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  • IT'S RED BECAUSE GOD

  • accidentally cut myself while this was loading! sweet :)

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  • So our blood is red because the oxygen being carried is 'rusting' the iron? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

  • Come on Thunderf00t. You've been challenged to formal debate for so long and still don't have the self-confidence to engage. It seems none of the atheists on YouTube with high subscriber numbers are up to the challenge. I guess having your hat handed to you so many times makes one skitzy.

  • @NephilimFree He has already blown you out of the water nephi, check out his "Why do people laugh at creationsts?" video series.

  • @NephilimFree Or, perhaps, he's got better things to do.

  • ThunderFail!

  • @NephilimFree Ummm...who are you? Seriously, people. Who is this guy?

  • @AuraHero I am your teacher.

  • @NephilimFree Which one? I've got four this semester.

  • @AuraHero He's the retard who thinks that flood water escaped the Earth when god supposedly split the mid atlantic ridge and thats why we have comets and meteor craters on the moon.

  • “... I took a little trouble to find whether a single amino acid change in a hemoglobin mutation is known that doesn’t affect seriously the function of that hemoglobin. One is hard put to find such an instance.”

    -- George Wald, as quoted by Murray Eden, “Inadequacies of Neo-Darwinian Evolution as a Scientific Theory,”, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, editors Paul S. Moorhead and Martin M. Kaplan, pp. 18–19.

  • But our bodies couldn’t contain that 75 gallons of water, and without hemaglobin, no mammal could contain the amount of water necessary for it's survival. This, there is no possibility that an organism which has hemaglobin to evolve a need for it. Therefore, hemoglobin must have been present from the start.

  • Hemoglobin refutes evolutionism. Red blood cells contain hemoglobin. Hemoglobin greatly enhances the ability of blood to absorb and thus transport oxygen 60 times better than water. This means a 160 pound person would need 300 quarts of blood without hemaglobin to do the same work that 5 quarts does with hemaglobin.

  • Can you please make more videos like this? :)

    Thanks!

  • Now *THIS* is what I'm talking about. Thank you T! Feel free to share more science!!!

  • People who use Arch Linux (like I do): There's a package in the AUR

  • Iron?

  • i... i just learnt something... is this normal? :D

  • Just got an ad for Mormonism at the start of this video. Lolz

  • I wish these videos were in a second channel. I love all content by thunderf0ot, but depending on my mood, I would like to choose between educational and religion-comedy.

  • wow. yet another interesting video.

    keep up the good work.

    look forward to your next w.d.p.l.a.c video.

  • uploaded 42 years ago it says on the channel

  • My mind is blown, good job, sir.

  • Can I download it on my iPod?

  • why is there a mormon commercial at the beginning of this video??

  • Why does this video have dislike??? I mean... it's not like someone will see that and think: ''I really hate this molecular representation!''

  • And Spock's blood is green because his hemoglobin is copper based instead of iron.

  • Amazing, I wish I knew about this program a long time ago. Absolutely brilliant.

  • I want to steal you'er voice!!!!!!!

  • I wish VMD was available for Linux operating systems. judging by the fact it's for Unix and Windows I assume the code is highly portable.

  • Wait arent curstaciens blood blue

  • "Why Blood is Red!"

    Because green was occupied by broccoli?

  • whats the music at the start called?

    

  • tf00t has a pretty good channel. But this is yt. yt is a forum for the worst of the worst. unmoderated. the science/atheism/skepticism channels display the worst of the worst when it comes to this. its populated with hate/ignorance/intolerance. just like religous fundies. ppl who claim a love for science, yet know fuck all about anything, and whose entire education comes from yt. this channel hosts the most embarassing comments for the freethought movement. truly the dregs, of intolerant fundies

  • @jeebersjumpincryst

    mmm... I don't really know why I keep my youtube account to be honest, there's few channels I watch anymore... so for the past 2 years It's Mostly just been indy News and Music, I would say the deterioration of youtube content started soon after people began vlogging for money with google's fancy partnership program, rather then having anything useful or interesting to bring to the table... It's attracted a lot of unsavoury characters i guess you could say? = /

  • @XXTheRealMcCoyXX the vlog brothers are a rare exception to this.. they are funny, and they try to use their small sphere of influence to try and do good things.

