Richard Dawkins: Why are there still Chimpanzees? - Nebraska Vignettes #2
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- Richard Dawkins clears up the misunderstanding of Evolution that is all too common: If we descended from Chimpanzees, then why are there still Chimpanzees? Dawkins explains that we DID NOT descend from Chimpanzees-we both share a common ancestor.
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During Richard Dawkins' 2009 American tour, we visited Judy Diamond's "Explore Evolution" exhibit at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln. This exhibit has now been replicated in six museums around the country. While visiting we filmed a collection of short unrehearsed and unscripted videos-just inspired by the "Explore Evolution" exhibit.
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Produced by The Richard Dawkins Foundation and R. Elisabeth Cornwell
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If Spanish came from Latin how come we still have French?
Great analogy. Lol.
Well said! Excellent point.
Because the Evolution of Language isn't real. One of the 4200 Gods created all of the languages here on earth.
xD
+Tasheem Hargrove In response to the Tower of Babel.
"If Americans came from Europe, why are there still Europeans?"
(My personal favorite.)
Samuel Lockshin you compare animal race and human race which have diffrence brain.
thats human to human sir. use your college education
The human race is from the animal reign. Or are we plants?
Americans were indigenous.
Samuel Lockshin native Americans did not come from Europe.
Poor Richard. Every time he does one of these I bet he thinks: This will do it, I'll explain it calmly, slowly, and at the most basic level so even a Bible thumper could understand. Two seconds after seeing it, they shout "show me the intermediates!" or or "thermodynamics!" - or Pol Pot, or 4 billion people can't be wrong, or where are your morals from. But thank Sagan he is still fighting the ignorance!
Atheists claim they go by evidence and they claim to scrutinize the evidence. There has not been transitional fossils yet atheist evolutionists still believe in the evolutionary lie.
I've got a better one. Why did whales decide to become cows then decide to become whales again? Sounds like you and this guy are in a very SMALL club that thinks it knows everything. Lest we let you forget you believed in SPONTANEOUS GENERATION for 400 years. ;) You'll be eternally wrong. Kudos.
LOL! Invoking the second law of thermodynamics to refute evolution. I suppose that "God did it" is more in accordance with said law?
@robert punu The Second Law of Thermodynamics doesnt affect earth, it is an open system because of the sun.
robert punu That was taken from a video that was promoting helping the environment and trying to lower trash production. He was using "closed system" as in "our trash won't be leaving Earth", which is debatable but it's still important to produce as little waste as possible.
Geocentrism still has a lot to explain, like how we can launch probes to Saturn which apparently moves at 1/3 the speed of sound and how the Coriolis effect works.
The second law of thermodynamics states that any closed system will move towards a state of entropy over time, so I think the argument you're trying to put forth is that evolution should be pushing towards simpler organisms and thus complex things couldn't arise from it? Which is false to anyone who has read the wikipedia page about evolution as selective pressures exist. I don't know what this has to do with that Bill Nye clip though, could you explain what you meant by your argument?
If i'm descended from my Grandma, WHY IS SHE STILL ALIVE??!!
LOL
We didn't sacrifice her to Satan as god commanded. Lucky for her.
made my day xd
Marilyn Newman thats a new one
neibeezy I seem to get accused of that a lot. My whole family is weird. And proud of it.
I just found it out, I think the reason people are religious is because they watch this and say Fuck it, this is too confusing, Ill just be religious.
Well there is so many flaws in this video. There is no proof of that common ancestor just a made up story because they cannot explain most the theory.
So youre the idiot now?
Last First Whats your religious affiliation?
+Last First The only flaw is in your thinking.
+Last First The proof is in the DNA. He's just explaining that we didn't evolve from chimpanzees but from a common ancestor.
+musicisbrilliant the word you're looking for is convoluted
If ninja turtles came from turtles, why are there still turtles?
Lmao! Ninja turtle descended from people not turtles and people descended from rocks that walk and talk and Fuck, it's elementary, Watson¡ lmao people still write this in their history books watch n c smfh
More importantly, why are there still ninjas?
He just keeps making Sense what ever the subject . I love his knowledge
What sense?? lmfao
@@mrgenius4 uh,Mr. Muslim no matter how dense your skull is I hope u watched the video because even a chimpanzee can understand what's been explained with simplicity in the video.
@@mrgenius4 that's the same question we Athiests ask from you religious authorities about your belief and especially your's which doesn't even allow female or gay to do whatever they want in their lifes. Making decisions or killing other ideology people is the teaching of your ALLAH? RIGHT?
@@mrgenius4
@@mrgenius4 I'm sorry if facts are inconvenient to you
Thank You Professor Dawkins for thoughtfully and calmly explaining that, in a way that is absolutely NOT condescending. You did a great job.
Hahaha poor Richard must be exhausted
@@Leopar525 purely aesthetically, if aliens saw these pictures, they would probably notice that gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans are way, way, way more alike with eachother, i mean just look at them, than to humans. The error here, is that pictures of homo erectus and other evolutionary steps should have also been shown. Cause again, purely aesthetically, no alien would say Humans are related to the others.
Again, although humans are cousins with chimpanzees, gorillas look more alike to chimpanzees.
@@hugogomes1077 There are so many steps there with extinct hominids it would not serve the clear long-view picture he was trying to explain.. All the other great apes probably have forms or branches which did not survive..
if eve ate the Apple, how are there still Apple's?
where in the book of genesis was the word "apple" mentioned?
