Are There Transitional Bones? | Dave - Missouri | Talk Heathen 03.24

[@JayMaverick]

Dave: "I don't have a script in front of me" Also Dave: *shuffles papers to find script*

[@Richard-jm3um]

That was so funny! XD

[@5driedgrams]

Dave is a liar

[@davidLikeyVids]

For those wondering where the time stamp for the papers is: 21:30 I did chuckle :), thank you Jay.

[@ericscaillet2232]

@@5driedgrams maybe not, maybe he has very loud toilet paper 😉

[@stevenschnepp576]

@@ericscaillet2232 Same thing, when you think about it.

[@fire398017]

Eric is waaaay to nice to these people.

[@stylis666]

Yeah, his momma never taught him not to play with his food. He's enjoying it waaaaayyy too much XD I like it though. Fun > manners :)

[@mybuisness5561]

I work with an " ERIC " at work. He's not as mouthy sarcastic as AE ERIC, but he's close.

[@ericscaillet2232]

@@mybuisness5561 we are multiplying....be aware, this world must be one big Eric, it is written in the Eric book, the half a bee was just a warm up 😂

[@EvilEyeGypsy]

I appreciate Eric’s way of dealing with people.

[@debrarufini6906]

Eric is a decent human being who knows the art of respect and conversation ... as opposed to the emotionally immature Matt, who is a narcissistic bully throwing a tempter tantrum at anyone who disagrees with him. I'm convinced that Matt was never disciplined as a child, and consequently grew into a brat. X

[@SirKits]

This guy shares a common ancestor with a brick wall

[@primordialsky7221]

Sure he isnt related to pigs?

[@teknicron1080]

Well, considering Christians think the first man was made from mud . . .

[@Oxigono_publications]

those ancient one bricks, made of manure!

[@lynettekomidar2819]

Hilarious

[@totto79121]

He says, "If I came across as arrogant and condescending." IF?

[@Baes_Theorem]

He gets credit for at least acknowledging it and apologizing for it without prompting. Shows he can change, which is the most important part. :)

[@nunyabusiness979]

@@Baes_Theorem *IF* isn't an acknowledgement.

[@thomasroyal6260]

He said if because maybe in his mind he wasn’t being arrogant. I may not think I’m being arrogant when speaking to someone and they think I am. There’s no way to know for sure if someone really is being arrogant. Neither of you are right or wrong. What’s arrogant to you may not be to someone else.

[@steveymoon]

Oh shit... that might be one of the most disappointing conversations of all time. Dave, if you're reading... prophecy is such a weak argument. Grow up, man!!

[@frankwhelan1715]

@LordKellthe1st Yeah he really dragged it out.

[@nickokona6849]

Otangelo? Tough choice. Two disingenuous dickfor.

[@bobjoe3492]

@@nickokona6849 Otangelo was for sure worse.

[@nickokona6849]

Bob Joe agreed. This guy was just normal bad, like the callers from back in the mid 2000s that wanted to know why we ate babies. Otangelo. Almost makes that guy from NJ (Rick, I think) look like he graduated high school.

[@outogetyougotyou5250]

I predict there will be an earthquake. Now that it is written in text, when it happens you must all consider me a prophet.

[@BernardoSLino]

All my life I hardly noticed the presence of religion, I always saw it as more of a cultural thing than actual facts to live by, so I really don't understand how these people can take religion seriously and as seriously as I see it on these types of shows. It's good to see you guys do the best you can to improve the rationality of the human society as a whole. Cheers from Portugal!

[@MrWeedWacky]

doesn't Portugal have giant cathedrals, I take it you don't understand how they could be bothered building such a serious gigantic monument. Crazy shit makes people do crazy shit.

[@BernardoSLino]

@@MrWeedWacky there is indeed a big Christian culture in Portugal but I live on the capital and here it's more cultural than anything. You notice more religiosity either from older people or from more secluded places like small towns and villages. I wouldn't say it's a matter of crazyness but more of knowledge, education and upbringing.

