Here I illustrate the simple failures of faith and Bibliolatry as contrasted with truthful understanding and epistemology. If you like my work, support me on Patreon. / aronra
Aron Ra, if you happen to read this, I just wish to thank you for everything you are as a person. You have taught me so much in the fields of science that were not available to me while I was going to school, and your devotion to the actual truth has helped me so much in coming to terms with my lack of faith and love for knowledge that if I thanked you every day for the rest of my life, it wouldn't be enough to compare to the immeasurable ways you have improved my life. Sharing our planet with you as a fellow primate has been the highest honor I have felt in the short 24 years I've been alive. Thank you again and again and again from the bottom of my heart.
AronRa Sorry to trouble you sir, but I would be very glad to know what evidence there is for there being more people alive now than ever, if you don't mind. I have heard this to be a myth from the various sources I check, and that the number of humans to ever live would be ~100 billion.
+JustAManFromThePast I was just quoting what had been reported at the time. I have no idea how they measure this. They were apparently not counting people who would have died in infancy, for example. I also don't know what their starting point was. Was it 65,000 years ago? When people showed archaeological evidence of abstract design? Or was it traced back a couple hundred thousand years, for anatomically modern people? That info wasn't given back when they did the news report.
JustAManFromThePast It it said that we're growing at an exponential rate. Take any exponential series of numbers and you'll find that the n'th term is bigger then the sum of the n-1 previous terms, no matter how small is the base of the exponential function. If we're growing at an exponential rate, then it is in fact true. If we're not growing at such a rate, it's not. It is said that the Earth's modern day human population had once dwindled to a few thousands in Africa. Then it must mean that the growth wasn't always exponential but absent of major wars and planetary wide catastrophes, it follows a typical exponential pattern (just like bacteria in a Petri dish or cells in an embryo). Of course, we don't even know how much back does the modern human date. Some say 100 million years, some say 250. I'm too lazy to plot on a spreadsheet right now so I'm going to resort to an image :D upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Population_curve.svg/350px-Population_curve.svg.png Judging by this curve, it sure as hell looks like the myth has some truth to it. Another thing to be certain of and Aron has made a good point of, the trend clearly can't go on for much longer (assuming we're only confined to this planet :D ).
TechnocraticBushman I can answer this question. Prior to the agricultural and industrial revolutions, human populations did not grow at exponential rates. Human populations were limited by natural forces such as food and water supplies, climate, disease and predation. For long stretches of time there may have only been 100,000 humans or so. After the ice ages, human populations probably settled into the tens of millions. At about the time that Christopher Columbus set sail, the human population had settled again to a steady one billion. Aronra's statement on population is one that I also learned in school. And at that time, it was thought to be true, because it was assumed that the populations of North and South America remained unchanged from the time of it's discovery, into the 18th century. The accounts of the earliest Spanish explorers though, contradict this view. Ponce De Leon for instance, wrote accounts of encountering native Americans in much higher densities than were seen two hundred years later with many complex villages networked by trade routes. After his expedition, explorers that followed him, saw none of this. The likely explanation is that the pigs he brought, that escaped, spread diseases that wiped out more than 90% of the natives.
Marc Norton Wow, I thought I had already commented here and didn't remember - I use the same photo as an avatar on other sites, gotta love the Aye-Aye! :)
Marc Norton Too bad he didn't actually do that. And too bad you believe that he did. More than 1/2 of men who use a public toilet will leave the stall without washing their hands. This is done in at a time when the importance of hand washing is impressed upon children from an early age. Hmmm. Seems when man is left to his natural way of doing things he doesn't have as much common sense as the raccoon. The black plague in Europe was spread because people did not wash and keep their homes and public places clean. So once again, it is not instinctive to wash and be clean. it is a learned behavior. and the ancient hebrews understood the importance of it when many people do not today. If you disagree, remember what I told you about men the next time one wants to shake your hand after coming out of the rest room.
joke jōk/ noun 1. a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline. synonyms: funny story, jest, witticism, quip; verb 1.make jokes; talk humorously or flippantly. synonyms: tell jokes, crack jokes ...and that's another day in the penalty box for instigating.
+AlwaysThinkForYourself Congrats to you!! I too left never never land after 30 years of fundamentalism and I can also say that life is SO MUCH more satisfying and wonderful than ever before. Unfortunately, my wife and children are still living in that make believe world. I pray (ha ha) that they will one day realize the idiocy of religion and experience the awesomeness of the real world.
"We're talking about a genie who can supposedly make everything humans can't make, but he can't make _anything_ humans _can_ make." That right there. THAT! RIGHT! THERE!
@@davidhatcher7016 the fact that god can make things humans cant make, like stars, planets, life, but can't make anything humans can like books, boats, boxes, etc. etc.
@@jimmyhughes7754 I agree that a lot of his general statements about theism are incorrect and he falsely applies problems with monotheistic religions to polytheistic ones when in reality those problems aren't flat across the board, but he has excellent points regarding science and has excellent arguments against creationism and mythic literalism.
The_Polish_Prince "in reality those problems aren't flat across the board" He states that crystal clearly, he states it's a bell curve and demonstrates it with his hands
Lol. ACTUALLY.. the ten commandments doesn't say not to "lie", per se... It says not to "bear false witness"... against your neighbor. They're not EXACTLY the same thing.. I think AronRa has actually covered this in a few other videos.
If the lies facilitate the growth of religion, a lot of them allow it in that context. Islam in particular is totally okay with lying to disbelievers. Religion is not big on honesty.
@導引頭真相 1) I have no expectations. 2 and 3) I don't know. I'm part of the naturalistic world. All my experiences are of the naturalistic world and as such have naturalistic explanations. Because there's nothing in the natural world I can't attribute to a naturalistic explanation, there's nothing I can think or imagine about a god demonstrating herself that couldn't be explained as a hallucination or illusion. But if a god exists, she should be able to reveal herself to me in a way that she knows would convince me. So that's all for my expectations. Now a question to you, what do you believe in why do you believe it?
WOW this guy's vocational skills are legendary. He can speak so fast yet you understand every word. He could literally describe how kinder eggs are made and I'd still sit and watch the whole thing.
I know, right? It’s actually astounding. I’ve never seen a better conveyor of information. It’s not just his cadence and articulation, which are important parts of public speaking; it’s also his eloquence and ability to harness language while also being maximally efficient with his words. He’s just got a gift, I guess. It’s amazing to watch. Just great.
Vocational skills means what you are experienced at for employment. what you mean is Aron Ra has great skills as an orator which is true. something that Christopher Hitchens also had before he left us, he is greatly missed.
Aron, if you happen to read this: as a scientist, I appreciate your tireless education work - which, like many hardcore scientists, I'm not well equipped for this myself. You are clearly well aware of how the nature of science itself is manipulated by religion using human desires for certainty and difficulties in dealing with uncertainty, and consequent lack of understanding about the asymmetric and partial logical relationship between knowing and evidence. I like to carefully distinguish truthfulness from truth for this reason: I avoid talking about "truth" like I avoid creationist liars who waste valuable time, except with respect to mathematical structures where this is has precise meaning internal to a given mathematical theory. Science is systematically truthful, and that means not making claims of absolute truth, because it must always retain the right to acknowledge and redress error. Absolute truth claims are solely the purvue of, and a clear delineating marker of, religion; authoritarianism and its horrors are never as far behind claims of absolute truth as we might like to believe.
