This Dr Thinks He's Debunked a 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Earth

[@Jiiks]

If you live to be 100 years old and 180cm tall then obviously you started from nothing and grew 1.8cm every year.

[@CaptainQ2607]

Makes about as much sense as things flerfs believe 😂

[@mirabilis]

Correct. On average. 🤣

[@YNVNEone]

Makes sense.

[@MrKOenigma]

Obviously

[@graemepennell]

So... Your saying that you continue to grow until death? Most folks I know, actually lose height from about 60 yrs onwards. OMG IT'S THE CARBON 14 CONSPIRACY!!! 😅

[@GrendelNin]

Whenever a creationist brings up Mary's work, I go directly to this quote by her: "One thing that does bother me, though, is that young earth creationists take my research and use it for their own message, and I think they are misleading people about it. Pastors and evangelists, who are in a position of leadership, are doubly responsible for checking facts and getting things right, but they have misquoted me and misrepresented the data." ~ "Not So Dry Bones: An interview with Mary Schweitzer" - July 21, 2014

[@dustinmorton942]

clipping for future use. thank you.

[@oBuLLzEyEo1013]

​@@dustinmorton942And long winded...

[@jaykanta4326]

Came here to post exactly this.

[@Parapraxis1980]

@@oBuLLzEyEo1013 not long winded at all.

[@oBuLLzEyEo1013]

@@Parapraxis1980 Awe. It's a movie reference...

[@howardreynolds2183]

I apologise on behalf of all Australians with more than 3 brain cells

[@mczeljk]

Nice try….there’s no such thing as Australia! 😂

[@itsROMPERS...]

Don't you mean "thir-deen" brain cells? ;)

[@ballistyxwot4577]

What, BOTH of you? ;)

[@defaulted9485]

No need. Ya'll being Australians down there already helps Dan debunking stupidity around the globe. Just keep being Australians and let the dumb reap what they sow.

[@somefatbugger]

I agree, I am so embarrassed to know we've allowed these people to breed in my country...🤣

[@biomaven4124]

As a person with a science PhD, I am so ashamed at this. He deliberately is misrepresenting each point he makes. Subtle, but so incorrect that this interview is simply hideous!

[@MA37679]

I get it….he’s up there in age and he’s cramming for the final!!

[@LanceHall]

You can't be a professional Creationist without lying about everything we know.

[@deanl5832]

Comment of the day. You win the indoctrinated moron of the week award. You believe your gas tank is full of dinosaur fossils 🤣🤣

[@ats-3693]

​@@deanl5832It's not full of dinosaur fossils, it's full of hydrocarbons that were formed by the anaerobic decomposition of buried organic material, just as methane gas deposits are formed in swamps and landfills now.

[@RockinRobbins13]

@@deanl5832 Right here, rather than engaging honestly, you simply construct an obvious and unconvincing straw man, that someone or other thinks his automobile has dinosaurs in its gas tank. In fact, the only one who says that is you and you know it isn't true. Lying is never going to convince even your mother you have any chance of telling the truth here. You are spinning a false yarn and you are aware of your inept attempt at deception. People who tell the truth have no need of lying.

[@howardmoon2687]

​@@deanl5832I genuinely pity you.

[@scottwills8539]

@@deanl5832 Looks like you are the "indoctrinated moron" here sweetie.

[@Z4r4sz]

A creationist lying about Mary Schweitzer's work while referencing it? Noooo waaaayy. Totally normal creationist phenomenon.

[@Jedbullet29]

Huh? That's just... Oh forget about it

[@JB-yb4wn]

I am as shocked as you are. Why would these fine, upstanding pillars of society lie to protect their religion? Makes no sense. 🤣

[@TREVORALLEN-tl4yt]

@@JB-yb4wnThey fear god and Jesus.

[@FriedrichNery]

If you use the Bible to prove your point, it becomes a fact. A Christian must believe in faith over fact. So they will deny their own Bible.

[@Marcelo.1927]

​@@JB-yb4wnprotect religion from what? Atheistic claims without proof or what.

[@friedchickenguy]

Happy 42nd birthday, SciManDan!!! Best wishes for many more trips around the sun ☀️!!!

[@cuthwulf]

Happy Birthday, SciManDan! You're now 1/6000th older than the Earth :P

[@CharlieFoxtrot06]

Happy birthday, SciManDan! 42 is a great age; it is the Answer, after all.

[@SuperStrik9]

Thought he was older than 42. I'm 43 and wouldn't have guessed SciManDan was younger than me. Happy bday though 🎂

[@prof.crastinator]

@@cuthwulfolder? You mean as old I believe as even a fraction over would mean 1 and that fraction…

[@marcdraco2189]

His brain must have been mostly made of C14.

[@lorenzodicapo6305]

We got both kinds. Dunning AND Kruger! Happy birthday man

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Thanks for the reminder. I need to watch The Blues Brothers again.

[@lorenzodicapo6305]

@MonkeyJedi99 who IS that girl?

[@benvandermerwe4934]

Excellent. 😂 👏🏻⚡🥃🇿🇦

[@lorenzodicapo6305]

@@benvandermerwe4934 bedankt. Alles goed?

[@lorenzodicapo6305]

@@benvandermerwe4934 bedankt. Alles goed?

[@andrewolson5471]

I wonder how many times during this interview that guy had to have his trousers extinguished...?

[@WizardImp]

Ha!

[@Scartoons-t1h]

His last point won it for me: the earth is 6000 years old because things were living on it 5.1million years ago. That's logic.

[@alt1579]

When you have a PhD, you have learned how to read scientific journals and research papers. That makes his lying worse. He 100% knows he's lying. He can't hide behind the usual misunderstanding that laypeople have. Even if it's not his field.