[@MrWeedWacky]

@@BernardoSLino the more you watch this channel and Atheist Experience, you start seeing christians as crazy. I have seen people bend over backwards to defend slavery, even black African Americans most likely descended from slaves. I have seen people go batshit aggressive when confronted with the systemic pedophelia, claiming children are to blame themselves. Heck here is an example of a French Catholic Priest - claiming children are to blame for pedohile priests... www.newsweek.com/french-priest-says-catholic-churchs-child-abuse-victims-were-seeking-1367496 What I mean about crazy - is that people force themselves to ignore the real horrors they enable by loosely proclaiming their support towards a religion. in Denmark when you are born you are automatically registerred as a Christian, automatically pay taxes to the church unless you manually choose to leave, so many people in Denmark, don't even believe in god at all, yet still pay taxes to a church that spends that money on covering up child abuse.

[@BernardoSLino]

@@MrWeedWacky I do get what you're saying and am indeed inclined to agree with you. We will just have to carry on with our lives and try to make this world a better place, hopefully with religion becoming nothing more than a cultural influence if anything.

[@BernardoSLino]

@@MrWeedWacky Btw, I literally just apllied for a job in Denmark a couple of days ago lol so I now I know something I have to do regarding my taxes if I end up living there. Thank you for that MrWeedWacky

[@ScottJoC]

Discrediting other religions or evolution does not make any difference to the truth proposition of Christianity. That was half of his argument right there.

[@martingrundy5475]

Just HOW the fuck does any of that make a god more unlikely? Which god? What IS a god, and how do you know? It no more makes a deity any less OR more likely. It has zero bearing on the question of a deity actually existing. That is obviously, patently, clearly a load of old bollocks.Have you only just started watching these and thinking, or have you not been listening at all LordKell?

[@toricalhoun2939]

Gawd he's insufferable to listen to 😭

[@Chadules]

Tori Calhoun Should’ve asked him why he doesn’t believe in Ra or Horus

[@davydtaylor4151]

Which one? One of the things that Matt dillahunty is good at is moving the conversation forward very quickly without the bullshit. First 10 mins of this conversation is spent talking about what exactly? Talking about how to talk lol!!

[@martingrundy5475]

Yes indeed Jack. Ten minutes at least wasted on waffling bullshit that in effect got nowhere at all. Eric kinda needs to realise he has a lot to learn still. He isn't Dillahunty. He can't just chop them off with something as Matt is able to do. Eric really needs to keep them more on point and not sit there gleefully while they ramble on saying fuck all at some considerable length. Any obvious bullshit, dishonesty or errors should be jumped on and addressed right away.

[@ZarkowsWorld]

@@davydtaylor4151 I agree, but some of those with weaker constitution is complaining on Reddit how Matt's style is too harsh, as if idiots needs to be coddled. But then again, most of those that complain are blue-haired morons.

[@joevelosa7056]

so is the host who compared to Dillahunty is a mouse..

[@momszycat4148]

Dave,go get a real education,and learn to listen. And he was being condescending, but that's my experience with "christians". He also loves the sound of his own voice.

[@richiejohnson]

He thinks his voice is the voice of god.

[@joulian]

@@richiejohnson More like he thinks the voice of god sounds like him.... or Morgan Freeman

[@lopakaholmberg]

I dont always need Matt, but sometimes we could use a bit of his stop the bs

[@RobynReanimates]

I like how Matt immediately goes for the throat

[@jimperry4108]

This vid would have been 5 minutes long. lol

[@The_ginjer_ninja]

@@jimperry4108 maybe 3

[@Heathen.Deity.]

19:57 - “I’m not going from a scrip. I have no paperwork in front of me” 21:34 - *clear sounds of rustling papers when asked to get to the point*

[@jonwood6101]

Did he ask if bones came with instructions? So how would you know their transitional? Dishonest and arrogant

[@TheNomad94]

*they're

[@jonwood6101]

@@TheNomad94 don'te understand if there was a point

[@stickiedmin6508]

@@jonwood6101 It was a gentle spelling correction.

[@jonwood6101]

@@stickiedmin6508 yes , you're correct i missed it, thank you.

[@iwaswithyourmom9410]

@@TheNomad94 Fuck off, asshole

[@cmack17]

Warning: Do not hire Dave to defend you in court.

[@miconis123]

Under the conditions Dave agreed to, he shouldn't be allowed to be a witness either. Has he met his deity? No Has he directly interacted with his deity? No It's hearsay, throw it out of court

[@xmillion1704]

The more arrogant they are the more spectacularly they fail.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

What is remarkable is the PhD's that believe in the invisible man. Education, knowledge and critical thinking does not guarantee immunity to the religion virus.

