If the Claim is Crazy Enough, You Can't Refute It!
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Today, Matt Powell lays out his case for the flood in a way that he says is irrefutable. And given that I couldn't find any information on some of his claims, from creationists or anyone else, this seems to be a case of Powell not even understanding his own side of the argument.
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What? Mt. Everest is less than 6 km tall? 48:22
I think it's 8,85 km.
Note: All doctors who have put "drowning" as cause of death need to correct all the death certificates to "Noah's Flood," as Matt appears to think that's the only way one can drown.
damn, no wonder he's okay working with Kent
Im afraid your son...noah's flooded in the pool....yep sound like something old matty boy would buy
Cause of death: Deluge Syndrome. "We might have been able to save him if we had gotten there sooner. There have been some great advances in shipbuilding over the past 50 years."
Matt Powell is like an adorable child who watched The Karate Kid and then thinks he can take on the bullies because he washed a car once.
In Rocky, he punches big cuts of cow (ie beats meat). Meanwhile, in Karate Kid he does wax on and wax off (whacks off).
He's about as adorable as herpes!
He’s not adorable, he’s an awful human being.
I love when you respond to Matt "I dont see anything wrong with quotemining" Powell
"Im... moist and soft simotaniously" Matt Powell, at some point probably
Of course, he doesn't see anything wrong with quote mining as long as he's the one doing it.
@@Chrismas815Given the handful of times Matt’s dialogue is just ever-so-slightly off from what normal English grammar would be, I wouldn’t put it past him to mispronounce “simultaneously.”
@@Chrismas815 I'm sure he has said each of those words at some point, so that's a legit quote, going by Powell's standards
Give him a break, he was homeschooled 🤣
Matt Powell: crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room full of rats and rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once...
When I listen to Matt Powell, I get psychopath vibes coming from him.
@@Ottawa411 I really get those vibes from Mike Winger. He doesnt care about people, and he is smarter than Matt Powell by far. The things he says are so chilling. A viewer said she struggled with the thoughts of members of her family burning in hell, and all he said was:" Dont worry about it, God put them there for a reason, the important thing is that you dont forget God is good." He seems void of all empathy.
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
I've always said it "crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room! With rats. Rubber rats! Those rats drove me crazy. Crazy?"
They locked me in a room. A rubber room. Full of rats and rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once
My daughter, who's twelve, overheard this video, and said that guy is not real. He's just trolling scientists. I wish she was right.
Just be thankful you've raised her right so far.
Matt is from the school of confirmation bias: "If science supports what I believe, then science is 100% correct. If science doesn't agree with my beliefs, science is 100% wrong."
I'm attempting to understand what it would take to listen seriously to Powel and take it seriously - from the theist point of view.
How about: I was raised all my life to believe that my eternal soul depends on my belief in X (insert any religion whose tenants include belief as a prerequisite). And/or I surround myself only with likeminded people who confirm my beliefs. It is now unthinkable to even consider, let alone doubt what I 'know' my eternal existence depends upon.
My conclusion: They are believing what they think they MUST believe and depend on apologists to defend their faith from what are otherwise obvious contradictions and falsehoods to the rest of us - to help prevent their horrible-feeling questioning to seep in.
It’s a hideous mental trap that these people have fallen into that only the rest of us can clearly see. They are firmly trapped, and any escape means certain doom to them - so they would never go there.
@@Specialeffecks There is some foundation for belief without evidence. For example, we can believe in justice or love without evidence, which don't exist outside our beliefs. Such beliefs may be a problem, but that's another discussion.
We can conclude that not acknowledging when we believe something without facts or evidence leads to contradictions we tend to accept without deeper consideration. Matt is either so far removed from reality that he can't see his hypocrisy, he's willfully ignorant, or he's acting with full knowledge and intent to deceive.
Whichever option is true, he's not a good person to be telling folks what science is.
@@RiiDii I would say 'willfully ignorant' as Matt likely would not allow his thoughts to 'go there' due to the continuous thought-stopping tactics and his perceived 'carrot and stick' that have become part of his being.
I wouldn't even know what Justice or love refer to, let alone believe they exist (as mental states) without some evidence.
