Hello lovely people, I recorded this video a day after completing a 24 hour livestream so... I realise I am not at my most eloquent here :3 I hope you enjoy all the same! Speaking of livestreams, I'll be raising money all month over on Twitch for Mermaids, the UK charity supporting LGBTQ+ youth! They do fantastic work, consider popping by for a stream or just sending a little donation. If you donate over £35, you get a bundle of 86 games! Donate here: donate.tiltify.com/@emmalittleduck/streaming-for-mermaids
Emma, you totally didn't understand this video! All of that racism caused by evolution.. you see, if we didn't create the theory of evolution, racism would no longer exist *clearly*! /s
One thing you did miss was the dig at Haeckel specifically, accusing him of scientific fraud. That's not a fair accusation - and, even if it was, subsequent research (including MRI scans of embryos) has shown him to have been essentially right. For funsies, I'll also note that Charlie 'all-forehead, no brain' Kirk was caught out arguing that a dolphin embryo was 'fully human' by Ben Gleib not that long ago.
Did someone seriously remove my comment, and label it as so-called "hate speech"?! Bahahahahaha! What are you, a 5 year old?! Oh, how will you be able to stand on the day of judgement then for "supporting" the sins of lgbtq+, if you can't even handle the truth right now? If you can't handle the FACT that the lgbtq+ cult is rife with mental illnesses, and has a trail of destruction and death behind it, then you need to GROW UP, AND WAKE UP TO REALITY! Lgbtq+ people DON'T need "support" to affirm their mental illnesses, THEY NEED HELP, AND FREEDOM OUT OF THE CESSPIT OF lgbtq+, otherwise DEATH awaits them, just like all the other lgbtq+ people who have lost their lives! But it's clear the lgbtq+ cult doesn't remotely care, and simply wants everyone who joins their cult to DIE, so they can make money! The lgbtq+ cult is a cult of VILE HATRED, and it NEEDS TO BE BANNED before more lives are lost! You're not helping anyone by "supporting" them in their fantasies, and perversions! YOU'RE SUPPORTING THEM TO THE GRAVE! One day you'll have to give an account of your life, and every sin you've ever committed. Deleting my comments and childishly marking them as so-called "hate speech" like a 5 year old, doesn't change the FACT that lgbtq+ IS WRONG! Don't like the truth? WELL TOUGH! There is a way out however; Repent, and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be set free from the bondage of sin and lgbtq+.
I’m horrified…that they are creating a new generation of people whose poor education and inability to think critically will undermine our country on several levels.
@@egy7386 PART 1: It isn’t a problem for the west. It is a united statian problem. The USA is a fear based society. They fear the illuminati, the Rotchild family, the freemasons. Some of this fear has been developed in the 18xx. Some of it is from the 19xx. There is the JFK issue, there is the african american issue where some people don’t like them and some people see everyone as equal. Some of the united statians are very afraid of african americans bc they are proportionally more involved in crimes. ...to be continued
@@egy7386 PART 2: The communist thing produced a generation of united statians that are very afraid that their churches would be closed and everyone would be harmed, and nuclear weapons, so they started to print in God We Trust on their money so that their god would love them more and would protect them from nuclear bombs. Also, the united statians did a lot of harm to the native population and were slow to treat them as human beings. Even now, some members of the republicans would like to remove them from a certain location bc there is a lot of copper ore on their lands. ...to be continued
@@egy7386 PART 3: Even now, they see that the USA is being threatened by terrorists, by China, by North Korea, by Russia. Nearly 50% of them regard Donald as being sent by Jesus to make their country great again. Why is it that Canada doesn’t have these problems? Churches are slowly getting closed. A politician that wants to take away certain rights from native americans has been sort of kicked out. A couple of nurses in Quebec have been fired over racist remarks towards native americans. Look at the entire COVID thing. In the USA, a large portion of the population was saying that the government is taking away their freedoms. In Canada, it was some church in Alberta that was doing the same. We view Alberta as the Texas of Canada.
calvin: "racism bad, making fun of lady with lots of hair bed, using lady with lots of hair for personal gain bad." also calvin: "im going to use this lady with lots of hair for personal gain to say evolution is wrong and science is bad"
RACISM The 2 DAUGHTERS GET THEIR father drunk and f him What is this j author trying to tell us? What are the j people trying to tell us? Genesis 19:30 KING JAMES VERSION And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. {19:31} And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: {19:32} Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. {19:33} And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {19:34} And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. {19:35} And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {19:36} Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. {19:37} And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. {19:38} And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. ^^^^^The above story tells us that the first daughter gets her father drunk and then f him. Exactly, how does a drunk man get an pop the wheely and expel the juice and not know what happened? So, the 2 ladies get pregnant and have male children. One is called Moab, which starts up the Moabite tribe. The other kid is Benammi and he starts up the Ammon tribe. Both the Moabite tribe and Ammon tribe are hated by the j people. This is their way of saying that their grandmothers have no morals and by extension, they don't as well. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day
One time I was in an online discussion with a creationist who was blaming "Darwinism" for the Holocaust. I pointed out that scientists will happily explain that evolution is merely a description of what we see in nature, not a PREscription for how we should treat other people, whereas Nazis tried to use "survival of the fittest," and specifically extinctions, as a justification for genocide. Given that extinctions are, in fact, real, I asked him why he was agreeing with the Nazis who said genocide was scientific instead of agreeing with scientists who say genocide is wrong. 🤯
I don’t see eugenics (the actual root cause of the holocaust) as a legitimate part of evolution, it involves too much choice and, crucially, prejudice. If anything it’s closer to selective breeding. Organisms still change over time but it’s within artificial constructs, rather than responding to selection pressures which can be random and unpredictable/spontaneous. Also the consequence of being “unfit” isn’t necessarily death and/or failure to pass genes on in this scenario, although knowing the nazis it probably would have been.
I like how he glances over the fact that many of these racist and questionable scientists from the 19th century he talks about were for the big part god beleivers. He really downplays how strong the beleif of god was still entrenched at that time, and how it inspired some of these theories.
I wonder if you can find him using famous old scientists being Christian a sign of how Christianity meshes well with science? I know there are young Earth creationists who have tried that, though it's possible those people were unrelated to AiG. I wonder if any of those scientists were open bigots?
In fact, here's a fun quote related to the Supreme Court Case Loving V. Virginia: "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
Same (until grade 11). On the plus side, my parents spent way more time training me to be a creationist and way less time making me a homophobe. I'm still struggling with creationism today, but it only took a few years for me to realize that my parent's beliefs on the LGBTQ+ were wrong. I don't like that my science education got fucked up, but at least I didn't need it for my field.
A side note while “freak shows” exploited the performers, they where also a refuge for them from the bigotry of the society in general. In community with other “freaks” they could at least temporarily escape from the cruelty of the majority population. This is not an excuse for the cruelty and exploitation.
"Ugly laws" against anyone genetically different or disabled or scarred being seen in public were common and accepted. Thank goodness for the Americans With Disabilities Act. It's said children are cruel, but *people* are cruel and children just say publicly what they hear privately.
It's really wild when Christians can talk about how cruel this dehumanization was, and then also believe that same person is burning in a literal lake of fire for eternity for never being "saved". Dehumanizing is only bad when non Christians do it, I guess.
And some of them even take pleasure in the idea of others suffering this way,or take pleasure in telling you exactly how you're going to suffer for refusing to believe their BS.
@ShintogaDeathAngel a good point sir. When I was working in a hospital there was this RN who was a born again and she loved talking about Jesus, Heaven and Hell. But out of the three, it seemed Hell was her favorite subject. And the many other people who were going to end up there. As in 80% of her patients, 65% of her coworkers and 95% of the doctors she worked with. What was comical (and disturbing) when she described how horrible the torments of hell would be for those on the naughty list. As she talked about hell, her eyes would be looking far away as if she was there. Then her saliva would start coming out in the form of spit and drool dripping out of the corners of her mouth. It was a sight to behold. She was very passionate when it came to hell. And what was most disturbing was at times you could see smiles coming and going. As if she was watching all those people who had done her wrong and those who had made fun of her and her beliefs burning in an eternal fire. Yeah, there were times she would creep me out.
Bro really said "If everyone just saw you as a sin tainted curse that God hates you would have been treated better." Gotta say I have doubts about that one.
Just look how well people were treated during the dark ages and the "discovery" of the Americas. Nothing evolutionist about it. Just pure Christian values as portrayed in the Bible.
Putting the Fun into Fundamentalist... and it would be laughable if they didn't have so many believers willing to believe whatever they tell them no matter what the evidence or actual facts or in their case, the lack thereof.
Please don't be too judgmental toward all of the scared, ignorant believers being led astray by these wolves in sheep's clothing. I was brainwashed by my parents into believing this Intelligent Design nonsense (because my parents had been brainwashed into believing it by their parents), and it really is a miserable way to live your life. Being paranoid of "secular" science cuts people off from reality. It prevented me from being able to think logically for decades, from all the cognitive dissonance. Some people can't shrug off the programming easily, even as adults. It sucks, but we "woke" folks have got to take the high road and not heap further abuse on people who are already being emotionally and intellectually manipulated, and probably have a lot of religious trauma that they aren't even able to acknowledge, let alone work on.
Andrew Barton . The mainstream science geological and biological timeline is accurate. The creationist versions of geology , biology and other sciences, is inaccurate to the point of the creationist versions being stupid
For all of you interested and appalled by Julia's story, Ask A Mortician made a really well made video about her. Speaking of how she was abused in both life and death, until finally being able to be put tp rest in our native Mexico not that long ago. Give it a watch!
