Whales and Viruses | The Light of Evolution - Episode 1
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2022
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Forrest is a biologist and an educator who specializes is evolutionary biology and bioanthropology. In this series, he shares his love of evolution by teaching the basics of this extraordinary science! Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for Episode 2 where we'll discuss how we know what we know about evolution!
Thanks to Dr. Pete White from Michigan State University for helping out with this video!
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"American History-Classes are uniquely inadequate. Did you know only 8% of Americans can name Sl-very as the Main-Course for the the Civil-War?!? 8%???"
-Cody Johnston in his video "Why is CRT'. Whetever said video is better or worse than his MLK-Video or his Jim-Crow-Video, i dunno, but i recommend it all the same to Valkai and his Fans.
@Forrest Valkai I just don't understand why do you use DNA code instead of DNA sequence. It is a very common mistake among educators. Genetic code is the sequence of nucleotides in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) that determines the amino acid sequence of proteins. It is represented in a table where each codon represents some amino acid, start codon or stop codon. Mutations cause changes in DNA sequence, not in DNA code or genetic code. Almost all living organisms have the same genetic code (aside from some protists, mitochondria and some prokariotes).
I think it creates confusion about what genetic code even means and has some harmful consequences among students (I had some negative experiences myself trying to re-educate people regarding genetic code).
P.S. Maybe we can use the rule of thumb: before using the term genetic code think thrice, you probably do not need it aside from explaining the translation of proteins.
@@dmitriy4708 because that's not what he's teaching here and he's using common parlance so that he can relate to his target audience. He's doing exactly what he should be doing with this content.
@@jeraldehlert7903 Enforcing the existing mistake is what he should be doing? I completely disagree. As educators we should correct such common mistakes and use words appropriately so the audience would be able to gradually accept the proper terminology. Do you know how many people do not understand what genetic code even means because of that?
@@jeraldehlert7903 We should respect audience without dumbing down the content as if they are too stupid to understand proper language. It is not a rocket science or complex formulas, just proper terminology.
I actually cried reading so many comments by other homeschool survivors. Forrest, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
❤
I’m so happy for you, Ember. I just want to point out that homeschooling itself isn’t bad. I am a well educated, socially integrated atheist who homeschools my children. We learn all about evolutionary theory and anything else that catches our fancy. I often discuss with my kids how to sift through the wealth of resources on the internet, in bookstores, in libraries, and in general public discourse to weed out misinformation.
pechaa, you are a homeschooling *parent*. i am a homeschool *survivor*. my perspective is ten thousand times more important and valid than yours. any homeschool student's perspective is more valid than the homeschool parents. so fuck entirely off, thanks.
don't fucking tell me "not all homeschoolers". it's as dismissive and disgusting as "not all men", "not all christians", and "not all white people".
parents, if you actually give a damn about your kids check out the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, Homeschoolers Anonymous [an archived blog], Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out, and Homeschooling's Invisible Children.
@@pechaa that's awesome. You are doing gods work 🤣
I'm also a homeschool (ACE, YECist) survivor. I was in a large apostolic pentecostal cult until the age of 35. I'm, now, well on my way to finishing a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering and writing two books about my experience. Im being mentored by a person who is in administration for Lockheed Martin Space and was on the small team that developed the Cesium clock for satellite use (NAVSTAR at the time, now it's known as GPS). My professor was the Mission Manager for the Titan IV rocket. I'm now the Events Coordinator for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - UCCS Chapter, and have worked on two NASA funded teams... one to build a CubeSat that went to space and one that we're building a small data payload thats going to the moon on Artemis III. I'm so grateful every day to those who allow a late-comer to rub shoulders with people who have changed our corner of the universe and for those that will freely give their knowledge, like Forrest.
Really excited for this series. I grew up a homeschooled Christian so I was raised to believe in creationism. Became an Atheist and now I'm looking forward to learning actual science and to correcting the misinformation I was taught growing up. Thank you Forrest! You have been a big help.
Man its awesome seing people from a background like you growing to join the rest of us in the facinating search for awnsers.
Keep learning my guy, this random european is certainly proud of you.
@@MissNulle2000 couldn’t have said it better myself
I'm happy you got out of there! I was in the exact same kind of situation, and I didn't know any better until I saw the outside world myself.
Same here! I learned nothing about evolution in my fundamentalist Christian homeschooling family, and getting caught up on the basics now, as a deconstructed adult, has been a blast. I’m excited about this series!
@@kingbubby1809 True, but in a lot of sects of Christianity young earth creationism is what’s taught. Especially within major Christian homeschooling curriculums (Abeka, Alpha & Omega, IBLP’s basic life principles, etc.)
GIVE THIS MAN A NETFLIX SERIES!!!!!
Netflix! Notice me, senpai!
They'll probably try to corrupt him, i.e. try to make him produce his content in a way that better fits with their business goals at the expense of intellectual integrity.
I agree...I could listen to Forrest all day...
You’re the man forest
Yes yes yes yes !!!
As an ex-christian who was sheltered from anything to do with evolution and indoctrinated into creationism, I'm so exited for this series! Just this episode made me so interested! This is a legitimately great thing you're doing! I've already learned so much!
Moth light media and pbs eons and Ben g Thomas are amazing channels for this tyoe of stuff.