[@KrustyKlown]

"A Jew, a Muslim and Christian walked into a Court Room ...." ... yup this is going to be bad.

[@david2869]

Sounds like a joke. Yep it was a joke!

[@JamesRichardWiley]

"A Jew, a Muslim, a Christian and an Atheist walked into a Court Room ...." ... yup this is going to be really bad.

[@leyrua]

@@JamesRichardWiley A Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian walked into a bar. The atheist ducked. His eyes were open. 🤕🤕🤕 🙄

[@death299]

@@JamesRichardWiley it's "bad" because they're all the same god, trying to disprove that you should worship the Jewish or Muslim god in favor of the christian god makes no damn sense even if they were to disprove the Muslim or Jewish god, all it'd do for Christianity is kill the religion as it makes Jesus out to be a liar

[@joulian]

@@death299 Yeah I was wondering... isn't half of the jewish scriptures also the story of the muslims?

[@elsiegel84]

All species are either transitional or terminal. The conversation is thus rendered stupid.

[@charlidog2]

Ah, nice. I often have said every fossil, as is every living thing, is transitional. Your statement adds several degrees of accuracy with "or terminal". I thank you for helping me make my model of reality more accurate, dependable, and trustworthy.

[@Dragonblaster1]

The trouble with anti-evolutionists is that they seem to think that a) something "turns into" something else and b) evolution has an end goal in sight. I often ask these mentally-challenged individuals if their parents turned into them. After a few false starts, they usually skip over this and change tack. Show them a transitional fossil C between species A and species B, they then demand that you show them the transitional fossils between A and C and C and D. You can never win.

[@lapse4368]

What does terminal fossil mean? I looked up and i found 'terminal taxa', but its in too sciency language, along with clades and the evolutionary tree

[@michaeltopham5842]

Lapse that would be the fossilized remains of a species that has gone extinct. There will be no more descendants from that species. That evolutionary experiment is terminated.

[@dx1450]

Exactly. My son doesn't look exactly like my dad. If there were no transitional life forms, then everyone would look exactly the same and would all have the same DNA.

[@lewisner]

Dave is a shining example of the American education system.

[@BaronVonSTFU]

I think Jenna's question was a great one"do you want to know what we think about anything?" His answer should have been no. So many people act like they want a conversation when they really just want to brow beat someone

[@sarahchristine2345]

Right, or bully them into compliance. The evangelical Christian motto might as well be “believe as I do or else…” cuz that’s literally how they treat everyone, even other Christian denominations.

[@TheKosmikid]

Dave, do more research. Prophecy is not a valid argument.

[@dx1450]

Especially when most of those "prophecies" come true later in the same book. That's not prophecy, that's called foreshadowing.

[@yhenry77]

*Not valid argument?* How would you know? If you have READ book of Revelation, then you would know the Bible gives very specific events that will come. I'm NOT talking about earthquakes, famine, etc. but the end times begin with 1) The temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem (third one). 2) Animal sacrifices will restart again in the Temple 3) A world leader will STOP animal sacrifices and declare himself the messiah (abomination of desolation) . 4) Two prophets from Jerusalem will start world wide tribulations.

[@MyJam]

@@yhenry77 Cool. Let's see what happens.

[@WukongTheMonkeyKing]

@@yhenry77 What about the failed prophesies in the bible? The ones that gave a time scale and never occurred?

[@TheAngryOnion]

@@yhenry77 the problem I have with this is someone can see this and have a script on what to do to "fulfill the prophecy" If the prophecy gave specific dates/times/names ECT...... That may be better, but it still opens up to someone just reading it and saying, my name is that, let's do what the book says.

[@Reno_Slim]

He didn't become a jackass, he's been one his entire life

[@dx1450]

So in other words, he was born that way, he didn't have to work at it.

[@lewisner]

His bones are transitional human/jackass. If someone digs him up in the future they will get a Nobel Prize.

[@TheSnoeedog]

"Here comes the mechanic, Oh God! How much? 400 bucks you piece of slime you smell and you suck! *Your father was a jackal,* *you mom's his sister bitch* I got a car full of pain!" -- The ARROGANT WORMS, "Car Full of Pain"

[@fullTimeVeganinOhio]

No paperwork In front of him.... Paper shuffling....

