Don't forget the people in the Federal Government, there are some there who disbelieve Evolution. The people who elected them must be stupider than they are.
Noah was 600 when he entered the ark, he was on the ark for over one year, and he lived another 350 years after leaving the ark. How many years did Noah live???????????? Does the bible say 951 or 950 years????????????
The bible says: "So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died." -Genesis 9:29 Noah's flood disproves Noah's flood? any details would be great......
stolen history? It's seems to me it's a story based on REAL world wide event. Why do hundreds of ancient civilizations worldwide has some account of a massive flood with a family as survivors? This was before telephones, internet, magazines, telegraph, ocean going ships; was this worldwide conspiracy?
Though it is true that they need to prove it, being able to categorically disprove it makes double sure. I am not sure how a human can still believe such stories these days. I do not know how a mind like that operates.
One problem is that the people they choose to try proving it are pretty slick speakers. Some (few, actually) have backgrounds in geology or paleontology. Some will try using jokes instead of scientific explanations to keep the attention of the audience...who know very little real science and who are so gullible. I'm embarrassed to be an American nowadays whenever scientific debate comes up (on any topic) or when very simplistic logical thinking is needed. And, now we have an EPA director who has been against the EPA, and we have a chairman of the House Science Committee who disbelieves climate change and who disingenuously brings in speakers for his side instead of an equal number for both. We have moronic politicians like Michelle Bachman who believe any outlandish claim against vaccination before checking up on the person let alone the claim. We have people like Betsy DeVos in charge of our children's education policies. The dark days are coming if the Trump Epoch can't be kept in check. And, the results will be felt long after it's over.
It is funny when creationists dismiss the Big Bang saying that an "explosion can't create order", but somehow they believe that a catastrophic flood sorted all the fossils in organized layers.
@@AnarquiaCookbookyes and no. Big picture, sure, entropy matters. But at our scale, we *are* the agents of entropy. Life as a whole, humans especially so.
@@thedave1771 usually they're speaking in the scope of the universe. This is generally a conversation of the creation of the universe. They believe that in a universe that has been created, order has to be a given because they believe in a creator, and if there's a creator then the creator created order. What they don't understand is that order doesn't exist lmao
@Just a man. even if he is still an atheist by looking at his channel I can tell he still failed as being a member of the alt right(his last video is of a literal Nazi) is antithetical to reality, just as creationism is
Evidence of Jesus’s Miracles outside the Bible Have you wondered if there was any “proof” of the miracles of Jesus, outside the Bible (and outside of the writings of believers)? There are documents in which these writers provided us with evidence that Jesus worked miracles, but in writing, intended to downplay belief in such miracles. The first comes from the Babylonian Talmud 43a. Babylonian Talmud (late first or second century AD) Babylonian Sanhedrin43a-b “On the eve of the Passover they hanged Yeshu and the herald went before him for forty days saying [Yeshu] is going forth to be stoned in that he hate practiced sorcery and beguiled and led astray Israel. Here Jesus is accused of sorcery, in obvious parallel with the charge leveled in Matthew 12:22-23. The writer of the Talmud does not agree that Jesus worked bona fide miracles, but he reports that he did things which, to the enemy of Jesus could only be written off as sorcery. In the very early century AD Jewish literature, in "tHul 2:22-23" it is reported that healings were done in the name of Jesus. So we have indirect confirmation of the crucifixion of Jesus and of his working of public miracles-only charging that the miracles were worked by Satan, not God. Flavius Josephus, Jewish Historian Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works-a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day. Celsus was a Greek writer in the second century who criticized Christianity as a threat to the stable communities and worldview that the "pagan" religious and social system sought to uphold. His work as a whole has been lost, but when the third-century theologian Origen sought to answer Celsus' charges in a work appropriately called Against Celsus, he preserved most of Celsus' criticisms. Origen's replies are certainly worth reading in their own right, but the following excerpt is chosen in order to show how a thoughtful "pagan" viewed Christianity. [Celsus] accuses [Jesus] of having "invented his birth from a virgin," and upbraids Him with being "born in a certain Jewish village, of a poor woman of the country, who gained her subsistence by spinning, and who was turned out of doors by her husband, a carpenter by trade, because she was convicted of adultery; that after being driven away by her husband, and wandering about for a time, she disgracefully gave birth to Jesus, an illegitimate child, who having hired himself out as a servant in Egypt on account of his poverty, and having there acquired some miraculous powers, on which the Egyptians greatly pride themselves, returned to his own country, highly elated on account of them, and by means of these proclaimed himself a God."... The point I would make from this material in the Jewish Talmud from the late first century is that it proves that Jesus was a person they felt they had to deal with and that it was sufficiently common knowledge that he worked signs and wonders that they felt they had to address this by claiming that Jesus did his miracles by the power of Satan (sorcery). Does this “prove” that Jesus worked miracles? Maybe or maybe not. What it proves is that many in his day were convinced that he worked miracles and that his enemies were aware of sufficient positive evidence of this that they felt they needed to explain it. In summary, the request for “proof” in written documents that Jesus did in fact work miracles from non-believers is, logically, a very high bar indeed. We can assume that most of those who witnessed his miracles either came to believe in him or found ways to explain away what they saw. In fact, I believe that it is striking that we have these documented examples of non-Christians feeling the need to explain what seems to have been common knowledge that there was much reason to believe Jesus worked miracles. This does indeed corroborate the accounts of miracles and wonders performed by Jesus in the Bible.
Evidence of Jesus' existence outside the Bible I find it striking that proof exists about Jesus from unbiased sources outside of the Bible. Some of these writers have provided direct evidence of Christians, while others have provided indirect evidence of the existence of Jesus and of His crucifixion. The writings of these writers offer a peek into the current events taking place from the late first century to the late second century. I find difficulty in downplaying or explaining away these writers' writings on the account of the prestige and social position they held, and the disdain illustrated in some of their writing. Tacitus, The Greatest Roman historian, and senator Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. He then describes the torture of Christians: Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired. Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good, but to glut one man’s cruelty, that they were being destroyed. Mara Bar-Serapion, He was a Syrian philosopher, who wrote a letter to his son sometime after AD 73. There is only one manuscript of his letter in existence and preserved in the British Museum. "What advantage did the Athenians gain from putting Socrates to death? Famine and plague came upon them as a judgment for their crime. What advantage did the men of Samos gain from burning Pythagoras? In a moment their land was covered with sand. What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their wise King? It was just after that that their kingdom was abolished. God justly avenged these three wise men: the Athenians died of hunger; the Samians were overwhelmed by the sea; the Jews, ruined and driven from their land, live in complete dispersion. But Socrates did not die for good; he lived on in the statue of Hera. Nor did the wise King die for good; he lived on in the teaching which he had given." Lucian, "The Christians, you know, worship a man to this day-the distinguished personage who introduced their novel rites, and was crucified on that account. … You see, these misguided creatures start with the general conviction that they are immortal for all time, which explains their contempt of death and voluntary self-devotion which are so common among them; and then it was impressed on them by their original lawgiver that they are all brothers, from the moment that they are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws. All this they take quite on faith, with the result that they despise all worldly goods alike, regarding them merely as common property." Pliny the Younger, Is another valuable historical source for information on Jesus and the early Church. Pliny was the governor of the Roman province of Bithynia, located in Asia Minor. In the year 112 AD, he wrote to the Emperor Trajan, asking how he should deal with those in his region who have been accused of being Christians. In the letter, Pliny describes the practices of these “criminals”: “They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of food-but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.” Flavius Josephus, Jewish Historian Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works-a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Was a Roman historian and court official during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome. Punishment by Nero was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. Thallus, a secular historian Unreasonably of course, because a solar eclipse could not take place at the time of the full moon, and it was at the season of the Paschal full moon that Christ died. Phlegon of Tralles, was a Greek writer During the time of Tiberius Caesar, an eclipse of the sun occurred during the full moon". Julius Africanus, wrote around AD 221 He quotes Tallus' comments about the darkness that enveloped the land during the late afternoon hours when Jesus died on the cross: Tallus, in the third book of his histories. (Julius Africanus also quoting Phelgon of Tralles, Chronography, 18.1)
TREY the Explainer Just know that the Universe is your real Dad and dose not need any God to be intelligent on it's own and maybe our intelligence will pass on through the universe.
Anti-theist Atheist -- agreed totally--not only loses, but should be horsewhipped! (Not that any horses should be whipped!) Oh, man, that would be a debate worth watching! And it should be 3 unfactual claims "first," not in total--neither side could pass otherwise. And that would stop the debate...then they could try again the next day or something. Oh, I wish it were so!
Steve Donoghue Best argument. Why credit your great mind too an asshole God who hides from you? The Universe is inteligant and tangible so why not accept it's are real Dad.
How can anybody over 6 believe the Noah's Ark story? 140,000 K birds on a boat lined with tar for a year!? Have you ever cleaned up a bird cage? And that's just the birds.
Well there is this thing I call swarm stupidity. If you tell a child a story without telling him that it was just made up he'll believe it. And if you miss the chance to tell him that it was all bs before he hits puperty, he'll have it stuck in his mind forever. Especially if he is surrounded by idiots who believe the same bs and encourage his nonsensical beliefs.
+May the Science be with You. So true. The bible itself preaches the importance of early childhood brainwashing. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
I was in a discussion with a Muslim about Noah and the flood. The Muslim declared that the flood was a miracle of God. I stated that there is clear and abundant evidence that there never was a global flood, then I threw in some details. The Muslim declared that in Islam it isn't a global flood but more of a regional flood. I mused that a regional flood is not much of a miracle. I had an uncle who lived near a stream that became miraculous every time there was six hours of sustained rain.
The Bible doesn't say there was a world wide flood. The people who wrote it didn't know what a world was. The word used in the Hebrew is eratz, which you may know from Eratz Israel, the land of Israel.
Worldwide must be assumed since the bible says every living thing was wiped out. It doesn't say every living thing in a certain radius, does it? It also says all the mountains, not just the ones known at the time. It was worldwide or nothing worth talking about.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them in chains to be held in gloomy darkness until their judgment; Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
May the Science be with You it's not the existence part that scares me. It's the being chewed to death by some huge monster predator that freaks me out. Me not being fertilized as an egg or having a different sperm hit the egg would be a lot less terrifying.
xenoblad That actually might be a reason why we are so smart. Gestation duration. We have time to raise children for years, gestate as big brains as our pelvises allow, and they have time to develop and learn. And we have plenty of food to feed that. Other animals that take that mich time or more to create or raise their young, that have such a long reproductive cycle, are very smart, complex. Elephants, dolphins, monkeys, etc. And also very comparatively safe and secure.
Trumposaurus is a hyper predator...so glad (sarc) he's at the top of the food chain now! And won't it be super if Pence gets in? Rationality has gone to hell.
As a scientist (comparative geneticist), teacher and sometime creation debater, I must say that I am impressed with your series. Please keep up the good work.
The fact that, in this information age, we still have to explain to grown people the implausibility of an obvious fictional children's story is really sad. What does it say about the state of America's education?
It's pure crap, and seems like it is going to get much worse before it _may_ get better. We need to teach people how to use critical thinking skills at a young age.
