At 18:13, I mention an article where AiG attacks BioLogos, but forgot to show it. It's here... answersingenesis.org/creation-scientists/mainstream-scientific-literature-ignore-young-earth-conclusions/ Note that Hugh Ross, depicted, is not part of BioLogos but rather Reasons to Believe ministries. Leaving off the article added to the B-roll confusion. Sorry.
Paulogia Firstly, I love you're content. Secondly, the creation museum made me doubt my faith and your videos made me evaluate myself honestly with the help of a pause button on the mountain of "evidence" so often used. Finally, what i think they were referencing the "rule" at 19:52 is the theory that gas giant planets form further out from their star. At the museum "hot Jupiters" were used as evidence for a young universe. There are some studies that have been done but from what i know its still a bit of a mystery. But still one logic can solve. Thanks again!! Keep up the good work.
I know that this is late, and you probably won't see it, but I have an issue with the "If I don't listen to them, how can I expect them to listen to me." Statement when it relates to a walkout such as what happened at that graduation. First, we don't "have" to listen to someone if we know what they're going to say. If a homophobe is to give a speech espousing his homophobia, why are we required to listen? Secondly, that walkout wasn't because they were refusing to "hear" Pence, it was because they wanted HIM to hear THEM. It was *their* statement. We are not required to accommodate every idiot who has something to say, whether hearing it would have any value or not.
Common, oh, no, you hurt his feelies. The poor innocent little darling. How will he ever recover? I'm surprised the idiots that showed up at a fucking play don't decide to pull their trash on a bunch of kids.
The Bible does actually provide instructions for how to perform an abortion. The crime of miscarriage was probably seen as a property crime. much like adultery and coveting your neighborhoods "stuff". as for swearing. The Bible says not to take the lords name in vain (?). Thats about the closet thing.
So Georgia won't use "swearing" to coerce her children … but threats of eternal hellfire and torture for the slightest hint of disobedience or individual thought, that's just fine.
Its one of the factors which really drew me away from religion. Bigotry, racism, sexism, sure, those might not be great, but a swear word? Worst thing ever. Which is going to do more harm, a four letter word, or a slur designed to attack a marginalized group? Or even worse, an action against a marginalized group. I think any reasonable person would say that a phrase targeting a specific person intended to do harm is worse. My religious community didn't have many reasonable people.
I really like your ham and eggs intro to your videos. For some reason, the tune gets me very excited, and sometimes I start singing it when driving my car.
Been watching them many months now and sing the tune, but I only today connected that "AIG" is the "aigs" in "Ham & eggs" 😅 That one was really slow on the uptake for me.
@Nonya Bidness "Ham and eggs" - It's an old, old song. My sister and I used to sing it back in the late 1940s or early 1950s, but I think it was old even then.
Ah, Paul, you remind me of an old saying: Do you know how to make a small fortune doing archaeology? Start with a large fortune and know when to quit. Or, as I used to tell students: You don't have to take a vow of poverty, but you might as well.
Whenever you ask them to define "transitional", "kind", or "information", then you're asking them to do something they physically can't do. They also can't admit that we've seen examples of any of these despite the definition.
Phew! I'm glad I am not the only one. It's nice that you have guests, Paul, but don't give them all of your platform as you just sit there and blink your cartoon eyes :) You just chip in now and again when, in reality, we come to your channel to hear you. Have them say their piece then slide their cartoon selves back off the screen - or sit there quietly blinking their cartoon eyes while you present the episode. All in all, great work, Paul. I love your channel.
I also agree. I like the guests, but Paul is one of the absolute best commentators/debunkers I've ever encountered, and his approach, demeanor, and voice are refreshing, interesting, and all-around excellent. Love your stuff, Paul, keep it going! :-D Cheers!
Christian: Oh, MY! Swear words are sooooo terrrible and ungodly! Now let us turn to our Holy Bible and read: She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Ezekiel 23:20 NIV You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. . . . The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. Deuteronomy 28:30-31,35 When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. Leviticus 15: 19-20 When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Deuteronomy 25:11-12 Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. 2 Kings 2:23-25 NIV Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. Numbers 31:17-18 You may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. Deuteronomy 21:18-21 Whosoever ... hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken ... He shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries. Leviticus 21:17-23 KJV they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” 6 Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, 7 and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. 8 Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” Genesis 19:5-8 Ahithophel answered, “Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to take care of the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself obnoxious to your father, and the hands of everyone with you will be more resolute.” So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. 2 Samuel 16:21-22 And the absolutely WONDERFUL tale about planned gang-rape, raping someone to death, and then dismembering her corpse. So much nicer that using four-letter words, amirite? *“The owner went out to them. He told them, “No, my friends! Please don’t do anything so evil! This man is a guest in my home. Don’t do such a godless thing! Here, let me bring out my virgin daughter and this man’s concubine. Rape them, and do with them whatever you want. Just don’t do such a godless thing to this man.” But the men refused to listen to him. So the Levite grabbed his concubine and forced her outside. They raped her and abused her all night long; only at dawn did they let her go. At daybreak the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her husband was, and she was still there when it grew light. When her husband got up, opened the doors of the house, and went out to go on his way, he saw the woman lying there with her hands stretched out toward the door. He said to her, “Get up! Let’s go!” But there was no answer. So he loaded her body on the donkey and began his trip home. On arrival at his house, he got a knife, took hold of his concubine’s body, cut her up into twelve pieces, and sent them to all the regions of Isra’el.”* Judges 19:24-29
My sincere thank you for being possibly the ONLY skeptic on TH-cam who actually acknowledges that the cursing shuts the door to EVER getting through to a YEC or any other fundy. Congratulations!
+Guy Fawkes That's because cursing indicates out-of-control (as contrary to righteous) anger, bitterness or irreverence-none of which Christians are interested in granting a willing audience.
