Creationist student owned by Dr. Tim White

and of course the elders usually also say and we'll also take a goat for ourselves yes in the back again Charles Darwin said in his book Origin species that two things need to happen otherwise evolution just a theory he said that they need to be the transition fossils and he said that they need to be simple building blocks and in all living things and clearly as science has evolved these that cells are not simple my question is why why should we base the validity of all of our life's beliefs on a theory well that's a pretty big question and it's a good question I would start with actually contesting what you said that Darwin said that's number well I don't think he said it in those words but let's not quibble over that let's go directly to the last word you used because people use it all the time evolution is just a theory right that's basically that's the crux of it okay you ever heard of gravitational theory works pretty well how about the germ theory of disease you see in science we use the term theory in a different way it's not somebody's wild idea you could even argue that it was Darwin's but it's been tested scientifically it's been demonstrated to have happened evolution is a fact it's not a theory there is evolutionary theory and that is the body of fact and observation that we can impose we can bring to bear on the question of how things evolve let's take your building block example for that right I'm not sure that Darwin said that but I am damn sure that Darwin didn't know what DNA was and I'm certain that he didn't know what a nucleotide is Sarah's informed us all about nucleotides those I think are the building blocks right we've weird we're getting this fantastic understanding and let's bring this back to medicine now Howard Hughes Medical Institute many of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators around this country at the top universities and believe me they picked the very best people in the world to do this research these people are working on those building blocks because those building blocks sit at the fundamental foundation of things like cancer now if you're given a choice between an evidence and reason based interpretation of your cancer of those cells out of control and well we'll let's think about it and psychically go after it what are you going to take you know I'm going with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator every single time right that's pretty much demonstrated to be the way to go and so it is with evolutionary biology that is a part medicine isn't part of this grander overarching evolutionary biology it just means that we scientists have looked at this from every angle and as you can see from listening to us during these lectures we're pretty critical people that critical element of science is always there because you can always level it against the colleague and say whoa you blew it there Darwin blew it there and Darwin did blow it in a number of cases he didn't know anything about heredity he thought it was blending we now know it's particulate it's the particles those are the building blocks but look how beautifully that merges into his understanding of natural selection look at the predictions that are made look at the prediction we made about a single Valley in Africa where we start with Abdullah on top and we step back through time through a series of forms with smaller brain cases and bigger faces all the way back to a creature that is not a chimp and not a human that's it's you know you could you could say that we tested the hypothesis there and by so doing we have demonstrated that evolutionary theory applies well in this case much as it does in the biomedical basis of cancer another question in the back again

Channel: CREATIONISTS VS. THE FACTS

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Keywords: Science, fossils, evolution, creationist, creationism, owned, pwnd, funny, Lol, Fail

Id: srC1au8ZiU4

Length: 4min 4sec (244 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 24 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/Merari01]

This is very good but I fear it does not reach creatards.

I saw her brain shut off the minute she got a reply she didn't like and you could tell that she was just bored when he kept speaking words while she wasn't listening anymore.

[u/trevdak2]

I like to say:

Evolution is just a theory like an ER physician is just practicing.

[u/homo_erraticus]

That was, indeed, an elegant reply and a thorough repudiation of the 'just a theory' nonsense which creationists are so quick to level against Darwin's simple idea. I would add to his comment about cancer the observation Stephen Jay Gould made, which is that cancer is cells which have broken free from the tyranny of the organism.

[u/clusterfcluster]

It's amazing, really. You can lecture a creationist for 16 hours, providing verifiable evidence from zoology, cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, anthropology, palaeontology, geology, physics, and astronomy as support for the fact of biological evolution. After you are finished, it will be dismissed by a dubious quote that might not even really mean what the creationist says it means. It takes a special kind of patience to deal with such blockheads on a regular basis. It may be even worse than debating supply-siders.

[u/10art1]

MRW I read your title

[u/M0b1u5]

"Professor".

[u/AmericanSk3ptic]

Motherfucker literally has a row of skulls of human descendents and the lady still asks if there is enough evidence. At least she is in the class. Maybe he was able to change her mind or at least plant a seed in brain.

[u/tactical_lampost]

"This is a very good question" why the fuck u lyin, why u always lyin

[u/Gizortnik]

He got to the "building blocks" part, but I really wished that he'd ended with:

"As for 'transitional fossils'... [looks down at desk, then back at student]... what the hell do you think these are?"