Charl Greyvensteyn Which atheists? Most of the progressive politicians and Muslim apologists claim to be Christians(in fact, hardly any politicians of any significant rank in the US are atheist because the electorate, on average, won't vote for them) and some very outspoken critics of Islam, who want tougher actions taken against its inherent misogyny and barbarism, are and were atheists like Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. So I ask again, _which_ atheists. Please be specific.
@Pure Facts Oh dear. Seems you don't understand that the true things in the Bible were still true at the time and weren't revelations, to anybody. That's like me saying, China Miéville must be writing the truth about magic because his descriptions of London are 100% accurate! What you need to do "Pure Facts" (my arse) is work on your critical thinking skills rather than donning your god hat. Pathetic and very flawed 'reasoning' from you.
@nic sharp The talking "serpent" (yea, not snake) is meant to be symbolic. I just think maybe you have been ruined by protestants. We Catholics believe in a 14 billion year old universe. Remember, it was a Catholic priest who proposed the Big Bang Theory. Catholics love science.
@Knowledge Strange...still most patients I met while working in a psychiatric hospital were religious...mmmh. Well in the end it doesn't matter. Illness does not care to much about religion. Believe in whatever you want, but it's still very funny to see that you first criticise "one little part of the topic" only to answer on a sascastic comment by a third person in a similiar way.
@Knowledge Were I come from many people are not theists. Yeah most still are, but not creationists. But that does not matter to much - illness does not care about religion very much. Sure: it is helpful to have a imaganiry "friend", but that's it. Sciencedaily or that republican link...I would not call that studies. I do not care for your christian top IQ people. Were is your link on that? I don't see why I should believe that statement. In the end it doesn't matter, christianity didn't make them intelligent or something.
I enjoy it because I read the stories in the Hebrew, where it's more evident that they are "theological mythology", well-known stories based on some real event that are recast using poetic forms in order to be even more memorable than the actual event for the purpose of teaching a lesson. I also nearly got a degree in geology, and love listening to calm, rational analysis involving that subject area. I also enjoy driving young-Earth creationists crazy by telling them that science is hardly on the radar for why I don't believe a global flood, my primary reasons came from reading the thing in the Hebrew. Someone rejecting their pet 'worldview' because of reading the original version really messes with their minds.
Nahhh, the creationists just don't know much, but neither does Aron, when you get him involved in trying to discuss deep issues that cause evolution to be fatally defective, such as the 'minimum components' necessary to cause/facilitate ANY organism to live, thrive, reproduce. The number is in the hundreds to thousands, most of which must be immediately functional, inter-functional, in place, and ALL simultaneously, for the cell or larger organism to live, thrive, reproduce. It totally defeats gradualism of evo-illusion over time. Worse, there is no provable mechanism for evolution, which is why you all must stack conjectures on top of conjectures. You have nothing but guesswork as your pseudoscience. Sorry, just the facts. .
@@kirillzakharov7336 - Oh, contrare, Krillbait, since The God communicating with humankind, for thousands of years, and we have hundreds of specifically fulfilled prophecies, even ONE of which could NOT have taken place, w/out God, YET 99.99% of AronRa's farcical claims are entirely based upon conjecture, stacked on top of conjecture, and NEVER on top of original scientific facts. And, you say "stop projecting", haa, about what, oh bait-fish. You have to project your nonsense, which is scientifically impossible, which is the ONLY thing that protects your RaRa blather. It shall NEVER be valid science, so you have to lie your butts off to make believe that your stacks of conjectures have science to support them, but all you have are more conjectures, like children in a sandbox, inventing things, while you "play". You guys are funny, and quite self-deceived, to boot. Not even ONE scientist can demonstrate the known mechanism for evolution OR for abiogenesis. How sad, to have to lap up each others conjectures, only to have to spit them out on top of a pile of old conjectures. God IS. He set it up so that ALL who seek Him shall find Him. .
Hi Aron. A few summers ago i was working up in Northern Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle. One evening, after work, i decided to go hiking in the hilly tundra. On top of a rather large hill i plucked a coral fossil from the ground. I was astonished! I work with geologists so i took the sample to the head Geo and asked if he had any information on the formation. He stated that it was a coral fossil dating around 400 million years old! they let me bring the sample home! I like to bring this up to young Earth creationists whenever i debate them. The tundra is littered with these same coral fossil formations. I ended up making one of the creationists, i was debating, cry because of it. It's hard when you don't believe in the Old Earth theory OR Plate Tectonic Theory and you try your best apologetics to explain how coral was able to form in arctic regions, hundreds of miles away from the nearest ocean. Of course the best thing he could come up with is that God put that there to trick me into believing the Earth is older than it really is. I hate the "trickster god" theory that most apologists use as a last resort. If God wanted me to believe in him that badly they why would he put evidence contrary to the Bible for all to see? I really enjoy your lectures. Thank you!
I can understand your excitement over making your own fossil find. I have a fossil collection that I love - including dinosaur footprints - but gave up long ago showing it to creationists because they always say the same thing - "How do you know this thing is really hundreds of millions of years old? Were you there when it was formed smart guy? Of course not. You just have faith in laboratory tests which claim to give accurate ages but are really based on faulty assumptions and junk science. There is nothing in this universe older than 6,000 years."
For a really hilarious example of Creationist vs. Reality, look up standup comedian Bill Hicks confronting a Young Earth Christian with a one-word question: "Dinosaur?" Proof that truth is funnier than fiction.
Okay, so my question is this? How does somebody actually manage to keep this much knowledge in their head? I've never been so consistently entertainment by a UA-cam channel. It's an information buffet.
I'm sure he doesn't remember all of it. However, I have twice seen him realize that he didn't know something while conversing with other atheists. Just from the way he reacts, I'd be awfully surprised if he didn't find out about what he didn't know as soon as he could. He isn't the most brilliant speaker but he definitely puts in the work.
Grad students defending their thesis, whether Master's or Doctoral, have to keep a lot more information than that in their heads! I remember defending mine, and the relief afterwards that I could let go of the myriad details I had to know cold in order to answer any challenge posed to my conclusions.
It's amazing that Aron Randy has not been elevated to the same status as Bill Nye, Neil Degrasse Tyson, or dare I say Carl Regan. Aron RA is, in my humble opinion, one of most knowledgeable and gifted speakers today. Get rid of a dozen of these tv talk show host and put him in front of the camera and into the living rooms of this country. We could learn a hell of lot more from him rather than ellen or tyra banks empty garbage. Thank you Aron RA.
I adopted Texas, love that state, there are alot more cool folks than you may think, alot of backwards ass morons too though. But Texas has my vote, love em.
@Samuel Jesse Jonah Everyone of us will die, yes. But "sin" is a stupid Judaeo-Christian concept that doesn't exist outside the mind of religious nuts. So I'll just die as you will, you will have wasted your time worshiping a non-existing deity and I'll live my life free of religious interference, simple really.
I spit out my drink laughing while I was watching a video of Aron Ra explaining that since Noah's Ark only had one window, the 8 people on it would have almost immediately died from methane gas poisoning from the animals farting and pooping!
This is the best explanation of the origins of life on earth. .. simple, straight forward and easily under stood by anyone with a high school education 😊
Sir I owe you a huge apology. I judged you by the titles of your post and your look. I thought you were gonna be a crazy religious nut. I wound up watching your tour of the Ark by accident. Please please forgive me brother. I have been making the same arguments as yours for years and often people look at myself as ignorant. When it came to you and what I thought of you I was ignorant and for that I am sorry
It still amaze's me how this wealth of information will fall on deaf ears, through indoctrination & sheer ignorance!! But that's the religious for ya!!
It amazes me how gullible and ignorant brainwashed skeptics and evolutionists are who manipulate evidence to fit their "molecules to man" unproven hypothesis (that is all it is, certainly not a fact).
Climate Crisis happens in front of our eyes (it isn't really will happen at this point) and the warming of the ocean causes more hurricanes but people refuse to listen to the proof.
Being from the UK I find it surprising that Creationists try so hard to keep this ark story going. I suppose they have so much invested in the ideology that they daren't admit openly that they got it wrong. It would lead people to consider, if this bit is wrong then there are doubts about some other bits. Puts them on the defensive. Keep up the good work.
@@SOULRELIEF22 no we’re not hearing ANY gods fortunately. All we’re doing is losing religion and converting more and more churches into useful buildings.
@@SOULRELIEF22 except there’s no contemporary evidence jesus of the bible even existed never mind died (well gave up a weekend) for anyone. As I do not believe in sin it would have all been in vain anyway.
The saddest part about Noah's flood is how god damn boring it is. Like the science in this series is great and super interesting, far more interesting than anything in genesis. Has any Genesis literalist ever taken on this series in it's entirety? I'd grab my scorecard to grade the mental gymnastics it'd require to preserve their faith and their dignity.
That's cuz you have a Messa Luca in ya, and have an urgent & constant desire to dismiss the reality that God IS. It is impossible that there is no god or no God. Evolution is a fraud, since it has living organisms that somehow came into existence without all the abilities to live, thrive, reproduce, because it "evolved". Get it yet? A scorecard in the hands of someone who has preconceived notions that evo-illusion is valid, is NOT a scorecard, but it's a piece of toilet paper. .
I can't believe just how intelligent you are. I was an evolutionary biology major from UW Madison, and now in pharmacy school, but I don't know nearly as much as you! Keep up the great videos!!
I'm so glad you made this video. Ken Ham's group came through my town this weekend. This is just the kind of refutation to everything they believe that we need to progress as a scientifically literate society. Thank you Aron for being a voice of reason.
It's actually rather unfortunate that the Ark fable needs to even be refuted in the first place. People are so utterly helpless to believe in such incomprehensibly false myths.
The trouble is that people read the Bible like it was the diary of their best friend's great-grandfather, forgetting that it is ancient literature that has to be read from the point of view of the ancient writer and his audience in their ancient culture. Of course reading it that way would require learning and thinking, two things that far too many people are apparently allergic to.
@@MarkoVukovic0 What was "modified"? and what "narrative"? If you're referring to the Noah account, it shows maybe three levels of editing, none of which was made to "suit a narrative".
@@MarkoVukovic0 But the Bible hasn't been "modified... many times" -- that's a false claim with no basis in fact. All the evidence shows that among all ancient documents we have, the Bible is about the least-modified one we have, with something like maybe one change per millennium.
The final episode in this series should be called "How Common Sense Disproves Noah's Flood". Seriously, it should be more obvious to people that this is nothing more than a fable, and an unoriginal one at that.
We might have believed that the Tories would spend £350m a a week to the NHS, but that's not quite as daft as a 600 year old man building a boat for all the animals, who got there in time to avoid drowning, or being eaten by the other animals
+Purple Sabbath - That is the part I will always find confounding. Indoctrination from an early age can and does allow an individual to reconcile archaic nonsense against a modern era education but there should be a limit. The Ark fable is so far past the threshold of common sense that there should be no one in this day and age arguing its veracity, yet there are.