Some say that Dr Peel - Matt's giant inflatable banana - is a sexual metaphor.
This is a phallusy.
That joke is so 🌽y that i wanna blow myself out of this world
Every time someone says,"fallacy" or "fallacial," I can't help but think phallusy and fellatio.
Every time someone says,"fallacy" or "fallacial," I can't help but think phallusy and fellat!o.
@@lizzybeary The adjective is _fallacious_ - a fallacial is ... never mind.
Oh come. Matt Powell is so far in the closet, he’s met Aslan.
Every time I hear Powell speak I wonder how an adult human can be that stupid and survive without some kind of assisted living arrangement.
Seriously, how does he get dressed in the morning without bludgeoning himself to death on a shirt button?
You and me both
I'm betting his mommy did everything for him until he moved to Hovind"s compound.
That is probably why he moved in with his beloved Kent Hovind.
Umm... you know... jellyfish and starfish do live without a brain sooo... i think matt powell is in that same category...
As someone who is disabled and still working through the paperwork hell that is trying to get conservatives to actually supply an ounce of disability support, I would kindly request that you not give the conservatives any ideas on potential new ceilings to the capacity with which a person can survive without assistance...because we all know that he has been receiving these supports privately, because Hovind recognizes the value of his stupidity.
In all seriousness, the actual reason he can survive is because he is quite clever in a number of areas, such as in the building of the grift that keeps his bread always buttered. I hope that a day is possible where his targets can see through his schtick, but unfortunately that is not today.
Patt Mowell is the Gold Medalist in Mental Gymnastics. How anyone can look at the evidence of evolution and respective sciences involving fossils and think, 'gawd did it," confounds me in the utmost.
He probably knows he's lying, but is tempted by the evil of money.
He's a charlatan. He *knows* everything he is saying is a lie, just like with Kent Hovind. These two are the most insufferable con men I have ever seen online.
If it was ever in question before, the fact that Rhino brought up with the TalkOrigins header in his screenshots is a dead giveaway. It's like he was doing it just to troll.
@@tabularasa0606 I dunno. Matt has that sort of gormless look to his face, to the way he talks especially, that makes me think he is genuinely that stupid.
@@tabularasa0606AKA Hovind's Wager.
Dunning and Kruger wrote a little paper that explains the psychology behind Matt Powell’s absurd beliefs.
I'm familiar with the massive herd movements of wapiti (elk) in northern Canada. There are many occasions when entire herds drown when attempting a river crossing in bad weather. They are rapidly buried in mud. An increase in the predator population (in this case wolves) can trigger ill-timed migration into areas with sub-optimal feeding potential, leading to mass starvation in herds. The animals will be driven by starvation into bogs and muskegs which they would normally avoid, in which they can get fatally stuck. Mass deaths in elk herds can also be caused by epidemics, and by poisoned water. Recently, a mass of more than 100 elk corpses were found in the Rockies that had been poisoned by algal blooms in water they had drunk. I have seen photos of such deaths where the animals were rapidly buried in mud, with only their horn racks and part of their heads sticking out of swampy ground --- and their heads pulled back by their death struggle in exactly the way that many dinosaur skeletons are. Animal corpses at river crossings will be swept downstream and deposited in large, compact masses where the current slows, or the river discharges into a large body of water. In such cases, most of the animal corpses rapidly sink before there's any chance of their bones being scattered by predators. The anaerobic conditions in bogs will preserve the bodies for very long periods without disarticulation ---- in fact there are a number of famous human "bog bodies" that have preserved even hair and facial features intact for thousands of years, along with their clothing and the stomach contents revealing their last meals. Mass animal deaths followed by rapid burial are routine, and the best fossil fields for dinosaurs are in an area in today's High Plains ---- precisely where, in the Mesozoic, many rivers flowed into a shallow sea that extended from north to south. The map of fossil discoveries clearly shows the western shore of that ancient sea. This is well understood by paleontologists, and is in no way a mystery.
Creationists never explain why dinosaurs are only ever found fossilized, yet we find fleshy humans, mammoths, and all sorts of other relatively modern creatures preserved in ice and bogs. How come not a single triceratops or T. rex died under similar conditions a similar amount of time ago? Their whole timeline is just so obviously nonsensical on every level.
