Oh my god WHOA. It's so awesome watching this video after reading The Fault in Our Stars in 2012, and hearing that Dom Perignon quote 5 YEARS BEFORE it was published. This makes me extremely happy to be a Nerdfighter (and have access into the mind of one of the best writers ever). :)
technically it's not a TFIOS reference b/c he wasn't in the middle of writing TFIOS but still champagne that quote is in TFIOS and I did my happy dance when you started talking about champagne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ömg i just realized that Johns short story in let it snow was the first that i ever read or heard of him, way before i became a nerdfighter or read any of his books :) it's way adorable
Two things: One, prawn pesto is great on pasta! Highly recomended. Also, come quick I'm tasting stars is a quote on the wall of my Uni college bar. I now know where it came from! Nerdfighters!
One Young-Earth Creationist says to another "Which is closer - the Moon or Mexico"? The other points at the Moon and replies "The Moon - Duh! You can't see Mexico from here".
Hey Vlog.....You really are a fool. So far for the last 10 months, the only thing you have managed to accomplished is insult and attack something you cannot dispute with fact. You use fancy speech to fool the already fooled and foolish and not once have you ever presented one iota od science or fact or even evidence to dispute creationism. I hope you like it REALLY hot. You'll be spending your eternal exsistence that way.....unless God have mercy on you and you repent. Stop speading your misery.
@3gdosrsfs did you know that he is a christian? and so am I. Not all of us belive that every word of the old testiment should be taken literally. I don't mean that you are supid for beliving that, but I do think that you should not condem people for the details of their belifes about creation.
I hope that you belive in a God of love who cares more about how you treat your neibours than what you think about history of the earth.
I hope you belive in a God who forgives, and wants to forgive.
@3gdosrsfs Did you know that he is a christian? and so am I. Not all of us belive that every word of the old testiment should be take literaly. I'm not attacking you or your views, but I do think that you should be less abusive of people who think differnetly. I belive whether a person loves their neibours and tries not to hate their enemies is much more important than what they think about the origins of this planet.
I hope you belive in a God of love, who forgives, and wants to forgive.
Dom Pérignon never accually said "come quickly i'm drinking the stars" that was invented in the late 19th century as a marketing ploy by the manufactures of champagne, the french accually spent a lot of time trying to get rid of the bubbles it was the english who liked the bubbles so added sugar and molasses it make it more fizzy. The french just refined the process when they realised that they could sell it to us.
I don't know if anyone has used this little tidbit as argument against creationism but I would like to know something. God, according to the bible, created the heavens an earth at the same time. How do they reconcile that we are seeing light from star etc. that are millions or billions of light years away?
@royme55 yeah well they would say that god set the light from the stars halfway to earth when the world was created. Also i do not recommend arguing with any creationist that truly believes in what he says ... it's pointless (also sorry if i do not make any sense English is not my native language).
Oh my goodness, John! I can't check the comments at this time in the morning but I can't believe you fell for the Dom Pergion nonsense! While he may very well have said that when first tasting champagne, the drink was invented in Britain, if you take "invented" to mean made on purpose through a repeatable process. In fact, poor old Dom Pergion is rumoured to have never worked out why his wine was fizzy.
"Come quickly! I am tasting the stars!" is an awesome quote. It makes me think of "Champagne Supernova" as something other than a very pretty bit of nonsense.
John, I just learned exciting news from the future! I'm going to try not to spam your channel, but I am really happy about you and the yeti having a John Hank Bubbles the Nerdfighting Baby Green! Congratulations from the future!
While I agree with the young earth view of ~6000 years old earth, I should note that I have never heard of James Usher, and I hold my religious views based on the Bible, not on a catholic archbishops.
but seriously, whatever your views are please avoid mentioning too much religious stuff unless you plan on starting a flame war; atheists can't help but through out scores of insults and profanity at the mere mention of Christianity.
Its Ironic that many of young earth proponents are as young themselves. These are young adults that refuse to watch B&W films or listen to music more than 5 years old, simply because it is obsolete, and well, just not cool or in trend..........but taking the blabbilings of a 17th century philosopher literally?.........Awesome!
I'll bet another nerdfighter pointed this out in one of the hundreds of comments here, but you were hip enough to mention Usher and Ludicrous (I don't know if that's how he spells it) accidentally in the same sentence. Two of the most popular pop/rap stars of our time. Maybe this wasn't such a nerdy video after all.
I think it would be cool if the 22nd was the birthday of the universe cause my birthday is the 22nd. I love nerdfighters, my friend just turned me on today.
John, I agree with you 100%. I admire you for having the guts to voice any opinion about creationism as most people are liable to get flamed (espec. on here) for doing so. I'm an atheist and I respect other people's beliefs (as I see, you're a Christian) but I do wish that they would open their minds to scientific theories & listen to others' points of view regardless of whether they're creationists or not. I respect you for (as I see from your library) taking the time to look at others' pov.
This date is also my birthday and coincidently its also called the great disappointment according to some 7th day adventists. You should Wikipedia it!
All that to say, I do agree with wynflete, that Jesus came, died, and rose again and God cares about our response to that. I love your thought provoking videos and you are so JOKES! DFTBA.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE you guys. I am a young Earth creationist and it has nothing to do with Usher or uneducated assumptions from the 17th century. There are lots of ludicrous ideas coming from the 21st century as well, wouldn't you agree? As an earlier commenter stated, there are valid points on both sides of the origins issue. None of us were there, so to some degree whatever you believe is taken on faith...it can be said that the idea that our ancestors were pond scum is, well, ludicrous.
