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  • You left a few facts out there. Like the fact the dates are cherry picked according to the theory, and the fact the C14 in the atmosphere hasn't reached equilibrium.

  • Forgive me but I'm not willing to accept the 5700 year carbon dating assumption "on faith." I'm sure you can respect that.

  • @PastorWayneH As you are not willing to do your own research in scientific literature, we respect your decision, but still it is based on ignorance.

  • @PastorWayneH Be willing to get an education and get over it. You are living in the cave of ignorance and stupidity unless you do and making a fool of yourself and Christians.

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  • All the worlds scientists are wrong

    Cave men are correct

    Still killing people for the cave men

    I would rather believe the scientists than the barbaric religion cavemen.

  • Carbon dating DOESN't work...you assume too much my friend. For instance you assume the earth and/or carbon is decaying at a constant rate, but what if it's not constant...what if the continental drift was not constant but one dramatic geological event? And what if you're wrong about the half-life of carbon? I haven't met any 5,000-year-old scientists have you? So it doesn't work on Marine Animals but only on land carbon......any other special exemptions?

  • @PastorWayneH =Carbon dating DOESN't work....= Oh, well then I'm convinced. On the other hand, it's been tested against objects of known age and it accurately dates them. Take a look at my video =Carbon dating doesn't work -- debunked."

  • @PastorWayneH you DON'T have to assume those things because carbon dating has been tested to work. Also I'm sure they didn't just make up 5700 years off the top of their heads.

  • 8:50 in the age of our world vid... The samples were carbon dated... the resin (shellac) used to perserve the samples gave tast result of being 20000 years old... question: Thats real old resin used here, how do museums obtain so old resin? How do we explain this dating of the very old resin?

  • @BrianBartholin maybe the resin just had less c14 than c12 in it, a lot less, to begin with. With something like shellac, that makes sense. It doesn't receive c14 from the air like plants or animals do.

  • SOUNDS LIKE A LOTTA VARIABLES AND EVEN MORE BOLOGNA... JUST A BUNCH O SMUG PEOPLE ALL DOING HUNDREDS OF TESTS AND ONLY USING THE ONES THAT SUPPORT THE PRE-KNOWN FACTS, AND WHY WOULD SUM1 ARGUE WITH SUM1 WHO AGREES WITH THEM. isnt it easier to say u just dont know?

  • @titgazer It's better to educate yourself to find out the things you don't know.And trust me, millions and millions of scientists have done just that.

  • @titgazer ... ughh

  • “The Strange Case of Solar Flares and Radioactive Elements” (Stanford University News, Aug. 23, 2010)

    This article seems to suggest (not prove) that radioactive decay may not be constant due to an unknown particle emitted from the sun. One scientist says, “What we're suggesting is that something that doesn't really interact with anything is changing something that can't be changed."

    What impact could this have on current dating techniques?

  • It doesnt even matter if carbon dating is correct ornot there are more than 20 different types of methods out there and all of them confidently estimate the earth's age to be at 4.54billion years old.

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  • When did the last paleomagnetic shift occur? How fast does it happen? In a course of thousands of years or in minutes?

  • so if farther from atmosphere causes underwater carbon tests to be wrong then why does carbon dating work on rocks miles and miles below the earths surface? also you cant just switch the test if you dont like the results.

  • @justinvanniejenhuis Carbon dating is used for the remains of animals or plants. It isnt used for rocks.

    They are not switching the test because they dont like the results, they use a different test because carbon dating CANT be used.

  • @justinvanniejenhuis  Twat!!!

  • @KingJamesBible

    You did mean to say "equilibrium"?

    But then again, you can't expect someone who barely understands what the believe, to get the spelling right too.

  • I know what you mean about the spelling.

    you know... getting what "THE" believe right.

  • Touché

  • No mention of the Equaliberium aspect of C14?? I thought not as it BLOWS away the idea that the earth is millions of years old.

  • poor fellow... C14 is permanently produced by the environment... you can't use this to date anything at a geological scale.

  • moreover... it's reasonable to blow away the idea of a millions years old earth... 'cause our planet is billions years old.