You notice that small discrepancy about the "apple" yet you ignore the rest of discrepancies in your holy book. You ignore the proof for Evolution but you really don't care to correct yourself.
@@mtoctrz9360 shouldn't you have said "cause she ate only one apple/fruit"?
Because You Don't Ate Some Apples Yet
If Eve came from Adam's rib, why do we still have ribs?
It is so depressing that people today in 2017 need this explanation which they are just going to refuse to comprehend.
this video was just linked in a reddit post because a uber eats customer asked this question in her uber eats delivery instructions... in 2021
i get the idea but humans are way too advanced to be monkies
i dont come from a monkey .
He's making a monkey out of us.
Wtf?
if dogs came from wolves why are there still wolves
Dogs were domesticated. Woof!
because we didnt domesticated all wolfes, so some wolfs stayed in the wild and the ones we domesticated becam dogs as we know them today
I think you are confusing domestication with natural selection.
Maybe domestication is similar to natural selection, only difference being that it is an accelerated process of artificial selection.
Darwin talks a little about it in The Origin of Species, describing how flimsy-eared creatures of many species can be found in domesticated specimens, but never in wild ones, presumably because the ear muscles relax in captivity due to being used less for things like catching prey or staying alert from threats.
I knew that we were closely related to chimpanzees before I even heard of evolution. As a child I noticed how similar they are to us. They have five fingers, body parts are similar, face looks similar.
And this is why it is so important to make sure children are able to think and question things by themselves. If there were more people like you...
+Franciumflourine So you struggle intellectually, how sad.
it's all about having an burning curiosity and the freedom to learn and express oneself.
Martin Ward how are similarities the bread and butter of evolution or even evidence when a God could have created similar looking life forms leaving similarities being nothing but a couincedence?
"when a god could have created similar looking lifeforms" very inprobable, you leave no explaination or even bother trying to explain how a god can do that.
I love that Mr. Dawkins takes time to still make this kind of videos. Well appreciated! Thank you!
I'm afraid this does not address how magnets work.
or robots or cheese . Not buying it man.
If we all came from a bedroom, who let women out of the kitchen? Checkmate, Dawkins.
@@TonyEnglandUK 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And origin of universe.
as a german i think its quite confusing how people can not get this. I feel like we are catapulted back in Darwins time when people thought hed say that humans and chimps are like child and parents...
i mean we have lots of religious people in germany as well but not even jehovas witnesses deny evolution here, they are just saying that god helped it along and sparked life
Who the fuck cares if you're German?
thomas rotten i guess because americans often portray germans as well educated and sophistiated. We have floors 13 and -1 as Neil Thyson put it ^^ While in the US such things seem to be quite important, here in germany we really dont give a fuck, like not like we dont care we really wouldnt know whats to think about it...if there is a 13th floor in a building the elevator has the number 13 on it
I don't understand the disconnect here.
Do Christians expect that every organism in a species will undergo the exact same mutations simultaneously? Is that how they think evolution works?
***** Why on Earth would he think that? Did no one teach him the basics of genetics? Mendel's work was done around the same time as Darwin, so it's not as if this is a new discipline that didn't have time to reach someone like mister Ham.
***** I used to think that Ken Ham and Ray Comfort were idiots that weren't intelligent enough to grasp the simple concepts presented in evolution. After seeing it explained to them on multiple occasions, it suddenly dawned on me that these guys are much smarter than we give them credit for. It's not that they don't understand these concepts, but rather they make lots of money by pushing something quite contrary to evolution. Therefore, they can't AFFORD to believe in evolution and must do their best to make it sound complicated and unfeasable.
Jeff Brailsford I used to wonder whether people like Ken Ham, Ray Comfort, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, etc. actually believed the things they say, or know better but are cynical manipulators.
I ultimately decided that it doesn't matter because either way I should take their statements at face value. If they are cynical manipulators and I take them at face value, then history will remember them as morons. If they believe what they say and I take them at face value, then, well, that's the more sensible and respectful approach to take.
Ben Stein has said that he doesn't actually believe the things he said in the movie Expelled, and that is precisely why I will always speak as though he believes that crap: I want to encourage history to remember him that way.
***** How do you know? The history books still mention that pope who tried to argue that scientific laws were an impossibility. It still mentions the people who argued against heliocentrism. It still mentions the Hindus who argued that the light from stars passes through curved tubes on its way to Earth in order to defend their notion of a flat Earth. If history remembers them, then why not Banana Man as well?
***** "Tubes" is close enough. :P
That argument is silly enough that I would rather not get into the gory details of how it works.
Dawkins is a genius! He sparked my interest in deep learning about evolution, and it is an amazing and beautiful thing!
then you are stooo-pid.
Richard Dawkins teaches the universe came from "literally nothing."
Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
We can't get anything from "literally nothing." We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
God is the reason for us and all we have.
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“However improbable the origin of life might be, we know it happened on Earth because we are here.” -Richard Dawkins.
We only get life from life...the law of biogenesis. We can't get anything without God.
The odds are NOT there.
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No, the eye did not evolve into various eyes. Your mere chance mutations are absurd.
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Even Dawkins admits we can't know what is true because of natural selection...
The God Delusion, “Since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our senses. Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”
Oh, but Dawkins knows what's true about life...killing those who don't meet his expectations for living.
dailycaller.com/2021/05/19/richard-dawkins-down-syndrome-roe-v-wade/
Me too
@@geoffcrumblin9850 I showed he's just a dolt.