@@AronRa I thank you for your brilliant mind. You are the smartest guy I have ever heard. Your the greatest and have taught me more very needed information than you'll ever know. Again I thank you for your knowledge. Take care. 🤘🖖🏻
The problem with Christianity is its martyr complex which was with it from its inception. So, since it was adopted by the Romans it is the religion of the powerful and this is true today. This means it is difficult for them to act as victims so they invent persecution from the very groups they persecute. People from other cultures and faiths or no faiths; people of different colours, various genders and sexualities. As minority groups incrementally get equal rights then Christians claim their right to practice their religion is being undermined and they are being persecuted. This is obviously not true as they still hold most of the power but Christianity's need to be both bully and bullied is too predominant. It is a parasitical belief that destroyed classical learning and if we are not careful will snuff out everything we gained from the enlightenment including the US constitution which was based on enlightenment ideals and not the ten commandments.
Tbf I actually took a religion class (I would say pray for me but that would be too easy lol) and they said that that was actually the point, god had them wandering around on purpose because of them disobeying him, I don’t believe in god but I don’t think that’s a good rebuttal because it assumes they believe god wanted them to get there faster which is the opposite of the truth
@@shady8045 The god of the Bible strikes me as a very incompetent sort. Very unwilling to admit his mistakes, much less correct them or learn from them. Just look at the whole Fall debacle. So it wouldn't surprise me if his reaction to realizing that he had his Chosen People wandering aimlessly for decades on end was essentially, "Uh, I meant to do that."
Aron Ra is brilliant man, with the courage to say things that millions of people know is true, but for various reasons, mostly fear of being shamed or persecuted by family, friends and religious groups are afraid to say openly. Thanks Aron.
@خادم۹۸ 1 -What? 2 - I was going on a tangent and then I remembered, a god given the attributes of omni anything would know what could convince me 3 - I expect nothing, they clearly do not care about us feeble creatures and if so, they are doing a very bad job at letting us know
Sean Michaels If you think the Worlds 6100 and(or) a deadly Universe is "Fine Tuned" for us I don't think that's much of a stretch. Though we still ought to hold them to thier stupidity anyways. I'd say Ignorance if they didn't know better.
My favorite quote regarding life is from a dutch band. Says something among the lines of: "if you wouldn't die, you wouldn't be alive. So be grateful to die and don't let it ruin your life". Cured my death anxiety and made me accept the fate of the universe. Knowing the end is coming means you're there to experience life, and that is what matters.
I'm sure that Ken Ham 'wasn't there' when Ben Franklin was flying his kite (or whatever he actually did) so therefore he can stick his finger in the light socket...
It's been 4 years, so I guess it's possible you've already discovered this anti-ham video. Just in case you haven't please watch this comedic interpretation of Ken Ham's ludicrous "were you there?" nonsense: th-cam.com/video/-LW06dav7KA/w-d-xo.html
My favorite response to that "were you there?" is "yes, I was". Then when they say they don't believe that, I tell them to prove I wasn't. The very process used to prove I wasn't there can then be turned to other accounts as well.
One quibble, we can tell the differences between different ethnicities in some cases through their skeletons - I'm trained in forensics. We can learn so much more though, if we could compare skeletons to flesh . Also, Ken ham is a tool .
uncleanunicorn Yes, but he was talking about gross morphology, and amount of variation. Obviously you can tell an adult male from a child for example, and looking closer, negroid from asian etc. But consider the time it takes to obtain that information
20:40 *_"a lot of these people don't really believe what they pretend to believe, they believe in believing."_* i've been saying this for years. they believe in submission of will, and they feign they're own as they demand it of others. KEvron
Michael Mage one thing is have logical faith like Christianity, the other thing is have illogical faith like evolutionism (uncaused and mindless but you can reason) what contradiction
AronRa is becoming a forceful speaker that consistently moves me, makes me want to cheer, to learn, to teach, and to give him what he needs to continue his work. How appropriate to add music to such a thoughtful, courageous message. This is how we change minds. I'm so glad he is with us.
i cannot not hit the like button. incredible guy with incredible knowledge. its amazing been binge watching for days.thanks aron for this knowledge ir changed my life
EmeraldDragon True, but can you remember the question? These mice here keep telling me they're trying to figure it out as well. However when l suh sugessted they try the Buybull, they called me a prick and ran off. "Got to keep the loonies on the path."
Al Acton how can a person who claim he is a product of uncaused and mindless process, can even talk about reason? just to make a claim, you are denying u r a product of uncaused and mindless process, but intelligently created, unless u think lava can make claims or can reason, the fact lava is caused, that means, it has more chance on making claims and reason than you. if u r a product of uncaused u cant even exist and if you a product of mindless process u cant even have brain imagine make claims and reason
v. HELENO HENZO This seems to have the idea that intelligence goes down as life goes on, thing is that we know evolution happened and at one point we did have no brains and no intelligence our very distant ancestors were mindless single celled organisms. So actually yes some mindless process did create something that was capable of logic claims and reason.
MasterXenopunk u r confusing DNA being able or not to develop its full info on certain environment or not w/ evolutionism. one point u used to be nothing, now tell us how can nothing became something
"Religion is a great way of hiding deranged behaviour. It couples that with behaviours that are just unsound, unsafe, unwarranted, and unreasonable. What is more unreasonable is asserting facts that are not facts, asserting as fact things that are not evidently true, and refusing to admit when wrong. Believing impossible nonsense for no good reason and then plugging one's ears when anyone tries to convince them otherwise." One of my favourite quotes from Aron.
But psychologists should look into why people still insist to believe even after being shown the contrary. Maybe it gives them some sort of happiness and hope🙄
@@ndindamule3134 Oh well said. With out a doubt it gives hope. For many, that's all they have. Always the poorest who appear to follow gods. When your masters here on Earth treat you like the dirt you must farm, hope for a better afterlife might be all they have. I will never say "you cannot do this" that is against the basic fundamental human right. I'm more concerned about the well fed politically motivated far right fundamentalist. Peace out.
You're an inspiration, AronRa. You're one of the first atheists I ever watched as I was starting to shake off my childhood indoctrination. Thanks for everything, man. I hope to see you speak one day.
If we went back and saw evolution wasn't true, atleast we could see what created the evidence which ended up looking a lot like evolution, and why it was so deceptive.
Sure I agree with the spirit of your statement, but science never makes proclamations of truth. I would even argue that it doesn't make tentative guesses as to the truth. It is a variety of methods to reconcile facts and a predictive *model*. "All things being equal, this is a model which can account for a set of facts and can make predictions if you give it data." This turns out to be quite practically useful but it makes no tautological statements.
Roedy Green because its a fairy tale, fables, ghost stories passed down from superstitious wanderers to try and make sense of chaotic and unpredictable nature of reality. I highly doubt jesus provided any evidence by today's standards for anything except the gullibility of people who are trying to establish meaning and purpose that cant take "i don't know" as an answer.