  • @jeebersjumpincryst finally someone said it.

  • @RisingAtheists if its the comment u refer to that i suspect, then thankyou. we are the silent majority, aka normal ppl, who live in the real world. there are FAR better quality science channels here on yt. periodic videos, sixty symbols, nurdrage, backstage science, bibledex, numberphile. actually, Im outta here. its an embarrassment to the new freethought movement i support. i know u wont miss me tf, though u really are a nice guy. good luck with it all.

  • Wow. Thank you for making me aware of this database.

  • God created red blood so that it is pleasing to the eye of vampires.

    See: Kurt Cameron

  • @jason666king He clearly says it at 2:05 to 2:15. Do you have mental problems?

  • @ayoriceball and that satisfied your curiousity? its red because of iron/heme? and why does it appear red? so much for science lovers here.... appears its only skin deep, superficial, happy with half answers, and more interested in flaming others who are not satisfied with a poor answer, and who challenge that fact. almost like behaviour displayed by the religous...

  • @jason666king he explained that its red because of the iron atom.

    if you must know, when iron is reacted it has a reddish colour. its also why dried blood smells like a rusty nail.

  • @elgostine and why is it a reddish colour? why is anything reddish that colour? in fact, what makes things appear a certain "colour"?

  • @jeebersjumpincryst your answer to jasonking666 is an explanation why but i dont know the full details,i merely know hat each element prouces energy of a different wavelength when its energized.

    this is how people analyze metals using the atomic absorbpon spectroscopy method or AAS for short, as to WHY it has that colour in particular.... no idea. tf00t would likely know since hes trained in imaging molecules. and would need background knowledge to do his job as a researcher.

  • @elgostine good answer, soldier!

  • @jason666king 2:10 dipshit

  • @jason666king yea i agree with u, but without the abuse. saying its red cause of the iron and oxygen molecules is only a part explanation. i was expecting a full answer, with outer shell electron state of the molecules and how this affects different wavelengths of light (colours) and pauli exclusion principle. its physics and chem tho, not bio. tf00t usually explains things better. U got all the hate because he has an army of "freethinking" loyalists defending everything

  • And some animals have white, blue, green and even pink blood.

    Biology is fun.

  • @Sweddude honest question is that because of the respiratory pigments

  • @ExcelsiorNadir If my memmory serves me correct its because they dont use iron as a means to bind oxygen.

  • @Sweddude I love Biology! :3

  • @Sweddude I'm gonna need a bucket of each for a very morbid (yet colorful) painting.

  • @Sweddude It is impossible to have pink blood.

  • @TophBeiFong2 Yes it is, the original article i read was corrected by several other authors, the lizards blood was actually green, not pink.

    There are tough creatures with blue, purple, white, grey, yellow and mustardly yellow.

    Check out Prasinohaema for green blooded skinks, the thing that makes it green is biliverdin.

  • @TophBeiFong2 I withdraw my earlier statement, there is a little girl in china with pink blood, she might be dead now tough, hard to know since i cant acces the full article and she was quite ill.

  • @Sweddude Was less about the biology, more about the physics. Pink does not exist.

  • God is a great biochemist.

  • Hey did you guys know that 2011 is the 200th Anniversary of 1811.?

  • GREAT i love having a mac ._.

  • Creationist response: blood is red because god made it so. God has a reason for everything he does. Don't you guy read the bible?

  • @Xoxinwulf No, I only read Japanese fiction.

  • No offense, but this seems alittle preachy.

    So I prefered TF when he was less preachy, more science.

    Hell, I'd rather my dead chem teacher told me lessons like this.

  • interesting science, thanks TFoot

  • Beautiful... The Internet truly is a marvel of human engineering.

    The fact that one can access millions of molecules, view one, and learn what goes on inside it, shows the value of this network.

    Also, Love the Tk GUI it has. My preferred GUI toolkit actually.

