Mike Johnson's Science Tutor
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What is interesting is that Mike Johnson supports the fossil fuel industry while at the same time being a young earth creationist.
Well, sure. He thinks God put it there for our use directly. He didn’t need dinosaurs or dinosaur-era plants as an intermediary. Just because we call it “fossil fuel” doesn’t mean Johnson believes in fossils.
Yeah, weird how every fossil fuel company uses old earth geology to find oil, kinda like how paleontologists use it to find fossils while "creation scientists" sell books and DVDs and complain about not being taken seriously by the scientific community.
"fossil fuel" is a lie; it's mineral fuel. As in "mineral oil". There are no fossils at the depths oil is drilled at.
They believe that if they destroy the planet God has to come back and when he does they get to massacre nonbelievers.
Most yecs do
When people say to me “whats wrong with just letting people believe in something even if its not true” because someday they might be in power, thats why. Fight for truth, deal with the consequences after. 👍🏼👍🏼
That has always been a critical issue with any democratic system.
Democracy requires a somewhat educated and engaged voting public.
Also..as stated within the actual video itself,..most religious people,.dont believe the Earth too be 6,000 years old.
That type of hyper literal interpretation of the ancient religious texts is something a lot of the politically ambitious have latched onto in order to pander to a particularly small but highly vocal minority of people in order to pander to them.
Also,.to convince said group that they're "always under attack form secular society" and therefore only these "Republicans can save them" from.
its actually a good strategy if your creatively bankrupt and falling short on progressive and pro-social policy ideas,.because it can appeal to aging baby boomers as they deal with a myriad of certain realities that frankly , would indeed scare a lot of people.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. No one is entitled to their own facts.
@@joeschmo3844 As Harlan Ellison put it: Everyone is entitled to their INFORMED opinion.
@@joeschmo3844- of course.
That's because opinions don't mean anything.
There is nothing wrong with letting people believe what they want to believe. The problem comes when THEY refuse to let YOU believe what you believe and become homicidally violent over "the Satanic indoctrination".
That can never be tolerated.
I think it’s a fair standard to say “You can believe whatever crazy shit you want, but if you can’t prove it with evidence, it doesn’t belong in any official proceedings.”
That seems like such a low bar, doesn't it? Such a small thing to ask. But, here we are, with 3rd grade shit like "is the earth round?" and "Jesus will protect me from COVID" (ok, that's a throwback, but you get my drift...) still in the center of national discourse. WHAT THE FUUUUUCK????
The problem is, I don’t think we can count on people who have ideological attachment to unsubstantiated beliefs to also have the self-awareness to not bring them into official statements or policies or lawmaking or whatever. Probably not even the self-awareness of which of their beliefs are the nonfactual ones.
Insufficient. The mindset that arises from those beliefs is extremely fatalist (AKA God Swill.) Pain comes from God as a lesson, no store-bought meds allowed - aspirin, anesthetics. Take what God gives and THANK him for it.
What a -dick- Johnson...
@@natbarmoreWell then they shouldn't be in politics in a secular nation.
Amen
Being a science tutor for an Christian Fundamentalist has to be one of the hardest, saddest things on the planet earth. I mean, some of them are so willfully ignorant that it has to be like trying to train a cat to come into the house WITHOUT the mouse they intend to disembowel on the kitchen floor.
Imagine being their civics teacher.
They were inducted and indoctrinated before they could speak or reason. They KNOW they're right, and man's laws MUST give way before THEIR one - unless you're Hindu - True God. Whichever one _that_ is. True Believers terrify me. They will not be reasoned with and are quite willing to be martyrs for their 'cause.' Why? Just 'cause.
its actually super easy, just invest in conjecture and theory to will away all the things you dont believe in and only accept evidence that proves your right, its barely inconvenient
Education is what saved me, specifically Geology and learning about plate tectonics. There's just no way to rush the formation of mountains!
@@colonialstraits1069 Please no.
"Democracy is not a lazy person's form of government. It requires a population that is both educated and engaged". Otherwise democracies are very susceptible to grifters, con men and all other types of manipulation. That's the source of the American political problem in a nutshell.