[@lieslceleste3395]

Exactly. He’s a grifter.

[@knobgoblin9237]

The whole ministry are grifters, can't actually contribute to society, so they'll just mooch off of them​@@lieslceleste3395

[@chbu7081]

He doesn't have the excuse of ignorance.

[@drdave8607]

It's not lying if you believe it yourself. Just delusion.

[@robertadsett5273]

Actually I can believe he didn’t look beyond creationist literature. He’s got no excuse for being deliberately ignorant though. He knows with certainty that scientists don’t just dismiss weak points but rather chip away at them (or it’s a confession about his research)

[@robotsonrockets]

I will never understand why these super religious people think this is important to their faith. It's really not hard to accept that 2000+ years ago people didn't have the ability to figure out how old the earth is, and if they had, the stories in the holy book would be different. Just keep your faith, but stay up to date and live a modern faith. Why waste so much energy on a narrative that is demonstrably false?

[@diskgrinder]

Good point!

[@OceanusHelios]

Faith in ghosts but no ghost ever shows up to the debate stage. It is just superstition and putting faith in preachers. Somehow no godlings or ghosts ever show up for a debate. It is just religions wanting money and power, and nothing more. And a whole bunch of people that want to pay other because make-believe costs a lot of money and god is apparently perpetually broke and picked on.

[@AndrewJens]

Because if they open the door to inconsistency and error, where does it stop? They also have trouble with admitting their omniscient gawd could have made any sort of error.

[@Elderand]

say what you will about these people, but at least they're consistant. People who keep have a modern faith as you put it are either massive hypocrites are have a level of cognitive disonance that is frightening. you simply cannot believe in a god and holy text and at the same time ignore what the holy text says when it conflict with reality. That's just as insane as insisting the holy text is right and reality is wrong. Why ? Because if the holy text is fundamentaly wrong and you ignore it, then what you're doing is saying "oh yeah, every single piece of evidence in that book is wrong, but I'm gonna keep believing the god it tells me exist is real", that's madness. The only rational response is to be agnostic or an atheist.

[@mczeljk]

@@AndrewJensexactly. That actually happened to me decades ago when I read the history of Christianity and how everything including the bible came to be

[@shawnnosaurus]

"Animals or us"... Humans are animals friend.

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

That simple.

[@barth9580]

Do animals wear hats? I don't think so.

[@Akira625]

Creationists howl at the mention that we humans are part of the animal kingdom.

[@Unknown-mf4of]

​@@barth9580 "Do animals wear hats? I don't think so." I don't wear hats, but far more importantly: Are you a plant? I don't think so.

[@ross-carlson]

@@barth9580 Sure, they can - I've seen lots of pictures of chimpanzees and homo sapiens both wearing hats. Ding - yes, animals wear hats. Or what are you, ah - you're a BOT. Either that or yes, you ARE an animal.

[@CaseAgainstFaith1]

He has a great voice and presentation. Calm and intellectual sounding. He comes across as being reputable and honest. Makes his lying all the more reprehensible.

[@USXPOP]

And of course, the cap/hat clinches it.

[@MOSMASTERING]

@@USXPOP That's a lot of cap!

[@gusolsthoorn1002]

I know this Doctor personally. I can attest that he is an honest man.

[@CaseAgainstFaith1]

@@gusolsthoorn1002 He lied throughout this talk. So, no, he's not an honest man.

[@gusolsthoorn1002]

@@CaseAgainstFaith1 No he did not lie. The SciManDan is biased (as are you) so it is unlikely that you will get a good understanding of the topics discussed. But one thing I have learned is that mockery and ridicule are the normal response (see all the comments) to any arguments that would dare defy the orthodoxy of evolutionary theory.

[@ramonavoight5656]

What bothers me most is when I talk to young earthers and I ask them about the very clear evidence of age we can see, such as Grand Canyon. They say that God created the appearance of age. So, God lies to us? They get very unhappy when I say that.

[@Koillisaivo]

What he lacks in expertise, he makes up with confidence

[@cheesewizard2294]

I was trying to figure out the exact moment where Dan got the "smug" shot for the thumbnail... After watching the video 3 times, I've determined it could be literally any moment of that guy on that video.

[@Bellicosy]

and what he lacks in expertise, she makes up for with blind nodding acceptance.

[@LittleFishes674]

Being intellectually lazy comes in handy when you’re a desperate bible believer.

[@davidmccarthy6061]

Confidence is the most important part of a con.

[@merrickcummings1561]

Also with strong pronunciation of the letter S.

[@Porrohman19]

Always suspicious of someone who wears a hat indoors.

[@BCam-m4w]

Spoken like someone without hair loss lol

[@Grimyst]

Too prideful to accept his baldness, pretty sure there is a certain religion that has an issue with that sin.....

[@Porrohman19]

@@BCam-m4w Lol, no - very little hair, hence the hat outdoors, but have come to terms with it.

[@stephenwilloughby8141]

Just consideration because they don't to blind you with the glare off their perfect bare head. 😂

[@matthomer1224]

Courtesy dictates that a gentleman should remove his hat indoors and in the presence of a lady.

[@infin8ee]

My mind boggles that there's adults in the world spending their time doing this. Happy birthday 🥳

[@rickmartin7596]

They think their lies will buy them a FastPass on the Heaven bus.

[@martinmajorlinz]

Money

[@Caelinus]

It is literally money. Fundamentalists believe the Bible is inerrant. Their belief is the central part of their identity and their social lives. Losing that belief will cause a crisis in both their self image and their social life. So they will do anything to avoid that. That creates market pressure. These bottom feeders swarm in to fill the market niche.