Weird that you have the flag for gay males
Is it true that Forrest Valkai has no bachelor's degree, a masters degree or any other accredited paperwork and yet he tries to have his viewers believe that he is a qualified scientist! This proves that he is nothing but the atheist's version of Kent Hovind. For he thinks that men can magically morph into women and women can magically morph into men with a simple creed recitation (I am a Woman, I am a woman!). He is a fake. Kids, don't learn science from him otherwise you will be dumbed down.
@@cajunking5987why is that weird?
@@cajunking5987i’d take a guess that they’re a gay dude
Forrest showing off his little seashell of fossils like he’s eight year old me made my day. ❤️😅❤️
His excitement for learning and educating others shows thru in all of his videos. There needs to be a lot more teachers like him out there!
@@Kev_Shmev Agree 100%!!!
IKR!!! :D
The difference being, if some actual 8-year old brought another random seashell of fossils to Forrest, he could identify and label 90% or more of them and teach the child how to identify them too.
His passion is contagious, I'm certain there will be.
I continue to be amazed that I get to experience a person of Forrest's caliber. Thank you for this enlightening lesson Forrest! I can't wait for the rest of the episodes.
Thanks for helping the rest of us out 👍
You donated but not pinned on top?
@@Vizible21 "American History Classes are uniquely inadequate. Did you know only 8% of Americans can name Sl-very as the Main-Course for the the Civil-War?!? 8%???"
-Cody Johnston in his video "Why is CRT'. Whetever said video is better or worse than his MLK-Video or his Jim-Crow-Video, i dunno, but i recommend it all the same to Valkai and his Fans.
Dam coloradokid. Good on u. Forrest deserves it
@@slevinchannel7589 that's not because we weren't taught it in school. That's because we were convinced otherwise later.
The problem is we trust our cohorts more than some dusty books.
Personally i prefer non-dusty books.
I attended my first biology coat class at 35 years old. I am a fundamental young earth creationist survivor. This Biology Class triggered the reconstruction of EVERYTHING I thought I ever knew. Talk about an existential crisis. It blows my mind that these religious organizations are allowed to continue to teach OUTRIGHT LIES as scientific fact.
While I'm a big fan of freedom of speech and religion, it does come with some huge negatives, such as con men preaching creationism.
How is your class going?
...Welcome to the cold, bright World of REALITY -- and all the Natural Wonder of truly being part of it..!
This means so much to me. Growing up with Ken Ham and so much young earth left me wanting to work in science but behind on so much. At 32 I'm really learning and Forrest has been such an important part. It feels so good and painful to finally understand how life actually works. Thank you for this series.
That's so sad. Happy for you.
I'm very happy for you! 👍
Moth light media and pbs eons and Ben g Thomas are amazing channels for this tyoe of stuff. Sci show, sci show space, PBS Spacetime, numberphile... all amazing channels
I love that you mention the stratometric dating. I live in a town that was formed around mining originally and has one of the largest escarpments in the Country running right through the center of the town (long ways) so a lot of our geology classes focus specifically on the escarpment for practical and lab work when you are in grade school and high school science classes. It's always hilarious to me hearing people question dating things and fossils or being cynical of the mass extinction events happening asking for proof when I can literally walk 20 minutes from my home and physically show you proof of the age of the earth, mass die outs, and other topics they want to be dubious about in the form of a 30 meter high rock face that clearly shows the strata including at least one very clear "death layer" of black from roughly 65 million years ago near the lower third of the rock face. Or take a piece out of almost any point in rock face and find VERY different micro fossils the further each sample is away from the other.
Them: Nope! The Earth is 6000 years old! Everything was created over the course of a week fully formed!
Me: We literally live on the remains of a ancient tropical sea and millions of years of sediment made up of the creatures that lived in that sea's bodies...
Them: Genesis says...
Me: These rocks say...
Them: What can rocks tell you?
Me: A lot more than that book that was written by people living on the other side of the world in an era with little to no understanding of the world around them, and was passed through oral tradition for thousands of years before anyone even wrote it down and cotified it for us...
Them: I still do see how that is proof
Me: You can physically touch it, see it, and even test it for yourself right here in front of you right now... what more do you want?
If someone’s grasp of time is limited to a 6,000 year period it’s probably incredibly hard to imagine the immense timescales evolution, geology and astronomy are dealing with. It’s probably also the reason why they think spending eternity having to praise their god isn’t a horrible concept.
@@kellydalstok8900 I agree. That is something else that boggles my mind when it comes to creationist. They claim god to be infinite but then limit that god to a single planet in a single galaxy in a Universe that is only 6000 years old. That is just a logical fallacy too me; if your god is infinite shouldn't the creation also be infinite as well? Why is their god limited to the human imagination? It just seems to arrogant that if you believe in a deity you call "the alpha and omega" or "the one who is all" and then say they can't multitask on a cosmic scale, and everything we've found out about the universe that is not supported by sacred texts is a lie created by that religions version of "the deceiver" or "fallen one." They do realise to anyone that is not a member of that faith they just pretty much said "our god's enemy and the corrupt one has created and done more then the god we worship just to confuse non believers."
They want to be right, and to have understood the world, not have their understanding upended by something they couldn't imagine. Realizing the true scale of reality is as terrifying as it can be wonderful.
