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  • He thinks evolution is basically everything getting bigger! That is what listening to Kent Hovind gets you

  • I think this whole debate is unfair.

    You have one little retarded Christian boy, who is clearly just as simple as someone who hasn't grown out of Santa Claus......and you're trying to beat sense into him using some of YouTube's Atheist behemoths?

    Leave the little retard alone.

  • I didn't know Christians were obsessed with Pine Cones.

  • If within a species of pine trees, the individuals with large pine cones less successful, say because they are logged, that acts as a selective pressure that changes the allele frequency of the genes relating to cone size.

  • Jaycee Dugard....  Her symbol the Pine cone..... Hmm...

  • So THE FOSSIL RECORD shows that pine cones have been getting smaller in THE LAST FEW DECADES!? I came here to see if TC cites a source, but if he did it obviously isn't worth reading.

  • You are all mean and cheap! TruthfulChristian is really very simple and insecure. He just clings to what they teach in American schools.

  • "if you kill off all the large pine cones, you'll only have the small ones left - that's not evolution"

    Boy!! - Thruthfulchristian really doesn't understand natural selection does he??? Moron!! - That's EXACTLY what evolution through natural selection is!!

  • "If you take a look at the fossil record, it shows that the average size of pine-cones has decreased over the last several decades."

    Find me a decade old pine cone fossil, and I'll give you a frickin' medal.

  • Let's all keep attacking these stupid fucking Christians, we will bury their stupid cock sucking asses, ha ha ha!

  • I think it's hilarious that truthfulchristian thinks fossils can form over just a few decades. I hope he has learned since this discussion that a decade is only 10 years. lol

  • Why does no one make the point that a smaller pinecone can indeed be beneficial ?

    Why does no one put the ball in the creationist court & ask , "if everything was created as it is, why are pinecones decreasing in size ? There's a lack of points on everyones part .

  • all i know about pinecones is that when i was a kid we used to throw them at eachother for fun! :D

  • Thunderfoot seems pissed^^

  • this was incredibly annoying.... no one made any great points....  Aaronra should be called "tangent" or deflector from now on.... disappointed

  • hahaha its just like the peanut butter argument!!

  • I noticed that truthful christian has skulked away from youtube now.

    Or has he just got a new account?

    Shame if he has gone. He did more for demonstrating the stupidity of creationists than almost anyone else on YT. Perhaps with the exception of Nephlimfree.

  • I could go for some bananas now.Oh wait wrong nutjob with different food.

  • AronRAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR

  • getting SMALLER has actually been advantageous for many species in their evolutionary progress... Including racoons. Sometimes getting smaller is what it takes to hide better from predators

  • he probably thinks everything is getting smaller over the last few decades because hes been growing and everything looked alot bigger when he was a kid.

  • lololololol this has to be the funniest thing ever some kid trying to debate science with people who are actually studied in the subject......

  • American mentality? Does this idiot have a clue? Look, non-scientific crowd needing religious freaks have been trying to debunk evolution for almost 150 years! They haven't done it yet! My guess is Santa Claus will give them their wish when they stop Lying so much. Until then they should just try to learn more about the subject.

  • macro evolution is not real, cos there is no micro or macro evolution there is only evolution and that is real, splitting it up is just dumb

  • truthful chiristian closed his account

  • I think he smoked a little too much of that good old burning bush.

  • Excuse me. if the point is that evolution does not happen, would this not be supported by pine cones being exactly the same and not having changed at all? Bringing up that pine cones have changed in size, regardless of what direction, shows that change has happened over time, wich points to evolution.

  • @Nails077 on his new channel he claims pinecones have been the same for millions of years which is proof evolution is not happening. so hes changed his arguement from pinecones are getting smaller to pinecones are staying the same

  • as stated by another youtuber: "fucking pinecones! How do they work ?!! "

  • lol.... the league of reason.

  • "If you take a loom at pinecones........ Pinecones......... Pinecones actually used to be bigger"

  • It seems TC has left youtube. What a great day for reason.

  • AronRa is getting annoyed xD

  • lol if evolution wasnt true then wouldnt the pine cones stay the same? what the fuck is he talking about must have been talking to the burning bush

  • To be fair, your question doesn't sound stupid - it is just surprisingly ignorant for a person who owns a computer and has an internet connection. 

  • Even if pinecones are getting smaller, that would justify evolutionary change. I don't get why TC is using an example of evolution to disprove evolution.

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  • Oh jeez, what a moron... Fossils take somewhere in the order of hundreds of thousands years to form lol. Not decades.

  • Why does the League of Reason give this joker any time? Thunderfoot finished it in the first sentanced.

  • i don´t get it, fossil of last decades? how the heck he could study a fossil of last decades? don´t get it

  • I'm pining for the cones

  • TruthfulChristian: "I'm not an expert on evolution"

    No fucking shit.

