Awful Archaeology Ep. 4: Creationist Footprint Conspiracies
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In this video I discuss three different instances of creationist footprint conspiracies. Each one is an example of an out of place artifact (OOPA) that "prove" that humankind walked the earth for hundreds of millions of years and at times even suggest that we coexisted with dinosaurs. Join me in seeing how these conspiracies misinterpret the fossil record, create their own evidence and crumble under their own weight.
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There once was a man named Ballou,
Claimed he found a petrified shoe.
He woke up one night,
Realized with a fright,
His brain cells were painfully few.
I see the reference 😉😉
Love it
the man named Ballou
who thought he'd found a petrified shoe
turned a bright red hue
when he woke up that night
realizing with a fright
that his brain cells truly were few
You win
Oh man, this is beautiful. Spot on 👌
There once was a man named Baloo
Who wrote of a petrified shoe:
He looked down at his feet,
Found a rock and said "Neat!
This must mean the whole world is new!"
That’s actually really impressive
@@muirismason3262 Thanks! 😄
Allow me to bredlik your poem.
my name is baloo
i rite of shoes
mayd of hard ston
look at me feet
rok big so neet
so vorld is new
yes vorld is new
i lik the ston
Perfect!! 😆
Noice
"How old is the earth?"
"10.000 years"
"What's your proof?"
"This 210 million year old rock"
Yep, your average creationists logic
Real
I like to argue that the earth is only six hours old when faced with creationists.
Edit: ive only met three in person and only argued it to the two after an insufferable lyft ride gave me the idea, but it was very satisfying both times
@@Skag_Sisyphus what's your evidence against the fact that all our memories happened in two seconds, and the world is in fact two hours old?
@@a.sapphic.Magnus.Chase. What's your evidence that I did "infact" give you a foot massage while you were sleeping?
@@a.sapphic.Magnus.Chase.what’s your evidence against the fact that time earth existed may be shorter
I graduated from a private Christian college in south Georgia. We were taught evolution in biology. When a divinity major in my class challenged this our teacher said, "Personally, I find it a great testimony of God's love for His creations that he built into them the ability to adapt to their environment."
That is brilliant.
Agree. God is a Creator and is Creative. Creation is a reflection of God. Creation is not static and never has been --not in art, music or animals, earth or plants, etc, etc, etc.
There is also the fact that god wrote the rules. If he wished he could basically set everything up and let it work itself out, only stepping in when necessary.
Obviously, he never read The Origin of Species 😂
@@Toubabou you mean... the barebones blueprint for adaptable life, with specific parameters for one to be significantly better than the rest?
Seems like intelligent design to me rather than random happenstance. Side note; I love how all our "common ancestors" tend to have literally one account, which leads us to computer generate no less than 80% of the creature through guesswork. Deterioration and mutations just don't exist when you need to shift the population from intelligent, religious men to animalistic atheists screeching at any mention of Christianity, I suppose.
The most hilarious thing about Ken ham is that he's actually Australian- you know the country famous for it's insane amount of biodiversity due to it being cut off from the rest of the world for millions of years
I love this LMAO
As an Australian I think I can speak for the rest of the country in saying "You can keep him, we don't want him." We want no association with that crackpot, thank you very much.
@@MeaKitty Honestly that's completely valid. I watch a lot of vids about Evangelicals so I've seen some shit about him and...hoo boy. That's a "just throw the suitcase away" situation
I don't forget that Australia is right next New Zealand a country with relatively low genetic diversity coz it was basically under water when it split( just like ken thinks that all continents did during the flood all the way back from rodinia)
He also thinks kangaroos got here by riding volcanic rocks thrown into the air by volcanos.
Former creationist here. Seeing all my old arguments still being used is like cringing at old pictures of my bad 90’s haircut.
AYYYY SAMEEEEEE
I'm not sure what to call myself. Perhaps a "I believe God created the Earth but I personally don't take a position on how He did it or really care."
Teach the science correctly, and don't let obsession over trying to interpret Genesis or Noah's Ark, etc, distract from the purpose of scripture to instruct spiritually, that is the way I operate.
@@WasatchWind Not-sarcastic clapping. Good take.
I'm an atheist, but believe that if you're religious or spiritual, it can fill the gaps of the unknown that creates anxiety without being something you argue against verified scientific discovery with.
It can be really helpful for coping with really tough topics for all of us, like death, and all of the little things that come up that just seem "odd" or "wiggy" that you can't really prove with science. Like... in childhood, I once found that a toy had seemingly duplicated overnight! No kidding. I can't explain that one with science to this day.
It can also be helpful as a set of moral guidelines. I find that most of the religious morals that are taught that I've seen are relatively harmless. The "treat others how you want to be treated" or "Golden Rule" and the "love thy neighbor" and "brotherhood" and "God loves all his children" are good examples of that, when taken at face value.
It's inevitable that everyone in this life has anxiety over all that is unknown to them, and it's perfectly okay to fill that void with spiritualism, religious belief, and community from either of those things. What isn't okay is spreading complete misinformation, especially for a political or economic agenda, knowingly or unknowingly. That's propaganda, and that's sinister.
@@WasatchWind The correct term for that is agnostic theist.
@@xXEGPXx No, I am not agnostic, simply my church thinks it is not the point of religion to obsess over scientific matters. There are intersections of course, but though moral religious teachings may help us practice science ethically, and professional psychological and medical science can help aid people in their life struggles, I believe we should be careful to not let either speak too authoritatively for the other field.
I believe that science and religion are simply two sides of the same greater truths - but that we currently have an imperfect knowledge of both.
I love the "were you there" argument. Because I can just say "yes" and wait for them to disprove it.
then when they try to say that you weren't you can turn it around and say "well were you there to prove that i wasn't"
@@wolfclaw3366 Yeah, its a thought-stopping tactic, like those used by cults. Because that's what creationism is.
My response: “I dunno, smart guy, were _you_?”
@@sarahcole9661 you gotta have a space one either side of the _ for it to do the intended effect. It makes things look stupid sometimes, but that's _how it works_ .
*_If you want you can put the things outside the punctuation._*
There once was a man named baloo
He found a petrified shoe
He had no proof
So his argument went poof
So he pulled evidence out of his wazoo
Fucking brilliant
@@Da_Swifta thanks :)
I slightly changed it to make it more like a limerick :)
there once was a man named Baloo
who mistook a rock for a shoe
his idea went poof
because he had no proof
but he kept on insisting it's true
(a limerick has 5-6 syllables in the 3rd/4th lines but yours has 4 and 7, plus the last line was 11 syllables, not 9-10)
Both are great
There once was a man named Baloo
Who found a petrified shoe
Thought he proved God
With this newfound clod
But was found to be full of poo.
If real dinosaur-age human footprints were found, particularly if they were shoeprints, I would take that as evidence of time-travel, not creationism.
Fr, even though creationism is obviously not real and, as far as we know, neither is time travel, It makes more sense for the supposed footprint to be used as evidence in support of time travelers than as evidence of creationism.
Well said, bro😄👍👍👍
Wouldn't aliens be more likely than time-travel? An extraterrestrial visit in the distant past could have been careful enough to leave basically no evidence behind. If we assume some kind of 'explore but don't interfere with life' motivation. But erasing their footprints in the mud would be a bit much. And while we never expect timetravel to be viable, we _do_ expect life to have evolved on different planets.