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For the solution I can come up with a quote for that. Luckily someone else did thousands of years ago. The man said:
"To plan for a year - grow rice
To plan for a decade - plant trees
To plan for a century - educate your children"
I tell people often that democracy has prerequisites for its voters: intelligence, engagement, and compassion. Without those three it collapses into what we have now.
So good I had to write that down
The only unrealistic part of this skit is that Dr Grissom would be able to get in to see Johnson in the first place.
"This isn't a witchunt, and I know you take those seriously."
I'm dead 😆😆
...AND literally!
"... it bothers me how long you are taking to answer that question..." 😄😄😄 Steve's delivery is wonderful.
Love the joke that he'd sooner be pistol whipped, than watch a gay episode of a show. That sounds about right.
I'd take even odds on him having a pistol whipping fetish.
S and M. It's a win win for Mikey.
As my mother's fellow priest occasionally said in his sermons: Don't leave your brains in the back of the church.
Or, as I put it, Young Earth Creationism is one of the things that offends me on both an intellectual and theological level.
Great point! The Gregorian calendar we use replaced the older Julian calendar ( as in Julius Caesar ) by fixing the the leap year problem and more accurately reflecting the time it takes for the Earth to rotate around the Sun ( and more accurately calculate when Easter happens).
It off course, named after Pope Gregory XIII,.due to his formal adoption of the Caleder. The Catholic Church and been trying to get the "Calendar drift" issue fixed for almost 200 years,.LOL
AMEN TO THAT!
“Have faith in Allah- but tie your camels”
Old Arab proverb
To be honest, I am more disturbed by "Prosperity Jesus" and the mega-churches that promote it from pure greed. Religion and greed are the TWO things that will kill the species, and they've combined them into a fascist hegemony to control it all or kill it all. For "Jesus." George Carlin nailed it with "Buddy Christ..."
@@CaptainXJ That's not a calendar issue, that's a math problem. Also an entitlement problem.
" I better pay may bass boat payment, the house payment can wait, momma and daddy will pay that for me." Lol
"I don't like how long it takes you to answer that." - That and the talking veggie bit cracked me up the most.
When I became a patron a few years ago,I just wanted good Star Trek content. I had no idea some of my meager dollars would be used for some of the best political satire on UA-cam. That’s what we call a win-win. Keep it up!
I loved his Star Trek stuff.
Thank you. Well said and you speak for many.
I was raised in a young earth creationist school. I was a 1st grader trained to shout “thousands” over Carl Sagan when he said “billions” of years ago. My favorite was and still is when the kids heard the word billions describing the stars in the sky and are so ready to shout over that word that they do it there too…
Was a weird way to grow up.
I was raised by young earth creationist parents but I still went to public schools. I remember my dad once said, "Carl Sagan is a Hindu", lol. I no longer remember why he said that, but he says way crazier shit almost every day for no reason.
Must be mind blowing once you get out in the real world😮
Also a weird way to
"not grow up" if you look at it from the perspective of a fully formed adult consciousness looking at someone else's compromise with reality.
Incurious, with a somewhat lazy mentality seems to drive them towards dumbing down information into an oversimplified translation, devoid of nuance or gradient, that comes closer to the warped, abbreviated definitions their mentors have given them on their journey.
Thinking critically is hard for them and it hurts them when it regularly debunks their mythical thought, and they discover how far off the truth they remain to this day.
Easier to double down on chanted spells, traditional fairy tales and oppositional fascism than it is to admit a longtime behavior of yours is folly and falsehood.
I grew up in a church that preached young earth creationism. It took me until AFTER COLLEGE to finally unpack it all and stop believing in it because I felt like leaving religion would alienate me from everyone I ever knew and loved. I wouldn’t place my church on the same level as a cult but oof, it’s a very thin line in my opinion. Indoctrination is real and it’s scary.
If you look at the list of characteristics of cults, you may find an uncomfortably large number of them that line up with Fundamentalist Christianity. Indoctrination definitely being one.
Yes indoctrination is real, and scary, I had to go to Catholic grade school, didn’t learn about the scientific evidence of the origin of the Earth and evolution, nor sex any education, until public high school
To think, it's been 10 years since Bobby Jindal warned the GOP to stop being the stupid party.
I remember Tucker Carlson saying something similar at the CPAC conference, and then being booed off the stage.
That triggered Tucker going from Republican to full blown fascist, he knew where the money was.
