Answers in Genesis fails AGAIN! | 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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[aennaenn]

The whole "don't want to be publicly embarrassed" thing is ridiculous.

Scientists excitedly tear eachother apart publicly, without mercy, and then thank eachother for it all the time.

[exactemphasis]

As a molecular biologist who has spent plenty of time staring at the human genome, there are so many genetic duplications, inversions, translocations, frameshift mutations that have been integrated into the genome. All of these create completely new information and can and do easily occur.

[TheNihonjin]

"When you start from the premise that one person's guess is just as valid as another person's evidence, you've sacrificed the ability to learn."

Words to live by.

[doncomputer]

"Nah, I'm just kidding. They do talk about Bruno, they call him a heretic and a mystic and say it's honestly surprising it took so long for the church to kill him, though they don't condone it."
Best summary of answers in genesis I've heard yet

[Ariande]

All I learned from my 18 years being forced to go to church is that if you make fun of bald people you get mauled by bears.

[BenYork-UBY]

All I'm hearing AiG say is "we admit evolution is happening, but we don't like it so we're calling it something else"

[edit] To all the idiots in the comments. Stop coping and seething about an assumed non-existent distinction between "macro evolution" or "Micro-evolution". There is no distinction. You're basically saying that driving a car 10 meters is possible but driving 10 kilometers cant possibly happen. And that just because you can drive a car 10 meters doesn't mean that car can ever drive for 10 kilometers. The same force that can make a car move 10 meters is the same force that will make it move again and again until it clocks 300, 000 on the odemeter. it's the same with "micro-evolution"

"micro-evolution" is evolution. If you accept this process works, and produces smaller changes on a small time scale, you must accept it results in larger changes in a larger time scale. Those changes are accumulative and will always add up over time. It's math. unless you can demonstrably prove that micro-evolution must arbitrarily stop functioning by some unknown force after a set amount of time for any given organism.

Stop repeating your brainwashed nonsense about micro and macro evolution. It's been debunked ad nauseum and does not adhere to what we know and understand about how evolution functions

[darwinjones]

*"Scientifically: your parents don't fuck"* was not the insult I was expecting to walk away with today, but it's going in the reservoir.

[bekmogamingchannel]

Answers in Genesis: This food has flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and chocolate chips. It's not a chocolate cookie though.

[yegetatamiru]

“When you ignore all the things that prove you wrong, it’s so easy to be right”😂😂😂

[richardgunton]

I love the confidence of saying ‘this is where it starts to get a little tricky for the average person.’ My man isn’t an average pleb like the rest of us.

[christianmeinert]

“I watched that whole video and all I got was bored” is such an underrated statement when talking about the comedy gold that AiG puts out

[johnn]

"When you choose to start from the premise that one person's guess is just as valid as another person's evidence, you have sacrificed the ability to learn." Is going to end up being one of my favorite quotes.

[ukamikazu]

Remember folks: Apologetics is a retention tool, not a conversion tool. They're losing, that's why they're still making these pointless points. Credit to David John Wellman for the observation, whom I highly recommend.

[Lance_Langlois]

"When you choose to start from the premise that one person's guess is just as valid as another person's evidence you have sacrificed the ability to learn..." Forrest Valkai, 2023. Man, I don't know if that's an original quote but it should be written everywhere. Well said. 😁

[wildhorses]

the creationist guy not making much sense but you gotta admit his outfit is fire

[monodescarado]

Love the sentence: ‘When you choose to start with the premise that one person’s guess is just as valid as another person’s evidence, you have sacrificed the ability to learn.’

Stick it on a t-shirt

[andrewolson]

Every time a Creationist uses the word "Kind" when talking about organism classification, I want to pull out my hair.

[enderking]

The computer program analogy goes further once you realize that machine learning works by applying random modifications to its own code and then selecting based on results. AI is literally code that evolves.

[sonderfulsable]

39:16 well, maybe YOU did, but i errupted from my father's forehead, fully clad in armor

[michaelchesnut]

Evolution is just "It's not a bug, it's a feature, " but repeated millions of times.