You are spot on about this. As society abandons its bronze age ideas, we become kinder towards each other. Racism and freak shows has far more in common with religious fundamentalism than rationalism and scientific inquiry.
Also, awkward fact: The freak-show as an enterprise was unseemly and in many ways grotesque, both for how it handled individuals and how the public took it in... but also complicated since in many cases it provided an avenue for wealth and for some few even independence in an era without alternate means of social protections, income, or self-sufficiency for people with several misunderstood conditions.
Exactly, commented this on another thread - since many were isolated from their home communities the freak shows offered a means to make income, even if exploited, and some made it big. life is messy and complicated.
I at times have felt sorry for the "Creationists." They fall into that category of people who, as I say, need "Simple child like answers to complex issues because they do not understand the issues or are too scared to every try to understand them."
this, absolutely. They today are the offspring of the reaction against Darwin. Pre Darwin there was no debate and in fact many key theologians in church history explicitly did not assume early genesis to be literal. However since those who began to insist on 6 day literal creation in response to Darwin needed to give a different version to natural selection, they became more and more entrenched in the idea that only a literal reading of the Bible can be true. They then effectively painted themselves into a corner by making the literal creation story a litmus test of whether the Bible is true or not. Thus their belief in Jesus as described in the Bible depends on believing all parts of the Bible are literal. Which works against them because any other view of Genesis means rejecting the whole of the faith. Yet critical thinking has to lead to rejecting the literal creation in favour of a poetic tale to explain the world and its flaws. Thus those brought up in this extreme literalist are likely to walk from faith as their walk from literalism. This makes the literalists more desperate and so willing to fund AIG and The Ark Encounter etc, even as they try to hold onto their own literalism by putting fingers in ears and lalala...
Definitely an accurate description of creationists. They're so ignorant, indoctrinated and poorly educated that they don't even realize that most theologians throughout history were not biblical literalists and argued against teaching the old testament as history instead of focusing on the moral lessons of the various stories. Biblical inerrantism was debunked by Christian archeologists and geologists by the end of the 18th century.
I once saw a comic showing various people is different environments each with a slogan, e.g. "I am a marine biologist because the sea calls to me", "I am an astronomer because the sky calls to me", and "I am a geologist because the Earth calls to me", etc. The last one is "I am a Young Earth Creationist because science confuses and frightens me".
It's moreso fear. The belief is that if God didn't create the world as laid out in Genesis, the whole Bible falls apart and Christianity is invalidated. And this is not hyperbole. This is _exactly_ what I've heard from my parents and the pastor at at least one church we went to. Literalism is a hell of a drug.
How Pastrama and her son were treated as well as seeing how the other people in the freak shows were treated was the only horrific in the AiG video. As for Calvin arguments I didn't find them convincing in any way as a rebuttal of the theory of evolution but it did work as a reminder of how atrocious attitudes towards minorities were in the 1800's. Thanks for another informative video Emma.
John Irving Bloom more commonly known by his stage name Joe Bob Briggs who was a working journalist for sometime before becoming a film critic once talked about meeting those who worked in the freak show who had largely been force to retire after so many laws were passed killing the freak show. It was Interesting to hear the negative how those working the shows at least in the last years had vary different view than those trying to shut them down.
@@stephennootens916 Sadly, as those 'freaks' would struggle in the dominant culture for their differences, the freak shows could be their place to make a living. Yes many would be exploited, but also those shows gave people a place as those who may be outcast from their home communities. Like much of life - its complicated.
@@helenr4300 it's almost like the 1800s was a bad time to be alive. Infant and maternal mortality? Massive social issues causing discrimination? Sign me up for the latest birthday you can get me.
The Darwin quote is actually really interesting here. 15:50 The indelicate phrase "gorilla-like" aside, the idea that this woman's appearance is indicative of humanities vast genetic variation is actually very true. He doesn't say, at least in this quote, that she is some sub-human thing. He just says, rightly, that genetic mutation and variation is fascinating, and you can imagine how this unusual phenotype could be incredibly beneficial in the right environment, and then be passed down to future generations.
How shocked would you be if I told you that the quote doesn’t exist and this creationist made it up? I went to Calvin’s article on the topic published on Aig’s website and looked up the source, and then went straight to the source. What Darwin said about Pastrana is the following: “Here is another and somewhat different case communicated to me by Mr. Wallace on the authority of Dr. Purland, a dentist : Julia Pastrana, a Spanish dancer, was a remarkably fine woman, but she had a thick masculine beard and a hairy forehead ; she was photographed, and her stuffed skin was exhibited as a show ; but what concerns us is, that she had in both the upper and lower jaw an irregular double set of teeth, one row being placed within the other, of which Dr. Purland took a cast. From the redundancy of teeth her mouth projected, and her face had a gorilla-like appearance. These cases and those of the hairless dogs forcibly call to mind the fact, that the two orders of mammals - namely, the Edentata and Cetacea- which are the most abnormal in their dermal covering, are likewise the most abnormal either by deficiency or redundancy of teeth”.
At first I was afraid, I was horrified Kept thinkin' I could never live without Jesus by my side But then I spent so many nights thinkin' how did we evolve And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along [Verse 1] And so you're back, from outer space I just walked in to find you here with that stupid look upon your face I should have changed that stupid Bible should have send you back to school If I'd have known for just one second you'd be back to bother me [Pre-Chorus] Go on now, go, walk out the door Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with your church? Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? [Chorus] Oh no, not I, I will evolve Oh, as long as I know how to read, I know I'll stay awake I've got all my life to live, and I've got all my brain to give And I'll evolve, I will evolve, hey hey
I always thought that things like being born with a tail or excess body hair were just left-over gene mutations from an earlier time. Gene ABCC9 is associated with CS and hypertrichosis and the tail gene is Wnt-3a. (Just googled it, I’m not a geneticist) Both are extremely rare but can happen. I said something along those lines in an ultra Christian Creationist household, about having the left-overs in our DNA show that we have evolved. It did not go over well. 😅. Of course, the freak show and racist part of this is still horrible…but if anything…to me at least….the fact that those genes are still there show that we used to be more animal like.
A more likely explanation for the furry guy in the Bible: it was used to represent his role as the "wild man" in a pairing of a wild man with a civilized man. People back then lived in a world where only small areas were farmed and had towns/cities, and outside those areas was a "wild" world still full of nomads & hunter-gatherers. It's a juxtaposition that was on everybody's minds because they could see it any time they looked across the border between the two... especially for a people who were themselves in or close to the transition from the latter to the former. The Bible has other tales bringing up this duality and the question of which way is better, including also Cain & Abel, along with Eden & the world outside Eden, and the post-Exodus "wilderness wandering" phase compared to settling down in the towns of the promised land. And comparable juxtapositions in other tales outside the Bible also not only exist but also sometimes emphasize the wildness of the "wild man" of the pair by giving him animal traits. In the story of Gilgamesh & Enkidu, for example, Gilgamesh was the king of a huge city, and Enkidu was from the untamed lands somewhere outside the city and had fur, hooves, pointy animal ears, and horns. Jacob & Esau were just the latest version of the trope.
Whilst Darwin did say this woman was gorilla-like in appearance due to her jaws, he never used the word genetic as that word wasn't coined until about 20 years after his death. However, he would be correct in his assumption that she was the victim of the variations that natural selection has to work with.
"combative isn't the word i'm looking for..." me: competitive. Emma: '"competitive is the word i'm looking for." there is only one explanation: my thoughts traveled back in time and reached Emma.
Well I guess you are a Godless and Souless young western person (who also does not not where is morals come from) and think he will be nothing once death.... Right? Prove me wrong about that. But I tell you once yoy get older and closer to the death you will not just understand how the religion is important but also his value... Because you can not explain why something is right or wrong because, for you is subjective, and again where you morals are from. Is it that right, western godless person (who does not know the name of his or her God and what he command to you)??? Please answer with an answer and not with questions. Thanks 😊
Agreed. Only through purposefully applied deception can they promote a Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent God of 'TRUTH. XDXDXD It says something about their beliefs and their God of Truth that literal dishonesty and misinformation, is the foundations for both the apologetics and their foundation for believing in it. XDXDXD
@@guytheincognito4186 That is the opposite... Basically what they told you God is all and is his your Father (like it or not) and not matter you deny him, you will end (in the afterlife) to join him. Why? Father and sons are made of the same substances and shall reunited. But western godless and Souless people do not get that. Who knows why 🤷
@@Mar-dk3mp Efit. Typo. Whether I like something or not, is entirely out of the picture. You claiming its all 'Opposite, IS just what you "Like" it to be. Whether you like that Fact or not. Out of the two of us, only your beliefs and convictions follow 'I like it, therefore it is so, method of conclusion. 🤷♂️
It's funny that he used that Darwin quote because Darwin probably got some stuff wrong, but that quote is true. That lady is an example of genetic diversity! That's true!! Darwin didn't say anything about her actually being an ape hybrid or whatever in that quote.
According to some replies made elsewhere in the comments that's not even a real quote. There's no source supplied and the exact wording can't be found anywhere reliable, though he did write about her but what he said was quite different, being more concerned with an apparent abnormality with her teeth. I can't copy text from UA-cam comments on my phone I'm afraid, and I'm supposed to be working right now, but if you have a look through the replies to some other comments you should find it.