  • HEY I used PDB! We were sequencing a tomato gene in my molecular biology lab before I graduated.  THANKS TF! I feel closer to you now. Science ftw!

  • 39 people were hoping to hear the answer: "Cause God made it so!"

  • please please please get rid of that cheesy music at the start of your new intro(if its a new intro). Absolutely love all of your videos, but I cringe every time I hear that music. Fantastic video though!!

  • I could listen to this guys voice all day

  • I'm sure the old testament tells why the haemoglobin is structured the way it is when it says " god did it ! ".

  • I'm sure the old testament prophecieses the haemoglobin

  • Very cool. :)

  • What is the music? Again I hear a complete note-by-note copy from a famous Bach work, in an eletronic techno-thing beat... ~.~

  • THANK YOU TF FOR MORE BIOLOGY VIDEOS! They're the reason I sub'd.

  • yeah for there not being a god and science making sense!

  • @southpawOO7 Thank FSM for science.

  • @startreking2007 Ramen

  • TFOOT IS A GOD COMPARED TO ALL YOU SPAMMERS WHO ARE A HEMMOROID ON THE ASS OF YOUR GOD

  • Iron. No need for a video.

  • God is so amazing, just look at this marvel of engineering! I don't see how anyone could ever deny the existence of God after watching this video. Atheist logic escapes me.

  • @tarstarkusz You mean logic escapes you.

  • @spiderpig85 You think the universe was once the size of dot and that human beings evolved from single celled organiziisms and you tell me I don't have logic?

  • @tarstarkusz Congratulations! You just experienced what I like to call a "Failure of Imagination"!

  • @Mandragara Why is that? I can imagine a lot of things, but I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.

  • @tarstarkusz You see something which is complex and the ONLY way you can imagine it coming into existence is through the actions of a God, who is arguably far more complex than what he has "created". At least acknowledge that there are other ways that a hemoglobin might develop. As for your "It takes faith to be an Atheist" line of thinking, is your rationale something along the lines of "You cannot prove that God doesn't exist; therefore, atheism is based on faith."? Also isn't faith a virtue?

  • @Mandragara Some faith is a virtue, some is not. Is telling the truth ALWAYS a virtue? Of course not. (I see the 9th commandment as a law against perjury, not lying per se). I could imagine certain systems improving, but from single cell organisms to humans in less than a bllion years doesn't make sense. My understanding of the theory is that the first modern cells are only 1 billion years old, so most of your time is lost. Mammals are fairly young in your theory. Special creation makes < sense.

  • @tarstarkusz Complex single celled organisms have been around for 2 billion years, mammals have been around for about 200 million years. So mammals where around by the time the super continent Pangaea was starting to break up. I'm interested to know why you consider 1.5 billion years from the emergence of complex single celled organisms to the emergence of mammals to be too short, or 500 million years from the emergence of us to be too short. What time frame would be more acceptable to you?

  • @Mandragara That is a fair and honest question and tbh, I don't know really know how much time it would take,but 1 billion years doesn't sound like enough time to me.

  • @tarstarkusz Search Google images for "Hubble Ultra-Deep Field". You are seeing the universe as it was 0.8 billion years after the big bang. 0.8 billion years was enough to allow the formation of all you see in that image from simple hydrogen gas. If you need 0.8 billion for the evolution of all those objects, surely 1 billion for life on earth is not so conceptually implausible. A billion years is a very, VERY long time!

  • @tarstarkusz Whether you intuitively think that single cells forming into modern animals in the time frame at hand is outlandish or not is beside the point. It has evidence supporting its truth.

  • @Stairc care to provide some?

  • @tarstarkusz You skipped biology class, didn't you?

    Google Evidence for Evolution and go to Talkorigins' page. They have a good amount of the data chronicled and explained.

  • God cannot figure out how to keep us from killing each other, but ALL of this was was in his design. What clarity, and omnipresence HE possesses.

  • NO IT'S BECAUSE GOD COLORED IT RED AFTER EVE TOOK OF THE RED FRUIT OF SIN, TO MARK ALL HUMANITY AS SINNERS FROM BIRTH! BEFORE THE FALL, WE COULD NOT BLEED OR DIE SO WE HAD NO BLOOD! THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT RAN THROUGH OUR VEINS!