Of course, your post makes perfect sense.
Now try convincing someone that believes that their eternal soul depends on believing this nonsense instead, who are willing to instead grab on tightly to the tiniest straw of an explanation no matter how flimsy, how silly and convoluted the defense, and deem it reasonable. Because to them - the alternative means doom or admitting to a waisted life/or substantial time, or at best, admitting to gullible ignorance.
@Specialeffecks There are tons of people in that situation who have changed their minds about young earth creationism, including myself and both of my parents. The movement is hemorrhaging adherents. It's just not accurate, not to mention unhelpful, to act like it's hopeless to make these arguments or that YECs are unreachable. Apologists on UA-cam represent the very worst of YEC, not what the average poorly-educated believer is thinking. If you've decided to give up hope, that's your prerogative, but I don't know what you hope to accomplish by trying to convince people that they're wasting their time by coming up with arguments and evidence. Online debate with the most invested YECs looks drastically different than real life- millions of average people raised in YEC who have never even had these concepts explained to them before. Sure, the stakes are high for believers, but that's always the case with religion, and religiosity is at an all-time low and the decline continues to accelerate.
"They just can't be reasoned with" is extremely dangerous rhetoric, and it disturbs me how often I see it thrown around, even when "they" are demonstrably changing their minds in droves.
@@corvinredacted Your comment rings true to me. Many people who have swallowed Creationism are people with no exposure to science, and often people with a suburban upbringing who don't even have much direct experience of nature. They just believe Creationist stuff because preachers have told it to them with confidence and grotesquely misrepresented what science says about it. They are not necessarily committed to it emotionally. My knowledge is partly from education, but owes far more to growing up in Canada's wilderness with constant exposure to the complexity (and beauty) of nature. I was obsessed with paleontology and already hunting for fossils by the time I was in second grade (having won a science book as a prize for drawing a dinosaur). I spent my childhood "out in the bush" guided by elders, had encounters with bears, wolves, lynx and countless moose and deer. Library books taught me the basics of science and adults encouraged me to learn and explore. I had no exposure to religious fundamentalism, as those kind of churches were rare in my part of the world ---- and I didn't even know that "Creationism" existed. The church I was exposed to would have ridiculed such anti-scientific stuff as primitive superstition. Fundamentalist churches that are huge in the U.S. are insignificant in Canada --- with less than %2 of Canadians attending them. The ordinary public schools in Canada teach science reasonably well. So I had all the advantages ---- and don't have any call to look down my nose at people who didn't have those advantages. Yes, when fundamentalist preachers have an iron grip on you, and you have no other source of information, it's hard to break free of their influence. But most people aren't so thoroughly controlled, and can learn if given the chance.
The way creationists like Matt Powell talk about dino soft tissue sounds like they imagine one could just slap it on the BBQ for a nice dinner.
Today it's "red blood cells", tomorrow, "living red blood cells", the next day, "living, circulating, breathing red blood cells within a juicy T-Rex T-bone, good for my burnt offering to god that likes him some nice BBQ smell"... when the whole time, only 'fossilized tissue which becomes pliable when treated with acid, tested and known to be over 66 million years old'.
I've heard of people actually holding a dinner serving real mammoth meat that had been frozen for like ten thousand years. One of those explorers clubs.
@@Zero-ei8jn I think that was an L. Ron Hubbard story that might have had some kernel of truth in it. I forget the details.
@@Zero-ei8jnwhat? No freezer burn?
It tricera-Top's the neighbor's exotic meat.
Oh boy oh boy, a whole hour of Rhino dunking on Matt "The confederates hunted pterodactyls" Powell? Tonight's gonna be a fun evening. :D
I know, it's an unfair battle, but it's Maty here, so, . . . . go for it
Isnt matt the same guy who said gorillas arent apes
@@uhuh.2232 yup.
@@uhuh.2232yep and he also said the air in space isn't like the air we have here on earth. Lmfao. Hes a nincompoop. 😂😂😂. The air in space.
And that we evolved from African Americans.
when they bring up drowning just point out that Bruce Willis's character drowned in a puddle in the movie Glass
People drown in a few inches of water all the time. Powell is just an interesting combination of stupid & unwilling to learn.