  • @eightfootmanchild He's not an expert on the English language either. ;)

  • @eightfootmanchild Yeah, no shit with sugar on, lol!

  • PINED!

  • Isn't the change of average pine cone size proof of evolution? Is it not change over time?

  • @CandoLoses

    You took the words right out of my mouth. Metaphorically, of course.

  • i love pine cones!!!!!

  • Did he say PWNcones?

  • If pine cones are getting smaller it's in response to the changing environment, which supports evolution. Evolution is survival the species that fit best into current conditions, it isn't about bigger and better; it's neutral, like gravity. Ideas like 'good' and 'bad' or 'better' and 'worse' don't apply, any more than they apply to the force of gravity. Don't attribute intent to natural forces, this is exactly the same as saying a natural disaster occurred because humans are sinful.

  • A squirrel "The perfect pine cone killer" probably would seek out the bigger pine cones thus making it harder for a large pine cone giving tree

    to spread it's seed.

    Also a smaller and more compact pine cone may have a bigger chance to

    survive.

    And finally if the environment the trees live in changes there's a big chance they would to

  • I think this is the best of the League of Reason. We need to have all the other silly creationists line up, spew their silly stories, and then get their asses kicked.

  • Someones getting cwned!!

  • Pine cones prove a god...

    I need to go bleach my brain and expunge that endless fail from my being.

  • I love it when creationists explain a case of evolution (either real or imagined) and then say "but that's not evolution!"

  • I find the name "TruthfulChristian" to be an offense to Christians that accept evolution.

  • Pine cones- pine cones- pines cones actually used to be alot bigger.

    Wonder what he thinks about.

  • OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a retard

  • lol

  • Truthful Christian got permission from his mom to use the phone at long distance!!!???

  • @sclf of all things in this video you laugh at that?

  • @HighFlyActionGuy Nothing in this video about pinecones is funny, its just sad that three or 4 men probilly college grads need to school a 13 year old.

  • @sclf are you trying to say 3 or 4 eyars old are bullying a 13 year old? 13 year old as in the guy who is asking about pine cones?

  • @sclf Its a call in show. which means he called in. they didnt seek him out and ask him pine cone questions. so dont say they had to school him because he made a point to try and school them.

  • I listened to this a few times now and I still don't understand how pine cones changing proves evolution isn't happening. Are the pine cones evolving (assuming that he's right about them getting smaller)? Wouldn't proof against evolution more likely be that the pine cones AREN'T changing? I don't get it.

  • @OgreVI I think he thinks evolution is always about getting better, and that better means bigger. So if pinecones are getting smaller, to him that means they're getting worse, defeating his strawman version of evolution which says they should be evolving to be bigger and therefore better. It's an unfounded complaint built on a wrong understanding of evolution based on an arbitrary assumption.

  • @OgreVI I assume he thinks evolution means everything must always evolve bigger.

  • @byteresistor pretty much reason triumphs a theist.

  • Truthful christian genuinly believes we lived to be 900yrs old, even tho he said himself there is no ptoof

  • Pine cones should be the new symbol of atheism!

  • I saw a crab inside a soda can. It was weird. Evolution is false. ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF THE LEAGUE OF REASON!

  • There can be many reasons for pine cones to decrease in size. If you don't understand it, you need to study it. Only when you know why, can the theory be changed - IF THE NEW DATA SUPPORTS IT.

  • Hahahahha I love you Thunderf00t! "OK LET ME STOP YOU!"

  • animals eat pine cones, so if you had to choose between a large amount of food or a smaller one, which would you eat more of?

  • I heard serving sizes have been getting bigger over the last few decades. Can I be on the show?

  • "In a way...in a way...yes...."

    Check and mate.

  • Lol wtf, if they have lots of minerals in the ground, they grow, otherwise, they don't. o_O Not that hard rofl

  • Understanding of evolution fail...by everyone.

  • i always thought truthfulchristian was a troll, but I've heard he censors comments so..maybe hes stupid.

  • I wonder if Ray Comfort found anywhere on his body that a pine cone could fit in as well as his banana? If not, I suggest his mouth.

  • Fucking pine cones, how do they work?

  • @S0chan

    lol!

  • @S0chan what is a pine cone anyway,does it fly or what?

  • Jebus, Sugar Pine has some seriously HUGE cones.

  • Protip: TruthfulChristian is a troll

  • WHAT ABOUT THE BANANA or PEANUT BUTTER ?

  • Penguins wings have a function, they use them to swim through water.

    Way to go DPR, way to go.

    All of this, the entire thing, is a classic case of bare assertion on both sides the majority of the time...

    If this is an internet discussion why isn't anybody linking to things such as articles... The forum of discussion allows for linking and references. Why not provide any?