  • @Bardlettt What carried oxygen to our various body parts then?

  • @Bardlettt I'd rather not have someone else's 'spiritual' discharge running through my cardiovascular system.

    I'll keep my own blood, thanks.

  • Science FTW bitches.

  • Tfoot is faggot

  • @heaton916

    You fail English that's unpossible

  • @Tyjohnable fuck off teacher

  • @heaton916

    I don't normally harp on grammar but come on "Tfoot is faggot".

    Why didn't you just say bitch slap me please?

  • @Tyjohnable When I grow up, I wanna be a principal or a caterpillar!

  • Advertising T-Foot? Seriously....

  • @ChickenParmHero Aliens

  • Wow. Very cool

  • Awesome.

  • Question here: If God doesn't exist, then who built all the churches?

  • @ChickenParmHero Thunderf00t built them to "test your faith" in him being the one true god whom created the universe last Thursday.

  • fascinating..

  • Well done.

  • Nothing new for me as a science student.

    WHY arteries appear more reddish compared to venous blood to naked eye

  • Hi Thunder f00t,

    Just watched the "Why Blood is Red" vid. Geat Tech but couldn't help thinking you were trying to blind us with science (esp the size comparison between haem/human/moon distance).

    Also, I feel that the question wasn't actually answered. Is there an evolutionay advantage? Or is it that simply because Fe atoms reflect all wavelengths other than red and that bound O2 alters slightly, by its presence,the wavelengths reflected (making it lighter). Would another element work?? BW RHS

  • @Rockinghorseshart I agree. wasnt answered. another element does work - horseshoe crabs and relatives use a copper - this makes their blood blue/green, but its WAY less efficient at carrying oxygen, so iron has the evolutionary advantage here.

  • @jeebersjumpincryst - thanks for that, but the next qu is "what is the evolutionary advantage for the horseshoe crab?

    Cu group based haemoglobin will be efficient enough for the crab to function (evolution always has to be "just good enough" to enable an organism to pass on its genes of course).

    I would guess that Cu haemoglobin means that the crab may bind O2 better when in water and on land or in different salinities. GOTO P2

  • @jeebersjumpincryst

    P2

    It may mean that the crab and /or its predators sees in UV light and perhaps Cu haem is more camouflaged as its blood flows thru' its carapace (just guessing here as I'm not a marine biologist). whatever the reason the "god did it" brigade display an overwhelmingly spectacular level of stupidity that goes against the fundamental nature of us as humans, namely, we ask "how does it work" and then do our best to work out the answer. BW, RHS

  • Are you sure this wasn't covered in the koran?

  • @philthy122 of course it was,every things in that book of dreadful deceit.Its as if the so called scholars find a verse to fit the fact,I may be wrong hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahahahaa

  • @philthy122 What do you mean?

  • huzzah

  • Wow! ...Especially that last part about comparing the sizes!

  • thank you for this, i feel smarter watching your channel. 

  • Superb!

  • i like the new opening not as cool as venomfangs though.

  • FUCK ME! just... amazing! thanks for sharing this, I will share it, and use it. Thanks

  • I just love how god created all these complex structures and then went ahead and totally f***ed up laryngeal nerve.

  • @ArmadaVolya: The laryngeal? Not the only pathway that goes out of the way to service some older structure, then loops around to service some newer structure :P

  • Awesome! I've always loved browsing the PDB. The Structural Biology Knowledge Base is pretty fun too.

  • Nice work..

    But where did the information arise from to make our hemoglobin?

  • Awesome video thunderf00t. The heme portion of the O2 delivery mechanism is kind of a big deal, and also why people with iron deficient diets can develop anemia. Vegans in particular often need to supplement their diets with heme iron, the kind normally found in meat, as they usually only get non-heme iron from a normal vegan diet.

  • 33 people dont like science. . .or are unaproving of anything thunderf00t has to say regardless of what it is.

