Less Ham, More Lies: The Future of AiG. - (Ken) Ham & AiG News

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[@ddrse]

They are giving up young Earth creationism because as you guessed it the answer is in genesis. As it turns out God invented Evolution when he evolved dirt into a man. The science confirms we're made of dirt. Now they're just trying to figure out what kind of magic he used to do it

[@kevinmessiah872]

It seems to me that this news collection app is as politically biased as anything else today. You cant trust it.

[@Amazing_Mark]

Unfortunately it's only valid for the United States 🇺🇲.

[@ddrse]

My comment is invisible for some reason

[@kevinmessiah872]

@@ddrse yeh youtube is a terrible platform .... and it keeps getting worse

[@0x777]

AiG always reminds me of the old saying, "There is always an easy, simple, direct and wrong answer to every question".

[@SilverMKI]

"There is the right way, the wrong way, and the AiG way, sometimes called "super-wrong"" 😂

[@adamfleder2175]

GK Chesterton

[@MsLemon42]

This reminds me of one of my first years teaching high school. Even with the book, my PowerPoint slides, their notes, and access to the internet to freely look up anything, a student opted to write the following definition for government: “something that governs”

[@leebowitz1987]

It’s so depressing to me knowing the majority of my family agrees with and supports AIG.

[@jimmyh6601]

It's great that you don't though. Family meet ups must be very stressful 😮

[@CrashingThunder]

Same boat here, essentially. I don't know where they all stand on the spectrum of religious idiocy, but I'm definitely the black sheep of my family. It's hard for me to understand how an adult can continue to believe these things because that's when I started questioning and it all came apart.

[@CeezGeez]

sorry. keep your head up

[@aubreyleonae4108]

I feel ya, I really do, and they look at me like I just ate a raw baby if I disagree.

[@HealingWarrior-ic6os]

Same for me. I really don’t get it but there’s no changing their mind because “for the bible tells me so”

[@TempestuousInquiry]

People like you are how I was able to pull myself out of YEC and actually learn more about evolution and science than I ever had. Thank you, you're doing good work ♥

[@yerocb]

Paulogia was the reason I signed up for Patreon, and this is the reason why. I didn't grow up in that world, but Paulogia seems to reach a lot of people who did.

[@legendaryfrog4880]

So a snake oil salesmen hires a lawyer who made a career arguing in favor of snake oil. The only thing that will change is the dimensions of the door frames. I heard Martin is tall.

[@MrAndyStenz]

Martin is tall? That’s news to me.

[@mikehill1114]

@@MrAndyStenz You are being fed a pack of lies from people with athiest world-view glasses on, and not biblical glasses. This is just people who are determined to throw down god and prove evolution by saying one person is better than another. If you see at 2:00 Martin appears taller, but if you look at the ark it is slanted down and to the left in the video frame. So it's actually a trick of the camera. Their heads are both about even with the top of the ark. And most of what's above it is just Martin's hair, not really him.

[@cliveadams7629]

Sounds like this is a strategic move towards further infiltration of US politics at a high level. Expect to see this guy running for office sometime soon. I guess $16M will be a good start to a campaign fund. From a religious charity. Hmmm.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

@@MrAndyStenz yes, he has height. but not weight.

[@HowToTrainYourDuncan]

@@HarryNicNicholas …what about girth?

[@victorhiggins2118]

Mike Johnson is an embarrassment to the Age of Reason

[@mareowainaina9168]

Absolutely

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

Best point is at the end, You would never arrive at the creationist conclusion unless you were already steeped in it from birth and accepted it without question.

[@zephaniahgreenwell8151]

Surprised that AiG doesn't argue that you can count the ribs to determine human skeleton sex. 😅

[@SadisticSenpai61]

There's a surprising number of Christians that believe males have one less rib than females. I don't remember if I was specifically taught that at the YEC private school my parents sent me to for elementary school, but it was something I believed until I was at least in middle school when I saw a drawing of a male and female skeleton next to each other. Then something clicked in my head and I was like "Oh yeah, why would Adam have passed on having one less rib to his sons. That doesn't make any sense." Mind, I remained YEC until I was 25. It didn't have any impact on my religious beliefs at all (and ironically, YEC survived me rejecting Christianity - the indoctrination was that strong). My partner was actually taught by his teachers at the YEC private school his parents sent him to and when he told his dad that after getting home? His dad was like, "That's stupid. Men and women have the same number of ribs." And after that school year, he and his brother were transferred to public school. We suspect that might have been the last straw for his dad. But his dad was never really all that religious - that was always his mom's thing.

