What you're missing, Forrest is that it's your CONTENT that matters to us. The prettiest lighting doesn't make up for crappy content. Your content is 110%, even if we have to start calling you Casper.
He is also good-looking guy,, and I have a hard time believing that the lighting really made him look bad. People are usually their own harshest critics when it comes to their own image in pictures / videos
It took me entirely too long to realize his name is Forrest…. And I couldn’t figure out if this was suppose to be some sort of insult (Forrest Gump)…. And now I feel like an idiot 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
2 options: 1 Use a piece of printer paper, adjust the white balance on the camera until the paper looks white and lock the white balance there. Right now, the white balance is set too low. 2 Bump it up bit by bit and keep reviewing the footage until you find the setting you like.
@@Strype13 a major thing disabled people face is dehumanization through infantilization, where people treat us as though we're too stupid to understand our own lives, needs, and healthcare. This is the exact same thing, except wrapped in a religious packaging. It's clearly about us being "pure" and "innocent" which makes us more spiritually pure and godly to be around, when obviously "pure" and "innocent" are traits often associated with children. it's funny that my source of disgust resonates from a place of constantly being talked down to able bodied/minded people like you, and here you are talking down to me about things I experience daily. As though you know better! I hope this has been a spiritual experience for you, Strype.
As someone who was homeschooled and then went off to Bible college and literally never had ANY access to information about evolution before TH-cam, you have no idea how much I appreciate your making this information available for free
I come from a similar background, and I'm so appreciative of these free videos! Knowledge feels incredibly valuable when it was kept from you for a good portion of your life.
You will need to use gels for the lights. I have those same LED lights and they have a slot to slide gels into. Typically, in film and video there is a gel color called “Bastard Pink” which is great for skin tones. It’s a very light pink color that you don’t really see, but the camera does and can balance out skin tones. Depending on someone skin color, there are different tones of gels for skin colors, like some people work better with a light amber, but the Bastard Pink is a really good one for most skin colors.
The point is that they always believe they are correct every time. Even their false corrections. I’m talking about scientists. Many often think they are correct on something but then later do corrections but are still incorrect but don’t think they are again…
Guy presents himself as Catholic and yet, I went to a catholic school and was taught big bang and evolution without a “but” at the end of those lessons
That struck me, too. I’m Australian and was raised Catholic. I’m an atheist, but many of my family members are practicing Catholics. They all accept the Big Bang and evolution as fact- it doesn’t interfere with their faith. This guy would horrify them. However, there ARE extremely right wing, anti-science Catholics out there. This guy and his associates are representative of them.
20:40 Something my bio teacher said that stayed with me to this very day: "Mutation is just change, nothing more nothing less. Whether a change is beneficial or detrimental is not decided by the organism the change happens to, but by the circumstances the change happens in. Short legs are detrimental when you need to reach high tree branches, but beneficial when you need to hide under rocks. Light skin is detrimental if it doesn't protect you against skin cancer by sunlight, but it's beneficial if it gets you enough Vitamin D in cloudy climates. But in the end, change, is just change."
Another example: Beautiful Scandinavian blue eyes result from a point change in a gene that lowers the "normal" levels of melanin in the iris... Stop erecting the brown curtain, and blue can shine through... Who wouldn't want to "make offspring" with someone with mesmerising blue eyes??? (The mutation was beneficial at latitudes far away from the intense tropical sun...)
@@rustycherkas8229 Oooooooook, that kinda went in a weird direction. Like, I totally get what you are saying, and yes blue eyes are appealing, but the way you frased was just a bit too close to white supremacy for my taste.
@@eldersun5110 Absolutely not my intention! I apologise that some may interpret any mention of "melanin" in terms of "race". I'm a creature of my culture and admit to being intrigued by people who have (through no more personal effort than merely being conceived) physical attributes that are out of the ordinary. As Proust said about love, "It's our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person." It's my understanding that ocular melanin was advantageous to our distant ancestors living near the equator, but when, at high latitudes, a mutation occurred that stopped its production, this mutation was not only innocuous, but may also have conferred a "reproductive advantage" to its carriers. I've also been known to drop my jaw when I see a pair of eyes so dark that they appear to be nothing but giant pupils. Being 'exceptional' is not "owned" by any single race or culture, but we must recognise there are individuals who have exceptional (however one defines that for oneself) characteristics. We're complex creatures at the mercy of 'triggers' that are beyond our control. Some like "shoes"... Go figure... 🙂
@@Kacpa2 Maple tree seeds come to mind with a similar situation, but then I suppose we could argue that every seeds are made to be moved around, like with fruits and other wind carried seeds.
"Humans are animals, [...] we move to much to be plants and we're too big to be bacteria." Brilliant. And I had the same reaction as you about accusing someone of being possessed by a demon x)
there's probably several animals that "willingly" go without water cause they evolved to fit a niche, and as barren deserts are there's thing that evolved to live in them
@@innocentiuslacrim2290 Technically I've gone years without beer, but try getting me to go without meat and meat is better not be something you are made of...
a common theme I’m seeing here is that people will vastly misunderstand the science behind certain explanations, and then use their misunderstanding as evidence as to why we shouldn’t believe in it.
"LMAO creationism sheeple hahaXD!1!" Says the atheism community who are mostly right wingers and believes in political propaganda and denies climate change.
@@razi_man Which demographic am I in? The fact that I don't believe anything at face value is exactly why I'm an atheist. This same characteristic means I don't blindly follow political propaganda and over the years, I have witnessed the effects of climate change. Summers are getting hotter, winters are less cold, plus various factors that come in hand with that.
@@reubenmanzo2054 What the fuck are you talking about? More than half of the right wingers and right leaning sheeples I have met are self proclaimed godless "free thinkers". I find it funny when people make fun of "creationists" for being "delusional" when half of your entire base is literally brainwashed with mind rotting propaganda, if this isn't universe destroying irony, I don't know what is.
Fatima is a city in portugal where three kids in 1917 claimed to have had visions of the future from Mary. It's hard to tell if they were just making it up for fun or if they truly believe it. The Catholic church LOVES the story. The amount of tv movie I had to watch about this story growing up is unbelievable
The kids that saw holy Mary were not making it up, there was actually also a time when people went to Fatima to see the holy Mary and then they saw alot of crazy things happen like the sun going back and forth and even the press was involved in it aswell, no one cannot explain the incident nor atheists cannot explain or prove it
1st - how do you know? Where you one of the kids? 2nd- Google mass hysteria, the children of Fatima were no different from witch trials or the laughing epidemic.@@MikolajK_yt
@@MikolajK_yt They can't prove it because there is not a single drop of COMPELLING EVIDENCE. You are also talking about Portugal. A very religious (catholic) country.
@@Miblive there are actually eye witness testimony about it and even the press in Portugal were involved in the event aswell and they said that it was real and it did happen, but atheists can't prove it cause they don't know if it's true or not and there is no natural explanation towards it, that's why atheists and scientists can explain it
@@MikolajK_ytThe press reporting on something is not evidence that it happened, unless they happened to get photographs or video. The press being involved is proof that people were talking about it and making allegations at the time. It doesn't prove that the boys saw some supernatural phenomenon, it just suggests that some kids reported seeing something and that report got some adults excited.
"We are animals. Just throwing that out there. We move too much to be plants and we're too big to be bacteria!" I'm gonna need a quotewall of forrest because this guy is comedy gold.
"If you give a billion apes something to write, over a long enough time they will produce the entire works of Shakespeare" Yes! If you give apes enough time, this will happen... in fact, is HAS happened. We know the NAME of the ape, that wrote all the works of Shakespeare... IT WAS SHAKESPEARE!!!
“Nothing evolves on purpose”. Exactly. This is what creationists get wrong the most when trying to debunk evolution. They themselves cannot fathom a world without some kind of governing entity or faith, so they imagine evolution as this powerful force that scientists are assuming drives the existence of things, instead of something that just kinda happens.
Yes, THIS ⬆ Basically it's their ignorance projected onto EVERYTHING. I am still struggling though, why it doesn't make the least difference if you explain it. I don't know any creationist personally (not being American helps I guess) but I know the phenomenon from conspiracy whackadoos. The latter at least have their "defense" of "It is all part of the conspiracy" if you want to debunk something but what do these brainfarts reply, when you tell them that they don't just have the FACTS wrong but don't even understand the CONCEPT they are trying to attack ? I just don't get it.
Exactly. I have always been of the opinion that many people have a deep desire to believe in spiritual and religious ideas to complete their acceptance of life. It is this that the creationists and religious people exploit to further their cause. They never promote just the idea of love your fellow man but extend the idea to almighty all powerful to justify their faith and lead susceptible people down a path of blindly accepting and following them. I see it as a flaw in human cognitive process. They say "there must be a god" or "just look around you". I know an intelligent person who is a creationist and religious. They blindly only reference supportive arguments for their view which reinforces it. It's articles like the Kennedy Report presented above that have no factual basis but are telling people they have the real truth that are most misleading. André
@@SoundzAlive1 I totally agree about having a deep desire to believe in that type of stuff. I'm still trying to figure out everything, and I have no reason at all to believe in a god. But, for example, I've been sick for nearly 20 days, and my automatic response for around the fifth to tenth day was to ask god for an explanation, and I had to keep telling myself that was stupid. I guess after five days and several trips to the hospital it was clear that I wouldn't get an answer from some sky wizard who had never helped me before.
@@nyandoesthings the reason you go through that is due to indoctrination you were forced to go to church since childhood and led to believe that so now you are learning and accepting the actual truth it's hard to let go of what has been planted in your mind and you sometimes argue with yourself about it and even feel guilty. I know what you're going through my entire family believes that.
It all boils down to the old "I don't understand it so it does not make sense" argument. The art is in looking smart and superior while delivering the argument.
Which is what I found so confusing about this particular mouthpiece. Usually, Creationist organizations manage to find a woefully ignorant bozo who at least possesses the ability to look and/or sound like they know what they're talking about (even though, to any rational person, it's obvious they don't). This guy, on the other hand... immediately delusional. A man who looks extremely uncomfortable and out-of-place in a suit, just driveling pure nonsense straight out of the gate.
What a ingenious quote. As someone with a below average IQ, it may be even harder to comprehend the exact precision of Quantum Physics than an it would absolutely typical person, so I definitely agree with these two comments.
@@BenjaminEaster-b8b IQ is stupid and people who brag about it are lame. I say that intelligence is determined by one's desire to learn as well as one's ability to think critically. And right now, you're learning about science and engaging in discussion. Essentially, people who are actually intelligent shouldn't need to score highly on some test to prove that they're intelligent. They prove their intelligence simply by being who they are. And, well, your interest in this stuff proves your intelligence. At least to me it does.
The Virgin Mary “appeared” to three kids in Fatima, Portugal during WW1 and gave them prophecies and performed “miracles”. The Catholic Church tend to give her loads of different names based on where she appeared. Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Knock, Our Lady of Fatima… same Lady!
...And the Lady of Fatima term is used outside of Portugal by those that find the story compelling. It is arguably the best documented of all of the biblical or biblically adjacent stories (at least ones that involve magic). Though, to be clear, not well enough documented to be proof of anything. Mind your sources.
Thanks for the context, the only Fatima i knew that is related to religion of some kind was Muhammad's daughter so i thought they're islamic apologists at first
@@mrwensveen You can tell that I was agreeing with the OP, because I started my post with "...And". As in: "I'm agreeing with what you said, and here is some more info." The "mind your sources" sentence was in the context of documentation. If you decide to research the fable of Fatima, you will find SOURCES that will tell you that it is well documented proof. Those SOURCES are the churches or affiliates thereof. Try to find independent SOURCES. Thanks for your reply though.
there is truth and science, and there is distortion of science, these guys are telling you that you came from a fish, a theory with more holes that a bee hive but they are still standing on it. you were created you are not an accident.
@@endofdays7708 there is truth *in* science. A lot of it. And we share a common ancestor with fish, we didn't come from the fish we have nowadays, becausethose fish also evolved from that common ancestor. And where are the holes? I and plenty of others would be glad to explain to you what you're missing. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's immediately false. You are correct, we are not an accident, but you are incorrect about us being created. How we are now is not an accident, but a series of many random mutations that were selected for by what benefits the species most. What makes us survive better and reproduce more stays, and what is harmful to us is killed off naturally. It's grim but in the past, children who were unable to function properly were killed, not by other humans (although, correct me if I'm wrong, Spartans killed sickly children to pick out the weak ones), but by diseases or other predators because they are easy prey. And the ones who were able to function properly lived because they were able to support themselves in the environment. If you just look into science as a whole, but especially evolution, with an open mind, you will find all of the answers you are looking for. But if you refuse to learn, there's no way to help you.
@@hellovicki6779 it's probably the list of standard answers: narcissism, ego, lack of critically examining what he says, lack of seeing his views through another's eyes, etc.
I'm pretty sure that you can't be a Catholic and go against the pope but the pope says evolution is a real thing. Also it was a Catholic priest that came up with the big bang. Nought for 2 so far.
@@hellovicki6779 Because to him there IS NO PROBLEM with his statement. God is his authority, not science. How hard is this for you brainy people to understand?
thank you sooo much for calling out this guy’s ableism, forrest! lots of people seem to think it’s totally fine to say stuff like that and don’t even see how gross it is, it really hurts to hear as a disabled person. love your content and feel a lot safer on your channel!
I don't even think the ableism was the worst offense there. It was that he thinks the suffering of the disabled is a spiritually good thing for others who interact with them. If I believed in a god who did that, as this fool apparently does, I'd have to hate that god.
@@jursamaj that particular comment of his IS ableist, it is included in the ableism I was commenting on, but I do agree it was the most disgusting thing he said in that string of garbage. I hope I never hear something that abhorrent again…
Absolutely loved the vid and all of your content on "The Line" so far. You've become one of my favorite people to watch any and all content from. Keep doin' what you're doin'! 🤘😎🤘
Hello! I’m a photographer! I have some tips. I can see that the issue that you were having is that you only have harsh lighting which creates strong shadows so one thing you could do is put a sheet over the lights to defuse them or you can point them at your white ceiling which will reflect most of the light and make it softer and bounce back onto your face also you should look up three-point lighting basically what it is is having one light slightly to the side of you and another one on the opposite to fill your shadows and then one slightly behind you to separate yourself from your background
Every time I hear the "missing link" argument, I'm reminded of an old joke: A creationist points out two species and says, "A could never evolve into B. Where's the missing link?" The scientist goes out, comes back, and says, "We found a transitional fossil C that shows an evolutional link between A and B." The creationist smirks and says, "Ah, but now there are TWO missing links for you to find: from A to C and from C to B!"
And so on and so on, until the scientist says, "No, we haven't found the link between X and H yet, so--" The Creationist replies, "SO IT DOESN'T EXIST! Your whole theory is wrong! Convert to Christianity and believe as I do or go to Hell for believing in Satanic LIES!" ...wow, I made this joke rather depressing.
@@slevinchannel7589 Yes, SciMan Dan has very good channel, lots of Flat Earth stuff but recently expanding to other nonsense. We need more of these channels. The only problem is I'm learning new ways people are dumb. Which makes me feel like I'm getting dumber...
@@Mitsoxfan I have the opposite response. I never knew my level of scientific and historical understanding was so much above other people! And then I remember that they vote, and I get sad.
I do agree that the monkeys with typewriters parable about randomness is quite terrible. When I first heard it I was struck, but in the passing years I've realized that limits and data vs information make it one for the dustbin.
Yea brilliant. My new argued against evolution. Evolution doesn’t happen, but populations of animals change over time depending on different selection pressures.
Why do you atheist talk about evolution like it's one theory? Even the idiot of this video acts as though the guy he's critiquing says that evolution isn't real, when if fact all he said is there are problems. Space can move faster than light so you cant judge the size of the universe by measuring the light off galaxy's. adaptation isn't evolution btw. Its only the beginning. If your going to claim to be an expert than you should start by showing you understand the basics.
