I remember someone asking a Catholic priest about Noah's ark, they asked if all animals were held on the ark, the priest replied yes, they then asked how could Noah feed 2 panda's. The class was perplexed about this question, the priest replied yes of course all God's animals were on the ark. They then asked how this could be possible, the priest asked why would we doubt God. The kid then said panda's can only digest bamboo and eat approx 30lb of the stuff a day which after 150 (or so days), this would require about 4500lb (22.5 ton)of bamboo per animal. The kid was kicked from class, last time I believed a priest.
Bravo! There's also the problem of survival of the honeybees. A male and a female honeybee is a useless concept. They mate once, the heroic male having done his supreme best for his sisters, dies from the violence of transferring his total haploid load of sperm and now even if she's a "kosher" animal, this queen needs more than six servitors to get the nectar from the drownded flowers anyway, for her sustenance.
For the panda thing and similar quandaries, the follow-up I most often hear is that there were at least two specimens of "bear-kind" on the ark and the differentiation into the modern species of bear would have happened post-flood since many of these nutters do allow for evolution and speciation as long as creatures don't change from one "kind" to another.
@@nephatrine I suspect that the thing to which they most object, is one of the most obvious. We *_are apes_* not just _descended_ from them. But I've read that maybe half of the useful stuff in our DNA-base code is pretty much the same as yeast cells use.
The Bible was sooo prissy. I lay down with my two brothers when we were kids and shared a bed but we didn't fuck. Why can't the New New New New Testament Version 10.22 just say that instead of saying "If a man lies with a man as a woman, except as he would with a lesbian, and engages in anything more risque than back-slapping when he's really drunk, then he shall be spanked, except if the spanker is a Catholic priest, and furthermore shall not be strangely costumed unless he is the Pope." Well???
@Dr. Ben Chode Well "Dr" Chode, an intelligent person could see that I was taking the piss out of the irrational and dogmatic drivel from the bibble. Compare that with the crap about eating shellfish, mixed fabric clothing and gathering twigs on the sabbath etc etc. Now shall we start on the Ark on Mt Ararat? It's a geological formation, and that may give you a warning..
Dorth Surreal idiots believe in an evil wicked dictating tyrant who they call god. I know of no one who has read the bible word by word, page by page and not skipping around that has remained a christian. All the people I know who have read the bible like I did are atheists. People who cannot accept reality are weaklings and kept in the dark by christianity. Wake up church read your bible word for word from front to back and don’t skip around because your feelings are hurt. Talking snake? Bull shit. Global flood? Bull shit. Men raising from the dead? Bull shit. The holy bible? Bull shit. The bible was written by smart rich people to control poor dumb people.
I lived for 14 years in a quite beautiful part of Northern Ireland, a place then sorely tried by two variants of religion and patriotism. But a very few years ago, the elected Lord Mayor of Belfast was an atheist Woman, so I have quite high hopes. But see Wikipedia on Garret Fitzgerald, who tried to reduce the tendency which caused the Protestant majority of "Ulster" to say that "Home Rule is Rome Rule". The then reigning Pope visited Fitzgerald and told him that the Irish Republic was one of those most faithful to Catholicism, and he didn''t want Irish laws based upon Catholic prohibitions lessened.
Noah’s ark is actually one of the first stories my mother told me as a little kid that made me remain an atheist. As a little kid it made no sense. I remembering questioning her and being told we don’t question about God. The indoctrination attempts lasted until I was 13 and kicked out of bible class.
Philip Xtzin You claim it’s a historical fact despite the vast scientific consensus that it didn’t. What evidence or facts lead you to believe such a thing?
Philip Xtzin If you’re referring to the “not just Hebrew culture” thing, that is an unsubstantiated claim and certainly not sufficient to prove Noah’s flood occurred.
Followed by I'll redeem the calls with Noah's flood. Face palm time. It's painful that we have people that not only believe the flood stories but they think it's established fact everyone should accept.
@@jimmyshrimbe9361 It's not like people haven't tried to argue objective morality proves God before. However it's a long philosophical stretch pretty light on any convincing evidence.