I'm sure the local Native American tribes in my area had tales of flooding because the near west side of Columbus, Ohio, also known as The Bottoms, is a flood plain.
And on your next visit, ask them what their lives were like before those oh-so-pious 'Whites' almost completely destroyed their culture.
Funny how all the flood myths are from areas where flooding happens.
@@julietfischer5056I detest thy sarcasm but the profound account of God's judgment on man wickedness and His mercy towards Noah and his family. The Flood story is like a wake-up call, reminding us that when we do wrong, there are serious consequences. It's all about understanding that being good and doing the right thing is super important. So, you gotta stay on the right track and keep it real, ya dig?
Since dinosaurs were briefly mentioned...
Fun fact, when I was a kid, I used to think that Petrie from "The Land Before Time" was a pterodactyl, but apparently, he's a pteranodon. This answers so many questions I had when I was a kid:
So is there gonna be a sequel where he has to supress the urge to eat his friends?
Why can some Pterodactyls talk, but others can only roar? (Meat eaters roar in this series)
Now, unfortunately, I have _new_ questions:
Petrie has an uncle named Pterano. Why does he hang out with pterodactyls? Does he owe them money or something?
At least now I know why one of his friends tried to eat Ducky that one time...
Rhino - Your humor is so unbelievably dorky....
.....and I LOVE it! Never stop!
How come not a single human fossil was found in his fossil beds, though the entire populatiin supposedky died in the flood? Not a single modern animal either.
i struggle to understand how in the modern world people like MP can exist. It takes either a great deal of delusion/gullibility, or dishonesty
He is a confident LIAR.
Money.
Some people are too stupid or too brainwashed to understand that 99% of what he says is bullshit ...
And Matt is too much of a piece of shit to care, so he extorts those gullible fools and takes their money ...
@@birdieerdie2349 Nailed it.
"The organism would rot during its fossilization"
Hey, do you think taht's why we find almost exclusively fossils of bones? ^^
This line of reasoning explains Terrence Howard’s 1*1=2 proof. No mathematician I know of has tried to debunk him. Possibly because they understand the Identity Element of Multiplication.
If 1×1=2 then what does 1×2=? 🤔
That only works for certain values of 1 and 2.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Ah, a fellow programmer or computer scientist of some flavor I see. Well, 1+1 = 3 for sufficinetly large values of 1, and ln (243)/ln(3) can equal 4.9999999 or 5.00000001 depending on whether your using Python of Node.js...
@@skepticusmaximus184 😆
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Nah, you gotta Poe this one. The most likely conclusion is that Howard actually means 1 and 2 in base ten mode :p
"No one can refute" really is just because he won't understand or even try to grasp the obvious refutations of what he wants to believe.
Yeah "no one can refute" is only significant in the context of a model that has already demonstrated predictive capability
I like Matty Boy.
He shows me what kind of person I definitely DON'T want to be. Very nice of him.
"Ye, look upon the forty days and forty nights of rain
And realize the simple truth:
That you were in Seattle and no flood occurred because it rains that long there all of the time"
As a Seattleite...just forty days and forty nights? What a short rainy season.
Some crazy guy back in ancient Mesopotamia used to load his animals in a theoretically floating box, saying "one day, you'll see."
One day, they saw.
I will never stop being amazed by the way apologists are using science to try prove that science is unreliable. It's simply mindbending.
At this point, I have a single wish. Rhino takes time to refute every point of Matt's. I would like to see Matt do the same. No shenanigans, no cuts, just pauses. Go ahead Matt, if you're up to the challenge
I love…”look at the trees”. It debunks atheists, scientists, orcs. It’s the perfect response. Lol😂
@@NUNYABIDDY1
Well, Orcs don't like trees (since the Elves hide in them). If you can look at the trees, then clearly Orcs don't exist otherwise they'd have taken them down.
Hey. it hardly rains that much in the UK.
Sometimes months go by before we get biblical level flooding.
