Awful Archaeology Ep. 4: Creationist Footprint Conspiracies 

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

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 👌

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

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._*

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.

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.

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.

this is the best one so far ...

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.

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.

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

Congrats, good luck with school!

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!

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

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!

Congrats!

Do you have any advice for somebody in a similar spot with their dad?

​@@em01455 Sure! I'm not an expert, but I've actually studied this for my university work in psychology and neuroscience. So, I've written up some pointers for you that might help: • Approach them with patience, and understand the social support aspect of conspiracy theory (CT) groups. They may need to feel that they could find social support outside of that group, before they could consider leaving it. • Be empathetic. Such beliefs are usually driven by strong emotions, rather than facts and evidence. Understand and try to empathise with the emotions reflected in the CT that makes it feel true. (e.g. Perhaps they are afraid for the future of the world; or maybe they've struggled under systemic injustice and it feels unfair, but they couldn't put their finger on why.) CTs offer a way to simplify levels of complexity and uncertainty that otherwise feel overwhelming and unsettling. Suddenly, they can point to a reason for their suffering, and feel that there is order in the chaos. • Find out what they actually believe, and don't question their intelligence, common sense, or morality. They're not all die-hard believers, and there may be some subtlety to what makes sense to them and what doesn't. But if they feel like you're not taking them seriously as a person, you may alienate them before you have a chance to discover what they truly believe and how strongly they believe it. • Find common ground to help them feel that you 'get' them and that you're both on the same 'side'. People who believe in CTs are often driven by core traits that you may share, like curiosity or healthy skepticism. If you value these things too, you can make it clear that each of these are values you have in common, and each is something you can both relate to and agree about its importance. • Without dismissing the person themselves, share how those same values have led you to another conclusion, and be prepared to back up your claims with evidence. Perhaps also share how the answers you uncovered help the world and/or their experiences make a lot more sense. In this way, you are validating their skepticism and curiosity, and offering them an explanation that still validates their experiences, while also helping them to reduce uncertainty and feel like they understand what's going on. This is not easy. If you're asking them to trade a belief that brings them cathartic comfort for one that doesn't, you've got some work to do to frame your point in a way that feels like a better trade. • You might try to find a sense in which they can accept a different explanation and still be essentially 'right' in a way. (e.g. They were 'right' to be skeptical, and astute to realise that there's more to the story, but the 'more' that they were right about is just different to what they've been told so far by other CT believers.) You're aiming to help the person feel understood and validated, because the need for that is likely what made them receptive to believing a CT in the first place: someone gave them a cathartic explanation that made them feel that their fear or suffering makes sense in a way that doesn't disparage their self-worth. I think that's a very human need that we can all relate to on some level. • If they're a firm believer in the CT, offering evidence may backfire and make them dig in their heels. In such cases, it may be better if you're not aiming to change their mind, but just to sow a small seed of doubt about how relevant or useful the CT really is. Since these communities can be strong networks of trust, you might choose to not question the motives or morality of the CT-community or its leaders. Instead, maybe mention that even people with good hearts and sound minds can make mistakes or be misinformed. And this could even be likely, since there are often people/systems who benefit in some way from the spread of misinformation. Even a clever navigator can be lead off-track by a faulty map. I hope this is useful to you. If it would help, I can also share a personal example of how I approached this with my father.

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.

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!

"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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!!! 🙌

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.

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!

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.

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)

You know what, you were engaged in the lesson and produced an answer! Good try my dude! ✅

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.

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?

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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! 😁👍

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.

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""""

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.

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

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.

I guarantee that the reason they didnt tell you is because they didnt even know 🤣

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.

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.

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*

this might be the only good one in this entire comments section

Woah very nice o.o

Omg this is the best one

The bible literalists also believe in giants, so if the shoe fits...

Lmao, genius.

Greatest Art Form known to man.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Perfect

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Fantastic!

Thank you friend 💚

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

"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?"

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.