A FLOOD of NONSENSE! - Global Flood or Mass Extinctions? | Reacteria

Forrest Valkai, a 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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[Psymou]

"Of what sins were the gophers guilty?" is my new favorite quote. Thank you.

[Cosmic_Nic]

I was not ready for spongebob to question the academic integrity of Jane

[chancematters]

“Of what sins were the gophers guilty?”
-Forrest Valkai, 2023
But seriously this man is poetic and hilarious and correct
(Edit: I check back on this one sometimes and… are y’all Jfc)

[kennethswenson]

Noah was the first man to dump organic waste overboard without a discharge permit.

[dylantennant]

As someone who lives in a town with a lot of Mormons, don't ask the genetic skin colour question, you will be sick by the explanation that biblical literalists give.

[lme]

I always appreciate when hardworking and educated people debunk the arrogant nonsense of creationists.

[Juliett-A]

I love how often they poke at scientific dating when their method for dating the universe is counting generations mentioned in a book.

[w.williams]

I love how there are mountains of scientific evidence for all of this and they base their entire argument on a handful of pages in a Bronze Aged book written by anonymous authors.

[BlazeStorm]

The fact that they cherrypick specific info from the textbooks but choose to ignore the context *repeatedly* shows me that they're not trying to educate people, but instead are doing this maliciously.

[YourEvilerTwin]

Honestly, an entire video of just Forrest listing problems with the flood myth would be an A+ video imo
Edit: I would like a quesadilla sir

[S_Drake]

"I do not, however, agree with you that mastodon and gigantopithicus lived together on a boat with a 600 year old man who was riddled with STD's."

It's now on my bucket list to use this sentence in a conversation at least once before I die.

[TOOLMANTIMSWORKSHOP]

Forrest you need to do an entire 30 min video where you just keep asking questions regarding the flood. That 5 mins was some of the best I’ve ever seen

[stewartking]

I asked my Jehovah’s Witness father those questions about the flood. “ nothing is impossible for god. He can do anything he wants” 😑
Thanks forest for helping me to understand evolution and encourage critical thought. Peace.

[pedrobicycle]

When ever I go to my local koala park to see those beautiful animals, I fall to my knees and thank Noah for walking to Australia and back to pick up a breeding pair that can incidentally only live on tree leaves indigenous to their local ecosystem. What a guy.

[ZBott]

Death pose can't just be from lack of oxygen to the brain. Otherwise we'd see more of these creationists standing like that.

[alexs.]

Fun story: the original version of the flood story (or the oldest iteration we have found to this day at least) comes from mesopotamia. And in that version enlil, the king of the gods, kills the humans because they're too loud and he is eventually forced to remove the flood when the other gods chew him out. It's never portrayed as anything but an over-reaction by a cranky old god. But then monotheism took that and went 'but what if our all-knowing, all-loving god did that? Eh?' with a completely straight face. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad

[adrianmetzler]

I don’t know if Forrest realizes how valuable he really is, just wow.
His ability to relay info, and make learning fun is unsurpassable! Thank you Forrest!

[cdorst]

I had this same conversation with a co-worker. It’s not as easy to talk about this with a believer. He just kept saying that god helped get the animals to the boat and helped get the animals back where they are now. It’s really hard to beat the “but magic bro” response

[Drums-veon]

I was 7 or 8 when the Sunday school I was forced to go to covered Noah’s ark and the flood. While I had already concluded that the garden of Eden and Adam and Eve didn’t make much sense, the flood story pushed me over the edge of credulity. I finally convinced my parents that Sunday school was a colossal waste of time by the time I was 10. And I never looked back.

[maisiesummers]

7:49 - The gophers know what they did, Forrest. They _know_ what they did.