What boggles my mind even more than their inability to understand geological time scales is their woefully inept understanding of the very book that they use to defend their 6,000 year old earth belief. If I TRULY BELIEVED that this book held ALL the information humanity needed to fully understand reality while also providing a guide on how to have eternal life in paradise, I’d make damn sure that I knew what was in that book. I’d make knowing that book my one mission in life (who wrote it, where did they write it, what historical context were those people living in, what language was it written in, how did they use that language in the writing of it, what rhetorical methods were used, what genres are in it etc..).
For the most part they are LOST when it comes to ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDING much of anything about the book that they supposedly base their ENTIRE LIVES around. That’s a WEIRD mental plane to exist in. I can’t even fathom it.
@@GoZags43 Agreed 100%. As an atheist I am often surprised at how many highly religious people know less about their own scripture then some non-believers that are still interested in folklore that is in religious texts. I also find it interesting how often religious people do not understand how the minds of non religious people work; I have had so many religious people try to mic drop a conversation by calling out how much "faith" it takes to believe in Science and History with no interventionism thinking all Atheists are just on a vendetta against religion.
When the reality is we are more willing to accept religion then they are, the example I like to use is this; The Jade Emperor one day appears to humanity and explains we are moving into the next age and all the answers we seek to the Universe will now be opened to us. Most Atheists after asking for some kind of proof he isn't a conman and seeing he is the real deal wouldn't question him or his divinity any longer and would accept that this is yet another fact of the Universe and take full advantage of the new primary source of information. Meanwhile over zealous members of faiths that didn't follow the Jade Emperor as a leader or god would continue to deny him and the truths he brought humanity because they weren't THEIR faith's version of the truth. Therefor; yes being an atheist is a much greater act of faith then being religious, but being a zealot of a single faith is a much greater act of denying religion then being atheist.
Sort of unrelated but it also really gets me how often zealots tend to be so confidently incorrect about topics that are very easy to fact check and research... even using religiously approved methods. It's like talking to a small child that hasn't learned the real difference between reality and making stuff up. I recently had a person arguing with me that civilisation didn't start outside the Mesopotamian regions of the world until "Christianity took the world out of the dark ages with education and enlightenment." So not only was this person saying that civilisation in Europe, Asia, and Africa outside a small region didn't start until 1000 years ago, they were also convinced that people in these places where still living in caves, had no written language or technology, had never heard of Christianity, and where all still "inbreeding savages." No matter how many sources including the Vatican's own records and reports on life in the "dark ages" they were convinced I was making it up, or was just being too liberal with my definition of civilisation. They even at one point tried to claim the root of all written languages was modern day Hebrew and that the "Greek Alphabet" we use in english was made from Hebrew script. When I pointed out that I think they meant the "Latin Alphabet" since English doesn't use the Greek Alphabet and that Latin Script and Hebrew Script aren't directly related as one is an "Alphabetic" script and the other is an "Adjab" script, that modern Hebrew is only about a 1000 years old and as far as we are aware the root to written language was Cuneiform that has since branched into three or more distinct script categories in modern written languages, or the last common root both Latin script and Hebrew script had was Paleo-Canaanite which predated ancient Hebrew by about 1500 years and modern Hebrew by almost 4500 years. They just shrugged it off saying they knew Hebrew was the root of all language and the Egyptians copied them and it spread from there lol.
On whales; one of my favorite, more recent discoveries, was made in the Peru desert and dates back to @35 million years ago. They named it “Peregocetus pacificus” and it help plug in a gap of the whale evolution. It illustrates how evolutionary biologists like Forrest can make predictions about evolution. They knew that there would be an intermediate species fossilized in a very specific geological layer.
Forrest, I know you’re going to talk about other factors in episode 3. I said this on another video but it would be nice to see you use the jellyfish at Jellyfish Lake in Palau Micronesia as an example of evolution in light of a changing environment.
Cheers!
I like peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches! (
@@Bob-of-Zoid
"Take some jelly
Take some fish
Look at that sandwich
De-lish
Just make sure
That you don't eat
A real jellyfish
OR YOU'LL DIE!"
-- A wise old OG-UA-camr
Silly atheists, a dozen whale species with intermediate traits exactly where Evolution predicts them is a coincidence orchestrated by satan. And you're falling for it.
They just discovered a shark in China I think called the “gill fish shark“ and it goes back 80 million years!!
Man, I am so happy, that we are asking just the right questions at just the right times for Forrest to explain stuff to us XD
This video here has Siblings, ya know?
We must have just evolved to know how to do that.
@@I_am_Irisarc How Forrest teaches about Biology is how amazing the History-Videos and MLK-Videos of Some More News, Knowing Better, and Second-Thought are.
@@loturzelrestaurant yes I agree. Knowing Better is one of my favorite channels. I wish he could put more videos out, but the ones he does are so in-depth that I understand they take a while to make. It's always a good day when KB posts a new video.
@@I_am_Irisarc Than you will love the Others as they upload more often.
Forrest’s channel has adapted to the YT algorithm and its external pressures to evolve into the best type of David Attenborough-esq educational content.
👏🏼
Yea genius video from an excellent teacher
And here we find a Valkai in the Forrest, look at how marvelous he is, standing regal over his domain as he educates us on just a small portion of the wealth of knowledge he has to give.
It's truly baffling to me that this channel doesn't have hundreds of thousands more subscribers. Love this!!
Like other things that are important especially in the US we need to not just enjoy the information we need to get it out there to everyone else.
I think he'll get there. He has great charisma to go along with all that knowledge. If all teachers had a similar attitude we'd be much better off.