ThatClassic70sGirl: nope. swear words are just words. They give emphasis to what is being said. At times, the only word that can truly convey what a person is feeling in the moment, is fuck. While Paul is right, that swear words is off-putting to christians, it does not mean they are bad or convey anything that you said. It has been found intelligent people swear, which would explain the gullibility of christians who don't. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/swearing-study-intelligent-intelligence-university-of-rochester-a7916516.html
Paulogia, since you asked, I agree with the students who walked out on Pence. He can get his message out to the world easily an interview with the press. The students brought attention to the fact that people oppose what he stands for. Pence wanted everyone to stay so he could pretend everything is OK
I personally find it strange that they never argued the fact that light years must be false in their video since the idea of light years prove that the universe is much much older than 6000 years
My Daily Kitchen - Light years can really refer to both. It’s kinda like how if you say you need to go to City X and it’s 800 miles away, your audience will understand if you’re driving, it’ll take a full day to reach your destination. When it comes to stars and light years, the stars we can see in the night sky don’t jive with a young earth creationist viewpoint. If the star is millions of light years away, then light from that star would take millions of years to get here. So if all of existence is only 6,000 years old, how can we see the star? It shouldn’t be visible for another million years, at least.
I can't believe the mom said "SON OF A MOTHERLESS GOAT!" I have been saying that for years - and yes, in front of my kids. I'm pretty sure I learned it from the movie The Three Amigos.
Paul, I really appreciate the no-swearing habit you've adopted. I watch skeptic videos regularly, but I usually can't at home because of my kids. I wanted to leave this comment before I saw this, and I'm glad to see you're conscious of it.
I believed that my Dad, a Texan farmhand turned train loader, never swore, until at age 12 I got to go on a fishing trip with him and his best friend. At my age of 67 I learned (from his sister) that while I knew he drank beer on weekends and booze only on New Years, that he drank like a fish before he got married at 30; I never had a clue. I do know that no one ever had a better Dad.
Same here, you and PZ Meyers are a few that don't swear. For the others that is part of their personality and they get the point across just as well, but I like to listen to videos where there is no swearing, I am not married and have no children but was raised where cursing didn't happen much.
When I first saw that Kraft commercial on TV... I laughed so incredibly hard... then told my family we are ONLY buying Kraft Mac/Cheeze from this point forward... finally a commercial that tells it like it is. That took some stones to air, and I'll support that anytime !
OMG this is so true I was a pentecostal christian and never swore, till it finally let go of the heavy boulder on my shoulders now I live a much better life. with swearing.
I’m glad someone else caught this and asked. I was dying of curiosity myself. I’m still curious why Paul hasn’t insisted on both sides being presented to the kids. At least we know that if he’s homeschooling them, they’ll get s real science education and learn how to ask questions.
Ham drives me up the wall! This one was perfect Paul, "he's just waiting for his turn to talk" - Yes! And how can you debate such a man? And therefore how can you RESPECT a man who is so arrogant that he shuts down during the opposing side, to formulate how he'll say his next bit? And it's just like you said: what he's so sure about is the stuff he picked up in 1950s textbooks which fit his stories lolol.
Your story about that one time you swore at work is so true. I also grew up Christian, and I almost never swear. Well, not out loud anyways. It think there was only one time in my life that someone has actually heard me swear outside of a few instances of me quoting something that happened to include one. I was at work, doing repairs on some equipment when a bolt that I was trying to remove snapped off completely, causing me to fall forwards because of the amount of force I was putting onto the wrench that no longer had any resistance against it. I bruised my knuckles, skinned a good portion of my arm, and let out a singe F-word. It wasn't too serious, mostly just a combination of surprise and unexpected pain, but several of my very swear-happy coworkers come running right away because "if HE swore it must be bad!" I didn't hear the end of that for months.
Love your videos Paul, but I will point out that Colossians 3:8 does command believers not to use filthy language. Given that, when I was a Christian this video would have lost me at 13:06. Otherwise awesome work as always :)
nathan mckenzie: they aren't koala bears. They are koalas. You might want to do a side by side comparison between bears and koalas to see what the differences are. I suggest starting with their class.
I have never been drawn or forced into any religion, but the creation-evolution debates always fascinated me. Not being part of your target audience, i still very much like your content and I love the way approach these questions. You should feel very lucky that I am not gay Paul, otherwise you wont be able to get rid of me.
Did I miss where the bible says a damn thing about SWEARING?? "Taking gods name in vain" is extremely limiting, and there are a shitload of other words god never said a damn thing about.
You probably know this already but the ape you showed loved Robin Williams he went to visit her and immediately took out his videos and kept telling him how much she loved him. It was actually pretty emotional to watch and I am typically a robot.
Elephants are land creatures but I heard that recently the Sri Lankan Navy rescued an elephant that was about 10 kilometres out at sea. It was swimming and was swept away from the coast. I am sure that the odd dinosaur was swept out to sea and those nice people from the Sri Lankan Nave were not there to tow it to land.
I seen nothing wrong with deciding to hear someone out OR deciding to walk away from someone who you want to make it clear you oppose. He has a right to speak (provided wherever is willing to let him be there and do so, not every single place on the planet is inherently granted to everyone, and not inviting or even canceling a speech isn't actually silencing people in reality), but there is no inherent right to a particular audience. And absolutely his views on the particular topic are already known, have already been heard and discussed, and are worth opposing. It's not refusing to hear out an opposing viewpoint when you've already heard it.
Yeah... I think you've articulated what I couldn't in the moment. If the protestors had attempted to stop him from speaking, that would have been wrong in my eyes. But he's not entitled to their ears. Thanks.
The problem with the Tower of Babel isn't so much archaeological but theological. The story contradicts God's attributes of being all knowing, present everywhere and all powerful. It only serves as a story of how different languages appeared and needn't be in the Bible at all.
Early book old testament never says he's a single god. In the very beginning he says let us make man like us. Who's the us? In the ten commandments, it's have no other gods above me. Why specify that if there are no other gods? Even in the tower of Babel story, he says let us go down. Again, who is the us?
My Daily Kitchen - I’ve heard somewhere that originally, way back in history, Jews were polytheistic and believed in a goddess in addition to their god. I’ve honestly never looked it up and checked the veracity of the information, but it fits well enough with the odd grammar in the very early Old Testament that I’m betting some small sliver of that claim is rooted in truth.
Yeah... Anytime the Bible says that God felt threatened by something, I figure that was human interpretation and dismiss it. The Tower of Babel is just an origin myth that doubles as a lesson in humility.
Goofnuggets! :D About swearing, It felt awkward saying it and I started late. When I do, it's something really hefty happening. I do use religious words for surprised exclamations (oh my god etc). In my language centered upbringing, swearwords were seen as a lack of other words (when you don't know what to say you swear). Their "free will" isn't others free will, only if they choose the same as they do! Science fiction = the Bible.