Donn Bishop I am talking in terms of the Christian reality. I am trying to shoot down their stupid arguments that God does not want there to be evidence that is why there isn't any.
Ok I am confused so you are arguing for the fact there is a god but he does not want evidence to convince people of his existence? and that is why we have never found any evidence. or are you arguing the fact there is no god and christians are using the excuse that god does not want evidence of his existence to be known? your statements kinda go both ways
Donn Bishop He is saying that in the first century Jesus/God provided loads of evidence to the people there that he existed the bible is full of it. Yet Christians will say that evidence is not there because you have to have faith in God and having evidence would make it no longer faith. He is arguing against christianity although I can see the confusion
*I sincerely pity **_anyone_** unable [or unwilling] to understand Aron Ra's elementary train of lucid thought and reason! . . .* I've been roaming this planet for close to 70 years, and from the moment I mentally chucked 'religion' out the window (at the tender age of 13), I have *_never_* looked back, in point of fact, my experience throughout all these years has shown me that without a shadow of a doubt - I would have to be _extremely_ dense to do so! . . . . And, as this apt maxim so rightly summarizes; *_Religion was invented the day the first conman met the first fool!''_*
+Jemase He can get a real job. Well no he's probably go into the infomercial diet supplements or multi level marketing or other such scams. I mean, he's had a lot of experience perpetuating them.
At 36:25 ... I passed out face first into the floor in August 2021. If not for my hand somehow getting between my nose and the floor I have very little doubt I would have died. Five weeks later, I graduated to grandpa and have played an integral part in my granddaughters life ever since. To be sure nothing focuses your life more than a near death experience. I'm just glad my prior life before that fall was exactly as it still is ... not neck deep in religious nutter butter dogmas! Imagine wasting your one precious life thinking some all knowing all powerful sky wizard is waiting to send you to burn forever or let you pass the pearly gates into Zombieland
Trusting The Bible I often run across Christians who claim the bible is the inerrant word of god. They claim if there were any contradiction between what science said, or what their own eyes saw, or what their mind said was possible, they would trust the bible. [If they did not trust their own eyes, how could they trust their reading of the bible?] These people cannot possibly have read the entire bible. It says too many crazy things that they could not possibly actually believe, like the flat earth. Why do they hold the bible in such high esteem? Because they have been told over and over and over that it is the inerrant word of god. That fact becomes one of the features of the universe they never question. It is just something everybody knows. If they think about it, there no evidence of any kind god had anything to do with writing the bible, and dozens of reasons why that is highly unlikely. Granted, the Bible claims divine authorship, but so does every other holy book. I have written elsewhere how you can know for sure the creator of the universe did not write the bible. It is a human forgery. The quality is no where near good enough.
Roedy Green I remember, once I got in an arguement with someone on my alt account and they kept saying "So you disagree that the earth is round?". I promptly reminded them of how the earth is described (A flat disk divided into four quadranths held up by god and surrounded by the firmirment) and they outright re-phrased the scripture. Their response was "The original hebrew said sphere". All I could say was "You're really good at translating a dead language". Then the topic was completely dropped. I guess they weren't really a linguist.
Roedy Green One aspect pertaining to all of the ancient holy books that I have never been able to accept is; why would an omnipotent being choose the written word to communicate with an almost completely illiterate populace?
Ive heard america is going really hardcore christain lately. As someone from germany who really doesnt want that for any country I am leaving this comment under the video so that the algorithm comes here. Have a good one everyone.
I find it beyond childish when i have to walk on eggshells when religeon comes up around my parents/inlaws. Imagine being a grown adult, and getting upset emotion over someone they claim to love, having a different irrelevant belief?
Coolness points for singing Stranglehold (I think Nugent is a pigheaded manchild now, but that's a classic tune). Double-coolness points for emulating the manner of Hudson from the film Aliens (around 21:23... "game over, man").
What a great place to give this talk! Thank you Aaron for your incredibly valuable videos! Donate to his patron! It is a better use of money than most orgs.
37:38 Watching this video alone in the dark and with headphones, that sudden change of voice pitch creeped the hell out of me! Like if the devil had temporarily taken possession of the video :P
At this point in time fourteen people have given this video a thumbs down. Perhaps they just missed the correct option. Fat finger syndrome. Assuming their intent is to actually give a thumb down rating I still am still comforted. One hundred percent of our population cannot even be shown that there is a reason to use reason. We can still be satisfied with 99+%.
On the same web page titled "The Reason for Reason," TH-cam has placed an ad for "America and Britain in Prophecy" by the Restored Church of God. "Great prophecies will soon stagger all of civilization -- learn the future now!" Good grief.
Marilyn Newman That's a weird comment, for sure, but if he means a train can't steer out of the way if you stand on the tracks... well, I guess he's right... What point was he making when he said it?
A good friend of mine made an excellent assertion when asked what he thought death would be like by a christian. He said, "Well, I was born in 1981. I don't know, but I suspect it'll be pretty much like 1975."
Thanks Aron Ra. I saw a "Life Hacks" video where a guy proved opening the bottom of a banana was better than trying the ( Ray Comfort's ) top. If its squishy on thop, the bottom is easier. OMFG don't tell Ray even though his banana is genetically altered. Which he admits and dismisses.
seatspud Ha ha. Oh joy! That fetid little miscreant just keeps on popping up all over the place! Apologies for just jumping in to your conversation there, by the way. I just saw the name Henzo and it immediately set my teeth on edge. We've just had to get Twitter to suspend/delete his most recent account after he returned under yet another incarnation, to harass and bombard atheists with his rabid, nonsensical drivel. Again! He is relentless!
+AaroRa, the joke about Israelites walking the desert is funny, but the book itself never says that. In Exodus they reach the mountain in two to three months, and by the time god finishes giving instructions and they scout the land, in Numbers 14:29, god declares they would camp and everyone will die. They didn't get lost for 40 years, they camped:
Creationists would most definitely refuse to get in the time machine, and I know that because we can see Flat Earthers doing that right now. When you ask them if Elon Musk offered to take them into space in his private rocket ship, or if Jeff Bezos offered to sail them around the world in his mega-yacht, to prove that the Earth was spherical, they all say they wouldn't even get in. And of course, Flat Earthers ARE creationists.
Yeah, the idea of an all-powerful being watching over us, guiding and sheltering us, and punishing bad people is of course an appealing notion. But believing it just because it's a nice story (which actually requires ignoring much of what that book says, but that's a whole other thing) isn't beneficial in any way. I was never a strong believer, but when I did think there could be a god, I was just frustrated by the ugliness in the world. I mean, all the ugliness still isn't good, but at least I know there's no magical quick fix that's just being denied us by an uncaring god.
When I've gotten the "were you there" question, my response is always yes. Then when they object I tell them that they can't possibly know I wasn't there because I remember that they weren't. It's a fucking stupid argument, all you have to do is take it to it's stupid logical conclusion.
+manamaster6 It was the Great Spaghetti Monster fiddling with the audio so as to revel its presence to all of the Pastafarians who know what the real sauce of everything really is.
The "chronodrone" he mentions at the start of this video sounds like the "worm-cam" in the sci-fi novel THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by Arthur C. Clarke and Steven Baxter. I think there's an Isaac Asimov short story that involves a similar futuristic device for viewing the past. Elon Musk needs to invest some time and money into inventing the worm-cam/chronodrone . . .