Ive heard some claim that it is and that the science community all over the world is an atheist cabal dedicated to burying the truth and perpetuating the devil’s narrative by making new dinosaur bones and planting them to be dug up later. Truly amusing and terrifying.
@@tayg6276 The first time I heard of the whole 'man/the devil put dinosaur bones in the earth to trick us' was from a fundy in high school. Needless to say he failed science. It's baffling that these people would quicker believe obvious bronze-age mythology than basic findings of science-or should I say basic findings that don't make them feel uncomfortable, because they sure as hell accept it when it's convenient.
@@TheMarkSasuke64 my sister in law thinks that 1 I worship the devil (im an atheists so no i dont lol) 2 i hate god and that’s why I’m an atheist (although i despise the character I don’t think it’s real so hating it is no different than hating any other fictional villain to me) 3 she has told me that I believe evolution because i want to give satan more power because i want god to die 🤣
I guess I'm a Texan, and there are all kinds of people here. Geniuses and PhDs in NASA and 500 oil companies etc. So being from Texas can't be an indication of anyone's intellectual ability.
"I am an atheist who believes what is written in the Bible. Steel cables inside Noah's Ark." If the steel cables still exist after 6023 years (if we believe that the earth was created in 4004 BC) they must have been made of stainless steel. This is brilliant stuff. Nutter, Nutterer and Nuttiest.
At least they identify themselves by putting a cross around their necks. As if cheezus wants to see one of those when he comes back to snuff out everyone.
I used to think George Carlin had an above average IQ, but now that I'm older and wiser, in my option, he was in the crowd of "stupider". Still funny and correct about "God" not existing., but dumb as fuck about other shit. You really don't need to be that smart or logical to figure out there is no "God". No Free Will, is a motherfucker!
@@zgs12212012 You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” John john 18 Let's start there
@Mike Obama No. That would be dishonest of them if that was the case. The hosts and us have a high scrutiny for theism and mysticism compared to theists themselves. We don't believe that any gods exist because there is no real evidence to support that claim so far. That's the default for any logical and critical thinking. Otherwise this would be called the Anti-thiest Experience.
Mike Obama: I think the point of this show is to have theists call in and offer actual proof that a god or gods exist. So far no one has done it. We're all waiting for them to get their act together, learn what a fact is, and present it.
Not exactly true. The Romans who we have the most history about didn’t have iron so their technology was bronze hence the Bronze Age until they acquired iron from the Germans and the British who had iron technology long before the the Romans then when the Romans started producing iron it was call the Iron Age.
Anom Amos actually the Iron Age varies from region to region. I am British and the British Iron Age started from around 800BC until the Roman’s conquered, then it switches from the Iron Age to the Roman Period/ Roman Britain. But we’re only talking technicalities as Noah was said to have built the arc in around 4000BC. So it was at the point where we were transitioning from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age.
@@JarlGrimmToys , That's sort of what I was saying . The bronze age didn't end until the Romans started making iron so iron and possibly steel existed during the bronze age. Without getting into metallurgy making steel is not a problem for someone who can make bronze they just need iron ore, so if bronze was available in Noah's time then steel was possible. More possible than Noah at least.
Anom Amos again the Iron Age varies from region to region. The British Bronze Age didn’t end when the Romans conquered, the British Iron Age ended. The British Bronze Age ended in 800BC, when we started using iron. The Iron Age in the Ancient Near East started around 1300BC.
Knowing that Noah had steel cables makes it a lot more believable. And he was known as the best ship builder in the desert. At a mere 600 years old, he was in his prime, too.
The largest wooden ship ever built was by a Roman emperor and was 2/3 the size of Noah's boat. It took the resources of the Roman empire and wasn't very seaworthy due to stress on the seams caused by the length yet Noah and his sons had the manpower and materials to build such a ship. The holes in the Noah story are endless.
Not only that. The Bible says what materials were used. ”Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.“ Genesis 6:14 Not seeing any steel… only seeing wood🤷♂️
@@cherylmcelveen2817 I know of them both but Anti-vax philosophy and science denial are too "woke" for me There's a reason why Pollo, tetanus, rubella, measles, yellow fever, scarlet fever, smallpox, chicken pox, influenza, minor infections and a myriad of other horrible things no longer kill or cripple 80-90% of children under the age of 5. (Hint it's not, not science) Did you know my people historically didn't even name their children under age 5 because they'd probably die anyway? That was before immunization was available. 5...