@@slicedtoad This sounds like the premise for an amazing sci-fi novel.
nah, alien shoes are more believable. time travel is science fiction
One of my favorite stupid things ever is the sentence “Dinosaur bones are falsifications buried in the Earth by Satan to confuse the righteous.”
It’s the same ”logic“ that conspiracy theorists, like flat earthers use, ”the government is showing us false information to hide the truth“…
I’m Christian and I agree that is so dumb😭😭 dinosaurs were described in the Bible possibly by leviathans
Isn't that quote used as a joke in Good Omens, it could also be a belief some have, but something similar is in Good Omens
@@basementdwellercosplay Not exactly.
"The whole business with the fossilized dinosaur skeletons was a joke the paleontologists haven't seen yet."
@@Sigma-xb6kn It’s honestly my favourite part of Good Omens. In some way, it has more world building than the Bible in its first few paragraphs and Genesis literally starts with the story of creation.
My neighbor was a young earther. I was 15 and said "we have this great soil here because this area was a glacier over 2.5 million years ago" my dad was there and looked so proud of me and my neighbor just said "kids, *shakes head* the earth is no more than 10,000 years old" my dad took me inside our house because I laughed and that was rude.
I love these videos.
We should reward this kind of rudeness
@@lolloblue9646 In fact, I think It's your civic Duty to make sure a Flat Earther's World views are not well-respected. The more introverted they become, the less likely they are to throw up their putrid religion onto the rest of the world.
It's not rude to laugh at the YEC cult.
i feel like the only thing your father did wrong was not laugh with you
There once was a man named Baloo,
And he found a petrified shoe.
Upon further inspection,
And minute detection;
Milo proved his theory untrue
this is the best one so far ...
My parents went to the ark once. They almost got kicked out because they couldn’t stop laughing and pointing at things. My mom (a 15 year history teacher) turned a corner and saw a dinosaur in a cage and almost passed out laughing.
That is wild💀
I like your parents
Oh god my dad said his wife is dragging him up there soon to see this horrible thing and I’m like please don’t go…or please take me so I can laugh 😂 his wife is SUPPPPER into conspiracies. Like name one and I bet she’s deep into it. Her, her daughter and her daughter’s husband. I can’t even go hang out with them bc they’re so bad with it, my brain hurts.
@@HeatherHoltwife of your dad? Your mom you mean?
If I ever went to the ark encounter, i just wanna see Cotylorhynchus.
Whenever someone asks "Were you there when God created earth?" I say Yes! Because what are they gonna do, deny it? They weren't there
Then once they deny it you say “ you just gotta have faith.”
Ya know...I kinda want to do this now.
@@babydahl9424 once you realize how much you can say "Yes" to a conservative about the much more fun it is arguing with them
Whenever someone brings up the 9/11 conspiricies, how Bill Gates wants to micro chip the world, or any of these religious conspiricies, just make one even crazier up.
"You think planes crashed into the Tradecenter? That was a Russian spy on the space station who used the space lazer to try starting a war"
"Bill Gates died in '98 (last good Microsoft operating system). But the microchip he put in his brain let him survive as a robot and he wants to make the rest of the world immortal. But we being stubborn."
"Immaculate conception just meant God didn't make a mess on Mary's face. She swallowed."
@@Suusleepy Honestly I'm adding this tactic to my list of tactics now
Hey! Great video. I'm actually a Christian pastor from Kentucky, and i have spent much of my career pushing back on the idea that young earth creationism is the only way to be "truly Christian". I loved your quote that it is a lot easier to construct facts around beliefs than it is to construct beliefs around facts. Who knows, that might make its way into a sermon one day
I think the thing American "Christians" really need to be talking about is what Ezekiel said about why Sodom got nuked, and what that means for the wealthiest country in the world when it has no care for the poor and needy at its gates - either its own citizens or refugees turning to it for shelter.
If you don't heal the sick, shelter the homeless, and feed the hungry, you don't get to call yourself Christian. And this does include using your vote to demand that your governments at all levels work to heal the sick, shelter the homeless, and feed the hungry. It's not rocket science!
Awesome! 👍🙏
@@johns1625at least you’re being intellectually honest. I don’t envy your position.
Be honest; THIS SUNDAY
I think that would work great in a sermon! Go for it!
Late to the party here, but I have a fun fact for you regarding horses (horse feet is my job). Horses' front "knees" are actually parallel structures to our wrists. Below that structure is one big metacarpal bone with a smaller vestigial metacarpal bone on each side. We call them metacarpal 3, and mc 2 and 4, respectively. Metacarpal 3 is our middle finger. So horses are constantly flipping the bird.
"horse feet is my job" made me laugh. You're awesome.
How cool do you have to be to have “Horse feet job” on your resume.
horses are some of the dumbest designed animals ever and i love them so much. you look at them the wrong way and all of their legs break. would love to have horse feet as my job.
So what Is the job? Do you trim their hooves?
@@uwukotoa Sneeze in the same zip code as a horse and it just... explodes.
My only complaint with you channel is that there isn’t enough for me to binge for hours and hours lol keep it up man you’re fantastic
That is the highest compliment I could ever receive
@@miniminuteman773 you bring a great level of energy and prior research that make your videos equal parts factual and entertaining. Truly excited to see more from you as time goes on!
@@miniminuteman773 have you considered bringing more of your tiktok content over?
@@miniminuteman773 my only problem is that you pronounced Nevada, NevUda
@@miniminuteman773 saw your second video right after it came out had the same feeling as the first guy
there once was a man named baloo, who found a petrified shoe, he stepped on the rock, said "hey that's a shock", and then went home for a poo
home?? I though bears did sh*t in the woods.😛
👏👏👏
Why did I read this like it was ragnar the red from skyrkm. *edit*Skyrim, I cant spell.
my guy i laugghed so hard i burped
A+
Yes.
I grew up with Creationism. I read Creation magazine and Answers in Genesis. I’m one semester away from obtaining a degree in biology, with a focus in evolutionary biology and microbiology. My first year in university was brutal. There was so much that I “should remember from high school.”. The thing is my 12 grade bio class was basically a YEC apologetics course. I really struggled my first year, but I eventually made up for my lack of knowledge. I had long since rejected Creationism and Christianity, but I started school at a stark disadvantage.
Congrats, good luck with school!
"thats enough time talking about ken ham and his homoerotic boat" had me dying ☠️
"Built to all of the speciations in the bible." Including sprinklers, metal bolts, air conditioning and electric lighting, plus a massive concrete building that holds it together.
Yes, we all know Noah didnt wanna piss off OSHA
My favorite part is that they think that 8 people took care of what they think would've been 15 000 different animals on that boat for an entire year. They have a zoo attached to the ark, and they have 8 zookeepers for taking care of only about 200 animals.
@@Nick-mp1zh What did they feed the carnivores? Or the herbivores? Or the omnivores? How did they store the fresh water animals? Or the salt water animals? Since that much flooding surely would've disrupted the salinity world-wide?
Not to mention the Ark only had one small window, for ventialtion so they all would've died from methane poisoning
@@Nick-mp1zh my favourite part is that they have to keep repairing the ark for rain damage.
So a bit of a fun fact about that "Noah's arc replica" is that during construction it was found that actually building an arc that could float with the given specifications was impossible even with modern machinery and techniques. They had to abort the plans for making it a bronze-age boat replica and instead made it a building shaped like a boat with modern concrete and steel to get it to support its own weight. So they accidentally thoroughly debunked the idea that Noah's Arc ever actually happened, but they made sure to deny that publicly as much as possible.