TrustinJC When does he use evolution as a way to disprove god? You cannot disprove god, any more than you can prove there is a god, and I don't think he is dumb enough to make such a claim. Evolution disproves creationism, and in effect overturns the dogmatic scriptures which the christian god is based. If anything it proves the bible is not the absolute truth which it claims to be, but does nothing for the argument for or against a god.
AronRa certainly is pushing the idea that evolution disproves God and Religion. It is plainly the case for anyone not stuck on the notion of defending AronRa no matter how many false assertions that he makes.
TrustinJC Evolution is what it is, kind of the facts of life on this planet. This fact disproves nothing but does not conform to your beliefs. You can think past this, that is about the only way or you will be defensive, as you are. Relax, and understand none of this removes your god, just some of the dated ideas it comes with.
your arguing a strawman, this has never been the claim of evolution to disprove god nor religion. all it does is remove the idea of intelligent design, and unless you require this to believe in god or have a faith your statement is just wrong
I suggest you either re-read my comments or go to my homepage. Because I make it clear in my comments, homepage, and videos that I am a Theistic Evolutionist, which means I believe in a very old earth and evolution. I have even explained in videos that scripture does not support a young earth but rather a very old one. So I'm not defensive in the least. I am simply pointing out the many flaws, errors, and mistakes in AronRa's lecture.
Never been more happy to be atheist from birth. I went to Sunday school for about 2 weeks and knew it was bs when I was 10 years old. My parents never forced anything me. It was my choice to go. I've always loved them for not forcing religion on me.
Yeah, I would say parents forcing christianity on their children is the worst way too go about it. Alot of cases it would back fire and turn children away. sorry you feel the way you do about what is recorded in the Bible, "maybe" some day you'll have a turn around when it comes to it.
Athiest rule and if everyone had the genius of Aronra we all would be schooled in the right way to look at religion as it is all just books that are copied or have been copied for years! The Zeitgeist if you look it up can tell you in10 minutes that from Egypt and long before it is proven to be only copy's of so many other religions but until you do some homework you will be amazed at how many times and other religions it has been copied. Religion is definitely not in anyway true but there will always be humans that are so afraid that religion is not at all true they cannot function as they have been brain washed so to speak and have no hope of seeing the bigger and proper picture. Aussie chris 🇦🇺
The need to believe seems to come down to one thing: the fear of death. It's so hypocritical of religious people to accuse atheists of having nothing to live for when it's their own religious beliefs that literally make life a meaningless stepping stone to an imaginary better world.
I think his ultimate message is that denying and ignoring the truth in this world will ultimately prematurely destroy us and our environment. Religion promotes a mindset to ignore truth and reason. Time to wake up.
Christianity is based on the bible. The bible is a load of none sense by a literal definition. Once you've got that into your head you can forget about religion and get on with your life. No need to argue about it with faith believers.
Lol, I LOVE the pony-tail dude; he's my favorite part of this video: you just see him goin' about his day, holdin' up back-packs, walking behind AronRA, carrying out folding chairs . . . it's so cute. :)
Aron Ra, if you happen to read this, I just wish to thank you for everything you are as a person. You have taught me so much in the fields of science that were not available to me while I was going to school, and your devotion to the actual truth has helped me so much in coming to terms with my lack of faith and love for knowledge that if I thanked you every day for the rest of my life, it wouldn't be enough to compare to the immeasurable ways you have improved my life. Sharing our planet with you as a fellow primate has been the highest honor I have felt in the short 24 years I've been alive. Thank you again and again and again from the bottom of my heart.
+Argyle Gargoyle Aw shucks. Twern't nuthin'. :-)
AronRa Sorry to trouble you sir, but I would be very glad to know what evidence there is for there being more people alive now than ever, if you don't mind. I have heard this to be a myth from the various sources I check, and that the number of humans to ever live would be ~100 billion.
+JustAManFromThePast I was just quoting what had been reported at the time. I have no idea how they measure this. They were apparently not counting people who would have died in infancy, for example. I also don't know what their starting point was. Was it 65,000 years ago? When people showed archaeological evidence of abstract design? Or was it traced back a couple hundred thousand years, for anatomically modern people? That info wasn't given back when they did the news report.
JustAManFromThePast It it said that we're growing at an exponential rate. Take any exponential series of numbers and you'll find that the n'th term is bigger then the sum of the n-1 previous terms, no matter how small is the base of the exponential function. If we're growing at an exponential rate, then it is in fact true. If we're not growing at such a rate, it's not. It is said that the Earth's modern day human population had once dwindled to a few thousands in Africa. Then it must mean that the growth wasn't always exponential but absent of major wars and planetary wide catastrophes, it follows a typical exponential pattern (just like bacteria in a Petri dish or cells in an embryo). Of course, we don't even know how much back does the modern human date. Some say 100 million years, some say 250. I'm too lazy to plot on a spreadsheet right now so I'm going to resort to an image :D upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Population_curve.svg/350px-Population_curve.svg.png
Judging by this curve, it sure as hell looks like the myth has some truth to it.
Another thing to be certain of and Aron has made a good point of, the trend clearly can't go on for much longer (assuming we're only confined to this planet :D ).
TechnocraticBushman I can answer this question.
Prior to the agricultural and industrial revolutions, human populations did not grow at exponential rates.
Human populations were limited by natural forces such as food and water supplies, climate, disease and predation. For long stretches of time there may have only been 100,000 humans or so.
After the ice ages, human populations probably settled into the tens of millions.
At about the time that Christopher Columbus set sail, the human population had settled again to a steady one billion.
Aronra's statement on population is one that I also learned in school.
And at that time, it was thought to be true, because it was assumed that the populations of North and South America remained unchanged from the time of it's discovery, into the 18th century.
The accounts of the earliest Spanish explorers though, contradict this view. Ponce De Leon for instance, wrote accounts of encountering native Americans in much higher densities than were seen two hundred years later with many complex villages networked by trade routes.
After his expedition, explorers that followed him, saw none of this.
The likely explanation is that the pigs he brought, that escaped, spread diseases that wiped out more than 90% of the natives.
It's a brilliant man that can disprove The Bible with raccoons.
Marc Norton LOL Brilliant comment.
Marc Norton Wow, I thought I had already commented here and didn't remember - I use the same photo as an avatar on other sites, gotta love the Aye-Aye! :)
twstdelf Yeah, I was looking up obscure critters and he was shouting "Avatar!!!!". Maybe he's just a fan of James Cameron, yet here we are.
Marc Norton Too bad he didn't actually do that. And too bad you believe that he did.
More than 1/2 of men who use a public toilet will leave the stall without washing their hands.
This is done in at a time when the importance of hand washing is impressed upon children from an early age.
Hmmm. Seems when man is left to his natural way of doing things he doesn't have as much common sense as the raccoon.
The black plague in Europe was spread because people did not wash and keep their homes and public places clean. So once again, it is not instinctive to wash and be clean. it is a learned behavior. and the ancient hebrews understood the importance of it when many people do not today. If you disagree, remember what I told you about men the next time one wants to shake your hand after coming out of the rest room.
joke jōk/ noun 1. a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline. synonyms: funny story, jest, witticism, quip;
verb 1.make jokes; talk humorously or flippantly. synonyms: tell jokes, crack jokes
...and that's another day in the penalty box for instigating.
