Rebutting Genesis Apologetics - 5th of 7 Alleged Myths Pt I

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I am addressing this pseudoscience apologetics video, "Debunking the Seven Myths about the Bible, Genesis, and Noah's Flood":
Here is my 8-part playlist disproving Noah's flood.
Here is the article rebutting the failures of Hydroplate theory.
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[sawyerwright]

Aron, I took my first university biology class last week. The first lecture was on what science is, it’s purpose, and the actual difference between a theory and a law. The entire time, I was sitting there grinning like an idiot because I was saying in my head “Aron Ra already explained that to me” for almost every sentence. Thank you for opening my mind out of my world of creationist delusion and into the world of our beautiful reality through science. I’m indebted to you sir.

[robdavison]

To put in my pennyworth...I am a soil scientist who worked for three and a half years on the National Soil Map Project in the Kingdom of Jordan. We collected detailed soil profile descriptions in about 100, 000 locations all across the country (about 25, 000 of which were done by me) from the Syrian border to the north, Iraqi border to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied lands to the west. In all that work the evidence of a flood having once covered the land was zero, absolutely none! You would think that if there had been even a regional flood covering just the biblical lands you would find evidence in Jordan, but there is none. Plenty of evidence supporting other things, such as a greater extent of milder conditions with slightly heavier rainfall in biblical times, but no flood. So if you want it from me, who has actually been there and looked in enormous detail, no flood not even in the heart of the Middle East.
And inevitably the apologist also goes back to catastrophism to squash a huge time scale into the supposed biblical timescale of 6, 000 years or so, it all had to happen in one huge event. Again no, there is ample evidence that it all happened slowly over millions of years. Catastrophism was thrown out by geomorphologists 130-150 years ago as it was a theory that had zero merit and zero evidence.

[kaidiirty]

I’m a senior at a Christian school in Texas and I have to say, Aron, you saved me more than Jesus ever could. I’m forced into an apologetics class this year and the amount of bullshit spewed by out teacher is laughable. Even our physics and economics textbooks preach to us.

[Mayan_]

I used to be a young earth creationist a year ago, now I accept Evolution as a proven fact, the evidence for evolution is beyond overwhelming. thank you Aron for pulling me out of the creationist Pseudoscience and introducing me to Real science . You re a living legend and a force of Reason ! 💪🏻

[Dan_C]

The amount of science and education that takes to correct that false “creation science” is outstanding. Thank you for taking this painful job Aron!

[jonc]

So, not only did the Egyptians miss the global flood going on over their heads, they also missed how the stars rapidly moved to their new spots in the sky at a given time due to the continental drift, and they didn't note all that new info down on their papyri? And it wasn't just them, there were also the Mayans, the Babylonians and the Chinese. They were pretty darn good astronomers.

[grapeshot]

So the invisible sky wizard designs the Earth with a fatal design flaw sort of like that one movie that had that Death Star thing in it.

[origamiswami]

17:20 Oh no... It took me a second to realize it, but the AIG video implies that the continents are sliding away from each other THROUGH the oceanic crust. That's why they talk about rivers leaving a connected trail of mud from one side of the Atlantic to the other - they think it's like a snail leaving behind a mucus trail as it travels over ground. The whole point of plate tectonics is that NEW crust is being formed in the mid-Atlantic as the seafloor spreads, so there's no way in hell there could ever be a mud trail connecting the continents. The misunderstanding is mind-boggling.

[bitcores]

32:25 I was living in a coastal city in Japan where there are archeological remains of settlement from the Jomon era and one of the things they had on display was a cross-section of sediment showing tsunami deposition and maps showing what areas the related tsunamis covered.
Interestingly, there was no tsunami roughly 4, 500 years ago that covered all the land shown.

[martinmckee]

I find the modern "flood geology" arguments fascinating because I am just old enough to remember when fundamentalist we're railing against plate tectonics (followed its acceptance in science).

It's interesting to watch them accept just enough of the actual scientific evidence that they can feel open minded and evidence-based, yet so little as to be forced to change their claims massively in the last several decades despite them - purportedly - being based upon the unchanging word of a perfect god.

[grapeshot]

Yeah and who would think that flood legends and myths have the tendency to pop it in places that's prone to flooding😱

[Cat_Woods]

I really appreciate that Aron goes the extra step to point out that a global flood is _precluded_ by much evidence. (I realize he has a whole series on that, and I love that, too. I re-watch it periodically because it has so much useful information in it.) It's just that so much counter-apologetics rests on "there's no evidence that..." instead of going that necessary step to "we know for a fact that didn't happen, and here's the evidence that proves it didn't." It's great to have some people on the front lines doing justice to the facts. Thanks, Aron, again.

[owenleblanc]

This was a good one. I loved the scientific tag team. Thanks to David for his new guest appearance.

[ruffseas]

This tag team method of debunking the myths being pushed as truth is absolutely poetic!

[jeanettecook]

Great video, Aron. As usual you are dispelling the force of darkness, which is ignorance. Ignorance is curable, by education. Thank you so much for helping in that area! 👏👏👏🌌

[DarkRanger]

Nothing like a new video from Aron Ra to start the day.

[mattyoung]

Good content, and I’m happy to see David joining, He’s a clear thinker. It’s always great to see these good minds realize that there is value in this sort of content.

[fepeerreview]

24:00 This is good about the lack of global flood deposits which date to the same time.
To reinforce this, we *do* find global deposits from major volcanic events which show ash deposits over large parts of the Earth, all dating to the same time. So, indeed, it is possible for a global event to leave evidence of this kind behind, as shown by volcanic events. That no such evidence is then found for a global flood tells us all we need to know about Noah's flood.

[somethingsinlife]

No one wants to confront the fact that their religion is false...It's one of the hardest things to come to terms with. Most would rather find justifications and rationalisations...or just "Faith".

[loki]

Creationists, you're just embarrassing yourselves.
A word of advice. Just stick with "god moves in mysterious ways", it's vague and difficult to disprove.
When you start cherry picking and misrepresenting science to try to defend the bible you just look silly and dishonest.