an error...
"your videos make me want coffee. :D"
Nyanx4 1 month ago
... Even though I don't like the taste, you're videos make me want coffee. :D
Nyanx4 1 month ago
Wow. What a specimen to hold the position of a governor of a state. Just mind-boggling. I agree. He has to be the dim bulb of the week. Were it not for extreme creationist stupidity, I'd go ahead and nominate him for dim bulb of the year despite the fact that it's only January. But I already know not to hold my breath, someone, somewhere will demonstrate epic stupidity at an even higher level later throughout the year.
Bear5177 1 month ago
The segment with the government talking heads at the podium extolling the virtues of a Noah's Ark theme park was truly surreal.
Sadly, it exemplifies why the US's time in a leadership position has past. Off to the Bronze Age with you, Kentucky!
ChipArgyle 1 month ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
the fact is that thre are no transitional forms that link unicelular and multicelular organisms, claiming that the cambrian explotion lasted 30M years and claiming that some multicelular animals evolved before the cambrian does not change the fact that there is a big gap in the fossil record.
sure you can prsent excuses, which would make evolution unfalsifiable., no gap will ever be big enough to falsify your dogma
Answerquestions1 1 month ago
@Answerquestions1 The gap in the fossil record you describe is irrelevant in light of the fact that both unicellular and multi-cellular organisms evolve, as documented by: (1) genetics; (2) comparative anatomy; (3) the fossil record; (4) embryology; (5) direct observation; and (6) other evidence, including atavisms and endogenous retroviruses. And your apparent devotion to some ancient fables concocted by scientific illiterates changes that not one whit.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 13
@WildwoodClaire1 Your answer is probably better than mine to this idiot, but the same shit in the same pile, again and again...Like have a reasoned discussion with a shoe....
complexadaptive 1 month ago 2
@complexadaptive I noticed that he was doing a tour of scientifically literate, rational channels and posting quatsch. No doubt he will grow bored of the exercise in futility eventually.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago
@WildwoodClaire1
first of all, none of those ´´evidances´´ link multicelular and unicelular organisms
second, none of those evidances are falsifiable, for example ¿how can genetics falsify evolution?
third, the point that I was trying to make is that, it doesn´t matter how big a gap is, evolution will always find an excuse
Answerquestions1 1 month ago
@Answerquestions1 You should talk to a biologist. I'm a geologist. I feel certain that EvoGenVideos would love to help you, particularly with your question concerning genetics. He is a friend of mine and if you would like, I would be happy to introduce you to him.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago 5
@WildwoodClaire1 ´´You should talk to a biologist...´´
you where the one that claimed that genetics prove evolution.....
ok so how is evolution falsifiable in the field of geology?, how big does a gap has to be in order for it to be a problem for evolution?
Answerquestions1 1 month ago
@Answerquestions1 It is not, geology is different from biology, geology is the study of the chemistry and physics and the earths structure. Biology is the the study of the complexity of life on this planet, and how the process works. The only gaps present is your understanding of the difference, and that no matter what the gaps are they will be filled in and explained by vaporous bearded male fart...
complexadaptive 1 month ago
@Answerquestions1 - find me a fossil that is not in order, ie a bunny in the jurassic, or a dinosaur in the cambrian explosion...
Spinobreaker 1 month ago
@Spinobreaker - meant to add, thats a way u can falsify evolution...
Spinobreaker 1 month ago
@Spinobreaker
´´ find me a fossil that is not in order´´
that has been found hundrets of times. in fact most of the ´´trancitional fossils´are not found in the correct order.
for example 395Myo land tetrapots fossils, since land animals where suppose to evolve 380My ago (after tiktaalik) a 395Myo should falsify evolution
Answerquestions1 1 month ago
@Answerquestions1 Tiktaalik represents an order of fish that is transitional between fish and amphibians. The tetrapod footprints to which you allude demonstrate that Tiktaalik and its relatives had been around 20 million years longer than was initially thought. The footprints do nothing to falsify evolution.
WildwoodClaire1 1 month ago