Good morning Emma, from Los Angeles. Love this video. I have a friend who is a strong Fundie. Her son was at University studying Veterinarian medicine. When she found out her son had to take GE in order to get a degree. GE includes many courses such a logic, and other critical thinking. She pulled her son out of University and sent him to a Christian Veterinarian College. When, I was in the seventh grade at a Christian school, my seventh grade teacher held up a newspaper showing a photo claiming a great Dinosaurs Discovery had been made in Montana. My teacher said this was nonsense." The Earth is only 6,000 years old, the Solar System 8,000 years old. Dinosaurs never existed. This bone which were discovered are nothing more than cattle bones welded together!" When I got home that night, I called the LA Brea Tarpits museum. When I finished telling scientist what my teacher had said, he replied " Bones cannot be welded together!" The scientist in-between fits of laughter. I became almost instantly an Evolutionist. One Sunday at church back in 2010 I got in a debate with this lady who was a believer in an young Universe. She said "Darwin worshipped the Devil!" I told here's a matter of fact Darwin considered himself a Christian, and had hope his findings would futher peoples beliefs in God." This debate was useless. I told my sister on the way home the next dog we get I am naming Darwin. On News Year's eve 2010, a renter of ours couldn't keep her 1.5 year old blond male Cocker Spaniel. I as promised named him Darwin. I unfortunately lost Darwin to death in January of this year. He was 12 years old. Please check my Facebook page for photos of Darwin, and the surviving dog Herschel. I always learn from your videos. Love your hair. Have a wonderful weekend.
@@RichWoods23 , yes he was. My sister named him when we got him from the shelter at four months. His full name is Herschel Andromeda Warman. We already had a Cocker Spaniel named Darwin Bon Jovi Warman. I named the Cocker.
Thank goodness you could see through that teacher’s ignorance at age 12. Wish the whole CLASS did. I’m sorry for your loss of Darwin. Absolutely amazing choices of names for your pets/members of family. 😊
What cracks me up about this guy Calvin is that he seems to think the science of evolution hasn't changed since the 19th Century. In actual science, the idea of a "missing link" went out the door before Calvin was even born, yet he still sells it as if it were the cutting edge of research.
Emma and anyone else who's interested in this topic, you may enjoy the most recent series of episodes of the podcast, Oh No! Ross and Carrie. They're doing a deep dive on a home schooling conference that took place at the Ark Encounter.
If you'd like to hear more of Julia's story, Ask A Mortician has a fantastic video about her and the horrific way she was treated not only in life but also in death. This story is so much worse than you think.
My favorite thing about Answers in Genesis is when you go to the Ark Exhibit they basically recreate their own theory of evolution. The 'logic' goes: the Ark isn't big enough to fit two of each of all the animals that are alive right, so they make up a bunch of progenitor species. Like they have some "Original Canine species" and then when it got off the ark it adapted to all the different types of canines in the world... you know adaptation through environmental pressures also known as Evolution. Except where scientists say it is a slow process that happens over millions of years Answers in Genesis basically goes Hyper Evolution and says that in a couple hundred to 1,000 years things can become diverse species.
Some species can change pretty quickly, but it tends to apply more to small, shorter lived species which reproduce frequently/larger numbers of offspring at a time. Mammals would generally be slower to respond, if they were to survive.
One thing that they never say bout Haeckel is that when he began a campaign to introduce the teaching of evolution in German schools, the churches who at that time controlled the schools reacted by halting the teaching of biology altogether in German high schools from 1882 onward for several years. If that had persisted, think of the economic and intellectual damage that would have done.
The answer to anyone who says 'evolution is racist' is to say 'No, evolution isn't racist, racists falsely use their mistaken understanding of it to justify their beliefs.'
Yes, in a similar way to how racist use a twisted interpretation of the Bible to justify their beliefs, yet Calvin would not see that as proof that Christianity is racist.
I've seen other videos about her and have been in tears watching them. The thing that has upset me the most from your wonderful video is that even after finally having a funeral and being buried properly she is still being USED by this religious man to attempt to discredit evolution. This man is just as bad as her husband who just used her, or even worse than him because now we know better and should not mention her without stating that she simply had a medical condition. If I was religious all I would say is that those men who used her are hopefully rotting in a special place in Hell, their corpses being displayed in glass cases.
I actually kind of like the quote about Pastrama's condition by Darwin. I read it as something like... "Her condition shows that genetics do all kinds of crazy and there's a lot of potential in our DNA" Also, unrelated, but Emma whatever you did with your makeup/lighting in this one is really working for you, it's a good color balance.
AIG; "Pastrana's story of exploitation is indeed a sad one". Yes indeed it seems that well after she has died there are those that are still attempting to exploit her.
A like and a comment for the algorithm, but there's only so much of these idiots blathering I can handle, even with the expert commentary. I salute you for your service.
Yeah julia was taxadermied. And displayed standing next to her 5 day old son in some museum for a long time. She recently was finally given a burial in her native country and town.
I’ll never understand people who see the universe and how beautiful, miraculous and full of mystery it is and say “NO!” Bible literalists are shiteralists.
I'm seriously awed by people with so much intelligence who can bear to sit through so much moronic gumph. It's important, because it provides a counter perspective for people out there questioning what they believe and whether AiG is worth listening to, but at the same time... chocolate, wine, Netflix... there's so many other things to do in a day 😄 Thank you for making the time and conscientious effort when so many of us feel the same way but are already in our PJs.
One of the problems with the story of Jacob and Esau is that if this is the reason for the hair situation, it would contradict something we've heard from many creationists who posit that mutations are a sign of corruption of our original code product of our separation from God. Basically, he's suggesting that the degradation of human kind began before Noah's time. This contradicts the notion for example that men used to live much longer because they were better (closer to god's image and perfection).
Fun fact: The oldest person in the Bible was Methuselah ( Noshs grandfather) was 970yo . The reason why people lived such long lives was to populate the world.
What a lovely lady, Tracy you are. Clear diction, clear skin, clear mind, and a refreshing lack of poor grammar. I shall subscribe after posting this. Well done!
Ernst Haeckel's embryo drawings weren't forged per se, but more idealistic and left out what seemed unimportant to Haeckel (and what he perhaps didn't understand). But he was a prominent atheist, so he must be a bad, bad forger ;) As a kid I loved his "Kunstformen der Natur", my parents had some prints from that work. So beautiful!
Tired from a 24hr livestream or not, Emma's arguments and refutations against fundamentalist anti-evolutionist assertions are both insightful and very impressive. This was an excellent and thought-provoking episode.
“Racism and ableism and capitalist exploitation exist - therefore definitively proving that an all-powerful benevolent being created the entire universe wholecloth in 6 days a few thousand years ago exclusively for the benefit of man” This guy’s argument is IMPECCABLE.
It disgusts me in ways I can’t articulate when people (for lack of a better word) like that use these emotionally manipulative tactics to try and convince people that evolution-acceptance somehow inherently leads to immorality. They aren’t even trying to disprove it, they’re just trying to make people associate evolution with bigotry. I’m not sure if they know what they’re doing or if they genuinely believe that if they prove evolution-acceptance leads to bigotry that that somehow proves it wrong because they have no conception of logical thought
17:55 As far as I can tell, that part where AiG mentions the examples of exhibits in freak-shows that _aren't_ anything you can even tangentially tie to evolution, they undercut their own argument, since their point is that "Evolution makes you dehumanize people because they're just animals", which is stupid anyway, but bringing up that people _kept_ doing it, and did it then and later to people who had things like immense size and other unusual features or whatever else that were NOT at all connected to the theory of evolution destroys that argument, because it then opens up the alternative that "evolutionary thought was not immune to being influenced by bad people who saw anyone who was 'different' as less than human", rather than what they seem to be trying to say, which is "the belief in evolution specifically causes this". Like, their point only works if evolution _alone_ led to things like this, because having other examples that don't fit that narrative suggests automatically that something _else_ was causing that way of thinking, not evolution itself. Also, trying to argue that "thinking other people evolved from animals leads to dehumanization" has a gaping flaw in it...because we could just, I don't know, NOT abuse or treat animals horribly or as just tools in the first place. Not that I'm making one of those bullshit "Animals are just like humans and we shouldn't eat meat or do testing" or anything like that, but nowadays many people see (at least some, depending on the person) animals and empathize and try to understand them, I know I do at least, and we try to treat them better no matter what their circumstances, though of course there is a LOT of nuance that I'm leaving aside here, but the point is "Animal" does not, nor have to, mean "This _thing_ can be treated horribly because it is an animal" so the proper response to that idea AiG would be proposing could just as easily be "We should care about humans _and_ other animals, and treat them _all_ better" not "Don't believe evolution or that humans are animals". Like, to simplify, IF seeing humans as animals meant people would treat them badly, we could just, not treat _any_ animals badly (within reason) and not think "Only humans deserve respect and proper treatment" instead of just "Humans are NOT animals and I won't believe anything, even science, that says that they are". Of course, that goes against the Biblical idea that humans _are_ superior to other animals, because God made them that way and all that, but yet again, when you dig a bit, these arguments from apologists only work at all if accept at least some parts of their own worldview as true, when if you don't, it all doesn't make _any_ sense whatsoever, because the conclusion doesn't follow from the argument after you remove the base assumptions.
Hi Emma. You are super smart. You have created a channel by yourself that has the quality of a broadcast involving a whole team of technicians and writers. Your discourse is sharp and easy to listen to. You are a natural broadcaster.
Ask A Mortician here on UA-cam has a really wonderful video about Julia Pastrana! Julia was an absolutely amazing woman and her story is very much worth a watch!
The biggest problem with "answers in genesis" is that no religious cultist has yet to prove the bible as an authentic representation of historical events. You cant use the bible to prove anything until you can prove the bible.
So maybe I wasn’t paying attention and maybe it was just your accent. I thought you called them “Asses in Genesis.” And that might just be the most accurate of what they really are. Edit: how many of the people who exploited her and indeed most of these “freaks” were Christian. How many of those scientists were Christian.
