PragerU & Stephen Meyer - Broken Records, Double Standards, & Actual Indoctrination | Reacteria

[@irenafarm]

Meyers: “Nothing productive can come from coding errors.” Literally every speed runner ever: 😂

[@Riplee86]

your coding error is my gateway to SPEED!

[@holygore]

Perfect 💯💯

[@redrix1787]

*insert that one sonic speedrunning meme*

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

He's of course just mad because a coding error messed up his brain! He wouldn't be saying that if he were way more intelligent due to one, instead of having the flaws in reasoning he has.

[@theguythatasked6400]

Another point, I believe that rocket/blast jumping was original a mistake, and has now become a common mechanic in just about every game with explosions.

[@HowToTrainYourDuncan]

I recently passed a kidney stone; having never had to give birth, I thought this was the most painful thing I’ve experienced in my life. Then I heard an “educational” video telling young women to smile more. And now I’m going to have to rethink my ranking of what the most painful thing I’ve experienced in my life is.

[@XRamenmaX]

Ask someone who has passed 22 kidney stones, I get this more than you might know.

[@modifiedmomma2365]

I’ve had a kid-had invasive surgeries-broken bones & even been told to “smile more” the week my boyfriend died. The most painful thing is knowing kids are going to be taught prageru as fact instead of opinion & they won’t have any idea otherwise.

[@Ajehy]

“Take up less space.” -my ex-boss, scolding a woman who told a male co-worker that Bill Cosby drugging women WAS s***** assault. That boss was a woman too, and she picked a different punching bag every month or so.

[@erikheymann9390]

I once thought about contacting local gyms to come describe to their customers what it's like to come out of open-heart surgery (I was born with a defective aortic valve, replaced at 40). The ER nurse told me that all of the other patients in the recovery room (about 12) were bypass surgeries, and the vast majority of those were avoidable with proper diet and exercise. Fortunately for them, there's a lot of heart surgery now that doesn't require your sternum to be sawed in half. The pain when you wake up is exceptional, and I've had kidney stones. Being intubated sucks all by itself, and because of it your arms are tied to the gurney. This lasts for about 1.5 hours, until the nurses think that you can drive your lungs with the diaphragm. You can't talk, you can't move, it feels like a rhino sitting on your chest, the pain is causing your eyes to water and the tubes in your throat cause you to wretch, putting strain on the sternum which is being held together with twist ties.

[@JaneFleesTexas]

Lol Great comment. Thank you! Hope you feel better! ❤

[@V0idFace]

My absolute favorite part of this is the fact the kids went back in time and met a man who emphasized "working within the system" and "avoiding radicals"...while also talking about the founding fathers. Men who were so radical they fought their way out of a system they found oppressive and wrong.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

just so they could be the oppressors themselves XD

[@neoqwerty]

@@jacksmith-vs4ct shout outs to the electoral college when they got too scared that the masses wouldn't like the candidates that cowtow to their little elitist clique. The pricks.

[@mattm8870]

Its also weird considering that Frederick Douglass from his own writings was clearly closely connected to the radicals if not one himself on the subject of slavery.

[@darkocelot7342]

@@mattm8870 It may seem weird on the surface but it's very intentional. They want to literally re-write history to reinforce their power and prevent people from rising to pull it away from them. They do a similar thing with MLK, "judge people by the content of their character, not skin colour" and ignoring everything else he said, including his other political opinions which they'd probably deem socialist or communist and almost certainly radical.

[@coreyshafarman8918]

@@mattm8870prageru has a history of whitewashing black leaders until they fit their racist bullshit

[@TheIronDove]

"Stephen's arguments are like a medium cooked steak. They're neither rare nor well done." LOVE THIS

[@treybriscoe2721]

Knowing that PragerU was approved for Florida schools before watching this made it more horrifying

[@markb3786]

Amen

[@johngavin1175]

As a Floridian I'm completely terrified. Means the people in my county are going to become dumber than what they already are. 🤣

[@Z4r4sz]

Of course its florida...

[@kapifromnevada4697]

Literally 1984

[@undrwatropium3724]

Texas too

[@juliantheivysaur3137]

I've once heard someone refer to Prageru as intellectual junk food for conservatives. and it's so accurate.

[@kangarumpy]

But junk food still gives some sort of nourishment. PragerU accelerates brain rot.

[@elingeniero9117]

Praguer is not conservative. The are religious cult propagandists. Conservatives are pragmatists. Marxists and their binary propaganda is as sickening as the fundamentalists. Both are propaganda for the non-thinking uneducated masses.

[@phillyphakename1255]

Easy to consume. Check. Nutritionally shallow. Check.

[@rebeccarichar4091]

I completely disagree! How could you possibly even associate PragerU with the word "intellectual."

[@donburnett8594]

I’ve been a conservative as long as I can remember … born and raised in Southern California… I’m 76 years old … been an Atheist since the age of 10 when I got kicked out of Sunday School finger painting for disrupting the class by asking too many questions when the instructor read Bible thumping fairy tales … you see the others starting seeing the light … I’ve watched California go down ever since the wackadoodle liberal democrats got in charge … it damn Forrest is incredible… I’ll have to watch this video a few times before it really sinks in …

[@sledzeppelin]

I had never seen their "slavery was actually pretty okay" videos before. What a sick bunch.

[@phillyphakename1255]

​@@Ashengraychild1oof. I worked 4 hours less this week than last week, switched jobs, same industry. Got paid 50% more for less hours worked. Easier job, too. It's almost like exploitation has something to do with income inequality, not effort of the worker.

[@PeteOtton]

@@phillyphakename1255 I guess they missed the Ducktails episode some 35 years ago about how Scrooge McDuck learned that if he was going to earn a fortune he had to work smarter not harder. (Subtext for the mentally slow: exploit others instead of being exploited.)

[@jsmith3798]

@user-gl5dq2dg1j Crushin’ it pal. In fact, I think you should be even _more_ pretentious..

[@sledzeppelin]

@@jsmith3798 What a pathetic response.

[@WhiteWolfGaming3]

Welcome to Christianity... hypocricies abound, lying thru their teeth because fuck reality, muh god dunnit, and just reality denial in general.

[@ReVeralife]

@forestvalkai, I think the most compelling response to the software analogy... is that PROGRAMMERS USE NATURAL SELECTION AND RANDOM VARIATION OVER TIME TO DO THE MOST COMPLEX PROGRAMMING!!! They literally set the survival criteria (the end result they want) and delete the variants that they don't like until they get what they want. Programmers ARE NOT WRITING the programs that run complex things like AI, or the algorithms running google etc. It is far too much and too complex to manually write. They literally do it in a very close analog to how actual evolution works!

[@ankyspon1701]

What a stupid comment! Unless you believe in God, evolution is not a guided process like programming, evolution doesn't have someone analysing, documenting and evaluating every step. If you are educated, look at the chemical reactions in the Krebs cycle and ask yourself how a stupid simple cell could develop that over time, a reaction mitochondria don't even need to survive and a circular process which is irreducibly complex. The fool making these videos is clueless about the true complexities of the so called simple cell, he's simply parroting what Richard Dawkins says! Lmao

[@ferociousfeind8538]

productive, practically superhuman neural nets generated with artificial selection is a deathblow to creationism lmao

[@Salty_Tiger]

The funny part about the whole code argument is that Steve isn't a programmer. If we was he would know that there is a type of programming that is almost exactly analogous to evolution. It's deep learning. Neural networks work by allowing the code to make small, and random, changes to itself and picking the best result to act as a parent to the next generation of changes. The whole argument only works if you don't know anything about modern machine learning programming.

[@dr_ned_flanders]

The method of programming that is based on evolution is known as genetic algorithms. Populations are created to do a specific often difficult task or behaviour at random in the beginning and then the ones that performed the best at the task are used as the basis for the next generation. It often incorporates cross-over as well as random mutations. Gradually over many generation the algorithms become better and bette at the their assigned task until they can acheive what they were intended to do. So suck on that creationists.

[@Foulgaz3]

I think you’re thinking of genetic algorithms, not deep learning. There’s some overlap, particularly in the field of reinforcement learning, but they’re pretty distinct entities. Like I said, there’s some overlap, but it’s a Venn diagram with both shared and exclusive regions.

[@ericramey116]

Of course he would argue that those genetic algorithms were written by people, therefore creation. However, the writers of those algorithms themselves don’t even really understand how they got to where they did or how they do what they do so efficiently, so it doesn’t really support his position anyways.

[@Z4r4sz]

Its even worse that Meyer referenced Bill Gates who isnt a biologist.

[@cravefubar4114]

You forgot polymorphic programs (computer viruses can learn to hide in different places, manners, and bypass defenses...you should be scared this is the heart of information hijacking and hostage)

[@leoarmstrong6361]

PragerU: "Fredrick Douglas here, don't be radical that's bad." Actual Fredrick Douglas: "if you oppress people these hands cost free.99"

[@philiphockenbury6563]

He also believed that the constitution was a fundamentally racist document and publicly burned copies of the constitution on a semi frequent basis.

[@gothicviceroy112]

Preach 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@sebicmiel4221]

free.99?

[@SuperKiobi13]

Pretend as if Frederick Douglas would agree with them was especially disgusting

[@BjerkeRobin]

When Forrest said: "now, are you ready for the scary part?" I was like... "WHAT WE JUST WATCHED WASN'T THE SCARY PART???"

[@christopherhamilton3621]

So getting ready to implement it all isn’t really that scary? Watch the last 6 minutes again and let it incubate….

[@BjerkeRobin]

@@christopherhamilton3621 I think you misunderstood my comment. My bad. I was trying to convey the fact that I was plenty terrified enough without being informed that this collection of rancid tripe was being included in public school curriculums...

