He has a good point to not believe everything you hear for sure, however, hes trying to make you believe what he is saying!!! We all have in our own bodies a "untruth" detector....its up to you to find it within yourself and your body and mind can tell you. He is saying its up to Science....he himself is saying certain things are not true!!!! he dosent know himself!!! RELY on your inner self.....its the only thing you can Trust!!!
@luvsfitness Did you watch the video. He's says right near the start that people should not beleive everything he says, but that they should go out, check and make their own minds up.
The theory is good but the examples he's using are clear indicators that he's a sheeptrich (genetic hybrid of sheeps and ostriches). His blind submission to science and experts is his weakness. We all know that science keeps claiming that its prior claims were wrong. At least it admits being wrong all the time which opens a door to evolution (Religion doesn't evolve because it won't admit its past mistakes). But you can't blindly trust what constantly makes false claims.
Many good points on the balony detection list. But you do try to preach from authority with all those examples. And if you think that you cant listen to people who have bias towards the theory they present. Then youtube must be worthless to you as almost 100% of the vids are made because of bias towards some theory. I agree that science have been a true blessing to the world. But also know that the majority of research today are being paid for reaching predetermind conclusions.
Research cost money. It makes sense that the entity which invests into a research hopes to refund the investment with the results. It, therefore, hopes for a certain result.
For example, when tobacco firms tried to find a connection between cancer and smoking. When Dupont invested into the Ozone lair research. When Monsanto researched for correlation between GMO and health adverse effects. etc..
"Science is the best thing that ever deviced for understanding the world, we shall love it"
Maybe its true if we only focus on the material world. But if we want to evolve like human beings, a greater understanding for each other and life it self, and what we truly are capable of, then idont think science can help the life we all are living in the present now.
It can give great comfort to you, and of course in sertain cases it can help you live a couple of years more! and that is good! Everything has a flipside, love,hate hot,cold and so on!
I am truly greatfull to sience, but i dont want a life based on it.
Well the data says that the temperature of the earth is controlled by the solar activity. Not by men. Global warming is politics not science. Other than that I agree.
Science is only as good as science is evolved. Science is not fool proof. I do appreciate Michael Shermers candor and warmth concerning the topic. Science is in it's infancy. The day we can accurately measure the multi-dimensional mind and body experience science will take a major step forward in resolving the gaps between matter and mind. We do not have adequate tools thus we are left with conflicting paradigms.
"They had Centuries to build these pyramids" This statement alone proves this guy has no idea.Accepted Egyptology claims the Giza Pyramids were built for One Pharoah. So, what, the world knew hundred of years before about his birth and that he was going to be a Pharoah and started building them so by the time he died he could be buried in it. The evidence of thousands of slave laborers pulling 2 ton rocks with mathematical precision along logs.hmm where did they get all the logs...IN A DESERT?!!
Hey, why does that detective not have spare mags in his shoulder rig? Bad form, piggy. (all joking aside, AWESOME video! I loved this! Thank you for posting it)
This is fantastic. I wish I could have said all of this in one block in various pub debates with people; hahaha. I usually only mention 5-6 points Michael makes, but less eloquently. Good stuff...thanks for sharing. I've linked it on Facebook.
this is a baloney kit for who? the skeptics who already think this way? i dont think ignoramus' are going to find this guide practical. way over their heads. meaningless video
@magua4 meaningless video you say???don't be afraid of the truth.it's fun to talk about ufo's and bigfoot and other stuff like that but show me the positive evidence not excuses but real evidence.you can't and the reason is because there isn't any.now go out into the woods or watch the phoney videos of lochness and all the other bullshit to entertain yourself.your mind is free to wander where it wants.don't be a fool!
@fearedlegend I can't link the you-tube video but a good 90 of us walked out of a meditation at ECETI and saw a awesome ruby red pulsating orb fly right over our heads at about 200 feet up. It was absolutely spectacular. I've been to ECETI 3 times and each time I have been pleasantly surprised with real sightings of truly unusual phenomenon. Search for ECETI July 4th 2010. There are 2 videos of the same event. The video is nothing compared to what the naked eye experienced. Awesome.
@turtlebum0 How come you aren't making this connection? Don't you see how ridiculous it is to think that science is more incorrect than your own belief? Do you value evidence at all? How do you know Jesus is coming back?
@pythor2 What if I said I saw an ear ring disappear from a woman's ear and reappear in the palm of her hand in an instant. It didn't bounce it just arrived. Would you believe me? What if it were true? How could I possibly prove it? Did it happen? Yes. We both witnessed the event. It was a stunning display of telekinesis. Right now on to the top 10 reasons for why this never happened when it did.
@photopicker Would I believe you? No. What if it were true? Then it would be a very good magician display. How could you possibly prove it? You can't prove your experiences on your experiences alone - video tape it next time. Did it happen? Doubt it.
@pythor2 Now where's the baloney busting in that? Before 27 I was as skeptical as everyone else and then I started training. That's when everything changed. I've had more phenomenal experiences as a result of this choice than I could possibly elaborate in a day. The "dated material" of the past which gets readily dismissed in the light of almighty science is becoming increasingly significant to the equation. I know PHD psychologists / neurologists who are exploring past lives. Yup. Stay tuned.
@photopicker Name one. You see, the way a baloney detection kit works is to dismiss everything someone else says if they only make assertions that do not follow reality. You have to have evidence. Name one PhD that does what you say. One that is credited.
goggle "Irreducible Mind". Because something can't be proven with the constructs of science (a human invention) doesn't mean it doesn't exist it can mean that the means of measurement is inadequate. 150 years ago if I stood on a street corner and told you one day we will send stock reports around the world in a matter of minutes invisibly through the air most likely I would have been hung on the spot as a heretic or burned at the stake.
@pythor2 Reality - cannot be defined by a human being in any form or manner - we can make approximations based on the human experience but in no way can we accurately define that which defines our existence.
Define "credible PhD" ... these folks while certainly navigating treacherous waters in scientific circles are every bit as credible as any one in these fields. Can you prove that these people are not credible or that phenomenon does not exist?
@picker Uh...Yeah. Definitions change. So what? I could ask you to define "phenomenal experience" and then come around to say you are wrong, and it would be pointless. If you wanted me to define something else then you should have said so.
A credible PhD is someone who has published credible peer-reviewed articles. This is my opinion, and in no way a definition.
@pythor2 IMO we as a race are where we are in our current understanding and as far as I can tell there is no single authoritative source. Science for sure has opened many doors to the nature of the ever so questionable definition of "reality" but I think it is likewise fair to hold space for "dated" paradigms even if they don't comfortably fit into what we know about our own existence. Because a species evolves doesn't necessarily mean those who come before us were less informed.
Not that our predecessors had the language or tools of today. Much of what has taken place in the last several hundred years is an evolution of measurement, practice, and language, but in daily life people continue to suffer from schizophrenia (spiritual contact in some circles) and the science community at large is still far from truly understanding in scientific terms the nature of this face of reality.
@photopicker So, your argument is basically science doesn't understand everything, science can't understand everything, therefore my claim is justified. Sounds legit.
@pythor2 People have deep sensory experiences that science cannot easily map. These experiences are far older than science. Because they exist does not mean they can be dismissed because they can't be proven. I have significant evidence of consciousness without form. Not an easy concept for many but the proof is overwhelming. I suggest that science take note rather than condemn and dismiss.
The notion of a credible PhD is somewhat inbred to those who set the guidelines for what is deemed credible and that may in fact have detrimental effect as well as positive outcome. A fellow pressured to be credible may find data that is not readily supported by the rest of the community. Does this then produce a lack of credibility? Are my experiences invalidated because you didn't experience them? My conclusions are based on experiential evidence and insight.
@photopicker "A fellow pressured to be credible may find data that is not readily supported by the rest of the community. Does this then produce a lack of credibility?"