@@williampennjr.4448 In that case, may I respectful advise you to move the comment so that it’s a direct reply to the video. My experience is that very few people read the replies to comments unless directly addressed. To address your question, my understanding is that “The Theory of Evolution” is the overall idea that populations change over time, and within that idea there are a multitude of models and fields of research that try to show the specific ways those populations change. Given the scope of all that research, it’s not feasible to address all the individual parts, so unless there is a very specific point we’re trying to make, we use the generic term.
As a 72 year-old, retired chemist and physician, I wholeheartedly agree with your efforts to educate the younger generation (and anyone else who will listen). I was raised as a conservative Christian and was actively discouraged from learning "science." I am so glad that my innate inquisitive nature compelled me to read and experiment with everything I could while living on a farm, in close proximity to the natural world. After watching the cycles of life and the detailed interaction between living creatures and their environment, the formal education was easily accepted while abstract negation of all of those observed facts was easily rejected. I attained a B.A. in Chemistry, Physics and Math, an M.Ed. in Secondary Science Education and a D.C. Doctor of Chiropractic degree. The M.Ed., earned when I was 51 years old, allowed me to teach in Charter and Public Schools, through college, for 13 years. I am grateful to be alive and to have been raised in a time and a country where knowledge is easily accessible and easily verified. Free! Free! Free at last!
In my opinion it's inmoral to deliberately hide scientific knowledge from your kids, only to indoctrinate them with pseudoscience. Kids need to have access to verified scientific knowledge. I'm so glad I grew up in a family that wasn't under any specific belief system that restricted knowledge. I have always been a curious child, that watched documentaries and observed nature and natural phenomenons, and I empathize with you and all the kids that must have had an absolute mental chaos from all the things they've been indoctrinated that had no correlation with reality.
@@sombodysdad But life is here and reproduces itself all over the Earth. It would require rewinding time to see details if how life actually developed but human ingenuity, science and technology have investigated, deduced, invented and produced the vast array of the engineering, medicine, communication, transportation, agriculture, food preservation and a vast array of other explanations that you gladly accept every minute of every day of your life. In spite of all that, you refuse to seriously consider the same process of scientific investigation and conclusions if they conflict in a very limited number of areas influenced by dogmatic, unproven, bronze-age mysticism, also known as religion. That is completely illogical!
As an M.D. I struggle almost every day with people that argue with science. The problem is i have to keep calm and convince( somehow) them that I'm not going to hurt their child( I am a pediatrician). The argument is not about faith. My grandma told me that God works through people! I am 40 yearse old, i am an atheist but still my grandma's words make sense to me! I love your content. I want you to do more science videos, but i understand why you choose to do this stuff. Keep up the good work!
People seem to not realize that they brought their kids there, you did not force them to do it. So if they have concerns regarding you hurting their kids, why did they do it ?
Those same people have probably not so much as take an anatomy of first aid class ironically. I took Combat Life Saver and EMT Basic in the military and Emergency First Responder at City College of San Francisco and it gave me huge respect for medical knowledge and those who have it. My sister and niece both work in hospitals in non medical fields and even they get flack from fools, it's mind blowing.
“god works through people” is such a great phrase for both the religious and areligious. i’m definitely going to keep that in my back pocket for later use
I love these videos. I'm someone who grew up never once hearing anything about religion form anyone in my family, but never hearing anything scientific or intelligent either. A homeless orphan by age 15, I wound up with a nasty drug addiction (heroin...) and had a hard time with the concept of "A Higher Power" when trying to go to 12-step programs for help. I got so desperate by about 26 that I started going to church because I had no faith in my ability to stop using. I was clean for a couple years and living in a christian sober living program in a small apartment building, they offered to let me stay for free while I found work or school. I had nowhere else to go after getting out of prison for stealing a car. I started going to college and taking courses to become a drug counselor and I remember I was getting to the point where the questions I had been asking the church were not getting answers. The program told me to go find a church of any denomination that I felt comfortable in, so I had started going to a church downtown because they had a rainbow flag and I knew I would be accepted there, but when the people that ran the christian living apartment found out they asked me about my sexuality - and I answered honestly. They threw me out immediately without warning.. I called my parole agent and told him right away, because I knew "moving without permission" was a violation. It didn't matter that I called... When I went to report to the parole office that week, they violated my parole and put me in cuffs, because "I was kicked out of a sober living program". It didn't matter that I was kicked out for being queer, it just mattered that I broke a rule and "moved without authorization". I was put in a parole violation center for 9 months, failing all my classes and putting me thousands of dollars in debt. I got out of that place and had to start all over again - from a homeless shelter this time. I was never able to catch up with the school debt in order to be allowed to go back.... But I've been clean still, 10 years now. I ended up focusing on art and doing tattoos, because I only needed to afford equipment to start making money. I had gone to the church for help, and that was my experience. When I was in the shelter, it was also run by a church, and they forced us to go to service at 5pm in order to have a bed for the night.... I see a lot of churches that want to help people, but there are always conditions or ulterior motives. I love these videos because they show the truth of what they are saying. They say these things to anyone that will listen as if they're giving them the truth, but they aren't, they're lies. For a religion that talks of their enemy as the "deceiver" , I've never felt more deceived by anyone who acted like they cared about me. I know no one will read this, but it helped me to say it nonetheless lol.
So many stories of injustice in the US. Frankly I'm so glad I didn't emigrate there after college as I had planned back in the late 80s. Back in the pre internet days it looked enticing. The reality seems utterly brutal.
@@justdefacts It kinda is. As a young Autistic American (I promise that's relevant to how my country treated me in the 2000s), I want to apologize for the weird overglorification campaigns of that era. Yeah, no. It's not the perfect "freedom site" that it claims to be at all.
I'm so sorry you went through that. I read every word you wrote. I'm glad you're doing well but you never should have had to go through those horrible struggles to begin with. America is truly a diseased society, and religion is surely a root cause of much of the illness.
I'm a little late at 46 yrs, but I am aspiring to gain the exciting knowledge you have acquired. I became an Atheist at 35 after studying to be the next cool small town preacher. Ken Ham was my creation idol and Josh McDowell was my apologist of choice. Thennnnnn, I seen a Matt Dillihunty debate, after that I realized my red flags throughout my great 35 year experience as a Christian were warranted. I've come to unlearn what I was indoctrinated into here in the Ozarks. I must say, without folks like you and so many other atheist, humanist, naturalist, scientists, on youtube I'd feel absolutely out of place and alone. Ty sir
I've always found it absolutely delightful that until recently one of the biggest factors in the loss of Christians to Atheism was Seminary. Seminary schools have about a 70% drop-out rate with many dropouts becoming Atheists because the more you study the Bible, the less it holds up. Now, I'm not an Atheist (though I understand their argument), I'm actually an Omnitheist. I believe that all of the gods exist. I believe this because I believe that all that energy that people have put into the belief of various gods, had to go somewhere. I like to believe we willed the gods into existence. Now, maybe there was a God that existed before people and maybe there wasn't. There's no good evidence either way. But what I don't believe is that a single God existed before the all of anything and everything and "He" willed everything into existence individually all the way down to the 3600 varieties of mosquitoes that exist today. If anything, a God or a group of gods (I think the group of gods is more likely if this scenario were to be true) would have created the systems by which life is governed, and then allowed life to evolve into existence. That's assuming I'm incorrect about us willing them into existence and it being the other way around. I fully expect to be wrong, at least in some way. But these beliefs make things a little more interesting until I reach the end.
@@DisIntegratedLife I can respect that. I've hypothesized similar ideas, but am not willing to latch onto any until sufficient evidence. And who knows, if we keep asking questions and using a somewhat balanced mind of logic, and reason with imagination and creative thought processes to keep new ideas and interest, then who knows. Always let evidence guide us and try to never be so certain again on any such world view without sufficient evidence. This identity suit can wreak havoc on one's physiological mechanisms when it where that skin suit so close. Once it sloughs off, the exposure to truth can be overwhelming and painful. But once shed, the freedom can stretch without anxiety and the actual goodness of self apart from any deity can be seen, valued and nurtured through more good will to human kind. I am a hard atheist with Yahweh and would bet my only life that the biblical god doesn't exist. And if by one percent it did, well I'd have words w it, then spit on its goddamn feet and walk myself to hell.
Light is obscenely complicated, you need warmer colours. Your LEDs are very cool in color and will make you look pale Your camera may have a setting to make everything look warmer so look for that in settings. Try to boost reds and cut back on highlights.
@tie pup true. Without going to the set in would be hard for me to recommend stuff, I am just a hobby level photographer warm light gels to get two birds stoned at once. Cheap, dead simple, and lightweight they are easy enough to recommend for photos and video.
I think this is mostly an issue of the camera settings. if all lights are around the same temperature the camera should be able to somewhat accurately set the white balance, but if there's a slight difference between them you may need to set it yourself. An easy way to set it is to have a white object like a sheet of paper in the view, and to tune the settings til the paper looks pure white. Getting new lights shouldn't be necessary imo.
@@louiscyfer6944 yeah “your camera may have a setting to make everything look warmer” right there in black and white bro. Already suggested… literally the first suggestion in fact.
@@beverly719 Well, the Midwest does have a disproportionate number of places where critical thinking goes to die. Maybe that’s what he’s referring to🤔😏😂
So this guy's entire method of disproving evolution summed up: "Evolution doesn't make sense to me. I don't understand evolution, therefore it's not real."
It's the basis for any evolution denier really. There's a whole bit on Job about how one shouldn't presume to know the mind or processes of God (which is a touch outdated, since among the "inexplicable" is how birds fly or how a fetus forms in the womb) which you think most believers would fall into (and many do, even highly influential portions of the Catholic Church does) but really evolution deniers are just people lashing out and attacking what they see as an emotional threat. It needn't be any sort of threat, but to them it must be because it runs counter to an internalized (metaphorical) narrative of the nature of the universe and thus the nature of man.
It’s really been surprising to see just how many people apply this logic to almost all facets of their “knowledge.” A mind so open, they already know everything. Even if it’s completely fucking incorrect.
You should try white balancing the camera to the lights that you are using, also try to reduce the ISO to make everything a little darker, also a faster lens would help separating you from the background making it a little more blurry.
Science mandates that the ideas being passed off as science have to be testable. There isn't any evidence that nature can produce coded information processing systems and living organisms are ruled by them. There isn't even a way to test the claim that nature can produce coded information processing systems.
As an ex-Catholic and former seminarian, the Lady of Fatima is believed to have appeared to three children in the geographical location Fatima. There, several miracles were allegedly performed, including the sun "dancing" in the sky. The vision was also purported to have entrusted the children with several prophecies of doom and destruction, along with instructions on how to avoid it (namely rosaries), as well as secrets that were closely guarded. Two of the three children died before adulthood, and the other, Jacinta, lived the rest of her days in a convent. The Lady of Fatima would be an equivalent to the Lady of Guadalupe or Lourdes, which is to say the Virgin Mary but as she appeared in visions to different people around the world
@@GTchum I feel like just saying “it’s all fake” to end a conversation makes you less like the thoughtful scientist and more the Reddit atheist that watched like 3 episodes of Rick and Morty and downloaded their new personality from it. Sure when they are saying that their beliefs are the objective truth of the universe despite science or using it to justify bigotry it’s fair, but for a lot of religion, it’s just enough that the faith is real and no matter what that has a large impact on people’s lives.
The Lady of Fatima is the Catholic title for Mary, Mother of Jesus. Roman Catholicism uses the Bible but many of their traditions and practices derive from pagan religions. Including the Rosary, Purgatory, and praying to Marry which isn't biblical nor part of Christianity.
@@stephenrustebakke4459, True, but Catholics also have the Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico), The Immaculate Conception (Lourdes), and several more, such as the Lady of Sorrows. They are all canonically The Virgin Mary, but they each represent a different mission/message
Pretty sure anyone in your book club is a big enough fan that they'd have LOVED getting your old scribbled-in copy of "Evolution in Four Dimensions", LOL. Thanks for sharing the book here though too! Definitely gonna look into it.
"When their environment gets bad, the animals do go extinct or they go somewhere else and ADAPT TO THAT NEW ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY CAN THRIVE IN. They don't stay in the one that kills them" He was sooo close to getting it.
That's what gets me about this whole thing- natural selection is actually a pretty simple, self-evident concept. It's always surprising the lengths these people go to not get it.
@@nobleradical2158 Kent agrees with natural selection. What part of that don't you get? Natural selection is just that, it isn't evolution, or it would just be called evolution and not natural selection.
@@eduardopena5893 Kent? Who are you talking about, Kent Hovind? I'm talking about the guy that this video is reacting to. He clearly doesn't understand natural selection.
I grew up in a christian household and was raised with all of this. "humans aren't animals", "Evolution isn't possible" "young earth vs old earth theory" -- and just the way he asserts to know, even though- as you put it "they have never picked up your book and read it" in another video... it's frustrating. even in elementatry school I was confused when my parents tried to make sure I didn't believe in evolution, they took me out of a public school in order to avoid harry potter in 4th grade and put me in a christian school... and my learning suffered for it. So. I just want to say thanks. For doing this and being able to scientifically defend the truth vs cultish magic religion shit.
lol yeah. tho, the notion that life somehow defies the natural order is kind of fun. makes life like the rebel of the universe, and that sounds metal as fuck.
@@charlesaky1352 Valkai is truly the perfect intersection between Atheist-Channel and Science-Yotuber; it's epic. But i see the stunning trend that many dont get inspired by this to check out more of both, even though theres so many more epic ones. Serious Ones, like Professor Dave Explains, Prophet of Zod, and Planarwalk, and Belief-It-Or-Not, but also Goofy Ones like Darkmatter25, Logicked, Sir Sic, Emma Thorne, C-Catz and Creaky Blinder!
@James Kirk You do understand that the basic building blocks of life have been replicated in a lab? People made the stuff that made living organisms, without divine intervention, but with high voltage electricity. See this is what he was talking about when he spoke about having some understanding of a subject. There is a ton of scientific papers on this subject, and on how it works, all without God. Most likely, you're not asking the right people, or not understanding the answer. And you talk about evidence, except there isn't really any evidence for God. There is also arguably no evidence against. Both sides can only really argue semantics and opinions. And before you waste your time with me, I do believe in a God. Most likely though not your version of God. You see, you start by slinging insults, passive aggressive insults ("nothing is more cringeworthy (sic)" [cringe worthy, or cringe-worthy, what you wrote isn't a word] "don't have a willingness or ability to accept as true", some people request evidence, faith isn't evidence it's the exact opposite, if you claim to have evidence, you are proving the Bible wrong where it says there isn't proof, but by faith alone should you believe). Kind of not what any God wants people to be doing... mostly wants us to worry about making ourselves right and treating others with love and respect...
I’m an environmental biologist. I specialize in freshwater ecosystems in my immediate area. I can’t tell you how many time family members have said “well, you’re a scientist. How does this (insert a specific astrophysics principle) work?”. I then have to say, “I don’t know. That’s not my area of expertise. I probably don’t know anything more about it or than you do.”. I feel the same way every time a creationist begins with the Big Bang. I can explain how evolution works and the selective pressures that cause certain alleles to be selected over others, but I know next to nothing about astrophysics or physics in general.
Fatima 1917 Virgin Mary appears several times to 3 young children Later a mass hallucination involving many who witnessed an abberant sun dancing in the sky. So there now, got it?
Creationists; "Nooooo, you can't just bring up completely valid points! The children won't believe what we say and our religion will die!" Forrest; "Okay? And?"
The day religion dies can't come soon enough, sadly we still have morons that believe of a white bearded man looking at conservatives through a cloud in the sky.
The Coelacanth is actually is an example of species not changing when an environment doesn't change, i.e. it's an example of what happens when evolutionary pressures are severely diminished. At the depths where the fish lives there is little pressure on species survival. Evolution happens when environments change and what may have been detrimental to survival, such a fair skin in equatorial regions becomes a advantage in regions far away from the tropics.