Most of the literalists up where I am rightfully call that nonbiblical horseshit what it is. _Unfortunately_ , that means my family is comfortable being creationists rather than being scared off by the more overt racism.
One thing that infuriates me about apologetics, is that they will point at "fallibility of science" to claim science is not thrust worthy. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT: SCIENCE IS NOT SACRED IT CAN BE WRONG. The whole point of the scientific method is that if we can correct mistakes.
I really think the term 'charity' should be restricted to humanitarian aid. I also think religious organizations should only be allowed to take in funds tax free in the case of funds used for charity by that definition and should be required to prove where the funds are going like any actual charity needs to.
I'm no expert about this or anything but that argument about water not being wet always seemed weird to me because it can both be wet and make other things wet at the same time right? I mean, it's a bit like saying that fire itself isn't hot and that it just makes other things hot, why can't it be both? Again, I have no extensive knowledge of these types of things at all and I'm no expert, I just think it's a stupid argument as I said and I'm wondering if there's a better explanation as to how water isn't wet or if it actually is wet lmao
Homo Sapiens has no sense able to feel "wet" as a sensation. Mostly we feel that water is cold (or colder) than our skin. That's what people are actually feeling when they describe something as feeling "wet".
@@robfortune6Informally, sure, but "wetness" is a property of the interaction between surfaces if you are talking as a chemist. If you aren't talking about surface chemistry, nobody will cry if you claim that water is wet. If you *are* talking chemistry you are on more precise grounds if you say water is a wetting agent.
There is the movie "Freaks" from 1932 that plays in this community of carnival and circus sideshows. Very disturbing for today, at that time that was still "state of the art". On the other hand, as horrible as this public display for shock is, on the other hand it was one of the only possiblities for these people to have an outcome on their own and even get a kind of societal status. Without that, they would have ended in some homes, as no one would have wanted to look at them, not knowing how to treat them.
All these examples Calvin has chosen are cherrypicked to vilify evolutionists. That are not so much backwards development, these are people where something in genetics and fetal development has gone severely wrong. Good, our ape-like ancestors had more hair, but there are also lots of other examples that P.T. Barnum showed around. And it was NOT evolutionists that paid for the entry fee, it was CHRISTIANS.
It is hilarious when this guy claims (WRONGLY) that evolutionists are exploiting such people and pretends they christians are SOOOOO tolerant to them. Let us see a few deformations christians find intolerable: - people with another confession (e.g. muslims) - christians that think science knows more about nature than the Bible - the original residents of the United States and South America - imported dark-skinned people from Africa - people that see no persuasive evidence for supernatural, invisible beings - people that have a deviating opinion about the relation of how much specific (fe)male behaviour they want to live their own life with, resp. do not constrict their love to what christian norms dictate. So people are outcast where you can hardly see that they are different. And I heard preachers say explicitly on video that all gays should be killed. And Ted Cruz, whom he called up on stage, did not say a word.
I am much too old for you, but oh my gosh, you are so amazing. I love your enthusiasm, I love your dedication, I love your look, and mostly your accent! Just keep it up and never change!
Emma you have produced another absolute cracker of a video.. The spice and sarcasm is awesome and the guy in the video is absolutely insane … As a Christian myself I do have questions about the Bible and I’m often slammed by the fundamentalist movement!!! So thank you Emma for putting this clown in his place !!! Btw Love the top it’s fab
I am pretty sure AIG know that they are lying. I don't think he is insane. I think he is a liar and a fraud. Not sure if it's lying for Jesus or just for the money.
I've experienced that myself. But here's the truth , some people have gone to seminary and have spent the rest of their lives studying the Bible and are unable to answer such questions. The Bible never defined a day as a 24 hour period but does describe that time for God and man are different.
I went to the books to check AiG references I find: 1. The Darwin one clearly made up as Darwin don't use anything close to those words (PS AiG forgot to include which volume it is, Vol 2) 2. The image in The Living Races of Mankind the picture on page IV not II. 3. The Richard Milner quote I have no idea how to check. 4. The rest also seem to be made up since I can't find them but since AiG refencing is bad I have no idea if I am looking in the right book.
Congratulations AiG, you've discovered what a fallacy is. Good job. Keep it up, maybe one day, you might actually figure out how to keep from using one in your arguments.
[AIG's wheel of excuses] Spin...tick...tick...tick Evolution is the process by which different kinds of living organisms developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. AIG: Y'know I only put [the truth] on there as a show of good faith...
Nice work, Emma. Love your energy. A small piece of advice to make your presentation even better: Look into the camera lens, not slightly to the right of it. Eye contact is important.
The crazy thing is that if you asked Calvin "why don't scientists today believe this woman was a missing link as scientists (supposedly) believed in the 1800s?" then Calvin would have to admit it's not because of god, or the Bible, or creationism, or any of the ways that he thinks are the best ways to arrive at truth but rather through scientific method and the theory of evolution! His whole example contradicts his worldview.
Gosh he means people of the past cherry-picked sources that justified their existing beliefs and promoted them whilst ignored contradictory evidence? I'm so glad nobody does that anymore
Awesome! I just covered this one on Saturday. I dove right into the 'quote mines' they are absolutely misrepresentative of what the naturalist said about this case.
Hello lovely people, I recorded this video a day after completing a 24 hour livestream so... I realise I am not at my most eloquent here :3 I hope you enjoy all the same!
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You did fine
As for the wheel thing I think it's to preemptively attack arguments that genetics showcase evolution.
Emma, you totally didn't understand this video! All of that racism caused by evolution.. you see, if we didn't create the theory of evolution, racism would no longer exist *clearly*! /s
One thing you did miss was the dig at Haeckel specifically, accusing him of scientific fraud. That's not a fair accusation - and, even if it was, subsequent research (including MRI scans of embryos) has shown him to have been essentially right.
For funsies, I'll also note that Charlie 'all-forehead, no brain' Kirk was caught out arguing that a dolphin embryo was 'fully human' by Ben Gleib not that long ago.
You're becoming a Thorne in the flesh of AIG. 😁
Did someone seriously remove my comment, and label it as so-called "hate speech"?! Bahahahahaha! What are you, a 5 year old?!
Oh, how will you be able to stand on the day of judgement then for "supporting" the sins of lgbtq+, if you can't even handle the truth right now?
If you can't handle the FACT that the lgbtq+ cult is rife with mental illnesses, and has a trail of destruction and death behind it, then you need to GROW UP, AND WAKE UP TO REALITY!
Lgbtq+ people DON'T need "support" to affirm their mental illnesses, THEY NEED HELP, AND FREEDOM OUT OF THE CESSPIT OF lgbtq+, otherwise DEATH awaits them, just like all the other lgbtq+ people who have lost their lives!
But it's clear the lgbtq+ cult doesn't remotely care, and simply wants everyone who joins their cult to DIE, so they can make money!
The lgbtq+ cult is a cult of VILE HATRED, and it NEEDS TO BE BANNED before more lives are lost!
You're not helping anyone by "supporting" them in their fantasies, and perversions! YOU'RE SUPPORTING THEM TO THE GRAVE!
One day you'll have to give an account of your life, and every sin you've ever committed.
Deleting my comments and childishly marking them as so-called "hate speech" like a 5 year old, doesn't change the FACT that lgbtq+ IS WRONG!
Don't like the truth? WELL TOUGH!
There is a way out however; Repent, and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be set free from the bondage of sin and lgbtq+.
As an "evolutionist", I was horrified. I was horrified that people take Answers in Genesis seriously. Please continue to expose these liars.
Liars for money.
If there's one thing the last several years have taught me... it's that people taking BS seriously is the new normal.
I was literally about to say that exact first sentence.
But, but you mean religious folks aren't morally pristine folks, they lie?
I am just something thinking the what about the yes.
I’m horrified…that they are creating a new generation of people whose poor education and inability to think critically will undermine our country on several levels.
fortunately most of the people who listen to them arent young, its directed to old people to indocrinate young, but most know its not adding up
@@egy7386 PART 1:
It isn’t a problem for the west. It is a united statian problem. The USA is a fear based society. They fear the illuminati, the Rotchild family, the freemasons. Some of this fear has been developed in the 18xx. Some of it is from the 19xx. There is the JFK issue, there is the african american issue where some people don’t like them and some people see everyone as equal.
Some of the united statians are very afraid of african americans bc they are proportionally more involved in crimes.
...to be continued
@@egy7386 PART 2:
The communist thing produced a generation of united statians that are very afraid that their churches would be closed and everyone would be harmed, and nuclear weapons, so they started to print in God We Trust on their money so that their god would love them more and would protect them from nuclear bombs. Also, the united statians did a lot of harm to the native population and were slow to treat them as human beings. Even now, some members of the republicans would like to remove them from a certain location bc there is a lot of copper ore on their lands.
...to be continued
@@egy7386 PART 3:
Even now, they see that the USA is being threatened by terrorists, by China, by North Korea, by Russia.
Nearly 50% of them regard Donald as being sent by Jesus to make their country great again.
Why is it that Canada doesn’t have these problems? Churches are slowly getting closed. A politician that wants to take away certain rights from native americans has been sort of kicked out.
A couple of nurses in Quebec have been fired over racist remarks towards native americans.
Look at the entire COVID thing. In the USA, a large portion of the population was saying that the government is taking away their freedoms.
In Canada, it was some church in Alberta that was doing the same. We view Alberta as the Texas of Canada.