I worked for the Mote Marine in Sarasota AND at the Woods Hole facility of NOAA. So nice to hear facts, hypotheses and theories in an environment that psycho religious extremists have no sway. :)
There are other serious flaws in the story of Noah and the ark. The ark landed in Turkey. 1) Why are there no North or South American, French or Russian kangaroos? 2) How did the kangaroos get to the ISLAND of Australia? 3) Incest is not only permitted, it is encouraged. Every person today descended from Noah's four sons. 4) If we all descended from Noah, explain Watusi, pygmy, oriental, Cherokee, Mayans and Ken Ham. 5) Lions and tigers eat 10 to 25 pounds of meat a day, EACH. Just how many gazelles did Noah bring? 6) Elephants eat 200 to 600 pounds of plants per day, EACH. That top deck must have one hell of a garden. 7) Elephants drink 50 gallons of water per day, EACH. Can you say, "bucket brigade"? 8) Bringing in thousands of gallons of water per day means you have to get rid of thousands of gallons. 9) That thousands of pounds of food had to be disposed of when the animals were finished with it. Of course, they actually produce a document explaining some of this: answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/how-could-noah-fit-the-animals-on-the-ark-and-care-for-them/ Next time you hear the expression, "You just can't make this shit up.", smack that person, and reply, "Oh yes, you can."
To paraphrase the Simpsons, "Some folk won't believe the flood myth but then again some folk'll, like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel". Believing the story of Noah's ark to be actual historical fact is idiotic.
The fact that some biblical things were myths doesn't mean that everything is the Bible is a myth, Jesus resurection is almost a historic fact, you can search about It. If the first Christians were willing to be killed for spreading the gospel it must've been for a good reason, because they truly knew that Jesus miracles and Jesus resurection had actually been TRUE
@@kuwandak Flat Earthers are more worst.Earth's shape can be observed by the simple logic and science.I can accept people don't accept evolution but flat earthers are just ignorant and delusional.
Your god, or the god you imagine, must be ultra tiny, for you to say something as simple as the ark is absurdly impossible. Look at a living cell under scope, and you'll see what is impossible. However, it is real as can be. How did it come into existence, when it requires thousands of working components to allow it to live, thrive & reproduce, and all such components are required simultaneously. Think, oh Michael murphy, think. .
Coral is alive?? I thought it was a kind of mineral formation... after googling it, I now know ther are not even plants, they are consider animals! (so cool)
Animals with symbiotic plants used as sort-of power-sources from what i remember.. albeit vaguely... And to not sound like a complete doofus, here's a wikipedia snippet pertaining to corals. [Although some corals can catch small fish and plankton using stinging cells on their tentacles, most corals obtain the majority of their energy and nutrients from photosynthetic unicellular dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium that live within their tissues]
Great, informative video. I confess that I was, at one time in my life, a Creationist and a believer in Noah's Ark.Whenever I see anything to do with paleontology it always reminds me of something that happened when I was in 8th grade. I went to a very strict, very German Lutheran school-every word of the Bible is true, so on and so forth. We had one problem in our math textbook that I remember as using math to calculate the age of a bone, or something. Just a fun exercise. Our teacher for math, who was 30 years old and fervent, to say the least, said "we are skipping over this lesson because I consider paleontology to be the science of the devil.'And there you have it. Amen, brother. True story. Nothing like using terror tactics to scare children out of a potential love of science. Funny thing, too. This teacher had a Master's Degree in mathematics, so it isn't as if logic was beyond his comprehension.
Your strict German Lutheran school was almost beyond doubt run by people influenced by German Pietism; they're the ones who insisted the Bible had to be taken literally -- most Lutherans didn't particularly worry about it!
This guy is an awesome teacher. I didn’t believe in the flood to begin with, but he has such a wonderful knack for explaining science that I learned a lot anyway.
"Who knows how many species we don't know about today because their fossils were uncovered, but discarded by folks who didn't notice the significance of what had just passed through their fingers?" I do. I know the answer. 42. You're welcome.
Thank you! I grew up in a fundamentalist baptist family so these videos help me correct my ignorance. Can you do a video explaining fossilized trees that are claimed to be "polystratic".
Donald Vincent tony reed has a series called "how creationism taught me real science" and that was the topic of an episode. i recommend his series as a former fundamentalist Christian.
I was just about to recommend a video by Tony Reed (in his _How Creationism Taught Me Real Science_ series) on this issue... plus I was going to look for the Wildwoodclaire1 episode, but it seems to have deleted... ... then I noticed that clayton henrickson and Carl McMahan beat me to those two recommendations! I'll suggest to Aron that this "polystrate tree" thing would make a good topic for a stand-alone video. He's definitely aware of the issue, as he already mentioned it (briefly) in the _Foundational Falsehoods_ series. The thing is... The interesting story isn't so much about the "polystrate trees" (and the correct explanation for this phenomenon). The really interesting story is the way that the "polystrate tree" nonsense was invented and spread around creationist circles, and how the lie is _knowingly_ propagated by modern creationists.
Brilliant - informed and educated - commentary. I loved the drawing of a T-Rex on Noah's boat. Considering Kent Hovind, a self appointed non-scientist creationist, suggests that humans and dinosaurs lived together makes it clear that they would have had to accompany the other creatures on Noah's boat.
Learn about elementary set theory, probability, and calculus before you make such baseless assertions... For starters examine Cantor's diagnal proof, which demonstrates that there are more real numbers than natural numbers ie: a countably infinite set vs an uncountably infinite set. Then examine the axiom of choice, and learn the difference between ordinals and cardinals. Infinity may not be number in the typical sense, but we sure as hell can apply math to it, and under the proper conditions, it certainly does behave like it would if it were a number. Don't flaunt your ignorance...
Hey, this is such a more mature response to religious folks than me going into the comment sections of Christian UA-cam channels so I can talk shit about Jesus. I enjoyed the video, I'll subscribe.
My respect and admiration for AronRa grows with each and everyone of his excellent videos. He is the voice of Reason in a howling wilderness of willful ignorance and religious superstition. Thank you brother AronRa!
Kevin Nazario said: Regardless of whay you may or not believe, this guy knows his stuff. Every scientific explanation should be like this one, respecful and informed. Ron's response: Are you sure he is informed? Or does his explanation fit your anti flood bias? Here is my point of view There are upwards of 1,300,000 species of animals. However, over 60 percent of these are insects. Breaking these figures down further, of the 24,000 amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 10,000 are birds, 9,000 are reptiles and amphibians, many of which could have survived outside the ark, and only 5,000 are mammals, including whales and porpoises, which would have also remained outside the ark. Other researchers estimate that there are only about 290 species of land mammals larger than sheep and about 1,360 smaller than rats. So, even if estimates are based on these expanded figures, the ark could easily have accommodated a pair of all these animals. Besides the flood was not caused just by the rain. Underground springs opened up and flowed for 5 months. There is 6 quintilian gallons of water within the first 1.5 miles of the earths crust and enough water trapped below that to equal three times the amount of water in the ocean. At one time we did not have the high rocky mountains or yemiliah mountain range. From what I see the earth at one time could have easily been completely covered with water. The scientist have to keep proving their theories and the churches have to keep teaching untruths so it balances out. The truth is not everyone will accept bible teachings or can have faith and the bible was written in such a manner to keep out those people not deserving to know what it teaches.
@@tabsinabox yes but cannot ignore Bible history and what the true God did to his named people. Anyone not on his side at Armageddon will not survive. Anyone supporting the world's political element in violation of God's laws will not survive. Anyone fighting against the true God by fighting his people will not survive. When I say they won't survive I mean they will be destroyed with Satan and his followers regardless who they are.
@@tabsinabox If after reading about ancient Israel and walked away feeling like it was all about falsehoods I would have to say you either did not read it close enough, did not understand what was being said or why the life of the Israelites were recorded. There is a typical and an anti-typical story to the bible. It talks about tangible things and non-tangible things or human things and spiritual things. If you get them mixed up you might think it is talking about falsehoods. When a person reads the bible with their religious, political and educational biases the truth will get distorted quickly. The biblical story from Genesis to Malachi points to Jesus Christ and his kingdom and the Israelites were God's chosen people whose future ancestors would become joint heirs with Jesus Christ in heaven or spiritual Israel. The first four gospels is a biography of Jesus Christ. The remaining books in the Greek scriptures, Acts through Jude, were letter written to the local congregations by the then acting governing body. The book of revelation provides a word picture description of heaven and goes on to explain what will happen to religion and government and what humans can expect for their future. That would be the ones who survive Armageddon and the ones resurrected from the dead. Every human on earth has a chance and it is free however most people will reject the free gift as they have from day one. To ignore God’s purpose concerning his Son, to build hopes on any other foundation, to form conclusions regarding one’s life course on any other basis would be to believe a lie, to be deceived, to follow the leading of the father of lies, God’s Adversary. (Matthew 7:24-27; John 8:42-47)
Come on, a six year old could disprove Noahs ark. He's taking the low hanging fruit here. Try proving that the community support religious people get from their church family is psychologically destructive and the isolation which a lot of modern society lives in is somehow preferable. Then he'll get an A+.
Lots of PhDs know that there was a global flood. The world does NOT need an Aron Ra to claim otherwise, just because he doesn't know or want to know about supernatural reality. .
Aron I honestly don't think the world, hopefully in a few years, will be able to thank you enough for showing people the actual secular truthful trees through the sinister dark religious wood! You are a beacon of hope in a still ignorant & superstitious world! The work you do on here is amazing & for standing up to pricks like *David Pack* you deserve a medal! Love, respect & thanks mate from the *UK!*
There is a really sad part to all of this. The sad part is it has to be explained in detail and still, people will not believe it. It's willful ignorance. Sad.
Wow!! I´ve followed you for years and years and years watching you "fight" the stupidity, ignorance, and insufferable cowardice of the fire and brimstone club members, but you never cease to amaze me with your clear, insightful and "charming no-nonsense" way of "fairy tale stomping" scholarship. You made me sit on my five letters (in German it´s 5 letters) for a whole extra hour on a beautiful Sunday afternoon because I was so enamoured by this episode (I live in North Germany, so we don´t have that many "beautiful sunny" days of summer). I teach at an Elementary school and love my job and children more than anything else I´ve ever done or had and I hope that my children enjoy learning with me as much as I enjoy "learning" with you. We´re roughly the same age so I know we´ll have you for at least 15-20 years. That´s just about the time we need, to try as we can, to see another generation grow up without the senseless fear, prejudice or self-serving ignorance that sky god cheerleaders try to make this world to be. It´s good that most children grow up here knowing that the adventures of Superman, the threat of boogiemen and the reality of gods are just-so-stories no different than the tales of Odin, Thor and that bitch Frigga. Never ever give up, you motorhead-demon-wizard looking Texan you.
I just found you on UA-cam last night and I can't stop watching. I would like to say thank you. Thank you for doing these videos. I am going to show your videos to all my friends. Keep up the great work!
The idea that all these animals existed at the same time is completely unsustainable. Every niche already filled today would have so much competition if we include every extinct animal, or even just a select few of them. Food webs and predator/prey relationships would also have to be so much more complex than can reasonably exist. From an ecological point of few, this cannot be either true or the result of intelligent design, as the time would be fraught with chaotic suffering and ultimately end in the pointless death of almost every living variety.
I don’t understand why we would need to resort to science. Noah’s flood, much like the idea that the universe was made by a really big ghost, is just fucking stupid.