[@thecoolaxolotlnova8523]

I thought the scary part was "YOU WANNA HEAR ABOUT SAFE INTERNET?"

[@casualsleepingdragon8501]

The lady's scream at the start of the sponsor was professionally good. 10/10

[@chrisose]

When an apologist says the word "intuitive" you know what will follow will be some deep BS.

[@IOverlord]

They don't even apply their intuition when the argument is against their god lmfao. When we do it, we're being intellectually dishonest. When they do it, it's faith

[@BustyCatbot]

@@IOverlord It's almost like faith is intellectually dishonest or something, but that couldn't be true, that would be unholy, sinful even!

[@captainhoratiobungleiii7147]

When I worked in scientific research, I had a boss who was DEEPLY scathing of the word "intuitive". He said it wasn't scientific and used to roll his eyes when anyone used it in a scientific setting.

[@jamierichardson7683]

And that it will likely have that other BS term Therefore coming up shortly

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

​@@jamierichardson7683 "Therefore" can be a useful term, as long as you can clearly show the progression between the steps under discussion. This is perhaps another Princess Bride thing for creationists.

[@foxbeans1509]

I find their video on Columbus especially egregious because his actions were controversial whole he was still alive. "You can't judge my 15 century morals from your 20th century," his actions were excessively cruel even with 15 century morals.

[@JETAlone12]

Dude was literally banished by the Spanish crown because they were horrified by his actions.

[@sholahverassa8582]

@@JETAlone12 Was he?.. Never heard of this part.

[@Demotri11]

Columbus faced criticism from SPAIN AND ENGLAND in the FIFTEENTH CENTURY for crimes against INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. More people need to understand that and to let that sink the fuck in.

[@Goreuncle]

​@@JETAlone12 It was impractical and dangerous to have a guy like Columbus as governor, he ruled with an iron fist, resorting to capital punishment all too often (directed at fellow expedition members), he made many enemies. Aside from this, it became obvious that Columbus was interested in increasing his personal wealth and power (and that of his closest associates), which gave rise to accusations of corruption. The monarchs were no fools, Columbus was becoming a nuissance and a threat. It was a politically sound move to demote and banish him for a while, that way the people involved in the expeditions would stop giving them grief about him... and Columbus himself would "learn his place". Had he been a popular governor who followed instructions and didn't try to enrich himself, I don't think he would've been banished, regardless of his methods. Basically, I don't think the monarchs were "horrified", they rather decided to put a troublesome hound on a leash. Keep in mind that in the same year Columbus sailed west for the first time, 1492, those same monarchs banished all Jewish people (who refused to convert) from their domains... they were just as ruthless as Columbus, if not more.

[@CookiesRiot]

*Well, don't worry, now we can look back on it through the lens of Judeo-Christian wisdom and-* Exodus 21: 7 When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 8 If she does not please her master, who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt unfairly with her. 9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 20 When a slaveowner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. 21 But if the slave survives a day or two, there is no punishment, for the slave is the owner’s property. Ephesians 6: 5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ, 6 not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul. 7 Render service with enthusiasm, as for the Lord and not for humans, 8 knowing that whatever good we do, we will receive the same again from the Lord, whether we are enslaved or free. Deuteronomy 20: 17 But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you, Hosea 13: 16 Samaria will be held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, Their little ones will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open. Joshua 6: 21 They utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword. _Oh jk I guess even in the 21st century it's all justified and we should totes celebrate Columbus for carrying out Yahweh's will._

[@rhil4838]

I physically felt sick when they made Frederick Douglass defend slavery. Then it just got worse and worse. As a teacher, these are so abominable and horrific. I knew they were bad and biased, but just not sickening. Oh, those poor children in Florida. DeSantis and his ilk are destroying the people.

[@killermoon635]

Slavery was normal in last 2000 years and almost every civilization had it (including arabs, Chinese, afticans and native americans) Canceling some historical figure and destroying their statue is stupid and dumb Also Marriage to 12 year was normal in almost every civilization, should we cancel everyone in the past because they were pedophile The point is you should not judge person (or civilization) from 300 year ago with modern morality and human rights

[@kgty1295]

@@killermoon635 that doesn’t mean we should justify their actions and pretend it’s OK. We can condemn what was done in the past without judging them by modern standards. It’s more so just letting people know today that what they did would not be OK and shouldn’t ever be done again.

[@Zevox144]

@@killermoon635 Humanity has had much pettier reasons for taking down historical statues. I think taking them down for being basically an icon of something immoral that our society has grown past is hardly an issue so long as they're not also scrubbed from the history books, which they haven't been.

[@tinamccarty5708]

​@@killermoon635Removing statues is not the equivalent of "cancelling" or removing from history. Traitors to the nation do not deserve to be honored as heros in the town square. Most of these statues were not even erected until the Jim Crow era, in effort to intimidate people of color. Teach the true history about these figures in school, and place the statues in confederate museums where they belong. Same goes for traitors against humanity like Columbus. Yes, teach of his accomplishments, but also teach of his short comings.

[@jamesfetherston1190]

@@kgty1295 the claim that “almost every civilization had slavery” is not well supported, and is especially NOT true in the terms of racial chattel slavery that was perpetrated in the Americas. That was a “peculiar” institution if there ever was one.

[@jerby1059]

The way the kids cartoon misspelled abolitionist as "abolishonist" is really funny to me

[@Wolfgang8-Y]

My favorite part about the computer analogy is that that's _exactly_ how some types of machine learning work. The program auto-generates multiple blocks of code with small differences (mutation), compares their output to the chosen data set, deletes those blocks that aren't close enough (selection), and creates new blocks with slight differences to the previous winning blocks (reproduction), repeat until desired results met.

[@tabularasa0606]

Yep, genetic algorithms. And they're decades old.

[@Znotyou14]

thats what i was thinking, and it baffles me how someone who uses computers semi-dogmatically doesnt see that

[@nosekills]

Also, the analogy only "works" to make Meyer's point because we expect certain specific things out of our software. Nature doesn't expect anything. We'd say a computer game is buggy if you get negative points for performing a task (flip the sign bit). In nature there are no such arbitrary rules. If getting negative points is better for survival, that "bug" is a feature.

[@irenafarm]

“It’s a feature not a bug” is unironically how it works lol.

[@RidetheGeoffening]

Beautifully articulated. Fantastic point

[@ReiperX]

The fact that they defend slavery and try to pretend it wasn't all that bad is really telling.

[@PeteOtton]

Exactly. And unfortunately probably why they were chosen to be in Florida's schools. It is telling about what is going on in DeSantis's head and his fellow republicans in Florida. Just because others were/are doing something, does NOT make it right or moral. It just means they are equally abhorrent. Especially when they are not impacting your political sphere.

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

They don't actually hate nazis either. Their parents and grandparents gave them money.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Then they have no right to complain about teachers refusing to teach their shit@@PeteOtton

[@AndySmith4501]

​@@antediluvianatheist5262You might do well to remember that in his book, decent of man, where Darwin applied his theory of natural selection to the human race, he used language that would get him banned from any university today. For example he maintained that, "The superior European races would exterminate and displace the savage one's" Apologists will always excuse this disgusting attitude by claiming that he was just a product of his time, but the word "exterminate" had exactly the same definition then as it does now. To destroy and kill off. You need to make sure your own house is clean before judging others.

[@AndySmith4501]

​@@PeteOtton​ You might do well to remember that in his book, decent of man, where Darwin applied his theory of natural selection to the human race, he used language that would get him banned from any university today. For example he maintained that, "The superior European races would exterminate and displace the savage one's" Apologists will always excuse this disgusting attitude by claiming that he was just a product of his time, but the word "exterminate" had exactly the same definition then as it does now. To destroy and kill off. You need to make sure your own house is clean before judging others.

[@Krikenemp18]

The really shitty thing about PU's reaction to the BLM stuff is that they would absolutely support, participate in, and even demand the exact same kinds of riots if it was to fight back against extreme religious oppression. They would go on and on about how it's our American right - our duty, even - to protest such action against the citizenship. But only because it would benefit them.

[@undrwatropium3724]

Oh they're Sooo persecuted 🙄

[@ZairUmbras]

They already did that with January 6th basically.

[@unslaadkrosis3489]

Pragur u has denied the Native American genocide and supported slavery. They’re pushing a white supremacist ideology. They’re not honest people.

[@doggo9567]

But blm is literally a scam multplie leaders and founders have been found using calls for violence and riots to distract from their heavy embezzlement

[@farkasmactavish]

1:02:46 IT'S NOT ABOUT _MAKING THE FAMILY FEEL BETTER._ It's about making sure that this NEVER happens to another family, like it has happened to COUNTLESS families before it, EVER again.

[@aperson23]

The fact that THAT is going to be taught in public schools is genuinely horrifying

[@kaliban4758]

And offensive

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

and probably a human rights violation waiting to happen

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

There will be massive lawsuits to prevent this. Conservatives will pay with their lives if they dare attempt to force kids to listen to their crap.

[@UTU49]

The creators of this BS: Are they evil? Or are they just catastrophically irresponsible? Either way, they are way, way, WAY past horrifying. American conservatives are now constantly trying to "rule by lying". This is one of the strongest commonalities they have with Nazi Germany. There is no limit whatsoever to how bad conservative America could get. None.

[@youtubegarbage7876]

Not in any worthwhile states. Just some of the ones that have been stuck to the bottom of the barrel since Disney World opened.

[@Nerobyrne]

The guy who said "Feminism has made men and women less happy and less free" has a video out there where he said in an interview that it took a long time in his marriage to understand that his wife is actually capable of her own thoughts. That's the caliber of thinker we're dealing with here.

[@echiko4932]

Oh it was that guy. 10 years was it?

[@y-yyy]

jesus. how can I find that video?