Hey mireescup, if the world was young, surely we could only see as far into space in lightyears, as how old/young you believe the the earth is. yeah? Get what I say?
That seems to make sense. There are a lot of unanswered questions about origins. People who posit God, and assume the Bible is literal and accurate, because God said so, would consider the following: time-dilation, synchronization, and obviously, yes, that perhaps we cannot explain a supernatural act with current scientific mechanism. Let's say the universe originated by the Big Bang, the light issue is still problematic. In the Big Bang theory,
the universe started in an infinitely small state and rapidly expanded. For this to happen, the temperature varies greatly in different locations. Now, when the universe has greatly expanded, there is almost no temperature variance. How did the temperature become uniform? By exchanging energy? That's the only way for that to happen in today's observable science. Nothing travels faster than light, so clearly, light must have traveled back and forth many times from point A to point B in the
widely expanded universe. Problem is, 14 billion years is not enough time for this to have happened. Now that we see distant starlight cannot be used as an argument to discredit either big bang, OR the Bible, what about hot blue stars? We can see hot blue stars, but they could not possibly last billions of years. How is that possible?
mireesecup, it doesn't matter mate. Forget about it. I'll see you in 30 years. Young earth Cre'sm says 6k yrs. That means we can see no further than 6k light-years, right!. How can we see millions and billions of light-years into space? Maybe God did it after all!
Research the relativity of time. There could be answers there for you. I won't bore you. In some ways it does matter. If verse one of the Bible can be disproved by science, why believe the rest of it? My point is that though it can't be PROVEN because no one was there. It also cannot be DISPROVEN. Same thing with other theories relying on the Earth being billions of years old. There are a lot of holes in the theory. I am all for open discussion, as long as both sides
admit the unknowns. Evolution is not fact. Neither is millions or billions of years. They are theories. It is anti-intellectual to argue otherwise, to borrow a term from others in these posts. I was taught in school that the Earth is millions of years old. i have since done a lot of reading and research. It just doesn't add up. Hope it's more than 30 years before i see you :) oh, and I'm a girl :) DFTBA!
mireesecup, it takes a year for light to travel 1 light-year?? Yeah? So therefore, it is impossible for us to see further than 6k light-years, if that is the age of Earth. You concede that?? but with the naked eye, we can see stars millions of light-years away.
The Earth is 4.5 bn years old, and not 1m like your school said. And this without doubt not a provable fact, IF you want to check.
Btw, evolution is proven fact. It is beyond hypothesis, and is SCIENTIFIC theory. Like music theory.
This is so false. Sean Lennon is an example of an "intermediary" form. And if he mates with another Japanese/Caucasian, their child will likely be different again. It happens ever so gradually over millenia, so there is no big jump from one species to another. Of course you're not going to see a crocaduck. We are all intermediaries. All species are, dependent on their environment.
Have you looked up Carl Sagan? A brilliant American astronomer who is sadly dead now.
You must believe in something that can be proven, and not something that can't be disproved. Now, you say you believe the Earth is 6k yrs old. Now that is something that is easily disproved by geology, astronomy, biology and physics. You seem smart, so don't align yourself with that dummy, Kent Hovind.
"It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations. Darwin's theory of natural selection has never had any proof, yet it has been universally accepted."(Prof. R Goldschmidt PhD, DSc Prof. Zoology, University of Calif. in Material Basis of Evolution Yale Univ. Press)
"In all the thousands of fly-breeding experiments carried out all over the world for more than fifty years, a distinct new species has never been seen to emerge ... or even a new enzyme."(Gordon Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery (New York: Harper and Row, 1983, pp 34, 38)
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
(Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, chapter "Difficulties")
"absurd in the highest degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case..... then the DIFFICULTY of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real."
I would also like to add that Darwin is an easy target, because his writings are of a different age and value system. And if some his writing seem tentative, that's because HE was the one making a great leap in discovery by sticking his neck out to get the ball moving. If he was alive today, he would marvel at the discoveries since Origin of Species was first published.
It is still a debate among scientists...evolutionist scientists included. Never heard of Kent Hovind. If we are deteriorating into calling people "dummy" is this still intellectual discussion?
Hovind is the world champion of creationism. And all his arguments are hollow. Look him up for a laugh. Using quotes to make a point is facetious, because anyone can be mis-quoted, or out of context. Especially Darwin, who did not have the means, nor the technology, that we have today. DNA, hadn't even been discovered back then, but it back up evolution to the hilt.
So using Hovind as an argument against creationism is facetious. There are real scientists who feel the evidence does not support evolution, and they are not necessarily basing their finding on the Bible. They started out "believing in" evolution. People smarter than us, who have devoted their lives to finding scientific answers to our origins are still debating this. I will not change your mind based on the science and you will not change mine. I've read both sides.
Does the full Darwin quote make more sense? He was merely stating that although it might be hard to imagine an eye evolving, does not make impossible. "the difficulty of believing...though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real." And anyway, since 1859, we do know how the eye evolved. There are many great YT videos explaining it in simple terms. The awesome mantis shrimp, has far superior vision to humans. Try telling Singaporeans that the eye was intelligently designed!