@pythor2 There is power in numbers however this does not necessarily generate a valid conclusion. I find it incredible that real data would be tossed because the collective did not unanimously adopt the evidence. This is a form of scheduled prejudice which may grant the collective some form of immunity in addressing the data but it doesn't necessarily invalidate the data. With such restrictions it is not a wonder that the process of science forges a binary outcome among participants.
@pythor2 Yes it means that science has built a wall around their version of the story and anything that is credible in my world but not your world is deemed incredible. But that really doesn't matter to me because it doesn't change my experience. It just means you have no credible way to understand or measure how I came to this moment in time. To believe that you have some step up on me in terms of intelligence or understanding is completely superficial. You have no way of knowing.
@photopicker I don't claim a superior bulk of knowledge. But I daresay I my beliefs are superior. Just because science can't explain it doesn't make your claim any more valid, nor the belief in a God. You, being a fellow engineer, should know this. Now are you going to continue with your auto-biography or are you actually going to try to convince me this time?
@pythor2 Superior belief cannot exist because it can't be measured. I am somewhat aligned with Dawkins regarding the nature of god however I do hold the premise that a more intelligent force may exist in the universe and this force may have had a part in the influence of creation here. There is no convincing anyone. The book would be pure relation of experience and possible theory. There is a path of self knowledge but it is rare as you might gather. My teachers guide they do not preach.
@photopicker Teachers tell you what to think, not how to think. That is best left to more personal relationships. If you wish to have personal relationships with teachers, etc. instead of professional relationships then that's your choice. But if someone has to have a personal relationship in order to know something - that's not knowledge. It might be deep conviction.
And yet you say "the proof is overwhelming". Experiences "can't be proven" but only "because they exist". You're losing me man.
@pythor2 In formal training that might be true but spiritual training is something else entirely. There are no text books, there are no pre-planned lectures, the teachers have no physical form. Repeat, the teachers do not have bodies. The material is manifested directly in the mind and minds eye; dreams, voices, visions, sensory impulse, tingling, ringing in the ears, paranormal events, etc. I have studied the body as well to learn to differentiate the experiences. Tear at it. It won't matter.
@pythor2 I am not assuming that anyone can relate to my experiences but wow is the proof in the experience. I have had endless dialog in my head for years but the demos are the real mind benders. Hundreds of demos. That's when the truly juicy nuggets are revealed and I could fill a small book with the experiences I've had. This is why people believe in god and spirit. They have experiences science cannot explain. One day that may change but not as science is today. Science chooses ignorance.
This is not a condemnation of science I am a seasoned embedded engineer and have worked on ultrasound, electron microscopes for wafer inspection, and lately embedded appliance networking. I trained as a psychic and I put myself in the subject to investigate it. There are many layers and levels to illusion. I use logic and reason all the time. I am studying the DSM-IV. I am interested in the language and various POV's. The more data the better.
Climatologists always slant their studies/outcomes/etc in the direction that favours anthropogenic global warming theory. Global warming skeptics point out those biases and get banned for it. Wtf?
Man-Made Global Warming theory's baloney content is high: secret data to which only the anointed have access, NASA satellite data showing global cooling in the last 10 years, etc. Read this- "Let's prize climate skepticism" (Philadelphia Enquirer, or Cato.org)
Shermer claims that science is the best way to figure out the vaidity of something, and yet he seems to think that it is plausible that the fragile nose of a boeing 757 could've made it's way through the outer ring of the Pentagon (which is heavily reinforced with steel) and then plowed thru 2 more concrete buildings and then punched a 16 foot hole just beyond the Pentagon's C-ring.
Sorry Shermer, but the laws of physics show that the official story of 9/11 is impossible!
Yeah evolution is a real concept, and it happens but is it to be credited to those who observed it? Is it not the creator, rather than the created? evolution wasn't created by man it was only discovered, and "scientist" still don't understand how mutations occur. That's not an argument, any scientist will tell you it's a mystery how DNA just "decides" to change for the better.
@XGralgrathor So your saying that they have figured out how mutations occur to evolve desirable (because it's not random) traits? And it's understood now how a mutation for the good (which is like 1 in a gajillion in the smallest DNA structure) comes about?
« Natural Selection is DEPENDENT on the mutations »
Yes, and? Together, reproductive variation and differential reproductive success explain how lifeforms adapt to specific circumstances. Reproductive variation produces biological diversity, differential reproductive success promotes such variations as are better adapted to given circumstances while it suppresses variations that are less well adapted. The explanation is comprehensive, elegant and matches the available data.
@HondaHowTo1 The vast majority of mutations, are, as you pointed out, harmful. However, natural selection ensures that only the rare desirable mutations survive. Mutations happen randomly, but individuals with harmful mutations are less likely to survive and reproduce while those with desireable mutations are more likely to do so. Thus it is the rare desireable mutations which are passes on and accumulated in a species.
@XGralgrathor Err, no, he is talking about how the actual process of mutation occurs. Genetics is the over-arching science itself! lol
The exact process of mutation and how an organism's DNA "knows" what genes to produce, and indeed select/drop is not known and is often referred to as the "mysterious factor" of evolution. Some occurs randomly, due to environment factors etc, and some new genes are produced by the DNA itself.
The mechanism of action & reason is still unknown.
« he is talking about how the actual process of mutation occurs »
The field of genetics incorporates such principles of chemistry as are pertinent to events at the genetic level. The chemical mechanisms behind genetic mutations are examples of that. They are well understood.
The reason we don't have classes in logic in schools is partly due to the religious establishment and small-minded people not wanting our kids to know the truth. Rebellious ideas leads to less church attendance and donations. Religion creates comfort though often at the expense of others discomfort. The only reason religion has changed so dramatically and Christians and Jews are not behaving as radical Muslims right now is due to secular and logical thinking.
Thank you for this excellent video about evaluating claims scientifically.
Millions of people all over the world are getting deceived and scammed because they fail to ask themselves some of the questions included in the Baloney Detection Kit.
One additional point that could have been made is that when science gets it wrong (or incomplete), correction must come not from intensely expressed opinions, but from additional scientific work.
I have never seen someone telling the people so much nonsense like that Michael Shermer guy. He himself is the best proof of his own 10Qs. Did he ever really researched about a single thing he talking about here? Who is paying him? I mean, really! The 10 Qs are absolut legitime and should always been asked! But there's no point, if you're not looking for the right answers, the truth or if you don't have access to the real informations and facts.
reliable source of claim ++ source doesn't often make similar claims ++ the claims have been certified by somebody with a different belief ++ most people thought about the counter arguments ++ evidence points towards this explanation ++ claimant using logic&reason ++ doesn't forbid scepticism ('dont doubt him') ++ uses positive evidence, doesn't just explain few anomalies ++ not at all driven by personal beliefs
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Shermer; " Then there's things that are almost truly not true Psychic telepathy. Where I can read your mind. That sort of thing ". So,if a clerk is being held up at a gas station by a man pointing a gun at him. If the clerk assumes; " That guy pointing that gun at me wants to rob me " is not a kind of telepathic ability ? I think it is.
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A person does not need hatred or any kind of phobia in order to acknowledge important differences between heterosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption and homosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption. Even non-religious people know this.
Homosexual activists, with support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.
But often, conbined with trust in the experiences of previous generations, result in the feeling of a invisible, omniscient and beings who has control over everything and who created you and made a purpose for you. There is a reason evolution i taught in school. Because the overwhelming amout of evidence points that direction. Without even the simpest kind of scientific method, we would be left in the stone age.
This was a good advantage because people who where more cautious, survived better than primates who took more risk, or wasn't aware/scared of potensial dangers. The product now is a population who are prone to belive in invisible and authoritative beigns .Humans are good at simulate or creating personalities of beings. This is beneficial for living in a society. (cont)
Watching videos here on youtube about paranormal/spritual believes, makes me more motivated to educate myself. And after reading thousands of pages about scientific biology, psysics, evolution, neurology+++, I feel kinda sad for ignorant and uneducated people who don't see how the human mind is easily biased by authorities, and as a byproduct of evolution has a strong feeling of extrasensory perception and respect for authorities without question. (cont)
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A person does not need hatred or any kind of phobia in order to acknowledge important differences between heterosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption and homosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption. Even non-religious people know this.