I like the Mancunian adage - “If you can see the Pennines [a nearby series of hills] it will rain soon. If you can’t see them, it’s already raining”
@@Kelley_XI grew up in Southport. We had the same saying but about Blackpool Tower as seen across Morecombe Bay
I’ve never heard anyone say “upside right” before.
I have 😁
@@barrylangille3523 “up side right” is equal to “right side up” but neither are equal to “right up side” as that typically involves smacking someone’s head.
@@jonleemusicpersonMatt Powell can definitely do with some of that.
While not the same, I still hear Potholer's "There's no F*ing carbon in it!" whenever any sort of dating is mentioned. And yes, sadly, I mean any dating. :P
15:45 All deaths are sudden. One moment the organism is alive, the next it is dead. There really is no time between those options. Perhaps the grass was poisonous and that was the cause of death?
I don't mock the bible, I mock Matt Powell. The people who wrote the bible wrote what they thought was true and didn't have the body of knowledge needed to understand how wrong they were. Matt Powell does not have this excuse, he is just willfully ignorant.
lol. Me have ALL the answers for everything because me don’t understand anything about reality!! “It was just some guy, you know. And he’s a space wizard who can do cool shit and stuff. He even poofed the whole universe out of nothing just for me (aren’t I special?🥰). But if you eat shrimp or touch yourself at night he’ll come down here and fuck you up!” 🤪😝😝🤗😻👍
"A specimen that lived in the past and was naturally preserved rather than buried by man." So Natasha was technically correct (the best kind of correct) in calling Steve a fossil in _Winter Soldier._
I guess they feel that if they keep repeating their tale of genocide so many times eventually it'll be true😂
Polystrate fossils are literally 'look at the trees' apologetics.
Or look at the pseudo trees since many of them weren’t trees
@@robertadsett5273 Fair enough. Using pseudo-trees for a pseudo-proof.
Thanks ,now i have 🎶 " i am a Paleo-entol-igist, thats who i am, thats who I am THATS WHO I AM ! 🎶
stuck in my head. They Might be Giants
Does he seem really really defeated and sad in this video "No guys, really, I mean it, Noah made animals do the nasty on a boat... sigh... I give up"
I laughed out loud when he called it a seminar. 😂
My little late GenX brain was already cueing up the instrumentals for 'Got My Mind Set On You' as you started quoting it.
Richard Dawkins believes in evolution. He also thinks transgenders are delusional. So, no, believing that Genesis is wrong does not man that one believes in more than two genders.
Matt can't even get THIS one right.
35:25 BTW, I love that Scottish is now a gender.
@@skepticusmaximus184 True. Unless Scottish is a gender. Which it now is.
I will die on this hill. Wearing a kilt, hopefully.
@@skepticusmaximus184 Yeah he seemed to more be talking about gender presentation, and how it can vary and overlap.
Edit: Apparently I was not clear enough. Gender presentation is not the same as gender, and I was disappointed he did not bring up how gender can fall outside the binary and not match presentation.
@@skepticusmaximus184 Wow. I was saying he didn't say enough to validate people who's expression doesn't match their gender or who's gender is more complicated than falling along the binary of feminine or masculine.
41:21 Citation needed? What kind of Citation. Chevy Citation? Cessna Citation? Enquiring minds want to know!!!
47:56 I love it when someone gives himself a song cue and runs with it.
Thank you for bringing humor, as well as clearly explained facts, to the task of dealing with creepy Matt Powell.
I want Matt to explain Chicxulub Crater.
AIG's explanation of "Water covered the whole world except the Yucatan Peninsula" is laughable enough, I want to hear whatever madness Matt Powell pretends to believe
Not to mention the *global iridium layer* that resulted from that impact.
It is the place where god's thumb imprinted as he was forming the earth. Is that ok?
@@SilverSixpence888
Or an attempt by Slartibartfast to make a fjord.
Or maybe it's where he put his thumb while holding on to the Earth to make those fjords.
Matt has escaped into his own private reality and isn't coming back. I stopped paying attention to him after I realized he had nothing to offer that I hadn't already heard.
I am HOWLING with laughter at the montage in the middle of this video - especially the chicken one! Absolute comedy GOLD. Thanks, Rhino!