What I think I love best about this series is how beautifully it shows the convergence and interconnection of ostensibly distinct scientific disciplines. Well done.
This would be short, unpleasant and unedifying. Ken Spam would continue to shout "were you there??", would not acknowledge ANYTHING AronRa would say, would in fact act like AronRa would have been silent the whole time, and would later claim victory and bitter resentment like he did with Nye. AronRa on the other hand would not debate at all. You need two for a debate, what AronRa would give would be called a speech ;-)
Bill Nye did quite enough to legitimize The Hamster. It is impossible to win a debate against someone who simply denies reality and reason at every turn; especially when said denial makes him filthy rich. Dad had a favorite saying. "Don't waste time talking to liars. Talk about them or ignore them."
I never understood why Christians think Noah's Flood was something good, and a good story to teach to children. Taken at face value, it's a horror story of genocide on a global scale by an evil god. Good thing it didn't happen, and like the rest of Genesis, it's just a story from the imagination of a few men.
The fact that some biblical things were myths doesn't mean that everything is the Bible is a myth, Jesus resurection is almost a historic fact, you can search about It. If the first Christians were willing to be killed for spreading the gospel it must've been for a good reason, because they truly knew that Jesus miracles and Jesus resurection had actually been TRUE
@@Lichtgeschwindigkeit196 thanks for your thoughts, dude! I mean...a lot of different people have been willing to die for a lot of different reasons throughout history. Just ask Jim Jones. I don't think that makes them any more correct in their ideas. Still, I respect your beliefs, and I'm so glad that we both have the right to have this discussion. I don't think there's any actual evidence of a resurrection, but I will do my best to research that subject and get back to you.
Wonderful teacher. Clear and crisp explanations, based on facts and nothing but facts. And he knows the art of dressing sharp, which is an expression of respect both to his public and to himself, that we do not always see on UA-cam. Well done sir!
I'm from Southern Australia and several regions here were underwater and a volcanic hotspot has slowly moved from the Top of Queensland to below Melbourne over the past 40-45 million years. In an area near where I grew up there is an extinct volcanic ridge and this area is also believed to be underwater 30-40 million years ago, theres a river which has erroded different areas and If you go on a long forest hike near the river you can find multiple types of rocks i've never seen before and they've found various fossil types from different ages. ive got 2 mini fossils that could either be leaves or fish fins, idk but they're awesome
The reaction that creationists have to the paluxy tracks always confuses me because they’re far too large and the strides are far too long to be human in origin.
Noah's Ark and flood story is so disconnected from Nature that it cancels itself out. When I discovered people were debating the truth of this fairy tale I lost my faith in human intelligence.
Well, here's what will really screw you up then: People are ACTING on this myth as if it were real. Their lives and their identities are tied up in this nonsense to the point that even if they are provided clear and direct evidence to the contrary, they'll disbelieve it. Now that makes ya wish for a good hot plague, doesn't it?
*lost my faith?* Then you missed forest because of the trees...LOL. Did you know that 99.99999% of ALL trees on earth are 4300 years old or younger? What cause a worldwide reset of trees? We know they can grow to be much older. BTW the Noah event occurred about 4300 years ago.
Dangit, I thought a dry lesson on Paleontology would lull me to sleep. But you make this WAY too interesting! What I wouldn't have given to have you as science teacher! Or at least a recurring guest! Love ya Aron, keep educating people! You've already made a huge impact in my educational pursuits!
This is so much more interesting, entertaining and true than any stories or explanations from traditional Biblical mythology (Buybull). Awesome video AronRa; you kick @$$ man!
Hi, I'm reasonably sure that the coral reefs that produced the Guadalupe mountains predate the Western Interior seaway, in that they are Permian aged. This ancient reef, its association with the formation that produced Carlsbad caverns in New Mexico, local evaporites, and Permian basin fossil fuels are all indicative of and consistent with a particular extended paleo environment of reefs and intermittently sequestered tropical lagoons.
I have learned more intelligent evidence based information in 20 minutes than I had in 11 years of so called catholic/scientific education. Thank You Aron! In eleventh grade I saw the light and have since questioned everything until the real evidence I discover out ways the old and many times manipulated so called evidence. At 66 I still crave and enjoy learning about the real history of the world and universe.
Great video! Short, to the point, and yet chalk full of meaty data and science. Videos like this make me want to transport back to Sunday School and Religion class at BYU and drop some facts on all those uneducated "teachers" telling me that there is proof of the flood all over the earth. It is so sad to me that I grew up so blindly accepting claims as evidence.
Thank you +AronRa.The bible and story of Noah's flood disprove themselves, if people just have common sense. Faith blocks that common sense. Thank you for spreading truth & education.
All the excuses of well God made things grow faster. Why didn't he just vaporize all the bad people. Wham done. Everything is made so complicated. I mean, if he can make something out of nothing why not just zap them.
Kenneth Schrank You can’t research god because he has no observable effect on reality (which is something non existent things have quite the tendency to do). The god you want us to believe in is a panacea, meaning that he can answer literally anything because he’s a fucking wizard. Having some imaginary thing to solve every problem you don’t know the answer to is the opposite of science
This video is so awesome! And even better it started with the find of the first Mosasaurus in my town! I've seen the caves in which it was found many times, what a shock it must have been to the farmers that found it.
Seriously, this video should be shown every year, to every grade school and high school in the US Bible Belt indefinitely.
This whole series needs to be shown, especially to all YECs
I would pay good money to see the parents of the bible belt riot
@Viggen Is this something new in the USA?
Don't forget the people in the Federal Government, there are some there who disbelieve Evolution. The people who elected them must be stupider than they are.
What? There are high schools that teach mythology as literal truth.
In all fairness, Noah's flood disproves Noah's flood.
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This comment is of excellent quality.
Noah was 600 when he entered the ark, he was on the ark for over one year, and he lived another 350 years after leaving the ark. How many years did Noah live???????????? Does the bible say 951 or 950 years????????????
The bible says:
"So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died." -Genesis 9:29
Noah's flood disproves Noah's flood? any details would be great......
stolen history? It's seems to me it's a story based on REAL world wide event. Why do hundreds of ancient civilizations worldwide has some account of a massive flood with a family as survivors? This was before telephones, internet, magazines, telegraph, ocean going ships; was this worldwide conspiracy?
You don't actually need to disprove it. THEY need to prove it, something they have failed miserably at.
Well, a book of bronze age fables says so, so that's enough proof for them!
Well, it's actually quite easy to disprove it and it has been disproven so many times, that it can only be called insanity to blieve in it.
Though it is true that they need to prove it, being able to categorically disprove it makes double sure. I am not sure how a human can still believe such stories these days. I do not know how a mind like that operates.
One problem is that the people they choose to try proving it are pretty slick speakers. Some (few, actually) have backgrounds in geology or paleontology. Some will try using jokes instead of scientific explanations to keep the attention of the audience...who know very little real science and who are so gullible.
I'm embarrassed to be an American nowadays whenever scientific debate comes up (on any topic) or when very simplistic logical thinking is needed. And, now we have an EPA director who has been against the EPA, and we have a chairman of the House Science Committee who disbelieves climate change and who disingenuously brings in speakers for his side instead of an equal number for both. We have moronic politicians like Michelle Bachman who believe any outlandish claim against vaccination before checking up on the person let alone the claim. We have people like Betsy DeVos in charge of our children's education policies.
The dark days are coming if the Trump Epoch can't be kept in check. And, the results will be felt long after it's over.
Glen Hill
You sir are correct, Trump and his tribe are gonna take us into another Dark Age of no science.
It is funny when creationists dismiss the Big Bang saying that an "explosion can't create order", but somehow they believe that a catastrophic flood sorted all the fossils in organized layers.
The new line I'm hearing from them is that the big bang is the beginning of the universe, and it proves genesis.
What's funny about that statement is that order was never a part of the big bang and that entropy is actively destroying the universe.
@@AnarquiaCookbookyes and no. Big picture, sure, entropy matters. But at our scale, we *are* the agents of entropy. Life as a whole, humans especially so.
@@thedave1771 usually they're speaking in the scope of the universe. This is generally a conversation of the creation of the universe. They believe that in a universe that has been created, order has to be a given because they believe in a creator, and if there's a creator then the creator created order. What they don't understand is that order doesn't exist lmao
@@robinpage2730 Nothing proves ,Genesis religion is only for the braindead
I've been an atheist for 3 years so far.... Never regretted it at all, never going back to religion ever.... Thanks for these video's Aron.
@Just a man. even if he is still an atheist by looking at his channel I can tell he still failed as being a member of the alt right(his last video is of a literal Nazi) is antithetical to reality, just as creationism is
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Evidence of Jesus’s Miracles outside the Bible
Have you wondered if there was any “proof” of the miracles of Jesus, outside the Bible (and outside of the writings of believers)? There are documents in which these writers provided us with evidence that Jesus worked miracles, but in writing, intended to downplay belief in such miracles.
The first comes from the Babylonian Talmud 43a. Babylonian Talmud (late first or second century AD) Babylonian Sanhedrin43a-b “On the eve of the Passover they hanged Yeshu and the herald went before him for forty days saying [Yeshu] is going forth to be stoned in that he hate practiced sorcery and beguiled and led astray Israel.
Here Jesus is accused of sorcery, in obvious parallel with the charge leveled in Matthew 12:22-23. The writer of the Talmud does not agree that Jesus worked bona fide miracles, but he reports that he did things which, to the enemy of Jesus could only be written off as sorcery.
In the very early century AD Jewish literature, in "tHul 2:22-23" it is reported that healings were done in the name of Jesus. So we have indirect confirmation of the crucifixion of Jesus and of his working of public miracles-only charging that the miracles were worked by Satan, not God.
Flavius Josephus, Jewish Historian
Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works-a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
Celsus was a Greek writer in the second century who criticized Christianity as a threat to the stable communities and worldview that the "pagan" religious and social system sought to uphold. His work as a whole has been lost, but when the third-century theologian Origen sought to answer Celsus' charges in a work appropriately called Against Celsus, he preserved most of Celsus' criticisms. Origen's replies are certainly worth reading in their own right, but the following excerpt is chosen in order to show how a thoughtful "pagan" viewed Christianity.
[Celsus] accuses [Jesus] of having "invented his birth from a virgin," and upbraids Him with being "born in a certain Jewish village, of a poor woman of the country, who gained her subsistence by spinning, and who was turned out of doors by her husband, a carpenter by trade, because she was convicted of adultery; that after being driven away by her husband, and wandering about for a time, she disgracefully gave birth to Jesus, an illegitimate child, who having hired himself out as a servant in Egypt on account of his poverty, and having there acquired some miraculous powers, on which the Egyptians greatly pride themselves, returned to his own country, highly elated on account of them, and by means of these proclaimed himself a God."...
The point I would make from this material in the Jewish Talmud from the late first century is that it proves that Jesus was a person they felt they had to deal with and that it was sufficiently common knowledge that he worked signs and wonders that they felt they had to address this by claiming that Jesus did his miracles by the power of Satan (sorcery).
Does this “prove” that Jesus worked miracles? Maybe or maybe not.