My only regret is that I came across this right after it came out, which means I have a longer wait for the next one. Thank you. You make the information so accessible and easy to understand. Please keep up the great work!
Same regret here, though.. I get to watch it again when the series finishes! Bonus! =D
@@TheVallin "American History-Classes are uniquely inadequate. Did you know only 8% of Americans can name Sl-very as the Main-Course for the the Civil-War?!? 8%???"
-Cody Johnston in his video "Why is CRT'. Whetever said video is better or worse than his MLK-Video or his Jim-Crow-Video, i dunno, but i recommend it all the same to Forrest Valkai and his Fans.
@@slevinchannel7589 I am a big fan of Some More News and Cody. I had a pretty good history education when I was young, so I know that slavery was the leading factor in how our early government was formed and lead up to the Civil War. It isn't surprising to know that many people don't know the actual history of this contry considering the 'Great American Myth' is taught instead.
@@TheVallin :)
This was absolutely brilliant even for someone who understands evolution pretty well. And your enthusiasm is very infectious, almost like a virus, but a benign one.
If he's a virus then I'm a carrier
I rarely comment on videos, but I have a disability called Metatropic Dysplasia which is a rare chromosome mutation and to hear a biologist talk about how all that works as concisely and judgement free is really cool, as much as I know about mutations because I literally am one I love watching your videos and learning more and I thank you for teaching people about topics like this, love from the UK and keep up the good work!
The problem I have with Forrest's evolution videos is, there is not enough of them. Wonderful teacher and person 👍
Yep I have the same issue… If he would just be a little less awesome in his ability to educate in a thorough, humorous, and fascinating manner, then maybe we wouldn’t have this pressing issue with his videos. Too bad we can’t clone Forrest.
I fondly remember taking my Eldest to Nat History Museum in NYC ages ago....
they have a life sized Blue Whale hanging from the ceiling, and having her look up (she was maybe 7-8) the look of AWE on her face.... just precious.....
The Museum of Nature in Ottawa has a similar exhibit.
I just wanna say how much I admire you Forrest and what you do! I was homeschooled up until 10th grade all with Christian curriculum so I was always told evolution was a lie and there was no evidence for it at all. I loved science when I finally got a chance to learn about it in an actual school from an actual teacher, and seeing your videos reminds me exactly why it is so fascinating to learn about no mattter what age you are.
You broke the cycle of ignorance. That makes you a HERO!
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
Forrest, if I may call you Forrest, you are by far my favorite science educator. I love everything you're in and I absolutely love all your guest appearances on different podcasts. Thank you for your infectious enthusiasm for science and your ability to package it in a coherent way some of us "educationally challenged" folks can understand. Much love and respect, sir!
Your nick name caught my eye. I just read a book series by that same name. Good choice. 👍
The homeschooler's guide to genetics and evolution. I'm so glad I found your channel.
This video couldn't have come at a better time. I've been trying to help my mother understand evolution, and these videos are absolutely going to be helpful. Thank you for your content. As someone in north Texas, I do worry about what my nieces are being taught (or not being taught for that matter). Knowing you're an educator down in this part of the country helps quell those fears.
Moth light media and pbs eons and Ben g Thomas are amazing channels for fossils and evolution. Sci show, sci show space, PBS Spacetime, numberphile... all amazing channels
Just the pictures of all kinds of animals in the intro gave me goosebumps. Sometimes it’s easy to overlook how amazing life is!
Another homeschooler taught creationism in their biology textbook here. Thank you so much for doing what you do! You make this topic so easy to understand. Thank you for helping so many understand the world around us.
I love how pleasant and supportive your viewers are of each other, I'm glad to be one of them
“There is no pinnacle of evolution…”
Yeah? Crab. Checkmate.
hol' up, how is him saying that there is no pinnacle to evolution in any way related to him being a crab or not?
@@AceFace350 nah m8, crab is the pinnacle of evolution. All of the convergent evolutions tend toward crab. Crab is the goal.
Of course I do generate about 85% of my thoughts on the spot so I’m not about 15% of that could be accurate
@@SorenPenrose Well, I don't think it's actually the pinnacle of evolution, pretty sure it's just well-equipped to live in its environment, if you put a king crab in the Arctic, it'd die, so it can't be the best possible species, y'know?
@@AceFace350 no that’s the thing, crab isn’t a species. It’s a shape. Several species have converged to crab. Crab is king.
I think its called carcinification
I went to public school in Alabama, took AP Bio in high school, took Bio in college. I have never been taught, by a teacher, the ToE. They’d skip the chapters. But I’ve always had a serious interest in it, so I had to learn for myself.
True story- When I was 15, my mom found On the Origin of Species under my bed and asked me what I was doing w/ that book.
Also, I grew up in small town Alabama. Everyone in my life-family, friends, teachers, authority figures, they were all Christians. I was taught that stuff from an early age, and it never took. Even at 7 years old I just could not believe it. In church, in Sunday school, they couldn’t get me to believe it. I’m proud of that.
this is incredible.
i used to reject evolution as a christian and it deeply deeply saddens me that modern religions wont admit the truth of it. especially knowing you can still have your faith and believe in reality.
im an athiest now but i hope that i learn enough with this series to convince my family and loved ones of the truth of their origins. thank you for this Mr. Valkai. you are a real life angel
In my experience here in Australia very few churches reject modern science. IIRC I've only ever heard two clergy argue for creationism (one was American, the other Greek) but several who accept evolution.