  • @KingJamesBible

    I shouldn't have to tell you why carbon dating isn't used on minerals or on scales of time larger than 60,000 years. You should already know when you begin an argument about carbon dating that carbon dating isn't used to confirm the age of the Earth.

    "Oy, Hovind! We can't carbon date this! There's no fu*beep*ng carbon in it!"

  • My...brain..

  • @m3p3p1t0: Use Google.

  • Why do you guys always use the term evolutionist? It makes as much sense as calling someone a gravitationist, or a atomicist.

    Are you asking us to do your research for you? To make your life a little easier? You know you would get thousands of hits if you just typed it up in google right? Like "evolution scientific journal".

    Evolution is real and it is constantly being supported by people researching in many fields.

    Go ahead, try doing a little research. I dare you. I bet you won't though...

  • they use the term because they think that its a belief and that truth is relative. oh, and because they are fucking morons.

  • @ m3p3p1t0

    Have you actually researched your own question? There is a staggering amount of information from dozens of scientific fields that fits together seamlessly to confirm the FACT of evolution.

    The pathetic arguments you raise aginst evolution are attempts to convince others - but they aren't the core for your own disbelief. The foundation of your own belief is simply that you DISLIKE evolution. Not much of a basis to form an hypothesis upon.

  • "He could have just as well spread jam on the fossils and pretended they were 5 years old"

    (9:35)

    Nice quote.

  • Wow Potholer. I think this version is better than your first version.

  • i love these videos, its like science for dummies

  • more like science for idiots.

  • One only needs to capitalize the word "jesus" if they are indoctrinated by a christian religion. If one is an atheist, they are free to chose to capitalize or not - the capitalization is a form of respect IF you respect the concept. I prefer to capitalize Life.

  • There's no effing carbon in it!!! lol :p

  • Fantastic video series. Thank you!

    A side note: Your playlist for this series is currently in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 7, 6, 5. Might want to rearrange that. (:

  • you didn't add these to the playlist =\ =/

  • =you didn't add these to the playlist =

    Thanks, I've now done that. So many things to remember!

  • The middle aged people who reject science should be shown this elementary school tape

  • I study social science and I believe this sort of emotionless straight pouring of fancy words is the worst way to teach school children

  • technically humans are still apes; just like we are still mammals and we are still eukaryotes.

    If Americans came from European ancestors, how come we still have Europeans now?

  • Creationists are dumber than water.

  • Huh? What happened to my reply to kjm1017? -_- I've been waiting for a response to now find it wasn't even posted...

    Well what the jist of the message was me asking you if you started learning about evolution with a willingness to learn, or if you just decided to ignore it right away. As well, was the teacher skeptical about the subject, and if you told anyone you were learning it, what did they say about it?

    Also (as mentioned before) you can be a Christian and believe in evolution.

  • Mmmm grape flavored fossil. Yummy.

    lol @ jam on the fossil to date it 5 years back

  • This is a video that teaches about methods on how to determine the ages of things... so why are people here straying off topic and arguing about evolution? Can't that argument wait for the video that actually addresses evolution? Just a thought...

  • I'm afraid that could be asking too much of the creationist clan...

    They need their 'evolution is wrong therefore special creation is the only way' to at least make themselves feel like they are winning.

  • a teacher taught me about evolution. but i was raised in a christian family and have been going to church all my life.

  • people please stop talking to "kjm1017".

    he/she/it is a troll just bury the comments and ignore.

    Also good video

  • define troll.

  • An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.

  • without science, most of us would be dead! i.e medicine, surgery, etc.. Most theists accept and regard highly of this area of intellectual progress, but turn a blind eye to anything else that conflicts with their bronze age mythology books.

  • Vastly improved edition.  Thank you.

  • I don't see the value in converting this one into a "school friendly" version. The whole point of this video was to debunk creationists.

  • The point of the video may have had a debunking undertone; but overall it was informative about the type of dating. Discussing the commonly used arguements that degenerate the name of said tests is just covering all bases. A dozen times I have heard that Carbon Dating has been proved wrong as a arguement to the young earth theories; but always by someone who has no understanding of the actual tests. Carbon 14 is taught in school but not nearly enough.

  • My point was that he should not even have made pretense that this is an attack on creationism.

  • great video! ★★★★★

    Awesome Job!