I let go of Christianity after 30 years. Have never been happier! My kids and husband now have peace. Religion is illogical.
AlwaysThinkForYourself Good for you and welcome to reality.
Gammel Prutte Refreshing!
AlwaysThinkForYourself good for you
+AlwaysThinkForYourself Congrats to you!! I too left never never land after 30 years of fundamentalism and I can also say that life is SO MUCH more satisfying and wonderful than ever before. Unfortunately, my wife and children are still living in that make believe world. I pray (ha ha) that they will one day realize the idiocy of religion and experience the awesomeness of the real world.
AlwaysThinkForYourself 32 for me. Feels great to be outside of that delusional bubble
"We're talking about a genie who can supposedly make everything humans can't make, but he can't make _anything_ humans _can_ make."
That right there. THAT! RIGHT! THERE!
wut?
@@davidhatcher7016 the fact that god can make things humans cant make, like stars, planets, life, but can't make anything humans can like books, boats, boxes, etc. etc.
@@justjucc5655 Didn't we make a very small star in lab recently?
@@legionleschyzophrene4929 did we? I’m unaware
@@justjucc5655 Apparently not yet, my mistake, but people seems to be working on it at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
Why does this man have so few subscribers? A genuine sage. Keep up the excellent work!
Did he not have that many 4 years ago because almost 250k is killing it
he doesn't buy them like the majority of high subscriber channels do
He doesn't have that many subscribers because he's full of crap.
@@jimmyhughes7754 I agree that a lot of his general statements about theism are incorrect and he falsely applies problems with monotheistic religions to polytheistic ones when in reality those problems aren't flat across the board, but he has excellent points regarding science and has excellent arguments against creationism and mythic literalism.
The_Polish_Prince "in reality those problems aren't flat across the board"
He states that crystal clearly, he states it's a bell curve and demonstrates it with his hands
One of the biblical commandments : " Thou shalt NOT lie. "
Then how come religion does it so much ? And defends lies to no end ?
God says love your enemy. He breaks that himself. God says he's all powerful. He breaks that. God says that he exists. He breaks that.
Lol. ACTUALLY.. the ten commandments doesn't say not to "lie", per se... It says not to "bear false witness"... against your neighbor. They're not EXACTLY the same thing.. I think AronRa has actually covered this in a few other videos.
If the lies facilitate the growth of religion, a lot of them allow it in that context. Islam in particular is totally okay with lying to disbelievers. Religion is not big on honesty.
@導引頭真相
1) I have no expectations.
2 and 3) I don't know. I'm part of the naturalistic world. All my experiences are of the naturalistic world and as such have naturalistic explanations. Because there's nothing in the natural world I can't attribute to a naturalistic explanation, there's nothing I can think or imagine about a god demonstrating herself that couldn't be explained as a hallucination or illusion. But if a god exists, she should be able to reveal herself to me in a way that she knows would convince me. So that's all for my expectations.
Now a question to you, what do you believe in why do you believe it?
Actually it’s not to bear false witness against your neighbour, so lie all you want so long as it’s not in court against your neighbour
WOW this guy's vocational skills are legendary. He can speak so fast yet you understand every word. He could literally describe how kinder eggs are made and I'd still sit and watch the whole thing.
I know, right? It’s actually astounding. I’ve never seen a better conveyor of information. It’s not just his cadence and articulation, which are important parts of public speaking; it’s also his eloquence and ability to harness language while also being maximally efficient with his words. He’s just got a gift, I guess. It’s amazing to watch. Just great.
Kinder eggs are created by frauds who pretend that they know what chocolate is...
And this will be the most controversial comment on this video...
And his voice is so relaxing, yet threatening I love it
Vocational skills means what you are experienced at for employment. what you mean is Aron Ra has great skills as an orator which is true. something that Christopher Hitchens also had before he left us, he is greatly missed.
He's exemplary. I practiced law & saw some good orators. He beats em all.
Aron, if you happen to read this: as a scientist, I appreciate your tireless education work - which, like many hardcore scientists, I'm not well equipped for this myself. You are clearly well aware of how the nature of science itself is manipulated by religion using human desires for certainty and difficulties in dealing with uncertainty, and consequent lack of understanding about the asymmetric and partial logical relationship between knowing and evidence. I like to carefully distinguish truthfulness from truth for this reason: I avoid talking about "truth" like I avoid creationist liars who waste valuable time, except with respect to mathematical structures where this is has precise meaning internal to a given mathematical theory. Science is systematically truthful, and that means not making claims of absolute truth, because it must always retain the right to acknowledge and redress error. Absolute truth claims are solely the purvue of, and a clear delineating marker of, religion; authoritarianism and its horrors are never as far behind claims of absolute truth as we might like to believe.
Thank you very much indeed.
@@AronRa Thank you, Aron, you honour me.
@@AronRa I thank you for your brilliant mind. You are the smartest guy I have ever heard. Your the greatest and have taught me more very needed information than you'll ever know. Again I thank you for your knowledge. Take care. 🤘🖖🏻
The problem with Christianity is its martyr complex which was with it from its inception. So, since it was adopted by the Romans it is the religion of the powerful and this is true today. This means it is difficult for them to act as victims so they invent persecution from the very groups they persecute. People from other cultures and faiths or no faiths; people of different colours, various genders and sexualities. As minority groups incrementally get equal rights then Christians claim their right to practice their religion is being undermined and they are being persecuted. This is obviously not true as they still hold most of the power but Christianity's need to be both bully and bullied is too predominant. It is a parasitical belief that destroyed classical learning and if we are not careful will snuff out everything we gained from the enlightenment including the US constitution which was based on enlightenment ideals and not the ten commandments.
With God's help they wandered lost for 40 years. I knew they should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque..
Tbf I actually took a religion class (I would say pray for me but that would be too easy lol) and they said that that was actually the point, god had them wandering around on purpose because of them disobeying him, I don’t believe in god but I don’t think that’s a good rebuttal because it assumes they believe god wanted them to get there faster which is the opposite of the truth
@@shady8045 The god of the Bible strikes me as a very incompetent sort. Very unwilling to admit his mistakes, much less correct them or learn from them. Just look at the whole Fall debacle. So it wouldn't surprise me if his reaction to realizing that he had his Chosen People wandering aimlessly for decades on end was essentially, "Uh, I meant to do that."
Why can I not like this video more than once?
same!
cuz god's divine law and stuff, refute that shit... hahaha
Aron Ra is brilliant man, with the courage to say things that millions of people know is true, but for various reasons, mostly fear of being shamed or persecuted by family, friends and religious groups are afraid to say openly. Thanks Aron.
"my grandmother was born in the year NINETEEN HUNDRED..." 37:38
Probably an edit to fix a mistake the in the original lecture.
"Faith is the short-circuit of reason, destroying the mind"--Ayn Rand
One of the best quotes of all time
Yes, Aron, you changed my mind. I no longer believe in God. You convinced me about 4 months ago. I admire and respect you. Thank you for what you do.
religion doesn't know what "reason" is,
wrong
@خادم۹۸ 1 -What?