[@SilverMKI]

I think the argument "were you there?!?!?" springs to mind when using that kind of dangerous and unscientific historical science rather than observational science 😉

[@BobbyHill26]

@@SadisticSenpai61I don’t remember where I had heard it, but that was definitely something I had heard as a kid and believed. I did ask my parents later and I think their response was something to the effect of “I don’t know, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true.” I don’t remember if it was something I was ever corrected on or if I just didn’t think about it long enough that I forgot lol, but I eventually stopped believing it that while still vaguely believing in YEC. I don’t know if I would say I really believed in YEC past the age of 12 or so, but I didn’t reject it either. I just kinda stopped thinking about religion until my mid-20s because I was too scared to confront the fact I knew deep down it was made up

[@HowToTrainYourDuncan]

My YEC roommate in college (who was getting a masters in math and was not, for most intents and purposes, a stupid person) talked once or twice about how amazing it is that men and women have different numbers of ribs, so that the Bible can be shown to be true. I’m not sure what’s more favorite. The sheer bloody-minded ignorance or the Lamarck-level misunderstanding of how traits are passed on.

[@frogsinpants]

I heard this as a young kid and believed it, not because I thought the story was true, but because I had an understanding that myths are often just-so stories created to explain things that people do not understand. If men have one less rib than women, that makes sense of the story. I didn't realize I had created my own just-so story to explain the existence of that part of Genesis.

[@Conumbra]

"Don't you dare bring it into the public sphere!" Sounds great, can't wait for that!

[@Skeptic236]

As an Australian I haven't heard of him. He might do public talks (I guess in Queensland) amongst the flock but have never seen him on the public broadcaster, or being called upon to comment on public issues on MSM. I guess he is a legend in his own lifetime, and nowhere else. As for the ACL, the average Australian voter would consider them religious nutters.

[@natalietipsword9677]

What always pisses me off the most when groups like this talk about children “picking” their sexuality and gender is that there is no way they don’t know how incorrectly they’re presenting it. Children declaring they’re a different gender than they were assigned doesn’t mean that a 5 year old is going to receive gender affirming surgery. They have been told plenty of times that gender affirming care for these kids is new pronouns, maybe a new name, and the opportunity to get new clothes or a haircut. When they’re backed into a corner they’ll still find a way to claim this is also child abuse. I guess my parents letting me take naps in sunspots, wear cat ears, and go by “Flowery” for several months was also child abuse.

[@Nixeu42]

I mean...I wouldn't let my kids nap in sunspots unless they could withstand the intense heat of the sun, myself. ...I'll see myself out.

[@josephweaver9873]

It is child abuse when you start hormone replacement and chopping off healthy body parts. And don't tell me it doesn't happen, I have citations for you if you're interested. Jasmine on that television show that got a ruined Penigina by two terrible surgeons and their terrible parents.

[@lainiwakura1776]

Except studies have been and done and most kids grow out of it after puberty. Plus, it's all based in gender stereotypes, we got past this in the 90s when it was okay for boys to play with dolls and like pink, but they're still boys, and girls can play with cars and like blue, but they're still girls. Most people are going to be straight and non-trans because how else did the human species propagate? Trans people are a tiny minority, less than 1% of the population, and are mostly male.

[@mythicalducky]

​​@@josephweaver9873lets see the citations because as far as verifiable from here is your dishonesty you can't act like a few horrible cases is the entire body of care you are misrepresenting the situation at best

[@RCGamex]

@@josephweaver9873it undeniable that some people are injured by all forms of healthcare, therefore given your logic all healthcare should be stopped.

[@jfh667]

The problem isnt that they believe in something I dont. Its that they refuse evidences if they dont go along their world views. And then they go and try to push it on everyone else.

[@terrencelockett4072]

Yea, the persecution complex they have built into their beliefs makes them think people "hate" them just because they hold a certain belief, and not because of their actual actions and character.