His Response to a Question on How Bacteria Became Apes from One of his Videos. And I Quot.... "What the Human Imagination is capable of"..... meaning, He's making all this Shit up.
@@ravenlorans That has to be the thinnest argument against a scientist that I have ever read. That's all you got? Dawkins is on the bleeding frontier of evolution, and has dedicated his whole life to the subject. He is an evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford. What are your credentials?
Explaining the Theory of Evolution to a doxastically closed theist is like trying to explain algebra to a coffee cup .
"doxastically"? Why use such an obscure term when you mean "closed-minded"?
What's wrong with using an obscure word if it's more accurate than the alternatives?
Because most people don't use such obscure words, and for good reason. It's almost pretentious to do so, and only English, academic scholars really use them/know about them.
It doesn't take an academic scholar to expend the four seconds of minimal effort required to obtain the definition of a word.
How would you obtain the information during a face to face conversation? And if I have to look up words to follow what you're saying, then you are not worth my time. I could sit here and rewrite what I just wrote with esoteric word-choices, but there is no need to, and a lot of people don't know, or care to learn about them.
This series is great! Thank you for posting them
"If you're decendant from your grandparents, how come you have cousins?"
Very interesting.
Great work Mr. Dawkins! Simple, straightforward. Keep these coming, they can do wonders!
Its called "natural selection" not "natural random chance"
Everyone watch the fucking video....Its clearly explained - you don't have to say shit that doesn't make any sense in the comments and waste your time.
You don't have to BELIEVE in evolution but you need to UNDERSTAND it.
+thepinkfish19 Wow, really? you're scaring me, why do we have to understand it? what will happen to us if we don't? Will we go extinct?
george rusch nope
He's making a monkey out of you.
For some reason, I find this so beautiful. Science has done so much for our species.
"Science flies you to the moon, Religion flies you into buildings"
@@madvic6083 *BURN*
You find fake BS brainwashing beautiful humans and apes have nothing in common other than they both walk upright most of them like humans do and anybody who believes this BS that this guy and other people spew and brainwash you with that humans and apes share the same ancestry are idiots we don't share any ancestor we both came from different family trees
@@OfficialDJTasawennateken then why we share 90% dna with chimpanzee?
@@Seako7 actually almost 99% same dna
Which is EXACTLY what I'm saying. We've had to spend thousands of years improving technology just to make up for our natural deficiencies (from no humble beginnings, either -- we've spent thousands of years suffering and dying before any technological advancement took place). It's an absolute miracle we were even able to survive in ancient Africa at all.
This is very clearly not a planet which had humans in mind. This couldn't even be considered the rough draft of a perfect designer.
Yeah, but to be fair, humans were already apex predators as soon as they invented spears, which was probably not long after we came to exist, maybe even a relative to humans made spears before homosapiens did, like neaderthals or something idk which came first. The point is that humans were certainly not cursed by evolution in our physical structure, rather the opposite
@@sonofadam484not apex, but close. we were strong, but a single angry big cat at night would be enough to wipe out a community at that time. but yes, i see your point.
Love how he does this in a museum to stress the validity. "You want bones there they are right there!"
This is the most easy, and profound explanation of this thing. We were taught this in mid school, for heavens sake. All should know this. Both in Finland and Sweden, all children know this.
nicely done, plain and simple, THANK YOU!
Pretty well explained. Thank you.
AS a matter of fact, the earliest hominid fossils come from the
great rift valley of Africa. which is split in half by a massive mountain range.
Today one side of that range is covered in tropical forest, and the
other side is open Savannah (plains, grasslands,
etc) fossils of plants and animals show that at one time those
mountains didn't exist, and that the entire region was tropical forest.
Continental drift caused the mountain range to form, effectively cutting
off most of the rain to one side. that side became grassland as the
forest died out. and any animals who couldn't adapt died out too. the
earliest human ancestors appear on the Savannah side of the mountains,
while chimpanzees and gorillas survive on the forest side. one of the
first human traits to evolve was walking and standing upright. in a
world with long grass, very few trees, and lots of large predators like
lions, leopards, hyena, and prehistoric species like Dinofelis. being
able to spot them early and from a safe distance would have been a huge
advantage. humans are the result of evolution due to environmental
change, they had to adapt to a completely alien habitat with new
dangers, and opportunities their forest dwelling relatives never had to
deal with. it was pressure and competition to change that shaped human
kind. and like any species we branched out into several species. but
only one still survives today.
Dear Professor Dawkins,
As an ex-christian I am so grateful that I got to know your work (thanks to Floor Jansen & Nightwish for that). I have learned and am still learning so much from you. As a child growing up in a very conservative Christian community in the Netherlands, I was taught nothing about evolution, except all those false and misguiding one-liners that you dismantle one by one, just like in this video.
I am reading your book 'The greatest show on Earth' now (just finished the chapter about the not-missing link) and I love it.
Apart from all the knowledge you bestow upon us, I also feel truly inspired by the words you spoke at the show of Nightwish. After I quit my faith (I didn't lose it, I quit) I had a very hard time finding a purpose in life, but also in finding comfort during times of hardship (which being brought up in this religious dogmas was the main cause for). You have offered me both and I am forever grateful. Your work will always live on, you have brought the world so much. Thank you so much.
💚💚💚Kind regards from the Netherlands 💚💚💚
Wow, now you're a dunce like Dawkins. How sweet.