What it proves is that many in his day were convinced that he worked miracles and that his enemies were aware of sufficient positive evidence of this that they felt they needed to explain it.
In summary, the request for “proof” in written documents that Jesus did in fact work miracles from non-believers is, logically, a very high bar indeed. We can assume that most of those who witnessed his miracles either came to believe in him or found ways to explain away what they saw. In fact, I believe that it is striking that we have these documented examples of non-Christians feeling the need to explain what seems to have been common knowledge that there was much reason to believe Jesus worked miracles.
This does indeed corroborate the accounts of miracles and wonders performed by Jesus in the Bible.
Evidence of Jesus' existence outside the Bible
I find it striking that proof exists about Jesus from unbiased sources outside of the Bible. Some of these writers have provided direct evidence of Christians, while others have provided indirect evidence of the existence of Jesus and of His crucifixion. The writings of these writers offer a peek into the current events taking place from the late first century to the late second century. I find difficulty in downplaying or explaining away these writers' writings on the account of the prestige and social position they held, and the disdain illustrated in some of their writing.
Tacitus, The Greatest Roman historian, and senator
Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind.
He then describes the torture of Christians:
Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired. Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good, but to glut one man’s cruelty, that they were being destroyed.
Mara Bar-Serapion,
He was a Syrian philosopher, who wrote a letter to his son sometime after AD 73. There is only one manuscript of his letter in existence and preserved in the British Museum.
"What advantage did the Athenians gain from putting Socrates to death? Famine and plague came upon them as a judgment for their crime. What advantage did the men of Samos gain from burning Pythagoras? In a moment their land was covered with sand. What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their wise King? It was just after that that their kingdom was abolished. God justly avenged these three wise men: the Athenians died of hunger; the Samians were overwhelmed by the sea; the Jews, ruined and driven from their land, live in complete dispersion. But Socrates did not die for good; he lived on in the statue of Hera. Nor did the wise King die for good; he lived on in the teaching which he had given."
Lucian,
"The Christians, you know, worship a man to this day-the distinguished personage who introduced their novel rites, and was crucified on that account. … You see, these misguided creatures start with the general conviction that they are immortal for all time, which explains their contempt of death and voluntary self-devotion which are so common among them; and then it was impressed on them by their original lawgiver that they are all brothers, from the moment that they are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws. All this they take quite on faith, with the result that they despise all worldly goods alike, regarding them merely as common property."
Pliny the Younger,
Is another valuable historical source for information on Jesus and the early Church. Pliny was the governor of the Roman province of Bithynia, located in Asia Minor. In the year 112 AD, he wrote to the Emperor Trajan, asking how he should deal with those in his region who have been accused of being Christians.
In the letter, Pliny describes the practices of these “criminals”:
“They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of food-but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.”
Flavius Josephus, Jewish Historian
Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works-a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus,
Was a Roman historian and court official during the reign of Emperor Hadrian.
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome. Punishment by Nero was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.
Thallus, a secular historian
Unreasonably of course, because a solar eclipse could not take place at the time of the full moon, and it was at the season of the Paschal full moon that Christ died.
Phlegon of Tralles, was a Greek writer
During the time of Tiberius Caesar, an eclipse of the sun occurred during the full moon".
Julius Africanus, wrote around AD 221
He quotes Tallus' comments about the darkness that enveloped the land during the late afternoon hours when Jesus died on the cross: Tallus, in the third book of his histories.
(Julius Africanus also quoting Phelgon of Tralles, Chronography, 18.1)
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Thank you so much for this series! I'm really happy I saw a lot of arguments and responses I haven't heard before.
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TREY the Explainer Just know that the Universe is your real Dad and dose not need any God to be intelligent on it's own and maybe our intelligence will pass on through the universe.
TREY the Explainer trey could you do a video on the quetzalquatle (that giant pterosaur)
TREY the Explainer please...
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You know, there's a fact that sometimes gets lost in all the atheism debates and social issue crusades: You're one Hell of a teacher.
Steve Donoghue I want to see one (1) debate that has Fact Checkers right there for both sides.
Rules : whichever side has 3 unfactual claims.....LOSES
Anti-theist Atheist -- agreed totally--not only loses, but should be horsewhipped! (Not that any horses should be whipped!) Oh, man, that would be a debate worth watching! And it should be 3 unfactual claims "first," not in total--neither side could pass otherwise. And that would stop the debate...then they could try again the next day or something. Oh, I wish it were so!
Steve Donoghue Best argument. Why credit your great mind too an asshole God who hides from you? The Universe is inteligant and tangible so why not accept it's are real Dad.
ghost Unix tf did you just say?
ghost Unix
The universe is wonderful but it is not inteligente.
It is not helpful to transfer religious ideas (god/universe = father/dad).
How can anybody over 6 believe the Noah's Ark story? 140,000 K birds on a boat lined with tar for a year!? Have you ever cleaned up a bird cage? And that's just the birds.
Well there is this thing I call swarm stupidity. If you tell a child a story without telling him that it was just made up he'll believe it. And if you miss the chance to tell him that it was all bs before he hits puperty, he'll have it stuck in his mind forever. Especially if he is surrounded by idiots who believe the same bs and encourage his nonsensical beliefs.
+May the Science be with You. So true. The bible itself preaches the importance of early childhood brainwashing.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Kind of birds not specie. Kind is a vague word that means nothing.
What's a "K" bird? Oh...wait--140,000 thousand birds? Meaning billions of birds? That's a lotta poop and birdseed...
Gage Blackwood (what a super name!): The Jesuits say, "Give us a child until he is five and he is ours forever."
I was in a discussion with a Muslim about Noah and the flood. The Muslim declared that the flood was a miracle of God. I stated that there is clear and abundant evidence that there never was a global flood, then I threw in some details. The Muslim declared that in Islam it isn't a global flood but more of a regional flood. I mused that a regional flood is not much of a miracle. I had an uncle who lived near a stream that became miraculous every time there was six hours of sustained rain.
The Bible doesn't say there was a world wide flood. The people who wrote it didn't know what a world was. The word used in the Hebrew is eratz, which you may know from Eratz Israel, the land of Israel.
Worldwide must be assumed since the bible says every living thing was wiped out. It doesn't say every living thing in a certain radius, does it? It also says all the mountains, not just the ones known at the time. It was worldwide or nothing worth talking about.
@gamesbox What's that passage in the bible where it talks about how that the Lord says that they get a little education and think they know something?
Can anyone present info showing where Jude 1:6 KJV plagiarized from?
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into
hell, delivering them in chains to be held in gloomy darkness until
their judgment;
Jude 1:6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own
habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto
the judgment of the great day.
Man, we really lucked out that these hyper predators didn't exist at the same time as us.
Basically man would have never existed if it wasn't for the asteroid that hit 65 million years ago.
xenoblad I really miss my pet raptor...
May the Science be with You it's not the existence part that scares me. It's the being chewed to death by some huge monster predator that freaks me out.
Me not being fertilized as an egg or having a different sperm hit the egg would be a lot less terrifying.
xenoblad That actually might be a reason why we are so smart. Gestation duration. We have time to raise children for years, gestate as big brains as our pelvises allow, and they have time to develop and learn. And we have plenty of food to feed that.
Other animals that take that mich time or more to create or raise their young, that have such a long reproductive cycle, are very smart, complex. Elephants, dolphins, monkeys, etc. And also very comparatively safe and secure.
Trumposaurus is a hyper predator...so glad (sarc) he's at the top of the food chain now! And won't it be super if Pence gets in? Rationality has gone to hell.
Lookin' slick in that suit, Aron.
Nailed it yet again.
I agree with Aron wearing a suit but he should unbutton it as big guys look funny when they don't.
JosephM1750 especially when they are 3 sizes too small.
naw he looks fine buttoned, just needs to tailor it
lmao, no. Just needed a different off the rack fit or let out sides/center seams. The jacket size has to do with the shoulder width off the rack
Nice profile pic.
As a scientist (comparative geneticist), teacher and sometime creation debater, I must say that I am impressed with your series. Please keep up the good work.
The fact that, in this information age, we still have to explain to grown people the implausibility of an obvious fictional children's story is really sad. What does it say about the state of America's education?
It's pure crap, and seems like it is going to get much worse before it _may_ get better. We need to teach people how to use critical thinking skills at a young age.
Yeah, and we need to get them into their skulls before the church gets the chance to indoctrinate them.
+Roxor128 You're fucking right about that !
Charl Greyvensteyn Which atheists? Most of the progressive politicians and Muslim apologists claim to be Christians(in fact, hardly any politicians of any significant rank in the US are atheist because the electorate, on average, won't vote for them) and some very outspoken critics of Islam, who want tougher actions taken against its inherent misogyny and barbarism, are and were atheists like Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. So I ask again, _which_ atheists. Please be specific.
its not just america.
the whole world is full of religitards
and flattards
That "deliberately deceptive" bit is what drove me away from creationism.
@Pure Facts Oh dear. Seems you don't understand that the true things in the Bible were still true at the time and weren't revelations, to anybody.
That's like me saying, China Miéville must be writing the truth about magic because his descriptions of London are 100% accurate!
What you need to do "Pure Facts" (my arse) is work on your critical thinking skills rather than donning your god hat.
Pathetic and very flawed 'reasoning' from you.
isn't time for your pills? Or hasn't Santa told you so yet?
@nic sharp The talking "serpent" (yea, not snake) is meant to be symbolic. I just think maybe you have been ruined by protestants. We Catholics believe in a 14 billion year old universe. Remember, it was a Catholic priest who proposed the Big Bang Theory. Catholics love science.
@Knowledge Strange...still most patients I met while working in a psychiatric hospital were religious...mmmh. Well in the end it doesn't matter. Illness does not care to much about religion. Believe in whatever you want, but it's still very funny to see that you first criticise "one little part of the topic" only to answer on a sascastic comment by a third person in a similiar way.
@Knowledge Were I come from many people are not theists. Yeah most still are, but not creationists. But that does not matter to much - illness does not care about religion very much. Sure: it is helpful to have a imaganiry "friend", but that's it. Sciencedaily or that republican link...I would not call that studies. I do not care for your christian top IQ people. Were is your link on that? I don't see why I should believe that statement. In the end it doesn't matter, christianity didn't make them intelligent or something.
The way AronRa explains things is as compelling as it is truly informative. Brilliant.
Aron Ra casually roasting Creationists is just SO damn enjoyable
I enjoy it because I read the stories in the Hebrew, where it's more evident that they are "theological mythology", well-known stories based on some real event that are recast using poetic forms in order to be even more memorable than the actual event for the purpose of teaching a lesson. I also nearly got a degree in geology, and love listening to calm, rational analysis involving that subject area.
I also enjoy driving young-Earth creationists crazy by telling them that science is hardly on the radar for why I don't believe a global flood, my primary reasons came from reading the thing in the Hebrew. Someone rejecting their pet 'worldview' because of reading the original version really messes with their minds.
@@traildude7538 honestly theology and mythology are basically the same lol
Nahhh, the creationists just don't know much, but neither does Aron, when you get him involved in trying to discuss deep issues that cause evolution to be fatally defective, such as the 'minimum components' necessary to cause/facilitate ANY organism to live, thrive, reproduce.
