Critical Analysis of A Question of Origins

An in-depth analysis of the anti-evolution claims made by members of the Institute for Creation Research. However, much of their attack on evolutionary biology actually focusses on the physics of the Big Bang. Can these young earth creationists stand up to scientific scrutiny where their fellows have failed?

My collaborator and I would like to issue a challenge to the creationists who continue to troll the comment pages on our videos:

We have posted 4 videos made by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute which cover topics in evolutionary biology. The challenge is really quite simple: construct a fully-cited critical analysis similar to those which we have made. The lectures were given to high school students; so, the excuse that they are "too complex" is not going to work.

It has been over a month. In that time, only one creationist even bothered to step forward and ask about the challenge. Were the HHMI videos too complicated afterall?

Currently, we have more than enough videos in the queue. Thank you to those of you that aided in the search for our next creationist star.

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[TheZooCrew]

@777Vassilev777

In addition, your goalpost shift is a total non sequitur. Rather than address my response, you have abandoned all previous topics and instead are latched onto Christ-related prophecies, which are damn near tautological because the only continuity present is that which is in the Bible; completely unverified by other sources.

[TheZooCrew]

@777Vassilev777

It's a little difficult for any of them to be more vague.

There's also the problem of the self-fulfilling prophecies. Are you also absolutely certain that Jeremiah and Isaiah were written before Jesus' birth? If they were, then why the incredible lack of detail? Isaiah 53 could be applied to damn near every religious martyr in history. Forgiveness was a theme in Judaism long before Christ was born, so Jeremiah 31 become obscure.

[777Vassilev777]

If you are willing, please have a read on Isaiah 53, Isaiah 55, and compare Psalm 69:21 (gave me vinegar for my thirst) with John 19:28-29. Also Jeremiah 31:31-34. Ezekiel 36:26-27. If you classify them as vague and unspecified predictions, then I will say no more.

[TheZooCrew]

@777Vassilev777

Isaiah did not guess that Earth was round. This was already predicted by mathematicians and early physicists. However, Isaiah (or, more accurately, the author of the book Isaiah) postulated a flat Earth. A circle is flat. Hebrew cosmogeny involved a disc-shaped Earth under a crystal dome (the "firmament").

"and randomly whimsically predicted Jesus' coming."

If you make vague enough predictions, they will of course come true if you shoehorn results into them Nostradamus-style.

[777Vassilev777]

@TheZooCrew Okay. I guess Isaiah the prophet just randomly guessed that the earth was round. and randomly whimsically predicted Jesus' coming.

[TheZooCrew]

@777Vassilev777

Shoehorning modern scientific achievements into vague poetry isn't an argument...especially when you're no doubt relying upon one specific translation.

There is no scientific discovery that can be directly linked to the Bible.

[777Vassilev777]

@777Vassilev777 I was hoping you would include your critical analysis of that in your video, but oh well, I stand disappointed.

[777Vassilev777]

I thought it was interesting that you totally ignored the part where people spoke about scientific laws hundreds of years before they were discovered. Namely:

Atomic Fission - 2 Peter 3:10

Ocean Currents - Psalms 8:8, Isaiah 43:16

Hydrologic Cycle - Job 36:27, Amos 9:6

Jet Stream - Ecclesiates 1:6,7

Dinosaurs - Job 40-41, Psalms 74:14

Innumerable Stars - Jeremiah 33:22

Also, Isaiah 40:22 correctly refers to the earth as a circle (round)

[xchris1800]

their words to the ends of the world"

LOL!

[xchris1800]

Min 24.31: Great ignorance of the knowledge of the bible of this Guy, you of course dont understand the concept of point of reference, and I will not explain you, I like you to be in your ignorance, follow your logic this same salm is a self-contradiction for you, it reads:

"Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.

3 They have no speech, there are no words; / no sound is heard from them

4 Their voice[b] goes out into all the earth, (1)