Homosexual activists, with support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.
Please visit my channel for the unpopular truth about homosexuality.
A person does not need hatred or any kind of phobia in order to acknowledge important differences between heterosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption and homosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption. Even non-religious people know this.
Homosexual activists, with support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.
@faro0485 Religion didn't invent science. Religion is all about blind faith, whereas science is about hard data and reasoned logic. Religious PEOPLE could have made science, but religion itself did not make science. That is an entirely baseless claim.
@faro0485 Religion didn't invent science. Religion is all about blind faith, whereas science is about hard data and reasoned logic. Religious PEOPLE could have made science, but religion itself did not make science. That is an entirely baseless claim.
@faro0485 - No, your answer isn't any use to me because it's in an obscure language I'm not familiar with, impolite person. But if you're trying to claim that man was made from clay, then you're certainly no one who understands the scientific method.
And your "question" about the nature of man isn't so much a question, but an invitation to write a lengthy philosophical essay for no particular reason.
@frostek Well according to the US 1906 Drug law, it states in there "man or other animal", suggesting man is another animal. Which is contradictory religion telling us that man is above the animals, mankind has dominion over the animals, and is not another animal. It's as simple as that. You choose the correct terms, you don't need to write so much.
As for that said language, you responded with "no good to me", now that is rude.
When this guy claimed global warming to be anthropogenic, he lost his credibility. Politics and Earth Pseudo-scientists go hand in hand because of the gullible people unwillingly able to make these scheisters rich. Politicians are always trying to find ways to tax the very air you breathe, and they will if you let them.
@Moralvorstellung7 Agreed. That's exactly where he lost his credibility. He's saying look at the data as if he knows what the data is, there's plenty of existing data that proves otherwise.
@Moralvorstellung7 Isn't that what he's saying? Their personal beliefs make them susceptible to errors, but they shouldn't. They should look at the evidence. Besides, what does that have to do with global warming?
@MrMaestro14231 Because the video mentioned it once, and because of the commenter's personal beliefs on it, it becomes more important than the rest of the 14 minute video!
@1234gnrslash Anthropogenic means man-made, which has nothing to do with gullibility or greedy people. He was just using global warming as an example as he did with a lot of things. Just because a lot of people are sensitive about that issue doesn't make it the highlight of the video.
@MrMaestro14231 Exactly what I meant... I should have said "more important to him" maybe that would have been more clear...
He (the guy I was replying to) only saw that one example (it was used twice in the video, but still didn't make that big of a deal about it), so he just gave up on an otherwise pretty sensible man... just because of one thing he believed in so much.
@Moralvorstellung7 Of course. A guy doesn't match you're personal beliefs, so you just say he's not credible.
Did it ever occur to you that it can go both ways? Large Industries and Pseudo-scientists can also go hand-in-hand claiming it's false to avoid government regulation due to Global Warming...
Which, if that really wasn't true, than that many people would be just as gullible...
Medicine, engineering, jets are good... I agree that is real and tangible and useful! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH USELESS theoretical (bacteria to man) evolution or what causes global warming... a degree of temp over 100 yrs when temps go up and down is a ASSUMPTION.
Offhandedly "we know evolution is true"? HA HA! PROVE IT! Life created it self, then bacteria to man? NO ONE EVER SAW EVOLUTION! DNA mapping now shows natural selection and mutations do NOT add genetic info. That's not science.
@gmcjetpilot I'm inclined to think you're trolling or incredibly dumb. Understanding how we became the creatures we are today is useless? Understanding how organisms adapt and change is useless? WTF? You do realize that virus even "add" their chemical bases to their victims dna? Gene duplications? Do a quick google search. Also evolution!=abiogenesis. Self replicating chemicals have been proven, gods have not. God of the gaps is bullshit.
"Understanding how organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT'S FINE & USEFUL! Has nothing to do with one species becoming a new one or bacteria to man or life creating it self (assumed to be a GODLESS process worshiped by atheists). That is an extrapolation beyond the observed and IT IS FACT is BULL SHIT, not science. Use the baloney detection on EVOLUTION... Observable? Repeatable Experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions? The answer is WE DON'T KNOW... Stop BELIEVING IT & prove it!
"Understanding how organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT'S FINE & USEFUL! Has nothing to do with one species becoming a new one or bacteria to man or life creating it self (assumed to be a GODLESS process worshiped by atheists). That is an extrapolation beyond the observed and IT IS FACT is BULL SHIT, not science. Use the baloney detection on EVOLUTION... Observable? Repeatable Experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions? The answer is WE DON'T KNOW... Stop BELIEVING IT & prove it!
@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self and bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self and bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self and bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self and bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self, bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
@gmcjetpilot Learning about the big bang, where the galaxies are headed and where they are going is incredibly important and is NOT part of biology. Evolution explains how creatures adapted and changed over time, becoming the diverse lot we have now. It's not a hypothesis, it makes no claims for or against gods, it merely explains a biological fact. Have you even bothered to read or research all the hard work done to study evolution? What evidence of a god and why does it not require a creator?
You're 35, your YT Channels is VIDEO games and anti Christian propaganda. GROW UP! I'm 50 yrs old, two master's degrees, engineering and math, studied evolution & astronomy since 1978! BIG BANG HAPPENED? Where did the cosmic seed come from, mathematically a singularity (code for unknown/impossible). Don't attack religion to explain it dip shit. That has to happen before LIFE which also created it self, crawled out primordial ooze to became all life, bacteria to man for no reason. THINK!
Liar! Your channel is full of THERE'S NO GOD! All atheist worship evolution as an assumed Godless process. Listen to Dawkins "FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER & SCIENCE!" You idiots attack religion in the NAME OF SCIENCE! ASININE! The GRAND theory of creation by man is Nihilist, Materialist, Naturalist. Who the fuck are you? 35 yr old who plays video games obsessed with pissing on Jesus? Whats wrong w/ you. Educate your self Child. Are you homosexual?
@gmcjetpilot I was wrong, you're an incredibly dumb troll. Atheism and Evolution are not intermingled or the same thing. Evolution says nothing about gods, ghost. Your age argument is a fallacy. Age has nothing to do with whether or not your claims are correct. I had disdain for religions long before I even knew about evolution. If we dont know an answer, your god did it isn't automatically the right one. I'm sure you have masters degrees to have such a craptastic arguments. Anyway GG.
"I had disdain for religions long before I even knew about evolution"
You're an ignorant immature bigot who knows nothing of science or religion, 35 yr old uneducated boy who hates Jesus. Whoopee! I'm betting 85% you're gay! HAIL SCIENCE is the canard atheists use to attack Christinaity as evil, and atheism will lead to peace & great knowlege! LOL!
Prove atheism is accuarte and corect with proof and evidence? No positive evidence.
WTF? CREATURES? We're MEN above animals, CLEARLY! What's your age, education, religion, your beliefs? Nihilist, Materialist, Naturalist, Humanist, Atheist soulless fluke of the universe with no reason to exist? Son O monkey, animal? NOT ME! I know the ENERGY and order in the universe was designed, LAWS given by intelligent cause, not IT HAPPENED out of nowhere from nothing for no reason. APPLY BALONEY DETECTION TO GRAND "GOD NOT ALLOWED" SCIENCE THEORIES.
WTF? CREATURES? We're MEN above animals, CLEARLY! What's your age, education, religion, your beliefs? Nihilist, Materialist, Naturalist, Humanist, Atheist soulless fluke of the universe with no reason to exist? Son O monkey, animal? NOT ME! I know the ENERGY and order in the universe was designed, LAWS given by intelligent cause, not IT HAPPENED out of nowhere from nothing for no reason. APPLY BALONEY DETECTION TO GRAND "GOD NOT ALLOWED" SCIENCE THEORIES.