Richard Dawkins teaches the universe came from "literally nothing."
Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
We can't get anything from "literally nothing." We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
God is the reason for us and all we have.
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“However improbable the origin of life might be, we know it happened on Earth because we are here.” -Richard Dawkins.
We only get life from life...the law of biogenesis. We can't get anything without God.
The odds are NOT there.
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No, the eye did not evolve into various eyes. Your mere chance mutations are absurd.
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Even Dawkins admits we can't know what is true because of natural selection...
The God Delusion, “Since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our senses. Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”
Oh, but Dawkins knows what's true about life...killing those who don't meet his expectations for living.
dailycaller.com/2021/05/19/richard-dawkins-down-syndrome-roe-v-wade/
Thirteen years after this video, in the year 2022, REPUBLICAN senate candidate Hershel Walker asks in an interview... "At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not? If that is true, why are there still apes? Think about it.”
Someone show this video to Hershel Walker please.
Man, you gotta love Richard Dawkins.
I loved Richard Dawkins on FAMILY FEUD! . . . Oh, that's Richard DAWSON? . . . Never mind.
I only wish Dawkins would have said how this is a *massively* over simplified chart. There are actually lots of little branches all over the place. I admire the simplicity of trying to get people to understand the basics of evolution of humans, but by not addressing the missing branches fundamentalists are thinking the chart *really is* just as simply as it is portrayed.
This!! So many people just don't get it, and I don''t see how. Even if you're the most religious of people you have to understand this. Smh.
idk why these concepts are so hard for regular ppl to grasp like im an average person with average intelligence i hold no phds never been to university level all my knowledge in science is basic and minuscule being that its whatever i remember learning from primary/middle/and high school and whatever else i learned and picked up on the way in adult from watching videos like this on youtube and just general reading out of basic curiosity and i have no problems accepting these things as fact i may not understand it all clearly but its not hard to "see" how these things are possible like i dont get it
Love the passion Dawkins has for his craft.
He's a liar.
Richard Dawkins teaches the universe came from "literally nothing."
Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
We can't get anything from "literally nothing." We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
God is the reason for us and all we have.
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“However improbable the origin of life might be, we know it happened on Earth because we are here.” -Richard Dawkins.
We only get life from life...the law of biogenesis. We can't get anything without God.
The odds are NOT there.
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No, the eye did not evolve into various eyes. Your mere chance mutations are absurd.
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Even Dawkins admits we can't know what is true because of natural selection...
The God Delusion, “Since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our senses. Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”
Oh, but Dawkins knows what's true about life...killing those who don't meet his expectations for living.
dailycaller.com/2021/05/19/richard-dawkins-down-syndrome-roe-v-wade/
Richard Dawkins is brilliant! I wish he was my biology teacher!
Giancarlo Gregoretti Can he explain how the Big Bang got there? No
Charles Jones I bet he can't fix a jet engine either :)
Because hes a biologist, not an astrophysicist.
JMB Doesn’t matter what you specialize, you should be able to explain the bases of your beliefs/theory’s
This is a video about BIOLOGY and evolution, not how the damn universe was created, I understand Dawkins is a huge atheist but that was not what the original comment was about.
Brilliantly simple, clearly explained...
The internet would lose its shit if they put Shaq up there for the human. Search Shaquille O’Neal At Zoo before getting triggered
Or Ota Benga the Pygmi that they put in the Bronx Zoo on display as a missing link who self deleted after the inhumane treatment he received.
Darwinism is racist to its very core.
If you feel like being depressed, read the comments. The childish anti-science ignorance is rife. If you are going to criticise evolution, at least understand it first. Most anti-evolution arguments would answered in an evolution 101 course.
Or even just reading the wikipedia page on it.
@@somedude140 Wikipedia is the new Koran.
Excellent piece. I hope this helps more people understand What we are. Thank you.
I remember asking similar questions when I was a kid.
I like how all these people try to question evolution with their lack of knowledge, asking stupid questions because they have done 0 research, and Richard Dawkins now takes the time to specifically answer each question so that these people now have nothing to say.
those people will always have something to say because they'll always come up with new bullshits claiming evolution is wrong and bla bla bla
This is a red herring issue because absolutely stuff all creationist I know would ask this question and knew the answer many years ago.
It is like te question that some atheist ask 'how did all the species fit into the ark...' or the statement '...the ark could not contain all the aquariums...', particularly that last statement shows that some atheist are really not that bright.
But Im not foolish enough to label all non-creationist as stupid because some atheist have such stupid assertions😆
@@1969cmp Judging by that atrocious spelling, it's obvious you're not bright at all, therefore you would be right to not call anybody else stupid. Also, what are you even going on about? And how is it empirical evidence?
I love science so much, especially biology.
The common misunderstanding reveals that people have a false intuition about evolution (maybe caused by that diagram of "improvement" from small ape to big man) that it's function is to "improve" a species to a "higher" form. No. Selection makes an animal better suited to its environment, it offers no promises that there's an ultimate goal of "fully evolved" (human) that is a human conceit, our imagined self importance.
So simple and well explained.
If Eve came from a rib, then why can I still order ribs at the steak house?
What's interesting is the human belief that we're above all other animals. Of course this belief was passed down in religious teaching, the idea that we were entrusted by God to be a steward over other animals.
But of course, we are just animals ourselves. It's hard for human beings to accept that. Perhaps because if we admit our animal nature too much, society might become more animalistic and less civil. But anyway, we are animals, of course.