[@jacksonchambers5034]

21:30

[@ericscaillet2232]

@@ardiberen as a audiophile, the probability of static at that specific moment when he has to respond is highly improbable, besides that it sounded more like a papers rustle than static through a shitty phone and or reception.😒, nevertheless only he knows what deception he was up to ,or not.

[@dx1450]

@@ardiberen That was not static, that was papers rustling. He stopped talking for a moment because he had to turn the page to continue his argument.

[@MidlifeCrisis82]

Yup. Testimonial evidence gave us electricity, flight, television and cellphones.

[@MidlifeCrisis82]

Only if the leprechaun agrees that the scientific method is the best method.

[@davidgray6959]

@Yeah i Said it please please tell us more!

[@michaelvout7813]

Respect Eric and Jenna. You calmed things down and managed to get a conversation

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Jenna's opening question was PERFECT!!!! "Do you want to know what we think about anything?"

[@filmtape5247]

dear dave, you will eventually drink water in the future, and consume food for nutrients. you also had a mother and father. now that i've told you this, worship me mere mortal, for i have prophesied truly which is evidence that i am GOD!

[@Swash74]

When Dave asked if they agreed that a Bible exists in the world, I wish they would have asked him, "Which one?" Then when he mentioned that his Bible has 66 books, they could explain that other versions such as the Catholic Bible, and Ethiopian Orthodox Bibles have more than 66. The next step would be to figure out which one is the correct version....

[@werriboy55]

" I'm not reading from script" - sounds of papers rustling. LMFAO

[@uscg1381]

That caller is a “grown man”! A grown adult man. That’s depressing.

[@RonDaSantis]

Eric Murphy has an incredible amount of patience.

[@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025]

He has an incredible amount of annoyingness. That’s not fair. I appreciate that he does this but damn… irritating. He just rubs me the wrong way.

[@FackeYu]

ahhh, that is so perfect. him insisting that he is 100% totally not reading a script because he definitely doesn't have any paper in front of him (which is a strangely specific thing to say), then comes the LOUD paper rustling at 21:34 and the laughter from the background. Pure comedy gold, i love it!

[@putzthewondersloth]

My favorite prophecy is Ezekiel's for the destruction of Tyre, where it will be completely torn down by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and never rebuilt. It remained unconquered until Alexander the Great and it's still there.

[@natsdad300]

A quarter of the bible is prophecy, but funnily enough there is no evidence for any of this, Dillihunty would have crucified him, if you excuse the pun lol

[@dx1450]

A quarter of the bible was written as prophecy, and the rest of the bible was written to make it look like many of those prophecies came true.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

And Prophecy conveniently leaves out names and dates. So what good is it.

[@EustaBAracer]

A book written 50 years after the events said those events would happen. Obviously proof of the divine.

[@susanthern]

This was painful 🤦‍♀️

[@barryboyles9219]

All that to get prophecy? Seriously? Come on man

[@donbacker9883]

Right? What a jerkoff.

[@charlidog2]

We have no idea where he was ultimately headed because they hung up. Too many interruptions on this one.

[@AlexWh1]

@@charlidog2 They can't just let him talk and talk without interrupting him cause he kept saying irrelevant BS ... His arrogant attitude didn't help either.

[@ericscaillet2232]

Yep...all this for the prophecy clause,grrr.😒

[@jrouche7009]

@@charlidog2 We know where he was headed--he said so. Prophesy. We have heard these arguments many times before and these arguments have always been destroyed. No reason to continue with such an arrogant fool. Eric was correct---end the conversation.

[@colecraddock1187]

Eric, i think you handled him very well throughout the entire video. You were respectful and honest, leaving no room for quick quips or arrogance to rise up to poison the conversation. Vitriol is enjoyable but honest discussion is really important

[@saveusmilkboy]

"Do you want to know what we think about anything?" Oh, Jenna, I love you. That was just brilliant.

[@dannysouheaver1931]

Couldn’t get through 3 minutes. The lack of education in this guy is astounding.

[@stylis666]

I think it was a great call. Eric pointed out we have abstract concepts and that made me wonder about a lot of theistic arguments that say things like we can't have knowledge without god or there is no love without god and we can't have math without god. They're basically saying: we have material and abstract tools and I'm too stupid to understand they're a logical result of a mind trying to understand and use the world around it to survive and improve, therefore brainfart.

[@clineezwood7942]

Isn't that why we watch. Hysterical!

[@hthought]

I REALLY needed Matt on that call.