Wow, it's almost like that Noah's ark wouldn't have been possible without SOME sort of external help, I wonder what that could have been.
Hilariously, the Ark Encounter was damaged a while back and they sued to get help to repair it. It was damaged in a FLOOD.
Another thing I want to add, It took 100-200 people 10-12 YEARS to build the "ark" replica using MODERN equipment. in the book it was supposedly done by ~ 10-14 people in 47 years with BRONZE AGE tools. Good FUCKING luck building the same boat with a 47 year deadline with only a half school bus worth of people to help using only bronze tools.
@@astreaward6651
Irony so poetic i could almost cry
@@Xenon_001 funny how you should mention that considering God explicitly DIDN'T help.
The information in this video (as well as some of your others) helped me to walk my father back from the brink of conspiracy theories. He's a retired computer engineer who's been stuck in a YE-creationist echo chamber lately. Your explanations of the scientific techniques, geology, etc. helped me give him the explanations he needed to turn away from the conspiracy theorists. Thank you SO much!
Congrats!
I still can't get over the fact that it does not look like a footprint in the slightest. Like the shape does vaguely resemble a shoe but the imprint itself hardly does.
As a former cobbler, that inner band of "thread" would be Blake stitching, which wasn't possible until 1856 when the machine necessary was invented. Stitched shoes made before 1500 were turn shoes, which would have had all stitching contained within the shoe. Also, the spot where the foot supposedly wore through the heel does not look like the wear that actually happens.
Looks like wear on an insole not the impression of an outsole
Young earth creationist foot theory destroyed by former Cobbler with facts and knowledge
I love this! You don’t even have to be a proper scientist, even a cobbler can poke holes in this fools’ evidence! But they’ll never listen
Stop trying to confuse people with facts.
@@bigbeefscorcho Science isn't a set of facts and recipes, it's an attitude. Saturn here clearly has an excellent grasp on the science of shoes, which is the thing about discipline crossover: it's absurdly hard to predict.
There once was a man named Ballou,
Who found a "petrified shoe".
He said, "This here is proof
That evolutions a spoof!"
And thus the conspiracy grew.
This is great
You mind if i illustrate it?
amazing work, person!
(didn’t want to misgender you so I don’t get sent to internet hell)
@eyesofdeath01 clearly, they aren't a person. They are a dog. Because "I'm not a dog" is exactly what a dog would say.
bravo!
I'm an atheist, but i appreciate his specifying that he doesn't mean disrespect to all religious people.
We need more of that in this world.
Fun fact, at least 4 me. Grew up in Dallas Tx area, got taken to Dinosaur Valley at age 4 or 5. Got to sit in a track just like kid in photo. Saw sauropod and therapod and "human tracks." Early 1970s. Parents bought me kids dinosaur book. Had a nightmqre abt being chased by dinosaurs and hiding while two Harryhausen monsters fought over who would eat me. How bad? I can still remember it 50 years later...Also Im now amateur archaeologist/paleontologist and hugely a rock nerd.
Love yr videos. Thanks for all yr work...❤
Ken Ham, an Australian export, tried to build his facility here in Australia, and we told him he could do that but he couldn't call it a museum because it misrepresents the word 'museum,' so he threw a tantrum and went to do it in Kentucky.
AND Rupert Murdoch. Is America your prison colony now?
@@Fallen7Pie Yeah we uh, let's see kicked out Rupert Murdoch, if by that you mean, 'let him leave with giant piles of money we gave him' so he could uh languish in America, and by that we mean Britain, putting tits in the newspapers, THEN move to America to found Fox news and make EVEN MORE MONEY.
LIke y'all can blame us but I think it's just that scum knows where to float
As a native born Kentuckian, the Ken Ham nonsense is a source of pure shame for most of us.
@@dungeonbrush8982 yeah, Sorry about that. He went where there were tax incentives and people he could bilk, based on my dealings with the man
@@Fallen7Pie
You can keep that hidious old bastard too!
As a huge dinosaur nerd, the thing that triggered me the most is the young earth creationists portrayed the CARNOTAURUS. The "MEAT EATING BULL," eating bananas. Not the small, starchy, wild ones either. Fully grown, yellow bananas.
me too- i was- SO upset. it has *MEAT EATING* IN THE _NAME_ -Anon
I've read that book and their explanation is just... "Every living thing was an herbivore before Adam and Eve got exiled from the garden of Eden", which they explain by... saying that some animals with teeth similar to carnivores eat only plants (like pandas). It's pretty ridiculous lol
"Carnotaurus" would be "meat-bull" -- no eating involved. At least in the name.
@@drs-xj3pb Okay, thanks for the correction. But the teeth...
@@joshc5613 The Noah story happened quite some time after Adam and Eve got kicked out, though. So even if that story were true, the carnivores would have been eating meat by the time of Noah.
There's a song I learned in Sunday school that horrifies my daughter. Oh be careful little eyes what you see oh be careful little eyes what you see. There's a gentle lord above looking down on you in love so be careful little eyes what you see. The next verse is little ears and what you hear and the third is be careful little mouth what you say. My daughter thought that was the most 1984 thing she'd ever heard
As someone who uses to be a young Earth creationist, I appreciate you debunking one of the most convincing evidence to young me.
There once was a man named Ballew,
Who found the petrified print of a shoe.
Despite it's great age & clear lack of such traits,
He decided the print was brand new.
Thank you for finishing the limerick!
COOL limerick! Nice job!
A note: its shoud be written "Baloo".
@@orsettomorbido Agree!
@@orsettomorbido Normally I'd agree with you, but at 10:00 it's actually spelled as Ballou interestingly enough. Who knows we could all be wrong and its Buhlue hehe
Gorgeous work T^T
Ex-protestant here. One time, my church did a month long sermon series about these feet, and how they are irrefutable.
Watching this was like medicine
A month talking about footprints? Those fellas are THIRSTY for solid things to throw at doubters
They thirsty for feet🧍
@@muchotexto4248 or just thirsty for feet.
@@endig4501 I have a new business idea for feetshakes. Must develop further. Gonna need an industrial size blender...and some land out in the woods...for...business science...
Feet aren't real. Suckers.
As a Texan who went to dinosaur valley once as a family outing, it was obviously about cool dinosaur stuff but also it was about the fact that you can play and run about the river and bring your dog
I'm a sleep deprived science guy that was born and raised in a cult. Idk if I should trust in this man just because he's funny, but I'll allow myself joy today ❤ thanks for the content CZcams guy
Trust is a strong word in science. If what he says makes sense and fits with your existing understanding of how the world works, then you can hold it as a working thesis.
Everything we know is open to being debunked by newer better evidence - but it had better be GOOD evidence!
My dad is a young earth creationist and it’s like talking to a brick wall with him. “Carbon dating doesn’t date down to the second so it doesn’t work at all” “the earliest writing was Hammurabi’s code (that’s not true at all) cave paintings don’t count” *I show him evidence* “that’s fake they fudge the numbers” and so on. The worst part is that he talks down to me and says I don’t know anything because I’m younger than him. I tell him I actively study anything so I probably know a bit more than him on that specific subject and it’s “oh so you know everything.” He literally told me that when I corrected him on something with music and he doesn’t even know what a scale is. Or the difference between notes and chords. I play 9 instruments. I took music theory for 6 years like!?!
