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Youtube Series Covering Wide Range of Topics from Science to Politics
- Part 1 The status of water in the universe. Creationist says earth has 100% of water in the universe. Narrator says water is the second most common molecule in the universe and provides the data to support his statement.
- Part 2 Sun, Moon, Earth, lunar eclipses and "perfect fit" of moon over sun that is very imperfect, probabilities from an evolutionist's perspective, bizarre inconsistencies of creationist's statements.
- Part 3 Kent Hovind's idea on what happened to cause Noah's Flood, i.e. an ice meteor crashed with various planets and fragments landed at the earth's North and South Poles because of its magnetic field, "creating massive cold spots," "freezing mammoths standing up." Narrator explains how much energy is required for an object to hit the earth and that this amount of energy would not "freeze the mammoths where they stood; it would vaporize them." He explains that the temperature would have been about 10,000 degrees Celsius, and that, "If Noah really was in that ark, water would have been the least of his problems."
- Part 4 Kent Hovind: One drop of water will cover the earth is you spread it thin enough. Narrator proves with high school science and math that, because of the size of the earth's surface, 150,000 tons of water is required. Hovind was wrong by a trillion, which is a "1 with twelve zeros after it." Narrator emphasizes that Hovind is currently (Sept. 2007) serving ten years in jail for tax fraud, and that making "errors" of such magnitude may not be surprising in a man who is not averse to this type of crime.
- Part 5 Kent Hovind's "theory" about "water above the earth." Narrator explains why and how this is not only scientifically impossible but also stupid and would prohibit life on earth.
- Part 6 Kent Hovind on x-rays from the sun except on cloudy days; he says clouds shield humans from these x-rays. Narrator explains the scientific fallacy of this teaching.
- Part 7 Kent Hovind: See, evolution says we started off tiny and we're getting bigger and stronger and smarter....I think the Bible indicates we started off big and we're getting smaller and weaker and dumber. Narrator: Ugh! Another creationist who doesn't understand that evolution doesn't make you better by the criterion you judge to be good (size, strength, and intelligence)...but simply allows organisms to be better suited to their environment.
- Part 8 Explanation of probability vs "it didn't happen by chance."
- Part 9 About quote mining and misrepresenting academics and scientists to support creationist agenda. Water fits a glass, stone pebbles do not; likewise, buildings and watches are designed while life is not.
- Part 10 Fine-Tuning Argument by Lee Strobel Refuted. Books by Strobel: Case for Christ, Case for Faith, and Case for Creator. The earth is, by volume, about one billionth percent life. It has about 75 cubic kilometers of life compared to its size by volume. Its size is about 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) cubic kilometers.
- Part 11 Narrator refutes creationist theology about Noah's Ark, age of earth, and human death.
- Part 12 Kent Hovind, Genomes and Chromosomes. The narrator corrects Hovind's thoroughly distorted arguments of biological reproduction, esp. the DNA double helix and cells.
- Part 13 Prime Numbers, William Dembski, another argument that "it couldn't have happened by chance." Refers to the Dovers trial and Dembski's (and Stephen C. Meyer's) withdrawal as expert witness from the trial without explanation, supposedly because they would not defend Intelligent Design under oath.
- Part 14 Quote Mining Bill Gates. Summary of Dover Trial.
- Part 15 Jonathan Wells and the Cambrian Explosion.
- Part 16Geological Dating Methods
- Part 17
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"This is what gets to me...academics spend their lives trying to further the knowledge of mankind through research while creationists spend theirs vandalizing the knowledge they consider to be inconsistent with their bronze-age religious texts." He emphasizes how humanity depends on science for survival, and that "teaching the controversy" to allow students to decide the facts of science should definitely not be done.
- Part 18 Spammers, Creationists, Scientists, and Free Speech.
- Part 19 "EVIL"-ution vs. evolution.
- Part 20 Earth-Moon System and Flawed Creationist Math
- Part 21 Fundamentalist Religion (Christian and Muslim), Dark Ages, Free Speech of Reason, and the Future.
- Part 22 Ben Stein on his movie Expelled and in Indoctrination, along with the narrator's comments.
- Part 23 Ben Stein discusses opponents' complaints that he was not honest about the title of the movie; he considers this a minor issue. The narrator points out that there is zero tolerance in academia for dishonesty.
- Part 24 Ben Stein's exalted opinion of his movie Expelled. "Love of God, empathy, compassion lead you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people." Narrator calls this statement sickening and recounts a few of the many things science has done in saving billions of lives in the 20th century alone. Stein talks about the imagined military threats to his country in the Far East. I am asking myself: Where is the God in whose almighty power he trusts to defend him and his country?
- Part 25 Narrator pleads for people not to hamper the progress of science for the sake of human survival. The infrastructure of human society depends on the scientific method.
- Part 26 Interview with Sarah Palin in Sept. 2008. Palin was working for John McCane, aged seventy-two, who was running for president. If he died, Palin would be the next president. In the interview, Palin implies that the War in Iraq is a mission from God, and that foreign policy with Russia is seeing the land of Russia from Alaska. She lives in Alaska. Palin demonstrates that she does not know key issues of government such as what the Bush Doctrine is, nor has she met a foreign head of state; she believes that historically vice presidents have not met foreign heads of state and that she is no different from past vice presidents. The narrator points out that this is blatantly fallacious.
- Part 27 Most Popular Creationist, venomfangx, mocks naturalists like Richard Dawkins, and YouTube posters Amazing Atheist and Thunderf00t (composer of this series) for being so taken up with observing the natural world that they won't look at anything else. He calls them "children in a sandbox watching the pretty sand flowing." The narrator points out the hypocrisy of the conservative Christian who uses the naturalism provided by the science he condemns. The conservative Christian's use of naturalism is evident in the technology he uses and the home in which he lives.
- Part 28 A look at some Bible verses in a creationist video that creationists think prove that the Bible is the "cutting-edge" science text.
- Part 29 Takes a graphic look at the basis for morality.
- Part 30 Looks at Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute and his lies and inconsistent statements about Intelligent Design. The Dover Trial is also referenced.
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