[@Nerobyrne]

@@y-yyy Wish I knew, maybe search the guy's name? I saw it in a compilation myself. Would love to see the whole interview, bet it was wild

[@mylifeisalie6781]

I would still argue that's true. Men are natural providers pushing women to be independent has caused a lack of willpower in men. Their primary purpose has been taken away, and the suicide rates speak for themselves. I disagree with everything else from this video, but I still agree on gender roles and norms. I personally think that's what would make society happiest but that's just my personal opinion

[@sethmichel6138]

​@@mylifeisalie6781Finland, the happiest countries in the world, has little to no gender roles and women tend to be working full-time, just like men, and when looking at other countries, the trend seems to be the same, less gender roles and more equality leads to higher rates of happiness. If gender roles truly make people happier, then why does the data not show it

[@tahaymvids1631]

I like how they gave Christopher Columbus a Spanish accent and dialogue even though he was italian lmao

[@anotherpromotor]

To be fair, he lived in Spain for a good portion of his life

[@jrojala]

They probably couldn’t find an actor who could do it- the conservatives have a TINY pool of talent after all

[@jackbrigoli7452]

Oh, come on. You really expect the idiots at PragerU to know that?

[@muthalicious]

Sorry :( The genocidal white supremacist was a talmudic khazar✡️ luciferian or (so-called fake white jew)

[@christopherhughes8402]

“Talent”? 🤣

[@orangutansoda]

As someone who's boyfriend and his family are from the East of Germany and his parents actually lived in Soviet Germany, the usage of the seperation being used against communism and socialism is really frusterating as someone who is pro socialism. The reason the DDR was not good wasnt because it was a communist country- germany has a lot of socialism elements to this day that would make americans go berserk. The DDR was run by a dictator who cut off all western contact. The communism was not the issue- the issue was the isolation. The reason was the people who died by trying to see their family on the other side. Germany now is a phenomenal country and while it has a LOT of issues- they are mostly capitalism issues. Really the only issue i can think of that could be attributed to communism is that the retirement age folks are getting less and less money from social security due to the fact less people are having children. However, if housing was made cheaper and the government raised minimum wage then i think that could be eliminated. that said -germany pays you when you have kids and you get a percentage of your pay during maternity leave which can last up to 2 years.

[@youtubegarbage7876]

Amis wissen nur, dass Woerter "gut" oder "schlecht" bedeuten. Sozialismus und Kommunismus sind beide "schlecht" "Founding Father" oder "meiner Meinung" sind "gut"

[@remingtonn_]

true so much on the isolation! its STILL happening to cuba! very interesting how a country will have higher literacy rates than the USA, yet still be excluded economically and forced into terrible conditions as a result.

[@seanmcdonald5365]

Watching this video as someone born in Jamaica, when he mentioned Christopher Columbus I completely grasped exactly how terrible this place is.. they’re literally saying “slavery was okay because everybody did it” yea.. you gotta shut this place down.. my ancestors went through centuries of horrific slavery that our national heroes helped to free us from, this is absolutely infuriating to see the kind of misinformation they’re pushing into heads of kids

[@fluidthought42]

Even Isabela was horrified by Cristobal and jailed him when he returned to Europe. Of course, her personal morality didn't matter to the Spanish crown in the long term when it came to slavery.

[@JohnEusebioToronto]

They also made their Columbus out to be a guy who doesn’t like slavery, us glad that it’s hated in the future but that’s just the way it is. That’s obviously bullshit on its face. If he wanted to live without slavery, he could just not enslave people. It’s super easy. And Columbus LOVED slavery.

[@chicken29843]

That's literally the logic of these people

[@seanmcdonald5365]

@@chicken29843 it’s crazy, I already kinda understood it at Fredrick Douglas but when I heard Christopher Columbus I lost it.. shit like this makes people become “angry atheists”. I actually have pure rage for these people now. Knowing this history of my country when that guy docked in Jamaica in 1494 and we were in a shit show until the 1800s and even the early 1900s to a lesser extent.

[@tma2001]

but on the plus side they brought the good news of Christianity to the poor savages with a message of brotherly love and everyone is equal in the eyes of the Lord ... oh wait!

[@Kickiusz]

THANK YOU for addressing the "no amount of peer reviewed papers" PragerU line. I saw literally no-one talking about it, even in circles where shitting on PU is the bread and butter, and it started to feel like I'm going insane.

[@InnocentNoodle]

Holy shit, prageru really is the absolute worst case of "Source: trust me, bro" that I have EVER seen 💀💀💀 The mental gymnastics jfc Thank you Forrest for continuing to educate with honesty, integrity and positivity 🙏

[@jdspencr]

Just checking.. have you watched any of Shaun's videos? I enjoyed having my eyes opened by him to their polished yet vapid infographics.

[@CheaterzEye]

Hey Forrest my community college has PragerU videos listed as references in our course book on Texas Government. Is this something I can complain about to the dean? I'm furious to see it listed as a reference and it's made me question the entire course's legitimacy

[@jonathant.6382]

Forrest, your videos are saving my life. I was raised and homeschooled in a very christian household and so I didn’t receive any education on evolution. Your channel, along with Aron Ra and Gutsick Gibbon, are what made me come to the truth of the universe. I’m now a proud atheist, and its all thanks to y’all. I could never repay the debt I owe you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much. I can’t wait for your next episode of the light of evolution!

[@LGpi314]

If you like Forrest and want more scientific things, try Professor Dave explains.

[@jonathant.6382]

I know him as well! First learned of him through his flat earth videos when I was still a christian.

[@DoctorZisIN]

The holy trinity of KZbin evolution! Forrest, Aron and Erika!

[@PewPewCricket]

To conservatives, thay are our nuclear triad

[@SewardWriter]

Mazel tov! 💖

[@kevinlawrence1582]

I jokingly thought to myself that their advice to women was going to be to smile more. And then that was the first piece of advice that came out. I swear sometimes a stuff is indistinguishable from parody

[@anondecepticon]

I had a similar experience with the video extolling the many “virtues” of Ronald Reagan, where I jokingly imagined them tacking on “plus he was really good looking,” to the end of the list… _and then they actually did._

[@wizardsuth]

Poe's Law: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.

[@shaylagonser9341]

Just so you know that horses with one horn is Satanic deception and that Rhinoceroses are Biblical fact. Asian One-Horned Rhinoceros is Unicornis in Latin, African Two-Horned Rhinoceros is Bicornis in Latin just as described in the Bible. Yes it takes a genius to not know what Latin is. Lmao!

[@search895]

They sent the "believe in yourself" message to boys, like it is a masculine trait only, and girls just have to smile. Smh

[@dma8657]

It’s hard to create parody of what they actually believe - it is already parody in a sense.

[@Dloin]

Every Accusation from People like Prager U is an admission of guilt.

[@gogecka9717]

Yeah complete projection

[@DissedRedEngie]

Reminder, Dennis Prager himself has made an article about why *marital r**e* is justified.

[@Killroy007]

​@@DissedRedEngiealso defending child marriage, which makes for a great combo!

[@jonathonrobinson6081]

Every conservative accusation is a confession.

[@smashmouthvevo1366]

The really funny thing for me about the computer code example is that artificial intelligence, one of the most powerful tools in computer science, is often trained WITH EVOLUTIONARY MODELS.

[@chriscaseyg9362]

Rewatched this with the fam, my Mom had a good quip regarding PragerU as a long-suffering teacher from a family of teachers stuck in Texas, that "the only things Prager is accredited to teach are the subjects "Prop" and "Ganda". Never stop, Forrest. We always need more of this.

[@blakksheep736]

Prop and Ganda sounds like a duo boss fight from a Mario game. 😆

[@Nerobyrne]

I like your mom already lol

[@alexheck5632]

I've seen people tear apart PragerU before, but I've never seen someone do it with such accuracy and efficiency. Truly excellent work from one of my favorite youtube biologists

[@stylis666]

I loved that Forrest also addressed the non biological indoctrination by lying from PragerU. I thought it was kind of funny that wind turbines were named as such an issue for birds. There have been people who didn't wine about progress and instead looked at the problem, tried to figure out the causes, and try out solutions. One in particular stood out as very successful: Paint a stripe on one of the three blades of the turbine. It was far more successful than painting all wings al wings or no wings. You see, the list Forrest gave had one thing in common. Things birds might be able to see but evidently don't. With cats it's because they're hunters and they try to blend in the background before getting close enough to jump their prey. WIth powerlines and buildings and wind turbines, those are all things that are just there and they blend into the background from a bird's perspective (in buildings it's also the reflection of actual background; paint a bird of prey on it and problem solved but problem solving is woke and woke is evil, but birds dying from wind turbines is also woke so then it's a problem). Also, birds eyes are to the side of their heads. So depth perception isn't their strong suit. All the deaths of birds have their vision as a common issue and more specifically that certain things will blend in with the background because of how the eyes and brains of birds work.

[@lylesuess5691]

did it occur to anyone that when they were explaining what it means to be a man, only men spoke, but when it was time for them to explain what it means to be a woman, a woman started the conversation but it was quickly taken over by men?!?!?!??!?!

[@exhumus]

Yeah, that chick needed to smile more

[@p24p14]

Well as we well know God is a HE so Men clearly are the ones best suited to explain the laws of nature. /s

[@beverly719]

@@p24p14 lol 😂…yup

[@hagbard1983]

Mansplaining. It‘s important so we subservient women understand better.

[@luiscesarvianagomes970]

"make your house a home, and along the way stay gratefull and encouraging" that alarmed me a lot more, because it sounded (specially in that sequence) like a reference to domestic violence, and 'advising' women to accept and support their abusive husbands....