Paulogia, I definitely appreciate your lack of constant swearing and respectful comments. I can share the information with anyone. I wish Godless Engineer would be less purposefully crass to shock people and quit CONSTANTLY using bad language Once in awhile is Ok. I can't share his videos with anyone. I sometimes get sick of it and skip watching GE's videos. It is distracting from the message he intends to impart.
Wait? If it weren't for AiG you'd STILL be a Christian? Please explain, provide links, whatever... I'm a Christian right now, but I live in the South and am having some serious issues with southern Christian theology.
Hearing dissenting voices is important. That's why I borrowed "A Case for the Existence of God" by Dean L. Overman from my public library. As an atheist, I should listen to the other side, even though I doubt there will be one new idea that hasn't been debunked I'll read it.
D@mn you really should have had Morgan on this episode. Plus, instead of ever swearing on your channel, yourself, you could have her be your interpreter. I'm sure she'd f@cking love it!
I personally avoid swearing because I think it's low class, but I'm really tired of my fellow Christians acting like swearing is worse than anything else, particularly in media. The Madea movies Tyler Perry makes are full of thinly (if at all) veiled references to sex (oral sex in particular), prostitution, and abuse of women and children, all of which are played for laughs. And yet there are multiple people who think it's fine for kids because there's no swearing.
IMO, there is one context where court-forced abortion should be possible: when a woman rapes a man, especially when it's compounded as a woman raping an underage boy. Seriously, a rape victim should not be required to have no legally enforced voice whatsoever regarding their becoming a biological father against their will.
I got a similar impression as Drakonis when Georgia said she could effectively parent her kids without swear words, yet somehow she can't effectively get the job done without beating them as the Bible commands followers to do.
It would be interesting to have a chat with Georgia(?). Get her away from the cameras and people she needs to impress with her orthodoxy. Yes, I do mean chat. Though it took me six months away from my support group before I made the break from religion.
Evidently, Ham and his disciples lack a sense of humour. That Kraft ad was funny, even if you're not a parent and can't relate to it. It begs the question as to what these Creationist weirdos DO find funny.
I love to swear, it is my favorite thing to say. But, when I'm trying to convince someone of something, or when I publish, no swear words. I think you are correct to not swear Paul.
The kind of legislation some Christians are concerned about is that Christian doctors will be required to perform abortions and Christian companies will be required to pay for them for their employees. Those are, I think, legitimate things to be concerned about.
I am not a big fan of swearing myself, and I do not swear, although what is considered a swear changes over time and likely some of the words I say might have been considered a swear at one time. I do accept and understand the use of swearing in society, but I personally don’t find the need or desire to swear.
The thing is what is and isn't profanity is constantly changing. Words that were once deeply offensive are now pedestrian. Even from culture to culture within the same language group it can vary widely (ask someone British about the coloqual term for ciggaarettes for example)
Ah, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese . . . as a lifetime atheist, I had never heard it called anything else until my fundamentalist Baptist husband called it Crap Dinner. On, well.
Hmmmm can it be that by now Creationism is too important to fail? I mean they must have used up 200% of the worlds strategic straw reserves for their warped depictions of othe rpeople's ideas and worldviews...
I love that you acknowledged Ken's point about not being able to even listen to an opposing view. I suppose that, in defense of the "protestors", they know what the views being expressed were going to be, but in general, people aren't willing to hear an opposing view and that's silly.
I grew up in family that rarely, rarely swore. Thwy were nominal catholics and never went to mass or prayed. Nevertheless they were extremely honest and moral persons with a great sense of empathy and respect for the poor. From them i learned to adress adults with "usted" the firmal instead of "tú." And never swear. But growing up and working i picked up the custom of saying a few swear words. Never the "f" word. P . And that is what i practice. When i hear a swear the "f" word I feel uncomfortable. Now after being around people who practice other styles of communicatuon
HOW? How did I miss that commercial?! 🤣 Also, I've been here for months and I'm still finding great stuff I hadn't watched before. Love your content Paul!
lol, it looks like a crocodile, and they are saying it shouldn't be around water... they didn't realize that every animal that had ever existed on earth DRINKS WATER don't they?
As a young Christian I remember walking out of The Big Lebowski, due to the language...thus spending the next ten years never knowing The Dude and how he abides. So many regrets...
That meetup sounds so enticing! it's just too bad you're all the way up in canada. if you ever plan on visiting the states, you should let everyone know and I'm sure some of your American viewers would love to do a similar meetup :)
Georgia conflated birth control with abortion and the morning after pill, because Hobby Lobby won a SCOTUS case which ignored corporate law to find that Hobby Lobby did not have to follow a generally applicable law requiring businesses to provide contraceptive coverage. So, to make Hobby Lobby’s refusal to provide such coverage appear more reasonable to a largely evangelical/ fundamentalist audience she framed birth control coverage in terms of abortion.
There are a couple of misses in this episode: with the right argument the rest does not gives itself. That is obvious in too many cases - as in your own struggle with the Christians, Paul. And I'm not happy to contradict you regarding ideas and science: because AiG actually has a legitimate point here about the science fiction in science: Even historians, politicians and scientists - however driven by reason and pursue for truth by research and evidence, are in much too many cases subjects to wishful thinking and a compelling narrative. In watching the Stephen Hawking documentary Master of the Universe about his life and his Theory of Everything (these titles alone!), with participation by himself, it is painfully obvious how speculative his scientific approach is. He wanted and fought for having an 'answer to everything' before he died. Not exactly a humble scientist. He is so close the documentary emphasizes, on the brink of understanding the Big Bang ect. it is actually painful to watch the vanity and scientific megalomania in many popular documentaries of that kind. And they speak to a popular belief, a new religion, pseudo-science based. Try and count the number of times Hawking and the voiceover say, 'in the future we will...', 'science is just about to...', 'having faith in', 'hoping to', 'very soon'. When one theory didn't fit, they invented a new...to make it fit. That's mythology, too.