  • DPRjones: "If he has a point, please let him make it." lololol But that's just it, dear sir, he has no point to make.

  • wait, the fossil record shows that pine cones have gotten smaller over the past few DECADES? I don't think this caller understands the process of fossilization at all. On a side note, I have yet to see a fossilized pizza ...I suppose that means pizza never existed

  • @Jusoon

    What is pizza?

  • "I'm sorry if my question sounds a bit stupid. I'm not an expert on evolutionary biology"

    Should have ended right there.

  • @GreyFoxNinjaFan because we all need a bachelors in biology to understand pine cones

  • @will0ughby I have a masters in pineconeology ;-)

  • Not this bollocks again!

  • I hate to break it to you boys, but size does matter ;-), and while this may not keep the pine trees from passing on their genes, it does seem likely that it could keep TC from passing on his genes, so you can see why he might be confused. :-)

  • truthful is a pinecunt.

  • Suvscribe to me please to see truthfulchristian debunked

  • smaller = needs fewer resources to survive.

  • This seems like the twilight zone. Youtube's top minds in evolutionary sciences explaining why pine cones getting smaller is ok (even though there's no evidence that pine cones are getting smaller to begin with). It's just surreal that this is an actual conversation that happened in real life.

  • Creationists have to back away from the League of Reason. Heavyweights like these hosts will easily rip apart any Creationist with just the sheer number of facts that these 5 heavyweights can bring in.

  • Fucking pinecones!

  • Wow. This moron wouldn't even answer their questions.

  • PINE COOOOONES !!!!!! LMAO

  • Do we expect gymnosperms to evolve perceptibly over "several decades"? I would think first to look to environmental factors that might cause pine cones to not grow as large.

  • It is fairly simple.

    Since we love cutting down big trees, and bigger trees will tend to have bigger pine cones, it is an evolutionary advantage to be a smaller tree with smaller pinecones.

    Like the fact that elephants born without tusks have more babies so now more Asian Elephants are born without tusks.

  • Now I get all the pinecone references! It's just like bloody Charlie Brown with this guy! He's spouting the Christey stuff and all he hears from the adults is wa-wa-wa-wa-wa!

  • Stopped 10 seconds into his claim

  • So TruthfulChristian is for real.

    That, or he's the biggest Poe so far.

  • pine cones lolwut

  • Someone should point out to this joker that averages are a MEANINGLESS metric. Of any statistical measure there is, it's about the least meaningful and least useful. Averages tell us NOTHING. They're useful only in the sense that they're part of proper statistical measures.

  • magnet's, how do they work? fucking magic

  • All i can say is holy shit, now fucking pine cones, stupidity on a whole new level.

  • CWNED!!!!

  • @Multimorten

    lol hahaha, witty....iLike

  • BEHOLD THE ATHEIST NIGHTMARE....PINE CONES.

  • @BillKiernan WoopWoopWoopWoopWoopWoopWoop!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @BillKiernan Notice how the pinecone protects itself from prey by being pointy as shit. Obviously God did this for no real reason.

  • @BillKiernan I have so many nightmares now. Pinecones, bananas, peanut butter jars.

    I wonder what will be next?

  • @BillKiernan Best comment ever.

  • @BillKiernan ROFLLLLL

  • pine cones, now a meme.

  • The question is, at what point do you stop a call?

  • "what does pine cone size have to do with evolution" "well pine cones are getting smaller, so evolution is impossible." wtf

  • I feel sorry for these people, it's like talking to a wall ¬_¬

  • I love the smell of pine cones in the morning, smells like, victory.

  • Wow, listen to this imbecile go on and on about pine cones. lol

    Of course he cannot make a single serious or even semi- reasonable point to back up his lies, and is a non-stop troll who preaches a book that's a time and again proven hoax.

    Another good job LOR!! I really enjoyed listening to you beat the living hell out of the UnTruthfulChristian and prove him to be the false trolling moron that he is!

  • I have never heard one single creationist argument that was not based on a complete misunderstanding of the very most basic principles of evolution or science in general. Every last conversation with one I have heard boils down to insulting them, or trying to give them a grade school science lesson.

    Please!

    Read!

    A!

    Book!

  • I wonder when some funny guy creates an account naming it ''Truthfulpinecone'' and starts trolling the poor boy ;)

  • You guys are my heroes

  • Aronra pwns!

  • "Evolution says every generation of a species has another generation." truthfulchristian

    "Nope" everyone

  • anyone else having problems watching this vid?

  • @metalebd Well yea it hurts a bit haha

  • The first page I encountered whie looking for fossilised pine cones showed a page full of them, none greater in size than 4". This is hardly a monstrous size!

    buriedtreasurefossils

  • priceless

  • ''Im not an expert on Evolutionary biology'' yeah that's for sure you untruthful arsehole.