@@egy7386 Ok, apparently, we aren't allowed to talk about certain things. So, youtube just hides my comments.
calvin: "racism bad, making fun of lady with lots of hair bed, using lady with lots of hair for personal gain bad."
also calvin: "im going to use this lady with lots of hair for personal gain to say evolution is wrong and science is bad"
or; neither of the two statements has any consideration with the woman at all, just a tool to be used and be thrown away.
@@kamion53 or Christians are monsters that will use people with medical conditions to try to force a narrative.
Like how you just used "...this lady with lots of hair for personal gain to say the Bible is wrong and young earth creation and Calvin Smith is bad"
RACISM
The 2 DAUGHTERS GET THEIR father drunk and f him
What is this j author trying to tell us?
What are the j people trying to tell us?
Genesis 19:30 KING JAMES VERSION
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. {19:31} And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: {19:32} Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. {19:33} And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {19:34} And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. {19:35} And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {19:36} Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. {19:37} And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. {19:38} And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
^^^^^The above story tells us that the first daughter gets her father drunk and then f him. Exactly, how does a drunk man get an pop the wheely and expel the juice and not know what happened?
So, the 2 ladies get pregnant and have male children. One is called Moab, which starts up the Moabite tribe. The other kid is Benammi and he starts up the Ammon tribe. Both the Moabite tribe and Ammon tribe are hated by the j people. This is their way of saying that their grandmothers have no morals and by extension, they don't as well.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day
@@louistournas120 Elephant hurling fallacy, none of that has any relevance to "race".
One time I was in an online discussion with a creationist who was blaming "Darwinism" for the Holocaust. I pointed out that scientists will happily explain that evolution is merely a description of what we see in nature, not a PREscription for how we should treat other people, whereas Nazis tried to use "survival of the fittest," and specifically extinctions, as a justification for genocide. Given that extinctions are, in fact, real, I asked him why he was agreeing with the Nazis who said genocide was scientific instead of agreeing with scientists who say genocide is wrong. 🤯
I don’t see eugenics (the actual root cause of the holocaust) as a legitimate part of evolution, it involves too much choice and, crucially, prejudice. If anything it’s closer to selective breeding. Organisms still change over time but it’s within artificial constructs, rather than responding to selection pressures which can be random and unpredictable/spontaneous. Also the consequence of being “unfit” isn’t necessarily death and/or failure to pass genes on in this scenario, although knowing the nazis it probably would have been.
I like how he glances over the fact that many of these racist and questionable scientists from the 19th century he talks about were for the big part god beleivers. He really downplays how strong the beleif of god was still entrenched at that time, and how it inspired some of these theories.
why would he adress that
I wonder if you can find him using famous old scientists being Christian a sign of how Christianity meshes well with science? I know there are young Earth creationists who have tried that, though it's possible those people were unrelated to AiG. I wonder if any of those scientists were open bigots?
Of course, because he has too.
In fact, here's a fun quote related to the Supreme Court Case Loving V. Virginia: "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
@@Vangluss Oh, ew. Informative, but I literally just had a shower and I need another one.
I was homeschooled k-12 and my parents treated AiG here like a legitimate source... this video is very satisfying lol
@R you’d love , Gutsick Gibbon, Aron Ra , Tony Reed and Professor Dave . They all explain science well!
Same (until grade 11). On the plus side, my parents spent way more time training me to be a creationist and way less time making me a homophobe. I'm still struggling with creationism today, but it only took a few years for me to realize that my parent's beliefs on the LGBTQ+ were wrong. I don't like that my science education got fucked up, but at least I didn't need it for my field.
First of all......nice screen name! Secondly, congratulations on breaking free from AiG's nonsense!
Man, I'd buy your version of the bible in a heartbeat! "On day 6, god created the animals and shit."
And mankind, as created in his image, keeps on creating more shit...
Biblically correct. In order to have shit you must first have animals.
And on the 6th day, God giveth to earth: Animals and shit.
@@robertcatuara5118 I think that it can be argued that the shit started on day one.
Shit was created on the fifth day at the latest with the fish, birds, and whatnot. Bullshit had to wait for day six though.
A side note while “freak shows” exploited the performers, they where also a refuge for them from the bigotry of the society in general. In community with other “freaks” they could at least temporarily escape from the cruelty of the majority population. This is not an excuse for the cruelty and exploitation.
So you're saying the religious are "freaks"?
"Ugly laws" against anyone genetically different or disabled or scarred being seen in public were common and accepted. Thank goodness for the Americans With Disabilities Act. It's said children are cruel, but *people* are cruel and children just say publicly what they hear privately.
It's really wild when Christians can talk about how cruel this dehumanization was, and then also believe that same person is burning in a literal lake of fire for eternity for never being "saved". Dehumanizing is only bad when non Christians do it, I guess.
Not to mention all the ways god allows you kill and enslave other human beings. In exacting detail.
And some of them even take pleasure in the idea of others suffering this way,or take pleasure in telling you exactly how you're going to suffer for refusing to believe their BS.
Exactly. Any cruel acts we can do to each other pales in comparison to what "Jesus" supposedly has in store for non-christians...
@ShintogaDeathAngel a good point sir. When I was working in a hospital there was this RN who was a born again and she loved talking about Jesus, Heaven and Hell.
But out of the three, it seemed Hell was her favorite subject. And the many other people who were going to end up there. As in 80% of her patients, 65% of her coworkers and 95% of the doctors she worked with.
What was comical (and disturbing) when she described how horrible the torments of hell would be for those on the naughty list. As she talked about hell, her eyes would be looking far away as if she was there. Then her saliva
would start coming out in the form of spit and drool dripping out of the corners of her mouth. It was a sight to behold. She was very passionate when it came to hell. And what was most disturbing was at times you could see smiles coming and going. As if she was watching all those people who had done her wrong and those who had made fun of her and her beliefs burning in an eternal fire. Yeah, there were times she would creep me out.
Bro really said "If everyone just saw you as a sin tainted curse that God hates you would have been treated better." Gotta say I have doubts about that one.
Just look how well people were treated during the dark ages and the "discovery" of the Americas. Nothing evolutionist about it. Just pure Christian values as portrayed in the Bible.
Lmfao, this is WHAT I WAS THINKING LIKE HELLO THE GAYS HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT
Putting the Fun into Fundamentalist... and it would be laughable if they didn't have so many believers willing to believe whatever they tell them no matter what the evidence or actual facts or in their case, the lack thereof.
I think you mean fundaMENTAList
Please don't be too judgmental toward all of the scared, ignorant believers being led astray by these wolves in sheep's clothing. I was brainwashed by my parents into believing this Intelligent Design nonsense (because my parents had been brainwashed into believing it by their parents), and it really is a miserable way to live your life. Being paranoid of "secular" science cuts people off from reality. It prevented me from being able to think logically for decades, from all the cognitive dissonance. Some people can't shrug off the programming easily, even as adults. It sucks, but we "woke" folks have got to take the high road and not heap further abuse on people who are already being emotionally and intellectually manipulated, and probably have a lot of religious trauma that they aren't even able to acknowledge, let alone work on.
Name one fact of particles to people evolution.
@@hwd71 What is a particles to people evolution?
@@louistournas120Is English your second language?
What part don't you understand?
Love this guy going: "Look how awful it was that people used these poor people for their own aims. Which is why my ideology is correct."
Oh you mean the very thing they do. Lovely group of hypocrits yeah.
Luckily nobody was treated badly in Gods name in the last 2000 years, right? /s
They should call their series Questions in Genesis, because that's all that it raises when you read it.
Oh I wonder if we might have random weird Scripture text for the day. Eg, Matthew 27 53
@@russellmiles2861 Without any context, that reads like the Zombie Apocalypse already happened. 🙀
All their videos raise is my palm to my forehead.
the evolutionary timeline is very questionable.
Andrew Barton . The mainstream science geological and biological timeline is accurate. The creationist versions of geology , biology and other sciences, is inaccurate to the point of the creationist versions being stupid
For all of you interested and appalled by Julia's story, Ask A Mortician made a really well made video about her.
Speaking of how she was abused in both life and death, until finally being able to be put tp rest in our native Mexico not that long ago.
Give it a watch!
Hello, fellow Deathling!
i thank god every day for making me an atheist
Lol I mean if god didn't want it that way you wouldn't be. I thank my grandma and grandpa for teaching me critical thinking.
@@sherlockwho5714 Now that's funny.
“You are welco….. Wait… WHAT?!”
- God
Ignorance and religion, its a match made in heaven. =)
irony, sweet irony.
You are spot on about this. As society abandons its bronze age ideas, we become kinder towards each other. Racism and freak shows has far more in common with religious fundamentalism than rationalism and scientific inquiry.
Also, awkward fact: The freak-show as an enterprise was unseemly and in many ways grotesque, both for how it handled individuals and how the public took it in... but also complicated since in many cases it provided an avenue for wealth and for some few even independence in an era without alternate means of social protections, income, or self-sufficiency for people with several misunderstood conditions.
Exactly, commented this on another thread - since many were isolated from their home communities the freak shows offered a means to make income, even if exploited, and some made it big. life is messy and complicated.
I at times have felt sorry for the "Creationists."
They fall into that category of people who, as I say, need
"Simple child like answers to complex issues because they do not understand the issues or are too scared to every try to understand them."
this, absolutely. They today are the offspring of the reaction against Darwin. Pre Darwin there was no debate and in fact many key theologians in church history explicitly did not assume early genesis to be literal. However since those who began to insist on 6 day literal creation in response to Darwin needed to give a different version to natural selection, they became more and more entrenched in the idea that only a literal reading of the Bible can be true.
They then effectively painted themselves into a corner by making the literal creation story a litmus test of whether the Bible is true or not. Thus their belief in Jesus as described in the Bible depends on believing all parts of the Bible are literal. Which works against them because any other view of Genesis means rejecting the whole of the faith. Yet critical thinking has to lead to rejecting the literal creation in favour of a poetic tale to explain the world and its flaws.