@@DaveKeenan1956 I suppose I should've worded it a little better, like how it more so proves the mechanics of natural selection, but the Coelocanth does help in illustrating the point. Didn't need to evolve, barely did. Include other species that have been known to have evolved a bunch and compare situation and you've got natural selection literally presented. I mean yeah look at us humans, skin tone, hair color, etc., bc climate and whatnot Goes to show how little Creationists read...or how much they take out of context and/or misunderstand
Just gotta love the fact the guy goes "ERROR! FOUND AN ERROR!" when the Coelocanth is literally what's supposed to happen when changing as a species isn't needed
The fact is that we don't know if the coelacanths we catch today are in any way connected to the coelacanths from the Paleozoic or Mesozoic. We can't compare the genes, so this might only be a case of convergent evolution.
After watching your latest videos, it appears you've figured out your lighting problems. 🙂 I'm a audio guy, so I couldn't help you in the first place. 🤣
I often find myself overwhelmed, disheartened, and infuriated listening to my family talk about their beliefs in a religious text and their lack of trust in the scientific community that gives them their insulin, hypertension rx, and MS medication. I can’t express how grateful I am that Forrest and many others do videos like this. While it may be stress inducing for them to be reminded of how insanely misguided people guide others to the wrong solution, these moments of laughter over mutual frustration is incredibly stress relieving and appreciated! Thank you for your ongoing dedication!
Amen. My family member was in a car accident and thanked god for sparing their life. Fine, whatever. But also, thank the engineers who made the air bags and the steel supports, and thank the regulators who forced the carmakers to include these lifesaving elements in the vehicle. Thank the people who set up the 911 service, the ambulance service, and the education for the EMTs, surgeons, nurses, and other medical professionals. Thank so many other people whose contributions save lives every day.
@@pechaa Absolutely! I will forever be inspired by those who ask questions and am eternally grateful for their dedication to finding answers! There are so many incredible and life saving discoveries and inventions from people who asked why and how.
I’m honestly grateful for people like him. However, we’re BADLY getting wrecked on a daily by people like Kennedy on social media constantly. I often see people sharing conspiracy theory, or anything that takes 2 seconds of actual research to debunk and it’s super disheartening to see it even more from people of my generation. Like, we grew up with google guys. I HATE seeing those “y’all ain’t ready for that convo”, “makes you think”, “wake up people”, or 🧐🧐🧐🤔🤔🤔” all over the place for the sake of virality. Hearing my sister share anti-vax texts and repeat anti-vax/abortion rhetoric is disheartening.
God gave us great brains and creativity to explore and to Come up with sollutions for problems. But the tree of knowledge is not the same tree that gives life !! Because knowledge can be used to help BUT also used to do great harm. Tree of life is about keeping relationships healthy... it starts by to take what a person says seriously. We do not take Gods word seriously and that relationship broke... and all other relationships followed.
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” To his audience, this man is a veritable genius, because he speaks fast and uses multi-syllabic words with confidence. He can spout any old shit and his victi… demographic will believe him.
Your explanation of Hubble's constant might be the best I've heard. Great job condensing all that so clearly, in simple terms while also leaving nuggets for those who would enjoy more, then bringing us back XD
I love the logic that a lack of morality/religion has lead to shorter lifespans nowadays, yet the past two hundred years have a dramatic increase in lifespans Its almost like longer lifespans are caused by proper health care, nutrition and...um....science....
He thinks way way way back in time, before the first prophets people lived 900 or 1000s of years.... something something nephilim, something something dogpeople, something something garden eden
@@alexanderlipowsky6055 Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me just how many crazy & insane things that Creationists can blindly believe. As for that 1,000-year-old humans crap... Well, the Ancient Babylonians enslaved the Sumerians *Before* they enslaved The Ancient Hebrews, the Sumerians had a Base-60 numerical Counting-System without a dedicated Zero, the Ancient Babylonians adopted/stole this Counting-System (& likely would have forced future slaves to Learn it for efficiency purposes). That counting-system was used fairly widely at the time, throughout the Middle-Eastern Mesopotamian Region, for trade. There is an Ancient bit of Cuneiform containing a list of Sumerian Kings & their Lifeftimes, pretty much all of which Seem to be basically about 1,000 years old or more. But, considering their number-system is Base-60, for some reason dividing by approximately 12 reveals a Believable & Realistic Number. In the Bible the character known as Methuselah is the Oldest of the "Oddly-Unrealistic Aged People", having supposedly died at 960 years. Dividing his age by 12 results in a simple, but still quite old for the time, Reasonable Age of 80.
Photographer here. Two lights positioned at 45 degrees to your face and 45 degrees above your head. Distance depends on exposure based on brightness = 1/ distance ^2. As well, use a lower Kelvin color temperature (ca. 3400 degrees) rather than daylight (5200 degrees).
this is so random but i love seeing people in the comments that all have different areas of expertise, social media gathering all kinds of people together like this, enjoying the same thing, has some kind of beauty in it!!
I’ve watched this video a number of times since it came out and I have no idea how I didn’t catch this until now; 24:39 in what universe is Death Valley in the Midwestern US???
Thank you so much for making these free online. I was schooled k-12 in a private christian school, so I'm just now as an adult finding good explanations about evolution, instead of talking points about young earth creationism. Your positivity, energy, and inclusivity embody everything I loved about school growing up - It's clear that you love teaching. Thank you so much for all that you do, and please never stop teaching people.
@stitchespsychos8678 - Mr Valkai's friend Erika (of the "Gutsick Gibbon" channel) is also a great teacher around topics of evolution, Earth science, and YEC debunking. She, too, is whip-cracking smart, engaging, enthusiastic, and creative (most of the cartoon illustrations & all the animations are her own work). She is a PhD candidate and is a university teaching assistant, teaching a lab class. And us! She also went to a private religious YEC elementary and middle school. (Forrest and Erika have also appeared together a number of times as guests on other TH-cam channels.)
@@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236 No. How do you think he is? Conveying observable, testable, verifiable facts is indoctrination? I thought spewing religious bullshit about a genocidal deity and the whole world being flooded to children who are told to shut up and believe or burn in hell forever was indoctrination. You know, since it cant be verified because it has either been proven false, is logically impossible, or is just straight up evil.
@@slevinchannel7589 unfortunately, they delve more into economics and politics than evolutionary science which is valkai's field. if i had the resources to make videos id love to debunk their arguments as a civics student :)
@@fizzjerry2739 There is at least one some what vaguely-veiled anti-evolution video, I think its title was something like, the problems of evolution or something similar.
I was raised young earth Creationist and I was GOBSMACKED when I learned how many hominid fossils there actually were. And then I got REALLY REALLY MAD.
Me too! Almost every one of these reacteria videos brings tears to my eyes. So many wasted years of having garbage shoved down my throat. I HAD NO IDEA how cool all of this stuff is, and how NOT CRAZY evolution is😭😭😭😭😭
You give us hope. Deconversion rates from nonsense have never been higher and all thanks to the easy access to information that the Internet grants us. Those who are too brainwashed past all rationality will keep living in a world of fantasy, but paraphrasing what someone said: "if people weren't taught about Christianity before they were adults, it would disappear in less than a century".
@@aaronfraire9073 When will people learn that calling the other side stupid literally helps no one. These people generally were raised to believe these things. Most of the time, their entire upbringing was based around these beliefs. So when they come across something that doesn't fit, or goes against the beliefs that they were raised on, then yeah, no shit they're gonna assume that the other thing is wrong. No one wants to think that the "reality" they've been raised to believe in is wrong. I mean hell, for some people, it's their entire life. So when the other side calls them stupid or brainwashed or whatever, how do you think they're going to react? All it does is make them even more likely disavow anything that comes from your side, the same way you do for theirs. That's when I like reacteria. Because, rather than the video being 20 minutes of "Hey, check out how stupid these people are!", it's 30+ minutes of careful disection, explain exactly *why* they are wrong. Forest actually takes the time to break things down in a way that's easy to understand for any who may not have gotten the chance to be educated on the subject. I'm not saying that you necessarily meant anything malicious from your comment. But please, for the love of science, don't talk down to someone just because they lack the education that you were granted. Because in reality, a lot of the people who hold these types of beliefs, like creationists and flat earthers, could've made for really great scientists had they been granted the proper resources and/or education to flourish. But since they're constantly mocked and ridiculed by the scientific community, they're likely now too cemented in they're beliefs to ever even consider it. (Edit: Oof, I did not mean to write an entire frickn essay as a reply to ur comment. Sorry bout that. 😬)
@@Sleepish_ Buddy, about your last paragraph, I graduated from a private christian high school that taught young earth creationism. As far as I'm concerned, I dropped out of high school at 14. My diploma from that school means nothing to me. And I never believed a single word of BS they taught in that school. I'm so glad I watched so many nature and science shows and documentaries growing up. I was immune to their indoctrination. If I sound harsh, I apologize, but those are my honest feelings about it and I'm very blunt and don't have much of a filter.
@@Sleepish_ You are certainly right that many people get stuck in the errors they are raised to believe. What's difficult about the guy in the video is that he's a Catholic. There certainly are some reactionary (relatively speaking, of course) factions within the Catholic Church (people who reject Vatican II for example or won't have the mass said in any language other than Latin). But I can't imagine that even someone raised within one of those factions wouldn't have many, many, many occasions to come into contact with the more mainstream doctrines of the Church. The Church doesn't teach biblical literalism (since at least Augustine) and it accepts both the big bang and evolution. It was a Catholic priest who was one of the first proponents of the Big Bang. I went to Catholic schools K-12. We started learning about heredity in 8th grade -- Mendel's peas at his Catholic abbey. I was in Honors Biology in high school and we had a pretty good education in evolution without any doubt being cast upon it. This guy is going against the standard teachings of the Church he says he belongs to. He has to know it (as shown by him calling Teilhard de Chardin heretical and demon-possessed at the end) & it shows a lot of dishonesty that he's trying to keep his viewers in the dark.
except its just semantics... humans are obviously separate from most if not all animals. we have self reflection which is nearly absent in all other species
@@randomstranger623 um the point is if we draw distinctions between bacteria, plants, and humans then yes it does matter. The first way to start learning is to correctly identify what we are talking about... humans stand nearly alone... i believe there is some evidence elephants, perhaps dolphins, have some self awareness... but language then sets us apart
Movie editor here. You can change the color in post production on any editing program. The camera runs blue so move it towards red. That or you can buy some LED lights and throw a orange filter on them. Always use more light than you think and don't point them directly at you but at the wall. It makes the light softer and warmer with very little shadows. Hope that helps.
One of my favorite examples of a random mutation is the development of Sickle-Cell Anemia. It's a harmful mutation that in the modern world proves to be a bit of a disability, but where it developed it created a genetic advantage to life since the condition made people highly resistant to contracting a fatal illness: Malaria. Listing to this guy talk about how random mutations create severe handicaps reminded me of this fun little fact; one person's handicap is another person's advantage. Everything in evolution is contextual. What works one place doesn't work another place, which is why genetic variance is such a thing among the species with larger geographic ranges than a single lake or plane or valley, and ultimately why divergent species appear in the evolutionary timeline.
There's a sweet spot in having the gene where you can be immune to malaria but not have sickle cell anemia but I would not love to be a genetic consultant in a malaria dense country. Immune to malaria, or have the risk of giving your child anemia? It's quite the dilemma.
No it doesn't. Seance people made that up. They say it could help with malaria. But they probably fudged a few numbers like they normally do to say it is beneficial. Biped does not confer any advantage in the jungle. You have to be fast. But bipeds are slow. Evolution is bunk. The seance world is crumbling all around you. Because seance is wrong. Call it a day.
@@sombodysdadwhich is a pointless debate, much like whether god exists. Evolution however has relative proof of its existence even if we can’t prove how or why it happened. God doesn’t have proof of existence nor does he have a how or why he would create man.
that should be normal. The idea that science is set in stone is absolutely anti-science. Everything we know should constantly be in question, that's how our understanding grows. People would have said the exact same thing about viruses being passed from foul odors. Science is a process, not a rule.
@@nyhx9452 yeh I understand but the fact that the theory of evolution has been around since 1859 and people are still denying it is absolutely ludicrous.
I spotted your emu egg in the background. A moment that blew my mind was when I held an ostrich egg and realized that, in unfertilized, that massive thing was a single cell.
True, I noticed that, too. He needs to be clear about his sources and cite them. Honestly, he sounds like someone doing a report in school without being prepared and trying to make up for it with confidence.
yeah, quoting as fact and then ends the sentence : "or something like that". You can't reason with people like this when their "facts" resemble vapors.
Yeah and his argument is no different than virtually every other creationist ever. There is nothing new here. Not that I expected there would be but for a guy who speaks with so much confidence You would think he would have something new to say.
Broderik - You write "I love how he says dumb things with conviction ..." Now, without yet watching this video I could be put off forever simply by your comment. Why? Because you negatively critiqued a 'he' without specifying whether the 'he' you you refer to is the person who made this actual video (Forrest Valkai, an Evolution Scientist) or is the Creationist who made the video Forrest is critiquing. And currently 62 people liked your comment. So, is Forrest's video being approved of or trashed by you and those who like your comment? From your comment alone it's impossible to tell whether you (and your currently 62 supporters) believe or deny evolutionary theory. See the problem? Please try to be clearer.
20:16 I had some biology classes with a religious teacher last summer and we had to work with different ideas of how the species came to be, of course we had creationism, evolution, then evolution but how the first living thing appeares (meteorites or elements mixing in the water) etc. So, one of the classes we were talking about mitosis/Meiosis I don't remember which one but it was about cells cloning themselves, and having some -1 of knowledge about evolution I asked the teacher if the errors that can happen when cells clone is the cause of the mutation and therefore micro-evolution steps, she totally denied it and told me that all mutations result in "cancer", I as 15 yo gullible teen I heard everything she said and I believe it, after all, she was the one ment to educate me, and now, hearing you saying what I said to her, and that it was actually right, makes me feel an amazing disappointment of my teacher ; /
Just to correct a minor error you made about the camel. Camel evolution had literally nothing to do with deserts, since camels evolved in North America, specifically from the Canadian arctic to the Great Plains. Their humps served as a fat storage for harsh winters with little food, and similarly their skin-covered splayed hooves originally distributed their weight across snow. Only much later did they cross the Bering land bridge into Asia and Africa, and it turned out their specific adaptations for arctic Canada was also very good for hot and dry deserts. This makes their hump not an adaptation to desert life, but an exaptation,
It's not so much an error, when you remember that "desert" can refer to arid areas as well as completely cold ones. Deserts are climates without many food and with extreme temperatures.
This guy's anti-science views are actually pretty fringe for a Catholic. He may be surprised to find out that the theory for the Big Bang was first proposed by Monseigneur Georges Lemaitre, who was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, theoretical physicist and Catholic priest. Lemaitre was actually the one who first derived Hubble's law. Anyways, please don't take this as representative for what most Roman Catholics believe.
Quite a lot is made of the fact that the person who discovered this, theorised that or championed something where actually priests. Isn't it strange how the most educated people of time where discovering things that contradicted what their big book of crap told them.
Thank you for being polite and sticking to the science without being a jerk and name calling everyone who believes in a creator. Makes it much easier to listen to, for those of us actually watching to try and expand our understanding of things.
So many scientists are religious. But they don’t believe Eve was made out of Adam’s rib. As an atheist, I’m passionate about people understanding that they don’t have to “pick one”. Find your balance :) Expanding your understanding is fantastic, shows advanced critical thinking. Don’t ever feel like you can’t believe two things to be true at once, as long as you don’t allow them to contradict, or base any of those choices on emotion. Hope I’m not putting words in your mouth. Just really trying to support advancement and duality. Go you
It’s not the believing in a creator part that is the problem. It’s the sheer pig faced willful ignorance and the spreading of misinformation. You can believe in science and a creator. They are not mutually exclusive.
23:28 "Shame on you for what you just did!" Thank you, Forrest Valkai. People like him aren't just a little too shallow to understand science. They are mischievous, deceiving liars. It's no good to treat them as if all they need is a little nudge to gain some better understanding. Because they know full well that they are twisting facts. They do it on purpose and their motive isn't a christian one.
Agreed. These so called christians have forgotten the entire principal that christianity is based on: that everybody deserves to be accepted and loved for the way that they are. Extremely hypocritical when you realize that the majority of christians are homophobic sexists.