  • thing is that is just my view as an acedemic, its just that as a scientist i rely on evidence to give credence to a hypothesis or theory. and in my honest opinion creationism has none. it was in no way a peosonal attack and if you are offended i'm sorry

  • Illuminating. Keep up the hard work. It's certainly worth your efforts. A very valuble source of scientific education. It's a shame to see creationist idiocy littering the comments section. They just can't/don't want to learn but I guess one cannot reason with the deluded by definition.

  • and you can disprove these facts how???? kjm 1017

  • ok. well lets say we were apes and we lived in some place cold, like alaska, well why would we loose our fur? that wouldn't be a smart move. and while birds were evolving their wings, they would be short little stubs that wouldn't be able to carry them. so why would they keep short little stubs if it was only slowing them down? and what did the giraffe evolve from? did they ever find a skull similar to a giraffe? and how did the earth get here? did it just magically go POOF and appear?

  • =lets say we were apes and we lived in some place cold, like alaska, well why would we loose our fur?=

    Hominids lost their fur in Africa.

    why would they keep short little stubs if it was only slowing them down?

    Wing stubs may have allowed fast-running dinosaurs to turn quickly (ostriches do the same thing today). They may also have acted as brakes, allowing tree-climbing dinosaurs to leap or fall.

  • well then why did we start out with fur if we lived in Africa?

    And where did those dinosaurs come from? How did they get on earth?

  • @kjm1017: We evolved from the great apes, which had fur because it kept them warm in winter during the night (like most animals of Africa.) Animals before then could not *make* clothes that they could put on and take off.

    Dinosaurs came from some ancient lizards. Back then the earth had only insects and small lizards on land, so large lizards easily survived by dominating all the other animals.

  • what did the giraffe evolve from?

    It evolved from an African mammal ancestral to the giraffe and the okapi.

    =how did the earth get here? did it just magically go POOF and appear?=

    According to the Bible, yes. But according to the evidence, its an accretion of heavier elements orbiting the sun after the formation of the solar system.

  • @kjm1017: As potholer54 explains, our ancestors lost their "fur" before moving to Alaska. Hominids gained the ability to fashion their own clothes which gained us the ability to operate in a larger range of weather conditions. Having fur slows you down in some hot mid-day in environments.

    Giraffe's evolved from an antelope with their legs and neck incrementing in steps. You can see that it was uneven when they drink -- they spread their legs awkwardly.

  • The burning in hell bit shows what too many religious people peddle (fear and violence). Using our intelligence to understand the incredible universe we live in is only a threat to ignorant people and their half baked man created gods

  • As explained from my earlier reply we evolved from species that as we look further back show characteristic less and less human

  • Apes and Humans have a long distant common ancestor. We did not evolve from the apes you see today. Both Apes and humans have evolved to what you see today form a more ancient animal . Hence all animals you see today have their own evolutionary history. Greater than 90% of animals that existed do not exist today. This is a simple explanation but I hope I have clarified your misunderstanding.

  • thank you for being nice but no, you have not "clarified my misunderstanding". i still know evolution is made up

  • So evolution is made up YOU CANT PROVE GOD IS NOT MADE UP! can YOU!!!! Look at how many gods man has created it's this simple MAN creates GOD(S) not the other way, it's all about power the religious leaders had power over their people which continues to this day for example the Pope Can you not see that.

  • i can too prove that God is not made up. look out your window. that's enough proof you need.

  • That's not proof.. That's not evidence.. That's not even close.

  • @kjm1017: Leo297 is a little confused. We *ARE* an ape, and we evolved from an ape. The actual evolutionary line appears to be: Australopithecus Homo Habilis Homo Ergaster Homo Erectus Cromagnon (modern man)

    All of the above are apes (including us) and all are extinct (unless you consider us really not different from Cromagnon).

    However, any given evolution is not required to wipe out the previous species it came from.

  • uhh no, actually nothing that you said was right except for Leo297 is a little confused.

  • @kjm1017: What are you, like 12 years old or something? On what do you base the claim that I am wrong? Baseless declarations is poor reflection on your faculties and sign of mental atrophy.

  • 14 thank you.

  • @kjm1017: You are 14? Well, then your elders have done you a great disservice.