What does it even mean to be "above" another animal? What's even being measured or described by a statement like that?
This common creationist question is like asking "if I'm descended from my cousin, why is my cousin still alive?"
You can't even begin to answer the question until the question itself has been corrected to even make sense.
No it's not like that.
You probably have a highly developed consciousness just like your cousin.
Apes and monkeys don't.
@@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 I have cousins whose ancestors have never shared my genetic predisposition for blue eyes or fair skin... I guess you're going to tell me because they lack that then we can't possibly be related?
@@troybonner91
I'm talking about consciousness dumb ass, you know...the brain?
Not physical features 🤦🏻
You evo nuts have no sense.
Richard Dawkins teaches the universe came from "literally nothing."
Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
We can't get anything from "literally nothing." We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
God is the reason for us and all we have.
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“However improbable the origin of life might be, we know it happened on Earth because we are here.” -Richard Dawkins.
We only get life from life...the law of biogenesis. We can't get anything without God.
The odds are NOT there.
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No, the eye did not evolve into various eyes. Your mere chance mutations are absurd.
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Even Dawkins admits we can't know what is true because of natural selection...
The God Delusion, “Since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our senses. Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”
Oh, but Dawkins knows what's true about life...killing those who don't meet his expectations for living.
dailycaller.com/2021/05/19/richard-dawkins-down-syndrome-roe-v-wade/
I just asked the same question after watching The God Delusion. Thanks for the answer.
Its so great to see Richard giving short, factual clips on how evolution works
I love evolution. It demystifies the splendors of nature around us.
You and RD are stoo-pid.
Richard Dawkins teaches the universe came from "literally nothing."
Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
We can't get anything from "literally nothing." We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
God is the reason for us and all we have.
th-cam.com/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/w-d-xo.html
“However improbable the origin of life might be, we know it happened on Earth because we are here.” -Richard Dawkins.
We only get life from life...the law of biogenesis. We can't get anything without God.
The odds are NOT there.
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No, the eye did not evolve into various eyes. Your mere chance mutations are absurd.
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Even Dawkins admits we can't know what is true because of natural selection...
The God Delusion, “Since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our senses. Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”
Oh, but Dawkins knows what's true about life...killing those who don't meet his expectations for living.
dailycaller.com/2021/05/19/richard-dawkins-down-syndrome-roe-v-wade/
I cannot fathom how he has the patience to keep on explaining this stuff to people that cannot do a bit of research on their own.
Thank you so much
Is it possible to get the clip without music?
For an art project where I need the clip without music
for the sake of completeness it should also be said that... we are not the only human type species that ever existed... there were some others... some living at the same time and in direct contact with one another... but we have remained the only living species at the end of this branch... which is not uncommon with other branches of the species tree
Unfortunately they still do exist (religious wackos)
If you wanted to include all the now-extinct species the graphic would need to be enormous. By simplifying it down to a demonstration of how SURVIVING species are related, we are given a relatively easy to comprehend family tree. Toss in all the ones that didn't make it and it would be a confusing spider web of irrelevance. If you want completeness, go to a university, not a one minute TH-cam explanation.
Slipp3ryslop3 the absurdity here is, that when you bring ALL he evidence in every single little step we actually know, plus all the extinct side branches of our ancestral line... the creationists tunes out, they cannot process it (the honest ones, the inhonest just claim you make things up and you are a servant of satan). But if you only bring some few examples to show the tendencies they claim there are so much missing links thatwe cannot be sure.
And considering how often we thought some early humanoid was our ancestor which then came out to be a cousin, or in the case of the neanderthal human, were a cousin with whome some of our grannies had sex with, and he thus is a cousin who is also an ancestor to some of us (and no, low intelligence is not the heritage, it is an adaptation to various infections of european continent, together with a tendency to larger muscle groth and denser bones, a overall bigger more muscular body and maybe also a tendency to have more and longer body hair). They rightfully say so. Or better said... they would be right if those evidences picked to craft an overall picture were the only actual existing ones.
IF MY BURGER CAME FROM A COW THEN WHY ARE THERE STILL COWS???
I like burgers too.
I'm amazed that some people still don't get this, even when it's drawn out for them.
Because none of it makes sense I would imagine.
It's all very "oh this happened and then that happened" (over billions of years conveniently)
He misses out so many explanations, development of human consciousness being just one.
@@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 why is it convenient to be over millions of years? That’s what happened evolution is as cast iron as science can get and there’s no more reliable source of understanding.
I'm so happy I wasn't raised in a Christian household and raised by a mother how believed in evolution. If I wasn't, I think the shriveled up piece of my human rationality would have died by now.
If god created the Universe, why is there still God? Oh wait..
yet he left it so empty? LOL billions and trillions of planets but he only wanted 1 to pray to him for his "glory"? ok bud @East West South Slavs United
you have a very closed mind i feel sorry for you human nature is to constantly be curious and wonder you however seem to lack that ability i guess its your religious brainwashing @East West South Slavs United
@East West South Slavs United wow, I dont even like Elon Musk from a business pow but damn do I realize we need guys like him when I see people like you. You literally said we shouldn't try to further our understanding of the universe and eat, sleep, fuck and die. Do realize you are able to write this comment purely because not all people are content with eating, sleeping, fucking and dying... You sad, sad thing
OP is satire the oh wait means he’s saying that there is no god
Made made out of soil why there is still soil. 😁
precisely on what i have read in your Ancestors Tale.