[@lapse4368]

"If im too arrogant and condescending.." literally proceeds to insult them again on how they collect information

[@badatheist9948]

This man discounts every others religious claims and every other religious scripture. But somehow his chosen old books are correct. He also does not understand was evidence is.

[@ChristianIce]

Between two bones there's usually a cigarette.

[@harshbarj]

It's kinda hard to call something prophecy when it's written after the fact, or when people are working to fulfill things in the book.

[@DangerIsMyMiddleName]

"There are no transitional forms." (Caller ignores the penguin in the middle of the room.)

[@joshkresnik6402]

I absolutely love the point you made about sending someone information to check out without first checking it out themselves. Tons of people recommended the Bible and I read it cover to cover, that’s how I became atheist, yet most of them barely touched a single page

[@whitegoose2017]

Dave is doing the Chewbacca Defense... So hilarious.

[@Lucas20520]

"Did these bones come with a manual?" LMFAO 😆😂😆😂 holy shit that's hilarious

[@seanjones2456]

Dave is a "BONEHEAD!"

[@davidhughes7174]

Ha! Very loudly.

[@michaelmcdowell7096]

So much buildup and he brings up prophecy

[@stylis666]

lol It's the only evidence they have for the bible being true. It's shit evidence and it proves that the bible is unreliable at best and just a book filled with awful inhumane horseshit at worst. I think it's kind of cute that all the evidence that theists provide debunks their position. It's sad that they're not 9 years old anymore though. At that age I can understand they'd use such arguments and expect to be taken seriously.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

I wonder if Dave knows that 15 major Christian denominations do not accept the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

[@lebojay]

My book says that X would happen, and it also says that X happened. There you go! 🙄

[@barkYdarkATFB]

lol “that’s very dismissive, Dave” He’s so polite with this condescending ass.

[@healthfadsfade]

The insane (clinically insane) assumptive nature when a religious person says “if you research you’ll find the truth” never ceases to amaze me.

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

Yet another god-believer, accusing _us_ of ignoring evidence.. sigh... ps (edit): On prophecies: One of the most amazing prophecies in the book, is when it says that _"there will be wars"_ . (according to the many believers who count it as such, anyway)

[@mybuisness5561]

There will be wars and, what else does it say.

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

@@mybuisness5561 and famine and decease etc. All stuff that has always been happening, and yet god-believers often count those as amazing _'prophecies'_ too (confirmation bias to the max, mixed with plain silliness)

[@mybuisness5561]

@@BorisNoiseChannel If you don't like it you change it .

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

@@mybuisness5561 If I don't like, I should change _what_ exactly? And what the bleep does me liking whatever or not, got to do with the silliness of counting obvious shit, as _'prophecies'_ by the grossly mistaken? Or do you mean I should (try and) make them realize how silly it is to call _"there will be wars'_ a prophecy, and make a change that way? (cause I don't think you'd mean that I should (try and) change _the bible)_ I'm sorry, but it's (almost?) impossible to reason people out of beliefs they didn't arrive at by reason. (still like to know what me, not liking whatever got to do with anything, though)

[@mybuisness5561]

@@BorisNoiseChannel If you didn't like whats going on in the world and around you change it. Stop gritchn and do something.

[@serpentinious7745]

Dave's 1st argument is like saying hunters can't examine animal tracks because they're just holes in the ground. Are there writings identifying them? No. We learned to identify and interpret fossils just like we learned to identify and interpret tracks.

[@Trespasser249]

all forms are transitional, we have science to test the bones to know. wow this guy is something

[@hegyak]

If he wanted to do court metaphor, I was into it too. Eric called out relevance. Proper move.

[@StannisHarlock]

2:58 Archaeological evidence? Did someone dig up god, and forget to tell me?

[@joulian]

People keep forgetting that archaeologists dug up the remnants of the Troy of the Illyad, a war that was heavy on gods running around blessing heroes and the like. I mean the god of the bible was great and all but he's big on the "buff on the sidelines". Greek gods were very meddlesome and would show up whenever it suited them, and sometimes they would even fight and change the tide of a battle.

[@DanDan-eh7ul]

Yea. They found Osiris giant golden penis. Sounds like proof of gods to me 😉

[@24magiccarrot]

I wonder why I find it harder to believe that a man could die for three days come back to life, could walk on water and turn water into wine than it is for me to accept than an old bone might have been human.