    Inquiry, understanding, reason, science and really any intellectual endeavor requires the ability to ask questions about anything, including one's own beliefs. Certainty doesn't come from just "knowing" something, but rather meeting challenges to it with fair discourse. If you close avenues of discussion by assertion, then you are running away from challenges, which will prevent you from reaching understanding.

  • i'm done arguing with you. obviously neither one of us is gonna change our beliefs, so why bother arguing?

  • @kjm1017: You are far too young to be this closed minded. There is an entire world out there for you to discover. But you cannot possibly experience it with that sort of attitude towards inquiry.

  • i'm only closed minded on this topic. i know for a fact evolution isn't real so why bother with it? and how old are you?

  • But why should you be closed minded on any topic?

    Evolution is a scientific fact. There is pleanty of irrefutable evidence to support evolution.

  • You can't *KNOW* anything about a topic on which you close your mind. I am not just trying to be a smart alec -- its the whole point I am driving at.

    I am 39.

  • ur not being a smart alec. i'm just not changing my beliefs.

  • Nobody is asking you to *BELIEVE* evolution (least of all me.) Evolution is something worth *UNDERSTANDING*.

    Belief is for opinions, fashions, trends, politics and religions.  Evolution makes no demands whatsoever with respect to belief. It offers understanding.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! it offers understanding??!!  psh that is the dumbest thing i've heard all day!!! psh all week i mean!! sorry, but thats kinda funny

  • @kjm1017: How do you *KNOW* its the dumbest thing you've heard all week if you don't even know what evolution is?

    Emotional reactions to things you don't understand are at the root of prejudice. Do you not have enough curiosity in you to overcome these impulsive reactions?

  • what is there to know?? a bunch of confused people believe that monkeys turned into humans!! big deal!!

  • @kjm1017: Apes, not monkeys. Humans, chimpanzees and bonobo are apes, while a Rhesus is a monkey.

    And they don't "turn into" anything -- they have offspring which vary slightly. Given enough time a lot of slight variations add up and a new kind of animal which you might call a new species can arise.

    We have a good idea of the ancestry sequences because we can look at DNA (genetic fingerprints) to see commonality amongst some animals living today.

    There is plenty to know.

  • psh apes monkeys same thing. you just said we were apes. HAHAHAHAHA gosh that makes me laugh every time

  • kjm1017: Apes and monkeys are not the same thing (monkeys have tails).

    Why would explaining our taxonomic grouping under apes be funny in any way? Do you also laugh if I say we are primates, or mammals, or Homininae, or omnivores?

  • apes are not monkeys and humans are not apes. and we never were. thank you!!and i laugh cuz its so rididuculous!! and people back in 1950s when charles darwin came up with evolution people back then thought it was hysterical. hence the phrase "i'll be a monkey's uncle" so i'm not the only one.

  • "apes are not monkeys and humans are not apes. and we never were."

    Can you explain how Chimpanzees have more than 98% of the same genetic sequence as humans? Maybe how chromosome number 2 in humans is a fusion of two Chimp chromosomes? Why does Chromosome no.2 have an inactive centromere?

    Actually you already asnwered my questions, "a teacher taught me about evolution. but i was raised in a christian family and have been going to church all my life."

  • good. then i don't have to repeat myself. go ahead. keep believing in something that someone made up 50 some years ago. i'll believe in the truth and you believe in apes.

  • Actually, the theory of evolution is over 150 years old. Within those 150 years, the theory has been tested continuously by scientists around the world.

    It's not something that someone made up, it's a natural occurring process that was observed and explained. Your family is really cheating you, by keeping you from accepting the truth. That there is no god.

    All hail my lord, Satan.

  • psh. keep believing in that crap. you'll regret it someday.

  • @kjm1017: Humans are classified as apes. The definition of the word ape doesn't make sense otherwise. Charles Darwin died long before 1950. The idea of human evolution was actual around before him, and considered by people like James Burnett. If anyone was laughing by the time Darwin explained *how* evolution worked, they certainly were slow to catch whatever it was that was funny.

    You cannot be a monkey's uncle, and being in the company of the ignorant is not a good thing.

  • evolution is false.