The number is in the hundreds to thousands, most of which must be immediately functional, inter-functional, in place, and ALL simultaneously, for the cell or larger organism to live, thrive, reproduce. It totally defeats gradualism of evo-illusion over time.
Worse, there is no provable mechanism for evolution, which is why you all must stack conjectures on top of conjectures. You have nothing but guesswork as your pseudoscience. Sorry, just the facts.
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@@david77james stop projecting. evolution has a lot more evidence supporting it that creationists could ever even hope to accrue
@@kirillzakharov7336 - Oh, contrare, Krillbait, since The God communicating with humankind, for thousands of years, and we have hundreds of specifically fulfilled prophecies, even ONE of which could NOT have taken place, w/out God, YET 99.99% of AronRa's farcical claims are entirely based upon conjecture, stacked on top of conjecture, and NEVER on top of original scientific facts.
And, you say "stop projecting", haa, about what, oh bait-fish. You have to project your nonsense, which is scientifically impossible, which is the ONLY thing that protects your RaRa blather. It shall NEVER be valid science, so you have to lie your butts off to make believe that your stacks of conjectures have science to support them, but all you have are more conjectures, like children in a sandbox, inventing things, while you "play".
You guys are funny, and quite self-deceived, to boot. Not even ONE scientist can demonstrate the known mechanism for evolution OR for abiogenesis. How sad, to have to lap up each others conjectures, only to have to spit them out on top of a pile of old conjectures.
God IS. He set it up so that ALL who seek Him shall find Him.
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Hi Aron. A few summers ago i was working up in Northern Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle. One evening, after work, i decided to go hiking in the hilly tundra. On top of a rather large hill i plucked a coral fossil from the ground. I was astonished! I work with geologists so i took the sample to the head Geo and asked if he had any information on the formation. He stated that it was a coral fossil dating around 400 million years old! they let me bring the sample home! I like to bring this up to young Earth creationists whenever i debate them. The tundra is littered with these same coral fossil formations. I ended up making one of the creationists, i was debating, cry because of it. It's hard when you don't believe in the Old Earth theory OR Plate Tectonic Theory and you try your best apologetics to explain how coral was able to form in arctic regions, hundreds of miles away from the nearest ocean. Of course the best thing he could come up with is that God put that there to trick me into believing the Earth is older than it really is. I hate the "trickster god" theory that most apologists use as a last resort. If God wanted me to believe in him that badly they why would he put evidence contrary to the Bible for all to see? I really enjoy your lectures. Thank you!
I can understand your excitement over making your own fossil find. I have a fossil collection that I love - including dinosaur footprints - but gave up long ago showing it to creationists because they always say the same thing - "How do you know this thing is really hundreds of millions of years old? Were you there when it was formed smart guy? Of course not. You just have faith in laboratory tests which claim to give accurate ages but are really based on faulty assumptions and junk science. There is nothing in this universe older than 6,000 years."
If one uses the bible to determine the age of the earth, it can never be older than 24 hours.
For a really hilarious example of Creationist vs. Reality, look up standup comedian Bill Hicks confronting a Young Earth Christian with a one-word question: "Dinosaur?"
Proof that truth is funnier than fiction.
I would think they would say that Satan was the one using that to lie to people, wouldn't they?
You found a fossil? Sooo cool 😍
Okay, so my question is this?
How does somebody actually manage to keep this much knowledge in their head?
I've never been so consistently entertainment by a UA-cam channel. It's an information buffet.
I'm sure he doesn't remember all of it. However, I have twice seen him realize that he didn't know something while conversing with other atheists. Just from the way he reacts, I'd be awfully surprised if he didn't find out about what he didn't know as soon as he could. He isn't the most brilliant speaker but he definitely puts in the work.
Grad students defending their thesis, whether Master's or Doctoral, have to keep a lot more information than that in their heads! I remember defending mine, and the relief afterwards that I could let go of the myriad details I had to know cold in order to answer any challenge posed to my conclusions.
Constant hours of research. Discipline.
It's amazing that Aron Randy has not been elevated to the same status as Bill Nye, Neil Degrasse Tyson, or dare I say Carl Regan. Aron RA is, in my humble opinion, one of most knowledgeable and gifted speakers today. Get rid of a dozen of these tv talk show host and put him in front of the camera and into the living rooms of this country. We could learn a hell of lot more from him rather than ellen or tyra banks empty garbage. Thank you Aron RA.
The RA got stuck with truth. I don't think he falling into the atheistic trap anymore.
Am I the only one considering moving to Texas and applying for US citizenship so I can vote for Aron ?
Actually, even if I could move there (The U.S.), I'd not do so, not with the state of the politics as it is...
By the way in the U.K. : Trump = Fart
I adopted Texas, love that state, there are alot more cool folks than you may think, alot of backwards ass morons too though. But Texas has my vote, love em.
@@whatabouttheearth Its the same here in Florida,except with more people driving the wrong way on the Interstate.
@Samuel Jesse Jonah You have evidence for that statement? Sounds like a threat.
@Samuel Jesse Jonah
Everyone of us will die, yes. But "sin" is a stupid Judaeo-Christian concept that doesn't exist outside the mind of religious nuts.
So I'll just die as you will, you will have wasted your time worshiping a non-existing deity and I'll live my life free of religious interference, simple really.
I spit out my drink laughing while I was watching a video of Aron Ra explaining that since Noah's Ark only had one window, the 8 people on it would have almost immediately died from methane gas poisoning from the animals farting and pooping!
"This rock looks like a banana...and see how it fits perfectly in my hand?"
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Jillian Smith
That is a very Comforting thought. It has been a Ray of sunshine on my dark day.
Living Waters reference, right?
Scat slingers. "Are we not men?"
This is the best explanation of the origins of life on earth. .. simple, straight forward and easily under stood by anyone with a high school education 😊
Sir I owe you a huge apology. I judged you by the titles of your post and your look. I thought you were gonna be a crazy religious nut. I wound up watching your tour of the Ark by accident. Please please forgive me brother. I have been making the same arguments as yours for years and often people look at myself as ignorant. When it came to you and what I thought of you I was ignorant and for that I am sorry
I did too! I would never have discovered aronra if i hadn't started watching this video getting ready for an angry argument
Stuff like this restores my "faith" in humanity
Another nob gobbler
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@@debbiejudd6512 another religious nut
It still amaze's me how this wealth of information will fall on deaf ears, through indoctrination & sheer ignorance!! But that's the religious for ya!!
It amazes me how gullible and ignorant brainwashed skeptics and evolutionists are who manipulate evidence to fit their "molecules to man" unproven hypothesis (that is all it is, certainly not a fact).
Yes and its a tragedy
Climate Crisis happens in front of our eyes (it isn't really will happen at this point) and the warming of the ocean causes more hurricanes but people refuse to listen to the proof.
@@raywinsor3948 Projecting your flaws onto those who do not share them won't change the facts. You are wrong.
@@raywinsor3948 Yeah, WE are the brainwashed ones. Ok.
My uncle is a foundation contractor in the midwest. His men hate it when they hit fossilized corral. Hard to dig that stuff.
Being from the UK I find it surprising that Creationists try so hard to keep this ark story going.
I suppose they have so much invested in the ideology that they daren't admit openly that they got it wrong. It would lead people to consider, if this bit is wrong then there are doubts about some other bits. Puts them on the defensive. Keep up the good work.
Want to visit the UK someday.
@@SOULRELIEF22 no we’re not hearing ANY gods fortunately. All we’re doing is losing religion and converting more and more churches into useful buildings.
@@SOULRELIEF22 jesus is returning? I thought he was nailed to a cross not a boomerang!
@@SOULRELIEF22 You wont catch me holding my breath hahahaa
@@SOULRELIEF22 except there’s no contemporary evidence jesus of the bible even existed never mind died (well gave up a weekend) for anyone. As I do not believe in sin it would have all been in vain anyway.
The saddest part about Noah's flood is how god damn boring it is. Like the science in this series is great and super interesting, far more interesting than anything in genesis.
Has any Genesis literalist ever taken on this series in it's entirety? I'd grab my scorecard to grade the mental gymnastics it'd require to preserve their faith and their dignity.
That's cuz you have a Messa Luca in ya, and have an urgent & constant desire to dismiss the reality that God IS. It is impossible that there is no god or no God. Evolution is a fraud, since it has living organisms that somehow came into existence without all the abilities to live, thrive, reproduce, because it "evolved". Get it yet?
A scorecard in the hands of someone who has preconceived notions that evo-illusion is valid, is NOT a scorecard, but it's a piece of toilet paper.
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I can't believe just how intelligent you are. I was an evolutionary biology major from UW Madison, and now in pharmacy school, but I don't know nearly as much as you! Keep up the great videos!!
One commented that the atheists that used to be in the Mormon church are the more thoroughgoing atheists. How would you account for this difference?
Aron Ra is a very powerful, articulate speaker, creationist would love to have his equal on their side of the fence !
@AllSeeingEye ofGod You need to see a really good doctor !
I'm so glad you made this video. Ken Ham's group came through my town this weekend. This is just the kind of refutation to everything they believe that we need to progress as a scientifically literate society. Thank you Aron for being a voice of reason.
It's actually rather unfortunate that the Ark fable needs to even be refuted in the first place. People are so utterly helpless to believe in such incomprehensibly false myths.
The trouble is that people read the Bible like it was the diary of their best friend's great-grandfather, forgetting that it is ancient literature that has to be read from the point of view of the ancient writer and his audience in their ancient culture. Of course reading it that way would require learning and thinking, two things that far too many people are apparently allergic to.
@@traildude7538 absolutely. The fact that it had to be modified so many times to suit a narrative should also be a hint.
@@MarkoVukovic0 What was "modified"? and what "narrative"? If you're referring to the Noah account, it shows maybe three levels of editing, none of which was made to "suit a narrative".
@@Traildude I'm referring to the bible. I certainly would not consider the Noah fable an account by any means.
@@MarkoVukovic0 But the Bible hasn't been "modified... many times" -- that's a false claim with no basis in fact. All the evidence shows that among all ancient documents we have, the Bible is about the least-modified one we have, with something like maybe one change per millennium.
The final episode in this series should be called "How Common Sense Disproves Noah's Flood". Seriously, it should be more obvious to people that this is nothing more than a fable, and an unoriginal one at that.
60% of Americans believe in Noah's flood. This is the level of stupidity this nation has...and hence, the election of the Orange Menace!
Seriously Joseph? That's terrifying. How can a nation be so advanced and so backwards?
We might have believed that the Tories would spend £350m a a week to the NHS, but that's not quite as daft as a 600 year old man building a boat for all the animals, who got there in time to avoid drowning, or being eaten by the other animals
+Purple Sabbath - That is the part I will always find confounding. Indoctrination from an early age can and does allow an individual to reconcile archaic nonsense against a modern era education but there should be a limit.
The Ark fable is so far past the threshold of common sense that there should be no one in this day and age arguing its veracity, yet there are.
Common sense cannot disprove anything, because common sense is often wrong. That's why we need science, which very often goes against common sense.
Screw the flood, this is interesting as hell...