[@jackdaniels9179]

Ohhhh so THATS what Dunning Kruger is!

[@theotakux5959]

"Do you know what separates it?" "What?" Do you know what separates it?"

[@conorpm9009]

It becomes practically guaranteed that an argument is going to be crap when the claimant feels the need for soooo much set-up!

[@snaz27]

Dave - This other religion over here that I don't believe in is full of hearsay and nothing else! Also Dave - Now let me present my hearsay into evidence! Man, that was such a long winded heap of nothing! Can you imagine my shock?

[@HoichiTheEarless]

there are transitional bones, including the ones that form this caller's skull... the future of homo sapiens will evolve with more resilience to physical trauma due to increased skull density from this guy's bloodline

[@casparuskruger4807]

Poor Dave is caught in that "I just can't see how it could be this way, therefore it must be this" mind-trap

[@DynaSuarez9999Wrecks]

lol My favorite parts of this shit were: Dave: "All Mohammad is going to do is shake the Quran at you." Dave two minutes later: "Is the Bible specific enough for you?"

[@trapjaw6818]

Dave understands court as well as he understands reason.

[@halo4176]

You pretty much need a lvl 100 Rick and Morty IQ to understand Dave's super logic...

[@MYount]

Great Job, Fielding that aggressive call. Great video.

[@chrispitchforth621]

I predict that there will be wars and rumours of war. So if that comes true then I'm clearly from the future.

[@TimHass-qe9er]

I absolutely love how he walked himself right into this… lol 😂

[@SoCalledSpaceAge]

Every prophecy in the bible has come true except for 50 of them. :D

[@PuhiPureBloOdYT]

That made me laugh too

[@gainer83]

Cherry picking at their finest

[@TheSnoeedog]

"It won't take me a couple of minutes to debunk the muslims, it'll only take me about 2 minutes" Do I really need to unpack all the ways this statement is ridiculous?

[@JDSLegend]

This clown mocks the hosts for basically lacking intelligence to understand his points one moment, then right after when Eric asks him if he understood his spiderman example he says "I can't read your mind!" is this guy serious???

[@mojobag01]

These two are so likeable.

[@nuoiptertermer4484]

“Okay. Logic is fine. I like logic. Okay.”😂

[@gyrperegrine]

You guys were more than happy to hear his proof? Still waiting. I was excited.

[@Speleomimus]

That was almost as disappointing as the ending to Game of Thrones...all that build -up for the prophecy argument

[@TumbleweedMK4]

Though I agree it'd be fun to watch Matt roast this guy, I love how Eric handles callers like this. He's very patient but can pull out bad-ass mode when he needs to. He got Dave to show some respect for a while... but ugh, yeah...

[@davesteadman1226]

Why is Dave so threatened by people who say there isn't enough evidence to prove there's a god. He seems very threatened by that.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

"An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence". Carl Sagan

[@EpicWinNoob]

"how do we know fire used to be hot in the past, did anyone write down the temperature of fire back then?"

[@Fluffykeith]

All this crap at the start about him wanting to show why he didn't believe Judaism or Islam....is completely irrelevant. We don't need to know why he doesn't believe something else, we just need to know why he believes what he DOES believe. Also all the stuff about the courtroom....and Eric's totally pointless questions....are just another distraction. It was totally painful to have to listen to....and sure, Eric may have been having fun with it, but no one else was. The hosts should have cut through all that nonsense and pinned Dave Down on what he DOES believe and WHY, without any of the extraneous drivel.

[@ant9925]

There is a massive problem with education in the US. Dave here has been let down by those around him.

[@eltzar72]

Gotta love when someone insists you should research what they're about to bring up, and then bring up something which they clearly haven't researched or they would not have brought it up. The condescending arrogance of ignorance

[@woodyuk9717]

"Hi Dave". That was a Hal 9000 moment.

[@jlhita]

Dont you have schools in the states or what? Seriously.