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

Last segment gives away the game: Evidence would never lead you to young earth creationism Unless you were indoctrinated to believe in it from a young age.

[@Vishanti]

"This is terrible, I should not be laughing." Incredible to see AIG taking such a serious topic as medically-assisted death seriously.

[@imightbewrong_]

Was the most human part of the whole show.

[@Vishanti]

@wowthat9418 they're already offended at bodily autonomy, I mean they're anti-choice when it comes to abortion. So it makes sense they'd be against this too. Giggling at such a serious topic was a bad look, even if it was nervous/uncomfortable laughter.

[@MrGrumblier]

If they were to support MAID, they would be saying it is not a sin to self delete and then they would have to come up with some way of conning believers to hold off on eternal bliss praising god in heaven.

[@DigitalHayds]

It was the “as a scientist, like…they just think we’re like wrong and stuff??” For me lol

[@rightsarentpolitical]

What was the oddest part to me about her cracking up over that is that normally when I see her in these even if she's not the one talking she is completely blank-faced. To have her be the one laughing her ass off over medically assisted suicide was really disarming.

[@mauryhan]

To me, Georgia Purdom is not a scientist. She may have a science degree, but the moment she signed the AIG statement of faith that says, "No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field of study, including science, history, and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the clear teaching of Scripture obtained by historical-grammatical interpretation", she stopped being a scientist and became an apologist for no scientific thinking.

[@MsLemon42]

PHIL HARTMAN AS *UNFROZEN CAVEMAN LAWYER* has got to be one of the best references to throw in! Getting ready and heard this classic voice in my ear, thank you, Paulogia!!!

[@PoliticsInCars]

The condescending way he described dinosaurs as being "small when young" just has me laughing on the floor....🇨🇦

[@mikehill1114]

Martin was also small when young. But now he's tall. Or so people keep telling him.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

@@mikehill1114 apparently it's to do with inches.

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@HarryNicNicholas There's a rumor that men are bad at estimating inches. No idea where that rumor came from ... 🙈

[@mikehill1114]

@@HarryNicNicholas I don't know inches. I use centimeters. Why would I want a system divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 when I have a perfectly terrible system divisible by only 2 and 5?

[@SilverMKI]

​@@mikehill1114because we invented decimals quite some time ago.

[@shassett79]

OMG _Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer_ was one of Hartman's best recurring characters! ❤

[@yerocb]

I was so happy to see that. The phrase "I'm just a caveman, your world frightens and confuses me" is used in my family on a regular basis. I still miss Phil Hartman.

[@surfacetension]

By the time I was 4, I knew I liked girls. (I assume this is similar for cis and non-cis folks alike.) By the time I was 7 I had been looking at playboys (my friend's dad had them) and was playing "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" with a girl in the neighborhood. I wasn't groomed or exposed to anything that steered me in that direction. It was just fun and felt good.

[@fepeerreview3150]

This is true of many children. It's also apparent in the behavior of juveniles in other ape species. What the adults do about it is a different and important question.

[@ScottDCS]

Social media has made self-discovery a complicated procedure.

[@fisharepeopletoo9653]

Man I was about to say you definitely got started before me (and your activities totally did lmao) but then I remembered I had a girlfriend in kindergarten lmao. Haven't thought about that in so long I'd totally forgotten about her, I wonder where ol Courtney is now 😂

[@macgonzo]

Martin is tall, therefore he tells tall tales.

[@settheory2219]

Was he whaling on the moon?

[@jasonsabbath6996]

When she calls herself a scientist, while simultaneously not applying ANYTHING she learned to YEC or any part of the bible is absolutely infuriating! She got an education and then promptly disregards everything to fully support her ridiculous religion! 🤦‍♂️🤬

[@davidgardner863]

You can say the same for all creation scientists.

[@ARoll925]

Exactly right, I made a similar point above as I hadn't seen this comment yet, but you are so right, she is not a scientist she is an apologist attempting to use her scientific credentials to lend YEC credibility, it's disgusting and gross and she should be ashamed, I can't stand that woman

[@stevenleonard7219]

I have commented the same on many occasions, either with Paul’s videos or Viced Rhino to name just two creators. “Dr.” Purdom is either lying now as a YEC or was lying when she wrote her dissertation and thesis for her doctorate.

