Top FIVE Reasons Young Earth Creationism is Impossible

This is just a little video to remind folks of some of my favorite damning issues for Young Earth Creationism (and in some cases, Old Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design).

This will be a review for long time viewers of the channel, as we cover some "greatest hits" of precautionary data to some pseudoscience. It's a quick vid this week (only around 35 minutes).

Intro: The Mind Electric by Miracle Musical

Outro: Point Pleasant by Brock Berrigan

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[BradReddekopp]

I was a teenage young Earth creationist. I am living evidence that creationists can change their minds. So, don't give up on the idea of making a difference for them.

[robsquared]

Like Aron Ra said: Once you understand these things, you can either be honest or a creationist, but you cannot be both.

[alexandradoe]

What you are doing is so helpful to people like me. My parents were founding members of Answers In Genesis and chatting with Ken Ham on the regular. I know the arguments inside and out but didn’t know anything else. Hearing a systematic critique of young earth creationism has helped me in my deconstruction process.

[irrelevant_noob]

0:00 intro
3:23 The Heat Problem (of accelerated radioactive decay)
8:36 Transitional Hominins
19:05 Statistics (analysis of alternatives to common ancestry)
24:57 The Energy industry (fossil fuels)
27:58 Comparative Genomics
31:38 outro

[kallisto]

I do like the energy industry point. After all, it's not like the oil companies go to Answers in Genesis for geological advice.

[TheWoodlandSeamstress]

Really excited to listen to this! I'm a devout Christian, but absolutely NOT young earth creationist. It makes me so sad to see fellow Christians so caught up in something so ridiculous, they don't realize how much they're discrediting absolutely everything else they say. Religion isn't something that can be proven or disproven by science, they're totally separate, so neither side should be arguing science "proves" or "disproves" anything.

I was raised YEC, as so many Christians don't realize there even is another option. So for those lovely science minded people, please be gentle in your explanations. Those people have been lied to and taught things that sound absolutely silly all their lives, and they just need someone with empathy to explain why no, that actually doesn't make any sense. Because they can change, and they're much more likely to with compassion!

[roseredr]

As someone who grew up a YEC Christian, this helps me so much to see the actual science. I grew up reading and "learning" about science from the Answers in Genisis books and the Creation Museum. Channels like yours, Aron Ra, Genetically Modified Skeptic, and Telltale's all have been helping me get through my deconstruction of the YEC/Christian views.

[coolfish]

I usually skip long intros for anything, but yours is so well done that I always watch it all the way through

[eddieadams]

As a former YEC I’m so glad for your videos, so that is good reason for you to keep these videos going!

[MasonKelsey]

When I was in the 6th grade in public school (Princeton Elementary, Orlando, FL, 1953) my teacher was a Creationist and dismissed Evolution. I was raised in a Southern Baptist family and had no opinion on that issue. My Sunday School teachers were all Creationists and their geology came from the Biblical account of Noah's Flood. It was just stories to me and I never thought about evidence or ever asked for evidence. The idea of asking for evidence was an alien idea to me. Until, one day a girl in my class did a show and tell on the Evolution of the Horse based on the discovery of the fossilized bones of ancestors of the horse in North America. That show and tell was a pivotal moment for me as it made me realize the importance of evidence and how beliefs totally lacked evidence and lacked the validity of their conclusions. It was like a light being turned on for me when Alice Smith, the girl who did the presentation, has the courage to defy the Creationist teacher and tell the class that we had the ability of determining what is the best explanation of reality.

[prschuster]

You have a gift for speaking off the cuff without ever losing your pace.

[salsanten]

I grew up YEC. I was always somewhat unconvinced, but the bubble I was in prevented me access in honest ways to science. Thank you for your persistence in educating people. Keep it up. People DO change!

[ruthlesshatchet]

I work with a young earth creationists, this is a beautiful video picking his misconceptions apart. That said he just either asserts that the devil laid the “fake” evidence to trick scientists into hating god… or he just snorts at the explanation and decides that since he doesn’t understand the answer given by science it is a lie. Either way he has decided I am beyond saving and no longer pushing his crazy ideas on the world onto me. Also all dinosaurs are fake to him which always makes me smile.