I worked for the Mote Marine in Sarasota AND at the Woods Hole facility of NOAA. So nice to hear facts, hypotheses and theories in an environment that psycho religious extremists have no sway. :)
There are other serious flaws in the story of Noah and the ark. The ark landed in Turkey.
1) Why are there no North or South American, French or Russian kangaroos?
2) How did the kangaroos get to the ISLAND of Australia?
3) Incest is not only permitted, it is encouraged. Every person today descended from Noah's four sons.
4) If we all descended from Noah, explain Watusi, pygmy, oriental, Cherokee, Mayans and Ken Ham.
5) Lions and tigers eat 10 to 25 pounds of meat a day, EACH. Just how many gazelles did Noah bring?
6) Elephants eat 200 to 600 pounds of plants per day, EACH. That top deck must have one hell of a garden.
7) Elephants drink 50 gallons of water per day, EACH. Can you say, "bucket brigade"?
8) Bringing in thousands of gallons of water per day means you have to get rid of thousands of gallons.
9) That thousands of pounds of food had to be disposed of when the animals were finished with it.
Of course, they actually produce a document explaining some of this: answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/how-could-noah-fit-the-animals-on-the-ark-and-care-for-them/
Next time you hear the expression, "You just can't make this shit up.", smack that person, and reply, "Oh yes, you can."
To paraphrase the Simpsons, "Some folk won't believe the flood myth but then again some folk'll, like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel". Believing the story of Noah's ark to be actual historical fact is idiotic.
You can watch a pop sci show for a half an hour and not learn anything, thats why I like Aron Ra, because he absolutely does not fu*k around.
The fact that some biblical things were myths doesn't mean that everything is the Bible is a myth, Jesus resurection is almost a historic fact, you can search about It. If the first Christians were willing to be killed for spreading the gospel it must've been for a good reason, because they truly knew that Jesus miracles and Jesus resurection had actually been TRUE
@@Lichtgeschwindigkeit196 people have disprove the resurrection
@@Lichtgeschwindigkeit196 you are funny christian troll, you paste same text everywhere, and you thing someone will not notice?
It's very telling, and disturbing that in today's day and age this video even had to be produced.
@@kuwandak Flat Earthers are more worst.Earth's shape can be observed by the simple logic and science.I can accept people don't accept evolution but flat earthers are just ignorant and delusional.
Absurdly impossible floating zoo. Brilliant.
Your god, or the god you imagine, must be ultra tiny, for you to say something as simple as the ark is absurdly impossible. Look at a living cell under scope, and you'll see what is impossible. However, it is real as can be. How did it come into existence, when it requires thousands of working components to allow it to live, thrive & reproduce, and all such components are required simultaneously. Think, oh Michael murphy, think.
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Coral is alive?? I thought it was a kind of mineral formation... after googling it, I now know ther are not even plants, they are consider animals! (so cool)
Pablo Romero coral is a colony of many, now think about the earth we live on.. Mind fucked yet?
Now have a look at the Portuguese Man o War. I spend most of my life thinking it was a jellyfish. Nature is weird.
Animals with symbiotic plants used as sort-of power-sources from what i remember.. albeit vaguely...
And to not sound like a complete doofus, here's a wikipedia snippet pertaining to corals.
[Although some corals can catch small fish and plankton using stinging cells on their tentacles, most corals obtain the majority of their energy and nutrients from photosynthetic unicellular dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium that live within their tissues]
I've read that some scientists think it's possible that multi-cellular life began that way.
YY4Me133 I think that's true of mitochondria too, used to be an external organism
Great, informative video. I confess that I was, at one time in my life, a Creationist and a believer in Noah's Ark.Whenever I see anything to do with paleontology it always reminds me of something that happened when I was in 8th grade. I went to a very strict, very German Lutheran school-every word of the Bible is true, so on and so forth. We had one problem in our math textbook that I remember as using math to calculate the age of a bone, or something. Just a fun exercise. Our teacher for math, who was 30 years old and fervent, to say the least, said "we are skipping over this lesson because I consider paleontology to be the science of the devil.'And there you have it. Amen, brother. True story. Nothing like using terror tactics to scare children out of a potential love of science. Funny thing, too. This teacher had a Master's Degree in mathematics, so it isn't as if logic was beyond his comprehension.
Your strict German Lutheran school was almost beyond doubt run by people influenced by German Pietism; they're the ones who insisted the Bible had to be taken literally -- most Lutherans didn't particularly worry about it!
Ignorant, fearful people are easier to control.
This guy is an awesome teacher. I didn’t believe in the flood to begin with, but he has such a wonderful knack for explaining science that I learned a lot anyway.
"Who knows how many species we don't know about today because their fossils were uncovered, but discarded by folks who didn't notice the significance of what had just passed through their fingers?"
I do. I know the answer. 42. You're welcome.
Salinity disproves the idea of the world wide flood...
Moontanman Another good point
LOL . When I first read your post I understood sanity, but salinity is also a reason. By reason of sanity and salinity.
Me too, sanity and scientific literacy prevents anyone from believing this bronze age fairy tale.
JosephM1750
NO, IT IS NOT A BRONZE AGE FAIRY TALE!
it is an iron age fairy tale, at least in its current form :D
everything disproves the idea of the world wide flood. The entirety of reality contradicts the bible.
"Endless forms most beautiful".. It's truly wonderful that so many different species have existed on this planet..
Thank you! I grew up in a fundamentalist baptist family so these videos help me correct my ignorance.
Can you do a video explaining fossilized trees that are claimed to be "polystratic".
Donald Vincent tony reed has a series called "how creationism taught me real science" and that was the topic of an episode. i recommend his series as a former fundamentalist Christian.
WildwoodClaire has a few videos that explain polystrate trees in detail, mostly refuting Creatards like Ian Juby or Nephilimfree.
I was just about to recommend a video by Tony Reed (in his _How Creationism Taught Me Real Science_ series) on this issue... plus I was going to look for the Wildwoodclaire1 episode, but it seems to have deleted...
... then I noticed that clayton henrickson and Carl McMahan beat me to those two recommendations!
I'll suggest to Aron that this "polystrate tree" thing would make a good topic for a stand-alone video. He's definitely aware of the issue, as he already mentioned it (briefly) in the _Foundational Falsehoods_ series.
The thing is... The interesting story isn't so much about the "polystrate trees" (and the correct explanation for this phenomenon). The really interesting story is the way that the "polystrate tree" nonsense was invented and spread around creationist circles, and how the lie is _knowingly_ propagated by modern creationists.
Potholer54 also has numerous funny piss taking vids too
The Living Dinosaur has a great series refuting many claims from pp simmons and others with ample adult themed metaphores and a devastating knowledge.
Kudos to your video. I'm a professional geologist and agree 100% with your conclusions
Great series of videos, when I'm bored i just start watching Aron Ra. Always boosts my spirit and knowledge
Brilliant - informed and educated - commentary. I loved the drawing of a T-Rex on Noah's boat. Considering Kent Hovind, a self appointed non-scientist creationist, suggests that humans and dinosaurs lived together makes it clear that they would have had to accompany the other creatures on Noah's boat.
He forgets that Noah was not required to take the largest of any species.
We know for certain that it *didn't* happen
*leaves this dimension, transcending into the infinite*
Classic.
Learn about elementary set theory, probability, and calculus before you make such baseless assertions...
For starters examine Cantor's diagnal proof, which demonstrates that there are more real numbers than natural numbers ie: a countably infinite set vs an uncountably infinite set.
Then examine the axiom of choice, and learn the difference between ordinals and cardinals.
Infinity may not be number in the typical sense, but we sure as hell can apply math to it, and under the proper conditions, it certainly does behave like it would if it were a number.
Don't flaunt your ignorance...
One day I'm shitposting, the next day, irrelevant discussions are taking place.
Par for the course huh.
Was that a jojo reference?
so, what the fuck were you talking about
Hey, this is such a more mature response to religious folks than me going into the comment sections of Christian UA-cam channels so I can talk shit about Jesus. I enjoyed the video, I'll subscribe.
Hey, man. I just wanted to wish you the best of luck in your campaign for Texas state senate.
Wishing him luck is more appropriate than wishing him democracy :)
My respect and admiration for AronRa grows with each and everyone of his excellent videos. He is the voice of Reason in a howling wilderness of willful ignorance and religious superstition. Thank you brother AronRa!
Regardless of whay you may or not believe, this guy knows his stuff. Every scientific explanation should be like this one, respecful and informed.
Kevin Nazario said: Regardless of whay you may or not believe, this guy knows his stuff. Every scientific explanation should be like this one, respecful and informed.
Ron's response: Are you sure he is informed? Or does his explanation fit your anti flood bias? Here is my point of view
There are upwards of 1,300,000 species of animals. However, over 60 percent of these are insects. Breaking these figures down further, of the 24,000 amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 10,000 are birds, 9,000 are reptiles and amphibians, many of which could have survived outside the ark, and only 5,000 are mammals, including whales and porpoises, which would have also remained outside the ark. Other researchers estimate that there are only about 290 species of land mammals larger than sheep and about 1,360 smaller than rats. So, even if estimates are based on these expanded figures, the ark could easily have accommodated a pair of all these animals. Besides the flood was not caused just by the rain. Underground springs opened up and flowed for 5 months. There is 6 quintilian gallons of water within the first 1.5 miles of the earths crust and enough water trapped below that to equal three times the amount of water in the ocean. At one time we did not have the high rocky mountains or yemiliah mountain range. From what I see the earth at one time could have easily been completely covered with water. The scientist have to keep proving their theories and the churches have to keep teaching untruths so it balances out. The truth is not everyone will accept bible teachings or can have faith and the bible was written in such a manner to keep out those people not deserving to know what it teaches.
@@ronhansen8471 the Bible says everyone is undeserving and that God himself needs to bring people to faith or they won't have it.....
@@tabsinabox yes but cannot ignore Bible history and what the true God did to his named people. Anyone not on his side at Armageddon will not survive. Anyone supporting the world's political element in violation of God's laws will not survive. Anyone fighting against the true God by fighting his people will not survive. When I say they won't survive I mean they will be destroyed with Satan and his followers regardless who they are.
@@ronhansen8471 not ignoring Bible history like most professed believers is actually what helped me see how full of falsehood the old testament is 🤣
@@tabsinabox If after reading about ancient Israel and walked away feeling like it was all about falsehoods I would have to say you either did not read it close enough, did not understand what was being said or why the life of the Israelites were recorded. There is a typical and an anti-typical story to the bible. It talks about tangible things and non-tangible things or human things and spiritual things. If you get them mixed up you might think it is talking about falsehoods. When a person reads the bible with their religious, political and educational biases the truth will get distorted quickly. The biblical story from Genesis to Malachi points to Jesus Christ and his kingdom and the Israelites were God's chosen people whose future ancestors would become joint heirs with Jesus Christ in heaven or spiritual Israel. The first four gospels is a biography of Jesus Christ. The remaining books in the Greek scriptures, Acts through Jude, were letter written to the local congregations by the then acting governing body. The book of revelation provides a word picture description of heaven and goes on to explain what will happen to religion and government and what humans can expect for their future. That would be the ones who survive Armageddon and the ones resurrected from the dead. Every human on earth has a chance and it is free however most people will reject the free gift as they have from day one. To ignore God’s purpose concerning his Son, to build hopes on any other foundation, to form conclusions regarding one’s life course on any other basis would be to believe a lie, to be deceived, to follow the leading of the father of lies, God’s Adversary. (Matthew 7:24-27; John 8:42-47)
So well done that nothing can even touch your level of crushing the ark myth. Aron is the most impressive educator I have ever encountered.