@@Hellwaterva I think that's how a lot of people use it, and maybe that's how it started, but I also think that it can be a way to bring people together. That's just me though. I'm not a theologian, so don't take my word for it.
Nothing he said at that point was wrong. Pro choice advocates do indeed justify abortions for fetus who are likely to have disabilities. And it does have a racist political history with Margaret Sanger and the "Negro Project"
30:58 he's also forgetting that the sahara cycles through wet & dry periods (it looked _very_ different in the cenozoic era, especially during the holocene & pleistocene epochs). although, i learned from looking this up that camels actually evolved in north america, so that's pretty cool, but it does make the whole sahara thing kind of irrelevant anyway. he's also forgetting that camel's humps (where most of their fat is stored) are for more than just "because they're thirsty," - they allow for thermoregulation in both very hot _and_ very cold environments also, this is a nitpick, but he says that death valley is in the "midwestern" united states but it's in california, which is on the west coast, so, yknow, more _western_ than "midwestern" and another nitpick - technically, peccaries aren't pigs. pigs are suidae, peccaries are tayassuidae. they just look similar.
I like how he waves his hand when he's bullshitting. To him, it probably means "these are all irrelevant details, ignore them" but when I see creationists do that, it's like a "insert refutation here" QuickTime event
Fun-Fact: Most Christians know Evolution is proven Fact and are not as simple as those who dont know that the word ‚Theory’ in ‚Theory of Evolution’ reminds them of Gametheorys and all such, cause that’s not the same word, duh. Scientific Theory is not the same as a theory about some theory-how-youre-favorite-show-will-end. So stop pretending this is some Religion-vs-Science Thing, when Science-Deniers and Evolution-Deniers are literally seen by Christianity as a Whole as an IMAGE DAMAGE. I find it most hilarious that evolution-deniers say they deny it because of God/Religion but at the same time, this is a Self-Lie and the majority of their OWN Religion disagrees with them; and that of course isnt even mentioning the many other things that make Christianity overall so very, very divided.
@@sledzeppelin I think that depends on where you are. For example, in Germany, where I come from, creationism isn't taught at schools and I don't think it is anywhere else in Europe. I believe the US is pretty much the only country that made education about evolution optional. Most Christians I know see no conflict with believing in both god and evolution.
"These scientists knew much better than everybody else, and they were able to tell us what actually happened even though they never saw it happen." Yes. That's literally what paleontologist are and do.
Yeah but don’t creationist believe in a being and events no one ever saw such as Adam and Eve or Noah’s ark If not ever seeing something means it can’t be used as evidence the literally every part of the bible that is something that was told by god can’t be used as evidence cause no one saw it and no one has seen god either so it kind of collapses in on itself
who is this clown who completely doesn't understand how science works? is this guy just a religious nut or does he claim to have some science background...? Forrest basically toasted this guy. hell, I could have toasted this guy... and I'm just a putz that almost understands science.
@@elliotpeck8137 No, but you see, the book said not to question it so they know it's true. If scientific papers said you shouldn't question their findings then they'd immediately do a 180 because then it would say its own findings are right, lol.
My brother and I almost choked when he said that Death Valley was in the “mid~west”. We both grew up in the Mojave desert…in California….about a hour from Death Valley.
Glad someone else noticed that. I’m thinking if this guy can’t be bothered to even understand basic info like, I’m sure as hell not listening to him about creationism.
Thank you Forrest. The amount of indoctrination and trauma I endured as a child nearly has me believing this guy, even as you're debunking him. I've had to re-educate myself to the point I feel like I'm relearning the alphabet, and you've been a great help in that process.
These televangelist usually have good charisma and are unapologetic about their views, it's easy to see how people can fall into that trap. Gald you can see through that and you strive to know reality for what it is
@@abigailedwards3843 God isn't a difficult concept to understand, in fact, God is an insanely simple concept, too simple, actually. God is such a simple concept that it's actually detrimental to critical thinking. Can't understand why something happens? God. Why? Don't question it, God is mysterious and doesn't need to be understood. See how simple that is?
@@84warhead God isn't a difficult concept to understand? (so...ID is believable then?) Don't question what? The origin of life? Because that's what I'm talking about. It's not shutting down conversation to believe intelligent life came from intelligent life. It's common sense. Creation and *macro* evolution are both hypotheses that look at the same data/information, but interpret them differently. As a result both come up with different conclusions based on those different assumptions. But the common denominator is, both need FAITH to believe. We can use our 'critical thinking' to arrive at the best, most reasonable hypothesis for life. It doesn't shut down thinking to accept a plausible theory. You can go on thinking all you want, but if you come up with a theory that is no better than Intelligent Design (e.g macro evolution, i.e change above the species level) we're left right where we've started with ID. Although gravity isn't a 'fact', it's based on real world effects. In much the same way, we see life coming from life as a real world effect all the time today, so creation really isn't a stretch to believe. Sorry that you think it's 'too simple'. I happen to think changes above the species level via mutations and natural selection are 'too impossible', when you consider factors such as the decay of the human genome, etc.
This is the first time I've heard the details on how scientists calculated the age of the universe. I'd always figured it was some complex thing to do with deep distances and the speed of light. You make it sound relatively simple. Sweet! I learned something new today! Thanks Forrest!
Check out space time, the pbs TH-cam channel. They do an amazing job of simplifying astro and quantum physics. scientists can rewind the universe to 10-³⁵ seconds. Thats one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. Because of space time I can watch much more advanced science and understand what they're taking about... The speed of light is not an absolute speed limit. Its the speed of causality. Nothing can cause something else to move faster the speed of light.
We did figure out that the universe had a beginning because if the universe was here for an infinite amount of time then the night sky would be as bright as day. Because then the light of every star in the universe would have had time to reach us.
@@asrieldreemurr135 that (Obers' Paradox?) only applies in the limit to an infinitely old universe with infinitely many stars, hence infinitely large. Could be infinitely old but finite in size and therefore still have dark spaces between the rays from stars.
Another point about the lungfish: those are adaptations that have helped it survive successfully in its environment. Aka fitness. So it fits with evolution very well actually
I love how he goes on about the coelacanth and how it survived a near world-wide extinction event millions of years ago but hasn't evolved since then. IT SURVIVED AN EXTINCITON EVENT, WHY WOULD IT EVOLVE???
Same thing with sharks and crocodiles. They are perfectly adapted for their niche and are basically perfectly suited for it. They can’t get much better at what they do.
I'll also point out that "the" coelacanth is not a species, it's an entire genus. It would be like saying squirrels never evolved once they got to Squirrel, and ignoring the immediately obvious issue if you get a red and gray squirrel next to each other.
Latest research on Coelacanth shows that it indeed evolved from the forms that were found in fossil record. There are several extant and extinct species of Coelacanth.
Just because people are being pedantic, I'm gonna be pedantic as well. While yes, all the species that are slow evolvers like crocodiles, sharks, and coelacanths, it's because the body plans are basically perfect for what they do and while there are sometimes crazy changes to the body plans like what happened with crocs, they don't tend to last because they don't just lack evolutionary pressure to change, they are being pressured NOT to change. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You'll survive so many extinction events if you just stay like that.
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There was an ape who once wrote the complete works of Shakespeare. His name was William Shakespeare
and he was from a unique, highly intelligent species of ape called Homo sapiens, the same intelligence as a human.
@@ErinaBee.sMoney "highly intelligent species" is debatable 😆
@@captainzoltan7737 Yeah, the species is getting dumber
@@ErinaBee.sMoney axtually smarter but more and more lazy
@@captainzoltan7737 we're trying to find intelligent life in other worlds when we can hardly find any on our own planet.
"Humans are animals... Just throwing that out there. We move too much to be plants, and we're too big to be bacteria."
I love that.
Are you assuming my Kingdom? I'll have you know, I identify as a *fun guy*.
@@silentcaay all praise the Great Mushroom and come into his Kingdom!
My favorite quote for the day, will by using it from now on 👍❤👍👏👏👏
I will definitely use that quote... Gold!
Happens at 17:50
What you're missing, Forrest is that it's your CONTENT that matters to us. The prettiest lighting doesn't make up for crappy content. Your content is 110%, even if we have to start calling you Casper.
He is also good-looking guy,, and I have a hard time believing that the lighting really made him look bad. People are usually their own harshest critics when it comes to their own image in pictures / videos
To add to that, the video he was reacting to had me facepalming so much I couldn't see the lighting lol.
#Truth
It took me entirely too long to realize his name is Forrest…. And I couldn’t figure out if this was suppose to be some sort of insult (Forrest Gump)…. And now I feel like an idiot 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I mean wanting your content to look polished isn't a bad thing
2 options:
1 Use a piece of printer paper, adjust the white balance on the camera until the paper looks white and lock the white balance there. Right now, the white balance is set too low.
2 Bump it up bit by bit and keep reviewing the footage until you find the setting you like.
We need to rename this series as, "Forrest getting progressively angrier at people who don't understand high school science."
Lolol isnt this all of us?!
Common sense would be nearer ......
*Middle school science
That's the formal definition of Reacteria
Tucker Carlson is good to highlight how bad the spiteful administration is
As a disabled person this dude's whole "disabled people are very spiritual to be around" thing made my skin crawl.
Yeah, that was really awful. It felt very objectifying and a bit condescending. Like we are tools in someone’s spiritual journey as opposed to people.
@@Strype13 a major thing disabled people face is dehumanization through infantilization, where people treat us as though we're too stupid to understand our own lives, needs, and healthcare. This is the exact same thing, except wrapped in a religious packaging. It's clearly about us being "pure" and "innocent" which makes us more spiritually pure and godly to be around, when obviously "pure" and "innocent" are traits often associated with children.
it's funny that my source of disgust resonates from a place of constantly being talked down to able bodied/minded people like you, and here you are talking down to me about things I experience daily. As though you know better! I hope this has been a spiritual experience for you, Strype.
Insulting. Reminds me of the terrible propaganda spewed by Mother Theresa.
Monster.
i think we gotta get this guy pouring his milk first. srsly it might help.
Yep, hate this. Also lots of disabilities that appear in infancy or childhood are not genetic so...
As someone who was homeschooled and then went off to Bible college and literally never had ANY access to information about evolution before TH-cam, you have no idea how much I appreciate your making this information available for free
Check out Viced Rhino's series "the evidence for evolution", it should interest you ^^.
Welcome to a wider, weirder, even more awesome world!
Where the saying "truth is stranger than fiction" is proved indelibly true
I come from a similar background, and I'm so appreciative of these free videos! Knowledge feels incredibly valuable when it was kept from you for a good portion of your life.
Check out TH-camr Tony Reed he gives accurate information about creationist ideas then he refutes them
You will need to use gels for the lights. I have those same LED lights and they have a slot to slide gels into. Typically, in film and video there is a gel color called “Bastard Pink” which is great for skin tones. It’s a very light pink color that you don’t really see, but the camera does and can balance out skin tones.
Depending on someone skin color, there are different tones of gels for skin colors, like some people work better with a light amber, but the Bastard Pink is a really good one for most skin colors.
Every time a creationist say “scientists made X mistake.”, they never say that the error was rectified by scientists.
The point is that they always believe they are correct every time. Even their false corrections. I’m talking about scientists. Many often think they are correct on something but then later do corrections but are still incorrect but don’t think they are again…
saying a scientist made a mistake just proves that we learned something (If he really made a mistake). That's basically what science is about
@@vinnieg6161 true, but some people never learn and are in denial.
@@godloves9163 What, you mean Creationists? Because that sentence applies to them pretty damn well
@@s0LLagal To your imagination of course...
"We move too much to be plants and we're too big to be bacteria." I'm using this from now on when I hear people try and separate humans from animals
I've been using it for a bit, and I really do love it.
would make a good shirt
We also have too few children to be fungi
But what makes us not minerals??? I need facts!! 😳
@@emilyrlnwe're not hard and shiny enough
The one thing worse then someone being condescending is someone being condescending and stupid at the same time
Ahhh-mennnnn.
Who can help being condescending to people who are absolutely convinced that a magic God in the sky has an interest in your well-being.
It’s impossible to not be condescending to a YEC.
@@blaster-zy7xx idk Forrest manages to stay more respectful than is honestly necessary to people like this
… *than
Guy presents himself as Catholic and yet, I went to a catholic school and was taught big bang and evolution without a “but” at the end of those lessons
That struck me, too. I’m Australian and was raised Catholic. I’m an atheist, but many of my family members are practicing Catholics. They all accept the Big Bang and evolution as fact- it doesn’t interfere with their faith. This guy would horrify them. However, there ARE extremely right wing, anti-science Catholics out there. This guy and his associates are representative of them.
20:40 Something my bio teacher said that stayed with me to this very day: "Mutation is just change, nothing more nothing less. Whether a change is beneficial or detrimental is not decided by the organism the change happens to, but by the circumstances the change happens in. Short legs are detrimental when you need to reach high tree branches, but beneficial when you need to hide under rocks. Light skin is detrimental if it doesn't protect you against skin cancer by sunlight, but it's beneficial if it gets you enough Vitamin D in cloudy climates. But in the end, change, is just change."
Another example: Beautiful Scandinavian blue eyes result from a point change in a gene that lowers the "normal" levels of melanin in the iris... Stop erecting the brown curtain, and blue can shine through... Who wouldn't want to "make offspring" with someone with mesmerising blue eyes??? (The mutation was beneficial at latitudes far away from the intense tropical sun...)
@@rustycherkas8229 Oooooooook, that kinda went in a weird direction. Like, I totally get what you are saying, and yes blue eyes are appealing, but the way you frased was just a bit too close to white supremacy for my taste.
@@eldersun5110
Absolutely not my intention! I apologise that some may interpret any mention of "melanin" in terms of "race". I'm a creature of my culture and admit to being intrigued by people who have (through no more personal effort than merely being conceived) physical attributes that are out of the ordinary.
As Proust said about love, "It's our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person."
It's my understanding that ocular melanin was advantageous to our distant ancestors living near the equator, but when, at high latitudes, a mutation occurred that stopped its production, this mutation was not only innocuous, but may also have conferred a "reproductive advantage" to its carriers.
I've also been known to drop my jaw when I see a pair of eyes so dark that they appear to be nothing but giant pupils. Being 'exceptional' is not "owned" by any single race or culture, but we must recognise there are individuals who have exceptional (however one defines that for oneself) characteristics.
We're complex creatures at the mercy of 'triggers' that are beyond our control. Some like "shoes"... Go figure... 🙂
@@rustycherkas8229 I have read the assertion that there may well have been *one* forerunner of all blue-eyed people. Somebody got a *lot* of nookie.
@@rustycherkas8229 people responding politely to people talking to them on youtube? i love it
I'd wear a "Humans are animals. We move too much to be plants, and we're too big to be bacteria"-Shirt. I'd might even buy one.
I'd go for that too.
I would definitely buy one lol
That is the greatest idea for a shirt
Same
This needs to be a thing. Yesterday.
Forrest: We are animals. We move too much to be plants...
Tumbleweed: _You know, I’m something of an animal myself_
Well technicly tumbleweed IS Moved and doesnt move by itself. Wind blows it and just has a form that makes it easier. xD
It's comical, not to be dissected. But yes, you are correct 😆
I would say a plant seed.
@@Kacpa2 Maple tree seeds come to mind with a similar situation, but then I suppose we could argue that every seeds are made to be moved around, like with fruits and other wind carried seeds.
You claim to be an animal but your name is Forrest,curious
"Humans are animals, [...] we move to much to be plants and we're too big to be bacteria."
Brilliant.
And I had the same reaction as you about accusing someone of being possessed by a demon x)
"Camels go weeks without drinking water, No animal would do that voluntarily!"
If this was satire, It would be gold.
I did have a twinge of Poe at that, yeah...
there's probably several animals that "willingly" go without water cause they evolved to fit a niche, and as barren deserts are there's thing that evolved to live in them
Probably thinks there's just oases every couple miles in the desert
A man can go weeks without drinking beer. No man would do that voluntarily!