Thus those brought up in this extreme literalist are likely to walk from faith as their walk from literalism. This makes the literalists more desperate and so willing to fund AIG and The Ark Encounter etc, even as they try to hold onto their own literalism by putting fingers in ears and lalala...
Definitely an accurate description of creationists. They're so ignorant, indoctrinated and poorly educated that they don't even realize that most theologians throughout history were not biblical literalists and argued against teaching the old testament as history instead of focusing on the moral lessons of the various stories. Biblical inerrantism was debunked by Christian archeologists and geologists by the end of the 18th century.
I once saw a comic showing various people is different environments each with a slogan, e.g. "I am a marine biologist because the sea calls to me", "I am an astronomer because the sky calls to me", and "I am a geologist because the Earth calls to me", etc. The last one is "I am a Young Earth Creationist because science confuses and frightens me".
It's moreso fear. The belief is that if God didn't create the world as laid out in Genesis, the whole Bible falls apart and Christianity is invalidated.
And this is not hyperbole. This is _exactly_ what I've heard from my parents and the pastor at at least one church we went to.
Literalism is a hell of a drug.
@@georgeandrews1394and that is a problem how?
Your top! Is it made out of four different jumpers? The Four Hoodies of the Apocalypse. We're all doomed!
How Pastrama and her son were treated as well as seeing how the other people in the freak shows were treated was the only horrific in the AiG video. As for Calvin arguments I didn't find them convincing in any way as a rebuttal of the theory of evolution but it did work as a reminder of how atrocious attitudes towards minorities were in the 1800's. Thanks for another informative video Emma.
John Irving Bloom more commonly known by his stage name Joe Bob Briggs who was a working journalist for sometime before becoming a film critic once talked about meeting those who worked in the freak show who had largely been force to retire after so many laws were passed killing the freak show. It was Interesting to hear the negative how those working the shows at least in the last years had vary different view than those trying to shut them down.
@FuzzyAziraphale *Pastrana. The -ama is a variety of food. ;-)
@@irrelevant_noob did poster encounter autocorrect?
@@stephennootens916 Sadly, as those 'freaks' would struggle in the dominant culture for their differences, the freak shows could be their place to make a living. Yes many would be exploited, but also those shows gave people a place as those who may be outcast from their home communities. Like much of life - its complicated.
@@helenr4300 it's almost like the 1800s was a bad time to be alive. Infant and maternal mortality? Massive social issues causing discrimination? Sign me up for the latest birthday you can get me.
The Darwin quote is actually really interesting here. 15:50 The indelicate phrase "gorilla-like" aside, the idea that this woman's appearance is indicative of humanities vast genetic variation is actually very true.
He doesn't say, at least in this quote, that she is some sub-human thing. He just says, rightly, that genetic mutation and variation is fascinating, and you can imagine how this unusual phenotype could be incredibly beneficial in the right environment, and then be passed down to future generations.
Only thing is, it was a made upmquotecas Darwin was dead long before the word genetic was coined.
I don’t know what to 😊 I just want to
How shocked would you be if I told you that the quote doesn’t exist and this creationist made it up?
I went to Calvin’s article on the topic published on Aig’s website and looked up the source, and then went straight to the source. What Darwin said about Pastrana is the following:
“Here is another and somewhat different case communicated to me by Mr. Wallace on the authority of Dr. Purland, a dentist : Julia Pastrana, a Spanish dancer, was a remarkably fine woman, but she had a thick masculine beard and a hairy forehead ; she was photographed, and her stuffed skin was exhibited as a show ; but what concerns us is, that she had in both the upper and lower jaw an irregular double set of teeth, one row being placed within the other, of which Dr. Purland took a cast. From the redundancy of teeth her mouth projected, and her face had a gorilla-like appearance. These cases and those of the hairless dogs forcibly call to mind the fact, that the two orders of mammals - namely, the Edentata and Cetacea- which are the most abnormal in their dermal covering, are likewise the most abnormal either by deficiency or redundancy of teeth”.
@Andreas Alm What! You mean that a young earth creationist apologist lied? I am so very shocked. 😲
@@DaveCM It's like who can I even trust anymore? 🤷🏼
At first I was afraid, I was horrified
Kept thinkin' I could never live without Jesus by my side
But then I spent so many nights thinkin' how did we evolve
And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along
[Verse 1]
And so you're back, from outer space
I just walked in to find you here with that stupid look upon your face
I should have changed that stupid Bible
should have send you back to school
If I'd have known for just one second you'd be back to bother me
[Pre-Chorus]
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with your church?
Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die?
[Chorus]
Oh no, not I, I will evolve
Oh, as long as I know how to read, I know I'll stay awake
I've got all my life to live, and I've got all my brain to give
And I'll evolve, I will evolve, hey hey
You are a master.
You win the Internet today.
That is awesome!
Great parody, effing hate the 🎵 tune!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Brilliant, lolitaras, Brilliant!!!!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽!!!
I always thought that things like being born with a tail or excess body hair were just left-over gene mutations from an earlier time. Gene ABCC9 is associated with CS and hypertrichosis and the tail gene is Wnt-3a. (Just googled it, I’m not a geneticist) Both are extremely rare but can happen. I said something along those lines in an ultra Christian Creationist household, about having the left-overs in our DNA show that we have evolved. It did not go over well. 😅. Of course, the freak show and racist part of this is still horrible…but if anything…to me at least….the fact that those genes are still there show that we used to be more animal like.
Yes, and tails can also be seen in the embryonic stages of all humans, providing more genetic evidence ignored by creationists.
We are still animals
used to be? we very much are animals in a biological sense... pretty damn clever ones mind you, but still animals
@@kaliban4758 We know.
@@SharienGaming We know.
A more likely explanation for the furry guy in the Bible: it was used to represent his role as the "wild man" in a pairing of a wild man with a civilized man. People back then lived in a world where only small areas were farmed and had towns/cities, and outside those areas was a "wild" world still full of nomads & hunter-gatherers. It's a juxtaposition that was on everybody's minds because they could see it any time they looked across the border between the two... especially for a people who were themselves in or close to the transition from the latter to the former. The Bible has other tales bringing up this duality and the question of which way is better, including also Cain & Abel, along with Eden & the world outside Eden, and the post-Exodus "wilderness wandering" phase compared to settling down in the towns of the promised land. And comparable juxtapositions in other tales outside the Bible also not only exist but also sometimes emphasize the wildness of the "wild man" of the pair by giving him animal traits. In the story of Gilgamesh & Enkidu, for example, Gilgamesh was the king of a huge city, and Enkidu was from the untamed lands somewhere outside the city and had fur, hooves, pointy animal ears, and horns. Jacob & Esau were just the latest version of the trope.
Gilgamesh has the same distinction, oddly enough. Enkidu became civilized by cleaning him up and getting him a woman.
Whilst Darwin did say this woman was gorilla-like in appearance due to her jaws, he never used the word genetic as that word wasn't coined until about 20 years after his death. However, he would be correct in his assumption that she was the victim of the variations that natural selection has to work with.
"combative isn't the word i'm looking for..."
me: competitive.
Emma: '"competitive is the word i'm looking for."
there is only one explanation: my thoughts traveled back in time and reached Emma.
They were right, I'm absolutely horrified. Horrified by how bad their understanding of anything is lmao
Well I guess you are a Godless and Souless young western person (who also does not not where is morals come from) and think he will be nothing once death.... Right?
Prove me wrong about that.
But I tell you once yoy get older and closer to the death you will not just understand how the religion is important but also his value... Because you can not explain why something is right or wrong because, for you is subjective, and again where you morals are from.
Is it that right, western godless person (who does not know the name of his or her God and what he command to you)???
Please answer with an answer and not with questions.
Thanks 😊
Agreed. Only through purposefully applied deception can they promote a Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent God of 'TRUTH. XDXDXD
It says something about their beliefs and their God of Truth that literal dishonesty and misinformation, is the foundations for both the apologetics and their foundation for believing in it. XDXDXD
@@guytheincognito4186 That is the opposite... Basically what they told you God is all and is his your Father (like it or not) and not matter you deny him, you will end (in the afterlife) to join him. Why? Father and sons are made of the same substances and shall reunited.
But western godless and Souless people do not get that. Who knows why 🤷
@@Mar-dk3mp Efit. Typo.
Whether I like something or not, is entirely out of the picture. You claiming its all 'Opposite, IS just what you "Like" it to be. Whether you like that Fact or not.
Out of the two of us, only your beliefs and convictions follow 'I like it, therefore it is so, method of conclusion. 🤷♂️
@@guytheincognito4186 Dude what is not clea4 in thsi "God is exactly what you do not know"??? 🙂
Wait, a person who broke ground in a field has their name LINKED to that field/work forever?! WOW!!!
Who would have thought?!
MIND!!!!BLOWN!!!!!
Wonder if the first person to invent a shovel was named Shovel.
@@HungryWarden IDK but I really dig that as a story. ;)
It's funny that he used that Darwin quote because Darwin probably got some stuff wrong, but that quote is true. That lady is an example of genetic diversity! That's true!! Darwin didn't say anything about her actually being an ape hybrid or whatever in that quote.
According to some replies made elsewhere in the comments that's not even a real quote. There's no source supplied and the exact wording can't be found anywhere reliable, though he did write about her but what he said was quite different, being more concerned with an apparent abnormality with her teeth.
I can't copy text from UA-cam comments on my phone I'm afraid, and I'm supposed to be working right now, but if you have a look through the replies to some other comments you should find it.