  • @JamesHasAhugeHead I agree. But when we use words to represent numbers we, apparently, use some same words but they represent different numbers in different languages. I think that most European countries have another word for billion. So the word billion and trillion etc shifts up (represents bigger number) . Hope that clears things up.

    Have a nice day.

  • thanks for a wow moment.

  • fantastic

  • One of my science teachers said, that we probably don't see the same color. For example, what I see as red, is for someone else blue and we all just call that color "red". Its depending on our brains, which color we see as "red". May that be possible?

  • @Editfan your teacher was wrong.. it depends on wave lengths

  • wow thats cool

  • To me things like this are just plain amazing.

    The achievements it represents on so many fields, from the instruments build, to the chemistry itself, to the evolution that this bit of chemistry comes from, there is indeed a great beauty in it all.

  • Downloading nao! =D

  • Thunderf00t, what's with this wanky intro that you've got on all your videos these days. Piss it off, will you?

  • I wish I could've had this technology when I was a kid. I had to settle for picking my scabs and looking at them under a cheap microscope.

  • @TheViciousSquare: Fortunately, the function of such a cheap microscope is not to actually see anything in technicolor detail, but to evoke curiosity.

  • @puncheex Yeah. It was also used by some teens as a place to hide their stash from their parents. ;)

  • @TheViciousSquare: Yes, of course. That too.

  • @TheViciousSquare I remember using my cheap microscope to look at my own sperm :)  It was actually pretty cool.

  • @1om8cat You wasted your precious sperm by looking at it under a microscope? Monster! Don't you know that every sperm is sacred?? watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8 Lulz. ;)

  • @TheViciousSquare I know! The little suckers are probably wiggling in Hell, since they never got a proper baptism. Forgive me Jesus!

  • VenomFangX Blocked me

  • @Thunderf00t What are some safe (in theory) ways can we make our blood carry MORE oxygen through us than it normally does? I am a bodybuilder and I was wondering if there's a way I can can do this without killing myself.

  • @Viktir666: The way the sherpas do it: live at high altitudes, and let adaptation and evolution take it's course. In real short terms it means getting more blood cells into action, such as removing a liter of your own blood, extraction out the plasma and other bodies, and injecting it back in. The body will make short work of returning you to equilibrium in a day or so, though.

  • @Viktir666 Well, there is the perflourocarbons, but this would be more like the healing tank luke Skywalker is in in star wars. Other then that, boosting red blood cell count seems to be the only logical way. I do not know how you would do that.

  • @yocuck LOL I read up on it, I think I would have to find a way to wire up some extra kidneys into my body. Anyone mind getting rid of one for an experiment?

  • So.. I'm made of magic?

    Awesome.

  • Focused knowlege beam activated! Think I fractured a blood vessel in my brain trying to keep up :/ Cheers for the upload Thunderf00t!

  • *head explodes*

  • ey thunferfoot do u play any recent games on PC? just wonderin... =)

  • LOL at how this video was preceded by a mormon.org ad.

  • A million million isn't a number...

  • @MuffintopWarrior: Sure it is, unless you want to quibble over a missing pluralization. It is an unambiguous way of saying the old "British" billion, unlike the more common interpretation of a thousand millions.

  • @puncheex So he cant just say a billion...sorry its just that when people say numbers like that it just doesn't sound right.

  • @MuffintopWarrior: No. From the modern perspective he actually meant a trillion (i.e., 10^12, a million millions (10^6 x 10^6)). See, even you are confused by the meaning of a billion.

  • @puncheex ummm...you told me it was a billion...." It is an unambiguous way of saying the old "British" billion"

  • @MuffintopWarrior: ...and it is. To a non-"older British" it is a trillion. The British more or less gave up their use of billion as a million million to the more modern interpretation of a billion being a thousand million.

    Old, deprecated way: billion = 10^12

    Newer way: billion = 10^9, trillion = 10^12.

    And I'm not being pejorative with the British stuff; they were the mainstays with that interpretation, though by no means the only ones using it, until about 1950. Some places still do.

  • @puncheex Wow thats confusing....