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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.80,0:00:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US population seems pretty evenly divided over whether the human species is biologically related to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.50,0:00:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other animals or whether we were specially created as part of a flurry of miracles.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.48,0:00:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even our collective politicians seemingly all of them are wrapped up in this controversy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.23,0:00:17.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet it's hard to find even one of them who knows what it's about.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.23,0:00:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is it that there's such concern in so many great schools, K through twelve, about teaching evolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.50,0:00:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet there is still a complete consensus among scientists all over America and the rest of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.23,0:00:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that evolution is the backbone of modern biology and a demonstrable reality historically as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.23,0:00:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people don't understand science.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.60,0:00:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it is, how it works, what hypothesis and theories are, or even the purpose behind it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.95,0:00:46.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly even those on your school faculty or state board of education often need an education themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.17,0:00:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before they can be trusted to govern how or what our kids will be taught.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.23,0:00:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why I thought I would speak up and do what I can to help.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.20,0:00:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To adequately understand evolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.10,0:00:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you not only have to understand how to be scientific, which is the real trick for most people,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.43,0:01:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you also have to know something about cellular biology, genetics, anatomy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.53,0:01:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,geology, particularly paleontology,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.64,0:01:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as environmental systems, tectonics, atomic chemistry and especially taxonomy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.57,0:01:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which most people don't know squat about at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.20,0:01:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people who accept evolution also tend to know a whole lot about cosmology,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.28,0:01:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,geography, history, sociology, politics, and of course religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.83,0:01:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to believe in creations you don't have to know anything about anything and it's better if you don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.00,0:01:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because creationism relies on ignorance. It is not honest research.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.00,0:01:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a scam, a con job exploiting the common folk and preying on their deepest beliefs and fears.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.10,0:01:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Creationist apologetics depends on misrepresented data and misquoted authorities
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.34,0:01:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of date and out of context and uses distorted definitions, if it uses definitions at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.37,0:01:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are basically two types of creationists.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.17,0:01:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The professional or political creationists, these are the activists who lead the movement
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.57,0:01:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who will regularly deliberately lie to promote their propaganda.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.97,0:02:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the second type, which are the innocently deceived followers
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.67,0:02:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commonly known as "sheep".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.67,0:02:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know lots of intellectual christians, but I can't get any of them to actually watch the tele evangelists,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.87,0:02:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they either already know how phony they are or they don't want to find out.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.17,0:02:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that only allows a radical fringe to claim support from the masses they now also claim to represent,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.87,0:02:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there's nothing to stop them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.07,0:02:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Professional creationists are making money hand over fist with faith healing scams
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.63,0:02:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or bilking little old ladies out of prayer donations, or selling books and videos at their circus-like seminars
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.87,0:02:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they have undeserved respect as powerful leaders.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.43,0:02:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of them feign knowledge they can't really possess and some of them claim degrees
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.73,0:02:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've never actually earned.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.62,0:02:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You are a scientist, correct?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.57,0:02:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh that's right, I have a PhD in Truthology from Christian Tech."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.20,0:02:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Were it not for this con they'd have to go back to selling used cars,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.53,0:02:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wonder drugs and multilevel marketing schemes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.83,0:02:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will never change their mind, no matter what it costs anyone else.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.27,0:03:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it is obviously the 'sheep' whom I am attempting to reach with this speech
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.61,0:03:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they might not be sheep anymore and will stop feeding fuel in the manipulative movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.17,0:03:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it is one thing to believe something which might be true,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.10,0:03:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like God in general or christianity specifically,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.93,0:03:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though neither can be substantiated or tested in any objective way,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.57,0:03:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's a whole other matter to willfully deceive other into believing things which are definitely not true,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.30,0:03:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like creationism.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.87,0:03:27.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially when we can also prove that those doing this know their assorted arguments are bogus
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.87,0:03:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and know they're lying to our children and that they hope to continue doing so under the guise of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.60,0:03:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,education.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.10,0:03:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Creationism extorts support through peer pressure, prejudice and paranoid propaganda
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.83,0:03:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sells itself with short simplistic slogans
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.73,0:03:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which appeal to those who don't want to think too much, or are afraid to question their own beliefs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.93,0:03:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Worst of all, it actually forbids critical inquiry and promotes anti intellectualism
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.69,0:03:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is based on at least a dozen foundational falsehoods.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.35,0:04:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First and foremost among them is the idea that accepting evolution requires the rejection of theism
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.23,0:04:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if not all other religious or spiritual beliefs as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.17,0:04:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For decades those behind the creationism movement have tried very hard to portray the illusion
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.80,0:04:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one cannot accept evolution and still believe in God.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.00,0:04:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They know better
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.27,0:04:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they still want you to believe that evolution is atheist
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.77,0:04:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that it is either evolution without God, or God creating without evolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.33,0:04:23.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's been their central claim since the creatiionism movement began
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.30,0:04:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this supposed controversy never was about whether or not there is a God.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.33,0:04:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people believe there is a God
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.00,0:04:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they believe he is in control of all the seemingly random events of our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.50,0:04:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is true of most of the people who accept evolution also, most of them believe in God as well
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.50,0:04:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they believe that God is in control of evolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.27,0:04:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that evolution like every other system in nature is part of God's design.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.07,0:04:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of the couple hundred different and often violently conflicting denominations of christianity,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.43,0:04:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the largest of them by far is catholicism followed by orthodoxy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.13,0:04:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both of these have stated support of evolution and denounced creationism.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.17,0:05:02.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pope Benedict recently described evolution as an enriching reality and