[@leothenomad5675]

@@stevenleonard7219She was lying when she wrote her dissertation, it's been some years ago but on an early episode of their show she admitted to "just saying what they wanted to hear" in order to get her PhD.

[@leothenomad5675]

It's worse than that, she didn't disregard her education after the fact she went into it with the intention of ignoring what she was being taught, it's been some years ago but on an early episode of their show she admitted to "just saying what they wanted to hear" in order to get her PhD.

[@neil2796]

I was remembering last night that I discovered I'm straight around age 10. I didn't know there was a word for it, but I knew I was attracted to girls, not boys. It wasn't a decision, it was a discovery.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

i had a boyfriend for a while pre-teens, and although i have found men attractive i've not followed up cos it's just easier to like women, but i don't care what how other people pass the time, in fact if you wiki "homosexuality in animals" unless a creature is hermaphrodite or asexual, ALL "god's creatures" show homosexual behaviour, it's the norm in fact.

[@whatabouttheearth]

You should start a coming out advocacy organization that studies the socio political aspects of it and call it...😏 Discovery Institute I'll start a Genesis cover band called 'Answers in Genesis' 😂

[@idunno3302]

Yeah but now it's being thrust is their face. God or no God keep sex talk away from kids! It's fucked up beyond words. Disney behind the scenes level shit.

[@jenna2431]

Watching a woman talk about how people vote but who wants to hijack the country back to when women weren't ALLOWED to vote is just priceless.

[@ecpracticesquad4674]

Been watching this series since episode 1. That opening still gets me singing along. Lol

[@Argeaux2]

What does it say? Flip it flop it? I’ve never been sure.

[@yerocb]

I would be sad if he stopped using it because Ham stopped showing up.

[@dannycomellas]

​@@Argeaux2I wish I knew what it said

[@Kvothe3]

​ I always thought it was Flip em, Flop em (em short for them) Or maybe Flip it, flop em?

[@LessThanLucid]

"ham and eggs, ham and eggs; flippa floppa flippa floppa, ham and eggs!"

[@Zahaqiel]

Creationists need to pretend pretty hard that they are the Christian mainstream because otherwise they might have to face that they aren't being persecuted, they're just choosing to be at odds with the endeavour of understanding reality.

[@greatcaesarsghostwriter3018]

6:30 There were no dinosaurs on the Ark because the Nephilim ate all of them.

[@billguthrie2218]

Thank you for continuing to add great content to you Paulogia channel. I enjoy Live as well, but the original is my favorite.

[@Florkl]

My family is still pretty fundamentalist, but I’m so glad I’ve at least convinced my sister to not touch AiG. Attacking Phil Vischer really didn’t do them any favors.

[@d.o.m.494]

They both left Australia because nobody wants to listen to them and give them money.

[@FernLovebond]

One wonders how people who may have issues of end-of-life decisions in their family might feel about this behavior from the hosts around the assisted suicide story. A dear friend of mine works daily with hospice care patients. She watches them slowly decline and die, regularly, providing what comfort and compassion she is able, in accordance with the wishes of the patient and their family. We have spoken of her work, and how she strives to offer her patients the care and dignity she can. I know someone struggling with the ethical and moral questions around suffering and death, or discussing this with a loved-one, affect a choice in self-terminating procedures, and it is a deeply intimate and meaningful matter, deserving of respect and comportment. The laughing fit here is unprofessional, and lacks the kind of decent human consideration that would indicate the hosts respect those in their audience who might identify with the issue they giggle about.

[@Griexxt]

Let's hope at least some of the audience were put off by their performance.

[@HowToTrainYourDuncan]

That’s how I got out of intelligent design, far-right politics, and Christianity in general: I left my bubble and met, like, two people actively dealing with issues that I’d only encountered as straw men before. An absolute bare minimum of empathy and critical thinking did the rest.

[@allanmason3201]

I suppose it's possible to find humour in even end-of-life decisions, but I failed to see what these panellists found so hilarious. What makes it even weirder is that the editing team chose to leave this segment in, when it really wasn't much of a story to begin with. Still, it's always nice when someone who is an ignorant bigot is utterly lacking in self-awareness, since this allows others to glimpse their true character.