@@innocentiuslacrim2290 Technically I've gone years without beer, but try getting me to go without meat and meat is better not be something you are made of...
a common theme I’m seeing here is that people will vastly misunderstand the science behind certain explanations, and then use their misunderstanding as evidence as to why we shouldn’t believe in it.
That's exactly what they're doing
I believe the term for this is 'strawman'.
"LMAO creationism sheeple hahaXD!1!"
Says the atheism community who are mostly right wingers and believes in political propaganda and denies climate change.
@@razi_man Which demographic am I in? The fact that I don't believe anything at face value is exactly why I'm an atheist. This same characteristic means I don't blindly follow political propaganda and over the years, I have witnessed the effects of climate change. Summers are getting hotter, winters are less cold, plus various factors that come in hand with that.
@@reubenmanzo2054 What the fuck are you talking about? More than half of the right wingers and right leaning sheeples I have met are self proclaimed godless "free thinkers".
I find it funny when people make fun of "creationists" for being "delusional" when half of your entire base is literally brainwashed with mind rotting propaganda, if this isn't universe destroying irony, I don't know what is.
Fatima is a city in portugal where three kids in 1917 claimed to have had visions of the future from Mary. It's hard to tell if they were just making it up for fun or if they truly believe it. The Catholic church LOVES the story. The amount of tv movie I had to watch about this story growing up is unbelievable
The kids that saw holy Mary were not making it up, there was actually also a time when people went to Fatima to see the holy Mary and then they saw alot of crazy things happen like the sun going back and forth and even the press was involved in it aswell, no one cannot explain the incident nor atheists cannot explain or prove it
1st - how do you know? Where you one of the kids?
2nd- Google mass hysteria, the children of Fatima were no different from witch trials or the laughing epidemic.@@MikolajK_yt
@@MikolajK_yt They can't prove it because there is not a single drop of COMPELLING EVIDENCE. You are also talking about Portugal. A very religious (catholic) country.
@@Miblive there are actually eye witness testimony about it and even the press in Portugal were involved in the event aswell and they said that it was real and it did happen, but atheists can't prove it cause they don't know if it's true or not and there is no natural explanation towards it, that's why atheists and scientists can explain it
@@MikolajK_ytThe press reporting on something is not evidence that it happened, unless they happened to get photographs or video. The press being involved is proof that people were talking about it and making allegations at the time. It doesn't prove that the boys saw some supernatural phenomenon, it just suggests that some kids reported seeing something and that report got some adults excited.
"We are animals. Just throwing that out there. We move too much to be plants and we're too big to be bacteria!"
I'm gonna need a quotewall of forrest because this guy is comedy gold.
"If you give a billion apes something to write, over a long enough time they will produce the entire works of Shakespeare"
Yes! If you give apes enough time, this will happen... in fact, is HAS happened. We know the NAME of the ape, that wrote all the works of Shakespeare...
IT WAS SHAKESPEARE!!!
If you have the time and inclination listen to karl pilkington's views on the monkey/Shakespeare idea. Hilarious.
"Returneth to Monki"
-William Shakespeare
@@Biggles2666what a guy
He was a fine monkey, to be sure
I love really your videos, they are really infotaining😅
“Nothing evolves on purpose”.
Exactly. This is what creationists get wrong the most when trying to debunk evolution. They themselves cannot fathom a world without some kind of governing entity or faith, so they imagine evolution as this powerful force that scientists are assuming drives the existence of things, instead of something that just kinda happens.
Yes, THIS ⬆
Basically it's their ignorance projected onto EVERYTHING.
I am still struggling though, why it doesn't make the least difference if you explain it.
I don't know any creationist personally (not being American helps I guess) but I know the phenomenon from conspiracy whackadoos. The latter at least have their "defense" of "It is all part of the conspiracy" if you want to debunk something but what do these brainfarts reply, when you tell them that they don't just have the FACTS wrong but don't even understand the CONCEPT they are trying to attack ?
I just don't get it.
Exactly. I have always been of the opinion that many people have a deep desire to believe in spiritual and religious ideas to complete their acceptance of life. It is this that the creationists and religious people exploit to further their cause. They never promote just the idea of love your fellow man but extend the idea to almighty all powerful to justify their faith and lead susceptible people down a path of blindly accepting and following them. I see it as a flaw in human cognitive process. They say "there must be a god" or "just look around you".
I know an intelligent person who is a creationist and religious. They blindly only reference supportive arguments for their view which reinforces it. It's articles like the Kennedy Report presented above that have no factual basis but are telling people they have the real truth that are most misleading. André
@@SoundzAlive1 I totally agree about having a deep desire to believe in that type of stuff. I'm still trying to figure out everything, and I have no reason at all to believe in a god. But, for example, I've been sick for nearly 20 days, and my automatic response for around the fifth to tenth day was to ask god for an explanation, and I had to keep telling myself that was stupid. I guess after five days and several trips to the hospital it was clear that I wouldn't get an answer from some sky wizard who had never helped me before.
@@nyandoesthings the reason you go through that is due to indoctrination you were forced to go to church since childhood and led to believe that so now you are learning and accepting the actual truth it's hard to let go of what has been planted in your mind and you sometimes argue with yourself about it and even feel guilty. I know what you're going through my entire family believes that.
They constantly try to humanize things that simply are unfeeling
It all boils down to the old "I don't understand it so it does not make sense" argument. The art is in looking smart and superior while delivering the argument.
To quote forrest “ignorance isn’t evidence”
Which is what I found so confusing about this particular mouthpiece. Usually, Creationist organizations manage to find a woefully ignorant bozo who at least possesses the ability to look and/or sound like they know what they're talking about (even though, to any rational person, it's obvious they don't). This guy, on the other hand... immediately delusional. A man who looks extremely uncomfortable and out-of-place in a suit, just driveling pure nonsense straight out of the gate.
"I don't understand it, therefore it's not true" Creationism 101
Not even. It’s “I have preconceived notions that I will not change, so I will not even attempt to understand”
@@harp167 but I will use mental gymnastics to justify and rationalise my perceived notion
I wish I could professionally be wrong. I'm wrong about lots of stuff, I just didn't know I could be getting paid for it.
Quite possibly the best sentence in this video is "if quantum physics hasn't profoundly shocked you yet, you haven't understood it yet".
Very similar to the famous Richard Feynman quote, "If you think you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics."
What a ingenious quote. As someone with a below average IQ, it may be even harder to comprehend the exact precision of Quantum Physics than an it would absolutely typical person, so I definitely agree with these two comments.
@@BenjaminEaster-b8b IQ is stupid and people who brag about it are lame. I say that intelligence is determined by one's desire to learn as well as one's ability to think critically. And right now, you're learning about science and engaging in discussion.
Essentially, people who are actually intelligent shouldn't need to score highly on some test to prove that they're intelligent. They prove their intelligence simply by being who they are. And, well, your interest in this stuff proves your intelligence. At least to me it does.
@@BenjaminEaster-b8bI do not believe you have a below average IQ but even if you do, you can make it higher
The Virgin Mary “appeared” to three kids in Fatima, Portugal during WW1 and gave them prophecies and performed “miracles”. The Catholic Church tend to give her loads of different names based on where she appeared. Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Knock, Our Lady of Fatima… same Lady!
...And the Lady of Fatima term is used outside of Portugal by those that find the story compelling. It is arguably the best documented of all of the biblical or biblically adjacent stories (at least ones that involve magic).
Though, to be clear, not well enough documented to be proof of anything. Mind your sources.
Interestingly, the city is named after Muhammed's daughter.
@@christopherbiomass7155 What are you trying to say? Your reply is in no way contrary to what John said. So... mind your own sources?
Thanks for the context, the only Fatima i knew that is related to religion of some kind was Muhammad's daughter so i thought they're islamic apologists at first
@@mrwensveen You can tell that I was agreeing with the OP, because I started my post with "...And". As in: "I'm agreeing with what you said, and here is some more info."
The "mind your sources" sentence was in the context of documentation. If you decide to research the fable of Fatima, you will find SOURCES that will tell you that it is well documented proof. Those SOURCES are the churches or affiliates thereof. Try to find independent SOURCES.
Thanks for your reply though.
As a Christian child that has never been taught evolution (I was private schooled) I feel robbed of truth and science
the good thing is that its never too late to learn more
there is truth and science, and there is distortion of science, these guys are telling you that you came from a fish, a theory with more holes that a bee hive but they are still standing on it. you were created you are not an accident.
@@endofdays7708 there is truth *in* science. A lot of it. And we share a common ancestor with fish, we didn't come from the fish we have nowadays, becausethose fish also evolved from that common ancestor. And where are the holes? I and plenty of others would be glad to explain to you what you're missing. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's immediately false. You are correct, we are not an accident, but you are incorrect about us being created. How we are now is not an accident, but a series of many random mutations that were selected for by what benefits the species most. What makes us survive better and reproduce more stays, and what is harmful to us is killed off naturally. It's grim but in the past, children who were unable to function properly were killed, not by other humans (although, correct me if I'm wrong, Spartans killed sickly children to pick out the weak ones), but by diseases or other predators because they are easy prey. And the ones who were able to function properly lived because they were able to support themselves in the environment.
If you just look into science as a whole, but especially evolution, with an open mind, you will find all of the answers you are looking for. But if you refuse to learn, there's no way to help you.
@@endofdays7708 accident? No one is talking about an accident
Just realized I made a mistake by saying humans
Any predecessors to humans and any other type of living creature this applies to.
As a Californian when this dude said Death Valley is somewhere in the Midwest…just lmfao at this idiocy.
As an Australian I had to laugh at that comment. This dude is a genuine mouth breather.
"We better be sure about it, because if we're wrong, we're basically just promulgating a massive myth."
... says the Catholic creationist.
I know right... I just about fell out my chair...he genuinely cannot see the problem with that statement, I cannot comprehend how though.
@@hellovicki6779 it's probably the list of standard answers: narcissism, ego, lack of critically examining what he says, lack of seeing his views through another's eyes, etc.
I'm pretty sure that you can't be a Catholic and go against the pope but the pope says evolution is a real thing. Also it was a Catholic priest that came up with the big bang. Nought for 2 so far.
@@hellovicki6779 Because to him there IS NO PROBLEM with his statement. God is his authority, not science. How hard is this for you brainy people to understand?
this guy unironically thinks dinosaurs lived during the medieval era and lived alongside humans.
thank you sooo much for calling out this guy’s ableism, forrest! lots of people seem to think it’s totally fine to say stuff like that and don’t even see how gross it is, it really hurts to hear as a disabled person. love your content and feel a lot safer on your channel!
Take care of yourself. All the best 💕
I don't even think the ableism was the worst offense there. It was that he thinks the suffering of the disabled is a spiritually good thing for others who interact with them. If I believed in a god who did that, as this fool apparently does, I'd have to hate that god.
@@jursamaj that particular comment of his IS ableist, it is included in the ableism I was commenting on, but I do agree it was the most disgusting thing he said in that string of garbage. I hope I never hear something that abhorrent again…
Lol, fucking "ableism". get a life dude.
'Ableism'----a new word for me.
Absolutely loved the vid and all of your content on "The Line" so far. You've become one of my favorite people to watch any and all content from. Keep doin' what you're doin'!
🤘😎🤘
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Agreed - softening/diffusing the light would help but don't worry too much about it as it's the content we're all here for!
Filters! A light peach filter would warm the pure white LEDs.
Every time I hear the "missing link" argument, I'm reminded of an old joke:
A creationist points out two species and says, "A could never evolve into B. Where's the missing link?"
The scientist goes out, comes back, and says, "We found a transitional fossil C that shows an evolutional link between A and B."
The creationist smirks and says, "Ah, but now there are TWO missing links for you to find: from A to C and from C to B!"
And so on and so on, until the scientist says, "No, we haven't found the link between X and H yet, so--"
The Creationist replies, "SO IT DOESN'T EXIST! Your whole theory is wrong! Convert to Christianity and believe as I do or go to Hell for believing in Satanic LIES!"
...wow, I made this joke rather depressing.
Curse you, Doctor Banjo! You and your orangutan parents!
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That's a great Futurama scene about just that exactly!
Classic
Non-Science man: "It doesn't matter"
Science man: "It very matters"
Sci Man Dan also debunks anti-science and conspiracys. Its great fun.
@@slevinchannel7589 Yes, SciMan Dan has very good channel, lots of Flat Earth stuff but recently expanding to other nonsense. We need more of these channels. The only problem is I'm learning new ways people are dumb. Which makes me feel like I'm getting dumber...
@@Mitsoxfan I have the opposite response. I never knew my level of scientific and historical understanding was so much above other people!
And then I remember that they vote, and I get sad.
Darwin evolution cannot be falsified therefore it is NOT science
@@junacebedo888 Is history science?
Is Young Earth Creationism science, simply because it can be, and has been, falsified?
I do agree that the monkeys with typewriters parable about randomness is quite terrible. When I first heard it I was struck, but in the passing years I've realized that limits and data vs information make it one for the dustbin.
Well and no one ever mentions how bad monkeys are at spelling.
Did he actually use the phase "they go somewhere else and adapt to that new environment" in an argument AGAINST evolution?
Yea brilliant. My new argued against evolution. Evolution doesn’t happen, but populations of animals change over time depending on different selection pressures.
Why do you atheist talk about evolution like it's one theory?
Even the idiot of this video acts as though the guy he's critiquing says that evolution isn't real, when if fact all he said is there are problems.
Space can move faster than light so you cant judge the size of the universe by measuring the light off galaxy's.
adaptation isn't evolution btw. Its only the beginning. If your going to claim to be an expert than you should start by showing you understand the basics.
@@williampennjr.4448 who said I was an atheist?
@@andrewt3797 Sorry, I just assumed you were but the creator of this video is and most of his fans too and that most who I'm addressing.
@@williampennjr.4448 In that case, may I respectful advise you to move the comment so that it’s a direct reply to the video. My experience is that very few people read the replies to comments unless directly addressed. To address your question, my understanding is that “The Theory of Evolution” is the overall idea that populations change over time, and within that idea there are a multitude of models and fields of research that try to show the specific ways those populations change. Given the scope of all that research, it’s not feasible to address all the individual parts, so unless there is a very specific point we’re trying to make, we use the generic term.
As a 72 year-old, retired chemist and physician, I wholeheartedly agree with your efforts to educate the younger generation (and anyone else who will listen). I was raised as a conservative Christian and was actively discouraged from learning "science." I am so glad that my innate inquisitive nature compelled me to read and experiment with everything I could while living on a farm, in close proximity to the natural world. After watching the cycles of life and the detailed interaction between living creatures and their environment, the formal education was easily accepted while abstract negation of all of those observed facts was easily rejected. I attained a B.A. in Chemistry, Physics and Math, an M.Ed. in Secondary Science Education and a D.C. Doctor of Chiropractic degree. The M.Ed., earned when I was 51 years old, allowed me to teach in Charter and Public Schools, through college, for 13 years. I am grateful to be alive and to have been raised in a time and a country where knowledge is easily accessible and easily verified. Free! Free! Free at last!
Good on you for continuing to seek out knowledge. It's a really incredible time to get into science!
Great that you got away from the Creationist hole and searched for knowledge. Nice comment :)
In my opinion it's inmoral to deliberately hide scientific knowledge from your kids, only to indoctrinate them with pseudoscience. Kids need to have access to verified scientific knowledge.
I'm so glad I grew up in a family that wasn't under any specific belief system that restricted knowledge. I have always been a curious child, that watched documentaries and observed nature and natural phenomenons, and I empathize with you and all the kids that must have had an absolute mental chaos from all the things they've been indoctrinated that had no correlation with reality.
And yet there isn't any evidence that nature produced life.
@@sombodysdad But life is here and reproduces itself all over the Earth. It would require rewinding time to see details if how life actually developed but human ingenuity, science and technology have investigated, deduced, invented and produced the vast array of the engineering, medicine, communication, transportation, agriculture, food preservation and a vast array of other explanations that you gladly accept every minute of every day of your life. In spite of all that, you refuse to seriously consider the same process of scientific investigation and conclusions if they conflict in a very limited number of areas influenced by dogmatic, unproven, bronze-age mysticism, also known as religion. That is completely illogical!