The quotes were to show that it is still a debate. I believe Creation is a fact, but I freely acknowledge there are questions that we have not found the answer to. It's the same thing with any other idea of origins. There is still evidence in our world (and space) that do NOT support evolution. But you call it fact. Because you are operating under the assumption we just haven't found the answer yet.
Which we may or may not want to get into :) I respect that you are a smart person and we differ on interpreting the evidence. We will know the truth soon enough. My main reason for posting my first comment is to try to dissuade people from writing off creationists as "idiotic". Hey, I won the 6th grade spelling bee!
You can't 100% prove or disprove the creation story as mentioned in the bible no more than you can prove the theory of evolution. Even today's evolutionary scientists (in their right mind) will concede this.
It does make an interesting theological debate though.
(sorry about reposting this. I wish I could edit my comments without having to completely remove them)
There's many valid points in both young and old Earth creationism. I tend to lean toward young Earth myself, although I think 6,000 years is a bit too young.
Hey Wrex2496, tell me if you get this. It takes 8min for sunlight to reach Earth, yeah? So therefore it takes a year for something that is a light-year away to reach us. With me?
Now, that means that if young Earth creationism is correct, we should be only able to see 6k light-years into space. However, we can see millions with the naked eye, and billion with telescopes. Simple! No Phd, no doctorate, no nerdy glasses. Plain common sense. Let me know it this makes sense.
Because we are dealing with creationism: an extraordinarily supernatural event, it doesn't follow the normal rules of physics. For the "Creator" could have "created" the visible light that we see to exist beyond its point of origin.
Now, I'm not saying that you are incorrect, because your point is indeed valid. But when dealing with matters that deal with the supernatural, one can never know for sure.
I believe they are equally likely. Both the young earth and the old earth creationists have valid points. However, I do tend to lean toward the younger earth theory. Although, 6,000 years is far too young I think.
How could the universe have been created "just after nightfall"? I mean, is that to say that there was a "before nightfall" on the particular day, assuming God himself had to create night and day?
i agree with wow1just1wow. no where in the bible does it give us the exact time from the beginning and the timing events that took place afterwards.
As a matter of fact it says that a day to God can be like a 1000 years and 1000 years like a day. Meaning time is not the same to us as it is to God.
So even though it says God created the Earth in 6bdays doesn't necessarily mean 6 literal days, it could be done in 6 parts spread over thousands if not millions/billions of years
I believe that God created the universe but I belive that he started creating our solar system and forming planet earth perhaps billions of years ago. I believe that once the earth was ready to carry life that God created all the animals and plants and then later on created humans. I belive that man was created around 8008 years ago. 6000 years BC then 2008 years from Christ till now.
I think the idea of the world being around 6,000 years old comes from the genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 (for the most part). The thing is that it doesn't take into account that "begat" doesn't mean a direct father-son relationship. When that is considered it comes out to be around 13,000 years old. (Of course there is more to it than just adding the years in the genealogies.)
This was on my birthday!!! That's so jokes! And it's extra fact-nerdy! I LOVE facts! And also, this means, despite the fact that I support evolution and the 4.5 billion year old universe, that I was born on the universe's birthday!! In 2007 when this video was made, it was the 6012th birthday of the universe. Those digits add up to how old I was on September 11, 2001. Coincidence, no?
Pants power! Hahahahahaha one of my email addresses is 'the pants of power'...and what's more is that I got the idea from a Year Eight science book. Seems I was a nerdfighter before it officially existed :]
"ttyl" as in the book ttyl? Maybe that's why I recognize the name... Almost all of the girls in my unit this year read one copy of that book, so it kinda got around.
On the note of crazy 17th century idea, don't for get the bleeding, lobotomizing, and of course drilling a hole directly into someone head! as a side note, people actually survived the hole in the head, but rarely the bleeding.
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OLk i really don't see how it is necessary to harp on other people's beliefs. I mean really, what if someone were to make a vlog that you watch saying "nerds are not the most awesome things in the world, in fact that idea is idiotic." You'd be pretty mad right, because, while that person is entitled to their own beliefs, it isn't necessary to say the other point of view is idiotic. And we, as humans, cannot prove anything, because we are just part of this large world we are living in.
I'm told often how idiotic my beliefs are. I never get mad. I just tell myself that my beliefs don't include a giant invisible man in the sky creating the universe and then speeding up light so that it will seem older and realize I'm not the one with the ludicrous beliefs.
Paper Towns also anagrams to 'To Rape Pwns'
winefromthelilactree 3 days ago
Annddddd five years later you put tasting the stars into a book.
Look at you, making TFiOS references before it was even a thing.
nerdfightersky 5 days ago 10
@nerdfightersky oh so much like!! i was JUST about to post this :) being 5 yeaars late watching these videos, FTW!!!!! :D
lonerizer 4 days ago
@nerdfightersky i was gonna say the same thing. great nerdfighter minds think alike lol
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Tasting the stars?! FRENCH THE LLAMA TFiOS
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all of the creys
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TFiOS reference!!!
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Oh my god WHOA. It's so awesome watching this video after reading The Fault in Our Stars in 2012, and hearing that Dom Perignon quote 5 YEARS BEFORE it was published. This makes me extremely happy to be a Nerdfighter (and have access into the mind of one of the best writers ever). :)
StaleMilk12 1 week ago
HOW is Pants Power not a thing?!
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I just read the part of TFiOS last night =D
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technically it's not a TFIOS reference b/c he wasn't in the middle of writing TFIOS but still champagne that quote is in TFIOS and I did my happy dance when you started talking about champagne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrElizajohn 2 weeks ago
TFIOS REFERENCE!