@@MusicalRaichu bruh, here in the bahamas pretty much everyone still believes that the world was created in 7 days. and most will side eye you for even mentioning evolution :|
its really disheartening to see...
@@rampantfantasy1181 You used to be a Christian but you are now an Antheist. You also say you want to learn enough about Evolution to convince your family and loved ones of the truth of their origins? I thought Evolution wasn't about origins since that is of course a 'belief' and not Science. I am keen to know exactly what you would say to a loved one as to their origin?
@@abed4310 Evolution explains life’s diversity including humans. It’s also an observable phenomenon.
@@grenangle there is incredible diversity in life. There is incredible diversity in the things that man invents and make. That is a result of mindfulness, thoughtfulness, intelligence.
I'm literally in school right now as a freshman getting a Biology degree and hoping to pursue Astrobiology. Your timing with the start of this series is impeccable. You're the best at what you do. Thank you so much, and please keep being awesome.
You should check out Aron Ra's 50 part series 'Systematic Classification of Life' if you haven't already, it's epic
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@@whatabouttheearth Will do. Thank you
What is an Astrobiologist? I've never heard of that field, sounds interesting, is it about the study of potential alien life in some way?
@@AceFace350 yeah so basically astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe. It is a field that encompasses many different fields such as geology, chemistry, biology, and astronomy. Here's a link to the NASA astrobiology homepage astrobiology.nasa.gov/about/
I grew up as an evangelical Christian and spent over 30 years that way. I'm not sure what I believe about the afterlife or anything, but I now know it's not the worst thing in the world to use critical thinking and look for unbiased studies/research on important topics like this. I'm going to show this series to my son. Fortunately, I got out of those dangerous beliefs before they affected him. I'm even learning a few things myself. Thank you so much for this.
That's the great thing, never too late to learn new things.
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
Wow! Awesome video! I'm definitely going to show this to my creationist (but kinda open minded) mother. Thank you Forrest! You have such an amazing way of explaining things that kuts through all the BS without having to be aggressive or rude (which I definitely understand). You explain this In a way even creationists can understand easily without being offended. Thank you so much! I learned a lot! And it's great how you used things that aren't even technically alive to explain a lot of it.
Also woohoo! I'm one of the first comments! That's never happened before! I just happened to have gotten off work right as this was posted. And that is awesome. I promise that I will never stop learning.
It would be interesting to learn the reaction. Maybe Forrest could do a follow-up on that sort of thing, how creationists react to being confronted with actual facts.
Ya... let us know what your mom says after watching... please 😁
Did you ever show this to your mom? What did she think/say?
It literally blows my mind that people deny evolution. 😳 It's pretty frightening.
Why didn't the biology teacher believe their student's work about the evolution of whales?
Cetacean needed.
Underrated
I learned about evolution as a child. I was taught a very good version of it in my middle school science classes. This was in the 1960s, at a Catholic-run, publicly-funded, school. I feel sad when I read in the comments here that so many homeschooled folks never got exposed to this theory when they were young. It's such a shame, for the story of evolution is the biggest, bestest story that there ever was, and everybody should know it by heart. Forrest is doing us all a great service with his work here. This is high-quality, and information-dense - just like Our Forrest.
'know it by heart" sounds super weird in this context. That's something you say about something that has to be memorized, like religion or fairy tales... not science. Also, "story of evolution"...? What? Who calls it that?!
Anyway yeah, I agree. I grew up Catholic (not anymore, thank -God- me!) and never realized how many Christian denominations are anti-education to a truly frightening degree. The Catholic Church has it's fair share of issues (lol), but I'm glad that's not one of them :)
@@idontwantahandlethough Where I'm from we have a different way of sayin' shit. "Know it by heart" means to be intimately familiar with a given subject, as in "I knows that trig proof by heart!" And c'mon - all scientific theories are at their core are stories about the models we've developed to explain various aspects of our shared reality - just dressed up with maths 'n' graphs 'n' other fun stuff. I'm just expressin' my lil' self folksy-like is all. . .
i want to go back to school to become a biologist, but being disabled makes school extremely hard for me. i barely made it through my first bachelors degree in digital media. i really appreciate this series, and the rest of your work, making science feel more accessible
Thank you so much for making this. I was raised in a Christian homeschooled environment, and I just discovered this channel today and am finally learning real science for the first time in my life. I can't wait to actually learn stuff lol, thanks!
I hate that I have to say this, but be very careful who you tell. Even close family members might misunderstand what you’re telling them. This all depends on what type of parents you have though. Best of luck, and have a happy life!
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
I know I'm commenting on an old video here, but just in case you do still read these comments, I wanted to express some appreciation for this video for one particular reason that I don't see any comments mentioning (at least not directly). As I'm sure you're very aware, the audience of an educator must necessarily inform both the content and methodology that they use to teach. It's so easy to forget that we learn differently now than when we were children, and it's so easy to forget that the things we learned as children may have been left out of the prior education of others in our own age group. For that reason, it's so rare to see the fundamental concepts of a science (or any subject, really) taught in a way that ISN'T geared exclusively toward children. It creates a situation where - if someone is otherwise intelligent and informed but missed out on something in their younger years - a person wanting to learn about a subject is forced to choose between the two options of either (A) something that infantilizes and oversimplifies information for children who can't know any better, or (B) something that assumes that they are already familiar with the foundational elements and attempts to build on a background that just isn't there. In both of those cases, the understanding that person can come to is SEVERELY limited!