One group headed out for the open plains; where there was survival pressure to get smarter and walk upright. (The Human Line)There other group headed toward the trees; where they survived quite well; without pressure to evolve higher intelligence.(Chimps)
what this video does not show you is the wealth of transitional fossils between the common ancestor and modern humans, so many that in between some established fossil species are fossils who's placement we still can't decide because it's micro differences put it inbetween already established fossils (ref. sima de los heusos humans, homo rhodensis, homo ergastor).
homo naledi was an exciting find that has human skull features with small 'ape like' primitive cranium and a more australopithicine like body in some respects. then there are australopithicines, kenyanthropus and ardipithicus all with a collection of features more like that of homo genus than the pan genus.
Please research these fossils before deciding that there are no "missing links" between us and our fellow ape cousins.
+Ash Mckinlay Well they became so valuable they traded them in for cash, so they could eat, and evolve for another day.
unfortunately most people asking for the "missing link" we'll just keep asking for more fossiles and saying "but well between this species and that species there's still missing links so you don't have evidence to suport evolution"
The lack of transitional fossils is what really concerned Darwin. 150 years later, I rhink it was either Wald or Gould who stated that this situation was still the same.
We have a lot of transitions in the fossil record that shows undeniable proof of evolution.
I READ THESE POSTS AND THE STUPIDITY YOU ATHEISTS DISPLAY IS ASTOUNDING. I JUST HOPE YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT SITTING ON A JURY AT MY TRIAL WHEN I AM FIGHTING FOR MY INNOCENTS.
EVOLUTION IS BULLSHIT AND ALWAYS WILL BE. LET'S TAKE A BIRD AS AN EXAMPLE. BIRDS HAVING THE ADVANCED DESIGN OF WINGS ENABLE THE SPECIES TO FLY HIGH UP INTO THE TREES SAFE FROM PREDITORS. IT ALSO USES THE SHELTER OF THE TREES TO REPRODUCE SO THE SPECIES SUSTAINS ITSELF. IF BIRD HAD TO WAIT MILLIONS OF YEARS AS EVOLUTION SUGGESTS TO DEVELOP THE ADVANCE DESIGNS OF WINGS. BIRD WOULD HAVE GONE EXTINCT AND BECAME A THANKSGIVING DAY TURKEY FOR THE ANTS. BIRDS HAD TO HAVE THE ADVANCED DESIGNS FROM THE BEGINING WHICH ALSO ANSWERS THE QUESTION WHICH CAME FIRST THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG. OBVIOUSLY A CREATOR WAS INVOLVED. SECONDLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FOOD CHAIN IN NATURE, IT IS PREDATORY. SINCE CHARLES DARWIN STATES THAT EVERYTHING EVOLVED FROM A COMMEN ORIGIN WOULD ONLY MEAN LIFE WOULD HAVE EATEN ITSELF INTO EXTINCTION FROM THE START. HOW DID THEY EVOLVE FROM EACH OTHER AND THEN FOR A SPECIES TO SURVIVE IT EATS THE ONES IT EVOLVED FROM. GIVE ME A BREAK AND I'M NOT TAKING ABOUT MY BALLS. THIS ALSO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR EVOLUTION TO EVER HAVE TAKEN PLACE. LETS PUT GOD INTO A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE. GOD IS A FORCE OF PURE ENERGY THAT EXPANDS THE INFINITE UNIVERSE, AND HE IS ALSO THE GOD OF THE BIBLE PERIOD.
Poor Richard, spending his whole life trying to explain the facts to people that believe that you can walk on water, multiply fish, and ride around in the sky on magic horses. When will he ever learn..?
Its easier to believe on walking on water and riding horses than believing that everything comes from nothing through a big explosion, that nothing is something and that a perfect universe comes to existence through chaos, on a universe which tends towards disorder, the most perfect creations occur, and that happens just like that, by accident, by natural selection, a nature which creates itself. You guys must be putting a lot of effort to support this bullshit.
And the award for giving the most Straw Man arguments goes to Admir Hoxha.
Congrats!
Admir Hoxha Thanks for proving you have no idea about the Big Bang and why it is widely accepted.
I READ THESE POSTS AND THE STUPIDITY YOU ATHEISTS DISPLAY IS ASTOUNDING. I JUST HOPE YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT SITTING ON A JURY AT MY TRIAL WHEN I AM FIGHTING FOR MY INNOCENTS.
EVOLUTION IS BULLSHIT AND ALWAYS WILL BE. LET'S TAKE A BIRD AS AN EXAMPLE. BIRDS HAVING THE ADVANCED DESIGN OF WINGS ENABLE THE SPECIES TO FLY HIGH UP INTO THE TREES SAFE FROM PREDITORS. IT ALSO USES THE SHELTER OF THE TREES TO REPRODUCE SO THE SPECIES SUSTAINS ITSELF. IF BIRD HAD TO WAIT MILLIONS OF YEARS AS EVOLUTION SUGGESTS TO DEVELOP THE ADVANCE DESIGNS OF WINGS. BIRD WOULD HAVE GONE EXTINCT AND BECAME A THANKSGIVING DAY TURKEY FOR THE ANTS. BIRDS HAD TO HAVE THE ADVANCED DESIGNS FROM THE BEGINING WHICH ALSO ANSWERS THE QUESTION WHICH CAME FIRST THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG. OBVIOUSLY A CREATOR WAS INVOLVED. SECONDLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FOOD CHAIN IN NATURE, IT IS PREDATORY. SINCE CHARLES DARWIN STATES THAT EVERYTHING EVOLVED FROM A COMMEN ORIGIN WOULD ONLY MEAN LIFE WOULD HAVE EATEN ITSELF INTO EXTINCTION FROM THE START. HOW DID THEY EVOLVE FROM EACH OTHER AND THEN FOR A SPECIES TO SURVIVE IT EATS THE ONES IT EVOLVED FROM. GIVE ME A BREAK AND I'M NOT TAKING ABOUT MY BALLS. THIS ALSO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR EVOLUTION TO EVER HAVE TAKEN PLACE. LETS PUT GOD INTO A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE. GOD IS A FORCE OF PURE ENERGY THAT EXPANDS THE INFINITE UNIVERSE, AND HE IS ALSO THE GOD OF THE BIBLE PERIOD.