  • You should share that thought with the scientists, doctors and pharmaceutical companies that constantly create medicine to heal people. All with the understanding of science, such as biology and evolution.

    I'm certain at least one person in your family has gone to the hospital and been saved, due to a doctor that knows evolution is irrefutable.

  • kjm1017: When you say "evolution is false" do you think that's an informed point of view? If you are both ignorant of it and say its false, what should we reasonably conclude about your thinking processes on this point?

    This is where prejudice and narrow-minded come from. Many people go to church and still understand and accept evolution (like the Pope) and other people who don't understand evolution will say so and not take a position. Why have you chosen differently?

  • God is real.

  • @kjm1017: There are people in the world with a different opinion, and are not nearly as closed minded about it. Its also non-sequitur with respect to the subject of evolution and the age of the earth.

  • evolution is false.

  • Like round is false? Evolution is generational change over time cause by environment. So are you saying this does not happen, cannot happen, or has never happened? Would you consider the Windows operating system to have evolved? Does language evolve? Does the word evolution actually exist?

    Your comment does not exist.

  • Jesus lived.

  • interesting theory

  • So did 2pac. Doesnt mean he is god.

  • Care to elaborate?

  • look around you.  have you ever seen a sunset? how could all of that just "happen"? and since ur so sure of evolution, i have some questions about it.

  • "and since ur so sure of evolution, i have some questions about it. "

    Go ahead! Ask!

  • ok. well why did we stop evolving?

  • The answer is we have not stopped evolving. Neither has any of the bacteria, plants, animals, fungi, etc that occupy this plant. We are also constantly evolving. If you look at the evolution of hominids (great apes, which we are a part of) and the evolution of Homo (genus) you will realize how much change there has been over the last million years.

    Simple answer is we have no stopped evolving, I dont know why you would assume we have.

  • i assumed we had stopped evolving because we've been the same for 6000 years. and we never started evolving. we were created as people and will always be people. thats all there is to it!! its like scientists can take it if there's a simple answer. they gotta make up some strange and complicated story to tell people.

  • "they gotta make up some strange and complicated story to tell people. " You're right. A simple story like "God did it, read the bible" will somehow suffice. Complicated questions have complicated answers.

    Humans are not the same from 6,00 years ago. One of the definition of evolution is changes in allele frequency over time and there have been drastic changes in that category. 6,000 isn't much time to witness a huge changes but there is change.

  • thats what i'm talking about!! scientists from out that it takes millions of years to evolve, so they said that the earth is millions of years old just to fit in with their evolution idea. truth is its only 6000 years old.

  • It doesn't take millions of years for evolution to occur. You need to pay attention more. Evolution is an ongoing process. Small changes are noticeable over a small period of time while larger changes of larger period of time. To correct you earth is closer to 5.5Bn years old. No one made the age of the earth fit anything. All forms of dating have shown earth age to be well over billions of years old. You keep claiming its 6,000 years old but what evidence do you have? The Bible?

  • yes. the BIble.  thank you.

  • According to your comments you thought the Bible was original written by Jesus. Which isnt even close to correct. Secondly, how do you know the bible is correct? How do you know anything is correct unless you apply scrutiny?

  • God created us. We're here. All the animals are here. Just like it said in the Bible. Case closed.

  • 'God created us.'

    Your evidence for this?

    Suppose that is true, next question;

    How did god create us, the animals etc?

  • the Bible tells us that God created the the earth in 6 days and on the 7th day he rested. it does not say how. now its my turn to ask a question. ok, why did evolution start? why did monkeys, apes, some kind of stupid animal, why did they evolve?

  • Try reading a book kjm, or watch some of potholer's other vids

  • ok, you obviously haven't read my other comments, so i'll say it again, NOOO!!! I AM NOT GOING TO FILL MY HEAD WITH CRAP THAT SOMEONE MADE UP!!!

  • Are you dumb?

    Evolution takes place because it cannot do otherwise.

    When a less fit animal gets killed, better fit remain, and thus only they make children. This propels evolution.

    The word 'fit' means that it is most likely to survive and breed.

  • Monkey and Apes both evolved from earlier forms of Mammals They evolved because there was natural selection acting on variable genetic traits.

  • God didn't create the sun & moon until the 3ed day how long where the 1st 2days?