The Clams on Everest aren't iirc Clams, but are the 'other thing' quite unrelated to them - Brachiopods. Which don't live or die in the same way, because they have a distinctly different body form inside a recognisably different shell.
8:02 The other day, a small falcon flew in my window because my cat was standing on the side of it. The bird hit its head pretty hard and while on the ground, was in that posture, head swung waay back.
Just felt like sharing an anecdote about that bird death pose (Especially since creationists, with their more primitive brain, react more to stories than to data).
"This means that we could not survive Noah's flood today"
So if us, with our steel boats and technology are unable to survive a global flood, how did Noah survived in an overloaded wooden boat? ^^'
Magic.
@@SilverSixpence888 Noah was magic? Or God did it, and in that case, why did he had to build a boat? XD
@@krankarvolund7771 Magic made the boat survive against all odds. I guess.
@@krankarvolund7771
Noah is magic.
Remember how he cursed his sons for seeing him naked and behold, they got cursed?
So clearly Noah is some sort of wizard or warlock.
49:13 - maybe said boat was actually a Tardis; would explain how it could survive despite being ‘wood’ and explain how Noah could fit so many animals in it plus enough food to feed them all. 😝
LOL I had to scroll back to catch the on screen citation for the number of "do it"s. Glad to see you hold yourself accountable like that 😊
I found the source for Matt’s “Dinosaur Track Bending Rock Strata” image!!
The image that Matt shows at 40:57 is from Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado. (Search for: Sauropod dinosaur footprint in lacustrine sandstone)
I am including the link to the Wikimedia Commons page on it in a separate comment, in case the UA-cam overlords automatically flags and removes comments with external links in them.
I will also add the name of the LEGO model on the shelf behind you, to make it easy to find the comment on the “held for review” list..
10:49 HE SAID THE THING
They were barred from TEXAS from issuing science degrees?!?!? Now that's a low bar. There may be places to get a good education in Texax (Texans, feel free to weigh in) but to be so bad they WON'T certify you is bad.
I got a back room tour of Leonardo with my stratigraphy and paleontology professor when I was working on my degree. They were prepping him for exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum.
If that (possible) bison horn is say, 200,000 years old, even as young as 13,000 years, doesn't that still pose a little problem for creationists?
Yeah, I know. They'll just hand-wave it away because the Bible.
And his FIRST question (4:36) proves himself wrong!
Is "upside right" a regional thing? I've only ever heard "right side-up". Or am I the one using a regional variant?
I just thought it was a funny ha-ha. Maybe you’re right though?
If there's any consolation, it's that having Talk Origin's banner in the video might get Christians to look it up and see what it really says.
Re: Surfshark.
The Pokemon Horizons anime is still not available on Netflix in Canada. Probably locked behind YTV or TeleToon, but Netflix has bragged about having it and not having it is butts.
My dad once told me about an old friend of his that was always spouting off wacky tall tales, and always ended them by asking "do you believe me?". When I see Matt's face, I always get the exact same vibes as from that guy.
The clam claims drive me nuts quite often. Yes, a dead clam on the surface will open up when dead. Here is the problem. Clams move rather slowly. They move even more slowly when they die. Oceanic clams tend to bury themselves in four to eight inches of sand. That can easily keep them closed. In a depositional environment they will only be buried more deeply as time goes by. I live in the Pacific Northwest where we have geoducks. They bury themselves at least two feet into the sand and mud.
TLDR. If a clam dies and is exposed it will open. A buried clam will stay closed.
"If a clam dies and is exposed it will open. A buried clam will stay closed."
I am not a biologist, but from my personal level of ignorance, it seems quite possible that ancient clams (early bivalves from hundreds of millions years ago) did not necessarily open upon death even when not buried. Might this not be yet another possible explanation why ancient exposed clams are found in a closed condition?
And as fellow Pacific Northwesterner, I would point out geoducks are a type of clam that can move surprisingly quickly. 😀 In short, I agree with all your points.
If I didn't know they were real, I'd think geoduck was the name of a Pokemon.
@@ralphreinert "it seems quite possible that ancient clams (early bivalves from hundreds of millions years ago) did not necessarily open upon death even when not buried."
Not a biologist either, so I may be wrong as well, but clams closing or opening is a muscle activity.