[@lyndalanthony635]

Did this Dr get his PhD from the "Three Stooges Clown College," or did he buy it on eBay?

[@kddicks5115]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SCIMAN!! Maybe this will buy you a pint?🧐😉👍

[@rossallan3585]

So, even if we lie about and misrepresent the evidence, he’s still not proven a young earth? It’s….its almost as if he’s Lying For Jesus.

[@stevelever83]

Lying is a sin, unless it's for Jesus

[@davepfizer]

Lying for Jesus! Love it!

[@villeniskanen6948]

Their tactic is to try to make people doubt the science so that their empty claims are not questioned.

[@deriamis]

Yep, that’s breaking the ninth commandment. I see another Golden Crocoduck nomination in his future.

[@rcary]

I think Jesus was a real person, but not sure about the hocus pocus angle of it. Perhaps a top tier influencer of his day? 🤔

[@stevelever83]

I bet if a C14 date came back as 6000 years or less the old codger would approve. The mental gymnastics required by YEC is astounding

[@tma2001]

and just 2 half lives (or >1.05 for that matter) disprove his 6000 young earth! Its like he's lived his life in an echo chamber and never been challenged by a real scientist.

[@psoma_brufd]

By his logic, there should be pretty much no samples with less than a quarter the carbon 14 by proportion and absolutely none with an eighth (or something like that, I'm not calculating the exact probability for this nonsense), if the Earth _was_ only 6,000 years old. The reason they use Carbon 14 to "debunk" is because they _know_ they are lying and that those they're lying to wrong think about that part, they'll only hear the bit that supposedly disproves Earth being really old and not the bit that also disproves the Earth being 6,000 years old by their _own_ logic. Also the guy in the video didn't even bring up _how_ Carbon 14 "disproves" the age of the Earth, he simply explained why we can't just it for earlier than 100,000 years ago lol.

[@wizardsuth]

He already implied that when he said carbon-14 dating was useful in archaeology. As soon as you use it to date something from prehistory it suddenly and mysteriously becomes invalid.

[@PeteOtton]

C-14 is used to date objects 40,000 years old and depending on the sample can push 50,000 years old before you have to switch to other methods of dating.

[@distinctdipole]

Happy Birthday @SciManDan ... hope you enjoy this special one and thanks for treating us to a video every day this week in celebration 🎂🥳🎉

[@KingOfGamesss]

Today is my Unbirthday

[@badgerboyboogie]

Dito!👍

[@petertaysum8947]

People in Valencia trying to figure why they got more than one twenty fifth the thickness of a piece of paper of mud in their streets.

[@danthsmith]

He also casually discards everything in geology, vulcanology, tectonics and astronomy, but then again he does have an old book

[@AO_Rourke]

Yeah! A book that says your wrong……..Checkmate Darwin!

[@dr_ned_flanders]

@@AO_Rourke Facts don't care what you believe, mate. Checkmate, Jesus.

[@tma2001]

the cringe is so painful to watch as he lierally debunks himself - any sane interviewer would point out the bleedin' obvious flaws in his 'arguments' like: - as if all C14 was created at the beginning of time rather than it being an active equilibrium ratio from cosmic rays - only need to date anything > 1.05 half lives to disprove his 6000 yr old earth (he literally says do the math!) - were are all the perfectly preserved dinosaurs in Siberia alongside woolly mammoths or stuck in tarpits or in peat bogs ? - mud floods are rapid (just ask folks in Valencia!) but compaction is slow. also re. turbidity, flood waters eventually retreat/drain from the land!

[@just9911]

@@dr_ned_flandersthey were being sarcastic…

[@mirandahotspring4019]

@@AO_Rourke Ignorance is not knowing the difference between the possessive adjective "your" and the contraction, "you're". First graders learn that a homophone is a pair of words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Your and you're, their and there, are great examples of this! Children are expected to be able to confidently get this right by the third grade. So that's not really a very good position for you be arguing an erudite point from.

[@Geekzilla84]

As soon as I heard Mary, I knew this was gonna be a bunch of lies. She's stated many times that she dislikes creationists using it as evidence, as she herself said it's millions of yrs old.

[@ilmt]

Instead of being appreciated by making an awesome discovery she has deal with idiots misrepresenting her work and using her scientific credit to boost the bs. I hope it doesn't bother her day to day too much.

[@gusolsthoorn1002]

Mary Schweitzer does not own the rights to the interpretation of what she found. It is perfectly normal in science to argue interpretations. And it is perfectly legitimate to argue that there is no way that organic material can remain undecayed for millions of years. There is no science that can explain it. Even if she has found that iron can preserve for 2 years (or even 50 years) this in no way proves it can do so for millions of years. Natural radiation from underground sources would destroy organic remains over time. Million year old organic material is an extraordinary claim.

[@ilmt]

@gusolsthoorn1002 Yes, the interpretation can be argued, sure. But 2 little things : 1) The 'tissue' was not in 'raw' state, it's not steak ready to be barbecued, it too, similarly to the bones, was fossilized - simply put it was turned to stone, but the structure of the tissue was preserved 2) Apologists often try to use Mary's name to support their own interpretation and even more to claim that she found as I stated above a 'raw meat'. Yes 'soft tissue' is used often to describe what was found, but it's not description of of the state in which she found it, it's just medical term to distinguish basically bones and everything else.

[@Vates104]

I have learned a lot from this channel. Thanks SciManDan.

[@VanHalenIsolated]

The irony in creationists using Mary Schweitzer’s work to show that the Earth is young when she herself WAS a young earth creationist until she looked at the evidence. She’s still a Christian but believes that her god spear headed life, evolution and the universe, billions of years ago.

