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I thought I would post some informative videos for any creationists or theists who might be on the fence and wondering if their beliefs really make sense, and what the actual scientific truth is. I will add to these as I find good ones in more or less plain understandable English that doesn't get overly scientific.
We will start with my favorite guy, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, hereon out know as NGT
Bill Nye the Science Guy on the scientific problems with a worldwide flood and the actual construction of Noahs Ark
One comment. Nye makes the comment that while the ark supposedly came to rest on a mountain in Turkey, kangaroos have been found only in Australia. And no remains, bones, or fossils of kangaroos, or wallabies , or another other indigenous Aussie life, have been found anywhere between Turkey and Australia. None. Zero. Somehow all these weird Aussie animals marched from Turkey to Australia, and none died along the way. This ought to make people wonder. Hopefully one or two actually think about this.
NGT on 3 subjects. The first and last wont be of much interest to theists, being respectively the search for alien life and then the Earths rotation, but at 5:33 he gets into dark matter and how we know it exists even as we cant see it, and also how dark matter is a misnomer and the better term is dark gravity, because we can measure the gravity but we can't see what is causing it.
Bill Nye the Science Guy on the scientific problems with a worldwide flood and the actual construction of Noahs Ark
One comment. Nye makes the comment that while the ark supposedly came to rest on a mountain in Turkey, kangaroos have been found only in Australia. And no remains, bones, or fossils of kangaroos, or wallabies , or another other indigenous Aussie life, have been found anywhere between Turkey and Australia. None. Zero. Somehow all these weird Aussie animals marched from Turkey to Australia, and none died along the way. This ought to make people wonder. Hopefully one or two actually think about this.
Crash Course lessons on evolution and why it actually isnt controversial in science, just among fundamental theists.
Crash Course, by the way, has great educational videos on just about everything, mostly a long series on each subject that progress from basic to a little more advanced as you build on previous videos. I think the astronomy one was 47 episodes long. History, biology, whatever you wish to learn up on, its here and is very entertaining, not at all boring lectures. Most of them 15-20 minutes long so not time consuming videos to watch.
I've watched the entire debate with Ken Ham. Nye destroys Ham.
Yep. Granted, that was never a fair contest. Ham has nothing in the way of intellect or scientific substantiation to offer. I think you or I could have done the same. But I am a big fan of Nye, no slight on him.
Since we're posting videos, Hugh Owen of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation does a great job of explaining why Christianity and evolution are incompatible from a Catholic perspective.
Since we're posting videos, Hugh Owen of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation does a great job of explaining why Christianity and evolution are incompatible from a Catholic perspective.
However, the Catholic church itself has no problem with evolution as seen here.
In October 1996, Pope John Paul II stated that "new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis" and restated from Humani Generis that "if the human body takes its origin from pre-existent living matter, the spiritual soul is immediately created by God." However, as John Paul II recognized in his Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, "In his Encyclical Humani generis [1950], my predecessor Pius XII had already stated that there was no opposition between evolution and the doctrine of the faith about man and his vocation, on condition that one did not lose sight of several indisputable points." Thus, as a practical matter, evolution had been taught in Catholic primary and secondary schools, not to mention universities, for decades before 1996. [Bolding mine]
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