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minor tfios reference! :D
shoelace07 2 weeks ago 5
ömg i just realized that Johns short story in let it snow was the first that i ever read or heard of him, way before i became a nerdfighter or read any of his books :) it's way adorable
anondescriptusername 2 weeks ago
I like POWER PANTS better :)
FutureAbe 3 weeks ago
Two things: One, prawn pesto is great on pasta! Highly recomended. Also, come quick I'm tasting stars is a quote on the wall of my Uni college bar. I now know where it came from! Nerdfighters!
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One Young-Earth Creationist says to another "Which is closer - the Moon or Mexico"? The other points at the Moon and replies "The Moon - Duh! You can't see Mexico from here".
csmcmillion 1 month ago
mmm... prawn pesto...
SomeoneBeginingWithI 1 month ago
I got wayyyy too excited when I realized that this video was made exactly 4 years ago....
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colonialization, lol
dannerzme 3 months ago
The world was created after nightfall? Yeah that makes sense.
nossecroissant 4 months ago 4
Oh. I was looking forward to hearing your arguments against YE creation but there were none. Turns out I prefer anagram jokes more anyway (Y)
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Hey Vlog.....You really are a fool. So far for the last 10 months, the only thing you have managed to accomplished is insult and attack something you cannot dispute with fact. You use fancy speech to fool the already fooled and foolish and not once have you ever presented one iota od science or fact or even evidence to dispute creationism. I hope you like it REALLY hot. You'll be spending your eternal exsistence that way.....unless God have mercy on you and you repent. Stop speading your misery.
3gdosrsfs 4 months ago
@3gdosrsfs did you know that he is a christian? and so am I. Not all of us belive that every word of the old testiment should be taken literally. I don't mean that you are supid for beliving that, but I do think that you should not condem people for the details of their belifes about creation.
I hope that you belive in a God of love who cares more about how you treat your neibours than what you think about history of the earth.
I hope you belive in a God who forgives, and wants to forgive.
SomeoneBeginingWithI 1 month ago
@3gdosrsfs Did you know that he is a christian? and so am I. Not all of us belive that every word of the old testiment should be take literaly. I'm not attacking you or your views, but I do think that you should be less abusive of people who think differnetly. I belive whether a person loves their neibours and tries not to hate their enemies is much more important than what they think about the origins of this planet.
I hope you belive in a God of love, who forgives, and wants to forgive.
SomeoneBeginingWithI 1 month ago 5
Creation fits, it makes sense. Science supports it, history proves it, I believe it.
warriorprince1010 4 months ago
i laughed at the knitting joke. im so using that on my favorite teacher.
AlwaysPotter 4 months ago
Ex-young earth creationist gets a giggle out of this.
geekspawngirl 5 months ago
"That strikes me as ludicrous."
When talking about someone named Usher.
hah.
ProgressiveBoink 5 months ago 3
@ProgressiveBoink I was thinking that exact thing. :D
IvoryAthena 5 months ago
It was not mentioned. I am in the process of watching every episode of brotherhood 2.0 and it was not mentioned
brenx89 5 months ago 3
"We nit lots."
Hahahahahahahaha.
KidWithABulletSoul 6 months ago in playlist VlogBrothers: October 2007
Pants Power!!!!
TookItHomeToJenny 6 months ago
what's that growing on our meat? it's moving... and's flavor! EAT UP!!!!!!!!
way to go 17th century pple, i'm surprised we're still here.
TheHyperTheory 7 months ago
James Usher was Irish! Yeah we're not proud of that
daprettypiggy 7 months ago
Before the universe was created, there was, presumably, nothing. That includes nightfalls. So how was the universe created just after nightfall?
neniainas 8 months ago
My birthday is the birthday of the universe.
actressgirl2014 9 months ago
You think Usher is Ludacris? rap jokes, anyone? moving on.
Eliiizabeth88 9 months ago 76
I share a birthday with the universe. Cool.
Mythman1995 10 months ago 6
'Hey, do you mind if I cough directly into your mouth?'
'No, be my guest, go right ahead!'
*Opens mouth expectantly*
I burst out laughing at that part. John Green - your brilliant.
OddballEndorser 11 months ago 11
:o oct 22 is my half bday.. AWESOME
lilylpotter3 1 year ago
lol. usher and ludacris.
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hehe User...Ludacris...xD
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Dom Pérignon never accually said "come quickly i'm drinking the stars" that was invented in the late 19th century as a marketing ploy by the manufactures of champagne, the french accually spent a lot of time trying to get rid of the bubbles it was the english who liked the bubbles so added sugar and molasses it make it more fizzy. The french just refined the process when they realised that they could sell it to us.
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I don't know if anyone has used this little tidbit as argument against creationism but I would like to know something. God, according to the bible, created the heavens an earth at the same time. How do they reconcile that we are seeing light from star etc. that are millions or billions of light years away?
royme55 1 year ago
@royme55 yeah well they would say that god set the light from the stars halfway to earth when the world was created. Also i do not recommend arguing with any creationist that truly believes in what he says ... it's pointless (also sorry if i do not make any sense English is not my native language).
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NemiDragon 1 year ago
When John opened his mouth, that was officially the funniest moment in the history of Nerdfighteria!