[@FNPetersen]

Let's go with his computer analogy. There are literally coding algorithms that mimic evolution. They make several slightly, randomly modified versions of a program, run them to see which one runs the best, then make the next generation using the best from the previous generation as the new baseline to modify from. These systems work. Granted, it's not a perfect analogy for evolution, humans write the initial code and humans determine what criteria is used to determine the best results. But programmers literally make code that randomly changes and then select the results. That's the mutation-selection mechanism in computer code, exactly what creationists using this analogy say is impossible. Not only is it possible, it happens all the time.

[@MasonTorrey]

When I was liberated from Christianity 10 years ago, I still couldn't believe evolution because it was so absurd. Then I read Richard Dawkins' book River Out Of Eden, and I was blown away by how amazing and interesting evolution is and I finally understood it. I realised that everything I "understood" about evolution up until that point, that was purely based on what preachers taught me in church. And I was taught lies. After finding out I was lied to in church about evolution, I started finding a lot of other shit that I was lied to about.

[@marknieuweboer8099]

Thanks for demonstrating that attacking creacrap dóés help.

[@LJacyHenry]

I second that the more I learn the more I see how I was lied to as child by christians

[@monkmchorning]

I was failing to learn some computer programming concepts until I had an instructor who explained them in ways I could understand.

[@csjrogerson2377]

How unusual to learn that religious persons lie like flat fish to protect their own indoctrination: the clergy, school teachers, parents. Some do it from ignorance but most are devious, despicable, unscrupulous bastards. They are looking for power, control and money.

[@Strype13]

Welcome to the bright side, my friend! Kick your feet up, relax, and enjoy your stay!

[@Znotyou14]

I would 100% sit through a biochem lecture from Forrest. ITs such a fascinating topic

[@ryansergas2776]

as a biochemist i am inclined to agree

[@thisisfine5453]

BIOCHEMISTS REPRESENT

[@kuga_4038]

I'm having a hard time understanding him sometimes (difficult topic plus second language) even though I can tell he's really narrowing it down to make it understandable for people like me.

[@ryansergas2776]

@@kuga_4038 it's a great thing you are willing to engage with and learn this wonderful subject. and it's no small task learning it with a second language!

[@andybeans5790]

To be honest studying Biochemistry 30 years ago wasn't fun, it was just old farts going on about how they'd taken 30 years to figure out one protein that wasn't particularly useful. I really wish I'd stuck with it, because technology has now made what took an entire career something you can now do overnight. Stupid me.

[@elainebelzDetroit]

That whole "argument" of left-wing indoctrination in universities stems, I think, from the fact that conservatives indoctrinate & don't know any other form of "education," so they can only assume that's what others are doing. Then they notice their kids going to college & returning more liberal ('cause they actually encountered other ideas & people different from them) so clearly the indoctrination must be liberal. As an educator, it makes me really cringe and also is heartbreaking.

[@pseudonymous7557]

every accusation from these people is a confession

[@kamham5222]

All I hear and see when conservatives talk is just a bunch of chimps at a zoo flinging shit and screaming in hysterics

[@raulhernannavarro1903]

From Argentina I can say that there is leftist indoctrination in Argentine universities, and other countries are not the exception. But it is not a systematic indoctrination, they are casually leftist professionals and fanatics derived from a failed leftist culture that was from the 70s to the 90s in the 20th century.

[@davidnewcomb7466]

They can also seemingly never explain the manner in which the “indoctrination” or “brainwashing” occurs. They just throw loaded words like that as if it were a spell professors were casting on youths. Like there’s some liberalization ray poised at the entrance to the classroom. If these were children they might have a shred of an argument, but if grown adults are leaving home as a right wing Christian and returning home a left leaning atheist, that means they *learned* something and made a judgement of their own.

[@mantlechannel1390]

As a conservative myself, I find it disappointing when there are members of my party who are incredibly against hearing other points, we need to hear other points. I have liberal friends and it is good to debate with them.

[@rellikinvictus1057]

I'm beginning to understand that these folks literally think DNA has actual words as a part of it. "Grow two arms at equal distance from hips." This is the creationists idea of what DNA actually looks like. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@jenniferkorf4767]

It is! Some jerk decided to draw grow leg on forehead on my with a sharpie during a part once, now I have to walk around like a dejected unicorn.

[@urbanguard]

To be fair: My computer had babies last week, because I left her alone with the laptop of a friend. They all had to be put down, because Windows and MacOS are just not compatible.

[@Shady-Socks73]

Interracial cross data hardware. I wood never worked 😂😂😂

[@skidelrymar]

those poor computer babies!! they have to create a vaccine to cure the incompatibility problems

[@hopelessnerd6677]

Computer abortions. What'll they think of next?

[@xanderb2377]

It’s kinda your fault for not getting them cyber-spayed and nano-neutered.

[@f.osborn1579]

You fool! Mac and windows are far more compatible today than in the past! You destroyed life!

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

"grow up and be a man" is like the definition of toxic masculinity XD Edit: "be generous, don't let a girl pay for her own meal" is also a great line XD

[@dancinswords]

Don't worry, their advice to the girls is to be grateful for those free meals so it's all fair

[@ace..of..hearts_they-them_]

​@@dancinswords They also say "You'd be prettier of you smiled more"

[@josephmatthews7698]

'You cannot judge someone for the time they lived in.' Only works if none of their contemporaries thought their actione were especially cruel as well. Guys like Columbus, Genghis Khan, Vlad the Impaler etc were all criticized IN THEIR TIME for their ruthless cruelty.

[@DebatingWombat]

Bingo! And it’s also worth noting the very vague and sweeping claim about slavery somehow being the norm for 2000 years, because it strategically neglects to engage with the actual and specific circumstances. Slavery was most certainly not the norm in the Europe (late medieval/renaissance) that spawned Columbus. Indeed, the model of slave run plantations producing valuable cash crops (sugar in particular) in areas recently conquered from indigenous people was essentially invented and trialled by Spain in the Canary Islands not that long before Columbus’ journey to the Americas. So, Columbus wasn’t simply importing some traditional system of a slave based economy from time immemorial (as is suggested by the “2000 years” statement), but a recently invented economic system with its origin in conquest, enslavement and exploitation for profit.

[@sketcher445]

It also completely ignores the opinion of the people who were enslaved. I'm fairly certain they didn't think it was cool

[@Tortle-Man]

I find even funnier that the conquistadors and Colombia actually ran into LEGAL TROUBLE with the Spanish crown regarding slavery. When they came to the America’s, the crown basically said “You do not have the authority to wage war and enslave the people of this land, you only have the right to show them Christianity and petition on the Crown’s behalf”. This wasn’t for altruistic reasons mind you, it was political as the crown wanted to keep imperial power. But EVEN THEN, the crown brought up moral arguments that it was probably wrong to wage war wholesale on these people and enslave then. The same people who enslaved Muslims and expelled Jews basically said “Maybe enslaving natives is a touch too far.” This didn’t stop any of the conquistadors from doing it, mind you, and eventually the racists won out. But it’s important to know, they had the choice and good sense to know what they were doing was wrong. They just inevitably decided, they didn’t care, and started doing it anyway.

[@oivi3iv635]

Columbus was literally arrested by the royal family for his bullshit

[@sillybeanthing]

​@@sketcher445people tend to forget the people in power and those who win are the ones who get to write history.

[@urusaiinu]

As an instructor, I pride myself on being able to explain the same thing in many different ways. Watching the first 3 minutes of this video was infuriating because S.M. just says the same thing over and over again, and that's how someone who has memorized but not understood the material would speak.

[@cadence3709]

As a former homeschooler I unfortunately know lots and lots of young people who can't get enough of PragerU content. It's really sad to see smart, kind humans grow into the hateful, bigoted adults this sort of thinking encourages.

[@Maxinestabile]

That’s why home schooling can be dangerous if you think dogmatically because rather then teaching their kids how to think they teach them what to think luckily Im homeschooled using a digital class so I should be fine

[@MorbidEel]

Since they are being home schooled then the parents are implicitly approving the messages PragerU is presenting. Would the parents' not have pushed those children in a similar direction regardless? All roads lead to Rome and PragerU is just one of many.

[@Maxinestabile]

@@MorbidEel are you saying that everyone that’s homeschooled supports PragerU because I and my parents don’t and my school doesn’t either

[@Foolish188]

There is nothing better than home schooling Creationists to drive kids away from Christianity. When they learn to see the lies (better term might be False Testimony) of organized Young Earth Creationists most quit being Christians.

[@celica9288]

@@Maxinestabile I interpret them as saying something more to the effect of "in households with bigoted, hateful parents, the children are more likely to become hateful bigoted adults themselves, regardless of if the parents are stating the stuff themselves or shoving pragerU in front of their children"

[@chrislowecdl]

Those PragerU vids are genuinely horrific, and it's terrifying to think public school kids can now be FORCED to watch them in a trusted classroom setting.

[@Furry-iousNews]

A perfect example of ACTUAL indoctrination

[@GaymerJenn]

The blatant hypocrisy is astounding. Lying to kids about history, politics, and science? Absolutely fine. Telling them gay people exist or letting trans kids express their gender identity? Indoctrination! 🙄

[@SAVarXX]

@@Furry-iousNews yep. and they get away with it because theyve conditioned their followers its the LGBT and Teachers who are indoctrinating and grooming children and not them

[@abbasfadhil1715]

Imp both learning and reading books like gender queer which show stuff kids shouldn't be exposed to and taking Prager u vids as educational are equally bad 😅

[@AuraHero]

@@abbasfadhil1715 Do you think Gender Queer is meant for elementary school kids? I've only ever seen that book being available in high school libraries and in collections only meant for teachers.

[@princessstrawberry4623]

There is no dunk harder than when someone cites a scientist and then you literally talk to that scientist and have them directly explain why their citation wasn't representing them correctly

[@Derrythe01]

William Lane Craig often cites the Borde Guth Valenkin theorem as evidence in debates that the universe has a beginning. Until he had a debate with Sean Carrol who played a video of one of the authors stating for the debate that the theorem did no such thing. It was my favorite part of the debate.