2 - I was going on a tangent and then I remembered, a god given the attributes of omni anything would know what could convince me
3 - I expect nothing, they clearly do not care about us feeble creatures and if so, they are doing a very bad job at letting us know
36:00 Better sermon message than any I have ever heard in church.
15:00 Ken Ham tried to debate Bill Nye. It's so annoying how many Ken Ham theists think Ken Ham won the debate. Were they watching a different debate?
Sean Michaels If you think the Worlds 6100 and(or) a deadly Universe is "Fine Tuned" for us I don't think that's much of a stretch. Though we still ought to hold them to thier stupidity anyways. I'd say Ignorance if they didn't know better.
Sean Michaels the term your looking for is: cognitive dissonance
My favorite quote regarding life is from a dutch band. Says something among the lines of: "if you wouldn't die, you wouldn't be alive. So be grateful to die and don't let it ruin your life". Cured my death anxiety and made me accept the fate of the universe. Knowing the end is coming means you're there to experience life, and that is what matters.
I'm sure that Ken Ham 'wasn't there' when Ben Franklin was flying his kite (or whatever he actually did) so therefore he can stick his finger in the light socket...
It's been 4 years, so I guess it's possible you've already discovered this anti-ham video. Just in case you haven't please watch this comedic interpretation of Ken Ham's ludicrous "were you there?" nonsense:
th-cam.com/video/-LW06dav7KA/w-d-xo.html
Great speech, but paiNfully awkward intro.
Aww.. Don't be so harsh.
My favorite response to that "were you there?" is "yes, I was". Then when they say they don't believe that, I tell them to prove I wasn't. The very process used to prove I wasn't there can then be turned to other accounts as well.
One quibble, we can tell the differences between different ethnicities in some cases through their skeletons - I'm trained in forensics. We can learn so much more though, if we could compare skeletons to flesh . Also, Ken ham is a tool .
uncleanunicorn Yes, but he was talking about gross morphology, and amount of variation. Obviously you can tell an adult male from a child for example, and looking closer, negroid from asian etc. But consider the time it takes to obtain that information
We can always learn so much from your talks.
Thank you.
Religion is going down swingin', but going down all the same.
20:40 *_"a lot of these people don't really believe what they pretend to believe, they believe in believing."_* i've been saying this for years. they believe in submission of will, and they feign they're own as they demand it of others. KEvron
Thank you Aron.
Much appreciated.
Michael Mage one thing is have logical faith like Christianity, the other thing is have illogical faith like evolutionism (uncaused and mindless but you can reason) what contradiction
+v. HELENO HENZO nice b8 m8 I r8 8/8
Gallazze I wish he will get locked there some day if he isn't yet... He doesn't belong in public
Preferred delusion, that is what I’m calling religion from now on.
Aron's references, insights, research, knowledge, logic, modesty, humour, delivery and persuasiveness are overwhelming! Great vid!
Religion slammed hard!!!! And I love it!!!
AronRa is becoming a forceful speaker that consistently moves me, makes me want to cheer, to learn, to teach, and to give him what he needs to continue his work. How appropriate to add music to such a thoughtful, courageous message. This is how we change minds. I'm so glad he is with us.
i cannot not hit the like button. incredible guy with incredible knowledge. its amazing been binge watching for days.thanks aron for this knowledge ir changed my life
The meaning of life is 42, darn it!
EmeraldDragon
True, but can you remember the question? These mice here keep telling me they're trying to figure it out as well. However when l suh
sugessted they try the Buybull, they called me a prick and ran off.
"Got to keep the loonies on the path."
@@stephaniecuellar3192 42 is the error code for out of stack space.
A great speech at an awesome weekend. I enjoyed the speakers. Hope they do it again
Al Acton how can a person who claim he is a product of uncaused and mindless process, can even talk about reason? just to make a claim, you are denying u r a product of uncaused and mindless process, but intelligently created, unless u think lava can make claims or can reason, the fact lava is caused, that means, it has more chance on making claims and reason than you. if u r a product of uncaused u cant even exist and if you a product of mindless process u cant even have brain imagine make claims and reason
+v. HELENO HENZO why are you you copy and pasting your comments as replies to others?
v. HELENO HENZO This seems to have the idea that intelligence goes down as life goes on, thing is that we know evolution happened and at one point we did have no brains and no intelligence our very distant ancestors were mindless single celled organisms. So actually yes some mindless process did create something that was capable of logic claims and reason.
MasterXenopunk
u r confusing DNA being able or not to develop its full info on certain environment or not w/ evolutionism. one point u used to be nothing, now tell us how can nothing became something
He's a nut case. He's had many of his channels closed by google. Evidently he threatens people.
"Religion is a great way of hiding deranged behaviour. It couples that with behaviours that are just unsound, unsafe, unwarranted, and unreasonable. What is more unreasonable is asserting facts that are not facts, asserting as fact things that are not evidently true, and refusing to admit when wrong. Believing impossible nonsense for no good reason and then plugging one's ears when anyone tries to convince them otherwise." One of my favourite quotes from Aron.
Another great quotes
But psychologists should look into why people still insist to believe even after being shown the contrary. Maybe it gives them some sort of happiness and hope🙄
@@ndindamule3134 Oh well said. With out a doubt it gives hope. For many, that's all they have. Always the poorest who appear to follow gods. When your masters here on Earth treat you like the dirt you must farm, hope for a better afterlife might be all they have.
I will never say "you cannot do this" that is against the basic fundamental human right. I'm more concerned about the well fed politically motivated far right fundamentalist. Peace out.
You're an inspiration, AronRa. You're one of the first atheists I ever watched as I was starting to shake off my childhood indoctrination. Thanks for everything, man. I hope to see you speak one day.
Lol Aron is just too good!
"You would be able to take pictures of Mohammad "
Oh....I get it 😂😂😂
I know. When it kicked in for me I laughed loud enough that my wife looked at me weird.
Thanks AronRa I haven’t seen every one of your TH-cams but this one is the one I enjoyed the most. Thanks Stu
If the devil is the lord of lies, then we know who wrote the Bible.
If we went back and saw evolution wasn't true, atleast we could see what created the evidence which ended up looking a lot like evolution, and why it was so deceptive.
Sure I agree with the spirit of your statement, but science never makes proclamations of truth. I would even argue that it doesn't make tentative guesses as to the truth. It is a variety of methods to reconcile facts and a predictive *model*.
"All things being equal, this is a model which can account for a set of facts and can make predictions if you give it data."
This turns out to be quite practically useful but it makes no tautological statements.
Jesus was willing over and over to provide evidence to people living in the first century. So why is everyone else supposed to go without evidence?
Roedy Green because its a fairy tale, fables, ghost stories passed down from superstitious wanderers to try and make sense of chaotic and unpredictable nature of reality. I highly doubt jesus provided any evidence by today's standards for anything except the gullibility of people who are trying to establish meaning and purpose that cant take "i don't know" as an answer.
Donn Bishop
I am talking in terms of the Christian reality. I am trying to shoot down their stupid arguments that God does not want there to be evidence that is why there isn't any.