[@greghelton4668]

Strange that she would still be a Christian. I thought the Bible was the ultimate authority on all matters. How can one trust a document if you have to pick and choose what’s in it? It just seems so intellectually lazy not to pursue truth to the bitter end.

[@justinbennitt835]

@@greghelton4668 It's weird isn't it? However I can't understand why a person would be a Christian at all (other than indoctrination from an early age and not being told anything otherwise), even if not a scientist that's privvy to tangible evidence. I suppose it's a bit like Christians with tattoos (Leviticus 19:28) or, as seen last weekend, a UFC fighter praising Jesus immediately before worshiping a false idol in the crowd (Donald Trump) 😀

[@dancingnature]

Most Christians aren’t fundies, we don’t believe that Genesis is a literal history . It doesn’t work as a historical record and certainly doesn’t match up to the geological or fossil record

[@Thecommentator-hc1fz]

She isn't. She ins't dumb enough to believe at the man in the sky.

[@IGR8691]

@@greghelton4668 Not so strange. Not all Christians, and not all denominations even, are Literalist/Fundamentalist. There's plenty of conservative and liberal Christian individuals and even whole denominations that do not interpret the bible literally, in whole, or in part.

[@WitchidWitchid]

But even if the earth way young (as in approx 6000 years old) the organic tissue should have decomposed within the first couple of years. So even if this were a "young earth" the tissue shouldn't be there. In either case it is obvious something preserved the tissue.

[@martinhuhn7813]

Yep. But for some reason, this kind of inconsistencies in pseudoscientists reasoning are the hardest to catch. Take flerfs for example, who keep insisting, that you can´t see earth curvature from very high altitudes. It is one thing, that that is factually wrong, but the other, that you would see a curvature of the edge, if you looked down on a round disk. Even if their weird understanding of physics was correct and the horizon was just an effect of perspective, you would still get that horizon at equal distance in all directions - and thus perceived curvature again. In my mind, those things are more interesting, because they demonstrate, that those people are not just wrong about something and a little stubborn. They are not interested in a consistent model of reality and perhaps even lack a concept of such a thing.

[@timolynch149]

@@martinhuhn7813 YECs are pretty much all Christian dominionists. They want their religion inserted into schools and governments and to achieve that, lying is a-okay.

[@InMemphisJohn]

The author of the video is misrepresenting creationist beliefs. Creationists accept that iron can work as a preservative, for at least hundreds of years--but not millions of years! Schweizer's group used iron levels many times higher than would be found in hemoglobin from red blood cells. Fats and sugars degrade quickly, so the idea that they could contribute to crosslinking also seems far-fetched.

[@WitchidWitchid]

@InMemphisJohn That's my point. The presence of blood vessels doesn't prove anything. It doesn't prove a young or old earth.

[@gusolsthoorn1002]

@@WitchidWitchid There are over 100 soft tissue sample from dinosaur bones to date. Dr. Schweitzer was the first but there have been many more since. Some of those who find these remains recognize that this presents a huge problem for the idea that dinosaurs are millions of years old. Everything we know about science, which she herself admitted, points to these being just like modern tissues. If they were found in anything other than dinosaurs, say wooly mammoth, nobody would be too bothered but as soon as dinosaurs were mentioned, science is thrown out the window, and of course, organic material can last millions of years.

[@NZSpides]

Gosh, a creationist cherry picking, colour me surprised... Not. Why do these guys just pick the science that 'supports' their belief instead of following the trail of evidence, you know, how science works?

[@ceejay0137]

Well, if they followed where the evidence leads, they would be scientists rather than creationists.

[@timolynch149]

Because they have decided they are right and now shoehorn everything into that.

[@mjjoe76]

You can’t control people by following the evidence. You can’t institute theocratic rule by following the trail. There’s also no money to be made unless you cherry pick.

[@michaelfox2433]

There is no science that supports a young earth, flat earth, creationism, gods of any kind, or any other biblical claim in fact every single testable claim in the bible has failed without exception.

[@rogergeyer9851]

Because they want to be paid and respected by those too ignorant to know better.

[@joewalsh4713]

I wish Dr. Schweizer would sue these bastards every time they misrepresent her work.

[@ziggerwebdesign1704]

Confirmation that calling yourself doctor doesn’t make you intelligent.

[@mhansl]

I’m sure he knows a lot about the one thing that gave him a PhD. However, like with many specialists, out of his lane, he is lost.

[@davidh.4944]

They found soft tissue inside hundred million year old fossils ... so the Earth is only 6000 years old. Got it. 👍

[@way2dumb]

Lol

[@tma2001]

yeah and where are all the perfectly preserved dinsours in the permafrost like with woolly mammoths ?

[@FatWhiskyDrinkingGuy]

And don't forget the newspapers they were wrapped in....

[@tartas1995]

Ofc, we know that "soft tissue" isn't decaying in 6000 years... These idiots.

[@barth9580]

​@@tma2001behind the ketchup.

[@blooper_01]

This guy got his Doctorate from the dollar store.

[@aussieseanc]

Dr Don Batten is a horticulturalist and plant biologist who's only gig since 1994 has been as the MD of Creation Ministries If I want to know how to grow plants I'll talk to him If I want to know about dinosaur fossils and carbon dating I'll talk to the actual experts

[@greghelton4668]

You’re completely wrong. It was Trump University.

[@John_Smith_60]

He paid too much.

[@Data2.0]

You could call it his Dollarate, Alright, will see myself out now.

[@davidpayne8413]

Found it in a cornflakes packet

[@maxmac7845]

The heat problem, shout out to Gutsick Gibbon, is insurmountable for creationists.

[@an.d.m.a]

Boom mic drop 💥 🖐🏻🎤

[@daveg-Vancouver_Island]

Love some Gutsick Gibbon!