ScienceMusicLove 1 year ago
Oh my goodness, John! I can't check the comments at this time in the morning but I can't believe you fell for the Dom Pergion nonsense! While he may very well have said that when first tasting champagne, the drink was invented in Britain, if you take "invented" to mean made on purpose through a repeatable process. In fact, poor old Dom Pergion is rumoured to have never worked out why his wine was fizzy.
I know too much about this...
inkyaphra 1 year ago
Shut Up!!
ironman197268 1 year ago
lol john, you're my hero!
love2plysoftbll 1 year ago
"Come quickly! I am tasting the stars!" is an awesome quote. It makes me think of "Champagne Supernova" as something other than a very pretty bit of nonsense.
JujuJade 1 year ago
1:43 = blink x 2
Robfacecake 1 year ago
This year, actually (as in 2010), the year (exactly) is 5770.
DassMorris 1 year ago
PANTS POWER! You have not mentioned that. That's awesome.
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PANTS POWER!
IronicInsomniac 2 years ago
0:56 - 1:05 lol
TheCommentCookie 2 years ago
SPEAKING OF CHAMPAGNE AND THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY is a sentence starter for the ages.
slavicpolymath 2 years ago 102
John, I also apologise for misspelling your wife's name in two separate comments. Should have remembered the dedication for "Katherines."
HighKingTurgon 2 years ago
John, I just learned exciting news from the future! I'm going to try not to spam your channel, but I am really happy about you and the yeti having a John Hank Bubbles the Nerdfighting Baby Green! Congratulations from the future!
HighKingTurgon 2 years ago
it wont let me suscribe great vid
patrickledford420 2 years ago
do you mind if i cough directly into your mouth! ha ha
whydizz 2 years ago
PANTS POWER :D
I love it :)
hypnotisedbabe 2 years ago
Paper Towns=Pants Power=Totally Awesome=AVPM reference. ;) I love being a nerdfighter. It enables me to have so many made of awesome references.
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@LoveShiaGDSN YES! AVPM 4EVA!!!!
HPwrocks 1 year ago
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MY BIRTHDAY WOOOOOO
the1godofwar 2 years ago
hehe the extra nerdy video was posted on my birthday.
oh, yeah, and that you know universe thing, too.
:P
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oh my god my name anagrams to loyal nerd new! because im a new nerdfighter!
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PANTS POWER!
ahhhh nerdfighers ftw =]
CeriLouise25 2 years ago
I rotflamao-ed at "PANTS POWER"!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for that, John. ^_^
~Nerdette Ari
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Are you a real person, or a stereotype?
GIANTclaaam 2 years ago
@GIANTclaaam he's a real-live stereotype.
HPwrocks 1 year ago
I make it a point not to look down at these comments in case I am tempted to add to them.
You know the worst thing is that the topic is creationism, It is painful.. So many people do not see their paradigm only makes sense in infinity.
If it were only 6k years then it would be rather flimsy. a card board cut out.
Infinite has scary implications, like truly infinite, is by definition; beyond awesome in a way that makes Big truly obsolete; believe it.
6k yrs just makes people comment way too much!
marsCubed 2 years ago
Wow, you managed to insult non-christians, deny all logic and reason and be racist all in one, er, string of words.
GIANTclaaam 2 years ago
insult non christians? deny logic? be racist? where, where, and where???
PinkDumbledore 2 years ago 2
POOPPEPPER's comment.
GIANTclaaam 2 years ago
While I agree with the young earth view of ~6000 years old earth, I should note that I have never heard of James Usher, and I hold my religious views based on the Bible, not on a catholic archbishops.
but seriously, whatever your views are please avoid mentioning too much religious stuff unless you plan on starting a flame war; atheists can't help but through out scores of insults and profanity at the mere mention of Christianity.
BloodBrotherUSMC 2 years ago
Its Ironic that many of young earth proponents are as young themselves. These are young adults that refuse to watch B&W films or listen to music more than 5 years old, simply because it is obsolete, and well, just not cool or in trend..........but taking the blabbilings of a 17th century philosopher literally?.........Awesome!
LitterboxDiorama 2 years ago
I'll bet another nerdfighter pointed this out in one of the hundreds of comments here, but you were hip enough to mention Usher and Ludicrous (I don't know if that's how he spells it) accidentally in the same sentence. Two of the most popular pop/rap stars of our time. Maybe this wasn't such a nerdy video after all.
gorinator 2 years ago
I think it would be cool if the 22nd was the birthday of the universe cause my birthday is the 22nd. I love nerdfighters, my friend just turned me on today.
brie015 2 years ago
PANTS POWER FOR THE WIN! Lol, prawn pesto. :) Love you guys.
xDangerousCupcakex 2 years ago
I disagree but still respect your opinion and will not go further into the subject.
ginny62442 2 years ago
if you see this look into the flat earth society, and make a video about it lol
habbloop 2 years ago
John, I agree with you 100%. I admire you for having the guts to voice any opinion about creationism as most people are liable to get flamed (espec. on here) for doing so. I'm an atheist and I respect other people's beliefs (as I see, you're a Christian) but I do wish that they would open their minds to scientific theories & listen to others' points of view regardless of whether they're creationists or not. I respect you for (as I see from your library) taking the time to look at others' pov.
cezzie901 2 years ago
This date is also my birthday and coincidently its also called the great disappointment according to some 7th day adventists. You should Wikipedia it!