I’m so sorry that your dad is a POS, I can’t imagine what that would be like. I met people like that in college, and all of them came from the Christian ministry that I was part of the time.
There was one guy in particular who flat out proclaimed that “there is nothing that you could show me that would shake my faith” when he was being presented with a scientific fact about the Earth. Another guy went from being a geology major to young earth creationist because he discovered the church.
@@outdoorscholar6016 dude he tried to argue that someone was singing “off key” when he could not explain what a key was. They weren’t singing off key, the quality of the instrumental recordings and the quality of the vocal recording were different so the vocals hid among the instrumentals and he isn’t used to that so it was suddenly “off key” despite them both being in the key of Em. He was like “you don’t know what you’re talking about” bitch you don’t even know what middle c is. He also thinks minor notes are “off key”
Probably best to just let it go eh?
@@phantomkate6 I can’t I don’t move out till the end of the month and he bring it up all the time
@@Urlocalpope This month? You're nearly there!!! 🙌
I used to work for the creation museum, and I can tell you that Ken Ham did not care about his employees. Any day he came to the museum was a nightmare. He'd specifically look for things that he could find "wrong" with something we were doing and then berate the managers about it. Also he refused to allow us to wear masks in the beginning of 2020, and wouldn't close the doors until he was forced. That man does not believe in the "sanctity of human life" when it comes to those who work under him.
I know someone who worked there, and they also said it was a shitty, toxic place to work
**looks at your bi pride pfp**
🤝
Shout out to all my homies that were once indoctrinated and now gay as all hell
One question though, why? Why work there of all places? I’m genuinely wondering here.
@@peggedyourdad9560 I was heavy drinking the Christian Kool aid at the time. I was in Bible college in a school nearby, so I needed a job that would accommodate the school rules I was under (can't wear pants as a woman, can't work Sundays) and the museum favored people from my school because they were both fundamentalist Christian establishments. Thankfully I'm far away from all of that now.
@@carissasherman8553 Oh ok, that makes a lot of sense actually. I’m glad you seem to have stepped away from that, at least enough to realize that the Bible is more for spiritual guidance than an accurate explanation for anything in the physical realm.
😂😂 when he said
“ladies and gentlemen i present-“
i got an ad saying
“this birth control is the newest rave”😂😂😂
the cable and TV really need to give you a contract, the humourous way you show the logical process to debunk fake history is so clear.. we need alot of this on mainstream to educate people prone to click bate money making utubers etc or those with a faith agenda not based in science, who also contadict the evidance with misleading rubbish
There once was a man named Balou
Who found a petrified shoe
It came from a rock,
But to his great shock
It looked almost new!
Balou said "Gosh Darn"
Went home to his barn
And said to his lady Lilou:
"I found this petrified shoe
It came from a rock,
But to my great shock
It looks almost new!"
"That cannot be true,
For i have been told
that rocks are so old!"
But doctor Balou
heeded her not,
For he'd thrown in his lot
With the creationist crew
Yet all of the crew
And even the doc
Were thoroughly wrong
It was only a rock
And so ends the song
Of doctor Balou
And his petrified shoe
Which was only a rock
Mate, you're a lyrical feckin' genius.
Wtf this is amazing, go actually make a book you got skill
Dr Seuss been real quiet since Nova dropped this bop
@@t.p.ggaming3884 lmaaao
I like to paint and draw, if I made this....how much would you pay for it? lol
I once found a tiny human footprint. Like baby sized but in the shape of an adult foot. Probably fairies or aliens.
1. It didn't have toes but who needs those.
2. It didn't look like a foot, but it sorta did.
2. It was a piece of slag from the nearby iron works.
You had me at first
@@gracenantaya8394 I realize that I labeled two points "2."
@Gustav I didn't
@@gustavgnoettgen Honestly, that makes it funnier.
@@gustavgnoettgen - So why not fix it?
These episodes are the best I've seen in a long time.
they are informative and funny.
But the most important thing is that you can be understood even if you don't speak English very well. you speak very clearly and distinctly. Thanks for that.
I fully believe you caught a fish that big. They even built a statue in Rio to commemorate the accomplishment.
My father gave old Carl Baugh such a thorough interrogation during his Q&A session he used to end the Creation Museum tours with that he angrily quit the session early and walked off into his private office. We went back exactly a year later to learn he no longer did any live tours and all exhibits have ever since had pre-recorded audio files explaining them. I will always believe that my asshole father can always be proud that he harassed one prominent Creationist into shutting up.
That's something to be very proud of.
Sir I ask that you stop calling my hero an asshole
Your father is dope 👌🏼
I would like to run for president just so i can shake both of your hands
All hail your father!
If the “Footprint” had shown stitching in it then it’s a better argument for time travel than it is creationism
Obviously the time travelers just wanted to go back and ride dinosaurs
@@normalhuman9878 i wonder if cowboys are ceratopsianboys....
@@normalhuman9878 I know I would.
It's clearly aliens, I saw it on the History channel at 3am so it must be true
@@firegator6853 i need this imax movie
"Life is so complicated so it couldn't have originated from nothing, hence god made it"
"What made god?"
"Ah he came out of nothing"
Congratulations, you just described Creation Ex Nihilo, aka the Big Bang Theory. You know, only the currently leading scientific explanation of how the Universe was created. From nothing. Like in Genesis 1:1.
13:27 I can't believe my idoit self really just said outloud "..horses dont have feet" 😂
You know what, you were engaged in the lesson and produced an answer! Good try my dude! ✅
There once was a man named Balloo. He found a petrified shoe.
He made up a story, projecting God’s glory and hoped all would think it was true.
this might be the only good one in this entire comments section
Woah very nice o.o
Omg this is the best one
I love the whole thing with Christian’s being like “we need to take back God’s holy symbol the rainbow” when biblically the rainbow was literally gods way of saying “sorry I caused near total genocide of everyone and everything on earth, here have this token as I promise that next time I do it I’ll use fire instead”
I wrote exactly the same thing in another comment before seeing this one, lol. Including the "next time I won't use a flood to destroy earth.", because its also phrased exactly like that as far as I remember
Did you know why God flooded the earth?
Because there is more sins than righteousness. What sins you ask specificly? Its sexual sins. 🌈. Rainbow is a sign that earth has been baptized by water. As like many christian baptized by water as atonement. Next baptism is by fire… if this world keep doing the sins… maybe world be baptize with fire…
As creationism or evolutionism i not a arkelog nor theolog…so i no comment about it.
@@anteasgard bro first of all - no. In no place is it said that the sins were "sexual", despite what your brain dead Christian education told you.
It's, and I know Hebrew so I can read the original text, "bringing evil upon the earth, thinking evil thoughts, committing evil deeds".
It's written that "God regretted creating humans". It is not specified, in any place, what they did to be considered so destructive. Worshipping evil gods? Destroying nature, the environment? Murdering and pillaging? No one knows.
What was even the purpose of your comment? Syne think of that before you post?
@@anteasgard no one asked
@@anteasgard what do you mean, mostly sexual sins? Where in the Bible does it say that God flooded the earth due to sexual sins? It said that they murdered, they raped (that's a sexual sin, I'll grant you that), they were just plain rude. But you implied that it was due to homosexuality. Please tell me where it says that in the Bible.