When I hear people speak like those of whom you made your reacteria videos responding to, I honestly believe that this limit to understanding is a very strong contributing factor to the proliferation of those beliefs. If I was never taught evolution as a child, and I'm trying to expose myself to it as an adult with a fundamentalist background, why would I ever believe what's being taught to me if it's either (A) oversimplified to the point of being obviously inaccurate when viewed through an adult lens, or (B) so complicated that I am only able to come to inaccurate conclusions about it.
This video series you've made here is a great example of a very rare exception to that educational vacuum, and I wish that media like it wasn't so incredibly rare. Thank you so much for making this, on behalf of all of those who badly needed it.
FORREST FINALLY GOT HIS EPIC INTRO THAT HE'S BEEN WANTING, LEZ GOOOOO! 💚
I think one thing to consider when it comes to evolution is that post-reproduction fitness CAN impact evolution, especially for social animals. For example, if you have kids and your parents are dead, you've got to look after them yourself until they're old enough to be left alone, reducing your ability to hunt and forage. However, if a mutation means that your parents survive longer, your parents can look after the kids while you go off and hunt. In this way, mutations that don't directly increase reproductive success can still be selected for
One of the difficulties of teaching evolution, is that evolution occurs through SO many different forces at work. Traits can arise simply because they *weren't* detrimental, or weren't detrimental *enough*.
@@PaulMab9 Would nearsightedness be a perfect example of this?
It's probably the main reason humans live long enough to be grandparents.
A Blue Whale being able to weigh up to 330,000 pounds absolutely boggles my mind. The fact that we share this planet with an animal that can weigh as much as 1,885 average-sized men (like myself) is borderline incomprehensible. What a fascinating creature. Thanks for sharing this with us, Forrest. Your presentations are simply superb. I'm really looking forward to seeing what else you'll be sharing with us as this series progresses. You've really mastered the art of providing content that is incredibly fun/entertaining, as well as extremely insightful/educational at the same time, which is very rare due to how difficult it is to pull off. Please keep up the amazing work, my friend. I think I speak for almost everybody when I say your work is truly and greatly appreciated. Kudos to you, good sir. 👍
To be intellectual on a subject is one thing, to be good at teaching it is a whole other skill. U did so well, thank you
I was watching this on my phone and my 9 yr old overheard while he was playing Fortnite and immediately switched over to this with me. Fantastic episode! We can't wait to watch the next one!
It's always great to find ways your kids can enjoy learning, especially with their parents. Good job!
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
Wow, Forest, you have really stepped up your production quality and content! I really enjoy what you are doing. Keep it up, brother!
My young earth, evolution is a lie younger self almost cried at the beauty of this explanation of evolution. Thank you for your love for the truth. ❣
I hope you are happy with yourself today!
That sounds sarcastic, but I mean that 100% sincerely!
Thank yourself for searching for the truth!
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
The passion in this preface is so moving. The love of the study of life is so perfectly expressed.
The passion brings to mind Steve Irwin or Levar Burton
I want to thank you for this series! My 14-year-old son has been asking me a lot of questions about evolution and I'm afraid I'll explain it wrong and just confuse him. It's much better to learn from an expert! lol I've watched a lot of your videos and think you're awesome. I wish I could find a mathematician version of you to help my kids (and me) with Algebra! Thank you!!
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
As an ex-Muslim who was forced to go to a Muslim school from a young age where they valued religious indoctrination classes instead of sciences and mathematics, thank you. I have always known that something was awfully wrong with the environment that I grew up in. I’m 19 now and I feel like I have messed out on a lot of knowledge about basic sciences. Your work makes me so happy it brings tears to my eyes. Thank you.
Good for you for questioning things and seeking real knowledge, proud of you
I was actually taught evolution quite well but the way you teach things has me sitting through this listening as if I've never heard any of it
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Also coming from creationist background. I thought I was losing something as I became an atheist. But wow did I ever get so much more back when I started understanding the truth of the evolution of the universe. It never stops giving back to me!!!
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
After a career in educational television and several Emmys I can say Forest is an excellent presenter, possibly the best I’ve seen.
I really wish I cared more about learning in high school as I do know..thank you so much for being such an awesome science communicator.
What excellent teaching skills Forrest has. Concise, clear and infectious in imbuing a fascination in the subject. So glad he’s not confined to one classroom.
I always "understood" evolution but never understood the details so this helped me educate myself much more thank you :)
I love how passionate Forest is about evolution! A lot of this was stuff that I was vaguely aware of, but this video puts it into perspective for me. This helped to give me a better grasp on evolution than I had before.
Between Bill Nye and Forest, I feel like I can understand any scientific concept. Great video!
Yes! I'd personally include Kyle Hill as well.
FINALLY!!!!!!! The series I was looking for, just learning with Forrest. Thank you!
I've taken quite a bit of evolution coursework over my bio degree, and I'm currently taking an evolutionary history of mammals class. So this is really nice to see. I love you as an educator Forrest.
I really love this ep. Being a person that bio in High School was a memory game and forget the next day, today 15 years later it's amazing what life can be. An understand it, it's amazing and wanna learn so much more. Thank you for working so hard and teaching us.
If you think about it, we only know of one family in earth, think about how epic it will be if we ever find extra terrestrials, it would be a whole new family.