Yet he himself is incredibly stupid.
Another Loo-wee-zee-anna swamp boy. Just openly corrupt, like all Southern politicians. But not God-smacked, he knew religion was a tool to apply sparingly, to a select audience. Like racism.
I suspect they would -- if they could.
Sometimes when I feel down about politics in my country (far-right surging, racism flaring up, a neoliberal government that could not care less about parliamentary democracy), I come here to appreciate your humor. And also to empathize with you because HOLY HELL you guys have it bad. Not mocking you, just commiserating.
Can I guess: UK?
I mean it could be one of about 20 countries but the UK definitely is dealing with it rn
@@Anonyomus_commenter I said India.
My money is on Germany.
@@Anonyomus_commenteryeah especially after the events over the last week with their home secretary my first thought was UK but Austria and France come to mind pretty quickly as well :|
Well I didn't for this to become a guessing game but do go on, it'll be fun, if depressing.
As a science educator at a prehistoric life museum, Christian homeschool groups always feel like they can be a lot more temperamental than most other groups that I work with, this is what I've always dreamed of saying!
Say it. Say it kindly, but say it.
I really appreciate the time Luke was willing to spend here to be honest.
"The fact you haven't said no yet is extremely troubling" Love everything about this.
For my part, being raised "non-denominational" Christian, being big into Ken Ham, and denying that the leap from amino acid soup to self-replicating life was possible, all it took to unravel that fantasy was Geology 101. Radiometric dating is fine and all, but plate techtonics... There's no faking how long that takes. I was maybe primed for it already and resting my cards on "well the Earth was created by God in situ" to explain fossils and the like, but even still, my position changed almost overnight. The universe is just sooooo much cooler when natural processes explain all the amazing things hidden under our feet!
I always think of that part in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe where the guy working on Earth 2 was busy burying dinosaur bones.
Good on you though! It takes a lot of integrity to follow evidence that goes against your raised-in world view. More still to not double down on it. And yeah! The world is really cool!
Amen.
Idk why people can't believe that loving creators created a changing world and creatures that can evolve with it?
Oh wait they only believe that there is one god even though the bible says that our creator said to some unnamed being that we are created in their image.
Their image.
Could it be that we have male and female creators?
Could it be that it's all bullshit that was made up to control the masses?
I've taught physical geology and it's good to know that someone somewhere learned something from someone. I've also done evolution, genetics and paleoanthropology where I'd regularly remark about prejudice being dumb because you can talk to someone and they'll give you a reason to "strongly dislike" them.
I honestly think Steve might make the best satirical political skits currently being released on youtube
The fact that someone like Mike Jonhnson can reach such a high position in the government is another clue that democracy is not all it's cracked up to be. 😕
The value of Democracy was never that it is somehow perfect, just that it is better than all the other very shitty alternatives.
And this in particular is not even much of a problem with democracy. Thanks to gerrymandering, voter suppression and actively spreading misinformation democracy is getting purposefully undermined by people who otherwise couldn't thrive in a democracy. That's why they are doing it
Democracy is always difficult. It’s always dealing with competing ideas and having to come to some kind of consensus between various groups of people. But it’s better than just allowing a dictatorship to arise. Even if that dictatorship was to initially be a benevolent, beneficial dictatorship, the fact that such a system allows for someone to take complete control without any say by those living under that system makes it extremely dangerous. A leader could easily arise that does not respect the rights of the people. As messy as democracy is, I’ll take it over the alternative any fat
*representative oligarchy, thank you gerrymandering!
Democracy requires an intelligent public who are well informed.
On the other hand, some MAGA politicians just found out reproductive rights is not a topic which should be decided democratically and - that's the scary part - said so!
"Because snakes do not talk."
Are you sure about this, Steve? I'm pretty sure I heard Matt Gaetz talking ...
Your stuff is usually quite good, but the line about Luke's loyalty is just a class above. Unfortunately, I was having a drink of tea at the time (I am British so this happens quite a lot), thus ended up spraying it around. I will forward an invoice for the destroyed equipment forthwith. Well done, sir, well done.
I limit my liquid intake to the skip ad commercials to avoid just this!
That line was perfection!
Entertaining, informative, thought provoking and true all at the same time.