“Sounds like you’re *projecting* a *little*” is literally the funniest line I’ve ever heard in my life
I found your video after a YEC brought up these Texas tracks, which I had never heard of. Great video, I enjoyed it. Your reply to the senior archeologist in regards to the so called "Baghdad Battery" was also a good watch. As an animal science major I have to say that most animals do walk on their toes, not just horses. Most animals with paws, anything with hooves, birds, and a good number of other invertebrates. It's really the vertebrates that do walk on their heels which are weird.
I actually was at a presentation of Ken Ham. At the end I asked him, "where did all the dinosaurs go?" He replied,
"We hunted them to extinction."
I watched my chickens with a mouse once. I was just "whoa, I think I just watched velociraptors with a small mammal!"
That poor mouse. It was a horrible way to go. They tore it apart.
@@madtabby66 bad joke and yes chickens are geneticly related to dinos
Om nom nom
the funny thing is that if we were able to kill them, we would've hunted them to extinction if they tasted good
We hunted apex predators into extinction? YECs have never left their house.. (tonality edit)
I’ve been to the creation evidence museum twice. They’ll kick you out if you take pics of the interior of the museum, ask non-biblical questions, point out scientific problems in the literature, and pretty much anything you go to the museum to do lol.
so, don’t ask questions, and accept the brainwashing
Ironic
So that is a museum that you can't do anything you would do in a museum? Instant 0 stars from me
They can't risk having any of their followers realize how completely wrong creationism is
I bet it really pisses them off when you tell them that other museums aren't afraid of questions--and that they actually encourage them. They love questions at the natural history museum.
Simple, it isn't a museum, it is an indoctrination device to a cult of thought.
Im a spiritualist and an occultist, and my spiritual beliefs and my scientific beliefs are often at odds. I believe that the big babg happened, but i believe it was kick started by the gods. This is to say, thanks for not throwing shade on all religion just out of scientific vs religion hate. Its happened from both sides far too often and i deeply appreciate you not doing that.
16:50 The description of the feet as being "good sized, toes well spread and very distinctly marked" isn't completely meaningless, as the prolonged wearing of shoes tends to squash the toes together and weaken the muscles so that footprints left by someone who grew up wearing shoes would not have spread toes much or at all, and the toes would be less distinctly marked. Them being allegedly "good-sized" probably means adult-sized.
Presumably, the intended meaning here, is that the footprints are clearly ancient, as people in the present wear shoes, and people 65+ million years ago did not, even though that probably would fall into the theoretical "pre-deluvian" period when humanity was supposed to have super advanced technology, which one would assume such people as these young-earth creationists would assume to include shoes.
Given everything else, I think it more likely that the footprints could have been left by someone who didn't wear shoes because they were raised by wolves, but there is another more plausible possibility, maybe, I think.
Indigenous peoples in North America used much softer materials for making shoes, like animal hides, which presumably would not squash the toes to the same degree as solid European shoes, and, as attested to by the "Shoe" Wikipedia page, they went mostly barefoot in the summer. I don't know if these practices would still have been applicable there in the 1880s, but it seems like it could be vaguely possible. Alternatively, a lot of slaves didn't get shoes, I think, probably.
So, the footprint could have been an Indigenous person, a slave, or a Mowgli-type individual, much more likely than being somehow 65 million years old.
There once was a man named Ballou,
Claimed he found a petrified shoe.
It was in one place
In a rock face
And he just didn't know what to do.
He took it to the NY times,
As they were busy publishing crimes.
His story was bought
they didn't give it much thought
Now we're making up all of these rhymes.
The find put young earthers in a tizzy,
They wanted to spread it and got busy.
They shared it around
through the whole fr*cking town
And the ignorance makes us pretty dizzy.
The name absolutely checks out, when's the rap?
@ImSoQwerty language!
Sound's like Ballou's head was full of Doo-doo
*wild applause*
the is perfect
There once was a man named Baloo
Who had found a petrified shoe
But to his chagrin
There were no facts within
So creation was not proven true
I like it! ✌
10:00 it’s spelled Ballou apparently. loved the poem tho! great work :)
@@yourfellowlifeform2933 Baloo is the bears name
@Cocolocobirb I know, we are talking about the person. Not the bear from the Jungle Book
This is my favorite one yet! 😁👍
How do you know? Were you there?
Why yes, I was there.
What? No you weren’t!
How do you know? Were YOU there?
The picture of Jesus blessing a dinosaur is my new wallpaper. 😂
Oh my gods I really just thought he was petting it
My parents used to take us to that stupid Creationist Museum when we were kids and this place caused me so much confusion in my upbringing, and so much ridicule. Anyway, I met Carl Baugh when I was five and I really pissed him off when he tried to tell me how young the earth is and I told him he was wrong and stupid, like any other tired, confused youngin’ would after a seven-hour drive. I like that story, because we never went back after that.
Absolute legend.
Proto-Chad
Chadlet child.
I live down the road from the creationist museum and about 30 minutes away from the ark encounter. It’s ridiculous the amount of stupidity radiating from those two places. The effort they’ve gone into trying to prove the their myths is actually humorous!
Fun fact… the atheist/humanist/free-thinker group Tri-State Freethinkers sponsors the roadway cleanup outside both the creationist museum and the ark.
@@markvangorkum8091 Chad Junior
I was raised in a very conservative household. I was homeschooled for the majority of my life. I recall watching Ken Ham videos as part of my "science" education. The only reason I got way from those views was because I attended university. As an adult, I am still working on unlearning the nonsense I was taught. This video very much blasted me into my own past but also made me realize how much progress I have made since I started. Thank you for that.
Congratulations for making it out of that!! Hope you're doing well in reteaching yourself!
@@Eden-Eden-Eden I am, thank you! I'm very lucky to have a partner who had a more traditional education than myself. They are helping me unlearn the fantasy I was taught and are helping me be more critical of information in the future.
Man all of that is the same for me except that instead of attending university making me realize it was bs, it was that i became friends with someone and somehow managed to not try to convert them before they got me thinking about literally anything that wasn’t the same shit I’d heard repeated forever.
Realizing that dinosaurs not only existed, but got wiped out by the whole mass extinction event was crazy. And that there was stuff out in space, and it wasn’t just an inclosed space with concrete walls that god was right outside of.
I don’t like that I know so much less than any ‘normal’ person about science, but it really is great to see how much I’ve relearned in whatever amount of time.
Call upon the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be SAVED! Jesus loves you! Get a king james bible and believe. Read Matthew. Read 1 John 4.
@@MichaelAChristian1 yeah... Not the best place for this, bud
15:12 “stupid dumbass” and “rat horse” got me 💀
15:50 - There actually is a reason - the English researchers get to keep their name because they described the species before the Americans. It's the standard with taxonomy: when different species turn out to be the same, they keep the name of the oldest holotype. Remember the old Apatosaurus vs. Brontosaurus debate? Yeah, that.
I love Milo's hatred of that early horse, there's no reason given for his disdain and I don't even need any
W hating
I like that his disdain extends to the name. Hyracotherium is an ugly name, and does not, as he implies, mean "dawn horse." It means "hyrax-like beast," which is odd as it bears little resemblance to a hyrax. Eohippus, the rejected American name, does mean "dawn horse" and is a beautiful name. Fortunately, Hyracotherium is no longer classified as an equid and Eohippus has been restored to its proper status as a valid equid genus.