[@chesneymigl4538]

Aron Ra has a video interview with a paleontologist debunking creationist myths that cite her research. It's beautiful

[@rocketsurgeon1746]

@@chesneymigl4538 ra is a hack. we had a back and forth and he offered nothing logical or scientific, just standard darwinian talking points

[@mcmanustony]

@@rocketsurgeon1746 Darwin died. Don’t know how you missed it. It was in all the papers. Aron doesn’t have “talking points. He has a deep knowledge of systematics and taxonomy. Can you demonstrate any of his points to be wrong or are you just bumping your gums?

[@ozowen]

@@rocketsurgeon1746 I suspect your back and forth was you raising tired old creationist talking points, supposed killer questions that Ra replied with the usual correct answers. It must make y'all cranky to discover creationism has nothing new and nothing true to challenge evolution with.

[@MrAntiKnowledge]

Fun fact: A big part of developing neural networks (a type of computer program) is randomly changing their parameters and getting an incrementally better result. Yes nowaday you do some tricks to speed that process up with a more directed approach, but in the early days you did just randomly change parameters, compare to see if it got better, select the better version, repeat. And you did get better and more complex program out if it.

[@rcavicchijr]

Not only are those videos part of the accepted curriculum in Florida. But they can and will be shown in schools where it's illegal to teach Black history, Psychology, many aspects of Biology, and a lot more. They can show "Miguel backs the blue" but can't say why Rosa parks refused to give up her seat, or teach about Jim Crow or Segregation. This is SICK, and needs to be fixed immediately.

[@marcvolgers8352]

But... wait... didn't PragerU want "diversity of thought" 🤣

[@ottle2570]

@@marcvolgers8352 only OUR diversity lmao

[@silentcaay]

"Indoctrinating children? Of course we do. What's the problem?" - PragerU "Slavery? I don't see the problem." - PragerU

[@fisharepeopletoo9653]

In all fairness we literally do indoctrinate children

[@jamesoshea580]

Did they actually say those things verbatim?

[@MANTUEFLIE2]

​@@jamesoshea580paraphrased

[@In20xx]

Creationist's strategy: 1) Learn enough science to sound smart. 2) Say science does not work.

[@Catholictomherbert]

Recommend reading: "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" by Brian Greene "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn "The Gene: An Intimate History" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Science is supposed to not function well because of many reasons: limitations of current knowledge, complexity of phenomena e.g. difficult to study and human biases and errors. Hope this helps.

[@AndreiCaldararu]

more likely, learn enough to misrepresent

[@brookejon3695]

​@@CatholictomherbertWhat are you on about?

[@Catholictomherbert]

@@brookejon3695 I’m giving 5 books to study along with several Christian books to understand the world a little bit better the connection between natural science and the Christian message of religion to discipline you in God’s creation.

[@HowBoutDemBoyzz]

​@@Catholictomherbertlol

[@-Zevin-]

I'm late to the party, I have always enjoyed your content, and most of what I have seen was of the scientific and religious variety, your taking down of Prager-U just made you one of my favorite people. It's so important these propaganda networks are fought against and it's genuinely terrifying that some actual children are being raised on this stuff...

[@CattTheCat]

"you can't randomly change computer code to better software, you can't randomly change DNA to make better organisms" except that's literally what machine learning does. It randomly picks a variable to change, and it decides to keep it or not based on whether or not the outcome was more desirable. And that's literally what adaptations and mutations do. The ones that lead to better survival don't die off and are cycled back into the gene pool

[@realdragon]

And I personally randomly change code to see if it works better. There are multiple ways to program 1 thing, I don't know which one is better so I can try out few of them

[@ihatespam2]

What you just explained is not random.

[@username7763]

Computer code is math. It is a formal system that intentionally is structured such that only certain sequences have meaning. We use compilers and tooling to give us errors so that simple mistakes are caught as often as possible. It is designed such that random changes are generally meaningless -- that is a feature of the language. While yes, machine learning is structured very differently so that random changes have meaning.

[@MikkoKuusirati]

@@ihatespam2 Well, not _all_ of it, no. Which is actually what makes machine learning (as described here) analogous to biological evolution, and also what makes the creationist portrayal of evolution as pure "random chance" a strawman. Because, as often needs to be repeatedly explained in these discussions, the changes themselves _are_ effectively random... but the selection mechanisms that determine which changes prevail and which fade out are _not._

[@BtK-gn5hb]

But isn't machine learning created by humans 😕 and that's not random.

[@han8285]

I legitimately almost didn't go to university in large part due to PragerU. I eventually conceeded and decided to go and thought it would all just be left wing beliefs constantly. I am now about to graduate with my Master of Science degree in Psychology. University DID change my mind, not because they indoctrinated me, but because it opened my eyes to the wealth of scientific research which contradicts almost every right wing talking point. It saddens me to imagine how many people never sought the education they desired because of PragerU's blatant misinformation. I have not once in my 7 years of learning psychology ever heard a teacher/lecturer give any political opinion.

[@evangelionmann]

university is a wealth of knowledge and opinions, but its greatest lesson, taught in EVERY school of study, is how to do research and how to put together a coherent argument.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

Which is why the extreme right is so anti education. They know that once you're shown there are different options for different opinions, and that you learn you can change your opinion based on new information, they've basically lost a member forever. "Once you see it you can't unsee it," made manifest. I bet you can instantly tell now when talking to someone if they've never even stepped foot on a college or university campus, let alone attended even one class when they bring the topic up. I've always been a lefty, but I can recognize when someone starts popping off that they don't actually know what getting a higher education is really like.

[@andrewhone3346]

The main purpose of education should be to produce independent learners, who are able to make a critical assessment of new information, and judge it by comparison with other sources that they take to be reliable. Far from being hotbeds of left-wing radicalism, most universities do not indoctrinate their students with any political ideology, and (apart from personal conversations between a minority of private individuals) politics is rarely discussed, unless Political Science is the course being studied. So what really scares the PragerU people (and other conservatives) about universities is that they produce more well-educated voters, who can think for themselves and see through inconsistent dogma and other bs. That's why Trump said "I love the poorly educated", and keeping people that way is the whole purpose of the indoctrination provided by PragerU, and right-wing attacks on funding for public education more generally. Zoe Bee has a great video with a critique of PragerU material, from a purely pedagogical viewpoint.

[@p24p14]

It's so bizarre to me to think of education as "us vs them" - "left wing vs right wing" - like, its an unbiased system. Just like you can't ask the moon to choose a party to vote for, you can't expect the universe to be "one side leaning" I guess it stems from religion and wanting to prevent enlightenment from showing that religion is built on a shaky foundation. But I'm sure anyone who also has gone to university will also tell you; no one is trying to disprove religions either. Whatever thoughts are formed on it, they were created solely from observation.

[@furballscave4431]

it is not an unbiased system. did you know this stuff is legal to put in schools now. this stuff is the exact opposite of unbiased@@p24p14

[@chibbersthesquirrel6189]

I am so sad for Florida's kids. They're the real victims in all this and I hope they recover from what the schools will do to them.

[@alexandergreen7230]

No genuinely, all of those children are having their collective history stolen from them for a partisan grift.

[@GameTimeWhy]

They won't. Next generation is going to be even more messed up.

[@sockosophie3132]

​@@GameTimeWhyRon needs fascist soldiers, I bet he's gonna call them DeSantis-youth soon

[@captainhoratiobungleiii7147]

They're so obsessed with "won't someone, please, think of the children!" It's a very sad irony.

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

@@sockosophie3132 his name is Ron, Ron DeFascist.

[@ParanormalEncyclopedia]

His argument about appearance of design reminds me of the story of LGM 1. November 28, 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist, discovered a strong repeating radio signal that got nicknamed lgm 1, Little Green Men 1, because some scientists thought it sounded like a signal from intelligent life. We eventually realized what it was and named it PSRJ 1921+2153, the first radio pulsar we discovered. A natural phenomenon that people reasonably thought MIGHT be a sign of an intelligent source.

[@reloup8969]

The weirdest thing about PragerU is how much they say "it is now mainstream to say that or to do this", like "now we say masculinity is toxic"... No. No one says that. Saying toxic masculinity exists doesn't mean masculinity is toxic. Or like how now we think men and women are basically the same thing. Like... no sex and gender are different things. I know all of that is to create fear in viewers and make them act defensive. And it works...

[@sbushido5547]

It's not really weird at all. Intentionally misrepresenting these concepts is bread-and-butter for propagandists. Because saying "here are potentially harmful beliefs and behaviors that societal ideas about masculinity can foster" inspires much less of a knee-jerk reaction than "they say masculinity is toxic!!!"

[@MrMarinus18]

And most of the times I have heard people talk about toxic masculinity it's actually in regards to what it does to men. How it makes them emotionally repressed and makes them into blind worker drones.

[@maxfountain8918]

PragerU being taught as fact is one of the most dystopian things I have ever seen

[@undrwatropium3724]

Welcome to Gilead

[@doggo9567]

Corpos own the planet we're about to resegregate and the government is ran by comically evil pedos nothing should surprise you at this point

[@CookiesRiot]

I already thought PragerU was weirdly dystopian propaganda like 8 years ago (when they were still making videos that were only mostly dubious, like when they argued that Rockefeller was actually a cool dude who totally didn't exploit workers at all and definitely earned his wealth through hard work instead of inheriting it from his con-man father). The propaganda was so painfully obvious even back then, with sleek cartoon art over meaningless graphs... But now they're blatantly advertising to children not to trust credible sources of information or to seek an actual education... *I thought Plato's cave was supposed to be allegorical.*

[@mr.nuggit8240]

I know it's actually got me scared especially with how they push hardcore trans genocide redoric

[@UTU49]

​@@undrwatropium3724 I was just thinking, "So, did they think the Handmaid's Tale was a good model society to strive for?" I think these people are completely despicable. I do not say that lightly. They REALLY DO want to subjugate or eliminate anyone who is not a straight, cis, white, Christian male.