A fact you've yet to prove in a lab using the scientific method.
If the other great apes went extinct I guess they're not so great
What is the name of our common ancestor 6 million years ago?
It is unknown, the fossil record around that time is insufficient to confidently pinpoint the LCA.
There is no evidence, evolution is a fairytale. 😊😊😊
The ape Sahelanthropus sp. existed around the right time for the split, but we have too little fossil evidence of it to determine its relationship to chimps and humans.
Christians, now stick you fingers in your ears and keep saying, "Nu-uh!".
I'm a Christian. I don't doubt that anything Dawkins says in this video is true. It's only when he leaves his field of expertise that he runs into trouble.
Learn Evolution.
J Murphy Some people may ask that question, and Dawkins uses this as a red herring to pretend that all creationist would use this line and thus all creationist do not understand materialistic evolution.
Man i like the way he corrects that misinformation.
Short and sweet ;)
Richard Dawkins is inspirational to millions including me
Very nice fairy tale.
It's hard to understand because there's no handy picture where he pointed to at 0:21 😂
If you’re so confident of your religious beliefs that we were made by god
Why do you sass about the theory of evolution?
I can envisage our descendents watching this and pissing their pants laughing 😆" here look at this..science in 21st century thought we evolved from apes!" 😁
+Edwin Luciano So then if we are apes? we can have sex with apes, and if we do what will the baby look like?
Great explanation.
Shut up!
Richard Dawkins teaches the universe came from "literally nothing."
Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
We can't get anything from "literally nothing." We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
God is the reason for us and all we have.
th-cam.com/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/w-d-xo.html
“However improbable the origin of life might be, we know it happened on Earth because we are here.” -Richard Dawkins.
We only get life from life...the law of biogenesis. We can't get anything without God.
The odds are NOT there.
th-cam.com/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/w-d-xo.html
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No, the eye did not evolve into various eyes. Your mere chance mutations are absurd.
th-cam.com/video/X7h2HWcTwa4/w-d-xo.html
Even Dawkins admits we can't know what is true because of natural selection...
The God Delusion, “Since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our senses. Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”
Oh, but Dawkins knows what's true about life...killing those who don't meet his expectations for living.
dailycaller.com/2021/05/19/richard-dawkins-down-syndrome-roe-v-wade/
They should have not used such a picture for human. Because rest of animals share too much visual similarities. They could have used picture of early caveman or something.
good point
or an arab
+Captain America lmaoooo
It's to match visual. Look at all 5 images, spot the odd one out, visually.
***** i didnt mean it like that, the joke is funny because arabs look like early cavemen.
"If we are all chimpanzees, then how come there still are chimpanzees?" This translates into: If I am my cousin, then how come my cousin still exist?
This goes to show how ignorant the deniers of science can be...
the question i am asking myself as a physicist, why are we far more intelligent in our thought process than our monkey cousins, why are we so different than them, since all of them look alike, yet we are totally different in looks, characteristics, instincts, social behavior,its beyond my understanding, i believe in evolution, but i dont share the idea that monkeys and we share the same ancestors, yes we do have some common things to share but this explosing difference makes it hard to believe why we managed to evolve so dramatically, yet they are still on the same level,and look alike, do you have any answer
Yep. Our common ancestor lived there, on the blue line where it splits to the bottom one.
there's something comical about his little diorama here implying the human fits at all in this group
Looks can be deceiving.
Where are the photos of the common ancestors? Or photos of fossils of the ancestors?
Exactly! It is all bogus i find it funny how they make fun of creationists but they keep making up stuff as they go
you need to read man. read and you will find what you looking for. don't be a close minded
+Last First No one is making it up as they go along. Don't accuse it of lacking validity simply because you either don't understand or refused to put the effort into doing so. Look up "fossil record" and "evidence of common ancestry" and you'll find what you're looking for. You have almost unlimited information at your fingertips. Use it.
+yojoe O Just because they are not in this video does not mean we don't have them. The fossil record is expanding all the time and it is quite extraordinary if you go look at it.
just google it. when people are showing a cladogram it's not always necessary to show pictures of all species in that cladogram
Lmao. Don't show this to republicans
+Viren S Actually most republican's believe in evolution..
+george rusch Not if you ask the politicians, nor if you go to, for example the south, where most of the population is Christian and also the area where you will find most creationists.
Hate to tell you but most Christians are not even Christians. Nevertheless this video, and it's total speculation about a "unknown common ancestor?" And the one where Dawkins says "we may have been intelligently designed Aliens but they would have come from a planet where they evolved through a Darwinist process" speaks volumes of prejudice, not science, but scientism.. Darwin's finches were always finches, before he saw them, and will continue to be finches, unless they go extinct no matter how much their beaks change.