[@arthur52353]

Also the Mud problem.

[@PeteOtton]

Lord Kelvin estimated the age of the sun to 20-400 million years based on the faulty assumption that the sun was undergoing combustion. Fusion had not yet been discovered in his day.

[@simoontube]

Their mouth noises are unacceptable.

[@Drew4361s]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidmccarthy6061]

I'm just an American but even I learned that there are towns/cities in the world quite a bit older, and continuously occupied, than their claimed 6000 years.

[@Sniffzoer]

Happy birthday, Dan! Best debunker on youtube

[@Palimbacchius]

Along with Professor Dave

[@eduardofranco8528]

Just woke up, time to hear some crazy creationist, thank you as always Dan

[@NathanRyan-v6s]

Ad hominem!

[@Kennephone]

so did I

[@ejtaylor73]

He found the perfect mark to spew his nonsense to. She has no understanding at all what he's talking about and is easily impressed by big numbers and words.

[@lowricusack4635]

You think she's not in on the gig? She knows exactly what is being said and is happy to play the mark for the content.

[@oscargr_]

The entire "world wide" ministries has exactly ZERO female speakers. It's fair to assume they consider every girl a mark to mansplain a bit of god-science to.

[@nickryan3417]

She's an unfortunate that was abused as a child and now is a professional companion to liars as a result. That she's female, young and passably attractive is just part of the marketing techniques in play here. Her gormless smile and nodding is part of the act that just gives away that her capacity for reasoned thought has been drummed out of her.

[@simond.455]

She's not the victim. She's a regular host of that show and part of the con. Understanding of the topics discussed is not required, neither for them nor their target audience.

[@nickryan3417]

@@simond.455 I meant that she was abused as a child and indoctrinated into the cult. These cults rely on getting to humans early so they can beat out any hint of rational thought and replace it with "because magic", "god done it" or "in my bible stories" and in particular "because I said so, now stop questioning things"

[@vulpic9060]

Happy Birthday Dan. Thanks for all you do!

[@IanHart2024]

Happy Birthday!!. And another great video to boot

[@ythinder]

If he's a Doctor then I'm a rocket scientist!! Happy birthday Dan keep up the great work!!! 👍

[@JB-yb4wn]

Well, he is a doctor, Werner Von Braun.

[@SciTrekMan]

Compared to him, you are a rocket scientist!

[@andrewstrongman305]

He is a Phd, but in horticulture.

[@reggiedixon2]

"Creation ministries international" - Sounds like a completely balanced and evidence-based organisation . . . . . . . sometimes I crack myself up.

[@SeanMahoneyfitnessandart]

Organization* with a Z. 😉 but you are correct... they're likely bat sh*t crazy

[@silverknight4886]

I was once told at school not to laugh at other peoples misfortunes 😁

[@danielwmwolf]

Better known as ministry of willfuly silly lying creatures.

[@nickryan3417]

They could only be more blatant about their contractual lying if they put the word "truth" in their name somewhere.

[@arcanics1971]

The reason they included the Carbon 14 segment, is because YEC texts either outright state or suggest that ALL radiometric dating is Carbon 14 dating. And because their target audience is mostly relatively scientifically illiterate, they tend to not know of all the other methods of dating.

[@resh..]

That's interesting. I didn't realise that! Good to know, thank you :)

[@PeerAdder]

And even if they've heard of C14 dating, they don't understand how it works. They don't know about background beta radiation which is why careless, uncontrolled measurements appear to find C14 in things like diamonds and coal. They don't know that C14 is accurate to between 20 and 50 thousand years, which alone is enough to discredit a 6000 year old earth. They don't know how *_all_* the different dating techniques cross verify each other in a systematic, consistent way. They don't know that putting error bars on measurements doesn't mean you're guessing. Ignorance and incredulity writ large.

[@psoma_brufd]

And because they know that people will only listen to the bit that "disproves" the billions of years old earth and not the bit that actively disproves their 6,000 year old age due to confirmation bias.

[@MichaelDerryGameitect]

He was also _trying_ to imply that Carbon 14 shouldn't exist *at all* if the universe is older than a hundred thousand years. Essentially: _'Even if the Earth was 100% C14 way back 4.5 billion years ago, there'd be none left after 100 thousand years.'_ That only _sounds_ like a "proof" if you leave out the fact that C14 is constantly being made in the upper atmosphere.

[@oscargr_]

​@@MichaelDerryGameitectYeah, that was the part that convinced me he had no idea how or why the C14 method works. He prolly assumed god made (all the) C14 on day 4 of his creation week.

[@AtamMardes]

♦"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." ♦"Religion is founded on the fear & gullibility of many & the cleverness of few." ♦"Only fools revere the supernatural bullshit just bc a book says it's the holy truth." ♦"The delusional religious fools are cocksure & the intelligent full of doubt." ♦"The religious believe by the millions what only lunatics believe on their own." ♦"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ♦"It's difficult to free the religious fools from the chains they revere." ♦“To have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.” ♦"The death of dogma is the birth of morality." ♦"Religion fools many bc human brain is susceptible to hallucination & gullibility."

