Testing Conservapedia's 'Evidence' for a Young Earth

[zolikoff]

"This means that if one goes back far enough, intelligence would measure at ridiculous heights, if humans were even tens of thousands of years old."

The average temperature in Europe has increased by 5 degrees last month. This means that if we go back just one decade, the average temperature would be way below absolute zero! *This proves that the Earth is younger than a decade!*

[DrShaym]

It's funny how any science that isn't compatible with the Creationist presupposition is either wrong or something made up by some shady organization, but any science which just happens to support their worldview (even superficially) is just fine and dandy. Confirmation bias! I love it!

[razielhamalakh]

3:45 "The oldest direct evidence of life — written documents <...>"
Okay, are you sure these people aren't poes?

[EdwardHowton]

"Bad even by creationist standards" is the definition of creationist standards, Martymer. I know it doesn't make sense, and yet somehow it's still true.

[janAlekantuwa]

On the whole "DNA has been extracted from bacteria from hundreds of millions years ago, " the true story was that DNA was extracted from insects that were preserved in amber hundreds of millions of years ago. DNA is an incredibly fragile molecule and breaks down very quickly is not perfectly preserved, but the amber perfectly preserved the DNA, allowing said DNA to remain intact and unoxidized for tens or even hundreds of millions of years

[Luvinlfe]

My personal favorite is that just because the oldest star is about 6000 light years away means that the whole universe is 6000 years old.  Emma Ottis is the oldest person in the state of Washington so I guess everyone in the state of Washington is 112 years old according to Conservapedia.

[raymondthebrotherofperryma]

"Human intelligence is rapidly declining."

They got one right! 😂😂😂😂

[YaroKasear]

I might also point out that due to TECHNOLOGY allowing us to generalize as a species, we no longer have strong selection pressure as a species when our intelligence allows us to consciously solve long-term survival issues and remove genetic adaptation from a general population.

Disclaimer: I am not a biologist, but this is something I'm proposing from my best understanding of natural explanation.

[gwaur]

I personally would blame the decline in music and news article quality on the fact that they're more often than not mostly about bringing in as much money as possible as fast as possible. More content must be produced in less time, which of course causes lower quality.

[ranshire]

Anyone else noticing all the pro-woo and Creationist ads appearing at the start of Marty's videos now?

[blitzwinters]

10:02 "It's time for me to use my whiteboard!"  Oh, shit, you're going full Glenn Beck on it.

[hyksos]

With regard to 27:44 - Strontium 84, 86, 87 and 88 are all stable.

[mattlambert]

I want to preface this by saying that I'm not a hydro geologist or a notable expert of any kind. It doesn't take one to answer how underground well water if purified. I've worked on small scale septic systems in a rural area that only has access to underground well water. That might now seem relevant at first glance, but I'll explain why it is. People who don't have municipal water, and therefore have to use wells to get ground water, also don't have municipal plumbing. That means they have to maintain a private sewage treatment system so they don't contaminate their drinking water. You hit the nail on the head with the filtering mechanism. When you put in a septic system, a geologist has to come out and check the permeability of the soil in the area. From that, you know how big of an area you need to spread lateral lines (tubes that disperse the liquid end product of the septic system) for the ground in the area to be able to filter the material adequately before the water hits the aquifer (the underground channel of water resting on a non-permeable bed of rock, which also happens to be what the well is tapping into). There is ground itself is the filter and its properties are measured to directly determine it's quality. "Relative" is the key word in "relative purity". Water that has been filtered through the ground is usually relatively pure compared to water that hasn't been treated at all. How pure depends directly on measurable characteristics of the soil. It's not always pure by any means and people have problems with that all the time. The whole "mud slurry" thing doesn't happen because the aquifer doesn't start immediately when you hit rock. Most of the rock has cracks that the water seeps through (which also adds to the filtration) for usually at least a hundred feet before you hit a layer of rock that isn't cracked and holds water. Erosion eventually caused the aquifer channel to be bigger because all of the water from all of the cracks run through it and there are a lot of these tiny cracks. Only a tiny fraction of that water runs through the individual cracks so they don't erode as quickly. For the cracks to open up enough to let mud through, the majority of the rock would have to be gone. When that happens the weight of the ground above crushed it down back together, making different paths for water to flow through, or sometimes in extreme situations where the aquifer is big enough to hold all the material above it the whole thing will fall through and you get a sink-hole. Yeah... So whoever wrote that question probably hasn't ever had well water and hasn't bothered to ask anyone who has ever dealt with it.

[dangerouslytalented]

Filtration cleans the water that gets through to the water table. The soluble elements within the soil gets washed away pretty early on in the piece, and you are left with soil that's pretty inert. You get the same with storm gardens and in watersheds for reservoirs. The key is that it has to have been there for long enough for anything harmful to have already leeched away.

[pilgrimpater]

25:00 Jesus H fucking Christ! Who wrote such a groundbreaking "Geological" gem? Shockof God? I am not a Geologist but there is such a thing as common knowledge.
Underground water resides in rock and not mud (checkout any limestone system and artesian wells). The rock actually *filters* the water fricking clean, perhaps adding some minerals (hence hard and soft water) but not slurry. The body of  water is in constant flux and not sitting around stagnant for millions of years. But let's pretend ALL bodies of underground water are a few K years old, then how does that invalidate an old Earth? You might as well argue that the Earth is only two decades old because all mobiles (cell phones) appeared in the last few decades. That's how stupid Conservapedia is. It's as if they think that for an old earth to be true, ALL events that ever happened must have happened millions of years ago and nothing happened between then and now.

[compwiz]

You can can use topsoil for the substrate in an aquarium, and when you fill it it'll be an opaque muddy mess, but it will go crystal clear in a few days. Also well water has to go through a huge sand filter to get to the water table. Also, some well water is a muddy slurry depending on what type of soil is present.

[KarbineKyle]

Nice video! Strontium has 3 stable isotopes, 86Sr, 87Sr, and 88Sr. 90Sr has a half-life of 28.8 years, and is the most stable radioisotope. It's a common fission isotope. It's found in about the same amount as 137Cs (radiocesium) in spent nuclear fuel or nuclear fallout. Sounds like strontium-rubidium dating.

[marvincool]

You know your worldview isn’t factual when you literally have to create your own version of Wikipedia.

[kokofan]

Stromatolites are the mineralized structures created by bacterial colonies. The oldest stromatolie fossils are something like 3.5 billion years old, and being so old makes them some of the oldest evidence for life on year.

[brucehunter]

You're not quite getting the dog thing, although you are quite right about it being irrelevant. He's saying if you start with 100 different breeds of dog and you allow them to interbreed as they will, the offspring will become more and more the same.