People talk about needing to believe in evolution, single cell, to worm, to fish, to common ancestor, to man as essential to understand things like germ theory. Really? while bacteria, and viruses, can develop resistance to antibiotics, and attempts to eradicate them, they remain, what they always were, and will be germs. Variation within a species does not prove macro evolution. Otherwise germs would have evolved into something completely different long ago. But on the other hand politicians may prove an exception?
george rusch let me guess. guy with a beard in a white robe magically created everything?
Had so many misconceptions of evolution but Dawkins made it now more conceivable.
WOW! I've never seen such an insanely high number of low-I.Q. comments in my entire life.
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wow thank you Richard Dawkins !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This explanation is too difficult for religious people to understand, so this is pointless.
We understand what Richard Dawkins is saying very well we just don't believe his bullshit lies until you can get evolution to actually happen in our lifetime without it taking millions of years. evolution has never happened and don't give the bullshit excuse that Evolution doesn't work that way it takes millions of years and it needs a reason to evolve by repeating that bullshit mantura you just keep showing that you have no evidence for evolution
beautiful
wish me luck guys. I'm going into the comment section. *takes deep breath*
Do you think intelligence could be influenced by the environment surrounding the human species? I have this thought that those humans that migrated north of Africa into europe were more adventurous than those that stayed behind, and therefore developed more inquisitive minds that allowed them to conquer colder and more inhospitable lands. These sapiens eventually evolved into white people (still homo sapiens) meaning europeans who were able to conquer India for instance or china or south america, where a handful of men decimated thousands of humans because their superior ability to create more powerful weapons, etc; and now have more advanced societies (i.e. europe, USA,e tc). Could it be that our specie is still evolving and that eventually there will be a bifurcation into different species of humans further opening the branch that Dawkins is talking about? It may sound politically incorrect or racist, but from a scientific point of view, could this happen?
in a normal world this video would only need the first 17 seconds...
This video shouldn't even be needed. Those who don't get it by now probably never will.
Explaining evolution to a religious nut is like explaining physics to a dog.
They are both like, me no comprende.
At least dogs don't kill for their beliefs.
At least the dog would be willing to listen and learn. Even an old dog can be taught new tricks !
They do actually because they believe you create it because math comes some where.
We are all african
Gallardo 5Million We are all human.
With some Neanderthal and Denisovan thrown in for many of us, though. (Neanderthals originally came from Africa too, of course, but unlike modern Europeans they had many hundreds of thousands of years to evolve and adapt to their Eurasian environment.)
I am European, not African.
@@jsheriff396 Your first ancestors were African. They then migrated to Europe and evolved different features.
@@renzovallejos6129 no shit
I'm watching this only to hear Dawkins' beautiful voice...
For a while now I had wanted to know the answer to this question. Very happy to know the answer now. Finally, the question is explained rather than ridiculed.
The more I listen to Dawkins the more I feel sorry for him !
Because he makes it all up and has been living a self made lie for so long, he now actually believes it.
+barry nicholas He didn't make this all up. Great scientific minds have came together over centuries to complete the theory of evolution. You're just some blind sheep that's been brainwashed by the greatest lie ever told.
The greatest lie is evolution. It is not a fact, has never been proved and is blindly followed by people who just want to believe in something they feel makes sense to them. By the way Dawkins was never a scientist.
+barry nicholas So what are you trying to say? that everyone's favourite imaginary friend in the sky, had a great idea along the lines of " I know, I think I'll make a universe with thousands of galaxies and hundreds of galaxies and just on one, I'll place an animal in my image that can just go through history killing each other in my name"
michael crow Wow, you have a vivid imagination on what I am 'trying to say'. I have no idea how everything started, why we are here or what is the purpose. However I don't make it all up like the Dawkins thinking he actually knows.....NO ONE KNOWS, it is all guess work.
but mama said we descended from dirt and one rib
I think what people mean to ask when they ask this is: if we’re related how did we split into two different species and evolve completely differently right along side each other. how does that actually happen?
At some point they weren't side by side.
A good example would be bonobos and chimpanzees ironically.
Excellent!
This is so astonishing and fascinating it makes me feel proud of being an animal, a living thing. Almost like going to the zoo and hugging a Bonobo and say "Hey, cousin! I'm proud of ya!!!'
Where do Muslims fit in?
I am a Muslim, if you have any questions I'll be sure to correct the lies that the media has fed you.
They went extinct because they blew themselves up.
Leaf682 ...and one of those"lies" wouldn't be that when you die you fly to heaven on a winged horse, would it?
***** Have you read about atoms in the Qura'an?
***** Ofcourse it matters. The point saleem was making was that the quraan is not scientific - rather, it's a collection of anecdotes and stories.
Son: "Dad, why are there no Liberals on Star Trek?"
Dad: "It's the future, son!"
If we made a potato salad, WHY ARE THERE STILL TOMATOES AND MAYONNAISE??!
I was raised in a mainstream Protestant denomination that didn't waste its making stupid arguments against evolution. When the concept of evolution was first presented to me as a small child, it made all the intuitive sense in the world. At the time, it never occurred to me that a Christian could be threatened by the idea, which seemed perfectly compatible with the concept of God I'd been raised with. It wasn't until years later that I discovered that some Christians saw evolution as such a damnable heresy, and I still fail to fully understand why.