Playing devil's advocate, God SPOKE the universe into being, then gave His authority to us. Speech is the only thing we have different from every other form of creation, so we have to be careful about what we say. "It's what comes out of a man's mouth which condemns him, not that which enters" or something like that. I have no idea the chapter/verse because I don't care that much about memorizing bullshit, but I can remember what it says pretty good. That being said, I cuss like a sailor, so I'm grateful for the rich history of Christianity in our culture. It's given me ALL the best swears!
Damn I eel badly for the offspring the happy couple who have never said a bad word while their kids were around. Georgia has that droopy, hound dog look about 25 years early. Her brilliant husband has a bad case of the premature balding. Georgia picked one gruesome looking father, the kids are filled with ugly genes. Speaking of fossils, I would love to check out Ash Fall in Nebraska in addition to Alberta's fossil beds. Utah has great Trilobite beds and not far away in the corner of Wyoming you have some great places to look for fish fossils I love love to go fossil hunting with a group. -Abortion- Interesting since God is responsible for more abortions than any one human. Clearly all the fetus's growing in their mom's bellies died during the mythical flood. That wasn't good enough he murdered all the perfectly innocent toddlers and young children.
When I was a kid, I asked one of my good Christian friends why he doesn't swear, as there was nothing in the Bible saying not to. The answer he gave me was, I forget the book or verse, but it said something about the disciples, or apostles, or something being beyond reproach.
Protest, in this pence instance, is their only access to a competing platform. To say "Oh you're weak because you won't hear what he says" is disingenuous, at best. Pence is a public official who has made known his views and opinions through both words, and actions, as a government official. One does not need to consume the content of this individual bit of speech in order to understand his positions, and argument. The school was not going to set up another podium and allow them to voice their dissent and contest his claims while he was speaking, there was no opportunity for debate or the free exchange of ideals. Since they had no other avenue to challenge his speech, they used their right to protest in order to create a platform that allows them to express their opposition to his positions and claims. It's not like he's some nobody who was given an opportunity and others were allowed to challenge him, he is a famous individual who was given an unchallenged platform from which to proselytize for his views, their only option to challenge his speech was to engage in peaceful protest. This isn't even fucking hard, this is goddamn basic bullshit that if motherfuckers bothered to quit being little pansy bitches about it and pissing their panties over, then they'd fucking realize this is fucking stupid to get butthurt about. School gave him a platform and denied the students the opportunity to respond, so, they used their right to free speech to create their own platform and establish the popularity of their position among their demographic. There is nothing even remotely wrong about this. Fucking whiny cuckservative betas gotta fucking cry about the dumbest fucking shit. "They disrespected the vice president! Ohhhhh, my butt!" Bitch, shut the fuck up and check your own fucking side, y'all motherfuckers literally hung and burned effigies of the fucking president, and accused the vice president of being a sexual predator, so maybe shut the fuck up about some students WALKING OUT of a speech. Yup, that's sure equivalent to suggestion of criminal behavior.
On the topic of cursing, I understand you are argument and agree with it in a sense. However, as it applies to children, I encourage people to check out "Two Guys On Your Head" (if you haven't already), and listen to what they said about why swearing is bad. I won't pretend to remember all of it, but it changed my opinion about why children shouldn't swear. As a side note I do unintentionally swear in front of my child from time to time
At 18:13, I mention an article where AiG attacks BioLogos, but forgot to show it. It's here... answersingenesis.org/creation-scientists/mainstream-scientific-literature-ignore-young-earth-conclusions/ Note that Hugh Ross, depicted, is not part of BioLogos but rather Reasons to Believe ministries. Leaving off the article added to the B-roll confusion. Sorry.
So did you get that from Snow Crash (Stephenson 1992) or directly from Kramer and Maier?
Paulogia Firstly, I love you're content. Secondly, the creation museum made me doubt my faith and your videos made me evaluate myself honestly with the help of a pause button on the mountain of "evidence" so often used. Finally, what i think they were referencing the "rule" at 19:52 is the theory that gas giant planets form further out from their star. At the museum "hot Jupiters" were used as evidence for a young universe. There are some studies that have been done but from what i know its still a bit of a mystery. But still one logic can solve. Thanks again!! Keep up the good work.
I know that this is late, and you probably won't see it, but I have an issue with the "If I don't listen to them, how can I expect them to listen to me." Statement when it relates to a walkout such as what happened at that graduation. First, we don't "have" to listen to someone if we know what they're going to say. If a homophobe is to give a speech espousing his homophobia, why are we required to listen? Secondly, that walkout wasn't because they were refusing to "hear" Pence, it was because they wanted HIM to hear THEM. It was *their* statement. We are not required to accommodate every idiot who has something to say, whether hearing it would have any value or not.
Common, oh, no, you hurt his feelies. The poor innocent little darling. How will he ever recover? I'm surprised the idiots that showed up at a fucking play don't decide to pull their trash on a bunch of kids.
The Bible does actually provide instructions for how to perform an abortion. The crime of miscarriage was probably seen as a property crime. much like adultery and coveting your neighborhoods "stuff". as for swearing. The Bible says not to take the lords name in vain (?). Thats about the closet thing.
So Georgia won't use "swearing" to coerce her children … but threats of eternal hellfire and torture for the slightest hint of disobedience or individual thought, that's just fine.
Its one of the factors which really drew me away from religion. Bigotry, racism, sexism, sure, those might not be great, but a swear word? Worst thing ever.
Which is going to do more harm, a four letter word, or a slur designed to attack a marginalized group? Or even worse, an action against a marginalized group. I think any reasonable person would say that a phrase targeting a specific person intended to do harm is worse. My religious community didn't have many reasonable people.
I really like your ham and eggs intro to your videos. For some reason, the tune gets me very excited, and sometimes I start singing it when driving my car.
Andrew Bowen me too.. i rather watch this than the answer news
Mr Po I think that that comparison would be true with just about anything on TH-cam when compared with Answers..., sorry, Excuses News.
Been watching them many months now and sing the tune, but I only today connected that "AIG" is the "aigs" in "Ham & eggs" 😅
That one was really slow on the uptake for me.
@Nonya Bidness
"Ham and eggs" - It's an old, old song. My sister and I used to sing it back in the late 1940s or early 1950s, but I think it was old even then.