"Victim of a Sin Cursed God" is the name of my next album.
Good morning Emma, from Los Angeles. Love this video. I have a friend who is a strong Fundie. Her son was at University studying Veterinarian medicine. When she found out her son had to take GE in order to get a degree. GE includes many courses such a logic, and other critical thinking. She pulled her son out of University and sent him to a Christian Veterinarian College.
When, I was in the seventh grade at a Christian school, my seventh grade teacher held up a newspaper showing a photo claiming a great Dinosaurs
Discovery had been made in Montana. My teacher said this was nonsense." The Earth is only 6,000 years old, the Solar System 8,000 years old. Dinosaurs never existed. This bone which were discovered are nothing more than cattle bones welded together!"
When I got home that night, I called the LA Brea Tarpits museum. When I finished telling scientist what my teacher had said, he replied " Bones cannot be welded together!" The scientist in-between fits of laughter.
I became almost instantly an Evolutionist.
One Sunday at church back in 2010 I got in a debate with this lady who was a believer in an young Universe. She said "Darwin worshipped the Devil!" I told here's a matter of fact Darwin considered himself a Christian, and had hope his findings would futher peoples beliefs in God." This debate was useless. I told my sister on the way home the next dog we get I am naming Darwin. On News Year's eve 2010, a renter of ours couldn't keep her 1.5 year old blond male Cocker Spaniel. I as promised named him Darwin. I unfortunately lost Darwin to death in January of this year. He was 12 years old.
Please check my Facebook page for photos of Darwin, and the surviving dog Herschel.
I always learn from your videos. Love your hair. Have a wonderful weekend.
Was Herschel named after the astronomer who famously sniffed out Uranus?
(Sorry, couldn't help it!)
@@RichWoods23 , yes he was. My sister named him when we got him from the shelter at four months. His full name is Herschel Andromeda Warman. We already had a Cocker Spaniel named Darwin Bon Jovi Warman. I named the Cocker.
Thank goodness you could see through that teacher’s ignorance at age 12. Wish the whole CLASS did. I’m sorry for your loss of Darwin. Absolutely amazing choices of names for your pets/members of family. 😊
@@elizabethwarman9028 An excellent choice of names!
Yikes - a mother can control what course in Uni can study? I guess that if she was paying... Another reason for funding HE
Some scientists were racists, but why doesn't he bring up Westboro Baptist Church as an example of Christian malfeasance?
What cracks me up about this guy Calvin is that he seems to think the science of evolution hasn't changed since the 19th Century. In actual science, the idea of a "missing link" went out the door before Calvin was even born, yet he still sells it as if it were the cutting edge of research.
"No idea what this has to do with evolution.." - me on every AiG video.
And when scientists are wrong. Who finds them out?
Oh yes - scientists!
To borrow and slightly modify a common line "If man evolved from a missing link, why are there still missing links?"
Emma and anyone else who's interested in this topic, you may enjoy the most recent series of episodes of the podcast, Oh No! Ross and Carrie. They're doing a deep dive on a home schooling conference that took place at the Ark Encounter.
Yes! I listened for the information and stayed for the Ark-related puns.
Anything Ken Hamm related should be avoided. He is nothing more then a grifter.
If you'd like to hear more of Julia's story, Ask A Mortician has a fantastic video about her and the horrific way she was treated not only in life but also in death. This story is so much worse than you think.
Guilt by historical association is such a weird approach. Pretty much anyone could be guilty of anything with that train of thought.
My favorite thing about Answers in Genesis is when you go to the Ark Exhibit they basically recreate their own theory of evolution. The 'logic' goes: the Ark isn't big enough to fit two of each of all the animals that are alive right, so they make up a bunch of progenitor species. Like they have some "Original Canine species" and then when it got off the ark it adapted to all the different types of canines in the world... you know adaptation through environmental pressures also known as Evolution. Except where scientists say it is a slow process that happens over millions of years Answers in Genesis basically goes Hyper Evolution and says that in a couple hundred to 1,000 years things can become diverse species.
well noticed...
bruh, so they're denying their own theory lmao
not sure if they are grifters or are just that stupid
Some species can change pretty quickly, but it tends to apply more to small, shorter lived species which reproduce frequently/larger numbers of offspring at a time. Mammals would generally be slower to respond, if they were to survive.
One thing that they never say bout Haeckel is that when he began a campaign to introduce the teaching of evolution in German schools, the churches who at that time controlled the schools reacted by halting the teaching of biology altogether in German high schools from 1882 onward for several years. If that had persisted, think of the economic and intellectual damage that would have done.
The answer to anyone who says 'evolution is racist' is to say 'No, evolution isn't racist, racists falsely use their mistaken understanding of it to justify their beliefs.'
Yes, in a similar way to how racist use a twisted interpretation of the Bible to justify their beliefs, yet Calvin would not see that as proof that Christianity is racist.
Thanks for doing what you do. I find these people endlessly entertaining, if I can block out how dangerous their ignorance can be.
I'm more horrified that I'm so old the mail system I used for most of my life is now considered cute 😂
Also, Guelph is pronounced "Gwelf".
I've seen other videos about her and have been in tears watching them. The thing that has upset me the most from your wonderful video is that even after finally having a funeral and being buried properly she is still being USED by this religious man to attempt to discredit evolution. This man is just as bad as her husband who just used her, or even worse than him because now we know better and should not mention her without stating that she simply had a medical condition. If I was religious all I would say is that those men who used her are hopefully rotting in a special place in Hell, their corpses being displayed in glass cases.
I actually kind of like the quote about Pastrama's condition by Darwin. I read it as something like... "Her condition shows that genetics do all kinds of crazy and there's a lot of potential in our DNA"
Also, unrelated, but Emma whatever you did with your makeup/lighting in this one is really working for you, it's a good color balance.
AIG; "Pastrana's story of exploitation is indeed a sad one".
Yes indeed it seems that well after she has died there are those that are still attempting to exploit her.
Well said!
Always enjoy your POV and skepticism. Keep spreading the good word!
The minor key arpeggiated synth w/ those tom hits and glockenspiel as your new outro music is kind of amazingly epic
A like and a comment for the algorithm, but there's only so much of these idiots blathering I can handle, even with the expert commentary. I salute you for your service.
@18:00 , the general public’s appetite for such grotesque displays… in 1800s England, the general public was almost entirely Christian
Yeah julia was taxadermied. And displayed standing next to her 5 day old son in some museum for a long time. She recently was finally given a burial in her native country and town.
I’ll never understand people who see the universe and how beautiful, miraculous and full of mystery it is and say “NO!” Bible literalists are shiteralists.
So, about the Christians who castrated young boys to retain their singing voices? At a time when many of them would die from the operation.
So happy that the advert I got on your channel was for a kids chemistry science kit!
Thanks Emma! Great show. So interesting and sad. Yes...horrified!
I'm seriously awed by people with so much intelligence who can bear to sit through so much moronic gumph. It's important, because it provides a counter perspective for people out there questioning what they believe and whether AiG is worth listening to, but at the same time... chocolate, wine, Netflix... there's so many other things to do in a day 😄 Thank you for making the time and conscientious effort when so many of us feel the same way but are already in our PJs.
One of the problems with the story of Jacob and Esau is that if this is the reason for the hair situation, it would contradict something we've heard from many creationists who posit that mutations are a sign of corruption of our original code product of our separation from God. Basically, he's suggesting that the degradation of human kind began before Noah's time. This contradicts the notion for example that men used to live much longer because they were better (closer to god's image and perfection).
Fun fact: The oldest person in the Bible was Methuselah ( Noshs grandfather) was 970yo .
The reason why people lived such long lives was to populate the world.
What a lovely lady, Tracy you are. Clear diction, clear skin, clear mind, and a refreshing lack of poor grammar. I shall subscribe after posting this.
Well done!
Ernst Haeckel's embryo drawings weren't forged per se, but more idealistic and left out what seemed unimportant to Haeckel (and what he perhaps didn't understand). But he was a prominent atheist, so he must be a bad, bad forger ;)
As a kid I loved his "Kunstformen der Natur", my parents had some prints from that work. So beautiful!
Tired from a 24hr livestream or not, Emma's arguments and refutations against fundamentalist anti-evolutionist assertions are both insightful and very impressive.
This was an excellent and thought-provoking episode.
AiG: "The bible established the existence of smoothbois and hairbears."
Evilutionists:
Twinks and bears
“Racism and ableism and capitalist exploitation exist - therefore definitively proving that an all-powerful benevolent being created the entire universe wholecloth in 6 days a few thousand years ago exclusively for the benefit of man”
This guy’s argument is IMPECCABLE.
Ooh he can pull books out of leather cases and can open picture books while he is quoting. I think he needs more books.
It disgusts me in ways I can’t articulate when people (for lack of a better word) like that use these emotionally manipulative tactics to try and convince people that evolution-acceptance somehow inherently leads to immorality. They aren’t even trying to disprove it, they’re just trying to make people associate evolution with bigotry. I’m not sure if they know what they’re doing or if they genuinely believe that if they prove evolution-acceptance leads to bigotry that that somehow proves it wrong because they have no conception of logical thought
17:55 As far as I can tell, that part where AiG mentions the examples of exhibits in freak-shows that _aren't_ anything you can even tangentially tie to evolution, they undercut their own argument, since their point is that "Evolution makes you dehumanize people because they're just animals", which is stupid anyway, but bringing up that people _kept_ doing it, and did it then and later to people who had things like immense size and other unusual features or whatever else that were NOT at all connected to the theory of evolution destroys that argument, because it then opens up the alternative that "evolutionary thought was not immune to being influenced by bad people who saw anyone who was 'different' as less than human", rather than what they seem to be trying to say, which is "the belief in evolution specifically causes this". Like, their point only works if evolution _alone_ led to things like this, because having other examples that don't fit that narrative suggests automatically that something _else_ was causing that way of thinking, not evolution itself.