Similar how our anus muscles are closed, but open when we die, because our muscles relax. The same happens to the clams. Their muscles relax, so they open.
I don't see a reason why that would have been different from an evolutionary perspective millions of years ago.
@@BestAnimeFreak True, they probably would have opened in the past, but not if they were buried. And in a depositional environment when the died they would usually be buried deeper and deeper. That is what a depositional environment does.
@@julietfischer5056
Doesn't Pokemon Fusion have that be the name of a Geodude and a Psyduck crossover...
Given all the cumulative evidence for evolution, even if we did find human footprints alongside dinosaur prints - or a fossilized rabbit in the pre-cambrian for that matter - I would at this point consider time travel a more likely explanation than evolution being wrong.
The Noah story is, of course, like much of the bible, cribbed from an older story. Three older stories, actually; namely those of Atrahasis, Utnapishtim, and Ziusudra. (There's also the Greek story of Deucalion, but I'm unsure where that sits in the timeline of storytelling).
Thanks for the shout-out! --PNW denizen
How to figure out that a lot of people responding to this video are from the USA? At this point there have been 354 previous comments and I have not managed to find one that points out the following.
At just short of 49 minutes in you said Mount Everest is just short of 6km tall. Since Everest is just short of 30,000 feet tall, and there are close to 5000 feet per mile, Mount Everest is just short of 6 miles tall. It is actually 8849 metres tall which can be converted quite easily to kilometres by dividing by 1000. I know this calculation is beyond a certain flerfs brain but the result is Mount Everest is 8.849km tall which is definitely more than 6km. I think you just made a slip of the tongue rather than failed to convert correctly between units.
Fun fact: getting something wet helps it melt at a lower temperature. That's why the volcanos in Oregon act differently than the volcanos in Hawaii. (Well, that and the effects of that)
I know where Matt got his idea about people laughing at Noah. It was from the Book of Cosby:
"And Noah saith 'How long can you tread water?'"
Where's all the human fossils ?
Yep. And all the elephants, horses, pigs, lions, etc etc etc. If all of the dinosaurs were killed in his flood there should be fossils of every other creature too. FFS.
Noah's generation was too evil to fossilize 😂
fun fact, there was very little standing water during the "2 million years of rain". it was raining consistantly due to rapid evaperation. while lakes were possible the seas were of a much smaller scale than they eventualy became. so any floods would be highly unlikely or at best very localised and not long in the making.
I still can't believe how often the man fucks up his own side's arguments, but still tries to tell us that we don't know what we believe.
That Wikipedia article for polystrate trees says the correct terms are “upright fossil trunks, upright fossil trees, or T0 assemblages”. I’ve also heard “upright fossils”.
To paraphrase from Planes, Trains, and automobiles: I could tolerate any insurance seminar. For days, I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a smile on my face... because I watched Matt Powell!'
So, the Ark floated above the flood, right?
And the flood waters covered all the mountains, right?
How did Noah and all the animals BREATHE?
The air gets mighty thin up there.
Brilliant! That’s a new one I hadn’t heard before. 😁
The mountains were shorter back then and got reshaped by the flood i guess
And there was only 1 window in the ark...
To be fair, the atmosphere was probably moved up as well since the water levels occupied that space. But yeah the atmosphere would still be thinner than normal because there's more space it needs to fill up...
@@stylesrj and regardless the whole thing filling with methane is the main issue there
39:13 As far as I remember this was a picture from Eric Hovind (might be wrong) from the Grand Canyon. But more importantly, the people in this picture are purposefully positioned to hide cracks in the stone
18:43
This one is straight out of Kent Hovids play book. Not only do all those things you say apply, but also half the time those "clams" are actually not clams. They're Brachiopods, which unlike bivalves remained closed upon death.
22:14 - "Someone writing, 'hey, someone's going to make fun of my idea in the future' isn't exactly groundbreaking..."
Of course it is! It's a very early instance of "inb4"! "Inb4 someone makes fun of my god beliefs..."
Whats funny about that dino graveyard map is that it is directly overlapping with an ancient seabed that covered what is now the great plains during the paleozoic and Mesozoic
😂 chicken ...doing a handstand😂 😂
It gets me every time😂
I just call him "Backpfeifen-Gesicht"
Nice Harrison shout out.