Mike Johnson should be in jail, not holding the position of third in line for the presidency.
Absolutely epic.
I think I just had a nice part of my painful religious trauma deconstructed and healed... You articulated and said what I always wanted to say and it felt so cathatic just listening to you. A part of me felt like I was speaking and each word brought the relief as if I was facing those whose indoctrinating voices still echo through my head. This was a lovely piece of fundamentalist deconstruction and it should be played everywhere, all the time.
Thank you.
Love from Switzerland 🇨🇭💚
Very convincing acting! It felt like he was right there:D
Now imagine living in his district and being told by your disability attorney that writing your congressman might speed things up on getting your claim heard. (20 years and a 1 million case backlog later)
This was a way better version of how I explained him to my not very political friends.
*to my Right-winger friends
Complacency is complicity
Just explain how he and his son track each others’ porn consumption. With a special app for freak Christians no less.
Like, “alert, your dad is looking at porn!” and then it sends you that porn so you can “monitor” dad spanking it. No joke.
@@joearnold6881 That was definitely in there.
"Did you not watch Captain Kangaroo?"
I think we need Mr Moose here. A barrage of ping pong balls would be a mild admonishment.
Except substitute anvils for ping pong balls...
@@johnburnside7828wait, which Mr. Moose are we talking about? A rain of anvils sounds more like Bullwinkle. Or Wile E. Coyote!
Steve's skits are absolutely amazing, whatever the subject, he nails it every time, love it, can't wait till the next one,
OK, I was off by half a billion years for the Earth's age but I accept the correction and move on. Unlike some people 🙄
You confused the earth's age with that of the sun. I can accept that.
It would be great if Mike Johnson would watch this video but no hope of that. We all know the unofficial motto of the GOP is ‘power at any price and by any means necessary’.
Thanks for the video.
"That's not right. That's not even wrong "
- Niels Bohr
Every time a YEC talks, I think of this quote.
Thank you, from someone who believes in a god, and who full accepts and believes in all the sciences, and appreciates what they do for us.
It must be so hard being an American with a basic education.
Super easy, actually, barely an inconvenience! You just. Don't care!
"Don't care?"
Don't care! And be proud about it.
"Tight!"
I needed this after watching John Oliver.
Yeah, yesterday’s episode was… brutal.
@@mooniejohnson what happened there?
Lol "It bothers me how long you're taking to respond." 💀
As a biologist and geologist, let me just say I discovered your channel relatively recently and am quickly becoming a big fan. Keep up the good work!
"The fact you haven't said no yet is extremely troubeling" 😅
Haha - threatening a R-winger with: " ... I can stream the gay episode of The Last of Us and we can sit here and watch the entire thing." - I couldn't stop chuckling :P
Perfect! If you need to know anything about the modern Republican party, reference Steve's videos.
This was gold. Thanks Steve.
The belligerent ignorance is the point. It took me decades to understand that. By flat out refusing to accept any fact that does not directly and immediately affect their lives, fundamentalists / maga / whatever they are calling themselves this week can declare group membership and give a big fuck you to anyone not part of that group. Conceding anything to anyone not part of and above them in the group would be a loss to a fundamentalist.
I spent a lot of my life thinking that you could talk someone out of eagerly embraced crazy. That was pretty crazy.
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture." - The American Crisis by Thomas Paine
" You can imagine any Hocus-Pocus Shi...-You want" love it!
This is sooooo good!!!! thanks for the cheer Steve🖖
This comedic set-up was Bob Newhart's go-to style. The one-sided conversation with outrageous twists and turns. Who could forget the "Grace L. Ferguson Storm Door and Airline Company?"
"Those people look like ants? Those ARE ants, you idiot, we haven't taken off yet!"
Love your content! Funny as hell!
Please make more videos like this.
love it, can someone send this directly to mike johnson?
I love how fleshed put these are; even though they’re sketches they still feel somewhat realistic
Bold of you to rewrite Inherit the Wind as a one man play.
Johnson makes McCarthy look like a genius!
Brilliant! I am so glad to have stumbled across your work. Thank you for the effort, Steve.
He's awesome.
It gets hard, in the rest of it, to remember the highest official in the national legislature was a figure in a coup attempt a couple years back. Kittens.
Steve Shives is brilliant.