Also, trying to argue that "thinking other people evolved from animals leads to dehumanization" has a gaping flaw in it...because we could just, I don't know, NOT abuse or treat animals horribly or as just tools in the first place. Not that I'm making one of those bullshit "Animals are just like humans and we shouldn't eat meat or do testing" or anything like that, but nowadays many people see (at least some, depending on the person) animals and empathize and try to understand them, I know I do at least, and we try to treat them better no matter what their circumstances, though of course there is a LOT of nuance that I'm leaving aside here, but the point is "Animal" does not, nor have to, mean "This _thing_ can be treated horribly because it is an animal" so the proper response to that idea AiG would be proposing could just as easily be "We should care about humans _and_ other animals, and treat them _all_ better" not "Don't believe evolution or that humans are animals". Like, to simplify, IF seeing humans as animals meant people would treat them badly, we could just, not treat _any_ animals badly (within reason) and not think "Only humans deserve respect and proper treatment" instead of just "Humans are NOT animals and I won't believe anything, even science, that says that they are".
Of course, that goes against the Biblical idea that humans _are_ superior to other animals, because God made them that way and all that, but yet again, when you dig a bit, these arguments from apologists only work at all if accept at least some parts of their own worldview as true, when if you don't, it all doesn't make _any_ sense whatsoever, because the conclusion doesn't follow from the argument after you remove the base assumptions.
Hi Emma. You are super smart. You have created a channel by yourself that has the quality of a broadcast involving a whole team of technicians and writers. Your discourse is sharp and easy to listen to. You are a natural broadcaster.
Ask A Mortician here on UA-cam has a really wonderful video about Julia Pastrana! Julia was an absolutely amazing woman and her story is very much worth a watch!
Hello, fellow Deathling!
@@chrisleneil Hello back!
And yet the NICU and medical science on taking care of premature babies was started as a Coney island freak show
He gets 10 IQ points for that green library lamp.
He probably has elbow patches on his jacket.🧐
The biggest problem with "answers in genesis" is that no religious cultist has yet to prove the bible as an authentic representation of historical events. You cant use the bible to prove anything until you can prove the bible.
So maybe I wasn’t paying attention and maybe it was just your accent. I thought you called them “Asses in Genesis.” And that might just be the most accurate of what they really are.
Edit: how many of the people who exploited her and indeed most of these “freaks” were Christian. How many of those scientists were Christian.
Fundamentalism is the result of unresolved fears of death. If any part of the Bible is not literal & factual, eternal life is not factual.
Well the good news is no one ever used a literal interpretation of Genesis to hurt any one *cough* Mark of Cain *cough* Curse of Ham *cough*
Most of the literalists up where I am rightfully call that nonbiblical horseshit what it is. _Unfortunately_ , that means my family is comfortable being creationists rather than being scared off by the more overt racism.
One thing that infuriates me about apologetics, is that they will point at "fallibility of science" to claim science is not thrust worthy. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT: SCIENCE IS NOT SACRED IT CAN BE WRONG. The whole point of the scientific method is that if we can correct mistakes.
They call evolution racist yet everyone at Answers in Genesis voted for Trump, so racism is only ok if it's in the name of the sky geezer?
Yup. Just like murder, lying, slavery, rape, genocide, and all the other atrocities committed by those chosen by the despicable, capricious Yahweh.
I really think the term 'charity' should be restricted to humanitarian aid. I also think religious organizations should only be allowed to take in funds tax free in the case of funds used for charity by that definition and should be required to prove where the funds are going like any actual charity needs to.
I don't know, Calvin does have a large wooden desk and he's wearing a three-piece suit. So, I'm going to believe him. Sorry Emma.
And the fancy green lamp. Very convincing.
@@susancorbett8155 I love those green lamps. I occasionally find them in thrift shops for about five dollars.
Let's talk about the library behind the guy... why all those books if you just need the one?
Say after me: The bible is not a science book!😊
The bible is not a science book!
The bible is not a science book!
The bible is not a science book!
...
Living very near there, I can attest it is pronounced "Gwelf".
I greatly appreciate your show. I wish you years of energy to continue.
I need to know where Emma obtained her hoodie.
is that sweater that old one from the unboxing? Is it something that can still be bought? That sweatshirt is just so heckin cute.
Water isn't wet, water makes things wet.
Just living up to Emma's expectations of me lol.
Can water make water wet?
I'm no expert about this or anything but that argument about water not being wet always seemed weird to me because it can both be wet and make other things wet at the same time right? I mean, it's a bit like saying that fire itself isn't hot and that it just makes other things hot, why can't it be both? Again, I have no extensive knowledge of these types of things at all and I'm no expert, I just think it's a stupid argument as I said and I'm wondering if there's a better explanation as to how water isn't wet or if it actually is wet lmao
Homo Sapiens has no sense able to feel "wet" as a sensation. Mostly we feel that water is cold (or colder) than our skin. That's what people are actually feeling when they describe something as feeling "wet".
@@robfortune6Informally, sure, but "wetness" is a property of the interaction between surfaces if you are talking as a chemist.
If you aren't talking about surface chemistry, nobody will cry if you claim that water is wet. If you *are* talking chemistry you are on more precise grounds if you say water is a wetting agent.
@@simongiles9749 Interesting, thanks lol
Excellent point in favour of increasing diversity in science, a very present issue. Seconded.
There is the movie "Freaks" from 1932 that plays in this community of carnival and circus sideshows. Very disturbing for today, at that time that was still "state of the art".
On the other hand, as horrible as this public display for shock is, on the other hand it was one of the only possiblities for these people to have an outcome on their own and even get a kind of
societal status.
Without that, they would have ended in some homes, as no one would have wanted to look at them, not knowing how to treat them.
All these examples Calvin has chosen are cherrypicked to vilify evolutionists. That are not so much backwards development, these are people where something in genetics and fetal development has gone severely wrong. Good, our ape-like ancestors had more hair, but there are also lots of other examples that P.T. Barnum showed around.
And it was NOT evolutionists that paid for the entry fee, it was CHRISTIANS.
It is hilarious when this guy claims (WRONGLY) that evolutionists are exploiting such people and pretends they christians are SOOOOO tolerant to them. Let us see a few deformations christians find intolerable:
- people with another confession (e.g. muslims)
- christians that think science knows more about nature than the Bible
- the original residents of the United States and South America
- imported dark-skinned people from Africa
- people that see no persuasive evidence for supernatural, invisible beings
- people that have a deviating opinion about the relation of how much specific (fe)male behaviour they want to live their own life with, resp. do not constrict their love to what christian norms dictate.
So people are outcast where you can hardly see that they are different.
And I heard preachers say explicitly on video that all gays should be killed. And Ted Cruz, whom he called up on stage, did not say a word.
I am much too old for you, but oh my gosh, you are so amazing. I love your enthusiasm, I love your dedication, I love your look, and mostly your accent!
Just keep it up and never change!
I would like to thank God for making me an atheist. Who are we to question his wisdom?
Meanwhile, at AIG headquarters: "HOW DID SHE FIND OUT ABOUT THE WHEEL?"
Emma you have produced another absolute cracker of a video..
The spice and sarcasm is awesome and the guy in the video is absolutely insane …
As a Christian myself I do have questions about the Bible and I’m often slammed by the fundamentalist movement!!!
So thank you Emma for putting this clown in his place !!!
Btw Love the top it’s fab
I am pretty sure AIG know that they are lying. I don't think he is insane. I think he is a liar and a fraud. Not sure if it's lying for Jesus or just for the money.
I've experienced that myself. But here's the truth , some people have gone to seminary and have spent the rest of their lives studying the Bible and are unable to answer such questions. The Bible never defined a day as a 24 hour period but does describe that time for God and man are different.
I went to the books to check AiG references I find:
1. The Darwin one clearly made up as Darwin don't use anything close to those words (PS AiG forgot to include which volume it is, Vol 2)
2. The image in The Living Races of Mankind the picture on page IV not II.
3. The Richard Milner quote I have no idea how to check.
4. The rest also seem to be made up since I can't find them but since AiG refencing is bad I have no idea if I am looking in the right book.
Congratulations AiG, you've discovered what a fallacy is. Good job. Keep it up, maybe one day, you might actually figure out how to keep from using one in your arguments.
[AIG's wheel of excuses]
Spin...tick...tick...tick
Evolution is the process by which different kinds of living organisms developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
AIG: Y'know I only put [the truth] on there as a show of good faith...
I loved your future idea for a video on the pagan origins of Christmas. Subbed!
Nice work, Emma. Love your energy. A small piece of advice to make your presentation even better: Look into the camera lens, not slightly to the right of it. Eye contact is important.
The crazy thing is that if you asked Calvin "why don't scientists today believe this woman was a missing link as scientists (supposedly) believed in the 1800s?" then Calvin would have to admit it's not because of god, or the Bible, or creationism, or any of the ways that he thinks are the best ways to arrive at truth but rather through scientific method and the theory of evolution!
His whole example contradicts his worldview.
Gosh he means people of the past cherry-picked sources that justified their existing beliefs and promoted them whilst ignored contradictory evidence? I'm so glad nobody does that anymore
Well, if water makes things wet doesn’t water make water wet?
Awesome! I just covered this one on Saturday. I dove right into the 'quote mines' they are absolutely misrepresentative of what the naturalist said about this case.