[@RockinRobbins13]

*48 theist Nobel Laureates* Albert EINSTEIN - Nobel Laureate in Physics Max PLANCK - Nobel Laureate in Physics Erwin SCHROEDINGER - Nobel Laureate in Physics Werner HEISENBERG - Nobel Laureate in Physics2 Robert MILLIKAN - Nobel Laureate in Physics Charles TOWNES - Nobel Laureate in Physics Arthur SCHAWLOW - Nobel Laureate in Physics William PHILLIPS - Nobel Laureate in Physics William BRAGG - Nobel Laureate in Physics Guglielmo MARCONI - Nobel Laureate in Physics Arthur COMPTON - Nobel Laureate in Physics Arno PENZIAS - Nobel Laureate in Physics Nevill MOTT - Nobel Laureate in Physics Isidor Isaac RABI - Nobel Laureate in Physics Abdus SALAM - Nobel Laureate in Physics Antony HEWISH - Nobel Laureate in Physics Joseph H. TAYLOR, Jr. - Nobel Laureate in Physics Alexis CARREL - Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology John ECCLES - Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Joseph MURRAY - Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Ernst CHAIN - Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology George WALD - Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Ronald ROSS - Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Derek BARTON - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Christian ANFINSEN - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Walter KOHN - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Richard SMALLEY - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Isaac NEWTON - founder of Classical Physics and Infinitesimal Calculus Galileo GALILEI - founder of Experimental Physics Nicolaus COPERNICUS - founder of Heliocentric Cosmology Johannes KEPLER - founder of Physical Astronomy and Modern Optics Francis BACON - founder of the scientific inductive methodology Rene DESCARTES - founder of Analytical Geometry and Modern Philosophy Blaise PASCAL - founder of Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and the Theory of Probabilities Michael FARADAY - founder of Electronics and Electro-magnetics James Clerk MAXWELL - founder of Statistical Thermodynamics Lord KELVIN - founder of Thermodynamics and Energetics Robert BOYLE - founder of Modern Chemistry William HARVEY - founder of Modern Medicine John RAY - founder of Modern Biology and Natural History Gottfried Wilhelm LEIBNIZ - German mathematician and philosopher, founder of Infinitesimal Calculus Charles DARWIN - founder of the Theory of Evolution Ernst HAECKEL - German biologist, the most influential evolutionist in continental Europe Thomas H. HUXLEY - English biologist and evolutionist, famous as “Darwin’s bulldog” Joseph J. THOMSON - Nobel Laureate in Physics, discoverer of the electron, founder of atomic physics Louis PASTEUR - founder of Microbiology and Immunology Wernher von BRAUN - rocket engineer, founder of Astronautics Francis COLLINS - Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute So all these are "fools" and useless to science. Sure, buddy. You're a fruitcake.

[@AtamMardes]

@@RockinRobbins13 Bravo, keep lying for Jesus. 👏 Jesus is proud of you. 👍

[@AtamMardes]

@@RockinRobbins13 "The Bible, a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." Albert Einstein

[@AtamMardes]

@@RockinRobbins13 "I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." Albert Einstein

[@AtamMardes]

@@RockinRobbins13 The human brain is very susceptible to Pareidolia, apophenia, hallucinations, and gullibility; That's why religion has managed to fool so many people.

[@Ganiscol]

It appears PhD can now be pulled out of vending machines at your local mall and gas stations.

[@Randleray]

Looking at some degress... I am willing to believe this without sarcasm nor irony... -_-

[@PeteOtton]

They're called diploma mills. K. Hovand has one that is worthless than a 3 dollar bill.

[@Wonzling0815]

This was always possible as long as people are not willing to check on the details of where a PHD is coming from. PHD can basically be bought because the rich would never accept some kind of prestige to exist that is not easily available to them.

[@Badgerstate]

I hear alot of condemnation. I do not hear any debunking.

[@Lee-k9y]

Viva voces mean that PHDs cannot really be bought. Having one, however, just means that you have expert knowledge in a very limited subject. I know lots of dumbos with PHDs...

[@MD_Slaine]

What a shame for this young lady.

[@NathanRyan-v6s]

She was simply letting him talk. She had no option.

[@ballistyxwot4577]

She is one of them (CMI-branded video, CMI stooge interviewer) Yes, it's a shame that she is so gullible, but I hope you're not feeling any sympathy for her having to listen to the old guy's drivel.

[@NathanRyan-v6s]

*opinion

[@tma2001]

its hard to think of a better example of mansplaining!

[@MD_Slaine]

@@ballistyxwot4577 Does it pay well?

[@francoisathome5979]

Dan, congrats with 42, the answer to everything!

[@dingypt]

Happy Birthday @scimandan !!!🎉🎉 Hope you are having a great day!! Thank you for countless hours of entertaining content!!

[@TheTalinea]

Happy Birthday, Dan. Keep up the good work!

[@LTGamingYoutube]

I was wanting someone to take a look at these videos! Well done Sci Man Dan 🚀

[@adamusher468]

They should start these interviews by asking "Can you think of any piece of evidence that could exist that could persuade you that the Earth is billions of years old". If the answer is no, then there really is no point taking anything they have to say seriously.

[@AlexanderNash]

First of all you probably shouldn't be swayed by ONE piece of evidence. I'm confident in the findings of science because they are consistent with thousands of pieces of evidence and built from the ground up as a consistent model. Second of all, I think it's short sighted to say "if you can't convince the other person in the debate then what is the point" well actually it matters because maybe they convinced someone who is watching the debate?

[@adamusher468]

@AlexanderNash you misunderstand my main point. It is whether they feel they could ever be persuaded. Some people, particularly with faith positions, are so sure they are right, they couldn't even think of being persuaded by evidence counter to their belief. If they can't name anything that would ever persuade them, they have a faith position and it is no longer worth debating.

[@UCXEO5L8xnaMJhtUsuNXhlmQ]

The script for all of these people; flat earth, young earth, electric universe, etc.; really seems to be "oh yeah, well if [conventional scientific belief] is true, then why do I misunderstand details about it?"

[@rogergeyer9851]

And sadly, that's very credible to the ignorant.

[@Gumboot-Cowboy]

Happy Birthday Dan. Wishing you a great day many years ahead of good health and happiness. Thanks for all your great videos. Keep up the good work.

