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Kent Hovind vs. Bill Nye || Intellectual SMACKDOWN · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  Once in a while I get people that really that or that claim
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  they don't believe in evolution, and my response generally is a
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  why not really why not? You guys believe 20 billion
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  years ago there was a Big Bang where nothing exploded and
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  produced everything? 4.6 billion years ago the earth
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  cooled down, made a hard rocky crust, it rained on the rocks
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  for millions of years, turned them into soup, and the soup
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  came alive. 3 billion years ago, found somebody to marry and
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  something to eat, of course, and slowly evolved into everything
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  we see today. There are some lies in our
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  science books. Taught it for 15 years.
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  Even though I'm not teaching it anymore, I still like the study
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  of so many neat things to learn. We're going to cover some of
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  that tonight. I'm not against science.
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  I'm not against schools. I'm not against teachers because
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  most of them don't know what they believe.
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  You have to tell them. They teach the kids.
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  It all started with The Big Bang 20 billion years ago.
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  What exploded? This is what the textbooks eat.
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  Before The Big Bang, there was nothing.
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  Literally nothing. An infinitesimal nugget of
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  space. And then something happened,
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  triggering the most colossal explosion in history.
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  Yes, boys and girls, you see, nothing exploded and here we
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  are. So I asked this professor if I
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  could ask him some questions about The Big Bang.
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  I said, where did all this matter come from?
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  He said, well, we don't know that for sure.
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  I said, well, Sir, would you please tell me where the laws
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  came from? The universe is run by laws.
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  Gravity, centrifugal force, inertia.
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  Who gave the laws? He said, we don't know that
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  either. I said, Sir, could you tell me
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  where the energy came from? You know it takes energy to make
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  a Big Bang. Who bought the gas to run this
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  machine anyway? He said, we don't know that
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  either. I said, Sir, could I ask you
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  another question? He said, sure.
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  What else would you like to know?
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  What else? What do you mean else?
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  He hasn't told me nothing yet. I said, does Berkeley have a
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  merry go round? You see, if a spinning object
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  breaks apart in a frictionless environment, the fragments will
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  all spin the same direction. The professor said yes, I
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  understand about the conservation of angular
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  momentum. I said well good, I'd like to
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  ask you a question then Sir. If the universe began as a
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  swirling dodge like you said, why do 2 planets spin backwards?
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  He said that's interesting. Said no, that's more than
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  interesting. It's kind of hard on your Big
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  Bang Theory. Not only that, six of the moons
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  are spinning backwards. Why?
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  He said, I don't know. Why do you think they're going
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  backwards? I was hoping he was going to ask
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  that. I said, OK, now Sir, hold it.
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  If I told you that I believe God created the heaven and the earth
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  like the Bible teaches, you're going to say, and where did God
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  come from? And I don't know.
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  But you said, well, we don't know that for sure.
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  We don't know that either. We don't.
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  Don't tell me my theory is religious and yours is science.
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  Oh, no, Sir, they're both religious.
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  Evolution is a religion, as you have to believe.
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  So ask the professor, where did the matter come from?
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  He said, I don't know. So basically, I believe in the
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  beginning God, and you believe in the beginning dirt.
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  One professor was getting kind of upset about this time, he
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  said. Mr. Hovind, there are hundreds
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  of varieties of dogs in the world, he said.
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  You mean to tell me that you believe all these dogs came from
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  two dogs off of Noah's Ark? You expect me to believe that?
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  I said, Sir, would you look at why you're teaching your
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  students? You're teaching your students
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  that all the dogs in the world came from a rock.
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  Charles Darwin was disciplined. I mean, he did these
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  extraordinary experiments, this series of experiments, then.
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  They're going to tell the kids, well, we have evidence for this
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  theory. Charlie Darwin stopped off at
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  these islands right there called the Galapagos Islands.
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  Charlie studied the birds very carefully and said, you know
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  what? I think all these birds had a
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  common ancestor. I bet you're right, Charlie.
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  It was a bird. You see fourteen kinds of birds,
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  and you conclude that birds and bananas are related.
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  Here are these ancient dinosaur bones or fossils.
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  They tell the kids they have evidence of evolution from
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  fossils. I don't think so.
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  If you find a fossil in the dirt, all you know is it died.
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  You don't know that it had any kids, and you sure don't know
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  that it had different kids. You bring in a bone to the
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  judge. Judge, I found this bone in the
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  dirt. This is the ancestor of all the
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  humans today. They would laugh at you.
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  You don't know that that that's the ancestor of anybody.
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  And why on earth would you think a bone in the dirt can do
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  something animals today cannot do?