[@greatcaesarsghostwriter3018]

7:00 "They don't stamp animals 'Property of the Zoo'; you can't stamp a huge lion!" "They stamp them when they're small." M. Python

[@nathanpose8607]

Anyway what happens when it molts?

[@petercoo9177]

Mrs. P: "Lions don't molt!" Mrs. C. "No, but penguins do! There, I've run rings around you, logically!" Mrs. P: "Oh, intercourse the bleedin' penguins!"

[@whatabouttheearth]

I'd like to know how Noah and sons took baby Tyrannosaurs from their mamas without getting killed in order to put them on the Ark

[@toblexson5020]

"putting the responsible on a child, that is ten years old, to choose … what they want … that is abusive." Come on AiG, really? Yes, I've cut out some stuff, but at least in how I'm hearing it, those ellipses don't change the sentence that they just uttered. AiG thinks that making a child think and make decisions is abusive, because they believe that a child deserves no autonomy and need to be told exactly what to think at every moment of their upbringing. I don't think I'm being ungenerous here, the general behaviour of YECs is them treating their flock - the adults - like creatures that are incapable of being correct unless they're told what to think. Edit: Oh, she straight up says that children can't think.

[@imightbewrong_]

The unintentional and misplaced laughing during the euthanasia story was the most human part of their whole show. Not sure their God would be impressed, but I found it pretty funny.

[@imightbewrong_]

23:51

[@adamfleder2175]

Fair point that I make as often as I can: If it is wrong to introduce children to LGBQ+ ideas then it is equally wrong to evangelize.

[@setojurai]

Remember, every time an Evangelist YEC remarks on something, they're telling way more about themselves then they do about the subject they're lying about.

[@believethehype1045]

Incredible stuff here. The way you break down line by line the bias and the agenda these people push. Also their zero self awareness of accusing the other side of persecution for things that they themselves are doing with children is amazing.

[@Locust13]

Like ancient politicians who are no longer functioning well, it's like Ken has a handler constantly shuffling him off the camera because when he opens his mouth they have to do 3 months of damage control.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

i think it's worth reminding everyone that ken's boat suffered from flood damage when it was just a few weeks old.

[@fisharepeopletoo9653]

So he's basically Biden... Or Trump. Both had that issue just in different ways lmao

[@Forest_Fifer]

​@@fisharepeopletoo9653more like McConnell

[@thespiritofhegel3487]

Rather ironic that adherents to a bizarre ideology feel threatened by another bizarre ideology.

[@mountkeen8701]

Iles tries to make a jokey introduction and says that when people meet him they say, "Oh! You're tall!!"...."Oh! You're tall!!" Ken Ham then immediately demonstrates his inability to grasp humour when his follow up is, "Oh! Nephilim!", like the weird uncle that sits in the corner at family get-togethers and makes odd, faintly sinister remarks.

[@skyinou]

"Oh! Goliath!" - Not sure it would have flied better. 😁

[@HowToTrainYourDuncan]

I mean, “odd, faintly sinister remarks” was kinda Ken’s whole deal, before AiG picked up the culture war flag and he swapped the rhetoric to “openly sinister.”

[@Dock284]

What I don't understand is why answers in genesis doesn't just go with the easier answer of "The dinosaurs died in the flood" and leave it at that.

[@pRODIGAL_sKEPTIC]

I gotta admit I really like Georgia Purdum's quote "there's no crying in science" - I just wish she believed it

[@jrwtutor]

She probably lifted it from "there's no crying in baseball" from the film A League of Their Own in case you've never seen it.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

And to think, when I came out as an atheist, my cousin suggested watching Answers in Genesis.

[@gozer5264]

I can't have a normal breakfast mentioned without me jumping into singing the jingle, and I love it❤🎉

[@deewesthill1213]

​@rboland2173 I too have noticed that: the musical phrase "for the Bible tells me so" is found in the Galop Infernal (Underworld Gallop) from the 1859 comic opera Orpheus aux Enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) by Jacques Offenbach. The Galop Infernal is much better known as a can-can dance tune.