@mistereveready "evolution!=abiogenesis" No. Evolution explains how life changes (evolves) after it's created (abiogenesis). They are different fields of science.
@pillsareyummy I guess you haven't done much programming. != means not equal. They aren't complete separate fields of science, but they do explain different aspects of biology. My point was that even if Gripple the Magic Gangsta Murgle was the cause life formed on this planet, evolution by natural selection is still sound, and offers great advantages to humanity and the like by understanding how it works.
@mistereveready I didn't understand your symbol, so... My mistake.However, with that being said, Natural Selection doesn't explain everything. Evolution has, at least in my opinion, been proved. However, the process by which it operates isn't fully understood.
@pillsareyummy well if it was fully understood many scientist would be out of jobs. There are many aspects on how mutations occur, but so far natural selection seems to be the guiding force.
@mistereveready I don't think scientists will be out of a job anytime soon. Science provides great 'job security': the more we know, the more we understand that we have a long way to go...
@pillsareyummy well chyeah that's me point. if we knew we wouldn't be needing to search. but luckily life is complex enough to keep digging. unlike religions and other bullshit that require constant rehashing to keep in business.
@gmcjetpilot Evolution is a fact like Gravity is, it is observable in labs where thousands of generations of organisms, that are able to reproduce rapidly, have and are being observed (speciation has been observed). The most viable Theory for the mechanism by which the observable fact of Evolution works is Natural Selection (non random selection of random mutations), just like there is the Law of Gravity, and the Theory of Gravity that seeks to explain how it works and occurs.
No! We observe gravities affect, measure it, Newtonian Mechanics, Kepler's planetary laws of motion, mathematical solutions and repeatable experiments; we just don't know the source of this force. Current theory of gravity, a distortion in spacetime continuum, now may be M-theory (string-), predicts 11 other dimensions we can't see from this dimension. Gravity my be another dimension. Evolution, one species becomes another, is unobservable and useless.
That's the theory, all but disproved! 150 yrs ago Darwin observed variations in species. Natural Selection? BRILLIANT! RIGHT! They had no DNA technology then, and now Darwinism is F'ed up beyond belief, extrapolated from BIG BANG did it, life happened, bacteria to man! WE now KNOW with DNA, natural selection DOESN'T ADD genetic Info but variations in species. Mutations? No new genetic info, sterile, fatal, unbeneficial, never new species.
That's the theory, all but disproved! 150 yrs ago Darwin observed variations in species. Natural Selection? BRILLIANT! RIGHT! They had no DNA technology then, and now Darwinism is F'ed up beyond belief, extrapolated from BIG BANG did it, life happened, bacteria to man! WE now KNOW with DNA, natural selection DOESN'T ADD genetic Info but variations in species. Mutations? No new genetic info, sterile, fatal, unbeneficial, never new species.
He has a good point to not believe everything you hear for sure, however, hes trying to make you believe what he is saying!!! We all have in our own bodies a "untruth" detector....its up to you to find it within yourself and your body and mind can tell you. He is saying its up to Science....he himself is saying certain things are not true!!!! he dosent know himself!!! RELY on your inner self.....its the only thing you can Trust!!!
luvsfitness 1 day ago
@luvsfitness Did you watch the video. He's says right near the start that people should not beleive everything he says, but that they should go out, check and make their own minds up.
MrSarcasticFringe 16 hours ago
The theory is good but the examples he's using are clear indicators that he's a sheeptrich (genetic hybrid of sheeps and ostriches). His blind submission to science and experts is his weakness. We all know that science keeps claiming that its prior claims were wrong. At least it admits being wrong all the time which opens a door to evolution (Religion doesn't evolve because it won't admit its past mistakes). But you can't blindly trust what constantly makes false claims.
Well, he can! lol
motormagnet 1 day ago
shermer for president!
DrunkenNuts 2 days ago
Did anyone apply the "Baloney Detection Kit" to the assertions made in this video, haha?
PangoliaDogg15 2 days ago
People i know friends and my family need to watch this bad. Not one could tell me how science works. : ) Because they have no clue at all.
krapptacular 3 days ago
Many good points on the balony detection list. But you do try to preach from authority with all those examples. And if you think that you cant listen to people who have bias towards the theory they present. Then youtube must be worthless to you as almost 100% of the vids are made because of bias towards some theory. I agree that science have been a true blessing to the world. But also know that the majority of research today are being paid for reaching predetermind conclusions.
Jonzen77 1 week ago
@Jonzen77 "
But also know that the majority of research today are being paid for reaching predetermined conclusions."
Your assertion may be correct but it may also be incorrect. Do you have evidence to support that claim?
ThatsReallyGr8 3 days ago
@ThatsReallyGr8 Do you have any evidence that "the majority of research today are being paid for reaching predetermined conclusions"?
There are certainly instances of this being true. But if where's your evidence that this it's a "majority of research"?
MrSarcasticFringe 16 hours ago
@MrSarcasticFringe
If I may jump in.
Research cost money. It makes sense that the entity which invests into a research hopes to refund the investment with the results. It, therefore, hopes for a certain result.
For example, when tobacco firms tried to find a connection between cancer and smoking. When Dupont invested into the Ozone lair research. When Monsanto researched for correlation between GMO and health adverse effects. etc..
But we can't say all research.
What do you think?
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"Science is the best thing that ever deviced for understanding the world, we shall love it"
Maybe its true if we only focus on the material world. But if we want to evolve like human beings, a greater understanding for each other and life it self, and what we truly are capable of, then idont think science can help the life we all are living in the present now.
flowerlover1024 1 week ago
It can give great comfort to you, and of course in sertain cases it can help you live a couple of years more! and that is good! Everything has a flipside, love,hate hot,cold and so on!
I am truly greatfull to sience, but i dont want a life based on it.
flowerlover1024 1 week ago
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flowerlover1024 1 week ago
Well the data says that the temperature of the earth is controlled by the solar activity. Not by men. Global warming is politics not science. Other than that I agree.
olafurhh03 2 weeks ago
@olafurhh03 False dichotomy.
tealshift 2 days ago
Science is only as good as science is evolved. Science is not fool proof. I do appreciate Michael Shermers candor and warmth concerning the topic. Science is in it's infancy. The day we can accurately measure the multi-dimensional mind and body experience science will take a major step forward in resolving the gaps between matter and mind. We do not have adequate tools thus we are left with conflicting paradigms.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
"They had Centuries to build these pyramids" This statement alone proves this guy has no idea.Accepted Egyptology claims the Giza Pyramids were built for One Pharoah. So, what, the world knew hundred of years before about his birth and that he was going to be a Pharoah and started building them so by the time he died he could be buried in it. The evidence of thousands of slave laborers pulling 2 ton rocks with mathematical precision along logs.hmm where did they get all the logs...IN A DESERT?!!
littlepiaf 3 weeks ago
First non-comedic educational video I've watched in a while that I actually enjoyed (besides the Annenberg Foundation science series)
george77772moons 3 weeks ago
I wish Shermer would apply this kit to his libertarian beliefs...
MikeTaylor17 3 weeks ago
Hey, why does that detective not have spare mags in his shoulder rig? Bad form, piggy. (all joking aside, AWESOME video! I loved this! Thank you for posting it)
PaladinHero 1 month ago
Thank you, that is a very handy guide to "junk science". :Love it!
eldgeth 1 month ago
This is fantastic. I wish I could have said all of this in one block in various pub debates with people; hahaha. I usually only mention 5-6 points Michael makes, but less eloquently. Good stuff...thanks for sharing. I've linked it on Facebook.