ItsMeTheSteph 2 years ago
liked the whole usher ludicrous double entendre...unless it was unintentional. but still funny
shahcolateTHUNDER 2 years ago
I was born on Oct 22 at 11:52!! AHHHHHH woah!!
SteelersGirl102293 2 years ago 2
Let it Snow was the first John Green book I read. What can I say, I was hooked! <3
thecrazybackpackers 2 years ago
Pants Power!!!
senorsqueakydesk 2 years ago
i love anagram jokes they are so jokes
Drgon90 2 years ago
*pant power ! ! !
ShawnayNay 3 years ago
"do you mind if i cough directly into your mouth?"
burnhippiesforfuel 3 years ago
All that to say, I do agree with wynflete, that Jesus came, died, and rose again and God cares about our response to that. I love your thought provoking videos and you are so JOKES! DFTBA.
mireesecup 3 years ago 2
I LOVE LOVE LOVE you guys. I am a young Earth creationist and it has nothing to do with Usher or uneducated assumptions from the 17th century. There are lots of ludicrous ideas coming from the 21st century as well, wouldn't you agree? As an earlier commenter stated, there are valid points on both sides of the origins issue. None of us were there, so to some degree whatever you believe is taken on faith...it can be said that the idea that our ancestors were pond scum is, well, ludicrous.
mireesecup 3 years ago
Hey mireescup, if the world was young, surely we could only see as far into space in lightyears, as how old/young you believe the the earth is. yeah? Get what I say?
aiyic 3 years ago
That seems to make sense. There are a lot of unanswered questions about origins. People who posit God, and assume the Bible is literal and accurate, because God said so, would consider the following: time-dilation, synchronization, and obviously, yes, that perhaps we cannot explain a supernatural act with current scientific mechanism. Let's say the universe originated by the Big Bang, the light issue is still problematic. In the Big Bang theory,
mireesecup 3 years ago
the universe started in an infinitely small state and rapidly expanded. For this to happen, the temperature varies greatly in different locations. Now, when the universe has greatly expanded, there is almost no temperature variance. How did the temperature become uniform? By exchanging energy? That's the only way for that to happen in today's observable science. Nothing travels faster than light, so clearly, light must have traveled back and forth many times from point A to point B in the
mireesecup 3 years ago
widely expanded universe. Problem is, 14 billion years is not enough time for this to have happened. Now that we see distant starlight cannot be used as an argument to discredit either big bang, OR the Bible, what about hot blue stars? We can see hot blue stars, but they could not possibly last billions of years. How is that possible?
mireesecup 3 years ago
mireesecup, it doesn't matter mate. Forget about it. I'll see you in 30 years. Young earth Cre'sm says 6k yrs. That means we can see no further than 6k light-years, right!. How can we see millions and billions of light-years into space? Maybe God did it after all!
Stay cool my man!
aiyic 3 years ago
Research the relativity of time. There could be answers there for you. I won't bore you. In some ways it does matter. If verse one of the Bible can be disproved by science, why believe the rest of it? My point is that though it can't be PROVEN because no one was there. It also cannot be DISPROVEN. Same thing with other theories relying on the Earth being billions of years old. There are a lot of holes in the theory. I am all for open discussion, as long as both sides
mireesecup 3 years ago
admit the unknowns. Evolution is not fact. Neither is millions or billions of years. They are theories. It is anti-intellectual to argue otherwise, to borrow a term from others in these posts. I was taught in school that the Earth is millions of years old. i have since done a lot of reading and research. It just doesn't add up. Hope it's more than 30 years before i see you :) oh, and I'm a girl :) DFTBA!
mireesecup 3 years ago
mireesecup, it takes a year for light to travel 1 light-year?? Yeah? So therefore, it is impossible for us to see further than 6k light-years, if that is the age of Earth. You concede that?? but with the naked eye, we can see stars millions of light-years away.
The Earth is 4.5 bn years old, and not 1m like your school said. And this without doubt not a provable fact, IF you want to check.
Btw, evolution is proven fact. It is beyond hypothesis, and is SCIENTIFIC theory. Like music theory.
aiyic 3 years ago
"Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them."
(David Kitts, palaeontologist and Evolutionist)
"As is well known, most fossil species appear instantaneously in the fossil record."(Tom Kemp, Oxford University)
mireesecup 3 years ago
This is so false. Sean Lennon is an example of an "intermediary" form. And if he mates with another Japanese/Caucasian, their child will likely be different again. It happens ever so gradually over millenia, so there is no big jump from one species to another. Of course you're not going to see a crocaduck. We are all intermediaries. All species are, dependent on their environment.
aiyic 3 years ago
Correction in last post- Rmove 'not'.
Have you looked up Carl Sagan? A brilliant American astronomer who is sadly dead now.
You must believe in something that can be proven, and not something that can't be disproved. Now, you say you believe the Earth is 6k yrs old. Now that is something that is easily disproved by geology, astronomy, biology and physics. You seem smart, so don't align yourself with that dummy, Kent Hovind.
Stay cool m'lady!!