I love him.
This was almost like an old bob newhart phone skit
This video makes me sad that UA-cam only allows one 'like' per video.
Brilliant, funny, and sad all at once. Great job, thanks.
Wonderful. Needed that dark humor! Loved it!
Steve is my spirit animal. I need him for a wingman for turkey day.
Steve, you just get better and better. Thanks for the sanity
I feel like more than a few politicians would greatly benefit from a general science "refresher".
That one of those creationist jokers could actually manage to get to be #2 in succession to the US presidency is quite frankly baffling. And I'm saying that after not having been surprised one iota by Jan 06.
The last part you went off and I thank you
Love the satire. Spot on.
Should have a follow-up with you posing as an ob-gyn. The guy knows equally little about reproduction.
Totally inaccurate skit - the Science Tutor’s career wasn’t ruined with pedophilic innuendo and he wasn’t doxxed and his house molotoved by Proud Boys by the end of the video.
Steve writes the best dialogue
awesome stuff, I wish this was on every channel of main stream media in America, total gold, thank you
Absolutely stellar, Steve.
I suppose if there's one silver lining behind Johnson becoming speaker is more people are learning about young earth creationism than before🤷♂ and will hopefully become better educated in evolution as a result and be able to resist the resurgence of the "teach the controversy" religious nut jobs are pushing
“if it makes you feel better about death or whatever.” :)
"Davey and Goliath - too woke." 😂😂😂
The second you asked the question, my reflexive response was, "NO, it's not six thousand years old!"
Ya'll realize all of these Steve Shives episodes are a holodeck simulation? as far as we know he never escaped the holodeck in his episode about how holodecks are an HR nightmare.
This was potentially the funniest skit possible for this topic. I sniggered imagining Mr Speaker sputtering a background gish gallop of apologia.
Sadly, Mr Speaker's final answer rings so true. This is so exactly what I've thought would happen if presented sourced, interpreted data, in private, they'd still deny, deny, deny. They cannot change their minds that would mean admitting their error to themselves. That is easier for some people than others evidently. The lack of cerebral curiosity's sense of reward seems to be involved as well as a larger fear sensitive amygdala. It is easier to believe in a smaller world that they can control.
I for one think we SHOULD ask elected officials to renounce their faith before taking office.
No, not like that. That'll just be used for antisemitism and islamophobia.
Well.... I don't think the faith itself is the problem. It's the massive stupidity that uses their faith as an excuse to remain willfully ignorant about everything they don't like, that is the issue.
Brilliant, Steve.
I love it! It's a great sketch!
Thanks! Gaslighting and cognitive dissonance are the bane of my existence.
Thanks so much!
Your history of religious debate finally gave you a bonus. 😀
Unfortunately, when Mikey was being educated in the Louisiana public school system, the state prohibited the teaching of evolution. The law went into effect while I was taking biology that year and the curriculum had to be changed.
Thank you Carl Sagan for coming to Baton Rouge and giving testimony for science education.
This was beautiful
Right on the nose. Rolled up the newspaper slapped him right on the nose😂😂😂
Veggie Tales 🤣🤣 I had never heard of these until my kids said they saw the videos at friends´ houses during play dates.
Sadly, my own kids had classmates walking out of 7th grade science class saying, "They can´t make me believe this". "This" being climate change, evolution....pretty much any general stuff that I was taught...in Catholic school, no less. The nun who taught me high school biology would have rapped his knuckles for questioning evolution.
as usual you are brilliant!! thanks Steve
I absolutely LOVE this segment, and absolutely terrified of him being speaker.
This is brilliant! Loved it!
Thanks for making this video, Steve. It was great! And very accurate/relevant.
Lol, I remember watching Captain Kangaroo back in the late 80s when I was a little kid.
Ahh, this was fresh, cool water for the psyche.
Thanks for this. ✌️👏
Absolutely brilliant
Beautiful work, Sir!
As always… absolutely brilliant. A cup or a bottle on me. 😊
That was brilliant!
OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS THANK YOU !!!!
Brilliant, but so sad we've reached this point.
That was cathartic. Ty.
I clicked this video thinking it was a new Dr. Grande video due to the thumbnail (I didn't have my glasses on). But, even better - it's a new Steve Shives video!