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  They'll see boys and girls, you have two bones in your wrist,
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  radius and ulna. And boys and girls look at the
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  whales flipper carefully. Did you know the whale has 2
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  bones in his flipper? And they're called the radius
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  and the ulna, same as ours. Wow, who named them Teacher the
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  whale? Think about it.
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  I'm here to tell my people it's time to stop believing bull just
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  cuz I tell you bull with a straight look on their face.
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  Say people came from monkeys and the question is why is there
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  still monkeys? Is these the retarded monkeys
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  they didn't turn into people just yet?
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  Even Stephen Gould admitted the absence of fossil evidence for
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  intermediary stages is a persistent and nagging problem
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  for evolution. See what's happened?
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  These guys have looked for missing links in the in the
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  fossil record. They can't find any.
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  And so they say, well, maybe evolution happened so fast it
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  wasn't preserved. Maybe a reptile laid egg and a
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  bird hatched out. Well, who did that bird marry?
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  This process that brought us to be is billions of years old.
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  It happens very fast. Billions of years fast.
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  Here is radioactivity we're. Going to tell the kids the late
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  1940s, they invented carbon dating.
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  We're going to explain a little bit about radiometric dating and
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  how it's supposed to work and then show you that it does not
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  work. OK, it sounds good, but there
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  are some assumptions that mess everything up.
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  If we had walked into a room and found a candle burning on the
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  table and I asked you the question, when was it lit?
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  You say I don't know, Mr. Hoban, it's burning when I got here.
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  OK, well, then let's do some empirical science.
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  Let's measure the height of the candle.
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  Suppose the candle is 7 inches tall.
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  Who can tell me when it was lit? OK, nobody.
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  Let's do some more empirical science.
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  Let's measure the rate of burn. Suppose we determine it's
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  burning an inch an hour. When was it lit?
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  You're going to have a hard time telling me unless you're willing
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  to make some assumptions. You find a fossil in the dirt.
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  You can measure how much C-14 is in it very accurately, by the
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  way, and you can measure how fast it's decaying.
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  That's just like measuring the height of your candle and how
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  fast it's burning. Now, when did that animal die?
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  You don't have a clue. Here's what you ought to
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  consider about carbon dating samples of known age.
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  It doesn't work if it's a sample of unknown age.
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  It is assumed to work. These it's just really hard
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  thing. It's it's really a hard thing.
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  Your world just becomes fantastically complicated when
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  you don't believe in evolution. Freshly killed seal carbon dated
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  1300 years old. Shells from living snails carbon
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  dated 27,000 years old. Living Penguins carbon dated
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  8000 years old. One part of Dima was 40,000
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  years old, another part was 26,000, and the wood next to it
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  is 9000. Then they tell the kids about
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  the geologic column. They say each of the layers is a
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  different age. You know, Cenozoic, Mesozoic,
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  Paleozoic, Archaezoic, all them zoic boys.
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  Now if you get a petrified tree standing up running a few
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  different rock layers, I don't think it's smart to say those
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  layers are vastly different ages.
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  Those trees did not get slowly covered by the sediments over
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  millions of years. They would rot and fall down.
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  Crazy I. Just say, boys and girls, you
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  have an appendix that you don't need anymore.
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  That's a vestigial structure. That's proof of evolution.
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  Well, excuse me, You do need your appendix.
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  Appendix is part of your immune system.
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  If your appendix is taken out, you can still live OK, but it
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  increases your susceptibility to quite a few diseases.
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  You could live without both your legs and both your arms and both
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  your eyes. Also, that doesn't prove you
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  don't need them. There are no vestigial organs,
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  and even if there were, that would be the opposite of
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  evolution. That's losing, not gaining.
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  I was taught when I went to school, man used to have a tail,
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  but he lost it because he didn't need it.
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  I thought didn't need it. Have you ever thought how handy
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  a tail would be? Have you ever come to the door
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  with two sacks of groceries? Wouldn't that be a nice man be
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  able to grab that door and walk right around and get in?
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  Lost it because we didn't need it, man.
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  You can drive the car and tune the radio knob and hold the coke
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  at the same time. What we're finding is that
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  natural selection seems to be an incredibly important factor in
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  generating new species. Natural selection, the key
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  evolutionary mechanism Darwin identified.
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  The bad designs get eaten by the good ones, and so all you have
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  is good ones. Why is that still?
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  Monkey natural selection doesn't cause any evolution.
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  It makes sure the bad ones don't survive, but it's not going to
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  change it to something else. That's what evolution is.
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  If you worked in a factory that produced cars and your job was
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  to check for defects, and you caught every single mistake and
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  you rejected it, how long would it take that process to change
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  the car to an airplane? You say it'll never change it.
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  That's my point. The students are taught we have
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  evidence from development. Darwin considered this by far
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  the strongest single class of evidence.