Evolution is fact - FACT!
aiyic 3 years ago
"It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations. Darwin's theory of natural selection has never had any proof, yet it has been universally accepted."(Prof. R Goldschmidt PhD, DSc Prof. Zoology, University of Calif. in Material Basis of Evolution Yale Univ. Press)
mireesecup 3 years ago
"In all the thousands of fly-breeding experiments carried out all over the world for more than fifty years, a distinct new species has never been seen to emerge ... or even a new enzyme."(Gordon Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery (New York: Harper and Row, 1983, pp 34, 38)
mireesecup 3 years ago
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
(Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, chapter "Difficulties")
mireesecup 3 years ago
"absurd in the highest degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case..... then the DIFFICULTY of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real."
aiyic 3 years ago
I would also like to add that Darwin is an easy target, because his writings are of a different age and value system. And if some his writing seem tentative, that's because HE was the one making a great leap in discovery by sticking his neck out to get the ball moving. If he was alive today, he would marvel at the discoveries since Origin of Species was first published.
aiyic 3 years ago
It is still a debate among scientists...evolutionist scientists included. Never heard of Kent Hovind. If we are deteriorating into calling people "dummy" is this still intellectual discussion?
mireesecup 3 years ago
Hovind is the world champion of creationism. And all his arguments are hollow. Look him up for a laugh. Using quotes to make a point is facetious, because anyone can be mis-quoted, or out of context. Especially Darwin, who did not have the means, nor the technology, that we have today. DNA, hadn't even been discovered back then, but it back up evolution to the hilt.
aiyic 3 years ago 27
So using Hovind as an argument against creationism is facetious. There are real scientists who feel the evidence does not support evolution, and they are not necessarily basing their finding on the Bible. They started out "believing in" evolution. People smarter than us, who have devoted their lives to finding scientific answers to our origins are still debating this. I will not change your mind based on the science and you will not change mine. I've read both sides.
mireesecup 3 years ago 2
@aiyic im a christian and i think hovind is an idiot
cabbyhat22 1 year ago
@cabbyhat22 I forgot about this debate. Wow, good dig from a year ago!
aiyic 1 year ago
Does the full Darwin quote make more sense? He was merely stating that although it might be hard to imagine an eye evolving, does not make impossible. "the difficulty of believing...though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real." And anyway, since 1859, we do know how the eye evolved. There are many great YT videos explaining it in simple terms. The awesome mantis shrimp, has far superior vision to humans. Try telling Singaporeans that the eye was intelligently designed!
aiyic 3 years ago
The quotes were to show that it is still a debate. I believe Creation is a fact, but I freely acknowledge there are questions that we have not found the answer to. It's the same thing with any other idea of origins. There is still evidence in our world (and space) that do NOT support evolution. But you call it fact. Because you are operating under the assumption we just haven't found the answer yet.
mireesecup 3 years ago
So then, this becomes a theological debate.
mireesecup 3 years ago
Which we may or may not want to get into :) I respect that you are a smart person and we differ on interpreting the evidence. We will know the truth soon enough. My main reason for posting my first comment is to try to dissuade people from writing off creationists as "idiotic". Hey, I won the 6th grade spelling bee!
mireesecup 3 years ago
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wrex2468 3 years ago
mireesecup, I completely agree.
You can't 100% prove or disprove the creation story as mentioned in the bible no more than you can prove the theory of evolution. Even today's evolutionary scientists (in their right mind) will concede this.
It does make an interesting theological debate though.
(sorry about reposting this. I wish I could edit my comments without having to completely remove them)
wrex2468 3 years ago
Comment 205:
Pants Power? That's genius!!!
Was it planned that way?
DittoFreak 3 years ago
There's many valid points in both young and old Earth creationism. I tend to lean toward young Earth myself, although I think 6,000 years is a bit too young.
wrex2468 3 years ago
Hey Wrex2496, tell me if you get this. It takes 8min for sunlight to reach Earth, yeah? So therefore it takes a year for something that is a light-year away to reach us. With me?
Now, that means that if young Earth creationism is correct, we should be only able to see 6k light-years into space. However, we can see millions with the naked eye, and billion with telescopes. Simple! No Phd, no doctorate, no nerdy glasses. Plain common sense. Let me know it this makes sense.
aiyic 3 years ago
What you say does make sense.
Except for one factor:
Because we are dealing with creationism: an extraordinarily supernatural event, it doesn't follow the normal rules of physics. For the "Creator" could have "created" the visible light that we see to exist beyond its point of origin.
Now, I'm not saying that you are incorrect, because your point is indeed valid. But when dealing with matters that deal with the supernatural, one can never know for sure.
wrex2468 3 years ago
Which do you believe is the more likely?
aiyic 3 years ago
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wrex2468 3 years ago
I believe they are equally likely. Both the young earth and the old earth creationists have valid points. However, I do tend to lean toward the younger earth theory. Although, 6,000 years is far too young I think.
wrex2468 3 years ago
Ah,!
I've just started to read "Let it snow" but I haven't gotten to John's part though. But I like it so far.
Greenie4lyf 3 years ago
The whole time he's talking I can't help but just be imagining this Usher as some cool black guy who sings "these are my confessions..."
littletoolate 3 years ago
And I have watched every video till this point in the last week or so, you have not mentioned the paper towns anagram in a video till this point.
Pants Power!
timsbro2000 3 years ago
I think I broke a rib laughing at We Nit Lots.
mellro1029 3 years ago
Pants Power! I'm so going to write that on a Shirt
Amiryfey 3 years ago 2
Awesome hair in this vid!!!!
Angieanything 3 years ago
usher? ludacris? hahahaha
equuslover22 3 years ago 10
THIS VIDEO WAS POSTED ON MY BIRTHDAY! AND TOMORROW (OCTOBER 22) IS THE SAME DAY! WOOT!