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.23,0:05:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,described creationist contest against it as absurd.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.50,0:05:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both of the Popes before him advised christians around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.83,0:05:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to consider evolution to be more than a hypothesis
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.43,0:05:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not to fear acceptance of that as being any challenge to their faith in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.40,0:05:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The early proponent of evolutionary science were all initialy christians including Darwin
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.20,0:05:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many of the leading proponents of modern evolutionary science are still christian today.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.67,0:05:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, microbiologist Dr. Ken Miller
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.33,0:05:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who testified against intelligent design creationism in Kitzmiller vs Dover, is a catholic.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.40,0:05:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another outspoken proponent of evolution, Dr. Robert T. Bakker,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.73,0:05:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has PhDs from both Harvard and Yale
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.90,0:05:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not only one of the leading and most recognizable paleontologist in the world today,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.30,0:05:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he also happens to be a bible believing pentecostal preacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.23,0:05:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though he interprets genesis differently than literalists would.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.63,0:05:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his book "Bones, Bibles and Creation" he says that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.43,0:05:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to treat the bible as though it were common history is to degrade its eternal meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.40,0:05:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the earliest geneticist , Theodosius Dobzhansky,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.77,0:06:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was an orthodox christian who many times professed his belief that life was created by God
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.80,0:06:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that nothing in biology made sense except in light of evolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.17,0:06:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these men agree that even if there really is a God
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.96,0:06:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even if that God is the christian God,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.15,0:06:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even if that God created the universe and everything in it, which they all believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.90,0:06:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evolution would still be at least mostly true
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.70,0:06:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and creationism would still be completely wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.03,0:06:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of all the developed nations throughout christendom
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.90,0:06:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only the United States has a significant number of creationists, and they're the minority even here.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.60,0:06:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every other predominantly christian country tends to regard creationism as
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.33,0:06:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an incredulous, if not insane, radical fringe movement
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.82,0:06:42.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is an almost exclusively american phenomenon and not taken seriously anywhere else.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.43,0:06:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poll after poll continues to reveal that around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.00,0:06:50.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most evolutionists are christian and most christians are evolutionist.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.57,0:06:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So evolution is not synonymous with atheism and creationism is not synonymous with christianity either.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.37,0:06:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most creationists aren't even christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.03,0:07:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are millions more muslim and hindu creationists than christian ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.04,0:07:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Regardless which religion they claim,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.48,0:07:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creationism can be collectively defined as the fraction of religious believers who reject science.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.63,0:07:13.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just the conclusions of science but its methods as well and I mean all of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.67,0:07:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From uniformitarianism and methodological naturalism to the peer review process
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.65,0:07:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the requirement that all positive claims be based on testable evidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.50,0:07:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people rely instead on blind faith and the assumed authority of their favorite fables.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.07,0:07:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In all cases, creationism is an obstinent and dogmatic superstitious belief
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.27,0:07:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which holds that members of most seemingly related taxonomic groups did not evolve naturally,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.70,0:07:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but were created magically,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.77,0:07:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that plants and animals were literally poofed out of nothing,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.53,0:07:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fully formed, in their current state, unrelated to anything else despite all indications to the contrary.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.20,0:07:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Creationists may side with western abrahamic religions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.90,0:07:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being the judeo christian islamic mythos in which there are conflicting versions of the same tales,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.50,0:07:56.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or creationists may belong to one of the many eastern religions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.63,0:07:59.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the sacred stories of creation are much older,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.23,0:08:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,completely different and dedicated to other Gods and pantheon.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.37,0:08:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in every case, the proposed creator is supernatural,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.63,0:08:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning that it is not a part of perceptible reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.97,0:08:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,therefore it is undetectable by any testable means
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.00,0:08:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and can only be assumed to exist through subjective emotional reasons or as a result of cultural indoctrination
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.30,0:08:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than because of any measurable evidence or logical rationale.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.03,0:08:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, there's no way to say if it's really there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.67,0:08:28.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Worst of all there's also no way to distinguish anyone's Gods or ghost
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.67,0:08:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the imaginary being some primitive folks just made up either.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.72,0:08:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This doesn't mean no God exist, but it does mean that science can't say anything about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.33,0:08:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because even if Gods are real, they still don't appear to be,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.49,0:08:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and apparently don't want to since all the holy books demand that they be believed on faith alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.30,0:08:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As there is nothing anyone can verify and thus actually note, be correct about Gods,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.70,0:08:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then science is unable to make any comment about them at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.13,0:09:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because science can only ever investigate things with demonstrable evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.50,0:09:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can be tested or measured.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.47,0:09:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the creationist perspective,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.53,0:09:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the method or mechanism of creation, which these mystical beings use,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.80,0:09:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is nothing more than a Golem spell, where clay statues are animated with an enchantment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.23,0:09:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or it's an incantation in which complex modern plants and animals are spoken into being.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.30,0:09:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's right. Magic words, which cause fully developed adult animals to be conjured out of thin air.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.36,0:09:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or a God simply wishes them to exist so they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.33,0:09:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.73,0:09:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There really is nothing more to it than that. Pure freaking magic by definition.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.00,0:09:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember that the next time you hear anything from a creation 'scientist'.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.00,0:09:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for those who believe in God, the question really is 'how God created' and
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.43,0:09:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether that was by one of many inextricably integrated natural systems he seemingly designed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.10,0:09:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether he simply blinked, wiggled his nose, wished upon a star and said
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.07,0:09:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Abra cadabra!".