[@onepercenter13]

It's hard to believe we live in the 21st century at timers Thanks for the video

[@MrCanis4]

and that it comes from a country where they consider themselves to be "the greatest country" on this planet.

[@01Aigul]

It's still shocking to me how proud they are that their understanding never grows or changes, like this is a problem for science.

[@01Aigul]

Also "someone as young as 10" will generally know if they're attracted to boys or girls, and know whether they themselves are a boy or a girl.

[@jenna2431]

So the ministry has enough cash for two CEOs. No donations must be needed now.

[@mrwallace1059]

I very much appreciate what you do !!, however I find it stressful listening to the people on the AIG panel.

[@ScottDaniels1977]

Australia is definitely not sending their best.

[@diogeneslamp8004]

But some, I’m sure, are good people. 😂

[@tweetdriver]

Strange. As young as five years old (when I started school as a kindergartner) I apparently had some concept. There was a girl in my class I called my girlfriend, and there was another girl in my class that my best friend called his girlfriend. We probably had very little understanding of what girlfriend and boyfriend really meant, but there you have it. Even at five we weren’t too young to have been talked to about these things.

[@MrCanis4]

For the Australians here. You do not have to apologize. It's not your fault. We know that.

[@redapol5678]

Ken could have at least found a replacement who wasn’t another Australian 😒 🤦‍♂️

[@haydenwalton2766]

thank you

[@69eddieD]

@@redapol5678 Ham wants to make sure his replacement is just as annoying as he is.

[@montagdp]

"What fascinates me most about speaker Mike is his biblical devotion to dinosaurs." What?

[@babotond]

NO, SIR! I DIDN'T SEE YOU WERE PLAYING WITH YOUR DINOSAURS!

[@aldebaran4154]

Every time you've shared a Ham and Eggs AiG video I kept getting a feeling of Deja Vu with these hosts behavior. Then watching this one it clicked with me. They behave like Jon Lovitz's SNL Pathological Liar character. Fun and enjoyable with Jon, beyond creepy with AiG.

[@billybobwombat2231]

In Australia we'd call them religo wankers

[@jacklabloom635]

It appears AIGs growth has significantly tapered off under Ham, so they bring in an attorney, to replace Ham, who they hope will distribute the BS slightly better.

[@peterbreis5407]

Ken Ham and Rupert Murdoch are the two great shames of Australia.

[@1970Phoenix]

As an Australian, I'd just like to apologise.

[@tfive24]

Take them back. Please?

[@gabeking1005]

​@tfive24 we all chipped in for a one way ticket and have a no returns policy at the border.

[@amm11235]

I have a family member heavily involved with MAID as a physician, and hearing the impact they have on patients and their families is just so heartwarming. So much reduced suffering, so much increased dignity, and everyone is so thankful to have the opportunity to make the choice for themselves.

[@Laura-Lee]

I'm a Canadian and MAID is Government funded. My Tax dollars killing people. ✝️🇨🇦

[@BobPearson-zr1mi]

It should be noted too that when evolutionary theory evolves, it evolves to a better explanation.

[@ChixieMary]

So Ken is fired. Excellent. Send in the clowns. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@HowToTrainYourDuncan]

They’re already here. They’ve always been here. >.

[@qjsharing2408]

You have to respect that they can raise so much funds, because it's a lot of voluntary donations. People are trying to be good by donating, and so figuring out the conversation to tap that goodness is the challenge

[@goosie8207]

I’m glad another PoS won’t be here to do excessive damage in person but I’m disgusted that we could produce another immoral person like Ham. As an Australian I apologise for such an evil person now causing more problems in the US.

[@jimmyh6601]

I used to think Australia was such a modern, forward looking nation, I didn't think there were people like Ken Sham, though he did have to come to the USA to bilk the gullible.

[@goosie8207]

@@jimmyh6601 I did too, until the latest referendum.

[@Luubelaar]

​@@jimmyh6601 - sadly those people are everywhere, in every nation.

[@markfernkopf5133]

5 year old Henry says , "oh yeah! This is cheering up my day now!"

[@coreyfaller2500]

So glad to see a ham and aig news! Please keepnthem comimg! I especially aporeciate the use of ground news for fact and reference checking!