The problem with religion and conspiracy theorists is that once you believe one load of garbage the rest just collapses on you. I recently had one idiot comvinced that if sandyhook was a hoax because of obama and hillary then he had no reason to say columbine wasnt since Clinton was in office at the time. They're truly sad and gullible.
@@differous01 what ? I study astronomy and other things and water molecules would evaporate instantly the core is the temperature of the surface of the sun water is finished not possible to be without magama
To a point. There are other techniques espescially where evidence of fire is found but dendrochronology (tree rings) is pretty accurate and index fossils of course in really ancient sites.
I'm with you. The Babylonians were ignorant, not stupid, and the flood of AtraHasis is believable to folk who believe th crude evidence of their eyes, that the Earth isn't all that big, it's flat, and folk who've been to the sea far south of us, think it's under the Earth too. But better informed folk, who know the size of the Earth and even, from Torricelli's work, an idea of the atmosphere's weight have to be really _really _*_Really_*_ stupid_ to imagine there's that much water available.
@@earthgraduate726 Noah was like 700 or 800 years old... when people died around 40 around that time (i know emperors lived to around 60 and that's because they were so rich they were cared for). You had to put millions of species on a boat where some needed hundreds of others every day just to survive. The story doesn't say anything about marsupials because the writers didn't know that Australia existed. What happened to the mix of salt and sweet water and all water creatures adapted to their specific environment. How come nobody else has this story except civilizations from that specific area (that have the idea of a local flood thousands of years before noah's... where the writers actually got inspired from). If anyone believes that as something that happened, they have the scientific undertsnading of a 15th century peasant. I would suggest Aron Ra's videos on the flood. There's so much evidence against it only someone brainwashed would keep believing that. And they say the Bible is the book of God. I say find one story that's probably fiction and the whole book falls apart... because if one story is bs... couldn't all other be bs?
@@OviValentinosWorld you say the Noah's story is impossible because you consider your human abilities to say something is possible or not. The power of God however is incomparable with us .if he can keep the planet earth spinning in the space so the Noah's story would be easiest thing . Noah didn't know the flood was coming nor how to build a ship ! He did it through the God's guidance . Atheist always say show us the evidence so i ask them this , show me the evidence that your grand grand grand grand fathers exist ! They know nothing about it yet they believe they must have had one although they can not demonstrate that ! you see ,We can not see God but our existence lead us to our creator .
These callers are classic examples of why exposing children under the age of 18 to worshipping gods and any dogma associated with it, is akin to mental, emotional, and intellectual child abuse!
The most idiotic thing in the bible is God himself. Or that he impregnated a human girl to have his "son" suffer for "our sins". Honestly, that's why I can't take so called "moderates" seriously, because even though they regard most of the bible as an allegory (for what exactly?), they literally believe in the dumbest unrealistic thing in the book.
@@maythesciencebewithyou I'm going to disagree with both you and Dave du Vergier. There is no single most idiotic thing in the bible, there are thousands of the bastards.
@@maythesciencebewithyou It gets worse. God didn't impregnate Mary to sire a demigod like the Roman gods of that time and place, He made His already-existing full-Deity Self-Son who is simultaneously Himself and His Son a human blank inside Mary to be His human avatar like the ones used by Vishnu, who is worshipped by people living thousands of miles away. To top all that off, the whole idea of the Christian Trinity, One Triune God rather than the three biggest gods in a polytheistic pantheon like most trinities, is arguably taken from the Hindu Trimurti.
@@autobotstarscream765 Christianity is a polythesistic religion. All the angels are basically gods. Then we have all the saints who have risen into whatever divine status, to whom some Christians even pray to, especially in the spanish speaking world.
@@maythesciencebewithyou Pretty much, and then that in turn becomes forms of magic based on ancestor-worship and local magic that got assimilated into those Churches, such as Santoria.
Caller: There were metallurgists in Noah's day, so Noah had steele. Well, that would be like saying there were doctors in ancient Egypt, so Pharoah had an X-Ray Machine. .....um, yeah...