Ok I am confused so you are arguing for the fact there is a god but he does not want evidence to convince people of his existence? and that is why we have never found any evidence. or are you arguing the fact there is no god and christians are using the excuse that god does not want evidence of his existence to be known? your statements kinda go both ways
+Roedy Green it's a test lol
Donn Bishop He is saying that in the first century Jesus/God provided loads of evidence to the people there that he existed the bible is full of it. Yet Christians will say that evidence is not there because you have to have faith in God and having evidence would make it no longer faith. He is arguing against christianity although I can see the confusion
12:23 He mentioned me! ...sort of...
At first, I thought you meant he was quoting you. Then I realized that you're being silly. ;p
C0nc0rdance good one.
This video has 63 views and 278 upvotes.
Try explaining THAT one, atheists!
Check. Mate.
Volla Volt lol your computer failed ..
Volla Volt Got dern it u got us.
The Angels of God didn't need to watch it?
Rofl
Volla Volt stupod arthritists! Lol
Proof your claim.
*I sincerely pity **_anyone_** unable [or unwilling] to understand Aron Ra's elementary train of lucid thought and reason! . . .*
I've been roaming this planet for close to 70 years, and from the moment I mentally chucked 'religion' out the window (at the tender age of 13), I have *_never_* looked back, in point of fact, my experience throughout all these years has shown me that without a shadow of a doubt - I would have to be _extremely_ dense to do so! . . . .
And, as this apt maxim so rightly summarizes;
*_Religion was invented the day the first conman met the first fool!''_*
"Teaching" Ray Comfort is ridiculous. How is he going to make a living if he admits he's wrong?
+Jemase He can get a real job.
Well no he's probably go into the infomercial diet supplements or multi level marketing or other such scams. I mean, he's had a lot of experience perpetuating them.
At 36:25 ... I passed out face first into the floor in August 2021. If not for my hand somehow getting between my nose and the floor I have very little doubt I would have died. Five weeks later, I graduated to grandpa and have played an integral part in my granddaughters life ever since. To be sure nothing focuses your life more than a near death experience. I'm just glad my prior life before that fall was exactly as it still is ... not neck deep in religious nutter butter dogmas! Imagine wasting your one precious life thinking some all knowing all powerful sky wizard is waiting to send you to burn forever or let you pass the pearly gates into Zombieland
Trusting The Bible
I often run across Christians who claim the bible is the inerrant word of god. They claim if there were any contradiction between what science said, or what their own eyes saw, or what their mind said was possible, they would trust the bible. [If they did not trust their own eyes, how could they trust their reading of the bible?] These people cannot possibly have read the entire bible. It says too many crazy things that they could not possibly actually believe, like the flat earth. Why do they hold the bible in such high esteem? Because they have been told over and over and over that it is the inerrant word of god. That fact becomes one of the features of the universe they never question. It is just something everybody knows. If they think about it, there no evidence of any kind god had anything to do with writing the bible, and dozens of reasons why that is highly unlikely. Granted, the Bible claims divine authorship, but so does every other holy book. I have written elsewhere how you can know for sure the creator of the universe did not write the bible. It is a human forgery. The quality is no where near good enough.
Roedy Green I remember, once I got in an arguement with someone on my alt account and they kept saying "So you disagree that the earth is round?".
I promptly reminded them of how the earth is described (A flat disk divided into four quadranths held up by god and surrounded by the firmirment) and they outright re-phrased the scripture. Their response was "The original hebrew said sphere". All I could say was "You're really good at translating a dead language". Then the topic was completely dropped. I guess they weren't really a linguist.
Roedy Green One aspect pertaining to all of the ancient holy books that I have never been able to accept is; why would an omnipotent being choose the written word to communicate with an almost completely illiterate populace?
I think it is funny how Ken Hamm created an Ark Museum instead of creating a Ark, filling it with a animals and proving the story to be true.
This was such a great speech. I'm completely floored Mr. Ra. Great job!
God’s sense of direction is worse than mine, and I get lost in the backyard.
Meaning of life: To live to the fullest, leaving your spot in history and the world cleaner and better than you came into it.
Ive heard america is going really hardcore christain lately. As someone from germany who really doesnt want that for any country I am leaving this comment under the video so that the algorithm comes here. Have a good one everyone.
Aron is very knowledgeable and a great public speaker. Always a pleasure to watch his videos!
When he speaks he animates and that makes the speech just that more memorable. Perfect.
Rock on, Aron!
Seriously, fantastic presentation.
I find it beyond childish when i have to walk on eggshells when religeon comes up around my parents/inlaws. Imagine being a grown adult, and getting upset emotion over someone they claim to love, having a different irrelevant belief?
"Nineteen Hundred!!!"
Dave Bergmann I was about to shit bricks, luckily it was so short, lol.
lol, just heard it as i read this comment, what did he say originally i wonder
Dave Bergmann lol if u have headphones on its pretty jarring
RE:Think Indeed, that's why I almost shat bricks. It really scared me
That was scary XD
Coolness points for singing Stranglehold (I think Nugent is a pigheaded manchild now, but that's a classic tune). Double-coolness points for emulating the manner of Hudson from the film Aliens (around 21:23... "game over, man").
What the heck St Louis is where I drill and only 2 hours away. I totally would've went had I known.
Aron, you might want to drop the banhammer on v. HELENO HENZO before he fills up the comments section with spam.
wonderful video
Great lecture, thank you very much, watched all of it
I like the song at the end
What a great place to give this talk! Thank you Aaron for your incredibly valuable videos! Donate to his patron! It is a better use of money than most orgs.
37:38 Watching this video alone in the dark and with headphones, that sudden change of voice pitch creeped the hell out of me! Like if the devil had temporarily taken possession of the video :P
This guy is a treasure.
brilliant as always.
Afvckingmen! Well done, great speech, Aron!
AronRa is to religion what Unit Testing to software.
When you said "Racoons know that" it made Jesus sound dumb and stupid.😂😂😂😂😂😂
At this point in time fourteen people have given this video a thumbs down. Perhaps they just missed the correct option. Fat finger syndrome.
Assuming their intent is to actually give a thumb down rating I still am still comforted. One hundred percent of our population cannot even be shown that there is a reason to use reason. We can still be satisfied with 99+%.
John Walsh 14 butt hurt fundamentalists
The majority of the human population believes in myths.
Disappointed to hear AronRa espouse the Malthusian fallacy.
On the same web page titled "The Reason for Reason," TH-cam has placed an ad for "America and Britain in Prophecy" by the Restored Church of God. "Great prophecies will soon stagger all of civilization -- learn the future now!" Good grief.
It's that idiot that "Aron has made so many videos against.
Marilyn Newman Ah yes, I see the leader of the Restored COG is David C. Pack. Yet another of the religious profiteers of the world.
Lee Brown You wana know how dumb he is? I heard him on a documentary saying trains can't miss you because they don't have steering wheels!
Marilyn Newman That's a weird comment, for sure, but if he means a train can't steer out of the way if you stand on the tracks... well, I guess he's right... What point was he making when he said it?
Lee Brown My best guess, is that trains need steering wheels. But, he's so full of it, it's hard to say.
A good friend of mine made an excellent assertion when asked what he thought death would be like by a christian.