"Amateur geologist, just makes me think it's a guy who likes rocks."
Me: (amateur herpetologist, doesn't have a degree but breeds snakes and is obsessed with them)
Yeah. That actually checks out.
OMG, your pfp is amazing!😆 I love it!
Ngl I'm very sleep deprived and when I first read the word "herpetologist" I legitimately thought "ah yes this person must study herpes". I need sleep
@@sarahamira5732 OMG. That's me too. 🤦♂️🐍
@@sarahamira5732 nice
So by that very argument, my dude…
*You’re a dude that likes to make snakes bone*
As a Christian who believes in science and is not a young earth creationist believer, I appreciate this video so much. 👌🏻
I know this is old, and I haven't watched the whole video yet, but I am both a creationist (and the worst kind, Young Earth,) and a conspiracy theorist; I'm still worried about what dubious inferences will come from feet.
Edit: Yup, that worked out about how I expected. I still don't like the philosophy sections (really? "Our truth"?), but the rest all makes sense. I learned something about rocks, got to hear someone make fun of Answers in Genesis, and saw dino prints. Good episode.
So one thing I just love about living near glen rose is if you go to Dino valley park, they have signs directly across from the creationist museums saying “not factual ->” and the creationist museum can’t do anything about it because it’s not on their property. And every park ranger immediately comes and fact checks any tour the creationist museum try’s to do within the park.
We really like to swim there so we like to sit back watch the daily Dino drama. Because it IS daily. Like it’s an active feud.
And if you think Dino valley is the only science center in glen rose who has beef with the creationists you’d be wrong. Fossil rim, a zoo/ conservation breeding ranch also has beef with them over a Noah’s arc incident where the creation museum asked fossil rim if they could borrow animals for an event. Were told no. And then took the animals anyway.
How? Well fossil rim is surrounded by private property ranches. And sometimes the animals get out and you’ll just have like a zebra in your lawn. Private residents can get into a program that pays them to allow the animals to graze when this happens cause it happens so much that doing this wastes less resources. Just let it graze and then round them up later. But you’re supposed to report the animal to fossil rim so they know where the animal is. Well the creationist museum started posing as fossil rim and doing other shady stuff to come collect the animals and return them to fossil rim. But in reality they were just storing them on one guys ranch to prep for the Noah event.
This was years ago and ever since fossil rim and Dino valley have teamed up to collectively beef the creationist museum and try and run it out of town.
And good. It’s really preachy and boring.
The one thing I hate about living near glen rose is the nuclear fallout drills because pretending like we won’t be immediately toasted out of reality if the nuclear plant fails is such a waste of time. I can hide under my desk all I want. The radiation doesn’t care.
They are DESPERATE to stop people from hearing the TRUTH. Jesus loves you! Read John. Read Genesis. Call upon the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be SAVED!
@@MichaelAChristian1 Borrowing the animals without permission is the same as stealing. I believe there's a commandment against that.
@@KarakTo What are you talking about? They are the ones hiding what was found on glen rose.
Me when ""they"" hide the """"truth""""
I grew up as a creationist as a kid and even went to the creation museum and ark encounter. In high school I realized how many hoops I had to jump through to believe in it. Thank you earth science class for finally getting it through my big dumb head. I still believe in God, I just believe they caused the big bang and evolution.
Edit: to all you creationists in the replies, you aren't going to win me over. My parents are still creationists and if they can't convince me then some random person on the internet wouldn't with the same bunk science
You have no clue how much I value people like you.
We have a Chad over here, seriously man I wish more people think like you.
As someone who considers himself both a Christian, and a scientist, (not a "Christian scientist" a term for someone who is arguably neither of those things) that's the same conclusion I've come to. I do believe God created the universe, and the Earth, and the life on it, and the mechanics that have caused change over time. (And "change over time" is essentially the definition of "evolution.") It doesn't require any stretches of logic to see science for what it is and give credit to a creator who put all of that into motion. I recall a physics teacher who basically said "science is here to answer what, when, where, and who; why is a question for philosophy and religion."
@@troodon1096 THANK YOU
Back when I was a Christian (in a YEC denomination), I was one of the only people in my youth group that believed in evolution. I always said that “the Bible tells us who, science tells us how.” I still think that’s a reasonable way to look at things, and that statement helped prevent me from getting into debates with Christian friends who didn’t think the way I did, but could see my side of it after I explained it that way. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with getting into a debate, but there may be times you don’t want to.
There once was a man named Baloo, who found a petrified shoe. He kicked it around, said "Here's a cool rock I found," and I can't think of a way to end this limerick.
22:36 id also like to throw my two cents worth in by stating the obvious. Those prints are effing huge. They are far bigger than my brothers feet, and he almost needs custom shoes. How can anyone look at a depression bigger than himself and call it a footprint while keeping a straight face?
The bible literalists also believe in giants, so if the shoe fits...
Having a creationist museum right next to the dinosaur park is like having a flat earth kiosk on a tourist space station.
The BEST moment in creationist lore is the Ken Ham interview where Ken is asked by Bill Nye "Why didn't you build the Ark from wood?" His answer is priceless. "It was designed as a ship but built as a building" and "We didn't design it to float because there won't be another global flood"
ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT
@@sambradley9091 That is actually the crux of the story of Noah's ark yes. How is this a gotcha? I don't like him. But I genuinely do not get it.
Wait shit you guys are referring to climate change aren't you.
I grew up in a private Christian school my entire life. They were strictly young earth creationists, and told us carbon dating was bullshit without ever even explaining how it works. I feel like this channel has been helping me catch up on all the things they didn’t teach us or straight up lied about.
I guarantee that the reason they didnt tell you is because they didnt even know 🤣
Milo thank you for your insight and for your humor and sarcasm. As a strongly devout Christian but also as a student in university and someone who is dedicated to academics and good scholarship I agree with whole heartedly and I will say this boldly much to the shock of other professing Christians that any creationist views whether old or young earth is neither biblically nor scientifically supported.
The Ark Encounter is also horribly constructed. There's a layer of concrete ON TOP OF THE DAMN THING, because apparently that's how you seal something that's going to get rained on. They also claim that it's timber frame construction. As a woodworker, the construction terrifies me. They used lag bolts, some being 36 inches long, to hold green trees together, not cut and shaped timbers, whole ass trees. There are cracks in the load bearing supports, some of which you can see all the way through. That place needs to be shut down and demolished. That said, I'll take all of the lumber and logs if it gets demolished.
36 inches is no longer a lag bolt but a length of threaded rod lol.
I'm not surprised to hear that it's built like crap. Kinda glad tbh. Maybe it'll be deemed a safety risk and condemned.
@@doggodoggo3000 I knew it wasn't really a lag bolt at that length, but my brain stopped working. I couldn't remember what it was called.
I too hope that place gets closed down, and that's coming from a Christian, just not like most others.
@@doggodoggo3000
Not mu
It's going to be an episode of Fascinating Horror one day.
If you can, please report it to whatever agency is supposed to condemn unsafe buildings. You’ll save lives.
There once was a man named Baloo
He found a petrified shoe
But his lack, I expound,
Of proof on the ground,
Prove the 'facts' were pulled out his wazoo
Lmao, genius.
Greatest Art Form known to man.