[@levinyman8790]

Since PragerU wants to talk about Frederick Douglas and how great he was but also praise Robert E. Lee for stopping a slave rebellion led by John Brown, here is an *extremely famous* quote by Frederick Douglas when speaking about John Brown: “His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.” Here’s another quote by Frederick Douglas speaking about John Brown’s methods as an abolitionist: “I mean the John Brown way. This is a recent way of opposing slavery; and I think, since it is in consequence of this peculiar mode of advocating the overthrow of slavery that we have had a mob in Boston today, it may be well for me to occupy the few moments I have in advocating John Brown’s way of accomplishing our object. (…) I say, sir, that I want the slaveholders to be made uncomfortable. Every slave that escapes helps to add to their discomfort. I rejoice in every uprising at the South. Although the men may be shot down, they may be butchered upon the spot, the blow tells, notwithstanding, and cannot but tell. Slaveholders sleep more uneasily than they used to. They are more careful to know that the doors are locked than they formerly were.” To hold up Frederick Douglas as a “good abolitionist” while saying Robert E. Lee should be venerated for squashing a rebellion led by John Brown is unbelievable. Frederick Douglas was not wringing hid hands over John Brown’s methods and telling everyone they should just calm down and work within the existing system. PragerU is pathetic and dishonest and the fact they have any sway in what anyone, particularly children, believe is appalling

[@MarshaAnderson-i1j]

Robert E Lee did not want monuments for himself. These monuments were not erected until the 1920s.

[@leslieviljoen]

Well I AM a programmer and back when I was a Christian I read about genetic algorithms and wrote my own programs that had some of the features of evolution: I came up with a simple language to represent DNA, semi-randomly changed that DNA, "killed" code that didn't perform well and combined code that did perform well. And I was flabbergasted at how powerful and effective that system was. Performance was measured based on how well the little agents could navigate a maze. Within minutes the genetic system had come up with DNA that could do the task. When I switched out the genetic algorithm for a pure random one, the agents could not even nearly navigate the maze even though I left the program running all night. This is why I think that people who say evolution is a random process are completely wrong - if you rolled dice all day and then carefully selected which rolls "survive", would you call that "random"? Carefully selected random is not random at all. Random does not work, but selected random that builds on prior successes does work.

[@keniag5]

I live in Florida. I was on vacation and found out about this being approved in public schools while watching this video. This is terrible. I am so glad that my kids are almost done with high school. This country is seriously worrying me.

[@jason59k55]

as third world countries rise and the us loses its dominance ofc its gonma become a nationalist (practically nazistic) hellhole

[@alienbotfarm187]

why cant your kids make up thier own minds about what they watch. they in highschool, it might be time for mommy and daddy to stop the indoctrination...

[@willsith9762]

Scientists: Let's use the Latin alphabet for genetic code to make it easier to understand. Creationists: You mean to tell me God put English letters in my brain???

[@halinaqi2194]

I took game dev in university do 8 know a lil bit about coding. Him trying to equate DNA to a computer code is so disingenuous because they aren't the same. Code dictates how things behave and are created to every facet of that digital environment and is man made. And code is made to be efficient, ex you wouldn't want a bit of code left around that isn't really doing anything. DNA does have instructions on behaviours to, but is mostly like instructions on how to build something and maintain it. Also DNA has a LOT of redundancies and parts of it that don't really affect anything, to specifically protect against random mutations, if you randomly mutate some DNA, you are a lot less likely to run into making a huge mistake than you are if you were to do the same thing with a normal piece of code. After all computers are very literal and changing a simple integer, or hell a syntaxes error will cause your program to crash or not compile. I don't even know why he is trying to equate the two things to prove the existence of God into this when he doesn't need to when trying to make a theist argument.

[@imperialgo5331]

@@halinaqi2194 Absolutely correct. But also, NEAT based AI demonstrates how (effectively) self editing code can become more efficient at a single task. At this point, not only is the code analogy just plain wrong, but we also have code that is (effectively) capable of evolving with positive effects

[@shaylagonser9341]

Just so you know that horses with one horn is Satanic deception and that Rhinoceroses are Biblical fact. Asian One-Horned Rhinoceros is Unicornis in Latin, African Two-Horned Rhinoceros is Bicornis in Latin just as described in the Bible. Yes it takes a genius to not know what Latin is. Lmao!

[@toastedbread9752]

⁠@@halinaqi2194And we’re not even talking about the “happy mistakes”. Sometimes an error in the code can make it do something useful, while different that it’s intended purpose…

[@andybeans5790]

I'm a data engineer and I see errors that create information all the time. Simple timing errors in data transfers between operational and analytical systems create duplicated records with minute differences quite regularly, I had to patch a system this morning that allocated someone to two groups, because the transfer between the groups was being processed as the system took a copy of the data. It fucks up our systems because we designed them for that specific purpose, but biological organisms are not designed programs, they are a aggregation of "bugs" which have persisted by being useful.

[@kingconstantinusthesadisti133]

Why people like you are so bias. Biology are far more complex that any of our program. What you so called bug are more like a CANCER on system. Its not beneficial, except.. the biology itself are purposely designed to be machine learning. All of this analogy itself, are in no way.. writed itself from stone & rock, nor air & other chemistry by accident 😂. Yes, im a software engineer.

[@fisharepeopletoo9653]

It seems to me that the missing piece to compare programming and evolution is the natural selection. If you change, add, or subtract a 0 or 1 as you copy a program over and over, whenever the program completely ceases to function, it should be killed. This would be a still birth or an extinct species. The program would have to always run, in some form, in order for it to be a newly evolved species, right? So at no point would you ever have a nonworking program, and eventually you WOULD see a completely new program arise that has nothing to do with the original.

[@bornasmeh]

I love how PragerU gave Genoan Christoforo Columbo a Spanish accent!

[@owensurlet]

In a couple of days, I'm about to start college. I'm going into biology because watching your videos has made me so incredibly interested and curious about life and animals and evolution, so thank you for pointing me in this direction, even though you probably didn't intend to influence me specifically to be a biologist lol

[@furballscave4431]

good luck!!

[@randomcdude4430]

Do the pippete lab jockey route rather than the ecologist route. WAY more job opportunities. Know your way around lab glassware? You can probably find lab tech work somewhere. Really know your plants and the inside and outs of how behavior influenced the evolution of lizard phenotype and vice versa? Oh, how the economy laughs at you because an art history major probably has better job prospects than you. Have a backup plan is what I'm saying. Double majoring in husbando worked for me.

[@jeff__w]

Enjoy your biology courses! I was a psychology major-something I _don’t_ regret-but I _loved_ every biology course I ever took. When you get to cell/molecular biology, get _Molecular Biology of the Cell_ by Bruce Alberts _et al._ It’s easily the best textbook I’ve ever read.

[@shaylagonser9341]

Just so you know that horses with one horn is Satanic deception and that Rhinoceroses are Biblical fact. Asian One-Horned Rhinoceros is Unicornis in Latin, African Two-Horned Rhinoceros is Bicornis in Latin just as described in the Bible. Yes it takes a genius to not know what Latin is. Lmao!

[@snowcat9308]

Wow I went from amused to depressed immediately after learning that PragerU is now public school curriculum. Awesome.

[@Whatwhenhowaegislash]

Does it happen all over the us?🤔

[@box_is_real]

currently only in Florida and Texas

[@Sarah-said]

​@@WhatwhenhowaegislashI've only heard about this happening in Florida. It has many people across the country very upset.

[@katc3781]

New Hampshire is trying to add it. Specifically the financial literacy course, but that opens the door for all of it.

[@madamsloth]

This is so sad 😞

[@dragonation1733]

Hearing that PragerU is the approved curriculum for Flordia was a bombshell I didn't need today, but here we are. Spooks before spooky season has even started.

[@MrAwesomeHero1]

I mean that isn't surprising :/ older people here in Miami just love fucking trump and desantis. Super anti science and hella homophobic

[@superanimeniac]

Apparently it's causing Florida schools to lose their certifications though, because pragerU is obvious political propaganda

[@ValleyoftheLeaf]

Can we just... like... give them an island to live on? Let's just move everyone from Puerto Rico into the homes of these scumfucks and then let PragerU attendees live out their version of "freedom" however they want. Isolate the whole island like we do Cuba or Sentinel Island and just let these nutbags do what they want. It'll either become a paradise like they think, in which case none of them would ever want to leave, or it'll blow up in their face and they'll cannibalize each other. Either way it's a problem solved. (Obviously this is a dark joke, let's not actually do this and instead let our ever progressive society figuratively crucify these disgusting people.)

[@noone3216]

"When you trace back information, you always come to an intelligent source." That checks out, cos this guy is not delivering information, and when you trace it back you find an unintelligent source.

[@myrpok]

I, for one, came to the comment section to say how much i appreciated the effort Forrest took for the NordVPN commercial. Filming your own mini Blair Witch with an ad in it was *chefs kiss*. Not that I want to be bombarded with ads, but if we're going to have to live with them in our lives, more of them should 'lampshade' the absurd nature of the interruption.

[@pjaworek6793]

3:52 seriously good ad

[@neoqwerty]

My four favorite takes on sponsor ads, in no particular order: Forrest, Internet Historian's NordVPN saga, Terrible Writing Advice's ongoing Sponsor Wars plotline (that I'm more invested in than the actual advice at this point, which is a sign JP writes good), and Caddicarus' chaotic madness with Spons.