  • Even if pine cones ARE generally getting smaller is this not evidence of evolution? I mean, the size is changing is it not? Hence, evolving? Evolution doesn't mean "getting bigger and stronger" It means "divesifying" to suit an environment. Thick Dishonest Creationist.

  • @antonyhamill

    Genetic drift is also a part of evolutionary theory, sometimes things just change. It's been well-documented and studied.

    Also good to hear AronRa laying the smackdown again.

  • @RichardMNixon True dat.

  • IF EVOLUTION IS TRUE, HOW COME PINE CONES?

  • No grasp of evolution at all.

  • @antonyhamill

    No grasp of reality either.

  • @Tenebrous76 Lol!

  • There was too much pointless argument. Any change in size of pinecones over time is not established, and any relevance to evolution is just speculation. (Are trees that make larger or smaller cones more successful?) I think that if there is no unambiguous observation to discuss, it's just time to move on.

  • wow

  • He talks about fossil records showing decrease in recent decades. Isn't that a bit weird? And then, why do not address the fact that he is talking about Pinecones in absurd generality? He might as well asked about vegetables, as if all are the same. But ultimately he asked them to explain an alleged phenomena without providing enough data. And the League seem to be answering the wrong questions...

  • I think the caller is a troll, or a /b/tard...

  • Pine cone = Evolution being false lol

  • Obviously he isn't an expert in evolution... guess what... no one there is either. Its pretty simple...

  • @FlyingSpahghettiMan

    I wouldn't be so quick to say that, particularly of people like AronRa and maybe Tfoot. Regardless, it's not as if their expertise in evolution has any bearing on whether or not evolution is -actually true.- Like AronRa said, there are volumes of evidence supporting evolution.

  • @ryanDV87 I don't believe they have a degree. Like I said, it is pretty simple to know how it works.

  • Lol, Christian vs scientists. He never stood a chance.

  • face palm at 2:15

  • ...TruthfulChristian (and lots of creationists like him) tend to only ask these type of questions. GOTCHA questions; questions they think they've caught the evolutionist with.

  • I don't agree with TruthfulChristian, but I think he is being interrupted way too much. Even if he is totally wrong, he should be allowed to finish his points.

  • @KKM121 Whilst it might be polite to let him rattle on for 3 or 4 minutes, its not productive. When a man tries to build a skyscraper on quicksand, it is a good idea to stop him after his foundation sinks out of sight. if you begin your argument with a statement that is demonstrably false, any argument made that builds upon it is at best unsupported and at worst, total bullshit.

    eg. "Evolutionists think something came from nothing therefore ... ". Whatever comes next is irrelevant.

  • @morganbath I see your point. I didn't mean we should let TruthfulChristian rattle on for 3-4 minutes. But he is often interrupted before he can finish one sentence. Even people in the comment section and Thunderfoot thinks he is being interrupted too much. 2:50

    [cont]

  • @morganbath

    We want the League of Reason to be presented as a group of reasonable people. There is only one person on the creationist side, and our side has a whole group including the moderator. The creationists can easily accuse them of being unfair.

  • @KKM121 Its just dangerous to let them continue past points of ridiculous failure. The problem is that they argue like this: A is true, therefore B, therefore C, and that meand D must be true. If you let them get all the way to D before pointing out what a lot of total horseshit A is, what happens is you go back and tell them why A is bullshit, and then they change the subject quickly leaving the audience subliminally thinking D is true because noone countered it.

  • "You can't convince a believer of anything, for their belief is not based on evidence. It's based on deep seated need to believe" - Carl Sagan.

  • Also I see 5 people listed as hosting and I recognized there voices first really. However who was the moderator?

  • No offense but thunderf00t sounds a bit rude and condescending. I realize some of you are adamant about thinking all christians are morons and don't get me wrong I am a complete atheist but ....

    I suggest tempering what you say and try to keep a two-way dialogue without being an ass about it.

    That said I love all your guys channels especially thunderf00t's no offense meant by my comment.

  • @lordtalon69 It's probably a "He who fights monsters" type of thing. Maybe if he took regular breaks from arguing with creationists, it might help. It might also help if he talked with the many Christians who aren't morons more often.

  • @lordtalon69 being nice to retards wont let them learn

  • @pigballs911

    Isn't the forgone assumption though that all creationists and christian apologists are retards? If that is the premise why even have the show if basically every answer is going to be "ok here is why you are a stupid douche" ...

    

  • @lordtalon69 yea its obvious all creationists and christian apologetics are handicapped, the only reason there hositng the show is to see "who can bully the retard more"

  • Truthful moron :(

  • they aren't taught to think, so he can only regurgitate info, and he forgot most of what was said to him...

  • "Let me stop you there, do you know how big the sugar cone pine is"

    "It's huge!"

    I love you thunderfoot!

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