@@annk.8750 Oh wow, interesting. So "flippin Ham & AIGs" is just a wonderful serendipity then? 😄
That was a cool Kraft commercial
hhahah!!! i had no idea a graduating class walked out from a mike pence speech. thats fantastic xD
Ah, Paul, you remind me of an old saying: Do you know how to make a small fortune doing archaeology? Start with a large fortune and know when to quit.
Or, as I used to tell students: You don't have to take a vow of poverty, but you might as well.
My family had the same joke about farming. I can expand that to comics and TH-cam. Glad it rang true nevertheless.
Is archeology your field? I have an upcoming script that I might like some extra eyes on and/or ask questions. Send me a direct message?
Whenever you ask them to define "transitional", "kind", or "information", then you're asking them to do something they physically can't do. They also can't admit that we've seen examples of any of these despite the definition.
What the hell is the definition? kind can be anything from dog to wolf. Or Archaebacteria & dogs.
I've got to say: I love these videos when it's just you.
Gari Sullivan yes I like it better with just him as well
Ditto. No offense to Morgan, I just prefer Paul's style.
Me too.
Phew! I'm glad I am not the only one. It's nice that you have guests, Paul, but don't give them all of your platform as you just sit there and blink your cartoon eyes :) You just chip in now and again when, in reality, we come to your channel to hear you. Have them say their piece then slide their cartoon selves back off the screen - or sit there quietly blinking their cartoon eyes while you present the episode.
All in all, great work, Paul. I love your channel.
I also agree. I like the guests, but Paul is one of the absolute best commentators/debunkers I've ever encountered, and his approach, demeanor, and voice are refreshing, interesting, and all-around excellent. Love your stuff, Paul, keep it going! :-D Cheers!
I love how any independent examination is an "attack" on the Bible. Persecution complex much?
Seems like Ken, like many theists, reserve the right to be offended at what other people do that has nothing to do with them Hmmm
Christian: Oh, MY! Swear words are sooooo terrrible and ungodly! Now let us turn to our Holy Bible and read:
She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Ezekiel 23:20 NIV
You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. . . . The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. Deuteronomy 28:30-31,35
When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. Leviticus 15: 19-20
When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Deuteronomy 25:11-12
Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. 2 Kings 2:23-25 NIV
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. Numbers 31:17-18
You may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Whosoever ... hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken ... He shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries. Leviticus 21:17-23 KJV
they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” 6 Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, 7 and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. 8 Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” Genesis 19:5-8
Ahithophel answered, “Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to take care of the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself obnoxious to your father, and the hands of everyone with you will be more resolute.” So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 16:21-22
And the absolutely WONDERFUL tale about planned gang-rape, raping someone to death, and then dismembering her corpse. So much nicer that using four-letter words, amirite?
*“The owner went out to them. He told them, “No, my friends! Please don’t do anything so evil! This man is a guest in my home. Don’t do such a godless thing! Here, let me bring out my virgin daughter and this man’s concubine. Rape them, and do with them whatever you want. Just don’t do such a godless thing to this man.” But the men refused to listen to him. So the Levite grabbed his concubine and forced her outside.
They raped her and abused her all night long; only at dawn did they let her go. At daybreak the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her husband was, and she was still there when it grew light. When her husband got up, opened the doors of the house, and went out to go on his way, he saw the woman lying there with her hands stretched out toward the door. He said to her, “Get up! Let’s go!” But there was no answer. So he loaded her body on the donkey and began his trip home. On arrival at his house, he got a knife, took hold of his concubine’s body, cut her up into twelve pieces, and sent them to all the regions of Isra’el.”*
Judges 19:24-29
My sincere thank you for being possibly the ONLY skeptic on TH-cam who actually acknowledges that the cursing shuts the door to EVER getting through to a YEC or any other fundy. Congratulations!
A lesson that comes along with decades on the wrong side.
+Guy Fawkes That's because cursing indicates out-of-control (as contrary to righteous) anger, bitterness or irreverence-none of which Christians are interested in granting a willing audience.
ThatClassic70sGirl That's wrong.
Cursing just shows frustration.
It does not imply that the person is out of control at all.
ThatClassic70sGirl: nope. swear words are just words. They give emphasis to what is being said. At times, the only word that can truly convey what a person is feeling in the moment, is fuck. While Paul is right, that swear words is off-putting to christians, it does not mean they are bad or convey anything that you said. It has been found intelligent people swear, which would explain the gullibility of christians who don't.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/swearing-study-intelligent-intelligence-university-of-rochester-a7916516.html
Paulogia, since you asked, I agree with the students who walked out on Pence. He can get his message out to the world easily an interview with the press. The students brought attention to the fact that people oppose what he stands for. Pence wanted everyone to stay so he could pretend everything is OK
I personally find it strange that they never argued the fact that light years must be false in their video since the idea of light years prove that the universe is much much older than 6000 years
How does it prove that? My understanding is light years is about distance, not time.
My Daily Kitchen - Light years can really refer to both. It’s kinda like how if you say you need to go to City X and it’s 800 miles away, your audience will understand if you’re driving, it’ll take a full day to reach your destination.
When it comes to stars and light years, the stars we can see in the night sky don’t jive with a young earth creationist viewpoint. If the star is millions of light years away, then light from that star would take millions of years to get here. So if all of existence is only 6,000 years old, how can we see the star? It shouldn’t be visible for another million years, at least.
The Crafty Cyborg Formerly known as Cassie C “Jibe” or “gybe”, literally, “synchronize”.
I can't believe the mom said "SON OF A MOTHERLESS GOAT!" I have been saying that for years - and yes, in front of my kids. I'm pretty sure I learned it from the movie The Three Amigos.
And I think Georgia misunderstood the final joke in the commercial -- swear like a mother (beep). I think she didn't hear the beep.
Paul, I really appreciate the no-swearing habit you've adopted. I watch skeptic videos regularly, but I usually can't at home because of my kids. I wanted to leave this comment before I saw this, and I'm glad to see you're conscious of it.
I do allow my guests to swear, so if you see a second cartoon -- particularly Morgan -- then proceed with caution.
David Bauler Penn Jilette has a funny story about not permitting Christopher Hitchens to bring alcohol in his house
I believed that my Dad, a Texan farmhand turned train loader, never swore, until at age 12 I got to go on a fishing trip with him and his best friend. At my age of 67 I learned (from his sister) that while I knew he drank beer on weekends and booze only on New Years, that he drank like a fish before he got married at 30; I never had a clue. I do know that no one ever had a better Dad.