  • One, the biblical date of 6000 years was extrapolated from the two conflicting genealogies the 18th century, long before we had any real means to determine the age of the earth.

    Two, evolution occurs because in any reproductive population there is always variation. Once subjected to certain environmental pressures, said variations become dominate, resulting in descent with modification.

  • I bet, even if you tried, you couldn't be any more closed minded? Could you? I don't think so? What evidence do you have that the Bible is factual? Any?

    You even thought the Bible was written by Jesus. Which shows that you know almost nothing about the very Bible you are so proud of.

    Case, not even remotely closed.

  • lol your funny!

  • Thank you. However, I still think that you havent the slightest clue what you a driveling on about.

  • ok, you know what? God is real. I will continue to believe and you can continue to believe in monkeys or whatever it is you believe in. alright? so unless you want to say something thats not putting down my beliefs, then i'm done arguing with you.

  • Belief in god and the theory of evolution are not exclusive. Most people who accept the theory of evolution have some religious persuasion. You dont even know what the theory of evolution is.

    You dont believe in monkey? You don't think they exist? If you were doing arguing with me then you would have stopped answer my comments.

    You haven't been able to provide a shred of argument or proof for your statements but you feel free criticizing others.

  • you obviously didn't read what i just wrote you. I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOUR MONKEY CRAP!!!!!!!

  • I read everything you wrote. You have not been able to produce a single coherent thought in any of your comments. You cant argue your position and you certainly cant provide evidence for your position but yet you feel free criticizing other peoples ideas.

    Just admit you dont have the slightest clue of what you are talking about.

    If you wanted to stop arguing you would have stopped posting replies.

  • God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real. God is real.

  • I dare you present just one coherent argument! Just one!

    Even is God is real doesn't mean it is the Christian god. If Muslims are correct then you are still going to hell.

  • scientists believe that there was an enormous explosion of energy and light. and that created the universe. so the universe flashed into being, which scientists cannot find out what caused that huge explosion of light and energy. God created the universe. the Bible is there to back me up. and yes God is real. not to be rude to muslims or anything, but they are incorrect. they take a lot of stuff in the Bible and twist it around.

  • So many problems in your logic. The Big Bang theory explains the formation of our Cosmos as we know it. It doesn't attempt to explain the very beginning of existence and should not be held accountable for that. Know one knows how everything began. If you are going to use the argument that 'God created all' then you need to explain who created him or why he does not need to have a creator.

    You can use the Bible to back you up unless you have proven the Bible to be accurate.

  • ok. no matter what i say you don't believe me. so thats enough! i don't care if you reply to me, but right now it seems like you're just trying to pick a fight. so yeah. comment me as much as you want but i won't reply back.

  • Ok. Then let that me your last comment.

    You are the one who came on to this channel (which is clearly about evolution) to make dumb and unsupported comments. So you are surprised that someone might call you up on your bullshit?

    Dont reply if you dont want to continue this.

  • ok you said don't reply if i don't want to continue this. i didn't come to this channel. some atheist keeps sending me these freakin videos. so i left a comment telling them to stop sending me stupid evolution videos and after that 4 thousand atheists start whining at me. you're one of those 4 thousand.

  • That is because you have given not a single reason for anyone to think you are correct.

    Perhaps if you could provide evidence instead of emotional appeals and asserting your correctness as in "God is real. God is real. God is real."

  • PS.

    Many Jews would argue that christian take the old testament and twist it around. You need to be more logical with your argument.

    You thought the Bible was written by Jesus so why on earth would I trust anything you say about the Bible?

  • He said a coherent argument, not a non sequitur one. FYI that's a logical fallacy, Latin for ' it dies not follow'.

    The term 'Big Bang' is actually a misnomer for The theory explaining the universal expansion of time and space which is still observable. In reality what it describes isn't big, nor is it a bang.

    So, how you get all the way from a fundamental misunderstanding of cosmology, and of science in general to 'magic man done it'?

  • ok, God is not magical, He's powerful. alright? harry potter is magical and harry potter doesn't exist. God is powerful and God exists. pretty simple.

  • Simple indeed. But again, you lack evidence. I can dismiss this argument using no evidence because you have used no evidence to support it.