As an M.D. I struggle almost every day with people that argue with science. The problem is i have to keep calm and convince( somehow) them that I'm not going to hurt their child( I am a pediatrician). The argument is not about faith. My grandma told me that God works through people! I am 40 yearse old, i am an atheist but still my grandma's words make sense to me! I love your content. I want you to do more science videos, but i understand why you choose to do this stuff. Keep up the good work!
People seem to not realize that if you wanted to hurt children, you would have never made it to be a certified pediatrician.
People seem to not realize that they brought their kids there, you did not force them to do it. So if they have concerns regarding you hurting their kids, why did they do it ?
Those same people have probably not so much as take an anatomy of first aid class ironically. I took Combat Life Saver and EMT Basic in the military and Emergency First Responder at City College of San Francisco and it gave me huge respect for medical knowledge and those who have it. My sister and niece both work in hospitals in non medical fields and even they get flack from fools, it's mind blowing.
people who argue with science... tiresome trope
“god works through people” is such a great phrase for both the religious and areligious. i’m definitely going to keep that in my back pocket for later use
And this is why I love Forrest’s videos (and his shirts!)
He says exactly what I would like to say.
I love these videos. I'm someone who grew up never once hearing anything about religion form anyone in my family, but never hearing anything scientific or intelligent either. A homeless orphan by age 15, I wound up with a nasty drug addiction (heroin...) and had a hard time with the concept of "A Higher Power" when trying to go to 12-step programs for help. I got so desperate by about 26 that I started going to church because I had no faith in my ability to stop using. I was clean for a couple years and living in a christian sober living program in a small apartment building, they offered to let me stay for free while I found work or school. I had nowhere else to go after getting out of prison for stealing a car. I started going to college and taking courses to become a drug counselor and I remember I was getting to the point where the questions I had been asking the church were not getting answers. The program told me to go find a church of any denomination that I felt comfortable in, so I had started going to a church downtown because they had a rainbow flag and I knew I would be accepted there, but when the people that ran the christian living apartment found out they asked me about my sexuality - and I answered honestly. They threw me out immediately without warning.. I called my parole agent and told him right away, because I knew "moving without permission" was a violation. It didn't matter that I called... When I went to report to the parole office that week, they violated my parole and put me in cuffs, because "I was kicked out of a sober living program". It didn't matter that I was kicked out for being queer, it just mattered that I broke a rule and "moved without authorization".
I was put in a parole violation center for 9 months, failing all my classes and putting me thousands of dollars in debt. I got out of that place and had to start all over again - from a homeless shelter this time. I was never able to catch up with the school debt in order to be allowed to go back.... But I've been clean still, 10 years now. I ended up focusing on art and doing tattoos, because I only needed to afford equipment to start making money.
I had gone to the church for help, and that was my experience. When I was in the shelter, it was also run by a church, and they forced us to go to service at 5pm in order to have a bed for the night.... I see a lot of churches that want to help people, but there are always conditions or ulterior motives.
I love these videos because they show the truth of what they are saying. They say these things to anyone that will listen as if they're giving them the truth, but they aren't, they're lies. For a religion that talks of their enemy as the "deceiver" , I've never felt more deceived by anyone who acted like they cared about me.
I know no one will read this, but it helped me to say it nonetheless lol.
I did read your message. Thank you for sharing your story, I really hope that you are doing fine now. Hugs from France!
So many stories of injustice in the US. Frankly I'm so glad I didn't emigrate there after college as I had planned back in the late 80s. Back in the pre internet days it looked enticing. The reality seems utterly brutal.
I read it. Wanted you to know. You're a good man. (Or woman, I don't judge)
@@justdefacts It kinda is. As a young Autistic American (I promise that's relevant to how my country treated me in the 2000s), I want to apologize for the weird overglorification campaigns of that era.
Yeah, no. It's not the perfect "freedom site" that it claims to be at all.
I'm so sorry you went through that. I read every word you wrote. I'm glad you're doing well but you never should have had to go through those horrible struggles to begin with. America is truly a diseased society, and religion is surely a root cause of much of the illness.
I love how "There's no such thing as a beneficial random mutation" can be debunked by asking them if they can drink milk
I can't... FREAK! :p
@@stylis666 all hail the pure one
Or what prevents them.
it doesnt matter, they'll just claim god designed the cow to serve man or some bullshit (no pun intended)
there is no reasoning with madmen
@@legal040 Madmen think that blind and mindless processes produced life and its diversity.
I'm a little late at 46 yrs, but I am aspiring to gain the exciting knowledge you have acquired. I became an Atheist at 35 after studying to be the next cool small town preacher. Ken Ham was my creation idol and Josh McDowell was my apologist of choice. Thennnnnn, I seen a Matt Dillihunty debate, after that I realized my red flags throughout my great 35 year experience as a Christian were warranted. I've come to unlearn what I was indoctrinated into here in the Ozarks. I must say, without folks like you and so many other atheist, humanist, naturalist, scientists, on youtube I'd feel absolutely out of place and alone. Ty sir
I've always found it absolutely delightful that until recently one of the biggest factors in the loss of Christians to Atheism was Seminary. Seminary schools have about a 70% drop-out rate with many dropouts becoming Atheists because the more you study the Bible, the less it holds up.
Now, I'm not an Atheist (though I understand their argument), I'm actually an Omnitheist. I believe that all of the gods exist. I believe this because I believe that all that energy that people have put into the belief of various gods, had to go somewhere. I like to believe we willed the gods into existence. Now, maybe there was a God that existed before people and maybe there wasn't. There's no good evidence either way. But what I don't believe is that a single God existed before the all of anything and everything and "He" willed everything into existence individually all the way down to the 3600 varieties of mosquitoes that exist today. If anything, a God or a group of gods (I think the group of gods is more likely if this scenario were to be true) would have created the systems by which life is governed, and then allowed life to evolve into existence. That's assuming I'm incorrect about us willing them into existence and it being the other way around.
I fully expect to be wrong, at least in some way. But these beliefs make things a little more interesting until I reach the end.
@@DisIntegratedLife I can respect that. I've hypothesized similar ideas, but am not willing to latch onto any until sufficient evidence. And who knows, if we keep asking questions and using a somewhat balanced mind of logic, and reason with imagination and creative thought processes to keep new ideas and interest, then who knows. Always let evidence guide us and try to never be so certain again on any such world view without sufficient evidence. This identity suit can wreak havoc on one's physiological mechanisms when it where that skin suit so close. Once it sloughs off, the exposure to truth can be overwhelming and painful. But once shed, the freedom can stretch without anxiety and the actual goodness of self apart from any deity can be seen, valued and nurtured through more good will to human kind. I am a hard atheist with Yahweh and would bet my only life that the biblical god doesn't exist. And if by one percent it did, well I'd have words w it, then spit on its goddamn feet and walk myself to hell.
This message is why I am firm on "fighting trolls/etc." If nobody counters the nonsense, it gets accepted as okay
hell yes
Indoctrination and Ozarks, you go to Kanakuk?
33:27 this is my favorite deadpan delivery on the whole of TH-cam, well done Forrest!
Light is obscenely complicated, you need warmer colours. Your LEDs are very cool in color and will make you look pale Your camera may have a setting to make everything look warmer so look for that in settings. Try to boost reds and cut back on highlights.
@tie pup true. Without going to the set in would be hard for me to recommend stuff, I am just a hobby level photographer warm light gels to get two birds stoned at once. Cheap, dead simple, and lightweight they are easy enough to recommend for photos and video.
I think this is mostly an issue of the camera settings. if all lights are around the same temperature the camera should be able to somewhat accurately set the white balance, but if there's a slight difference between them you may need to set it yourself. An easy way to set it is to have a white object like a sheet of paper in the view, and to tune the settings til the paper looks pure white. Getting new lights shouldn't be necessary imo.
why not just adjust the color temperature? you guys are clueless.
@@louiscyfer6944 yeah “your camera may have a setting to make everything look warmer” right there in black and white bro. Already suggested… literally the first suggestion in fact.
@@n0etic_f0x those led lights are probably 5000-6000K, so they are warm. the setting is called color temperature.
It hurts so much so hear those people talking about knowing "the truth" while lying constantly.
If you do a content analysis, charlantans use the word truth most frequently, and tend to focus on the idea that everyone else is lying.
I’m still cackling over Death Valley being in the Midwest🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@shacktime omg…. I played that bit back because it thought that I must have misheard that. 🙄🤦♀️
@@beverly719 Well, the Midwest does have a disproportionate number of places where critical thinking goes to die. Maybe that’s what he’s referring to🤔😏😂
So this guy's entire method of disproving evolution summed up:
"Evolution doesn't make sense to me. I don't understand evolution, therefore it's not real."
It's the basis for any evolution denier really. There's a whole bit on Job about how one shouldn't presume to know the mind or processes of God (which is a touch outdated, since among the "inexplicable" is how birds fly or how a fetus forms in the womb) which you think most believers would fall into (and many do, even highly influential portions of the Catholic Church does) but really evolution deniers are just people lashing out and attacking what they see as an emotional threat. It needn't be any sort of threat, but to them it must be because it runs counter to an internalized (metaphorical) narrative of the nature of the universe and thus the nature of man.
It’s really been surprising to see just how many people apply this logic to almost all facets of their “knowledge.”
A mind so open, they already know everything. Even if it’s completely fucking incorrect.
Because it’s not. It’s a theory lmao cringe athiestards
@@fluidthought42 So I'm just curious, did evolution create the big bang?
@@swickens930 Evolution and the Big Bang have almost nothing to do with eachother.
You should try white balancing the camera to the lights that you are using, also try to reduce the ISO to make everything a little darker, also a faster lens would help separating you from the background making it a little more blurry.
"Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean that it's magic" That is brilliant and needs to be on a shirt or something.
It’s not magic, it’s a MIRACLE!!
Magic has nature producing life and its diversity.
@@alisaurus4224 It's a miracle if nature produced life and its diversity.
We already had "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" o3o
i would totally buy that shirt
Anti Evolutionism: It just doesnt make sense!
"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science mandates that the ideas being passed off as science have to be testable. There isn't any evidence that nature can produce coded information processing systems and living organisms are ruled by them. There isn't even a way to test the claim that nature can produce coded information processing systems.
wow thats dumb
@@raymondflagstaff2919 Gosh Raymond are you off ur meds again
@@sathvik3441 like i'd let pharma loons play with my brain...
Ohh that's right ..... I forgot there's no free health care 😂😂
As an ex-Catholic and former seminarian, the Lady of Fatima is believed to have appeared to three children in the geographical location Fatima. There, several miracles were allegedly performed, including the sun "dancing" in the sky. The vision was also purported to have entrusted the children with several prophecies of doom and destruction, along with instructions on how to avoid it (namely rosaries), as well as secrets that were closely guarded. Two of the three children died before adulthood, and the other, Jacinta, lived the rest of her days in a convent. The Lady of Fatima would be an equivalent to the Lady of Guadalupe or Lourdes, which is to say the Virgin Mary but as she appeared in visions to different people around the world
But like, none of it is true tho
@@GTchum I mean, yeah, but that's the reason why an American channel would be associated with a foreign representation of Mary
@@GTchum I feel like just saying “it’s all fake” to end a conversation makes you less like the thoughtful scientist and more the Reddit atheist that watched like 3 episodes of Rick and Morty and downloaded their new personality from it.
Sure when they are saying that their beliefs are the objective truth of the universe despite science or using it to justify bigotry it’s fair, but for a lot of religion, it’s just enough that the faith is real and no matter what that has a large impact on people’s lives.
The Lady of Fatima is the Catholic title for Mary, Mother of Jesus. Roman Catholicism uses the Bible but many of their traditions and practices derive from pagan religions. Including the Rosary, Purgatory, and praying to Marry which isn't biblical nor part of Christianity.
@@stephenrustebakke4459, True, but Catholics also have the Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico), The Immaculate Conception (Lourdes), and several more, such as the Lady of Sorrows. They are all canonically The Virgin Mary, but they each represent a different mission/message
Sounds like he cut a screamer at the end there. That was a loud one. One of the best I have ever heard
Pretty sure anyone in your book club is a big enough fan that they'd have LOVED getting your old scribbled-in copy of "Evolution in Four Dimensions", LOL. Thanks for sharing the book here though too! Definitely gonna look into it.
Absofreakinglutely agreed!
"I would have given him a zero, but he did use words", im still laughing because he wasnt even good at expressing himself lol 😆
I loved the constant eye rolling
@@TheMarrethiel Professor Daves video about Transgender just came out. Very interesting!
"When their environment gets bad, the animals do go extinct or they go somewhere else and ADAPT TO THAT NEW ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY CAN THRIVE IN. They don't stay in the one that kills them"
He was sooo close to getting it.
That's what gets me about this whole thing- natural selection is actually a pretty simple, self-evident concept. It's always surprising the lengths these people go to not get it.
@@nobleradical2158 Kent agrees with natural selection. What part of that don't you get? Natural selection is just that, it isn't evolution, or it would just be called evolution and not natural selection.
@@eduardopena5893 Kent? Who are you talking about, Kent Hovind? I'm talking about the guy that this video is reacting to. He clearly doesn't understand natural selection.
@@nobleradical2158 I don't know anything about this guy.
@@eduardopena5893 okay? I don't know much about Kent. I'm talking about this guy.
Never thought I’d see dr. Robotnik but with a beard try to debunk evolution.
If only he'd spent his time trying to debunk male pattern baldness
@@Loctorak 😭
I grew up in a christian household and was raised with all of this. "humans aren't animals", "Evolution isn't possible" "young earth vs old earth theory" -- and just the way he asserts to know, even though- as you put it "they have never picked up your book and read it" in another video... it's frustrating. even in elementatry school I was confused when my parents tried to make sure I didn't believe in evolution, they took me out of a public school in order to avoid harry potter in 4th grade and put me in a christian school... and my learning suffered for it.
So. I just want to say thanks. For doing this and being able to scientifically defend the truth vs cultish magic religion shit.
Ah, humans aren't animals?
*looks at gender reveal forest fires*
Wow, going as far as taking a kid out of school to avoid harry potter? Damn..
Good thing you they didn't make you read the whole book.
@@cye2310 well animals know how to do things without killing other environments
I really hate when they try to bash Harry Potter because "witchcraft!" If they actually read the books, they would realize he's wizard Jesus.
As a physics student I can say this: not only doesn’t he understand Evolution but also Entropy.
lol yeah. tho, the notion that life somehow defies the natural order is kind of fun. makes life like the rebel of the universe, and that sounds metal as fuck.
haha ! At this point, a lot of us are asking ourself.. What does he understand ?
@@charlesaky1352 Valkai is truly the perfect
intersection between Atheist-Channel and Science-Yotuber; it's epic.
But i see the stunning trend that many dont get inspired by this to check out more
of both, even though theres so many more epic ones.
Serious Ones, like Professor Dave Explains, Prophet of Zod, and Planarwalk,
and Belief-It-Or-Not, but also Goofy Ones
like Darkmatter25, Logicked, Sir Sic, Emma Thorne, C-Catz and Creaky Blinder!
Closed systems, amirite?
@James Kirk You do understand that the basic building blocks of life have been replicated in a lab? People made the stuff that made living organisms, without divine intervention, but with high voltage electricity. See this is what he was talking about when he spoke about having some understanding of a subject. There is a ton of scientific papers on this subject, and on how it works, all without God. Most likely, you're not asking the right people, or not understanding the answer.
And you talk about evidence, except there isn't really any evidence for God. There is also arguably no evidence against. Both sides can only really argue semantics and opinions.
And before you waste your time with me, I do believe in a God. Most likely though not your version of God. You see, you start by slinging insults, passive aggressive insults ("nothing is more cringeworthy (sic)" [cringe worthy, or cringe-worthy, what you wrote isn't a word] "don't have a willingness or ability to accept as true", some people request evidence, faith isn't evidence it's the exact opposite, if you claim to have evidence, you are proving the Bible wrong where it says there isn't proof, but by faith alone should you believe). Kind of not what any God wants people to be doing... mostly wants us to worry about making ourselves right and treating others with love and respect...