“Chernobyl graphite kicking contest” had me absolutely dying 😂😂😂
Regarding the creationist museum next to a dinosaur park, that's not actually exclusively American. In Drumheller Alberta, next to Dinosaur Provincial Park, there used to also be a creationist museum. Its not there anymore though, the guy didnt pay his taxes, the creationist museum got reposessed, and all his crappy dinosaur sculptures are now scattered haphazardly around the town with fantastic paint jobs, including my personal favourite the pride-ceratops. A triceratops painted with the progress pride flag. Its amazingly stupid.
Holy shit. Calgary boy here, spent so much time at the Royal Tyrell as a kid. I had no idea that's where all those sculptures came from; that's utterly hilarious.
dude my grandma forced my family to go to the ark encounter thing- literally the most crazy thing i have ever seen. they literally contradict themselves over and over. parts of it was kinda cool, i will admit, but in like a fictional way. like they clearly put a lot of thought into it and it was fun to think about in a abstract way, but like then i saw the first dinosaur and they lost me.
I had little hope for this place, but I lost all of it when I read a book they had in the gift shop welcome center thing that said “maybe the trex ate watermelons with its sharp teeth!”
Literally. It was a cool experience I will admit. Everything else was just weird leaps in logic.
God forbid that you spend time with your grandmother doing the things which she's interested in. What a horrible lady she must be.
@@josephstocks7495 dude chill. i thought it was crazy but i kept it to myself and tried to keep a positive attitude and seem interested the whole time, as i love my grandma and she really seemed to be enjoying herself. i can have a personal private opinion without disrespecting the people around me.
@@josephstocks7495 What's wrong with you? Something going on back home?
Growing up I was homeschooled under a curriculum called A.C.E. (Accelerated Christian Education). It's basically written by a bunch of old guys whose world view hasn't changed since 1960. Young earth creation was absolutely hammered into my head along with a LOT of sexism and just outright blatant lies. The fact that the rest of my family is still stuck in that bubble hurts me to my soul.
I was also subject to ACE's BS. I know next to nothing about history or geography bc of how biased it is. And while I enjoyed learning, the fact that God was shoved into literally all the lessons really bothered me when I started realizing. I'm now in Adult Ed to try and get a proper highschool education.
My best friend growing up did ACE I was stuck in the same brainwashing bubble but was never subjected to it. That shit looked horrible. I’m so sorry you had to do that crap
I'm sorry to hear about your family, must feel awful. As a Danish citizen I "won the lottery" by being born into a deeply Christian family myself, which is always fun, when like ~10% of our population actually identify as Christian, and way fewer are young earth creationists. My mom is one of those, although she's kinda confused, cus I'm pretty sure she accepts that ice ages took place, and that animals like mammoths and sabre tooth cats existed, but gets worked up over the mention of neanderthals. A lot of my family, including my parents, hold some bigoted opinions, like anti-lgbtq+ and shit like that. I really wanna help change that, but I'm very divided on how to approach it, because I suspect it to be very grounded in their core beliefs, and I haven't yet decided whether or not its worth ripping up in that, considering it could risk our relationships. I am also the most conflict-shy mf I know so...
But I came across a very promising method of examining people's beliefs called Street Epistemology (you may have heard about it). It's so non-confrontational if you do it right, yet it can be so effective in cutting right to the bone.
Its about exploring the methods you may have used to arrive at the conclusion that what you believe is true.
If you yourself feel up for talking with your family about christianity and/or some of the bigoted views often associated with it, then I highly recommend you check out this method.
A guy called Anthony Magnabosco has a channel where he practices this, and its incredible to see.
I hope that whatever you decide to do that it works out in your favor, and if not, that you'll still find happiness and acceptance for yourself and your family.
A.C.E was horrible! I don't even remember science booklets.
@@larry5068 that's one of the few long comments I actually read and my I'm glad I did
There once was a man called Baloo,
Who found a petrified shoe.
Claimed it looked to be leather,
Turned to stone by the weather.
I'll have some of what he's smoking too.
I've watched so much Awful Archeology now that I can snap my fingers to the exact beats as the words appear/vanish. No regrets, this series is epic.Keep up the great stuff, Milo.
As a devout Christian and Evolutionary Ecologist, I just want to put in... as a teenager, trying to figure out what I believed, nothing convinced me that young earth creationism was wrong more than YEC materials themselves. They're not even logically consistent from one paragraph to the next.
How can you excuse then the concept of Original Sin,then? Because the Gospels put Jesus as a literal descendant of Adam and Noah. Or is it that everytime the Bible contradicts reality or itself its automatically a "metaphor" , but when they are crucial to be real so your faith stands, then you read them as literal?
Kinda wondering where you switch from evidence based to faith based belief. Its great you figured out YEC is completely batshit crazy and dishonest. But wondering how on earth the rest you do believe. And how do you distinguish between absolute nonsense and "ow but this part is true". I'm glad you do, dont get me wrong its probably why we can drink a beer and actually coexist in a society.
@@themplar I frankly can't see them as actual friends, since their function is basically enable the same Bible fundamentalists actually interpret correctly. If Christianity was actually a desirable ideology, we would want all of them being fundamentalist extremists, not the diet version, don't you think?
@@definitivamenteno-malo7919 Well i'm glad most christians arent fundamentalist and morally superior over their god concept. It would be like living amongst ISIS members, no thank you. And i'm lucky enough to live in a secular country where atheism is more of a default these days, even the christians are more deistic. It wouldnt be possible to live with christian fundamentalists.
To me the bible simply does not match reality in any possible way. And any christian needs to somehow figure out "this part is nonsense, this part must be methaphorical and this part yeah that is true. " and that without any possible way of determining that.
@@themplar I'd say most western Christians are more "Moral Christologists" (e.g. they study the moral codes of Christ and seek to emulate them, seeing their scriptures as the teachings of men attempting to share their god) more akin to mainstream Buddhism than the Evangelicals you typically see represent the religion who tend to be your typical fundamentalists.
As a Christian evolution-believing archaeologist who was taught growing up that Creationism was a fact, I greatly appreciate this video
Me too!
my dad's like that too. really glad that there's atleast some of you out there
i’m curious, how well does christianity and our understanding of evolution line up?
@@_apsisperfectly fine. The vast majority of Christians outside of places like the Bible Belt see no conflict between the teachings of their faith and the discoveries of science. The official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest Christian church in the world, states that evolution is the mechanism through which God created all of Earth’s creatures.
The Bible is not a literally true account of history. It is a collection of allegorical stories from various places and times that are there to teach us how we should live our lives. And the people who claim otherwise are to be avoided.
@@anironfarm6056 i wish more of those hardcore christians knew that
and took "love thy neighbor" serious, instead of being homophobic
This channel is my new obsession, thank you so much for giving me something to watch during a drought of content in my regular feed lol
Fun fact about Berra college is that it was the 1st college in the south to assimilate. I’m from Kentucky but can appreciate you poking fun at us. Really enjoyed the video.
AND HE RETURNED JUST AS THE WORLD NEEDED HIM MOST!! I found this channel and binged everything and have been checking back every single day for the past week or so, waiting for the next episode. Your videos are really well-researched and well-presented. Can't wait to see how you grow on youtube! initially found you on TikTok.
Ditto
How did you comment this BEFORE the vid came out?!?
@Xavierraptor oh yeah I forgot that’s a thing
Yup same here I have been waiting on the next video for weeks.