ToxicWastoid 1 month ago
i use this every time i watch FOX news
SpaceWineTV 1 month ago
I know the answer to the meaning of life....42.... I just dont know the question
thefezmaster11 1 month ago
pause at 10:13
kmanbestk0s 1 month ago
this is a baloney kit for who? the skeptics who already think this way? i dont think ignoramus' are going to find this guide practical. way over their heads. meaningless video
magua4 1 month ago
@magua4 meaningless video you say???don't be afraid of the truth.it's fun to talk about ufo's and bigfoot and other stuff like that but show me the positive evidence not excuses but real evidence.you can't and the reason is because there isn't any.now go out into the woods or watch the phoney videos of lochness and all the other bullshit to entertain yourself.your mind is free to wander where it wants.don't be a fool!
fearedlegend 1 month ago
@fearedlegend I can't link the you-tube video but a good 90 of us walked out of a meditation at ECETI and saw a awesome ruby red pulsating orb fly right over our heads at about 200 feet up. It was absolutely spectacular. I've been to ECETI 3 times and each time I have been pleasantly surprised with real sightings of truly unusual phenomenon. Search for ECETI July 4th 2010. There are 2 videos of the same event. The video is nothing compared to what the naked eye experienced. Awesome.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
But science can't answer everything
turtlebum0 2 months ago 2
@turtlebum0 But you can?
grahrarog 1 month ago
@turtlebum0 No one asserted science answers everything. Nothing can answer everything.
pythor2 1 month ago
@pythor2 Jesus will answer everything when he comes back
turtlebum0 1 month ago
@turtlebum0 How come you aren't making this connection? Don't you see how ridiculous it is to think that science is more incorrect than your own belief? Do you value evidence at all? How do you know Jesus is coming back?
pythor2 1 month ago
@pythor2 Cause the Bible says so
turtlebum0 1 month ago
@turtlebum0 What if I said Spider Man will save you from falling off a cliff because Marvel Comics says so?
pythor2 1 month ago
@pythor2 but Comics are fake :/ Look dude i'm only messing with ya.. Nice rubics cube video ;}
turtlebum0 1 month ago
@pythor2 What if I said I saw an ear ring disappear from a woman's ear and reappear in the palm of her hand in an instant. It didn't bounce it just arrived. Would you believe me? What if it were true? How could I possibly prove it? Did it happen? Yes. We both witnessed the event. It was a stunning display of telekinesis. Right now on to the top 10 reasons for why this never happened when it did.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker Would I believe you? No. What if it were true? Then it would be a very good magician display. How could you possibly prove it? You can't prove your experiences on your experiences alone - video tape it next time. Did it happen? Doubt it.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 The doubt is yours and deserved. The truth is mine and earned.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker Whatever you say.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 Now where's the baloney busting in that? Before 27 I was as skeptical as everyone else and then I started training. That's when everything changed. I've had more phenomenal experiences as a result of this choice than I could possibly elaborate in a day. The "dated material" of the past which gets readily dismissed in the light of almighty science is becoming increasingly significant to the equation. I know PHD psychologists / neurologists who are exploring past lives. Yup. Stay tuned.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker Name one. You see, the way a baloney detection kit works is to dismiss everything someone else says if they only make assertions that do not follow reality. You have to have evidence. Name one PhD that does what you say. One that is credited.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 Define "reality" ... take your time ...
goggle "Irreducible Mind". Because something can't be proven with the constructs of science (a human invention) doesn't mean it doesn't exist it can mean that the means of measurement is inadequate. 150 years ago if I stood on a street corner and told you one day we will send stock reports around the world in a matter of minutes invisibly through the air most likely I would have been hung on the spot as a heretic or burned at the stake.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker Reality - state at which things actually exist.
You have failed to provide one credible PhD.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 Reality - cannot be defined by a human being in any form or manner - we can make approximations based on the human experience but in no way can we accurately define that which defines our existence.
Define "credible PhD" ... these folks while certainly navigating treacherous waters in scientific circles are every bit as credible as any one in these fields. Can you prove that these people are not credible or that phenomenon does not exist?
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@picker Uh...Yeah. Definitions change. So what? I could ask you to define "phenomenal experience" and then come around to say you are wrong, and it would be pointless. If you wanted me to define something else then you should have said so.
A credible PhD is someone who has published credible peer-reviewed articles. This is my opinion, and in no way a definition.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 IMO we as a race are where we are in our current understanding and as far as I can tell there is no single authoritative source. Science for sure has opened many doors to the nature of the ever so questionable definition of "reality" but I think it is likewise fair to hold space for "dated" paradigms even if they don't comfortably fit into what we know about our own existence. Because a species evolves doesn't necessarily mean those who come before us were less informed.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 extension:
Not that our predecessors had the language or tools of today. Much of what has taken place in the last several hundred years is an evolution of measurement, practice, and language, but in daily life people continue to suffer from schizophrenia (spiritual contact in some circles) and the science community at large is still far from truly understanding in scientific terms the nature of this face of reality.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker So, your argument is basically science doesn't understand everything, science can't understand everything, therefore my claim is justified. Sounds legit.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 People have deep sensory experiences that science cannot easily map. These experiences are far older than science. Because they exist does not mean they can be dismissed because they can't be proven. I have significant evidence of consciousness without form. Not an easy concept for many but the proof is overwhelming. I suggest that science take note rather than condemn and dismiss.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 extension 2:
The notion of a credible PhD is somewhat inbred to those who set the guidelines for what is deemed credible and that may in fact have detrimental effect as well as positive outcome. A fellow pressured to be credible may find data that is not readily supported by the rest of the community. Does this then produce a lack of credibility? Are my experiences invalidated because you didn't experience them? My conclusions are based on experiential evidence and insight.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker "A fellow pressured to be credible may find data that is not readily supported by the rest of the community. Does this then produce a lack of credibility?"
Yes. It does.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 There is power in numbers however this does not necessarily generate a valid conclusion. I find it incredible that real data would be tossed because the collective did not unanimously adopt the evidence. This is a form of scheduled prejudice which may grant the collective some form of immunity in addressing the data but it doesn't necessarily invalidate the data. With such restrictions it is not a wonder that the process of science forges a binary outcome among participants.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker No. It doesn't make the data invalid. It makes the data incredible.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 Well in that case let's have a pint! Thanks for the chat up. Take care.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker You do know what "incredible" means yes?
pythor2 2 weeks ago
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photopicker 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 Yes it means that science has built a wall around their version of the story and anything that is credible in my world but not your world is deemed incredible. But that really doesn't matter to me because it doesn't change my experience. It just means you have no credible way to understand or measure how I came to this moment in time. To believe that you have some step up on me in terms of intelligence or understanding is completely superficial. You have no way of knowing.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker I don't claim a superior bulk of knowledge. But I daresay I my beliefs are superior. Just because science can't explain it doesn't make your claim any more valid, nor the belief in a God. You, being a fellow engineer, should know this. Now are you going to continue with your auto-biography or are you actually going to try to convince me this time?
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 Superior belief cannot exist because it can't be measured. I am somewhat aligned with Dawkins regarding the nature of god however I do hold the premise that a more intelligent force may exist in the universe and this force may have had a part in the influence of creation here. There is no convincing anyone. The book would be pure relation of experience and possible theory. There is a path of self knowledge but it is rare as you might gather. My teachers guide they do not preach.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@photopicker Teachers tell you what to think, not how to think. That is best left to more personal relationships. If you wish to have personal relationships with teachers, etc. instead of professional relationships then that's your choice. But if someone has to have a personal relationship in order to know something - that's not knowledge. It might be deep conviction.
And yet you say "the proof is overwhelming". Experiences "can't be proven" but only "because they exist". You're losing me man.
pythor2 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 In formal training that might be true but spiritual training is something else entirely. There are no text books, there are no pre-planned lectures, the teachers have no physical form. Repeat, the teachers do not have bodies. The material is manifested directly in the mind and minds eye; dreams, voices, visions, sensory impulse, tingling, ringing in the ears, paranormal events, etc. I have studied the body as well to learn to differentiate the experiences. Tear at it. It won't matter.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 I am not assuming that anyone can relate to my experiences but wow is the proof in the experience. I have had endless dialog in my head for years but the demos are the real mind benders. Hundreds of demos. That's when the truly juicy nuggets are revealed and I could fill a small book with the experiences I've had. This is why people believe in god and spirit. They have experiences science cannot explain. One day that may change but not as science is today. Science chooses ignorance.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@pythor2 re: Science chooses ignorance.