Darth Calculus Fuck that.
Same here, you and PZ Meyers are a few that don't swear. For the others that is part of their personality and they get the point across just as well, but I like to listen to videos where there is no swearing, I am not married and have no children but was raised where cursing didn't happen much.
When I first saw that Kraft commercial on TV... I laughed so incredibly hard... then told my family we are ONLY buying Kraft Mac/Cheeze from this point forward... finally a commercial that tells it like it is. That took some stones to air, and I'll support that anytime !
OMG this is so true I was a pentecostal christian and never swore, till it finally let go of the heavy boulder on my shoulders now I live a much better life. with swearing.
welcome to the fuckin' party
Wait is your wife or girlfriend or ex wife or girlfriend a Christian? Why are your children still believers? I'm just curious.
ex-wife is, yes.
I’m glad someone else caught this and asked. I was dying of curiosity myself. I’m still curious why Paul hasn’t insisted on both sides being presented to the kids. At least we know that if he’s homeschooling them, they’ll get s real science education and learn how to ask questions.
Ham drives me up the wall! This one was perfect Paul, "he's just waiting for his turn to talk" - Yes! And how can you debate such a man? And therefore how can you RESPECT a man who is so arrogant that he shuts down during the opposing side, to formulate how he'll say his next bit?
And it's just like you said: what he's so sure about is the stuff he picked up in 1950s textbooks which fit his stories lolol.
Your story about that one time you swore at work is so true. I also grew up Christian, and I almost never swear. Well, not out loud anyways. It think there was only one time in my life that someone has actually heard me swear outside of a few instances of me quoting something that happened to include one. I was at work, doing repairs on some equipment when a bolt that I was trying to remove snapped off completely, causing me to fall forwards because of the amount of force I was putting onto the wrench that no longer had any resistance against it. I bruised my knuckles, skinned a good portion of my arm, and let out a singe F-word. It wasn't too serious, mostly just a combination of surprise and unexpected pain, but several of my very swear-happy coworkers come running right away because "if HE swore it must be bad!" I didn't hear the end of that for months.
Love your videos Paul, but I will point out that Colossians 3:8 does command believers not to use filthy language. Given that, when I was a Christian this video would have lost me at 13:06. Otherwise awesome work as always :)
So embarrassed that Ken Ham comes from my country. But at the same time so happy he resides in yours😂
TAKE HIM BACK, or I will petition to start a 1 man war against Aussies, starting with those damn Koala bears!
nathan mckenzie: they aren't koala bears. They are koalas. You might want to do a side by side comparison between bears and koalas to see what the differences are. I suggest starting with their class.
Thai Breaker: Ham isn't in Paul's country. Paul is in Canada and Ham is in the US.
My Daily Kitchen it's a joke
Yeah funny. I suspect if you knew koala bear was incorrect to begin with, you wouldn't have used it. A bit of education never hurt anyone.
Conversely, Ken started to tell an anecdote about the plane, Bodie interrupted him to tell the exact same anecdote, and then Ken finished his thought.
I have never been drawn or forced into any religion, but the creation-evolution debates always fascinated me. Not being part of your target audience, i still very much like your content and I love the way approach these questions. You should feel very lucky that I am not gay Paul, otherwise you wont be able to get rid of me.
And here I thought you didn't swear just because you were Canadian! ;-)
Swear lady was awesome!
That Kraft Mac and Cheese commercial is cute, now I want to buy more of it.
Did I miss where the bible says a damn thing about SWEARING?? "Taking gods name in vain" is extremely limiting, and there are a shitload of other words god never said a damn thing about.
You probably know this already but the ape you showed loved Robin Williams he went to visit her and immediately took out his videos and kept telling him how much she loved him. It was actually pretty emotional to watch and I am typically a robot.
I did not know that... I must find.
Yeah, I filled with useless animal facts that will never make a change in the world but hell makes me feel smart.
That’s totally awesome.
@@Paulogia her name is Koko.
8:10 Where is this animation from?! It looks very compelling for explaining how Lucy was not just a chimpanzee!
once again georgia shows she knows all this creation nonsense is crap but is in too deep to admit it to herself
I had a vasectomy and I curse like it's going out of style. Guess I'm in trouble.
Elephants are land creatures but I heard that recently the Sri Lankan Navy rescued an elephant that was about 10 kilometres out at sea. It was swimming and was swept away from the coast. I am sure that the odd dinosaur was swept out to sea and those nice people from the Sri Lankan Nave were not there to tow it to land.
Appreciate your thoughts on swearing. Also love that you're leaving these videos as future messages to your kids someday as well. That's very sweet!
Bones submitting themselves for dating sounds like a Pixar movie in the making
I seen nothing wrong with deciding to hear someone out OR deciding to walk away from someone who you want to make it clear you oppose. He has a right to speak (provided wherever is willing to let him be there and do so, not every single place on the planet is inherently granted to everyone, and not inviting or even canceling a speech isn't actually silencing people in reality), but there is no inherent right to a particular audience. And absolutely his views on the particular topic are already known, have already been heard and discussed, and are worth opposing. It's not refusing to hear out an opposing viewpoint when you've already heard it.
Yeah... I think you've articulated what I couldn't in the moment. If the protestors had attempted to stop him from speaking, that would have been wrong in my eyes. But he's not entitled to their ears. Thanks.
Maybe ken should try floating his boat on water. I bet he'll say a few rude words when it capsizes and sinks.
The problem with the Tower of Babel isn't so much archaeological but theological.
The story contradicts God's attributes of being all knowing, present everywhere and all powerful. It only serves as a story of how different languages appeared and needn't be in the Bible at all.
....not to speak of his attribute of being a single god.
Early book old testament never says he's a single god. In the very beginning he says let us make man like us. Who's the us? In the ten commandments, it's have no other gods above me. Why specify that if there are no other gods? Even in the tower of Babel story, he says let us go down. Again, who is the us?
My Daily Kitchen - I’ve heard somewhere that originally, way back in history, Jews were polytheistic and believed in a goddess in addition to their god. I’ve honestly never looked it up and checked the veracity of the information, but it fits well enough with the odd grammar in the very early Old Testament that I’m betting some small sliver of that claim is rooted in truth.