[@schlaufuchs552]

We do, but our school system is a) decentralized and b) largely deemphasizes critical thinking, and, outside basic physical and chemical principles, largely seeks to hand down information from authority to memorize. In that respect it’s understandable to see so many Americans develop into adulthood an epistemological skepticism towards authoritarian knowledge bases. Our schools outside university-level education doesn’t teach us why we know what we know about fossils, how they form, how we can have strong certainty about our dating methodologies, and why they present really strong evidence for evolution, or even cladistic organizational systems and why those present even stronger evidence for evolution. But rather they merely tell us there are bones and evolution is true, memorize these facts. Given that the critical thinking skills people need to think deeply about evidence and epistemology until you get to the university, from which poorer people are precluded, all ordinary people in this country are two authoritarian pronouncements, one which is deeply integrated into morality, history, culture, society, and eschatology, which everyone in your community intrinsically accepts as valid and reinforces in daily conversation and weekly sermon, and one that you only really encounter in the school system, which deeply touches on class divisions, which is atomized and particularised, offers no simple answers, and appears to be in direct conflict with the other epistemological authority. In this respect it’s no surprise why so many in this country have such a deep misunderstanding of evolution and it’s validity.

[@jlhita]

@@schlaufuchs552 WoW, thank you very much for your detailed and clear response.

[@wedding_photography]

Religious morons exist in every country.

[@MrBomasBalloons]

I want to go back to his original question: how do we know a bone or fossil is transitional? There are experts - paleoanthropologist and paleontologists who know the anatomy of both current and extinct species. They understand how bones (and other body parts) fit together to reconstruct creatures from their skeletal or fossil remains. They know what features are unique to different species. And they can identify when species have some things in common with more modern species, and some things in common with more ancient species. That is how they know it is a transitional species! How do they know what is more modern and what is more ancient? They can use radiometric dating and other dating techniques (both absolute and relative dating) to identify the approximate ages of fossils. And thus, they can determine what species are likely ancestors of later species. Additionally, knowing how evolution works, scientists can use their knowledge to determine what a likely transitional species should look like, then search the fossil record to see if anyone has found a fossil that fits the description. For example, scientists could identify what features a transitional fossil between reptiles and mammals should have, then look to see that we have, in fact, found fossil of species that fit that expected transitional form. The same can be done for identifying the likely common ancestor of two modern species in the fossil record. Of course, without DNA testing there is no way to know if you have identified the actual transitional species or just a close relative of the transitional species. It is possible that every hominid species we have unearthed is not a direct ancestor of humans, but a cousin of our actual ancestor. And there are lots of examples where bones/fossils have been misidentified or put together incorrectly. So, it is not perfect, and no scientist would claim to know with absolute certainty.

[@mario6826]

You need to be more intelligent to talk with Dave

[@nelsonvecchione2621]

When Dave was a child he fell off his bike and bumped his head, and now we have this Dave.

[@Kairi091]

Dave is gonna vote. Are you??

[@klvnvaldez]

Bring it Dave bring it

[@timothyirwin8974]

So Dave is both the lawyer and the witness at the same time? Is that how your American court system operates? Looking forward to the "cross" examination.

[@jeffposey386]

Dave, if you ever see this, holler at me. I’d like to hear more about your legal case.

[@suburban-vampire]

22:57 "Please, before continuing with the presentation, pause the recording and take your Stupid Pill at the tone" [ DING! ]

[@patar3323]

The sad thing is he saw that hangup as a win

[@jeffczermanski2993]

I thought I was going to hear about 'transitional bones' and all we got was Dave's courtroom for crazy people.

[@hero6677]

There is no end to evolution, every bone is transitional

[@DraLaRoc]

Lol....Thanks Dave! Another one bites the dust......Next :)

[@willowleaves5806]

YIKES... If you'd like to have a conversation, you need to be kind... It makes sense to attack ideas, but NOT people....

[@floraposteschild4184]

What really gets me going is when callers come with demands to explain the biggest of big fields of study --:explain everything to me about physics, paleontology, biology, astronomy, etc., and in a couple minutes flat. I dunno, go to school for a few years. If you can't do that, go to the websites they keep suggesting you look at and actually read them. Follow the links. But no, they want to be told exactly once to think in the simplest possible terms. Not unlike what they get at a place they may attend once a week.

[@theosamma3a60]

I see a pattern emerging here. So many of these callers are more focused on trying to make an argument rather than discussing the argument itself. They set off being so convinced that their argument as a whole is already valid instead of exploring the veracity and validity of the premises.

[@az8theist977]

He called atheists "infantile". Coming from a grown man who thinks snakes talk and human evolution is about monkeys. Yeah, right. ..

[@andrewhandelsman834]

Guarantee Dave's the parent that disowns his kids for not believing what he believes