[@steveraywood]

Happy 42nd SciManDan. May your towel always be handy and try not to down too many Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters

[@jeffgorgon5455]

The real issue is not the deliberate lies, the grandiosity or the accent: It's wearing the flat cap indoors that upsets me.

[@PeerAdder]

10:41 - so where did a 2km thick layer of mud come from in the period of what 40 days, a year or two? Where was there any land not covered by this mud for Noah to live on after the flood?

[@DoggyZworlD07]

I swear this guy must be the old man who does the dog barking impersonation on the news a few yrs ago. My fellow aussie's know what I'm on about LoL 😂😂😂😂

[@infin8ee]

He's not so savage now 😂

[@josephchidzey6477]

100% him 😂

[@scottmccrea1873]

C'mon Dan, you know that ostriches aren't "related" to dinosaurs, they _are_ dinosaurs! 2:54

[@Left-handed-liberal]

I'm sorry, but Brian Johnson is the only person allowed to wear hats like that. And happy birthday.

[@Soundbrigade]

I thought it was fossilised cowdung ….

[@slake9727]

Only Brian Johnson can wear a flat cap? Do you know how many people wear a flat cap or newsboy cap worldwide? You must be from the United States.

[@andysmith1996]

What about Andy Capp?

[@bats__]

​​@@slake9727 (I think he was making a joke) You must be from the US with that stunted sense of humour

[@Left-handed-liberal]

@slake9727 Yes, I'm from the US, and the fact that lots of people wear those does NOT make them look cool... except by Brian Johnson. I'm mostly joking don't take it personally 😁

[@Allgone-b4k]

Happy birthday Dan, well done buddy. Great videos as always.

[@JimHalpert706]

Thank you! I was waiting to see these guys get called out on here! We'll done 👍

[@DirtyFishFingers]

When he says anything with an s, my ears are blown out.

[@Gorgemainframe]

Man why are people still debating this topic its 2024 now HAPPY BIRTHDAY SciManDan

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Thanks to the internet, the ignorant can find each other and build echo chambers instead of being exposed to better evidence.

[@WitchidWitchid]

Because of stupidity.

[@andymonk2216]

Happy birthday Dan. I wpuld love to see this guy being interviewed by a real scientist.

[@wizardsuth]

Real scientists usually have better things to do than debate those who misinterpret scientific evidence, either deliberately or through ignorance.

[@KiezVision]

Best candidate would be Mary Schweitzer, whose work he is mis-quoting..🤫

[@grahamhill1388]

Happy Birthday Sci-Man Dan ... Have a great one mate ...

[@charleswrightman205]

For some reason I never hear an interviewer ask " where are the fossils of modern animals?"

[@takisk.7698]

nah.. they will probably point to some ancestral species that are "close enough" and call it as "proof" of modern animal fossils.. it's pointless to try and reason with ppl like that honestly.. they can't really use logic even if they claim otherwise. Might as well debate with my dog at that point.

[@rooty]

5:00 4.5 million years old? Well it's not in the thousands, but that is still very young. I'm surprised to see Dan join the young earth lunatics, but he is getting old now and it's expected for mental faculties to deteriorate a bit. Happy birthday!

[@daveg-Vancouver_Island]

lol I thought I heard million instead of billion as well, glad to know I wasn’t the only one!

[@tezzerii]

To be fair he said Billion at the start - slip of the tongue. Getting old, poor chap. (says me at 73 =o) )

[@JonathanStoehr]

Watch out, some flat earther or YEC is going to cut this bit and try to use it to claim who knows and whatever about Dan 😂… “SciManDan believes the world is only 4.5 M years old, see these heretical atheist globers can’t even agree on an age of the earth”… somehow that will be a win for them 😂

[@brad7292]

Happy Birthday Dan! Thanks for your dedication and knowledgeable videos. Make sure to take time off for such occasions!

[@ShadowTheDark11]

Happy Birthday, Dan. Life, the Universe and Everything is 42

[@Cameron-n3b]

Ohhhhh no........sorry brother, I only made it 1:17 into this. I cant do it, I need all the brain cells I have left. WARNING-this clip may cause seizures 😂

[@nedesnikderpherder7529]

1:20 I saw your comment about the same time I had the same revelation! 😂 Might watch because he's an Aussie, and could be a good laugh

[@timhallas4275]

This is what happens when you start with the answer you want and then pretend you found the proof you were looking for. Even a keen mind can be compromised by emotional attachment to religion.

[@netwarrior1000]

As an Australian, I'd like to disown this bloke thanks.....

[@andymouse]

No worries mate ! (UK)

[@USXPOP]

Too right! Disowned.

[@JB-yb4wn]

You can always say that he's a kiwi.

[@johnmcnair8854]

​@@JB-yb4wnha ha that would be a nice change from aussies always trying to claim kiwis as australian

[@lonswain]

I live and the US and can assure you that you have no monopoly on anti-science ignorance.

[@Max_Flashheart]

I always thought growing up that Quicksand would play a much greater part of my life....

[@ronanmckeown9785]

So true. Every day, I pinch myself, astonished at the fact that after 54 years of wandering around on this planet, I dont know a single person who has been swallowed by quicksand.

[@Max_Flashheart]

Quickland is a problem but a person will float on it. But watch a TV series or a movie growing up an it was certain death lol

[@infin8ee]

All of the old tv shows lied. The sleepless nights as a kid were all for nothing.

[@Max_Flashheart]

@@infin8ee So true lol

[@simond.455]

I was terrified of sandpits for a while. Until I took a shovel and found it's only 10 cm of sand.

[@alecgarner]

Victor Meldrew's kicking off again.