As a religious person my self I firmly believe that we absolutely should and can not use religion instead of science. Religion primarily awnsers why? while science awnsers the how? when? and where? To ignore science to support your religious beliefs is plain stupidity.
Absolutely. Faith and science are not opposites, any more than literature and math are, or cats and dogs. The things that science reveals exist regardless of us- the stars will burn whether or not we say it's so; the things that faith and morality reveal to us would not exist without a human context- could abstract concepts like Justice or Peace exist without people to believe in them?
I'm not a religious person but IMO, to ignor and deny scientific evidence indicates a lack of faith. If one can't live with the idea that parts of their scripture doesn't accurately describe the material world, then how can that person say they are a true believer?
I think that the scripture - "for everything there is a season" demonstrates the way I operate.
I love learning about the universe. I want to know about the vast reaches of space. I want to know what caused an amazing rock formation to erode into its shape. I want to know how an ecosystem maintains itself.
I also want to know how I can find direction in life. How I can get up after falling down.
These are two very different searches for truth. In my life I've found these tapestries weave themselves more fully, and when I find connections, I weave the two together.
But in many places, the pattern is unclear. I could renounce my religious beliefs I've come to rely on. I could strike out in anger and declare science to be a conspiracy to destroy my faith.
But both options are in direct opposition to who I am. So I content myself with the imperfect appearance of these two tapestries, trusting that one day they will make a splendid whole.
We have not observed and experimented on all the mysteries the universe presents, and I do not believe God has yet revealed all the truth He intends for us to know.
I thus sit ready and waiting.
Waxing poetic aside, know the right time to focus on each side. Do not act as if they are required to be in opposition, but also don't go trying to map out Genesis on what we know of the formation of the solar system.
@@comradewindowsill4253 faith and science are definitely opposite. Faith involves believing without proof, and science is the proof (or rather, the method of acquiring the proof) that you should use for your beliefs
In what way does religion answer "why?"
The adam and Eve book with the dinosaurs. My parents bought me when i was younger. I really loved it because it made me imagine how it would be to live with dinosaurs. Now i realize i got out just in time lol
One of my friends has been super into the Why Files lately, and the algorithm revealed you to me in response to a lot of the conspiracies that show addresses and I'm so glad it did.
Just when I was worried this series was a flash in the pan…
Ohhhh don’t you worry. I am far from done.
@@miniminuteman773 Glad to hear it. I've found too much informative or intelligent stuff online that vanishes after epiosde 3 or 4.
@@miniminuteman773 I not worried about that, you are so full of energy, that when you could plug into the electric grid, you would lighten your hometown till next Christmas.😆
@@miniminuteman773 any plans on putting the old tiktoks on youtube? i dont have tiktok lol
@Xavierraptor man sacrifices his own braincells for our entertainment. Gotta respect that
There once was a man named Baloo,
He then found a petrified shoe,
It's 10,000 years old,
At least that's what he told,
Though we all know it's not quite that new.
Perfect
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Fantastic!
Thank you friend 💚
3:05 **Vsauce theme starts playing**
I am amazed at what paleontologists, archaeologists and geologists have discovered about Earth, its inhabitants and its history. It makes me so emotional to think so many different and wonderful lifeforms have inhabited the planet and we have a way to learn about them in spite of bad actors trying to deny or contradict that information.
Creationism is one of those funny belief systems where if you ask questions you leave with more questions than answers
That’s why you don’t question it. Creationism is about having answers which cannot be questioned, unlike science which has question which may never be answered. I’d prefer the second one because I’d rather have an incomplete but accurate model of the world rather than an inaccurate but complete model.
@@TheNinthGenerarion thank you! That’s a great way of putting it. Better to have questions you can’t answer, than answers you can’t question
eh, creationism (or atleast young earth creationism) is not really about an inaccurate but complete model, it's kinda just reading an old book and thinking that everything it says is fact and shaping the world around you so that it can work, an accurate description of an inaccurate but complete model would be how science already works as a whole to explain the world around us, once you go into a certain amount of complexity in any real system in the universe you can't fully understand it, an example is how we know that with a certain amount of force in a given direction a ball will move in that direction with a certain speed proportional to the direction and kinetic energy of whatever moved it but if you keep shrinking down the things you are moving it gets harder and harder to explain, eventually to the point where we have no tools that could accurately measure what exactly is happening, so assumptions and generalizations are made in order to explain accurately what is happening however that is not a complete understanding and therefore is an inaccurate but (ideally) complete model, making it more accurate without making it incomplete is the goal, but sometimes it's a balance for example if they find a system that perfectly explains something but fails in other areas. but in the end inaccuracy to a certain degree with everything is inevitable, we don't know how fast a ball actually moves with a certain amount of force acted on it, we have a very accurate measurement, but it's still not perfect @@TheNinthGenerarion
@@fewbronzegames science has an incomplete model because there are still questions we cannot answer, and it’s accurate as far as our evidence goes. Creationism is about knowing that god made the world and every question can be answered with some version of “because god”.
the point of science isn't just to take evidence to answer things, it has and currently does makes assumptions and generalizations on how things work in order for predictions and models to work, the accuracy of these assumptions and the ability for them to work in our universe is what's important, but for the reality of things it requires evidence, it's possible for 2 systems to explain everything we know but tests need to be done in order to find how it actually works, creationism doesn't do much different, whether or not the statement is "oh it works because god" that is an assumption and even if it can explain how things around are that doesn't mean it explains how things actually work, only that they are how they are because of god. going back to the 2 systems that can both explain how things are if one was "because god made it that way" and the other was "because of a complicated system" they can both be untestable but if they found a way to test the complicated system and found that it explains how things are perfectly and also does exist and can be proven, than we know that it's right, but the other one isn't wrong either because it was too vague to begin with and includes not only the system that was proven true but every system that could exist, so basically "because of god" is incomplete and an assumption because it's an assumption that god makes everything work, and incomplete because there is no known evidence to prove it regardless of whether or not people think it's true, so it doesn't actually explain the universe because "knowing" that god did it doesn't make people understand how the universe works any better than some vague scientific idea and could "prove" literally anything that could happen with respect to what we know for certain, it's as good as saying "well this thing works as far as we know" but stated as "this is how things work" it's still incomplete, however a "complete" system is hard to define because it could mean that it contains everything that is true or it contains how we think things could work with the definition of the first one that a complete system is everything that is true no system is complete @@TheNinthGenerarion
How to de-escalate a potential Creationist Argument Situation in one word:
"Think about it. Were you there when God created the Earth?"
*"YES."*
"Bu-but- PROVE IT!" He yells angrily, face turning red.
"I don't have to prove anything. You just have to have faith that I did."
He implodes.
Just claim to be the Dalai Lama and that you can remember all of your previous reincarnations so you remember the creation of the Earth. Christianity is trumped ny Buddhism.
Dude I made Neptune in my basement....... Prove me a liar I dare you
@@hedgehog3180 why would a diehard Christian care what the Dalai Lama thinks? the whole no gods no idols before me trumps that, you aren’t as good at gotchas as you think
" no you weren't"
"how do you know? were you there?"
I think of lies and deceit when I think of creationism. Also just plain mythology with no evidence.
In forums when someone asks me "WERE YOU THERE?" I always tell them that yes I was. When they start to doubt that I was actually around 6000 years ago I just ask them "well how do you know, were YOU there?"