Scientist Reacts to 'Adaptation ≠ Evolution' | Reacteria

Forrest Valkai, an evolutionary biologist who teaches science on the internet, embarks on a quest to endure videos from people who claim everything he studied in college is wrong. Will he be convinced by creationist claims? Or will he remain steadfast in his study of science? Let's find out!

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[damagedcatdad]

The frustration in which Forrest says "You chicken nugget of a person!" is the best thing in my day.

[hurricaneofcats]

"You were my brother Jane" 😂😂 The prequel references are killing me.

[justaguy]

Evolution isn't faith, it's observable science. Faith is believing in something when the evidence doesn't support it. Who are these goofs?

[hankboog]

Honestly, even outside of all the objective points proving that evolution is true, I also just find evolution to tell a more inspiring story than creationism. The tale of a beautiful, diverse tapestry being woven over hundreds of millions of years, driven by the sheer will of life to prevail no matter the changes it takes, I believe, inspires more awe, reverence, even, than the creationist story. The idea that life has found, at least in part through sheer chance, millions of different ways to keep itself going through the best of times and the sun-is-blocked-out-by-sulfur times. That's just a subjective matter though.

[dyamonde]

15:15 clearly shows that you are new at this :p These anti-Evolution-creationists only have about ten unique arguments, that just get restated and rephrased in about a thousand videos, and most of them are by now decades old. So after you do about 5 more of these, don't expect to ever hear any new arguments from any of them.

[ButtonS]

When you show a ship disappearing in the horizon to a flatearther. 5:20

[MelanieSkov-yo]

"you chicken-nugget of a person" is the most polite insult ive heard in a while. hilarious

[catalinaholly]

The most important thing I learned about evolution in my honors bio class was that evolution is not linear nor does it trend towards perfection. It has no end goal. That really helped me to be able to understand its process better and be able to comprehend the idea because I will admit while the basic principle makes sense it was hard for me to rationalize it completely and understand, for example why is there still so much diversity if evolution is working towards perfection.

[unlucky]

Man these videos have rekindled my interest in biology. Mutations and genetic variations are just all so interesting! It's so wild to think about

[jamestaylor]

‘Chicken nugget of a human’ is my new favourite insult! Also loved the Star Wars reference 😂

[kevinbailey]

Despite minor changes, "A finch is still just a finch".

That totally undermines the argument about Kinds, and the Noah's Ark problem. If a finch can't adapt from a dove, or adapt into an Eagle, then you're stuck with the idea that there had to be room on the ark for 18, 000 pairs of birds. And pairs of all the other species. And seven each of the "clean" animals (extras for ritual sacrifice).

[robparker]

I love the concept of kind, as if nature gives a shite about our imagined labels for things. At least the labels we use in actual evolutionary biology are slightly more robust rhan "It has wings therefore it is bird kind" (I believe it is in Leviticus 11:13-19 that bats are considered to be a bird kind despite definetly not being birds genetically speaking)

[dragonicdoom]

Forrest: You should use a VPN so the people providing your internet don't think you're weird
Me: Too late

[zafranorbian]

"You Chicken Nugget of a person!"
I will steal this this amazing insult for later use.

[TitusRedwind]

Creationists: Animals can't just change into something different.

Me: What about caterpillars?

[anastasia_dronik]

I'm so happy that I had a really good biology teacher at school. She showed us that the evolution is not some kind of magic that turned fish into birds, but a long complex natural process.

[Jamesmor]

came for the roast and ended up learning that gene sequences are more easier to understand that what I imagined.

btw the witch part was hilarious

[realscience]

I love this series, Forrest's presentation of it, and the amount of detailed research that goes into the points it makes. I just wanted to throw out that I'm pretty sure the word both of them are looking for is "uncanny."  

"The resemblance is uncanny."

Edit: "You chicken nugget of a person" is brilliant.

[guuspot]

"You chicken nugget of a person!"

My new favorite insult after "You turnip!"

[bromberry_bee]

9:23 look who dug through the reacteria playlist again 2 years later to use this as a study aid for my exam on monday