[@Wombat_Dad]

They assumed Christopher Columbus Spanish and gave him a Spanish accent because he was sponsored by the Spanish Monarchs, but he was Italian. They can't even get the most obvious facts right

[@Alessandro-B]

Not to mention, his actual name was Cristoforo Colombo (Columbus is Colombo Latinised).

[@catStone92]

@@Alessandro-B uh... I'm pretty sure Colombo is already latinised. Hint: us that speak latin languages don't call him columbus

[@wizardsuth]

In one episode of _Columbo_ a character notices the detective's discomfort at being on a boat and asks about his namesake. He replies, "It must have been a different branch of the family."

[@hogndog2339]

@@Alessandro-BThe word you’re looking for is “anglicized”

[@emailvonsour]

@@hogndog2339 no

[@jmg94j]

Comparing DNA to computer code isn't comparing apples to oranges. It's comparing apples to plastic ornamental oranges.

[@callumanderson6373]

I think the funny thing is that you literally can get better code by making random changes. Machine learning is effectively simulated evolution for computer programs.

[@frankhuggins9733]

The genetic code is a real code. And guess what? There isn't any evidence that nature is capable of producing such a system.

[@snailofkale]

in a way its a good comparison to explain the function but not the structure.

[@Jedi_Vigilante]

The analogy also forgets some key factors, like redundant code and what was called "junk DNA", now more accurately known as non-coding DNA. I mean, I'm not a programmer, but I've looked into some very basic web-code before, and seen entire sections that literally have no effect on the website because they are missing certain "structuring" to make the website recognize it as functional code. Sometimes that is done deliberately because said sections are not yet ready, sometimes it is done by accident and completely forgotten about by the programmers who end up recreating it with the proper structuring around it, leaving the old section to just sit there unused. Either way, random "mutation" to those sections of code could very well improve the function of the website. Ideally, none of that code would be necessary in a "perfect" world... and yet the programmers that I do know will openly admit that every bit of code they or anybody else has ever written has included so many errors that it is often considered a minor miracle that it works at all. Of course, the code written by others is always worse and "compiled by a complete idiot who codes completely differently than any reasonable person would", but they will usually admit to flaws in their own code as well. Then you have DNA, which has large sections of DNA that seem to have little purpose except as stabilizers and spacers to the more functional parts of the DNA strand. You'd think a "perfect programmer" wouldn't need such things in their "code", as they could just create things so that such structures were unnecessary, with "code" so resilient and flawless that even the most simple of mutations would be impossible and there would be no need to worry about change as the code would have been written perfectly already. Of course that doesn't even get into the fact that even when DNA functions perfectly, it still creates such a fundamentally flawed creature. I mean, food and water? What joker thought it would be smart to place such disastrous limitations on the human form? I get that everything else needs to eat and drink, but why must we? We are special, right? Then you get into the whole frailty of the neck and spine, not to mention how bad our bodies are at replacing things like teeth and eyes. At least we got some form of "armor" for some of our important internal organs, but what about the kidneys which are only partially protected, or the intestines which are wide open? Why don't our genitals have some form of natural protection seeing as they are not only incredibly vulnerable and sensitive, but also imperative to our survival as a species? I mean, I get that the human body is exceptional in the way it so functionally combines so many largely disparate functions, but to consider it even moderately well-designed is preposterous. I mean, we ran our primary waste extraction along the same path as a major recreation center AND reproduction center! That would be like having a nightclub and fertility clinic inside the sewer system!

[@frankhuggins9733]

@@Jedi_Vigilante Wow. Your theological arguments against Intelligent Design are duly noted. And it remains that you and yours don't have anything to account for the many codes that rule living organisms.

[@cosmicchicken3634]

Funny thing is Robert E. Lee didn't want statues of Robert E. Lee.

[@afseraph]

I love those "you can't randomly change a line of code and expect the resulting program to work better" arguments. There's a whole field in computing called genetic programming where we exactly do that. We generate random programs and then modify them using evolution-inspired mechanisms like sexual reproduction and mutation. And it works (at least in some domains). We've been doing this since the 80s.

[@jptillman1234]

Rudy Rucker's "Freeware" tetralogy used that as a basis. Amazing concepts.

[@Nuttycomputer]

Also machine learning which doesn’t even necessarily need to use genetic algorithms but are all about mathematically changing the weights. Which is closer to natural selection. Modifying isn’t random in computers or nature. Finally he has never worked in a mono repo with a long history of adds/changes. I could put good money on someone randomly taking a sledge hammer to a function in one of our repos and not impacting the system at all. Because the functions are left overs. They don’t do anything anymore and aren’t called anymore.

[@blakksheep736]

NEAT pog.

[@PeteC62]

Came here for this. Someone needs to throw genetic programming straight back in Meyer's face.

[@Temperans]

Literally most deep-learning algorithms is semi-randomly changing variables until a "good enough" solution is found.

[@violetchristophe]

I like how when they described the problem with solar and wind energy needing batteries made from mined materials, they just described the problems with oil, coal, and nuclear material as well.

[@mastermarkus5307]

Conservatives tend to have a very "but don't look over there at the negatives in OUR propositions!" philosophy.

[@bobbirdsong6825]

nuclear should not be included as it's efficiency is so vastly superior to all other consumable fuels that it is closer in terms of input/output to sustainables than it is to fossil fuels

[@BirdOnATypwriter]

Yeah, but those are fine, because how else could they get that nice fracking money

[@violetchristophe]

@@BirdOnATypwriter I heard an interesting thing the other day that the fracking technology could be put to use for geothermal energy.

[@RhinoRapscallion]

The only one I have don’t take issue with is nuclear. It makes so much power per ton of nuclear material it can’t even compare to fossil fuels. Yes, we should be careful of how we mine it, but we also should build and improve more nuclear technologies (the power kind, not the boom boom kind)

[@tamjammy4461]

Dear Forest. I would just like to say how glad I am that Florida has finally seen sense and decided to allow Prager U's fine educational videos to be shown to our kids . For far too long the spherical earthers and tooth fairy deniers have had things all their own way. Their refusal to accept the many brilliant medical and scientific breakthroughs brought about by the careful study of astrology and tea leaves,to name just 4, is distressing. It's really high time we taught our kids the controversy and the introduction of compulsory tinfoil hat wearing for all of our children is clearly long overdue. I'd just like to finish by congratulating Prager U and other similar organisations for all of their fine work,without which we'd all be left living in the 21st century .

[@CookiesRiot]

The subtle genius of the counting error. _chef's kiss_

[@ts4743]

i was so ready to start screeching lmao

[@whyaretheykinda]

they had us in the first half

[@Alessandro-B]

Slight correction/addendum: "we'd all be left living in the 21st century, while we love living in the 4th".

[@kirklarson4536]

PraegerU...even less of a learning institution than TrumpU.

[@LittleTouchOfCrazy]

The Columbus bit is so much funnier when you remember that even in his own time, he was seen as a monster and renounced by the Spanish crown 😂

[@starwarriorterra8373]

I don't get frustrated that you or anyone else is being political, but I'll admit I do get massively frustrated that it feels like we HAVE to be political with issues that just shouldn't be seen as political issues. The fact that even the existence of LGBT people, for instance, is seen as a political statement is baffling to me. At this point, the mere debunking of pseudoscience and misinformation seems like it's become a "political stance," and if that's the case, then never stop "being political." Love from Florida, and I'm glad to see that at least some counties in this state have some reason still and are pushing back against PragerU in their schools.

[@echiko4932]

I mean, when one of the political parties is ideologically against truth and logic, mere factual statements become political. "Global warming is real", "poverty is bad actually", "Jews are literally just normal people", "biden won the election", controversial political statements now.

[@raysalmon6566]

6:17 I found this this is a short essay that I wrote in in third grade I was eight years old this is in September of the year 2000 and I was asked what I wanted to do with my life like what do I want to be when I grow up and I wrote I would like to build a camp in the woods and live the rest of my life as a ranger and I meant a D Ranger bc I didn't know that wasn't a real job I just learned about that and I thought it was the coolest thing that there are people out there that live in the woods and can heal wounds with plants and can help Travelers Along on their Journeys that's what I wanted to be when I grew up and that way I can have peace and I can play with animals and study everything and the environment and the animal species and climb trees and swing on Vines and invite friends over to join the fun and have fund myself and take risks and be happy I hope that this happens when I am about 16 and continues forever and I do now I study t20 FV Really....

[@starwarriorterra8373]

@@raysalmon6566 I'm happy for you, I really am, but...is there any particular reason you posted this as a reply to my comment specifically?

[@immanuelnewton5722]

Lest it be forgotten that Denis Prager published articles defending rape. PS: Thanks, Forrest! Awsome as always.

[@lyokianhitchhiker]

I knew he was a lying scumbag, but this is news

[@immanuelnewton5722]

@@lyokianhitchhiker oh yeah!there are two articles titled "When a Woman Isn’t in the Mood" and both are on his own website! A disgusting scumbag indeed.

[@I_need_serious_help]

He probably thinks that women are most fertilized 16. What a disgusting human being If you can even call him that.

[@Ash_Carnelian]

When I was starting to question my family's faith, I had a lot of questions. And one of my friends tried to simplify it by asking "Okay, well think about how intricate everything is. There's no way that we could have just come from nothing. Something had to have made us." I thought about it for a moment, and then I had another big question. "If we couldn't come from nothing, then what made God? Did God come from nothing?"

[@sarahchristine2345]

At least they were willing to have that conversation with you though…that’s not always the case.

[@Ash_Carnelian]

@@sarahchristine2345 Yeah, I'm glad that my friends are open to the discussion. But I could never have that conversation with the majority of my family.

[@beaverjedi]

Yeah but you can't apply the same logic to thiests because they don't use facts and logic.

