Early Access Video - Zoologist Reacts to Young Earth Creationist Arguments
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Comments
this is the video that made me decide to become a patron. and i just want to say that i think THIS is the way to get people to change their minds. videos titled things like "scientist HUMILIATES creationist" full of mean spirited "dunks" on people who really don't understand what they're arguing against won't make anyone change their mind. they only further divide us, promote this idea of science as dogma, and encourage people to dig in their heels out of fear of embarrassment and losing and retreat to echo chambers where they won't feel like people are trying to make them look stupid. i have immense respect for the way you handled this topic, Clint. I wish more science channels would handle these controversial topics with the same level of care and empathy. and as much as I absolutely adore these phylogeny videos you've been making, I think more pro-evolution videos with this kind of positive tone could really help educate a lot of people who have been turned off by all the videos which end up feeling like anti-creationist programming.
Hans Fertrig
2024-05-10 06:20:21 +0000 UTCLove this video! I think I’ve watched it 3-4 times already. As someone who believes in God and goes to a pretty conservative church, it almost feels taboo at times to say “I believe in evolution”. A video suggestion I would be interested in as a resource, is something with the same format and tone of this video, but on why we know evolution is a thing. I think a lot of videos start at the assumption that evolution is real and builds its foundation off of that. I live in NC and most people I experience don’t even have the foundation that YEC’s have of some sort of evolution process being a fact. Anyways, I love your videos and appreciate all you do.
Matt Roussel
2024-03-06 03:19:59 +0000 UTCThis may be my favorite(well, one of them at least) videos you've ever done. As someone who went to church as a kid, and even had a mother that taught Sunday school, for whatever reason I just don't remember there ever being a time when I believed any of it, not even in a vague concept of a god or creator or "first mover". I honestly have no idea why, other than "inheriting" a healthily skeptical and analytical mind from my father. I was actually always a bit embarrassed about it growing up, as all my friends families still went to church(we stopped going at some point because my mother suffered from extreme chronic pain(trigeminal neuralgia and sciatica)), and especially because they were always going to CCD after school, which made me feel like I/my family was "different"(which was something I already was feeling and struggling with a bit.) I think my interest in religion and other types of beliefs, and even just why people believe the things that they do, started around that time. I especially didn't like when my friends(or anyone else really) would make some religious/Christian/Biblical reference, and I would feel dumb for not knowing it. This led me to start reading the Bible from the beginning. At first I was confused, as I wasn't sure if people believed that these things actually happened, or if they were just sort of like fables or myths, used metaphorically to teach other "truths". However, once I got further into the books of Moses, I was actually disgusted. I knew from school and TV that life was brutal in many ways in the past, but to hear these commandments from a supposedly all loving, all just, all merciful, all good, all knowing, etc. deity, I was just shocked that(at least in my social sphere), nobody ever talked about these horrific things that God did, or commanded his followers to do. It was actually kind of scary to me(in fact, religion in general always had a scary/spooky aspect to it, particularly when it came to fanaticism, the sort of "group think", the way people often didn't rely on their own conscience or morality, but instead adopted a sort of authoritarian, Divine Command Theory kind of mindset, particularly when the line between God's word and man's word(meaning pastors, religious people, etc.) got blurred. I uh...I don't know how I got off onto that tangent/rant. Lol. Too much Red Bull too early in the morning. Regardless, what I wanted to say is that I couldn't be happier that you made this video. The sheer amount of misinformation these organizations put out is (again)almost spooky/scary to me, especially when it is aimed at children. And it's not just the misinformation, but also how they teach their followers to think and analyze the world(or perhaps more accurately, how NOT to think/analyze the world.) So please Clint and crew, please for the love if baby Jesus, KEEP MAKING THESE KINDS IF VIDEOS!! Oh, and lastly, I greatly appreciate the way you respond to these arguments, and do your best not to mock or belittle the people making the claims, as well as those who got "roped in" to these beliefs, for whatever reason.
NakedLunch
2024-03-03 18:08:21 +0000 UTCI was a little frightened when i saw this pop up. This was one of the most respectful treatments of this issue I’ve ever heard. Thanks for this.
James Stevenson
2024-03-02 20:12:20 +0000 UTCWonderfully presented video. Friendly, respectful, well reasoned. Another fantastic video on a fantastic channel!
Ian Bishop
2024-03-02 00:12:38 +0000 UTCLoved the video! Phylogeny February was amazing by the way! Your philologically videos in the past have been great, but these ones seemed a bit easier to follow.
Serrin Croft
2024-02-28 20:02:31 +0000 UTCclints reptiles is amazing.
Joseph 🐸
2024-02-28 15:32:20 +0000 UTCwow. WOW! i was half expecting y'all to make this style of video after how hard Clint went during the "humans are monkeys" phylogeny video, BUT NOT THIS SOON! this is extremely welcome, and i would love to see more videos like this in the future. not to mention, you guys handled this with serious class. it takes real courage to put your personal beliefs out there for the internet to prod at, especially within the scientific community - and i'm saying that as an agnostic/atheist scientist myself. i wish that weren't the case. it's really great seeing someone address creationist arguments with respect, and having the science come from someone of faith helps bridge the divide between the communities. well done. this is also a significant departure from your guys' typical video style. i really enjoy the variety. i'm not sure who handles all the writing for scientific explanations, but the team has been doing an *OUTSTANDING* job at explaining concepts clearly and thoroughly in ways even a beginner can understand. also, seeing Clint tackle misinformation head-on in his own style is AWESOME! Clint, you are a fantastic science educator/communicator, and people like you are making me genuinely consider pursuing a career as a professor after finishing my PhD.
Michael Kalin
2024-02-28 08:18:44 +0000 UTCI agree that those "irreducible complexity" category of arguments would be a great topic for the future.
Miranda Brist
2024-02-28 05:56:01 +0000 UTCLove this! Y'all have done such a fabulous job. I think the highest compliment I could give this is to say that my YEC relatives or the parents of my students might actually be able to sit thru this video without feeling completely disrespected and therefore retreating to a mental safe space. At the very least, I think they might approach the topic with a more open mind/sense of respect for the other side afterward. I've been hoping you would do a video like this ever since I watched your dissertation defense and realized what important work you were doing in your classroom to engage with your YEC students. I wish I could have such frank conversations with my high school students in my geography classes! I see a structure within your approach here that I think I could use somewhere down the line. Thank you!
Miranda Brist
2024-02-28 05:53:44 +0000 UTCThis is great work. You should be very proud of it. It clearly comes from a place of love, not of disdain.
Grace and Frankie
2024-02-28 01:08:12 +0000 UTCGood work Clint and crew. Was raised creationist and have been trying to figure out what I believe. I had issues with many of the creation arguments even while under their teaching. I found this to be a fair video where often a defender of one side see the other as unreachable. If you wish to pursue this further i would like your reaction to content like the video series "creatures that defy evolution where they point to things like the bombardier beetle as impossible under evolution as there are too many parts that could not evolve or change their purpose without posing a risk to the animal in a mid stage.
Daniel Hergert
2024-02-28 00:14:52 +0000 UTCThis is brilliant. I appreciate that you address the differences without belittling or insulting anyone. I'll be watching again tonight!
Doug Smith
2024-02-27 22:23:48 +0000 UTCGreat video, very good arguments!
Vance Goodwin
2024-02-27 21:41:08 +0000 UTCI stopped all other activities to come watch this because I knew it would be great.
Amber Hammerschmidt
2024-02-27 21:23:21 +0000 UTC