Yeah... Anytime the Bible says that God felt threatened by something, I figure that was human interpretation and dismiss it. The Tower of Babel is just an origin myth that doubles as a lesson in humility.
Goofnuggets! :D About swearing, It felt awkward saying it and I started late. When I do, it's something really hefty happening. I do use religious words for surprised exclamations (oh my god etc). In my language centered upbringing, swearwords were seen as a lack of other words (when you don't know what to say you swear). Their "free will" isn't others free will, only if they choose the same as they do! Science fiction = the Bible.
great video Paul. you do a great job of presenting the information.
Ken seems so threatened by science!
Or by reality itself.
Paulogia,
I definitely appreciate your lack of constant swearing and respectful comments. I can share the information with anyone. I wish Godless Engineer would be less purposefully crass to shock people and quit CONSTANTLY using bad language Once in awhile is Ok. I can't share his videos with anyone. I sometimes get sick of it and skip watching GE's videos. It is distracting from the message he intends to impart.
Him and professor Dave both. He swears too much and professor Dave is just condescending to people who aren’t educwted
Wait? If it weren't for AiG you'd STILL be a Christian? Please explain, provide links, whatever...
I'm a Christian right now, but I live in the South and am having some serious issues with southern Christian theology.
Hearing dissenting voices is important. That's why I borrowed "A Case for the Existence of God" by Dean L. Overman from my public library. As an atheist, I should listen to the other side, even though I doubt there will be one new idea that hasn't been debunked I'll read it.
D@mn you really should have had Morgan on this episode.
Plus, instead of ever swearing on your channel, yourself, you could have her be your interpreter. I'm sure she'd f@cking love it!
I personally avoid swearing because I think it's low class, but I'm really tired of my fellow Christians acting like swearing is worse than anything else, particularly in media. The Madea movies Tyler Perry makes are full of thinly (if at all) veiled references to sex (oral sex in particular), prostitution, and abuse of women and children, all of which are played for laughs. And yet there are multiple people who think it's fine for kids because there's no swearing.
IMO, there is one context where court-forced abortion should be possible: when a woman rapes a man, especially when it's compounded as a woman raping an underage boy. Seriously, a rape victim should not be required to have no legally enforced voice whatsoever regarding their becoming a biological father against their will.
I got a similar impression as Drakonis when Georgia said she could effectively parent her kids without swear words, yet somehow she can't effectively get the job done without beating them as the Bible commands followers to do.
It would be interesting to have a chat with Georgia(?). Get her away from the cameras and people she needs to impress with her orthodoxy. Yes, I do mean chat. Though it took me six months away from my support group before I made the break from religion.
Evidently, Ham and his disciples lack a sense of humour. That Kraft ad was funny, even if you're not a parent and can't relate to it. It begs the question as to what these Creationist weirdos DO find funny.
I love to swear, it is my favorite thing to say. But, when I'm trying to convince someone of something, or when I publish, no swear words. I think you are correct to not swear Paul.
The kind of legislation some Christians are concerned about is that Christian doctors will be required to perform abortions and Christian companies will be required to pay for them for their employees. Those are, I think, legitimate things to be concerned about.
lying is not a sin. The ninth commandment forbids "bearing false witness" Rahab was praised for lying in the bible.
ok fanriffic False witness against your neighbor, to be specific.
I am not a big fan of swearing myself, and I do not swear, although what is considered a swear changes over time and likely some of the words I say might have been considered a swear at one time. I do accept and understand the use of swearing in society, but I personally don’t find the need or desire to swear.
19:23 - How does she know Neptune doesn't have life. Just another example of their earth-o-centric bigotry!
Who the fuck cares about swearing? My parents get so offended by it, but they can't explain why they eat bacon.
The thing is what is and isn't profanity is constantly changing. Words that were once deeply offensive are now pedestrian. Even from culture to culture within the same language group it can vary widely (ask someone British about the coloqual term for ciggaarettes for example)
You could try asking for a fanny pack in the UK and see if anyone can keep a straight face, you naughty knave.
Ah, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese . . . as a lifetime atheist, I had never heard it called anything else until my fundamentalist Baptist husband called it Crap Dinner. On, well.
Yeah, Paulogia, you don't need to to swear. Just let Morgan keep guesting. :-)
ha. proxy.
Swearing is powerful, and according to studies makes you smart.
I have heard everyone in my family swear except for two people one is 80 and the other is 8, meanwhile everyone in my family has heard me swear.
I had always thought that Trump chosing Pence was a conscious choice specifically to reduce the risk of assasination.
Hmmmm can it be that by now Creationism is too important to fail? I mean they must have used up 200% of the worlds strategic straw reserves for their warped depictions of othe rpeople's ideas and worldviews...
Feno 3000
Should I be buying up all the straw bails I can find, I mean, surly prices will soon be going through the roof.
You might want to bail on the use of bales.
I love that you acknowledged Ken's point about not being able to even listen to an opposing view. I suppose that, in defense of the "protestors", they know what the views being expressed were going to be, but in general, people aren't willing to hear an opposing view and that's silly.
Pence like Ken ham says the same thing over and over I would not waste my time listening to either.
Today, more than ever...
People want to walk out on Mike Pence!
Seems everyone separates Mormons from Christians
@15:16
"Mike Pence a better Trump assassination deterrent than the Secret Service could ever be"
12:30 you said to invite you to my channel so ok I’m sending you an invite to be a guest on my podcast
I was so sad that this was from three years ago! I wanted to do a Drumheller meet-up!!
Paul : "can I get an amen flat earthers?"
Me: DEAD
Mmmmm you mean the fake Gay boat, the one we really don't want...
How many visitors were atheists going through for a laugh?
Cheese and Rice ! That commercial was forking amazing !
Georgia Purdom has a conscience and still chooses to lie.
I grew up in family that rarely, rarely swore. Thwy were nominal catholics and never went to mass or prayed. Nevertheless they were extremely honest and moral persons with a great sense of empathy and respect for the poor. From them i learned to adress adults with "usted" the firmal instead of "tú." And never swear. But growing up and working i picked up the custom of saying a few swear words. Never the "f" word. P
. And that is what i practice. When i hear a swear the "f" word I feel uncomfortable. Now after being around people who practice other styles of communicatuon
I accept then swearing. It sort of grows on you somewhat. ...somewhat.