I’m an environmental biologist. I specialize in freshwater ecosystems in my immediate area. I can’t tell you how many time family members have said “well, you’re a scientist. How does this (insert a specific astrophysics principle) work?”. I then have to say, “I don’t know. That’s not my area of expertise. I probably don’t know anything more about it or than you do.”. I feel the same way every time a creationist begins with the Big Bang. I can explain how evolution works and the selective pressures that cause certain alleles to be selected over others, but I know next to nothing about astrophysics or physics in general.
Oh, I bet you have a better understanding of the Big Bang than Young Earth Creacrappers. They produce all sort of falsehoods about it, you don't.
It's like expecting a gymnast to have the complete baseball rulebook memorized since they're both athletic activities.
The people that believe in talking snakes and donkeys are now experts in logic and science…
Fatima 1917
Virgin Mary appears several times to 3 young children
Later a mass hallucination involving many who witnessed an abberant sun dancing in the sky. So there now, got it?
when he brought up the beatles i half expected him to say that when you play they’re records backwards it plays satanic messages
Creationists; "Nooooo, you can't just bring up completely valid points! The children won't believe what we say and our religion will die!"
Forrest; "Okay? And?"
Then there's me; "Do you have any idea how many religions yours has killed or at the very least; helped kill?"
Chad move right there
...How many _people_ Christianity killed...
The day religion dies can't come soon enough, sadly we still have morons that believe of a white bearded man looking at conservatives through a cloud in the sky.
if you need to say and, you arent much of a thinker... not saying its right, but think a litttle harder
I love how he brings in the Coelocanth, a fish that is one of the best examples of Evolution out there, so confidently. Absolutely fascinating.
The Coelacanth is actually is an example of species not changing when an environment doesn't change, i.e. it's an example of what happens when evolutionary pressures are severely diminished. At the depths where the fish lives there is little pressure on species survival. Evolution happens when environments change and what may have been detrimental to survival, such a fair skin in equatorial regions becomes a advantage in regions far away from the tropics.
@@DaveKeenan1956 I suppose I should've worded it a little better, like how it more so proves the mechanics of natural selection, but the Coelocanth does help in illustrating the point. Didn't need to evolve, barely did.
Include other species that have been known to have evolved a bunch and compare situation and you've got natural selection literally presented. I mean yeah look at us humans, skin tone, hair color, etc., bc climate and whatnot
Goes to show how little Creationists read...or how much they take out of context and/or misunderstand
Just gotta love the fact the guy goes "ERROR! FOUND AN ERROR!" when the Coelocanth is literally what's supposed to happen when changing as a species isn't needed
The fact is that we don't know if the coelacanths we catch today are in any way connected to the coelacanths from the Paleozoic or Mesozoic. We can't compare the genes, so this might only be a case of convergent evolution.
@@DaveKeenan1956
You are making up story to defend theory of evolution.
These arguments could be debunked by a high school sophomore that was even partially awake during biology class. This is brutal.
Sure these ones but you can’t stop them all
Even I could debunk this and I’m in 7th grade
@@flapcow6837 Yes, yes we can.
@@flapcow6837 yes I can
@@mihailmilev9909 try me
After watching your latest videos, it appears you've figured out your lighting problems. 🙂 I'm a audio guy, so I couldn't help you in the first place. 🤣
I often find myself overwhelmed, disheartened, and infuriated listening to my family talk about their beliefs in a religious text and their lack of trust in the scientific community that gives them their insulin, hypertension rx, and MS medication.
I can’t express how grateful I am that Forrest and many others do videos like this.
While it may be stress inducing for them to be reminded of how insanely misguided people guide others to the wrong solution, these moments of laughter over mutual frustration is incredibly stress relieving and appreciated!
Thank you for your ongoing dedication!
Amen. My family member was in a car accident and thanked god for sparing their life. Fine, whatever. But also, thank the engineers who made the air bags and the steel supports, and thank the regulators who forced the carmakers to include these lifesaving elements in the vehicle. Thank the people who set up the 911 service, the ambulance service, and the education for the EMTs, surgeons, nurses, and other medical professionals. Thank so many other people whose contributions save lives every day.
@@pechaa Absolutely! I will forever be inspired by those who ask questions and am eternally grateful for their dedication to finding answers! There are so many incredible and life saving discoveries and inventions from people who asked why and how.
I’m honestly grateful for people like him. However, we’re BADLY getting wrecked on a daily by people like Kennedy on social media constantly. I often see people sharing conspiracy theory, or anything that takes 2 seconds of actual research to debunk and it’s super disheartening to see it even more from people of my generation. Like, we grew up with google guys. I HATE seeing those “y’all ain’t ready for that convo”, “makes you think”, “wake up people”, or 🧐🧐🧐🤔🤔🤔” all over the place for the sake of virality. Hearing my sister share anti-vax texts and repeat anti-vax/abortion rhetoric is disheartening.
God gave us great brains and creativity to explore and to Come up with sollutions for problems.
But the tree of knowledge is not the same tree that gives life !!
Because knowledge can be used to help BUT also used to do great harm.
Tree of life is about keeping relationships healthy... it starts by to take what a person says seriously.
We do not take Gods word seriously and that relationship broke... and all other relationships followed.
Your hubris is overwhelming if you feel any of those things towards your family just because they have different beliefs than you.
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
To his audience, this man is a veritable genius, because he speaks fast and uses multi-syllabic words with confidence.
He can spout any old shit and his victi… demographic will believe him.
your username's really cool man
@@chaoticallyconfusedheathen7964
Love it too!!!!
Yeah but even among the sightless the eye of a Potato is still no advantage ;)
That’s a really good quote tho
@@BigFatWedge I’ve no idea who to credit with having coined the phrase, but yeah, it’s really good 😊
Your explanation of Hubble's constant might be the best I've heard. Great job condensing all that so clearly, in simple terms while also leaving nuggets for those who would enjoy more, then bringing us back XD
I love the "inanimate objects aren't gonna come alive and therefore evolution doesn't exist" point. This guy should go into comedy.
I love the logic that a lack of morality/religion has lead to shorter lifespans nowadays, yet the past two hundred years have a dramatic increase in lifespans
Its almost like longer lifespans are caused by proper health care, nutrition and...um....science....
He thinks way way way back in time, before the first prophets people lived 900 or 1000s of years.... something something nephilim, something something dogpeople, something something garden eden
@@alexanderlipowsky6055 Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me just how many crazy & insane things that Creationists can blindly believe.
As for that 1,000-year-old humans crap... Well, the Ancient Babylonians enslaved the Sumerians *Before* they enslaved The Ancient Hebrews, the Sumerians had a Base-60 numerical Counting-System without a dedicated Zero, the Ancient Babylonians adopted/stole this Counting-System (& likely would have forced future slaves to Learn it for efficiency purposes). That counting-system was used fairly widely at the time, throughout the Middle-Eastern Mesopotamian Region, for trade.
There is an Ancient bit of Cuneiform containing a list of Sumerian Kings & their Lifeftimes, pretty much all of which Seem to be basically about 1,000 years old or more.
But, considering their number-system is Base-60, for some reason dividing by approximately 12 reveals a Believable & Realistic Number.
In the Bible the character known as Methuselah is the Oldest of the "Oddly-Unrealistic Aged People", having supposedly died at 960 years.
Dividing his age by 12 results in a simple, but still quite old for the time, Reasonable Age of 80.
@@alexanderlipowsky6055 Oh right, people actually DO think that humans lived that long.
'Led', not 'lead'.
Would also be curious to see lifespan vs % of popularion who are religious.
"Humans are animals: we move to much to be plants and we're too big to be bacteria"
Lolol I'm gonna use that one
someone is gonna say something like
"wrong 'too,' i win" or something
I made me laugh quite a bit. xD
Photographer here. Two lights positioned at 45 degrees to your face and 45 degrees above your head. Distance depends on exposure based on brightness = 1/ distance ^2. As well, use a lower Kelvin color temperature (ca. 3400 degrees) rather than daylight (5200 degrees).
this is so random but i love seeing people in the comments that all have different areas of expertise, social media gathering all kinds of people together like this, enjoying the same thing, has some kind of beauty in it!!
He probably needs a warm gel on one of the lights.
Where can I find information and guides for science of photography, lenses, lighting etc? It seems very interesting
@@ChrisGrahamkedzuelOr a spray tan.
holy shit i never thought lighting was so complex
I’ve watched this video a number of times since it came out and I have no idea how I didn’t catch this until now; 24:39 in what universe is Death Valley in the Midwestern US???
Thank you so much for making these free online. I was schooled k-12 in a private christian school, so I'm just now as an adult finding good explanations about evolution, instead of talking points about young earth creationism. Your positivity, energy, and inclusivity embody everything I loved about school growing up - It's clear that you love teaching. Thank you so much for all that you do, and please never stop teaching people.
@stitchespsychos8678 - Mr Valkai's friend Erika (of the "Gutsick Gibbon" channel) is also a great teacher around topics of evolution, Earth science, and YEC debunking. She, too, is whip-cracking smart, engaging, enthusiastic, and creative (most of the cartoon illustrations & all the animations are her own work). She is a PhD candidate and is a university teaching assistant, teaching a lab class. And us! She also went to a private religious YEC elementary and middle school.
(Forrest and Erika have also appeared together a number of times as guests on other TH-cam channels.)
Ye people like him should never stop indoctrinating people and being arrogant while doing it.
I feel horrible for ppl that are indoctrinated from birth to believe lies! I’m glad you found Forrest and ppl like him!
Valkai is not teaching, (educating)he’s indoctrinating.
@@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236 No. How do you think he is? Conveying observable, testable, verifiable facts is indoctrination? I thought spewing religious bullshit about a genocidal deity and the whole world being flooded to children who are told to shut up and believe or burn in hell forever was indoctrination. You know, since it cant be verified because it has either been proven false, is logically impossible, or is just straight up evil.
Ah yes, a news desk guy that talks about theocratic reactionary politics. He must be a trustworthy and unbiased source of science facts
You just have a bias against cartoon villain beards
And he’s Catholic, they don’t usually have a problem with mainstream science
Please cover PragerU!
This hate-group really needs some more Debunks!
@@slevinchannel7589 unfortunately, they delve more into economics and politics than evolutionary science which is valkai's field. if i had the resources to make videos id love to debunk their arguments as a civics student :)
@@fizzjerry2739 There is at least one some what vaguely-veiled anti-evolution video, I think its title was something like, the problems of evolution or something similar.
I was raised young earth Creationist and I was GOBSMACKED when I learned how many hominid fossils there actually were.
And then I got REALLY REALLY MAD.
Same. I thought there were about 5 and there was pretty much nothing that said they couldn't just be anomalies. My mind was blown later on lol 😂
Which is exactly why I'm an anti theist.... religion is damaging Period
They really do lie a lot, I'm thankful for the internet or I would have never got smarter
Me too! Almost every one of these reacteria videos brings tears to my eyes. So many wasted years of having garbage shoved down my throat. I HAD NO IDEA how cool all of this stuff is, and how NOT CRAZY evolution is😭😭😭😭😭
You give us hope. Deconversion rates from nonsense have never been higher and all thanks to the easy access to information that the Internet grants us. Those who are too brainwashed past all rationality will keep living in a world of fantasy, but paraphrasing what someone said: "if people weren't taught about Christianity before they were adults, it would disappear in less than a century".
"Ok, let's start our five point debunk of modern mathematics, part one: did William the Conqueror invade a rule England in the 11th Century?"
This dude's putting more mental energy into blinking than he is his arguments.
Right? I kdpt wanting to yell at him "just get some eyedrops or something!!"
What do you expect from creationists? Everyone knows they lack the mental capacity to think.
@@aaronfraire9073 When will people learn that calling the other side stupid literally helps no one. These people generally were raised to believe these things. Most of the time, their entire upbringing was based around these beliefs. So when they come across something that doesn't fit, or goes against the beliefs that they were raised on, then yeah, no shit they're gonna assume that the other thing is wrong. No one wants to think that the "reality" they've been raised to believe in is wrong. I mean hell, for some people, it's their entire life. So when the other side calls them stupid or brainwashed or whatever, how do you think they're going to react? All it does is make them even more likely disavow anything that comes from your side, the same way you do for theirs.
That's when I like reacteria. Because, rather than the video being 20 minutes of "Hey, check out how stupid these people are!", it's 30+ minutes of careful disection, explain exactly *why* they are wrong. Forest actually takes the time to break things down in a way that's easy to understand for any who may not have gotten the chance to be educated on the subject.
I'm not saying that you necessarily meant anything malicious from your comment. But please, for the love of science, don't talk down to someone just because they lack the education that you were granted. Because in reality, a lot of the people who hold these types of beliefs, like creationists and flat earthers, could've made for really great scientists had they been granted the proper resources and/or education to flourish. But since they're constantly mocked and ridiculed by the scientific community, they're likely now too cemented in they're beliefs to ever even consider it.
(Edit: Oof, I did not mean to write an entire frickn essay as a reply to ur comment. Sorry bout that. 😬)
@@Sleepish_ Buddy, about your last paragraph, I graduated from a private christian high school that taught young earth creationism. As far as I'm concerned, I dropped out of high school at 14. My diploma from that school means nothing to me. And I never believed a single word of BS they taught in that school. I'm so glad I watched so many nature and science shows and documentaries growing up. I was immune to their indoctrination.
If I sound harsh, I apologize, but those are my honest feelings about it and I'm very blunt and don't have much of a filter.
@@Sleepish_ You are certainly right that many people get stuck in the errors they are raised to believe. What's difficult about the guy in the video is that he's a Catholic. There certainly are some reactionary (relatively speaking, of course) factions within the Catholic Church (people who reject Vatican II for example or won't have the mass said in any language other than Latin).
But I can't imagine that even someone raised within one of those factions wouldn't have many, many, many occasions to come into contact with the more mainstream doctrines of the Church. The Church doesn't teach biblical literalism (since at least Augustine) and it accepts both the big bang and evolution. It was a Catholic priest who was one of the first proponents of the Big Bang. I went to Catholic schools K-12. We started learning about heredity in 8th grade -- Mendel's peas at his Catholic abbey. I was in Honors Biology in high school and we had a pretty good education in evolution without any doubt being cast upon it. This guy is going against the standard teachings of the Church he says he belongs to. He has to know it (as shown by him calling Teilhard de Chardin heretical and demon-possessed at the end) & it shows a lot of dishonesty that he's trying to keep his viewers in the dark.
"Humans are animals. We move too much to be plants and we're too big to be bacteria." New favorite phrase
But we're surprisingly close to fungus, microscopically!
@@Cekoz Possibly my favorite biology fact tbh
except its just semantics... humans are obviously separate from most if not all animals. we have self reflection which is nearly absent in all other species
@@raymondflagstaff2919 Are we sure we only got that self-consciousness? Also, does it even matter if you get it or not, if you exist all the same?
@@randomstranger623 um the point is if we draw distinctions between bacteria, plants, and humans then yes it does matter. The first way to start learning is to correctly identify what we are talking about... humans stand nearly alone... i believe there is some evidence elephants, perhaps dolphins, have some self awareness... but language then sets us apart
Movie editor here. You can change the color in post production on any editing program. The camera runs blue so move it towards red. That or you can buy some LED lights and throw a orange filter on them. Always use more light than you think and don't point them directly at you but at the wall. It makes the light softer and warmer with very little shadows. Hope that helps.
As a teacher I was shocked at how the curriculum was changed to eliminate science instruction.
They want to keep the population stupid
What, Where is this?
No Child Left Behind. Open Court Curriculum.
No Child Left Behind. Open Court Curriculum.
If Ron DeSantis has his way, he would probably eliminate science
One of my favorite examples of a random mutation is the development of Sickle-Cell Anemia. It's a harmful mutation that in the modern world proves to be a bit of a disability, but where it developed it created a genetic advantage to life since the condition made people highly resistant to contracting a fatal illness: Malaria. Listing to this guy talk about how random mutations create severe handicaps reminded me of this fun little fact; one person's handicap is another person's advantage. Everything in evolution is contextual. What works one place doesn't work another place, which is why genetic variance is such a thing among the species with larger geographic ranges than a single lake or plane or valley, and ultimately why divergent species appear in the evolutionary timeline.