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  This textbook says the human embryo growing in the mother has
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  gills like a fish. Those little folds of skin are
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  not gills. Those little wrinkles under your
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  chin when you're growing up later develop into bones in the
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  ear and glands in the throat. They never have anything to do
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  with breathing. I've seen folks that have five
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  or six chins and they can't breathe through any of them but
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  the top one. Those are not gill slits.
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  Ernst Hakel, though, said the turning point in his thinking
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  was when he read Darwin's book. He made huge charts of his
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  posters of his drawings of these embryos and travelled all over
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  Germany and just about by himself converted the Germans to
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  believing in evolution. Hakel took a drawing of a dog
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  and a human embryo and he changed them to make them look
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  exactly alike. On top are Hakel's fake
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  drawings. Underneath are actual
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  photographs of what he claimed he was drawing a picture of.
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  Now, either he's a lousy artist or he's a liar.
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  Well, it turns out he's a liar. He was convicted of fraud by his
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  own university. Proven to be a fraud.
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  But guess what? Haeckel's fake drawings are
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  still used in textbooks in your state right now.
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  It's only been proven wrong 125 years ago.
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  I know it takes a while to get textbooks up to date, but that
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  ought to be plenty of time. Adolf Hitler said you let me
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  control the textbooks, I'll control the state.
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  Watch this sentence here carefully.
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  Some kids doing this for homework tonight.
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  Boys and girls, do you think humans are still evolving now?
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  What kind of question is that? Doesn't that question assume
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  that evolution has happened? What if a kid doesn't believe in
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  evolution? How's he supposed to do his
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  homework tonight? That question does not teach him
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  how to think critically. That teaches him what to think,
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  not how to think. And when the kid gets done with
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  this course, he's going to think.
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  He knows how to think, but he doesn't.
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  He knows how to be told what to think.
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  Brainwashing at taxpayer expense.
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  They want to use my tax dollars to teach that to your kids in
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  our schools if you. Want to deny evolutions?
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  That's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them.
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  And that's where the problem comes in.
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  OK, if you want to believe in The Big Bang, just enjoy
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  yourself, but keep your religion at home.
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  The Russian atheist astronomer came to America and spoke at one
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  of the universities and he said started off his speech.
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  He said, folks, either there is a God or there isn't.
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  Both possibilities are frightening.
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  If there is no God, we're in trouble.
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  We're hurtling through space around the sun right now, 66,000
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  miles an hour, and nobody's in charge.
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  That's a scary thought. But if God made the world, he
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  owns it. That means he makes the rules.
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  You see, if there is a God, we better find out who he is and
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  find out what he wants and do what he says, Malcolm Muggeridge
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  said. I am convinced the theory of
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  evolution, especially the extent to which it's been taught
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  applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books
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  of the future. It's a joke, and it would be a
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  joke if it weren't for the tragic results.
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  How many kids are taught this thing every day and believe it
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  and it destroys their faith? Find.
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  You something to believe in? Well Dang, who do you even pray
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  to? Nobody.
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  Hey, if you died today, where would you go?
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  You ought to think about it, because you will be dead for a
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  long time. Doesn't matter how long you
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  live, you're going to be dead longer than that.
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  You know, George Washington died 200 years ago and he's still
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  dead. How much longer does he have to
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  go? You're going to be dead for a
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  long time. All you get in this life is a
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  little bitty dash between two dates, just a little treating.
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  It's gone. What are you going to do with
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  your dash? Where would you go if you die
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  now, if you're not sure you're going to heaven, you ought to
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  give your heart to the Lord and get saved.
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  Say, Lord, you may have it, the whole thing.
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  If you are saved, you ought to find something to do for the
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  Lord, and you ought to quit worrying about getting a fancier
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  car and a fancier house and start worried about who's going
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  to heaven or hell. Maybe God gave you that good job
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  so you can give some money to missionaries, not so you can
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  build a bigger, fancier house. God loves you.
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  God has a plan for your life, and if you don't want it, well,
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  that's your business. But the devil is laughing at you
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  for believing in that. But God loves you, and he wants
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  you to come to heaven. And if you'd like to find out
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  how to go to heaven, come see me.
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  I'll be glad to show you. The Big Bang Before The Big
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  Bang, there was nothing. Literally nothing.
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  Nothing created everything. The Big Bang is an amazingly
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  difficult thing to wrap your brain around, which isn't
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  surprising. 13.7 billion years ago, we think it was tiny.
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  Nothing, literally nothing, was tiny.
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  And then something happened. Nothing created all the matter
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  we see in the universe today. Nothing is more powerful than
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  nothing, and that's what trips most of us up.
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  It was the explosion of. Nothing.
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  To believe in world getting crazy and you better believe
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  something something something.