[@diskgrinder]

He does believe it though

[@mhansl]

What’s tragic is this poor young lady buying his BS.

[@sbkbg]

Happy Birthday Dan! Hope you enjoy another sun trip around our spinning disk surrounded by the ice wall! 😜

[@leeedsonetwo]

Aw the girl is so sweet and innocent and deluded and completely unthinking.

[@Kualinar]

I can give you the «sweet» part, but NOT the «innocent» part. She have demonstrated that she's very far from being innocent.

[@---yo2yk]

​@@KualinarI think I saw her in "graze my flat earth". Naughty.

[@Greg042869]

She has very pretty eyes.

[@xLCARSx]

Happy Birthday Dan 🍰🎂🎁🎈🎊🎉🙂

[@eur19]

And the flat Earth just goes on

[@MonkeyJedi99]

With thousands of believers around the globe.

[@MasterOfViewership]

not flat. he said it was young

[@SloverOfTeuth]

​@@MasterOfViewership If it's young it's flat, evidently.

[@stevedean2516]

These worms have been churning up the sand for millions of years, thus proving the young Earth! Wait...

[@psoma_brufd]

Happy Birthday Dan! I hope you're having a wonderful day!

[@monstrositylabs]

Never trust anyone who wears a flat cap

[@atticstattic]

I wear a flat cap.

[@andysmith1996]

@@atticstattic I don't trust you.

[@atticstattic]

@andysmith1996 Understood, carry on...

[@ceejay0137]

Yorkshire has entered the chat . . .

[@Run187]

​@atticstattic You probably take off when doing an interview and talking to a woman..

[@markborder906]

Poor old Mary, the number of times she has debunked these creationists lies about her discoveries. Ironic as she was originally a creationist and still a Christian.

[@grahvis]

Yes, she is not happy with YECs misrepresenting her work.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

Creationist and young earth creationist are not the same thing. If she's a Christian, then she's still a creationist.

[@way2dumb]

No. Outdide the USA most Christians think creationism is bullcrap. ​@wallythewondercorncake8657

[@deriamis]

@@wallythewondercorncake8657 Not necessarily. Not all Christians share the same beliefs about the role of God and the nature of Jesus. Creationism is specifically a belief that a deity took direct action to create the “world” as we know it. There are forms of Christian belief where God simply set the initial parameters and physical laws are the only “creation” process.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

@deriamis They aren't Christians then.

[@fjoell]

The usual creationist procedure: If we ignore tons of data giving more information about some tidbits of data and with that painting a much clearer picture, we can spin a story we like around those tidbits.

[@Angua-tu3ot]

Happy birthday week! My Pop always celebrated his birthday month, and we loved it because he would do fun things with us all month. 💜

[@coldfleshxxx]

Happy Birthday mate, I've been watching this channel since the flat earth appeared over the internet. It is amazing that so many years have passed and this "enlightened and woke" individuals are providing still so much content.

[@smashexentertainment676]

Recycling same creationist crap debunked a million times. Y'know what's really impossible? Magic.

[@MattThomson]

Trust me bro

[@ballistyxwot4577]

Like loaves and fishes?

[@JB-yb4wn]

Pick a card, any card.😆

[@marisasalbego1321]

What a quack

[@jamesbond5174]

Guy is a clown , he's certifiably

[@micha_el_]

Happy Birthday Dan!🎉

[@adamdodd6971]

Happy birthday, Dan!

[@promiscuous675]

Thank you, and Happy Birthday.

[@TheCorpsehatch]

I really don't know which ones are more annoying, Young Earth Clowns or Flat Earth Clowns.

[@way2dumb]

A Flat Young Earth clown?

[@Angel-nl1hp]

There's a considerable overlap between the two, to the point that flerfs are almost a subset of yecs.

[@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος]

Venn diagram

[@josephsmith6777]

Both use a fictional books

[@reluctantheist5224]

A dead heat I think.

[@ronnyskaar3737]

This is the new curriculum in US schools.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

No, it isn't.

[@hreader]

Regrettably I think you're right. Red lights flashing everywhere from where I'm standing.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

@@hreader That's not even a real phrase.

[@simond.455]

@@wallythewondercorncake8657 Since PragerU -indoctrination- videos are allowed in Florida classrooms since last year, it sadly is.

[@cmflyer]

Don't worry, there are very, very few YEC's teaching science, public or private.

[@peterdefrankrijker]

_”Ah. Smug mode. Well, I can’t stand around saving your necks all day, I’d better get a start on that ironing.”_ - Kryten, Psirens. Thanks for the reference.

[@arronbwabw504]

I was going to say "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing", but this guy knows what he is talking about. If he is so knowledgeable, he knows the true answers too!

[@billjohnson9472]

this is a typical selective science at 1:55 - somehow the science for duration of tissues is believable, but other science is not, lol.

[@AlexanderNash]

The very definition of cherry-picking. They will select all data points they think bolsters their case and ignore all others.

[@dallasgrant]

I feel this "young earth" theory only exists because they believe in what the Bible says, and if the real world conflicts with their fictional book, oh no things are just not right. Disclaimer, these people do not represent all of us Aussies, most of us aren't idiots, I swear. 😂.

[@anrit5972]

The majority of these conspiracy theories are because “god”. But it makes perfect sense for a person that has an imaginary friend to be capable of believing anything.

[@JB-yb4wn]

In Canada, to keep the gene pool free from this kind of idiocy, we feed them to the polar bears. I am sure you can do the same with the drop bears.

[@dallasgrant]

@@JB-yb4wn I don't think I could subject any animal to devour these people.

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@dallasgrant I don't think the sharks would mind, it's almost cannibalism to them.