This is not a condemnation of science I am a seasoned embedded engineer and have worked on ultrasound, electron microscopes for wafer inspection, and lately embedded appliance networking. I trained as a psychic and I put myself in the subject to investigate it. There are many layers and levels to illusion. I use logic and reason all the time. I am studying the DSM-IV. I am interested in the language and various POV's. The more data the better.
photopicker 2 weeks ago
@pythor2
The Evolution of Birds and Flight: It's impossible
watch?v=1yS-r83aw6k
Xibons 1 month ago
Climatologists always slant their studies/outcomes/etc in the direction that favours anthropogenic global warming theory. Global warming skeptics point out those biases and get banned for it. Wtf?
Rotpig 2 months ago
@Rotpig Always? Really?
xenakis9 2 months ago
Man-Made Global Warming theory's baloney content is high: secret data to which only the anointed have access, NASA satellite data showing global cooling in the last 10 years, etc. Read this- "Let's prize climate skepticism" (Philadelphia Enquirer, or Cato.org)
horseofcoursetack 2 months ago
Shermer claims that science is the best way to figure out the vaidity of something, and yet he seems to think that it is plausible that the fragile nose of a boeing 757 could've made it's way through the outer ring of the Pentagon (which is heavily reinforced with steel) and then plowed thru 2 more concrete buildings and then punched a 16 foot hole just beyond the Pentagon's C-ring.
Sorry Shermer, but the laws of physics show that the official story of 9/11 is impossible!
fanof2012 2 months ago
This is all too hard, I think I'll just stick to religion...
ChristOrder 2 months ago
Yeah evolution is a real concept, and it happens but is it to be credited to those who observed it? Is it not the creator, rather than the created? evolution wasn't created by man it was only discovered, and "scientist" still don't understand how mutations occur. That's not an argument, any scientist will tell you it's a mystery how DNA just "decides" to change for the better.
HondaHowTo1 3 months ago
« "scientist" still don't understand how mutations occur »
!? Yes they do. It's called genetics. Look into it.
XGralgrathor 3 months ago
@XGralgrathor So your saying that they have figured out how mutations occur to evolve desirable (because it's not random) traits? And it's understood now how a mutation for the good (which is like 1 in a gajillion in the smallest DNA structure) comes about?
HondaHowTo1 3 months ago
« they have figured out how mutations occur to evolve desirable (because it's not random) traits? »
Yes, you nincompoop. Darwin did that, nearly two centuries ago. He called it: natural selection.
XGralgrathor 3 months ago
@XGralgrathor Err, NO, again! LOL
Natural Selection is DEPENDENT on the mutations....it is not the MECHANISM!!!
LOL
KTK401 2 months ago
« Natural Selection is DEPENDENT on the mutations »
Yes, and? Together, reproductive variation and differential reproductive success explain how lifeforms adapt to specific circumstances. Reproductive variation produces biological diversity, differential reproductive success promotes such variations as are better adapted to given circumstances while it suppresses variations that are less well adapted. The explanation is comprehensive, elegant and matches the available data.
XGralgrathor 2 months ago
« And it's understood now how a mutation for the good [...] comes about? »
Yes, you nincompoop. It's called: chemistry. And it's been understood since Watson and Crick, back in the 1950s.
XGralgrathor 3 months ago
@XGralgrathor Still not an answer.
I'm not sure you should be ranting and spouting off calling people "nincompoop" (sic!).....
KTK401 2 months ago
@HondaHowTo1 The vast majority of mutations, are, as you pointed out, harmful. However, natural selection ensures that only the rare desirable mutations survive. Mutations happen randomly, but individuals with harmful mutations are less likely to survive and reproduce while those with desireable mutations are more likely to do so. Thus it is the rare desireable mutations which are passes on and accumulated in a species.
Ruthlesscritic 2 months ago
@Ruthlesscritic I think he was asking how does the DNA KNOW which gene to select and which to drop etc....
Also new genes are created, in other words induced by the organism itself through hypermutation.
Through beneficial mutation, advantageous mutation etc traits which are desirable are promoted.
Not all mutation happens randomly.
How or why DNA "chooses" or even "knows" to carry out the above form of mutation is still unknown.
regards
KTK401 2 months ago
@HondaHowTo1 No, he is saying he doesn't know, but wanted to pretend that he did!!! :)
KTK401 2 months ago
@XGralgrathor Err, no, he is talking about how the actual process of mutation occurs. Genetics is the over-arching science itself! lol
The exact process of mutation and how an organism's DNA "knows" what genes to produce, and indeed select/drop is not known and is often referred to as the "mysterious factor" of evolution. Some occurs randomly, due to environment factors etc, and some new genes are produced by the DNA itself.
The mechanism of action & reason is still unknown.
KTK401 2 months ago
« he is talking about how the actual process of mutation occurs »
The field of genetics incorporates such principles of chemistry as are pertinent to events at the genetic level. The chemical mechanisms behind genetic mutations are examples of that. They are well understood.
XGralgrathor 2 months ago
@HondaHowTo1 Exactly.
Notice the completely pointless responses (non-answers!) to the questions you raised!
KTK401 2 months ago
The reason we don't have classes in logic in schools is partly due to the religious establishment and small-minded people not wanting our kids to know the truth. Rebellious ideas leads to less church attendance and donations. Religion creates comfort though often at the expense of others discomfort. The only reason religion has changed so dramatically and Christians and Jews are not behaving as radical Muslims right now is due to secular and logical thinking.
11xzxzxz 3 months ago
Let's not waste our time replying to those stupid religious comments, some people never learn.
deddi12 3 months ago 2
Thank you for this excellent video about evaluating claims scientifically.
Millions of people all over the world are getting deceived and scammed because they fail to ask themselves some of the questions included in the Baloney Detection Kit.
One additional point that could have been made is that when science gets it wrong (or incomplete), correction must come not from intensely expressed opinions, but from additional scientific work.
Science corrects science and we all benefit.
cougarpsyc 3 months ago
I wish this was shown to us when i was in school
johndoe43210 3 months ago in playlist science and skeptic
How do we know evolution is true for sure? Follow your own points man and prove it to me!
punkronica77 3 months ago
I have never seen someone telling the people so much nonsense like that Michael Shermer guy. He himself is the best proof of his own 10Qs. Did he ever really researched about a single thing he talking about here? Who is paying him? I mean, really! The 10 Qs are absolut legitime and should always been asked! But there's no point, if you're not looking for the right answers, the truth or if you don't have access to the real informations and facts.
Drachenkind76 3 months ago
@Drachenkind76
Huh?
XGralgrathor 3 months ago
Jesus Christ is the Truth the Light and the Path. Dont doubt Him
parkourip 3 months ago
@parkourip I will, just to spite you.
"Jesus... who the fuck is that?" ... did it work?
fufuguy1 3 months ago
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BigerFaterTony 3 months ago
@parkourip
very reasonable:
reliable source of claim ++ source doesn't often make similar claims ++ the claims have been certified by somebody with a different belief ++ most people thought about the counter arguments ++ evidence points towards this explanation ++ claimant using logic&reason ++ doesn't forbid scepticism ('dont doubt him') ++ uses positive evidence, doesn't just explain few anomalies ++ not at all driven by personal beliefs
=> BALONEY ALERT - BALONEY ALERT - BALONEY ALERT
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TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
i only have to say i like it :)
misheliis87 3 months ago
Shermer; " Then there's things that are almost truly not true Psychic telepathy. Where I can read your mind. That sort of thing ". So,if a clerk is being held up at a gas station by a man pointing a gun at him. If the clerk assumes; " That guy pointing that gun at me wants to rob me " is not a kind of telepathic ability ? I think it is.