[johnnygraz]

Devastating fact against YEC #0: Magic isn't real.

[Dustin_Agler]

Gutsick always has the most informative videos. Keep up the good work.

[Rayrard]

I have a different list from my long time debating these idiots:
1. C14 calibration curves. Much more challenging for them than regular radiometric dating where they can deny assumptions. The C14 calibration curve is C14 date plotted against SEVEN other dating methods (dendrochronology, speleothems, coral rings, sediment cores, varves, ice cores, etc.) The dates match up, therefore proving that the Earth is at least 50, 000 years old and refuting any idea of a recent global flood (none of the dating methods are interrupted). If they are wrong, how are they ALL wrong and how are they all wrong but show the SAME dates???? YEC's cannot argue against this data because their "pick one method at a time and refute" approach doesn't address the whole curve and why the dates agree.
2. Limestone. Erika did a video on this but pretty much the existence of limestone in any strata refutes the hypothesis that a flood produced that layer. Why, because floods NEVER produced limestone and cannot produce them. It is a gradually produced rock, ranging from months to millions of years to accumulate depending on type. YEC's will never explain why there are different types of limestone in the same Grand Canyon strata, and why they change type and how they are laid. Why do they show shallow versus deepwater limestones, and grade in between. Why are there sandstones and shales in the strata but not mixed in with the limestone? How does a single flood produce pure beds of limestone in all the chaos and currents? Why aren't other types of sediment mixed in? How do coral reefs form so fast after a flood? Why are there no pre-flood coral reefs that mark the pre-flood/Flood boundary layer? Howe did corals survive the flood at all? YEC's cannot explain limestone in their flood model and never have.
3. Trap Volcanism. The large igneous provinces add to the heat problem described in this video. The Deccan and Siberian Traps occurred over many millions of years and extruded millions of cubic kilometers worth of basaltic magma all over the world. Add to that all the supervolcanoes. If this all happened in a single year, there would be tons of heat and poison gas that would have exterminated all life on Earth. How this is explained by a flood is unknown and the YEC's cannot explain the heat problem OR why God needed the Deccan Traps to happen when it would have boiled off the ocean God wanted to flood the planet.
4. Biogeography. YEC's cannot for the life of them explain biogeography of any clade of organisms. We can trace the migration and distribution of organisms using the fossil record and phylogenetics, and none of them trace their lineages to the area of Mt Ararat. And for the creatures not on the Ark, none of the distribution patterns fit vegetation mats or any other YEC model for species survival. The patterns of aquatic biogeography don't fit YEC models either, and can't explain the distribution of coral reefs or freshwater river fauna. They can't explain why we see certain plant species where we do, or relictual distributions. YEC's don't know anything about organisms to even realize the problems here.
5. Biostratigraphy. Easy, ask the YEC why we don't see modern species in the older layers, or shark teeth in the Cambrian, or humans/rabbits in the Devonian. But more devastating is the complete lack of POLLEN from trees in the flood layers. Pollen only exists in specific layers and is missing from all the older ones. If all trees and flowers were killed by the flood, there would be pollen grains buried in ALL layers of sedimentary rock. The pollen would not indicate seasonal layers because the flood started in ONE season.

[mikeday]

You won my subscription with your clear, analytical approach. Great work 👍

[zmbieninja]

I feel much more stupid...yet smarter at the same time. I feel stripped of my Dunning Kruger skills. Damn.

I subbed to you so many months ago and this is the first video I have watched of yours. THANK YOU!!! What excellent content.

[fimeilleur]

YEC answer to your challenge: *Magic*; *Mysterious Ways*; *Satan's lies*; *you took it out of context*; *Darwin converted on his death bed* 😉

[lightningfirst]

Behind every creationist is a liar who made them that way, directly or indirectly.
That's why it's important to debunk creationism.