I think it’s apart of indoctrination and a lack of historical education. I remember a bible study where the teacher said that there were no such moral laws before the Ten Commandments. When I brought up examples such as the code of Hammurabi they just dismissed it.
FatalParadox That’s the sad part, that people stay willingly ignorant of science, history and reality despite having access to more knowledge now then humans have ever had throughout history in their pockets.
@FACE GALLON No, This Idea seems to be only prevalent in the USA from my experience. Since they are so in love with placing the 10 commandments everywhere.... and they think it is the basis of the consititution.... for some reason
According to Robert Ingersoll, in order for the Sloth to have arrived at the Ark in good time, it would have needed to begin its journey before the 'creation'. Source: 'Some Mistakes of Moses' - Robert G. Ingersoll.
I am not sure the math adds up. A smiths travels around 120 ft per day. It is about 7000 miles from south/central America to the middle East. 7000 miles x 5280 = 36,960,000 feet/ 120 feet per day = 308,000 days or 843.8 years. However.....sloths can travel 3 times faster in water than on land. Closest distance across the Southern Atlantic is 1600 miles which would take a sloth 64 years to swim.....So let's say 715 years for a sloth to get to the middle East. With an average life span of 20-30 years......we are looking at 23.8 generations of sloths to reach the middle East. So really the 2 sloths would have had to left around the time Noah was born. Still fucking ridiculous.
Hey Matt. I just wanted to acknowledge your weight loss transformation. I haven't been to the channel as much lately and just realized you changed. Good job!
"Can you prove the existence of god?" "Yes - the 10 Commandments" [CLICK] Priceless! I also now want a poster in my room that says "Late Onslaught of Nutters".
loool this one of the funniest episodes ever. matt's normally the only grumpy one, but now we have 2 equally grumpy old men receiving endless calls from people who are stupid or just complete nutcases and their patience gets pushed and pushed. it's a delight to watch XD
Or maybe they had steel and God wiped their memory of it until he thought humans were advanced aka “moral” enough to understand it again..? 😂 (Someone will believe that, I’m sure of it.)
I am so glad--at age 76--that my father was a quiet atheist (as were his father and grandfather thanks to Robert Ingersoll), so I was never harangued by biblical "truth." When I hear these literalist types, I feel so relieved.
I had a bible dork tell me that god hates gays cos we stole the rainbow from the flood which was done to show that the world was supposed to be heterosexual. I thought I'd lose my mind laughing at her. She was also rumored to have a mother who used a broom to sweep "demons" from non-evangelicals b4 they entered their home, so I don't totally blame her dumbness on her...
Current political events have brought me to the conclusion that religion based on supernatural ideas makes everything in human existence worse. Whatever religion does there is a secular version that we could create that would do that thing better. Religion increases suffering and religion in politics just magnifies its negative effects. That is all for my rant.
I cannot believe how many actually call-in to try and make sense of their religilousness. Its nearly 2020. Its a scary world when everyone is brainwashed with religion. Keep spreading the word.
@Mike Obama *I can't trust the bible when it says that the Sun revolves around the Earth* Joshua 10:12 " Then spoke Joshua to the LORD... Sun, stand thou STILL... and thou also Moon... " Joshua commanded *both* the Sun _AND_ the Moon to stand still, NOT the Earth, which proves that the bible writers believed that the Sun moved around the Earth, _AND_ that it could actually be stopped by a man's prayer to Yahweh ! Please ! The. Sun. Does. Not. Move. This is ONLY _one_ of the 8 scriptures that were used to convict Galileo of heresy in 1633 for publishing the science that the Earth revolved around the Sun, in _opposition to_ the bible. A supernaturally inspired book, beyond human knowledge, would _at least_ have described *it's own creation* truthfully, compared to what all ancient civilizations believed at the time. The bible was written by pre science men.
You are willfully ignorant. Reports of spirits and such things are literally coming in by the hundreds every day. You can reject TV shows if you want, but I know of one that's absolutely believable and shows all kinds of entities not normally shown but often detected by a sixth sense. So I know that Spirits are real and I know that's what we become after we die. Go ahead and assail me and demand that I proved what I'm talking about and I might be able to come up with something that you would accept, but I doubt it because the things you already accept our outrageous so why would I expect you to accept the truth?