12 dislikes. Guess ken has a couple of followers
@Paulogia is my everything.
Answers In Crayons
What is the appropriate word to use on a fig tree?
HOW? How did I miss that commercial?! 🤣
Also, I've been here for months and I'm still finding great stuff I hadn't watched before. Love your content Paul!
youre amazing. i never thought about it, but it sounds like you are letting your kids decide things for themselves. good!!!
Where is your co-host, Morgan?!
That commercial is everything right in life lol
That Georgia Purdom character Cracks Me Up!
lol, it looks like a crocodile, and they are saying it shouldn't be around water... they didn't realize that every animal that had ever existed on earth DRINKS WATER don't they?
Swearing is better than beating them
That is the best Mac n Chz commercial I've ever seen! 🤣
As a young Christian I remember walking out of The Big Lebowski, due to the language...thus spending the next ten years never knowing The Dude and how he abides. So many regrets...
That meetup sounds so enticing! it's just too bad you're all the way up in canada. if you ever plan on visiting the states, you should let everyone know and I'm sure some of your American viewers would love to do a similar meetup :)
Georgia conflated birth control with abortion and the morning after pill, because Hobby Lobby won a SCOTUS case which ignored corporate law to find that Hobby Lobby did not have to follow a generally applicable law requiring businesses to provide contraceptive coverage. So, to make Hobby Lobby’s refusal to provide such coverage appear more reasonable to a largely evangelical/ fundamentalist audience she framed birth control coverage in terms of abortion.
There are a couple of misses in this episode: with the right argument the rest does not gives itself. That is obvious in too many cases - as in your own struggle with the Christians, Paul.
And I'm not happy to contradict you regarding ideas and science: because AiG actually has a legitimate point here about the science fiction in science:
Even historians, politicians and scientists - however driven by reason and pursue for truth by research and evidence, are in much too many cases subjects to wishful thinking and a compelling narrative.
In watching the Stephen Hawking documentary Master of the Universe about his life and his Theory of Everything (these titles alone!), with participation by himself, it is painfully obvious how speculative his scientific approach is.
He wanted and fought for having an 'answer to everything' before he died. Not exactly a humble scientist. He is so close the documentary emphasizes, on the brink of understanding the Big Bang ect. it is actually painful to watch the vanity and scientific megalomania in many popular documentaries of that kind. And they speak to a popular belief, a new religion, pseudo-science based.
Try and count the number of times Hawking and the voiceover say, 'in the future we will...', 'science is just about to...', 'having faith in', 'hoping to', 'very soon'. When one theory didn't fit, they invented a new...to make it fit. That's mythology, too.
When your Cristian grandparents/parents swear it is FUCKING terrifying. I was gently concerned for my grandpa's health when he muttered "fuck"
Playing devil's advocate, God SPOKE the universe into being, then gave His authority to us. Speech is the only thing we have different from every other form of creation, so we have to be careful about what we say. "It's what comes out of a man's mouth which condemns him, not that which enters" or something like that. I have no idea the chapter/verse because I don't care that much about memorizing bullshit, but I can remember what it says pretty good. That being said, I cuss like a sailor, so I'm grateful for the rich history of Christianity in our culture. It's given me ALL the best swears!
Damn I eel badly for the offspring the happy couple who have never said a bad word while their kids were around. Georgia has that droopy, hound dog look about 25 years early. Her brilliant husband has a bad case of the premature balding. Georgia picked one gruesome looking father, the kids are filled with ugly genes.
Speaking of fossils, I would love to check out Ash Fall in Nebraska in addition to Alberta's fossil beds. Utah has great Trilobite beds and not far away in the corner of Wyoming you have some great places to look for fish fossils I love love to go fossil hunting with a group.
-Abortion- Interesting since God is responsible for more abortions than any one human. Clearly all the fetus's growing in their mom's bellies died during the mythical flood. That wasn't good enough he murdered all the perfectly innocent toddlers and young children.
When I was a kid, I asked one of my good Christian friends why he doesn't swear, as there was nothing in the Bible saying not to. The answer he gave me was, I forget the book or verse, but it said something about the disciples, or apostles, or something being beyond reproach.
Protest, in this pence instance, is their only access to a competing platform. To say "Oh you're weak because you won't hear what he says" is disingenuous, at best. Pence is a public official who has made known his views and opinions through both words, and actions, as a government official. One does not need to consume the content of this individual bit of speech in order to understand his positions, and argument. The school was not going to set up another podium and allow them to voice their dissent and contest his claims while he was speaking, there was no opportunity for debate or the free exchange of ideals. Since they had no other avenue to challenge his speech, they used their right to protest in order to create a platform that allows them to express their opposition to his positions and claims. It's not like he's some nobody who was given an opportunity and others were allowed to challenge him, he is a famous individual who was given an unchallenged platform from which to proselytize for his views, their only option to challenge his speech was to engage in peaceful protest. This isn't even fucking hard, this is goddamn basic bullshit that if motherfuckers bothered to quit being little pansy bitches about it and pissing their panties over, then they'd fucking realize this is fucking stupid to get butthurt about.
School gave him a platform and denied the students the opportunity to respond, so, they used their right to free speech to create their own platform and establish the popularity of their position among their demographic. There is nothing even remotely wrong about this. Fucking whiny cuckservative betas gotta fucking cry about the dumbest fucking shit. "They disrespected the vice president! Ohhhhh, my butt!" Bitch, shut the fuck up and check your own fucking side, y'all motherfuckers literally hung and burned effigies of the fucking president, and accused the vice president of being a sexual predator, so maybe shut the fuck up about some students WALKING OUT of a speech. Yup, that's sure equivalent to suggestion of criminal behavior.
On the topic of cursing, I understand you are argument and agree with it in a sense. However, as it applies to children, I encourage people to check out "Two Guys On Your Head" (if you haven't already), and listen to what they said about why swearing is bad. I won't pretend to remember all of it, but it changed my opinion about why children shouldn't swear.
As a side note I do unintentionally swear in front of my child from time to time
19 minute mark... There are passages on abortion. Like who should perform them and how. Like drinking a concoction put together by a priest.