    You also avoided the question directed at you. Here, let me repeat it:

    "So, how do you get all the way from a fundamental misunderstanding of cosmology, and of science in general to 'POWERFUL man done it'?"

    There. Happy now? Now why not try to actually answer the question. And also give us EVIDENCE while you're at it.

  • have you not read the other 40 million comments i left?? GOD IS IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!

  • Really? Somehow I doubt you presented evidence. I did read some of those comments and you gave none.

    And I just love that comment you said at the end there. If he is impossible to understand, how can you be sure about anything you have learned about him? If he is not bound by logic, then how can you make a logical conclusion about him? You can't really and anything you say is just guesswork.

    logic FTW!

    P.S. The actual name for the human species is: Homo sapien. A species of bipedal primates.

  • ok, why do you keep talking to me??

  • =/

    Why do I keep talking to you? I don't really understand what you're getting at... Why wouldn't I? You are the one who chose to post on an open forum. I have every right to respond.

    My suggestion is that you actually learn about evolution and other such theories before you go rejecting them. Also know that a person can be Christian and believe in evolution at the same time. My father, mother and sister are prime examples. All Christian and all accept evolution. Its not that hard.

  • i posted 1 comment a month ago and 46264254 atheists commented me, alright!!  and for the 100th time I DID LEARN ABOUT EVOLUTION!!!!!!!! i think it doesn't make sense. so obviously neither one of us is gonna change our beliefs, so why bother arguing? unless you enjoy putting down the beliefs of 14 year old girls.......

  • "DID LEARN ABOUT EVOLUTION!!!!!!!! i think it doesn't make sense."

    "so why bother arguing? unless you enjoy putting down the beliefs of 14 year old girls....... "

    on offense, but if you are only 14, your opinions (in relation to science) arent very valid.

  • ok. why does everything in this world has to be related to science?? God created science!!!!!

  • You obviously do not comprehend what science is, go grab your encyclopedia and look it up. And science was created by man. I highly question your intelligence.

  • look i believe in God and you believe in monkeys. thats obviously not gonna change, so stop messaging me.

  • you believe women are inferior to man. The Bible states that.

    you believe that snakes can talk. The Bible says that.

    you believe negros are cursed by God. The Bible says that.

    As for people who believe in Evolution believing in monkeys, well they exist don't they?

    AS for people who believe in Evolution believing that we CAME from monkies -- no, only creaitonists say that, and that's because they don't know what they are talking about.

    Your ignorance can change, it takes growing up.

  • my "ignorance" will never change. and sadly i take it you're already grown up. i'm sorry you wasted half your life believing in evolution. its not too late to believe in God though. psh but evolution is crap.

  • "ok. why does everything in this world has to be related to science."

    because understanding the World requires science. Everything we use from medicine to computers to food is because of our understanding of science. Without science we would be running around believing gods made thunder and lightening (some of us still do by the sounds of it.)

    "God created science!!!!! "

    -science requires proof --- do you have any proof for God?

  • the Bible.

  • the bible isn't science and any scientist will tell you that.

    you are only 14, you'll understand when you get older. It's never too late to learn the truth.

  • psh, i already know the truth.

  • "psh, i already know the truth. "

    believing in fairytales is not the truth.

  • Don't play the victim card. You should've seen this coming. And many of these people are not trying to sway your faith, but trying make you see reason. You seem to be under the impression that it is impossible to be religious and accept evolution.

    And you obviously did not learn evolution. Your definition for it is incorrect. Your teacher either taught it wrong or you didn't pay attention in class. But hey, prove me wrong. Define natural selection and show that you understand. If not, learn it.

  • psh i'm not gonna define natural selection to you. whatever that is. and it is impossible to be religious and accept evolution. its possible if you don't want to be a very good christian. you can't be double minded. thats like saying i believe in evolution but i also believe that God created the world. you can't think both!

  • Fine. You are openly admitting that you know absolutely nothing about evolution. Natural selection is the main force driving evolution and would have been one of the first and most heavily stressed things to be taught on the subject in school (unless you are home schooled). Therefore, you have no place arguing against people who have spent years studying this subject. Either learn it or leave.

    And yes it is possible to be religious and accept evolution. The pope, for example, accepts evolution.