Min 06:25 *No trees survive in a saltwater environment for a year* Simple and honest tree ring counting (Dendrochronology) disproves the worldwide flood.
Yeeeesss Matt ❤️ And I want to add, if anyone has ever actually read the title of a scientifically perr-reviewed article, it's never clickbait. It's always just a basic... Well not basic lol but very explanatory statement on what was being studied... The conclusion is never in the title. Also, one of the things I've learned in my research education is that 1) pretty much almost everyone that uses the internet, has no idea how to search and find the reliable information they need... They may think they know how to use the internet but they don't. They're overconfident which makes it worse. 2) there's loads of ways to find out what's the best reliable information, just no one without a research education has any clue how to do that. But to summarize how: - about page -contact page -double and triple check several sources -check for bias -check for reviews... Find peer-reviewed things -etc.
Noah's arc is also a retold story from the epic of Gilgamesh I believe...it was a Sumerian epic..the story was told 3000 years before the bible told it
Exactly which was a story passed on for centuries by word of mouth and was what survivors of the melting of the last ice age passed on and got embellished or the centuries
Just stumbled across this channel while clicking through the Tube of You in a bout of Boxing Day torpor. I had the Jehova's Delusionists round on Christmas Eve peddling their nonsense and I wish I had been as eloquent as you guys instead of just telling them to go forth and multiply. Excellent channel, keep it up! (Subbed)
@@earlofdoncaster5018 Disagreements on the Rationality Rules Transgender issue and handling of it and seemingly broader disagreements on the direction the ACA should be going. As far as I can see there were a lots of mistakes and hasty decisions made, that lead to a pretty regrettable outcome.
It’s not just listening to uneducated people that proves frustrating. It is coupling stupidity with unshakable conviction they are correct. Arrogance plus stupidity causes nausea.
Matt we called it "pitchnut" (pronounced Pishnoot) when I was a kid in Québec (some 60 years ago). Never heard of Crokinole myself until I moved to an anglo part of the country - even though Croquignole IS the official French name for it. I assume that, like many thing's in Canada, Pitchnut was derived from an aboriginal term. Also far more kid vocabulary friendly. Sorry, but considering the nutbar callers, that's all I took away from this episode.
The words Matt says at the end are the truest words I've heard all week, probably the whole month. It's really embarrassing to have so many misinformed people and not only that but the level of scientific illiteracy is gross. And we don't have enough people that are willing to learn and say "I don't know " when they really don't know something.
walter Rushby Considering that the flood would have been 35,000 feet deep to cover Mt. Everest, and there is only a 200’ high ‘ice wall’, 34,800’ of it would have flowed over the edge quite easily. Unless the terrarium firmament held it in without melting the ice walls.
Considering it's a Mesopotamian story, it seems they thought all that water came from, and then returned to, the water table, which iirc was seen as like a freshwater World Sea as big as or bigger than the actual saltwater seas.
I reckoned when I lived in Denver that a flood a mile high would require a huge bombardment of water-ice comets, and if the Almighty wanted to punish the men for sinning, he could do it more easily with meteors and lightning strikes. My father-in-law's mother died of a lightning strike, just outside their house.
So you've got a family of people and all these animals floating around together on a boat for days and nights. Where did all the waste go? Where did the food come from to feed all these animals?
I'm not joking but I've had fundimantalists claim that it all happened like a movie. The rules of nature as we know them were posponed. It was their answer to evry tricky question they came up against. You just have to shrug and walk away with people like that.
Tree ring dating extends back before the supposed flood. Also, does he believe in super evolution? How did we get the diversity of life that we have in just 4k years?
Proof for god; 'The ten commandments'? STEEL CABLES?? The flood made coal.... Honestly I adore this show! It has a greater comedy value than anything I can think of!
@@seanbirch That's true, but they all seem to share in it's base meaning i.e., the total inability to recognize their own limitations in knowledge on any particular subject - in this case theology and science - while at the same time trying (and failing) to claim authority in those subjects through superior understanding. They also lack the ability to answer a question with the words; " I don't know."