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Forrest, keep being an educator Sir!!! The kids today need you. Best wishes from the UK.
You have such a gift, Forrest.
This is so much information in 30 minutes, but your presentation is so ridiculously engaging that it's an enjoyable challenge to hang with it.
Thank you very much for keeping me learning.
Great series! I'm looking forward to the next episode.
While I was lucky to learn pretty much all of this in school (and if not there, then somewhere on this site), I still really enjoyed this video and am looking forward to the progression of this series. The way you explain everything with so much excitement is extremely infectious and just puts a huge smile on my face, keep doing what you're doing Forrest.
finally, there is "episode 1" in the title NOW TEACH ME EVOLUTION
Imagine this done with the budget of Blue Planet or other BBC documentaries like that. I feel like Forrest could become the next David Attenborough. He is so inspiring!
Amazing job Forrest! I really hope this series explodes all over UA-cam... it would be well deserved. I specially enjoy the passion you transmit about these subjects. Best of luck!
i love your excitement for this and i can already tell in the first few minutes that im going to love this series . I cant wait for what's to come forrest
It’s here! I have been excited for this series of yours since I first heard the announcement. Keep on inspiring others as you have done with me!
This is amazing! With the editing, the background music, when he said My name is Forrest Valkai... I caught myself smiling, excited to learn, I haven't been in school in a while but this reminded me of how good it feels to learn things, especially from someone who loves what they talk about. You're truly an inspiration, thank you. Greetings from the argentinian art teacher 🤗
I was raised homeschooled reformed Presbyterian. I read the Bible 9 times and took everything literally. I began to deconstruct in my theology, and in turn my worldview. When I discovered that whales had hip bones, I couldn’t ignore reality anymore. Your series literally change my entire worldview about evolution, THANK YOU ❤️
Whales do not have hip bones. That's a super outdated example of vestigial features. The are many an evolutionist who do not use that argument anymore because good, honest science has shown that those supposed "hip bones" are not left over bones from a land dwelling ancestor, but that they are anchors to support the whales reproductive organ. Check out a supposed whale evolution at Answers in Genesis. They make a much better case for God's glorious creation a better case against the evolutionary lie of whale evolution.
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
This series is already amazing, and I'm excited to see it progress.
My mom is an ecologist and professor, but I don’t think I have ever seen someone dote on fossils so much
Still my favorite series. I feel like I'm back in the school :D Love your enthusiasm, Forrest.
AMAZING! I’m so so excited for the rest of this series. Today’s episode was beyond incredible.
Super excited that you have a series coming out. Always been a fan since I found you on UA-cam.
I’m a senior Biology major and honestly, watching this video and seeing your enthusiasm for the mechanisms of evolution and the incredible effects small mutations makes fills me with so much joy for my field of study
I'm already familiar with most if not all of the information in this video, but I'm excited for all the people who will be learning it for the first time here! It was an entertaining watch, and your enthusiasm, as always, is infectious. I look forward to the next one!
Thanks for making this video series I was also a homeschool kid that was taught a literal interpretation of the Bible and young earth creationism. We actually used some of Ken Ham's resources like "D is for dinosaurs" and learned when someone says dinosaurs were around millions of years ago you can just say "were you there". I was also taught to distrust radiocarbon dating. Looking back it's so clearly ridiculous and now it's time to start filling in the gaps in my knowledge.
This is such a good resource. You do a lot of debunking and stuff but for people who dont know this kinda stuff could really use this series. Great idea :)
Oh man I can just FEEL how much you’ve wanted to make this I’m so proud
This is going to be an amazing series, I'm so excited to see where it goes. Easily accessible and easily digestible education on science and evolution is so necessary.
This may well be one of my favourite videos on youtube
I really really wish you could have been my Bio teacher Mr. Valkai.
These lessons are worth lotta money. Thanks for giving it for free.
This is so great, thank you Forrest! This will help so many people understand evolution, which really is needed. I’m glad you’re here making these videos!
One of my favorite UA-camrs. Cannot wait for the rest of this new series
I had a very rudimentary understanding of evolution before your videos and while I'm far from the point where I'd say I'm knowledgeable about this topic I do think that your videos really helped me with learning more about it to a point where I'd say I have at least a decent foundation on which to lay more information. I say this despite natural sciences not really being my field of expertise/biggest field of interest (more social sciences for me) and technically not being an English native speaker. Love your videos, you have a great way to teach and I like your charisma!
I consider myself well educated on this subject but you gave me the tools to explain it in such a consise way. Thank you for the amazing videos!
So this is the long awaited series that was teased so many times on the podcast! I really enjoyed it!!
"there is no perfect organism" I present you: THE CRAB
Every form of crab came from an ancestor with similar anatomy, so it's just a really good body plan for crustaceans. Snakes are the ultimate lifeform seeing how many times lizards have ditched their legs.
I love your enthusiasm almost as much as the scientific accuracy, crispness, and clarity of your explanations!
Yet another homeschooled former Christian who was taught creationism. Fortunately, I was in the LDS church, which is a little more science-forward than most American Christian churches. I had the good fortune to meet a fellow Mormon who had a geology degree, and he helped me understand that science and religion are not as often at odds as many religious people think; thanks to him, I was able to look at evolution objectively, without dismissing it out of hand. And thanks to you, I now understand a little more about evolution than I had already learned through videos about writing and worldbuilding.