Sorry. Very excited. I'm not doing anything fun for my birthday so I'm taking my fun where I can get it.
MirandaDrms22 3 years ago
So I take it you don't believe in God?
TobiSkye 3 years ago
A person can believe in God without believing that the earth was created only 6000 years ago, "after nightfall".
o0OworldsastageO0o 3 years ago
I know, that wasn't the reason I asked.
TobiSkye 3 years ago
actually I think John does judging by the name of his website sparks fly up, "Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward" Job 5:7
but I guess it doesn't really come across in this video, haha
o0OworldsastageO0o 3 years ago
John was a chaplain in a children's hospital for a while. He definitely believes in God.
genny62890 3 years ago
Ahh but the point of Christianity is not just to believe in God but to love him.
Just... y'know... saying... ^_^
10MrsDavidTennant10 3 years ago
maybe God (aliens) created OUR wold as we know it 6,000 years ago by permanently altering the DNA of various species.
shonspirulina 3 years ago
Here's something I found interesting.
How could the universe have been created "just after nightfall"? I mean, is that to say that there was a "before nightfall" on the particular day, assuming God himself had to create night and day?
Did anyone else pick up on that?
yellowpages67 3 years ago 2
i agree with wow1just1wow. no where in the bible does it give us the exact time from the beginning and the timing events that took place afterwards.
As a matter of fact it says that a day to God can be like a 1000 years and 1000 years like a day. Meaning time is not the same to us as it is to God.
So even though it says God created the Earth in 6bdays doesn't necessarily mean 6 literal days, it could be done in 6 parts spread over thousands if not millions/billions of years
mernt 3 years ago
I believe that God created the universe but I belive that he started creating our solar system and forming planet earth perhaps billions of years ago. I believe that once the earth was ready to carry life that God created all the animals and plants and then later on created humans. I belive that man was created around 8008 years ago. 6000 years BC then 2008 years from Christ till now.
guitarnerd50 3 years ago
I think the idea of the world being around 6,000 years old comes from the genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 (for the most part). The thing is that it doesn't take into account that "begat" doesn't mean a direct father-son relationship. When that is considered it comes out to be around 13,000 years old. (Of course there is more to it than just adding the years in the genealogies.)
alysalp 3 years ago
PANTS POWER!!!!!!!
kazekun123 3 years ago
This was on my birthday!!! That's so jokes! And it's extra fact-nerdy! I LOVE facts! And also, this means, despite the fact that I support evolution and the 4.5 billion year old universe, that I was born on the universe's birthday!! In 2007 when this video was made, it was the 6012th birthday of the universe. Those digits add up to how old I was on September 11, 2001. Coincidence, no?
BogapeJane 3 years ago
haha! i love these anagrams! XD
abecedarianx 3 years ago
when watching this video there was an ad for mc cain... is this irony or what?
fiveisno1 3 years ago
Pants power! Hahahahahaha one of my email addresses is 'the pants of power'...and what's more is that I got the idea from a Year Eight science book. Seems I was a nerdfighter before it officially existed :]
wwebbisthenewblack 3 years ago 2
Paper Towns also anagrams to We Spat Porn and Wet Spa Porn.
Just sayin'...HOW COULD THAT NOT BE ON PURPOSE!?
I bet when you were coming up with titles you thought "Heh, wonder if anyone will guess that Paper Towns anagrams to We Spat Porn."
Wet Spa Porn was just an added bonus.
ChrisIsCornflake 3 years ago
haha, em also, swear on tap and swat no pear...but im pretty sure that pants power beats them all...although we spat porn is pretty jokes too...
marijanie333 3 years ago
Whoa my birthday is also the supposed birthday of the world. ROCK!
lyssalovesyou88 3 years ago
"ttyl" as in the book ttyl? Maybe that's why I recognize the name... Almost all of the girls in my unit this year read one copy of that book, so it kinda got around.
Or maybe I know it from somewhere else?
jct0869 3 years ago
Ludicrous?! This coming from the person who believes that there is global warming and in Your'mama (Obama).
Bluegamer09 3 years ago
there was an extra nerdy edition on my eighteenth birthday! and it's also earth's craziebirthday!
bootiethyme 3 years ago
PANTS POWER!
omg
best
book
ever
i wanna read paper towns!
kakashiwithoutmask 3 years ago
On the note of crazy 17th century idea, don't for get the bleeding, lobotomizing, and of course drilling a hole directly into someone head! as a side note, people actually survived the hole in the head, but rarely the bleeding.
ponellope 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
OLk i really don't see how it is necessary to harp on other people's beliefs. I mean really, what if someone were to make a vlog that you watch saying "nerds are not the most awesome things in the world, in fact that idea is idiotic." You'd be pretty mad right, because, while that person is entitled to their own beliefs, it isn't necessary to say the other point of view is idiotic. And we, as humans, cannot prove anything, because we are just part of this large world we are living in.
freckleface1991 3 years ago
People have the right to believe what they want, and we also have the right to express whether we think those beliefs are idiotic or not.
bdmjintx 3 years ago
But who are you to say that someone's beliefs are idiotic or not? I'm sure you'd be offended if people said your beliefs were idiotic.
freckleface1991 3 years ago
I'm told often how idiotic my beliefs are. I never get mad. I just tell myself that my beliefs don't include a giant invisible man in the sky creating the universe and then speeding up light so that it will seem older and realize I'm not the one with the ludicrous beliefs.