[@MossMothMyBeloved]

@beaverjedi1236 Ben Shapiro has ruined the string of words "Facts and logic", and now that's all I can think about when hearing that haha

[@cl34ve]

​@@MossMothMyBeloved"Facts don't care about your feelings!" Right then, what are the facts pointing to God's existence? "Well....none...BUT I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT HE DOES"

[@MrJaster45]

Thanks Forrest. That was champion. I'm really enjoying your content. Keep the content coming!🎉

[@redvsblueftw]

I love how these guys call themselves "intelligent design proponents" when they're just creationists with extra steps.

[@icantcomeupwithnames469]

You mean cdesign proponentsists?

[@kiwiruna9077]

@@icantcomeupwithnames469 great minds and all that

[@saturationstation1446]

they give both science and religion a bad reputation for being tools for wealthy people to exploit others with

[@martinmckee5333]

They didn't have much choice. Creationism was legally struck down, so they rebranded.

[@malchir4036]

They literally have admitted this. It was in their original mission statement: ID is an attempt to get creationism in science classrooms.

[@theredstonerecognizer9241]

The funny thing as a programmer 90% of what I do is randomly changing my code and hoping that it works.

[@realdragon]

Once I had working code, I added 2 lines and it broke my program. After removing those 2 lines my program was still broken

[@ihatespam2]

But you don’t just send that out to market. You non-randomly test it and send it back. So the process is NOT random.

[@theredstonerecognizer9241]

Yes whats your point tho

[@username7763]

I've seen that kind of code before. Trying to maintain it is a nightmare. "Why is this code here?" Well the original programmer tried something and it made the problem go away. "But it makes no sense, and only sorta works around the issue in one case and breaks everything else. " We were able to close the ticket so that must be progress.

[@Beau_Guerrier]

​@ihatespam2 Basically, the programmer is the artificial selection and keeps what works. Like we do to dog breed or other artificially selected species.

[@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow.]

I'm not a biologist but I am a computer programmer and the evolution code analogy hurts me just as much 😂

[@CookiesRiot]

I studied engineering, so literally just the phrase "intelligent design" sets me off. It mystifies me when people look at nature and say, "Ah yes, some incomprehensibly intelligent being obviously designed all of this." Stephen, honey, even humans don't design stuff this horribly. If you were a computer programmer and 10-20% of programs you wrote crashed on opening, you'd be _fired,_ not worshipped. Yet, Yahweh gets a free pass on a 10-20% miscarriage rate. 🙄 Oh but that's because of The Fall™. Okay, so you're saying he designed the Death Star with a torpedo shaft, flew the X-wing that shot the torpedoes down that shaft, and now he expects us to be impressed as we blow up? Yeah, great designer.

[@miagreen9005]

Agreed, I also work with programming and there's not always " intelligent design" at play XD

[@LashknifeTalon]

There's also the principle that body plans for organisms VERY VERY VERY rarely change. Almost always when you have some weird organ that looks like a total deviation from everything else in its clade, it's actually a wacky modified version of an existing part of their body plan. Like, Chordates almost always have four "limbs"; growing a third pair of limbs is unlikely, but you can get fins, wings, hands, whatever the heck bat wings are, and so on from these limbs, and THOSE can happen over humongous amounts of time.

[@AskMeABee]

As he mother of a 3rd grader... I'm terrified. This is the scariest thing I've ever heard, quite literally I'm more afraid of this than I used to be about displeasing the higher power.

[@davidgildour]

The funniest thing about Meyer's analogy to computer code is that there is a whole class of algorithms called Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) that specifically utilize selection and fitness mechanisms as an optimization method.

[@thehabit4373]

I was trying to respond to 3:25 and this seemed like the best place. Forrest goes on all the time about " can you give just one example"..... What he said is 100% right. You can NOT change code randomly and expect it to work Everytime. I'm confused as to what confuses y'all.

[@jenericG]

I'm currently attending a public school in Florida, I'm really hoping for PragerU to be shown in some of the classes. I've already seen children from my school stand up to things of this nature and I think it would be so satisfying to see them do the same.

[@undrwatropium3724]

Your mom or whoever can tell the school that she doesn't want you doing Prager U and they can't make you do it.

[@kitzuni0]

My sympathies. My heart goes out to you.. not just having to endure the torment of the Florida public "educational" system, but the lament and lifelong shame that living in Florida will cause you.

[@jenericG]

@@kitzuni0 The one good thing about it is that I'm gonna be able to get my AICE diploma and bright futures scholarship with the classes I've been taking

[@phenylalanine1042]

The future is in your hands. Good luck.

[@Nonexistent_creature]

​@@jenericGooh! I took aice when I was in school though I didn't get the diploma because my school apparently wasn't an aice school

[@HugSeal42]

The whole computer code argument is even more fun to hear after the whole "AI revolution". Where people train programs that change slightly in random ways over many generations applying selection pressure until they get something more suited for a task.

[@shanewilson7994]

It is funny. But then you'll have some just whine "but the code is intelligently designed."

[@ygolonacable]

"Figure out what you believe, and stand by it" = never change your mind.

[@theL33Tm4ster]

The unabashed defense of slavery absolutely sent me 😳😳

[@odonnelly46]

PragerU has also been approved here in NH for High School public schools!! Horrifying and disgusting.

[@sarahchristine2345]

How is it possible we’re actually going backwards?? Wtf

[@mastermarkus5307]

Hopefully more people can stand up to this as a violation of their religious freedoms and the like.

[@jojidubi4]

New Hampshire? Nooooo!

[@JosephKano]

@@TheMistyMorning. People unironically using woke left and thinking it's an insult.

[@CrilTump]

​@@TheMistyMorning.No it means "you're right but I'm just gonna call you a name so I can feel better about my lies"

[@feffiescottage]

This man is an example of why unintelligent, wilfully ignorant people, armed with language that implies knowledge, can be extremely dangerous. Knowledge without understanding is scary.

[@Agueroooo]

This whole video is APPALLING. “Slavery happened everywhere so we’re not the bad guys! We were just doing what everyone was doing 👉🏻👈🏻🥺.” The fact that people would actually subject their children to this is so sad. There’s so much more I could rant about but you all know…hopefully.

[@timothykeith1367]

None of us know how we would deal with slavery had we lived in the past. Time traveling abolitionists don't convince me!

[@sarahchristine2345]

It was the ‘hey, they’re better off being slaves in America anyways’ and ‘It’s a lot better than death amirite’ for me 🤯 The fact that they’re so confident there’s nothing wrong with those statements that they’re willing to put them in indoctrination videos for children is absolutely TERRIFYING!

[@kelliepatrick519]

Yah, but they're Christians, and knowing the history....well, no surprise.

[@Agueroooo]

@@kelliepatrick519 Lol yeah, I truly believe almost none of them have actually read their little book. They just get fed the positive “god loves you” parts and the “murder homosexuals” part and chose to ignore the mass murder, rape, prostitution etc.

[@cl34ve]

The same sort of people freak out if you say Europeans pressed into slavery under the sultan could have better lives in the ottoman governmental system. Which is funny, because that system did suck balls, as all slavery does, but it was far better than chattel slavery.

[@brendondavid7349]

When Christians can accept that their divine intelligence could exist without a creator but the leap to accept humans could to is just too far.

[@dieSpinnt]

Very nice ... watching you doing the same madness which you accuse others of. First your assumption is totally unproven and is, please be truthful here, just a not well thought through concept, born out of a mood? You first identify them all as idiots (of course there are many who do not question the religious system, they are a part of), or at least blind followers and finished is the tiny simple explanation (and even more tinier worldview). Most Christians know exactly who created whom: They created their god. Of course they go with that, because this is a very powerful tool. Dishonest and ancient to us, but as we all see here and today in out world: It "works". Yeah, you should be put into jail for doing atrocities (abuse, indoctrination, oppression, etc.) based on that dishonest religious-power-system, but look around you. Maybe there has to be another genocide, before we(sorry, THEM) learn (meaning: are brought to the gallows for their atrocities) how to treat their fellow humans with dignity.

[@h3athen_]

I researched a bit about Dr. Gerd Müller myself. He works at the same institute (University Vienna) my dad works at. I'm very pleased to see that even after scientific geniuses like Einstein Austria is still the home to many more intelligent people. It honestly makes me proud. 🇦🇹

[@hidden546]

DNA proves we were intelligently designed Meanwhile: babies born with terminal cancers, ALS, type 1 diabetes, etc.

[@JoeHansen69]

Just want to say thank you for providing such consistently great content. Keep educating!

[@FoursWithin]

"Being too nitpicky. " Nitpicky is a necessary trait when it comes to understanding and breaking down most intricate important details. Never stop being nitpicky in the face of ignorance.

[@MrMarinus18]

Nitpicking can be very bad cause it often is used as a tool to avoid answering questions. That if you don't want to answer a question you start to whine about some detail of the question or the claim and hope the person or audiance forgets that the original question was asked.

[@cl34ve]

Not to be nitpicky, but if you don't carefully pick out all the nits, they, uh, kinda come back. Funny how something that in context means 'be thorough' has moved to being a bad thing.

[@FoursWithin]

@@MrMarinus18 The original term is used to describe a very tedious and necessary "operation" of removing each and every parasitic bug from a person's scalp. Somehow this technique, which is still used where chemicals are unavailable, has had its label reworked into "being overly picky ,especially about unimportant issues". So it changed from being an essential application of anyone desiring to adequately remove a skin parasite to something almost the opposite. There seems to be a clear connection between deconstructing religious beliefs and the original definition of nitpicking by way of removing each and every parasitic superstitious dogmatic belief.

[@jacobdad2742]

It's a good day when a new episode of reacteria is posted.

[@Philitron128]

In regard to the computer code argument, we have something known as machine learning nowadays. Computers can and do constantly reprogram themselves using randomly generated code and selection pressures.