[@mrsnrub3712]

It's so much more powerful when their own words and reasoning is used to show their biases. The YEC vs OEC you did some time ago was also very good in this way

[@nasonguy]

"Executive Chief Executive Officer" is some "PIN Number" or "ATM Machine" level shenanigans.

[@reeceguisse17]

I got in an X-fight (it's how I relax) over evolution versus Creation. After a few hours and a dozen or so interactions, my interlocutor DELETED THEIR ACCOUNT. I was quite taken aback by the response.

[@allanmason3201]

Xcretion seppuku.

[@Nymaz]

It's funny whenever I hear theists saying it's a bad thing when science changes due to new data. My reaction is usually to ask them if they are wearing tassels on their clothing (Numbers 15:38 and Deuteronomy 22:12) and if not why are they disobeying God's eternal and unchanging law.

[@AndrewofVirginia]

I think most Christians would say that these laws are not eternal or changeless laws. Which of course is precisely why they don't follow them.

[@Nymaz]

@@AndrewofVirginia So since science updating means it's invalid does that mean Christianity updating makes it also invalid?

[@AndrewofVirginia]

@@Nymaz I think that science is always in a state of questioning itself and updating. I actually think it's much more of a problem for religion to "update" because this implies that God would have misdirected people in the past, perhaps even outright deceiving them or changing moral acts into immoral acts. Basically, since religion is normative and is based on an allegedly timeless, changeless Being any evolution of its tenets presents a problem that is not relevant to the field of scientific inquiry. But again, Christians don't normally claim that the Old Testament is set aside as they introduce a "new and improved" version of the religion known as the New Testament. Rather, the idea is that parts of the OT law were specifically designed for a certain enthnically-unified, theocratic covenant community. These laws would be rendered inapplicable but not exactly reversed or abolished.

[@dylanflyyn9693]

I could never understand why people could actually believe in a young earth I was like 8 when I realized my family was stupid

[@thomasdoubting]

Because the creator of everything need a CEO like Casper the Friendly Ghost need roller skates ... 👻

[@samalthus]

Sheesh, could do a whole show on those 7 cornerstones. That one, "we are all sinners, by choice", does that mean AiG doesn't believe in original sin, that we are born with sin and need to be baptised?

[@DoctorZisIN]

Animals were babies? One year later they were kicked out of the ark and expected to survive on their own and eventually re-populate? Baby elephants need their parents 4 to 6 years before they can survive on their own. By then they're huge. Giraffes need at least 2 years. Same goes for many other species. Usually the bigger the animal the longer he needs parents to survive. Did you think about that, AIG?

[@loganvanderwier8866]

Humans are pretty unique in the long infanthood. Lots of animals depend on their parents for a very short time. And you wouldn't get infant animals either. Just young ones.

[@DoctorZisIN]

@@loganvanderwier8866 Their whole point is that they didn't bring fully grown animals in the ark so they could fit. That's a stupid, pointless argument. Whether an animal was big as a cow or small as a duck wouldn't matter. Considering the biodiversity needed, they would've had to build, not one ark, but hundreds of them.

[@jram_899]

Great stuff! Very needed. This YEC stuff is a bigger problem than most people realize.

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

But the point at the end gives away the game, Evidence would never lead you to young earth creationism, You must already have that indoctrination In order to believe in it.

[@piaproplimus5544]

Good video as always, but there seems to be some possible confusion regarding sex estimation vs. sex determination. Either way, anthropologists would be assuming that the skeleton belonged to one or the other of the sexes. By "estimation" I think it's simply meant that that's all we know (about the actual sex) based on the facts, not that it would have somehow been gender-fluid or inbetween. So using "sex identification" (coming down on one or the other side based on the preponderance of facts, even if not 100% conclusive) doesn't seem like it should be much of an issue.

[@ericbilodeau3897]

It's crazy how focused they are on genesis. They're barely even Christians. Jesus is way down the line for them. It's all about Adam and Noah and the creation. Jesus is almost a side figure to these guys. They should call themselves genesites

[@garethmckee5927]

I just don’t have the words. People in 59 years will look back at these people as we do those who didn’t like the Fonz.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Aren't a Ministry, aka a Church and the concept of having a CEO kinda weird together? They're straight up admitting AIG is a business...