Thank you, Forrest.
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
And this is why Creationists want to do "one topic at a time" because when you stick them all together its just a tsunami of evidence.
I call it the table strategy!
Picture a table with four legs.
When you remove 1 leg of the table, the table will not fall over!
But if you remove 2, the table topples.
The table's stability represents the strength of an argument, and the legs represent the facts that support that argument.
So if you want to defend your argument, and you know it doesn't have enough legs to stand on, never mention more than one faulty table-leg.
Because even if you're proven wrong, you can just pretend that your table is still standing, even without that ONE leg.
It's a tried and true creationists trick.
There are many scientific based Christian organizations out there. Some like Biologos out of Michigan believe in evolution, an old universe and the risen historical Christ Jesus. And there's organizations staffed with PhD scientists like Answers in Genesis who believe in a recent creation based on a plain reading of Genesis creation week. Please go to their website and search Whale Evolution. Read evolution and creation literature side by side to see where the facts start and stop. I've been studying these topics for 15 years and overwhelmingly a biblical creation worldview makes the best sense of the evidence. Don't give up on this. Definitely don't give up on Jesus! We need to understand that biblical creationists don't deny evolution in the sense that animals adapt. God instilled inside the genome of every animal the ability to adapt in harsh environmental conditions but that change has limits.
I dare you to test this. Too date, there is no hypothesis using known Biological mechanisms that might support common ancestry between any two animals from any two different family taxa. Animals adapt and change through speciation, sure, but notice that it's always at a genomic cost, or a loss of information. Though it might help survive a population, selection and mutation come with a cost, not a net gain which evolution theory demands. Think about the examples of evolution, not the ones where we're assuming what happened long ago, but things we can actually verify. Mexican blind cave fish are used as an example but this is a shutting off of sight genes, not a gain, a loss. Find a creature we know never had sight who is gaining sight and then we'd have something, but it's not what we see. An example of evolution is beetles that we're getting swept out to sea because of high winds. They produced populations that could no longer fly. Sure, it helped to survive the population but at a loss. Find an organism we know has never flown and is giving birth to offspring with wings and then we can talk evolution. But it's not what is observed. Think about long hair dogs that migrate to hotter climate. For survival they will code out their long hair gene but that gene is now gone. A loss, not a supposed net gain. There is no known biological mechanism that can add information that codes for new novel features or functions. Even the argument for whales with left over hip bones. This is a super outdated argument that many evolutionary scientists do not use anymore because those bones are not vestigial hip bones but functioning anchors for a whales reproductive business.
Anyhow, I pray I made a tiny dent in your thinking. Evolution theory can make a great case IF you don't know the other side of the story, the biblical creation model. Rather than a single Darwinian tree or a single phylogenetic tree where all organisms share ancestry, what we observe in the fossils and animals alive (extinct and extant) is more representative of a forest or an orchard. This is what the bible calls "kinds".
Many do not know this but Linnaeus, the scientist who developed the modern taxonomic classification system was a bible believing Creationist who did not believe man and chimps shared ancestry. Anyhow, a "kind" in taxonomic terms is around the family taxa level so, would include family-genus-species-subspecies. On the rare occasion it might be at the order, genus or species level but largely kind is family. Think of it like this. One of those kind or Family trees in the forest would be the cat kind or Felidae. All its branches would represent all the genera and species within that cat kind. Another tree would be the dog kind or Canidae. All its branches would represent the different genera and breeds such as wolves, jackals, dingoes, domestics, foxes, etc.
Based on the bibles prediction, that God created many different animals of the sea, plants & trees, flying animals and land animals to produce after and according to their kind, mean's that there are some animals that have never shared ancestry. Such as cats and dogs. We know that almost every domestic dog is genetically related to a wolf. That means that on that Ark some 4,500 years ago, there would've been two wolf-like creatures by where all canids today and thereafter are it's descendants. We know rapid speciation can happen because most dog breeds, some 400, were created only in the past few hundred years. Imagine what another 4,100 years could do, even if much breeding had been human selected, the point is that its possible.
Anyhow, evolution folk will try and say the common ancestor of cats & dogs are the miacids. Google the name miacid with creation behind it. "Miacid creation". There is an extensive write up, a PDF out there that shows that the miacids were not related to cats & dogs but were an extinct ferret or weasel kind. With love, please look deeper into this and what I'm saying. God bless your journey!
So awesome. I'm so glad you're not angry or jaded that some folks don't understand. I've always been a bit gifted so I pick up on stuff very quick
Loving this series! I'll never stop learning as long as you never stop teaching, Forrest.
love the reaction videos but these informative ones are gold to me, thank you for sharing this knowledge
Bros got a full on TV show intro
evolution is like a flip book. We have individual pages that when put together a full story. When we get more of the pictures, the better the story is animated
This made me remember a class discussion with a Bio teacher of mine (just an intro class) where were talking about inherited traits that were learned from parent to offspring...how evolving to actively raise and nurture the next generation allows each generation to build off the knowledge of the previous instead of starting fresh. Then we applied this to what would happen if an Octopus mother didn't die in the process of reproducing and she could raise, nurture and teach them...(we had also just watched clips of one octopus learning tricks from another just by observation...it was both cool and terrifying)...it was an evening class so it didn't take long for the debate to devolve into a Lovecraftian sci-fi fantasy but I found it fascinating...really looking forward to the rest of these videos!