There's a sweet spot in having the gene where you can be immune to malaria but not have sickle cell anemia but I would not love to be a genetic consultant in a malaria dense country. Immune to malaria, or have the risk of giving your child anemia? It's quite the dilemma.
No it doesn't. Seance people made that up. They say it could help with malaria. But they probably fudged a few numbers like they normally do to say it is beneficial. Biped does not confer any advantage in the jungle. You have to be fast. But bipeds are slow. Evolution is bunk. The seance world is crumbling all around you. Because seance is wrong. Call it a day.
Like the Inuit have a higher level of resistance to frost bite or Tibetans have can live in higher altitudes where the air is thinner etc etc
@@stephenhill8790 They eat whale blubber. They have more insulation. There is no eveelution.
@@haylobos8261 and you know nothing at all about evolution
The fact that evolution is still in question today is just mind blowingly wild to me
It's not in question by anyone who actually understands it.
No one questions mere evolution. The debate is over the asinine and untestable claim that blind and mindless processes produced the diversity of life.
@@sombodysdadwhich is a pointless debate, much like whether god exists. Evolution however has relative proof of its existence even if we can’t prove how or why it happened. God doesn’t have proof of existence nor does he have a how or why he would create man.
that should be normal. The idea that science is set in stone is absolutely anti-science. Everything we know should constantly be in question, that's how our understanding grows. People would have said the exact same thing about viruses being passed from foul odors. Science is a process, not a rule.
@@nyhx9452 yeh I understand but the fact that the theory of evolution has been around since 1859 and people are still denying it is absolutely ludicrous.
I spotted your emu egg in the background. A moment that blew my mind was when I held an ostrich egg and realized that, in unfertilized, that massive thing was a single cell.
I love how he says dumb things with conviction and when he's providing "evidence" he says "I think I heard some scientists say this".
True, I noticed that, too. He needs to be clear about his sources and cite them. Honestly, he sounds like someone doing a report in school without being prepared and trying to make up for it with confidence.
yeah, quoting as fact and then ends the sentence : "or something like that". You can't reason with people like this when their "facts" resemble vapors.
Yeah and his argument is no different than virtually every other creationist ever. There is nothing new here. Not that I expected there would be but for a guy who speaks with so much confidence You would think he would have something new to say.
Broderik - You write "I love how he says dumb things with conviction ..."
Now, without yet watching this video I could be put off forever simply by your comment. Why? Because you negatively critiqued a 'he' without specifying whether the 'he' you you refer to is the person who made this actual video (Forrest Valkai, an Evolution Scientist) or is the Creationist who made the video Forrest is critiquing. And currently 62 people liked your comment. So, is Forrest's video being approved of or trashed by you and those who like your comment? From your comment alone it's impossible to tell whether you (and your currently 62 supporters) believe or deny evolutionary theory. See the problem?
Please try to be clearer.
Can y’all help me get him to react to this video on evolution: th-cam.com/video/fsJUk_vQnCs/w-d-xo.html
20:16 I had some biology classes with a religious teacher last summer and we had to work with different ideas of how the species came to be, of course we had creationism, evolution, then evolution but how the first living thing appeares (meteorites or elements mixing in the water) etc. So, one of the classes we were talking about mitosis/Meiosis I don't remember which one but it was about cells cloning themselves, and having some -1 of knowledge about evolution I asked the teacher if the errors that can happen when cells clone is the cause of the mutation and therefore micro-evolution steps, she totally denied it and told me that all mutations result in "cancer", I as 15 yo gullible teen I heard everything she said and I believe it, after all, she was the one ment to educate me, and now, hearing you saying what I said to her, and that it was actually right, makes me feel an amazing disappointment of my teacher ; /
fun fact: europeans originally never had blue eyes, they had green. blue eyes was a random mutation from crimea in 500ad
I'm very impressed you put that together without having been taught natural selection. You independently came to Darwin's insight.
@@BuddhaAtheist29 wtf not even close
@@williamrosenbloom215 thank you dude, you are really nice!! 🥰
Professor Dave and Sci Man Dan love
to destroy Science-Denial. It's glorious.
Just to correct a minor error you made about the camel. Camel evolution had literally nothing to do with deserts, since camels evolved in North America, specifically from the Canadian arctic to the Great Plains. Their humps served as a fat storage for harsh winters with little food, and similarly their skin-covered splayed hooves originally distributed their weight across snow. Only much later did they cross the Bering land bridge into Asia and Africa, and it turned out their specific adaptations for arctic Canada was also very good for hot and dry deserts. This makes their hump not an adaptation to desert life, but an exaptation,
That is a really interesting fun little titbit about evolution.
Thank you for that. :)
They adapted to the australian environment in the 1900s lmao
That’s very interesting. Thanks for that.
It's not so much an error, when you remember that "desert" can refer to arid areas as well as completely cold ones. Deserts are climates without many food and with extreme temperatures.
@@fermintenava5911 Becomes kinda funny when you realize that most people don't even know how insanely cold even the Sahara desert gets at night.
Oh wow. This is exactly the channel my heart has been looking for for a looooooong time. Easiest sub of my life.
This guy's anti-science views are actually pretty fringe for a Catholic. He may be surprised to find out that the theory for the Big Bang was first proposed by Monseigneur Georges Lemaitre, who was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, theoretical physicist and Catholic priest. Lemaitre was actually the one who first derived Hubble's law. Anyways, please don't take this as representative for what most Roman Catholics believe.
Catholics 🤝 Non-Catholics
“TradCaths are really weird”
@@janmelantu7490 lmao that’s gold
@@janmelantu7490 Traths
Seriously. Creationist Catholics are so cringe.
Quite a lot is made of the fact that the person who discovered this, theorised that or championed something where actually priests. Isn't it strange how the most educated people of time where discovering things that contradicted what their big book of crap told them.
Thank you for being polite and sticking to the science without being a jerk and name calling everyone who believes in a creator. Makes it much easier to listen to, for those of us actually watching to try and expand our understanding of things.
So many scientists are religious. But they don’t believe Eve was made out of Adam’s rib.
As an atheist, I’m passionate about people understanding that they don’t have to “pick one”. Find your balance :)
Expanding your understanding is fantastic, shows advanced critical thinking. Don’t ever feel like you can’t believe two things to be true at once, as long as you don’t allow them to contradict, or base any of those choices on emotion.
Hope I’m not putting words in your mouth. Just really trying to support advancement and duality. Go you
Yes!!!! Great on you for trying to broaden your worldview! Everyone needs to do that more.
It’s not the believing in a creator part that is the problem. It’s the sheer pig faced willful ignorance and the spreading of misinformation. You can believe in science and a creator. They are not mutually exclusive.
23:28 "Shame on you for what you just did!"
Thank you, Forrest Valkai.
People like him aren't just a little too shallow to understand science.
They are mischievous, deceiving liars. It's no good to treat them as if all they need is a little nudge to gain some better understanding. Because they know full well that they are twisting facts. They do it on purpose and their motive isn't a christian one.
Agreed. These so called christians have forgotten the entire principal that christianity is based on: that everybody deserves to be accepted and loved for the way that they are. Extremely hypocritical when you realize that the majority of christians are homophobic sexists.
it’s turbo christian to the point of actively stopping lynching
@@atticusmiller3961 religion is an excuse for hate and you can’t change my
mind
@@Hellwaterva I think that's how a lot of people use it, and maybe that's how it started, but I also think that it can be a way to bring people together. That's just me though. I'm not a theologian, so don't take my word for it.
Nothing he said at that point was wrong. Pro choice advocates do indeed justify abortions for fetus who are likely to have disabilities. And it does have a racist political history with Margaret Sanger and the "Negro Project"
30:58
he's also forgetting that the sahara cycles through wet & dry periods (it looked _very_ different in the cenozoic era, especially during the holocene & pleistocene epochs). although, i learned from looking this up that camels actually evolved in north america, so that's pretty cool, but it does make the whole sahara thing kind of irrelevant anyway.
he's also forgetting that camel's humps (where most of their fat is stored) are for more than just "because they're thirsty," - they allow for thermoregulation in both very hot _and_ very cold environments
also, this is a nitpick, but he says that death valley is in the "midwestern" united states but it's in california, which is on the west coast, so, yknow, more _western_ than "midwestern"
and another nitpick - technically, peccaries aren't pigs. pigs are suidae, peccaries are tayassuidae. they just look similar.
I like how he waves his hand when he's bullshitting. To him, it probably means "these are all irrelevant details, ignore them" but when I see creationists do that, it's like a "insert refutation here" QuickTime event
Fun-Fact: Most Christians know Evolution is proven Fact and are not as simple as those who dont know that the word ‚Theory’ in ‚Theory of Evolution’ reminds them of Gametheorys and all such, cause that’s not the same word, duh. Scientific Theory is not the same as a theory about some theory-how-youre-favorite-show-will-end.
So stop pretending this is some Religion-vs-Science Thing, when Science-Deniers and Evolution-Deniers are literally seen by Christianity as a Whole as an
IMAGE DAMAGE.
I find it most hilarious that evolution-deniers say they deny it because of God/Religion but at the same time, this is a Self-Lie and the majority of their OWN Religion disagrees with them; and that of course isnt even mentioning the many other things that make Christianity overall so very, very divided.
@@nenmaster5218 I don't think that most christians know evolution is a fact.
Which he are you talking about?
The bald guy is the only one bs'ing
The concept of a real-life QuickTime event for this made me laugh. Thanks for the imagery!
@@sledzeppelin I think that depends on where you are. For example, in Germany, where I come from, creationism isn't taught at schools and I don't think it is anywhere else in Europe.
I believe the US is pretty much the only country that made education about evolution optional.
Most Christians I know see no conflict with believing in both god and evolution.
"These scientists knew much better than everybody else, and they were able to tell us what actually happened even though they never saw it happen." Yes. That's literally what paleontologist are and do.
Hope you check out Sci Man Dan if you like Debunks of anti-science so much.
Yeah but don’t creationist believe in a being and events no one ever saw such as Adam and Eve or Noah’s ark
If not ever seeing something means it can’t be used as evidence the literally every part of the bible that is something that was told by god can’t be used as evidence cause no one saw it and no one has seen god either so it kind of collapses in on itself
"these experts knew much better than everyone else, and they were able to tell us about their area of expertise even though they weren't spoon-fed it"
who is this clown who completely doesn't understand how science works? is this guy just a religious nut or does he claim to have some science background...? Forrest basically toasted this guy. hell, I could have toasted this guy... and I'm just a putz that almost understands science.
@@elliotpeck8137 No, but you see, the book said not to question it so they know it's true. If scientific papers said you shouldn't question their findings then they'd immediately do a 180 because then it would say its own findings are right, lol.
My brother and I almost choked when he said that Death Valley was in the “mid~west”. We both grew up in the Mojave desert…in California….about a hour from Death Valley.
My eyes bugged out of my head and I'm Canadian lmao 🤣
Glad someone else noticed that. I’m thinking if this guy can’t be bothered to even understand basic info like, I’m sure as hell not listening to him about creationism.
I live in the Mojave 😁🤘
Seriously. If you could drive over the mountains easily, Death Valley is only a couple hours from the coast.
@@Azrdraco you can drive over the mountains easily. Death Valley is about 100 miles from me. I live in the Mojave Desert
This dude’s cadence, anxious pen tapping, and attempts at humor give off that he’s trying (and horrifically failing) to emulate Jon Stewart.
Thank you Forrest. The amount of indoctrination and trauma I endured as a child nearly has me believing this guy, even as you're debunking him. I've had to re-educate myself to the point I feel like I'm relearning the alphabet, and you've been a great help in that process.
It's not Richard Dawkins but people like you who have convinced me that religious childhood education is a form of child abuse.
I know the feeling you are talking about. :/
@@puddinpants5790 Glad i'm not alone at least :)
These televangelist usually have good charisma and are unapologetic about their views, it's easy to see how people can fall into that trap. Gald you can see through that and you strive to know reality for what it is
@best TALL ty, it's been a journey
"Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean it's magic "
I want this on a shirt
Reminds me of a saltzpyre quote: “ITS NOT MAGIC, it’s faith” which is a sign it probably isn’t a good thing if it reminds me of him
Good. Apply that rule to Creationism and God now.
@@abigailedwards3843 God isn't a difficult concept to understand, in fact, God is an insanely simple concept, too simple, actually. God is such a simple concept that it's actually detrimental to critical thinking. Can't understand why something happens? God. Why? Don't question it, God is mysterious and doesn't need to be understood. See how simple that is?
@@84warhead God isn't a difficult concept to understand? (so...ID is believable then?)
Don't question what? The origin of life? Because that's what I'm talking about. It's not shutting down conversation to believe intelligent life came from intelligent life. It's common sense.
Creation and *macro* evolution are both hypotheses that look at the same data/information, but interpret them differently. As a result both come up with different conclusions based on those different assumptions. But the common denominator is, both need FAITH to believe.
We can use our 'critical thinking' to arrive at the best, most reasonable hypothesis for life. It doesn't shut down thinking to accept a plausible theory. You can go on thinking all you want, but if you come up with a theory that is no better than Intelligent Design (e.g macro evolution, i.e change above the species level) we're left right where we've started with ID.
Although gravity isn't a 'fact', it's based on real world effects.
In much the same way, we see life coming from life as a real world effect all the time today, so creation really isn't a stretch to believe. Sorry that you think it's 'too simple'. I happen to think changes above the species level via mutations and natural selection are 'too impossible', when you consider factors such as the decay of the human genome, etc.
@@abigailedwards3843 that entire paragraph just to perfectly highlight the original statement.
This is the first time I've heard the details on how scientists calculated the age of the universe. I'd always figured it was some complex thing to do with deep distances and the speed of light. You make it sound relatively simple. Sweet! I learned something new today! Thanks Forrest!
Off-topic: no snow?
same :)
Check out space time, the pbs TH-cam channel. They do an amazing job of simplifying astro and quantum physics. scientists can rewind the universe to 10-³⁵ seconds. Thats one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.
Because of space time I can watch much more advanced science and understand what they're taking about...
The speed of light is not an absolute speed limit. Its the speed of causality. Nothing can cause something else to move faster the speed of light.
We did figure out that the universe had a beginning because if the universe was here for an infinite amount of time then the night sky would be as bright as day. Because then the light of every star in the universe would have had time to reach us.
@@asrieldreemurr135 that (Obers' Paradox?) only applies in the limit to an infinitely old universe with infinitely many stars, hence infinitely large. Could be infinitely old but finite in size and therefore still have dark spaces between the rays from stars.
Another point about the lungfish: those are adaptations that have helped it survive successfully in its environment. Aka fitness. So it fits with evolution very well actually
I love how he goes on about the coelacanth and how it survived a near world-wide extinction event millions of years ago but hasn't evolved since then.
IT SURVIVED AN EXTINCITON EVENT, WHY WOULD IT EVOLVE???
Same thing with sharks and crocodiles. They are perfectly adapted for their niche and are basically perfectly suited for it. They can’t get much better at what they do.
Thing is, they DID evolve.
Modern coelacanths are quite a lot different from old ones.
They just look superficially similar.
I'll also point out that "the" coelacanth is not a species, it's an entire genus.
It would be like saying squirrels never evolved once they got to Squirrel, and ignoring the immediately obvious issue if you get a red and gray squirrel next to each other.
Latest research on Coelacanth shows that it indeed evolved from the forms that were found in fossil record. There are several extant and extinct species of Coelacanth.
Just because people are being pedantic, I'm gonna be pedantic as well. While yes, all the species that are slow evolvers like crocodiles, sharks, and coelacanths, it's because the body plans are basically perfect for what they do and while there are sometimes crazy changes to the body plans like what happened with crocs, they don't tend to last because they don't just lack evolutionary pressure to change, they are being pressured NOT to change. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You'll survive so many extinction events if you just stay like that.