Come on, a six year old could disprove Noahs ark. He's taking the low hanging fruit here. Try proving that the community support religious people get from their church family is psychologically destructive and the isolation which a lot of modern society lives in is somehow preferable. Then he'll get an A+.
They should show these talks in school, I have learned a lot from you thanks.
I can’t believe this was able to be all compiled competently 6 years ago and there are still so many people that believe there was a global flood
Lots of PhDs know that there was a global flood. The world does NOT need an Aron Ra to claim otherwise, just because he doesn't know or want to know about supernatural reality.
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@@david77james except there wasn't a global flood you're just desperate to deny reality.
Aron I honestly don't think the world, hopefully in a few years, will be able to thank you enough for showing people the actual secular truthful trees through the sinister dark religious wood! You are a beacon of hope in a still ignorant & superstitious world!
The work you do on here is amazing & for standing up to pricks like *David Pack* you deserve a medal!
Love, respect & thanks mate from the *UK!*
Just want to say.... this series is awesome. Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
There is a really sad part to all of this. The sad part is it has to be explained in detail and still, people will not believe it. It's willful ignorance. Sad.
The religious person uses the bible for his information and the intelligent person uses science and reason for his information.
Dennis Wicker the religious person may have something called a Koran or Quran, that tells them that child marriage is ok. But couldn't agree more.
O'Reilly Carroll Have you read the Quran or do you just assume?
Dennis Wicker so then you believe in intelligent design then
@Sam Bacon Nicely said Sam. I may borrow some of your explanations for future use if that is Ok.
Faith is not knowledge
Wow!! I´ve followed you for years and years and years watching you "fight" the stupidity, ignorance, and insufferable cowardice of the fire and brimstone club members, but you never cease to amaze me with your clear, insightful and "charming no-nonsense" way of "fairy tale stomping" scholarship. You made me sit on my five letters (in German it´s 5 letters) for a whole extra hour on a beautiful Sunday afternoon because I was so enamoured by this episode (I live in North Germany, so we don´t have that many "beautiful sunny" days of summer). I teach at an Elementary school and love my job and children more than anything else I´ve ever done or had and I hope that my children enjoy learning with me as much as I enjoy "learning" with you. We´re roughly the same age so I know we´ll have you for at least 15-20 years. That´s just about the time we need, to try as we can, to see another generation grow up without the senseless fear, prejudice or self-serving ignorance that sky god cheerleaders try to make this world to be. It´s good that most children grow up here knowing that the adventures of Superman, the threat of boogiemen and the reality of gods are just-so-stories no different than the tales of Odin, Thor and that bitch Frigga. Never ever give up, you motorhead-demon-wizard looking Texan you.
destroying the foundations of 3 religions whilst looking like a faustian devil - LLLove it! :D
He looks like Keanu Reeves on wish.
Aronra, my food for thought, feeds my brain with pure intelligence
I love the disdain in your tone when saying "kind".
I just found you on UA-cam last night and I can't stop watching. I would like to say thank you. Thank you for doing these videos. I am going to show your videos to all my friends. Keep up the great work!
The idea that all these animals existed at the same time is completely unsustainable. Every niche already filled today would have so much competition if we include every extinct animal, or even just a select few of them. Food webs and predator/prey relationships would also have to be so much more complex than can reasonably exist. From an ecological point of few, this cannot be either true or the result of intelligent design, as the time would be fraught with chaotic suffering and ultimately end in the pointless death of almost every living variety.
I don’t understand why we would need to resort to science. Noah’s flood, much like the idea that the universe was made by a really big ghost, is just fucking stupid.
I could listen to this guy all day
i have listened to this guys over 6 hours a day for the last 2 days. I was missing out, I mean I had heard of him, but never took interest.
I watched this years ago. It just popped on my feed, so it's time for a refresher course. ✌
What I think I love best about this series is how beautifully it shows the convergence and interconnection of ostensibly distinct scientific disciplines. Well done.
Aron Ra vs Ken Ham ..my dream debate
really? I'd prefer dinosaur deniers vs Ken Ham
Debate, what debate? That would be a knockout in the first round in favor of Aron Ra. Even a 5-year-old can debate Ham and beat him.
When Bill Nye visited Ham's ark, Aron was there. I wished he had joined in.
This would be short, unpleasant and unedifying. Ken Spam would continue to shout "were you there??", would not acknowledge ANYTHING AronRa would say, would in fact act like AronRa would have been silent the whole time, and would later claim victory and bitter resentment like he did with Nye.
AronRa on the other hand would not debate at all. You need two for a debate, what AronRa would give would be called a speech ;-)
Bill Nye did quite enough to legitimize The Hamster. It is impossible to win a debate against someone who simply denies reality and reason at every turn; especially when said denial makes him filthy rich. Dad had a favorite saying. "Don't waste time talking to liars. Talk about them or ignore them."
I never understood why Christians think Noah's Flood was something good, and a good story to teach to children. Taken at face value, it's a horror story of genocide on a global scale by an evil god.
Good thing it didn't happen, and like the rest of Genesis, it's just a story from the imagination of a few men.
Extremely interesting and valid independent of a theistic debate. Highly recommended
The fact that some biblical things were myths doesn't mean that everything is the Bible is a myth, Jesus resurection is almost a historic fact, you can search about It. If the first Christians were willing to be killed for spreading the gospel it must've been for a good reason, because they truly knew that Jesus miracles and Jesus resurection had actually been TRUE
@@Lichtgeschwindigkeit196 thanks for your thoughts, dude! I mean...a lot of different people have been willing to die for a lot of different reasons throughout history. Just ask Jim Jones. I don't think that makes them any more correct in their ideas. Still, I respect your beliefs, and I'm so glad that we both have the right to have this discussion. I don't think there's any actual evidence of a resurrection, but I will do my best to research that subject and get back to you.
Wonderful teacher. Clear and crisp explanations, based on facts and nothing but facts. And he knows the art of dressing sharp, which is an expression of respect both to his public and to himself, that we do not always see on UA-cam. Well done sir!
I'm from Southern Australia and several regions here were underwater and a volcanic hotspot has slowly moved from the Top of Queensland to below Melbourne over the past 40-45 million years. In an area near where I grew up there is an extinct volcanic ridge and this area is also believed to be underwater 30-40 million years ago, theres a river which has erroded different areas and If you go on a long forest hike near the river you can find multiple types of rocks i've never seen before and they've found various fossil types from different ages. ive got 2 mini fossils that could either be leaves or fish fins, idk but they're awesome
Holy shit dude. I came for the suit, but stayed for the logic.
The reaction that creationists have to the paluxy tracks always confuses me because they’re far too large and the strides are far too long to be human in origin.
This channel is still underrated, too much info to remember but i can understand major points that are explained
Noah's Ark and flood story is so disconnected from Nature that it cancels itself out.
When I discovered people were debating the truth of this fairy tale I lost my faith in human intelligence.
Well, here's what will really screw you up then:
People are ACTING on this myth as if it were real. Their lives and their identities are tied up in this nonsense to the point that even if they are provided clear and direct evidence to the contrary, they'll disbelieve it. Now that makes ya wish for a good hot plague, doesn't it?
L'épopée de Gilgamash et le déluge de Noé dans la genèse ne font qu'un..
*lost my faith?* Then you missed forest because of the trees...LOL. Did you know that 99.99999% of ALL trees on earth are 4300 years old or younger? What cause a worldwide reset of trees? We know they can grow to be much older. BTW the Noah event occurred about 4300 years ago.
The content of the presentation is top-notch as usual, but i can’t get over how strange it is to see Aron in white
6:03 That’s a reference to J.B.S. Haldane, who was once asked what would disprove biological evolution; he replied “rabbits in the Precambrian”.
Dangit, I thought a dry lesson on Paleontology would lull me to sleep.
But you make this WAY too interesting!
What I wouldn't have given to have you as science teacher! Or at least a recurring guest!
Love ya Aron, keep educating people!
You've already made a huge impact in my educational pursuits!
I just discovered your channel Arron, you are an inspiration! This content is absolutely amazing!
This is so much more interesting, entertaining and true than any stories or explanations from traditional Biblical mythology (Buybull). Awesome video AronRa; you kick @$$ man!
Hi, I'm reasonably sure that the coral reefs that produced the Guadalupe mountains predate the Western Interior seaway, in that they are Permian aged. This ancient reef, its association with the formation that produced Carlsbad caverns in New Mexico, local evaporites, and Permian basin fossil fuels are all indicative of and consistent with a particular extended paleo environment of reefs and intermittently sequestered tropical lagoons.
I have learned more intelligent evidence based information in 20 minutes than I had in 11 years of so called catholic/scientific education. Thank You Aron! In eleventh grade I saw the light and have since questioned everything until the real evidence I discover out ways the old and many times manipulated so called evidence. At 66 I still crave and enjoy learning about the real history of the world and universe.
Great video! Short, to the point, and yet chalk full of meaty data and science. Videos like this make me want to transport back to Sunday School and Religion class at BYU and drop some facts on all those uneducated "teachers" telling me that there is proof of the flood all over the earth. It is so sad to me that I grew up so blindly accepting claims as evidence.
Extremely good content, well presented as well.
Thank you +AronRa.The bible and story of Noah's flood disprove themselves, if people just have common sense. Faith blocks that common sense. Thank you for spreading truth & education.
Well put together. I appreciate the time, efford and competency invested.
Thank you Aron Ra !
Our earth is literally a game of spore. That is all.
A very cruel one at that
All the excuses of well God made things grow faster. Why didn't he just vaporize all the bad people. Wham done. Everything is made so complicated. I mean, if he can make something out of nothing why not just zap them.
dot God works in mysterious ways
A quick translation of that is
Stop asking hard questions, since I can’t answer them.
Kenneth Schrank
You can’t research god because he has no observable effect on reality (which is something non existent things have quite the tendency to do). The god you want us to believe in is a panacea, meaning that he can answer literally anything because he’s a fucking wizard. Having some imaginary thing to solve every problem you don’t know the answer to is the opposite of science
Because not only is Yaweh unforgivably evil and sadistic. He's grossly incompetent.
So, according to you, Thanos is a better God than God?
That backdrop you chose for the Netherlands is probably the most Dutch thing I've ever seen, and I live there. I love it! Another great video.
This video is so awesome! And even better it started with the find of the first Mosasaurus in my town! I've seen the caves in which it was found many times, what a shock it must have been to the farmers that found it.
So I've watched your video series, but you are still saying that a flood happened but it wasn't worldwide?!?!
That is what he said.
Floods happen all the time ever were.
People live on rivers and coasts.
Yet flood of Noah was clearly worldwide. Why take animals if it was not worldwide?
Science, it's a thing of beauty!
Said the pilots as they flew over HIroshima.
The progression of natural cycles is absolutely fascinating