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lightandbeautiful 3 months ago
English is not my primary language, so expect a narrow vocablory and spell errors.
ssovFF 3 months ago in playlist ssovFF sine favoritter
But often, conbined with trust in the experiences of previous generations, result in the feeling of a invisible, omniscient and beings who has control over everything and who created you and made a purpose for you. There is a reason evolution i taught in school. Because the overwhelming amout of evidence points that direction. Without even the simpest kind of scientific method, we would be left in the stone age.
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This was a good advantage because people who where more cautious, survived better than primates who took more risk, or wasn't aware/scared of potensial dangers. The product now is a population who are prone to belive in invisible and authoritative beigns .Humans are good at simulate or creating personalities of beings. This is beneficial for living in a society. (cont)
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Watching videos here on youtube about paranormal/spritual believes, makes me more motivated to educate myself. And after reading thousands of pages about scientific biology, psysics, evolution, neurology+++, I feel kinda sad for ignorant and uneducated people who don't see how the human mind is easily biased by authorities, and as a byproduct of evolution has a strong feeling of extrasensory perception and respect for authorities without question. (cont)
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If science was a woman id marry her.
HectorL360 3 months ago
its actually a bullshit detection kit
phildirt3 3 months ago
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lightandbeautiful 3 months ago
Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) deniers need to watch and learn this video.
They are the most dangerous baloney-pushers of all (equal to polygraphers).
mphello 3 months ago
Religious people should watch this, maybe they will learn something.
olafurhh03 3 months ago
@olafurhh03 no they wont
phildirt3 3 months ago
That debunks Pamela Nine, John Edward, James van praughn and all those other fakes. That's the most informative video on debunking I have seen yet!
vgstratocaster 3 months ago
Haw Great
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lightandbeautiful 4 months ago
I thought it was a video about a bologne detecter.. lol, you know that meat that is pronounced as boloney yet is spelled as bologne??
AdamX21198 4 months ago
Wonderfully argued.
Rael0505 4 months ago
Paraphrasing: "We invented science..."
No, I'm sure it was religion (quranic method) that invented science, and now the godless have appropriated science.
faro0485 4 months ago
@faro0485 Religion didn't invent science. Religion is all about blind faith, whereas science is about hard data and reasoned logic. Religious PEOPLE could have made science, but religion itself did not make science. That is an entirely baseless claim.
Rael0505 4 months ago
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@faro0485 Religion didn't invent science. Religion is all about blind faith, whereas science is about hard data and reasoned logic. Religious PEOPLE could have made science, but religion itself did not make science. That is an entirely baseless claim.
Rael0505 4 months ago
@faro0485 - Well, you guys certainly weren't using it any more.
frostek 3 months ago
@frostek If we aren't using it then we aren't really practising our religion are we now...
faro0485 3 months ago
@faro0485 - Okay... What's Islam's position on Evolution?
frostek 3 months ago
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faro0485 3 months ago
@frostek "...Allahu l-khaliqu l-bari-u l-muṣawir... " Quran 59:24:2 - 59:24:5
Question, what is your position of the nature of man?
faro0485 3 months ago
@faro0485 - That answer is no good to me.
frostek 3 months ago
@frostek "Does not compute, will not answer question" You're not one of those DARPA bots are you?
You bots can never handle things you haven't been informed of.
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faro0485 3 months ago
@faro0485 - No, your answer isn't any use to me because it's in an obscure language I'm not familiar with, impolite person. But if you're trying to claim that man was made from clay, then you're certainly no one who understands the scientific method.
And your "question" about the nature of man isn't so much a question, but an invitation to write a lengthy philosophical essay for no particular reason.
frostek 3 months ago
@frostek Well according to the US 1906 Drug law, it states in there "man or other animal", suggesting man is another animal. Which is contradictory religion telling us that man is above the animals, mankind has dominion over the animals, and is not another animal. It's as simple as that. You choose the correct terms, you don't need to write so much.
As for that said language, you responded with "no good to me", now that is rude.
faro0485 3 months ago
@faro0485 - "It's as simple as that" - Everything's simple when you stop asking questions.
frostek 3 months ago
@frostek Well for other people... nuances can be far too complex.
faro0485 3 months ago
@frostek If we aren't using it then we aren't really practising our religion are we now...
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faro0485 3 months ago
When this guy claimed global warming to be anthropogenic, he lost his credibility. Politics and Earth Pseudo-scientists go hand in hand because of the gullible people unwillingly able to make these scheisters rich. Politicians are always trying to find ways to tax the very air you breathe, and they will if you let them.
Moralvorstellung7 4 months ago
@Moralvorstellung7 Agreed. That's exactly where he lost his credibility. He's saying look at the data as if he knows what the data is, there's plenty of existing data that proves otherwise.
Ginyuu5 4 months ago
@Moralvorstellung7 Only in america my friend. That is to be expected in america.
AdamX21198 4 months ago
@AdamX21198 Well Europeans DID start the tradition of taxing everything here, lol
1234gnrslash 4 months ago
@Moralvorstellung7 Isn't that what he's saying? Their personal beliefs make them susceptible to errors, but they shouldn't. They should look at the evidence. Besides, what does that have to do with global warming?
MrMaestro14231 4 months ago
@MrMaestro14231 Because the video mentioned it once, and because of the commenter's personal beliefs on it, it becomes more important than the rest of the 14 minute video!
1234gnrslash 4 months ago
@1234gnrslash Anthropogenic means man-made, which has nothing to do with gullibility or greedy people. He was just using global warming as an example as he did with a lot of things. Just because a lot of people are sensitive about that issue doesn't make it the highlight of the video.
MrMaestro14231 4 months ago
@MrMaestro14231 Exactly what I meant... I should have said "more important to him" maybe that would have been more clear...
He (the guy I was replying to) only saw that one example (it was used twice in the video, but still didn't make that big of a deal about it), so he just gave up on an otherwise pretty sensible man... just because of one thing he believed in so much.
1234gnrslash 4 months ago
@Moralvorstellung7 Of course. A guy doesn't match you're personal beliefs, so you just say he's not credible.
Did it ever occur to you that it can go both ways? Large Industries and Pseudo-scientists can also go hand-in-hand claiming it's false to avoid government regulation due to Global Warming...
Which, if that really wasn't true, than that many people would be just as gullible...
1234gnrslash 4 months ago
@Moralvorstellung7 Actually, you proved his point
lumpheadthump 4 months ago
bologna detection kit!
affablegiraffable 4 months ago
Medicine, engineering, jets are good... I agree that is real and tangible and useful! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH USELESS theoretical (bacteria to man) evolution or what causes global warming... a degree of temp over 100 yrs when temps go up and down is a ASSUMPTION.
Offhandedly "we know evolution is true"? HA HA! PROVE IT! Life created it self, then bacteria to man? NO ONE EVER SAW EVOLUTION! DNA mapping now shows natural selection and mutations do NOT add genetic info. That's not science.
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@gmcjetpilot I'm inclined to think you're trolling or incredibly dumb. Understanding how we became the creatures we are today is useless? Understanding how organisms adapt and change is useless? WTF? You do realize that virus even "add" their chemical bases to their victims dna? Gene duplications? Do a quick google search. Also evolution!=abiogenesis. Self replicating chemicals have been proven, gods have not. God of the gaps is bullshit.
mistereveready 4 months ago 13
@mist
"Understanding how organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT'S FINE & USEFUL! Has nothing to do with one species becoming a new one or bacteria to man or life creating it self (assumed to be a GODLESS process worshiped by atheists). That is an extrapolation beyond the observed and IT IS FACT is BULL SHIT, not science. Use the baloney detection on EVOLUTION... Observable? Repeatable Experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions? The answer is WE DON'T KNOW... Stop BELIEVING IT & prove it!