He said, "Well, I was born in 1981. I don't know, but I suspect it'll be pretty much like 1975."
Great!
Thanks Aron Ra. I saw a "Life Hacks" video where a guy proved opening the bottom of a banana was better than trying the ( Ray Comfort's ) top. If its squishy on thop, the bottom is easier. OMFG don't tell Ray even though his banana is genetically altered. Which he admits and dismisses.
One of your best. I wish more people could see.
Same here. But some people are just too willfully blind. Like Heleno Pendejo for instance.
seatspud Oh feck are you talking about Heleno Henzo?
Bad Girl
Yep.
seatspud Ha ha. Oh joy! That fetid little miscreant just keeps on popping up all over the place! Apologies for just jumping in to your conversation there, by the way. I just saw the name Henzo and it immediately set my teeth on edge. We've just had to get Twitter to suspend/delete his most recent account after he returned under yet another incarnation, to harass and bombard atheists with his rabid, nonsensical drivel. Again! He is relentless!
+AaroRa, the joke about Israelites walking the desert is funny, but the book itself never says that.
In Exodus they reach the mountain in two to three months, and by the time god finishes giving instructions and they scout the land, in Numbers 14:29, god declares they would camp and everyone will die.
They didn't get lost for 40 years, they camped:
Breaking news!!!! Water is wet!
Really? I'll have to investigate that. LOL
Please do. I could use the confirmation, seeing as how I just made the biggest scientific discovery in history.
Bobby Duckett It does indeed seem to be wet. But, hold it, my sparkling ice peach nectarine is wet. Does this mean wet has nothing to do with water?
It is more likely that all things that can be wet have some kind of relationship with water in some form, or another. Allow me to run some tests.....
Creationists would most definitely refuse to get in the time machine, and I know that because we can see Flat Earthers doing that right now. When you ask them if Elon Musk offered to take them into space in his private rocket ship, or if Jeff Bezos offered to sail them around the world in his mega-yacht, to prove that the Earth was spherical, they all say they wouldn't even get in. And of course, Flat Earthers ARE creationists.
37:37 "My grandmother was born in the year N I N E T E E N H U N D R E D"
Yeah, the idea of an all-powerful being watching over us, guiding and sheltering us, and punishing bad people is of course an appealing notion. But believing it just because it's a nice story (which actually requires ignoring much of what that book says, but that's a whole other thing) isn't beneficial in any way. I was never a strong believer, but when I did think there could be a god, I was just frustrated by the ugliness in the world. I mean, all the ugliness still isn't good, but at least I know there's no magical quick fix that's just being denied us by an uncaring god.
Intro Guy needs to practice his intros.....
When I've gotten the "were you there" question, my response is always yes. Then when they object I tell them that they can't possibly know I wasn't there because I remember that they weren't. It's a fucking stupid argument, all you have to do is take it to it's stupid logical conclusion.
What happened at 37:39 with the sound?
+manamaster6 It was the Great Spaghetti Monster fiddling with the audio so as to revel its presence to all of the Pastafarians who know what the real sauce of everything really is.
manamaster6 IT WAS SATAN....O_O.
Brilliant Bugger Correction: ...the Great FSM *noodled* with the audio....
+manamaster6 Non-linear audio editing is a thing that exists.
stlchucko
'Noodled', such a silly word.
The "chronodrone" he mentions at the start of this video sounds like the "worm-cam" in the sci-fi novel THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by Arthur C. Clarke and Steven Baxter. I think there's an Isaac Asimov short story that involves a similar futuristic device for viewing the past. Elon Musk needs to invest some time and money into inventing the worm-cam/chronodrone . . .
AronRa seems to think evolution disproves God. But it doesn't. It only disproves YEC and one very poor interpretation of scripture.
TrustinJC When does he use evolution as a way to disprove god? You cannot disprove god, any more than you can prove there is a god, and I don't think he is dumb enough to make such a claim. Evolution disproves creationism, and in effect overturns the dogmatic scriptures which the christian god is based. If anything it proves the bible is not the absolute truth which it claims to be, but does nothing for the argument for or against a god.
AronRa certainly is pushing the idea that evolution disproves God and Religion. It is plainly the case for anyone not stuck on the notion of defending AronRa no matter how many false assertions that he makes.
TrustinJC Evolution is what it is, kind of the facts of life on this planet. This fact disproves nothing but does not conform to your beliefs. You can think past this, that is about the only way or you will be defensive, as you are.
Relax, and understand none of this removes your god, just some of the dated ideas it comes with.
your arguing a strawman, this has never been the claim of evolution to disprove god nor religion. all it does is remove the idea of intelligent design, and unless you require this to believe in god or have a faith your statement is just wrong
I suggest you either re-read my comments or go to my homepage. Because I make it clear in my comments, homepage, and videos that I am a Theistic Evolutionist, which means I believe in a very old earth and evolution.
I have even explained in videos that scripture does not support a young earth but rather a very old one.
So I'm not defensive in the least. I am simply pointing out the many flaws, errors, and mistakes in AronRa's lecture.
Never been more happy to be atheist from birth. I went to Sunday school for about 2 weeks and knew it was bs when I was 10 years old. My parents never forced anything me. It was my choice to go. I've always loved them for not forcing religion on me.
Yeah, I would say parents forcing christianity on their children is the worst way too go about it. Alot of cases it would back fire and turn children away. sorry you feel the way you do about what is recorded in the Bible, "maybe" some day you'll have a turn around when it comes to it.
Athiest rule and if everyone had the genius of Aronra we all would be schooled in the right way to look at religion as it is all just books that are copied or have been copied for years! The Zeitgeist if you look it up can tell you in10 minutes that from Egypt and long before it is proven to be only copy's of so many other religions but until you do some homework you will be amazed at how many times and other religions it has been copied. Religion is definitely not in anyway true but there will always be humans that are so afraid that religion is not at all true they cannot function as they have been brain washed so to speak and have no hope of seeing the bigger and proper picture.
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that guy begging the audience to clap for ramen podcast was cringy i hate that guy now
Since "Heaven" and "Sky" are the same word in most languages, living forever in heaven could involve space colonization with God's help.
The need to believe seems to come down to one thing: the fear of death. It's so hypocritical of religious people to accuse atheists of having nothing to live for when it's their own religious beliefs that literally make life a meaningless stepping stone to an imaginary better world.
caffiene free diet coke why even bother drinking ti is that product placement or just left there I woke up in weird mood
I think his ultimate message is that denying and ignoring the truth in this world will ultimately prematurely destroy us and our environment. Religion promotes a mindset to ignore truth and reason. Time to wake up.
Christianity is based on the bible. The bible is a load of none sense by a literal definition. Once you've got that into your head you can forget about religion and get on with your life. No need to argue about it with faith believers.
Lol, I LOVE the pony-tail dude; he's my favorite part of this video: you just see him goin' about his day, holdin' up back-packs, walking behind AronRA, carrying out folding chairs . . . it's so cute. :)
I love that the ad I had at the beginning of this was for pureflix, the irony is wonderful!
Man .. i love this guy way of thinking ..
The men all had ADHD! No wonder they were lost!
thank's aaron awesome speech