As far as I know, there isn't a Muslim or Jewish Creationist Institute. There are some individuals with wild claims, but they aren't well funded and didn't try to get their teachings into schools as an alternative theory to Evolution.
This may all exist in a country or language i don't know, but I haven't heard about them.
“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” Comes to mind here 😂
Man, Matt is going to be really upset when he finds out that Tyre & Jericho still exist, in contradiction to what the Bible says.
He'll be doubly upset when he finds out what the Bible says about adding words to it...
48:52 isn't mount everest more the 8km tall?
"cold rock" that is still something like 700 Celcius. What the scientists describing these slabs are doing is comparing it to the magma surrounding them, which makes them comparably cold.
Which is actually a problem for catastrophic plate tectonic ideas because the forces of the plates being shoved around and diving under others over the course of a year would have heated them up to well above the temperature of the magma in the mantle.
Mt St Helen caused thousands of trees to get washed into the lake. The ones that had soil around the roots became waterlogged and pivoted to a vertical orientation and eventually sank to the bottom like that. Sediment from the bark of floating trees and the volcanic ash washing off the crater would keep them vertical over decades until fossilised in that position
How can you tell when a creationist is lying? Their lips are moving.
There are two kinds of creationists: dishonest ones, and soon-to-be-ex ones.
It did likely rain for a few million years straight. Just... not while anything was alive. Early in Earth's formation, the planet was covered in hot steam. As it cooled, the steam condensed and would have started to fall as rain, where it'd hit hot rock, burst into steam again, rise back up, and condense once more. Pouring rain in buckets for a long, long time... and _still_ nowhere near as much rain per day as Noah's flood would have needed to do in 40 days.
The two million year rainstorm was in the late Triassic, 234 million to 232 million years ago, there were definitely living things then, including early dinosaurs and proto-mammals.
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I understand that was the claim being presented, but as VR said it likely wasn't literally constant rain the whole time, just a really, really wet period where it rained a lot. I was pointing out there was likely an _actual_ multi-million year storm where it literally _did_ rain over the entire Earth for millions of years straight without stopping, but it's not the time people like Matt are talking about.
Wait did he say the waters rose 15 cubits? That’s less than 30 feet how did that cover even a hill?
You should go on the line, I think it would be cool to see you and Shannon or Paul take on some theists live
Aahhh Matt's voice is so aggravating
I love Rhino's deep dive into into his silly points tho!
I just realized i don't know Rhino's irl first name. I hope it's not Matt because Rhino's voice isn't aggravating.
I was getting into a fight with a guy in a scishow comment thread that vaccines don't contain mercury anymore and even when it contained thermisol that it didn't behave as a heavy metal and asked him to define heavy metal to confirm he knew what he was talking about and he told me to define "woman" and that i can't define it even tho the thread was about vaccines and i never stated my stance on gender identity. And so when i refused as it unrelated to virology and chemistry... the convo died
"Smoke bomb!"
Noah's flood comes from an older Sumerian(?) story. Dr Josh Bowen has covered it at some stage.
Dr. Josh has covered it many times and in many places, including when I interviewed him on my channel years ago.
He's good people.
Heat problem mentioned!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Where you referring to the George Harrison cover song or the original composed by Rudy Clark and recorded by James Ray? "Got my mind set on You." Happy days. 🌸
45:59 If you actually watch the video Matt's pointing out here, it actually says explicitly in the video that it didn't actually rain *constantly*, the world was just sort of going through a two million year long wet season and had more rain than is typical.
Rhino, have you watched The Baroness Von Sketch Show? The way you say "Welcome to my channeeelllll." reminds my of the sketch about going to the cottaaaage. That's all. Love your videos. Keep up the good work. 👍
the one thing that he said is true.. he is simple
I once took an IQ test against a card carrying MENSA member and out scored him. I specifically did that to convince him that IQ scores are bullshit. It was a test heavy on the science questions which happened to not be his area of expertise.
I will always think of the great sunday school song, "Jesus loves the little children" when I hear Matt Powell speak at one of his emotive seminars!