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@mist
"Understanding how organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT'S FINE & USEFUL! Has nothing to do with one species becoming a new one or bacteria to man or life creating it self (assumed to be a GODLESS process worshiped by atheists). That is an extrapolation beyond the observed and IT IS FACT is BULL SHIT, not science. Use the baloney detection on EVOLUTION... Observable? Repeatable Experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions? The answer is WE DON'T KNOW... Stop BELIEVING IT & prove it!
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self and bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
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@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self and bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
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@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self and bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
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@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self and bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@mistere "Understanding organisms adapt and change is useless?"
THAT IS USEFUL! Extrapolating to big bang DID IT, life created it self, bacteria to man, BELIEVE IT, ITS FACT, is not useful or science. Apply baloney detection kit on Evo! Observable proof? Repeatable experiments? Data? Mathematical solutions or probability? NO AFFECT on science if you're God created or soulless fluke of the universe. Atheists think evolution is a GODLESS process that drives their faith, NOT SCIENCE, opinion!
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@gmcjetpilot Learning about the big bang, where the galaxies are headed and where they are going is incredibly important and is NOT part of biology. Evolution explains how creatures adapted and changed over time, becoming the diverse lot we have now. It's not a hypothesis, it makes no claims for or against gods, it merely explains a biological fact. Have you even bothered to read or research all the hard work done to study evolution? What evidence of a god and why does it not require a creator?
mistereveready 4 months ago
@miste
You're 35, your YT Channels is VIDEO games and anti Christian propaganda. GROW UP! I'm 50 yrs old, two master's degrees, engineering and math, studied evolution & astronomy since 1978! BIG BANG HAPPENED? Where did the cosmic seed come from, mathematically a singularity (code for unknown/impossible). Don't attack religion to explain it dip shit. That has to happen before LIFE which also created it self, crawled out primordial ooze to became all life, bacteria to man for no reason. THINK!
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@mister "it makes no claims for against gods...."
Liar! Your channel is full of THERE'S NO GOD! All atheist worship evolution as an assumed Godless process. Listen to Dawkins "FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER & SCIENCE!" You idiots attack religion in the NAME OF SCIENCE! ASININE! The GRAND theory of creation by man is Nihilist, Materialist, Naturalist. Who the fuck are you? 35 yr old who plays video games obsessed with pissing on Jesus? Whats wrong w/ you. Educate your self Child. Are you homosexual?
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@gmcjetpilot I was wrong, you're an incredibly dumb troll. Atheism and Evolution are not intermingled or the same thing. Evolution says nothing about gods, ghost. Your age argument is a fallacy. Age has nothing to do with whether or not your claims are correct. I had disdain for religions long before I even knew about evolution. If we dont know an answer, your god did it isn't automatically the right one. I'm sure you have masters degrees to have such a craptastic arguments. Anyway GG.
mistereveready 4 months ago
@mister
"I had disdain for religions long before I even knew about evolution"
You're an ignorant immature bigot who knows nothing of science or religion, 35 yr old uneducated boy who hates Jesus. Whoopee! I'm betting 85% you're gay! HAIL SCIENCE is the canard atheists use to attack Christinaity as evil, and atheism will lead to peace & great knowlege! LOL!
Prove atheism is accuarte and corect with proof and evidence? No positive evidence.
What is good about atheism?
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gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@gmcjetpilot You remind me of Anthony Powell aka tony48219.
mistereveready 4 months ago
@gmcjetpilot
calm down, is there a point to argue over the internet?
iPriestHolmes 4 months ago
@ mist "how we became the creatures"
WTF? CREATURES? We're MEN above animals, CLEARLY! What's your age, education, religion, your beliefs? Nihilist, Materialist, Naturalist, Humanist, Atheist soulless fluke of the universe with no reason to exist? Son O monkey, animal? NOT ME! I know the ENERGY and order in the universe was designed, LAWS given by intelligent cause, not IT HAPPENED out of nowhere from nothing for no reason. APPLY BALONEY DETECTION TO GRAND "GOD NOT ALLOWED" SCIENCE THEORIES.
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
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@ mist "how we became the creatures"
WTF? CREATURES? We're MEN above animals, CLEARLY! What's your age, education, religion, your beliefs? Nihilist, Materialist, Naturalist, Humanist, Atheist soulless fluke of the universe with no reason to exist? Son O monkey, animal? NOT ME! I know the ENERGY and order in the universe was designed, LAWS given by intelligent cause, not IT HAPPENED out of nowhere from nothing for no reason. APPLY BALONEY DETECTION TO GRAND "GOD NOT ALLOWED" SCIENCE THEORIES.
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@mistereveready "evolution!=abiogenesis" No. Evolution explains how life changes (evolves) after it's created (abiogenesis). They are different fields of science.
pillsareyummy 3 months ago
@pillsareyummy I guess you haven't done much programming. != means not equal. They aren't complete separate fields of science, but they do explain different aspects of biology. My point was that even if Gripple the Magic Gangsta Murgle was the cause life formed on this planet, evolution by natural selection is still sound, and offers great advantages to humanity and the like by understanding how it works.
mistereveready 3 months ago
@mistereveready I didn't understand your symbol, so... My mistake.However, with that being said, Natural Selection doesn't explain everything. Evolution has, at least in my opinion, been proved. However, the process by which it operates isn't fully understood.
pillsareyummy 3 months ago
@pillsareyummy well if it was fully understood many scientist would be out of jobs. There are many aspects on how mutations occur, but so far natural selection seems to be the guiding force.
mistereveready 3 months ago
@mistereveready I don't think scientists will be out of a job anytime soon. Science provides great 'job security': the more we know, the more we understand that we have a long way to go...
pillsareyummy 3 months ago
@pillsareyummy well chyeah that's me point. if we knew we wouldn't be needing to search. but luckily life is complex enough to keep digging. unlike religions and other bullshit that require constant rehashing to keep in business.
mistereveready 3 months ago
@mistereveready "chyeah" Really? This ain't 'Wayne's World', dude. "Camera one, Camera two..."
pillsareyummy 3 months ago
@gmcjetpilot Evolution is a fact like Gravity is, it is observable in labs where thousands of generations of organisms, that are able to reproduce rapidly, have and are being observed (speciation has been observed). The most viable Theory for the mechanism by which the observable fact of Evolution works is Natural Selection (non random selection of random mutations), just like there is the Law of Gravity, and the Theory of Gravity that seeks to explain how it works and occurs.
nontrainspotter 4 months ago
@nont "Evolution is a fact like Gravity"
No! We observe gravities affect, measure it, Newtonian Mechanics, Kepler's planetary laws of motion, mathematical solutions and repeatable experiments; we just don't know the source of this force. Current theory of gravity, a distortion in spacetime continuum, now may be M-theory (string-), predicts 11 other dimensions we can't see from this dimension. Gravity my be another dimension. Evolution, one species becomes another, is unobservable and useless.
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
@nont "Evolution...Natural Selection...random mutations"
That's the theory, all but disproved! 150 yrs ago Darwin observed variations in species. Natural Selection? BRILLIANT! RIGHT! They had no DNA technology then, and now Darwinism is F'ed up beyond belief, extrapolated from BIG BANG did it, life happened, bacteria to man! WE now KNOW with DNA, natural selection DOESN'T ADD genetic Info but variations in species. Mutations? No new genetic info, sterile, fatal, unbeneficial, never new species.
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago
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@nont "Evolution...Natural Selection...random mutations"
That's the theory, all but disproved! 150 yrs ago Darwin observed variations in species. Natural Selection? BRILLIANT! RIGHT! They had no DNA technology then, and now Darwinism is F'ed up beyond belief, extrapolated from BIG BANG did it, life happened, bacteria to man! WE now KNOW with DNA, natural selection DOESN'T ADD genetic Info but variations in species. Mutations? No new genetic info, sterile, fatal, unbeneficial, never new species.
gmcjetpilot 4 months ago