[@SciPunk215]

Thank you, Paul !! Please keep Mike Johnson on your radar. He's bad news.

[@TheBarelyBearableAtheist]

Honestly, you put out some of the best content on the Internet. Thanks!

[@OscarSommerbo]

Paul missed out on pointing out Mike Johnson's clear Seven Mountains Dominionism. That is the really scary part. A Dominionist at the top of government, the pinnacle of mixing "Christianity" with politics.

[@brightargyle8950]

The fact they COULD have edited out the laughing but instead left it in anyway is appalling.

[@Shinodaluva]

Patricia literally flirting her way through the news is incredible

[@cthellis]

Their world frightens and confuses me.

[@terrencelockett4072]

It's crazy how they can't really prove their beliefs without already being indoctrinated by those beliefs as the proof.

[@blairmcian]

I clipped your video for the part about correlation vs. causation, and posted it on Facebook. I noted there, too, that you were generous to call it solely correlation. After all, Fox undoubtedly runs more "stories" about Biblical research and such that go easy on believers' delusions.

[@d.o.m.494]

My favourite, green AiGs and Ham.

[@X1Y0Z0]

Love your voice, animation & presentations! Happy holidays

[@HarryNicNicholas]

lol, apparently ken sees "answers academy" as a _camp_ where kids can _concentrate_ ....

[@EatHoneyBeeHappy]

You know the saying, a true king does not need to keep repeating "I am the king"? Young earth creationists remind me of that every time they incessantly talk about how much they love science.

[@ctwentysevenj6531]

Answers in Genesis should be renamed Answers in Delusion!😊😊

[@budd2nd]

Yes, I have thought that too. I was going to propose Answers for delusion but yours is equally good.

[@MasamiPhoenix]

Creationists: show us a transition between ape and modern man. Aldo creationists: anything that shows any similarities to modern man IS a modern man, so doesn't count. (Was literally going to use the purple analogy, but Paul beat me to it)

[@martinmckee5333]

For some reason, I am particularly fond of the purple analogy.

[@MasamiPhoenix]

@@martinmckee5333 that's because it's such a simple-yet-undeniable example of gradiant

[@LadybugMug]

Although I appreciate the concept of ground news and I do believe it’s very important and helpful to recognize bias and not outsource your thinking in an echo chamber, it’s also important to remember that you can be completely biased and completely factual at the same time. Bias does not equal inaccuracy. I know Paul knows that full well and isn’t suggesting otherwise at all. But it is important to keep that in mind as well.

[@redmage5251]

also being unbiased is impossible

[@foppishdilletaunt9911]

It’s been a long, lonely, lonely, lonely, hamster free time. Martin enjoys the casual wearing of the waistcoat. Perhaps AiG Canada’s fashion leader…

[@NoodleKeeper]

Ah yes, the Executive Chief Executive Officer. Wonderful.

[@johnobrien6415]

Love the "Ham and Eggs" theme song. Is there an album length mix available for download? A dance mix perhaps?

[@mrmimeisfunny]

I like how the article on sex estimation in human remains caused the AiG team to admit that you can figure out the history (the sex of the owner of the skeleton) from observations and inferences without it being a worldview issue.

[@SnappyWasHere]

I think it was my gardener Jesus that said render unto Ceaser what is Ceasers. So they are openly saying we no longer serve god, but serve man because politics is the goal. How do they rationalize any of this? The human mind really is terrible.

[@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear]

Thanks for the video :)

[@mikelwrites]

the color and style of suit jacket martyn in his intro video wearing reminds me of the 1930s. 6/10. minus points for the lack of tie, unbuttoned collar, and bad opinions.

[@Specialeffecks]

My old book says this, your old book says that...Hey, how about we compromise and base our policies on demonstrable REALITY rather than anyone's old book? Does this sound reasonable?

[@headams6]

It also should be noted that young earth creationism is taunt in the muslim religion as well. I was shocked to find out they also hold to an Adam and Eve, literal storyline and non- evolution science. So some of these statistics of Americans can come from other non-Christian sources as well.

[@gregcampwriter]

Is Bodie Hodge sharpening his knives, having expected to succeed the old man?

[@Paulogia]

I also wonder about that.