Exposing Discovery Institute Part 2: Stephen Meyer

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  @Claudius_Ptolemy · 4 years ago

  Calling science "Materialist Science" is like calling maths "Calculational Mathematics"

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• TI

  @timeshark8727 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Creationists: &quot;The Cambrian explosion, lasting over 25 million years, was too quick for all the phyla to develop.&quot;<br>Also creationists: &quot;4000 years was enough for barely a thousand species on the ark to diversify to over 8 million&quot;<br><br><br>(Edit: upon prompting from Wes Walker I found that Meyer doesn&apos;t believe in a global flood. &nbsp;Sadly, this makes my meme incorrect for this context)

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• SA

  @sachinaraszkiewicz785 · 4 years ago

  Hey, Dave! Let me tell you briefly why videos such as this one matter. I&apos;m a teacher in Poland. 3 months ago I wanted to find a book on evolution to add to our school library. The largest bookstore in town had only a few of these... and each and every one was junk &apos;science&apos; straight from the DI playbook. I checked the publishing house, and... surprise surprise... it&apos;s a DI-affiliate. Their reach is really broad!<br>Naturally, I devoted an entire lesson to explaining ID, creationism and &apos;Kitzmiller v Dover&apos; to my students.<br><br>Please, keep exposing those frauds!

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  @irenafarm · 3 years ago

  The fact that Prof Dave directly contacts the maligned scientists was so powerful the first time I saw this video. I&apos;ve since realized that this is the normal way that research is done. Since my view of science was programmed by pseudoscience propagandists, it was eye opening to realize that the big hats in science put contact information right on their publications to facilitate discussion.

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• TI

  @timmygibsonkc · 2 years ago

  As a former Evangelical Christian Pastor who taught confidently “the creation” myth! OMG! So embarrassing to think back to the things I believed, said, and taught as a Bible thumping Christian! I’m thankful to be freed from that mythical BS and now looking to know what we know through evidential scientific practices!

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• LC

  @LClaret · 3 years ago

  My standards for these fraudsters are so low that when he said &apos;millions&apos; of years ago my immediate thought was &apos;well at least he didn&apos;t say 6000...&apos;.

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• IN

  @invaluck · 4 years ago (edited)

  Professor Dave knows that people watch his take down videos the most, so he snuck a bunch of Biology lessons into the video.<br>Bravo Proffesor 👏

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• CR

  @crazycatlady2744 · 4 years ago

  As someone who studied computer science, his computer code analogy physically hurt me. Anyone who has written code knows that even one random change to code will break the whole program, assuming it&apos;ll even compile; a huge chunk of any programming project is dedicated to bugfixing for a reason. Yet our DNA has about 400 mutations on average, and most of them do nothing to us, we function just fine. All this shows is that beyond the abstract level, computer code is a terrible analogy for DNA, and anyone who uses it in this literal of a way is showing that they don&apos;t know the first thing about either.

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• LE

  @leslieshaw1421 · 4 years ago

  Just a small token of appreciation for insisting that we all keep our critical thinking caps pulled down tight on our heads. &nbsp;Luv and hugs from KC

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  @leighfall4774 · 3 years ago

  As a paleontologist and university professor, I truly appreciate your video. Very thorough job! By the way, the Cambrian Explosion is being referred as the Great Cambrian Biodiversification Event to stop Creationists from misrepresenting the word “explosion” for their nefarious messaging. <br><br>The DI propaganda makes me cringe. I’m glad you spent the time to debunk their insane messaging. It concerns me with interest dropping in the natural sciences at the university level that the DI propaganda will take advantage of it.

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  @AmarettoDergon · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akv0TZI985U&amp;t=31">0:31</a> god damnit, the conspiracy theorists got to Saul Goodman 😔

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• DR

  @dr-awesome-shirts · 1 year ago

  Another programmer here. The &quot;easiest&quot; way to dismantle that stupid analogy of DNA and computer programs is explaining that the program IS NOT the information. A program PROCESSES information. The Excel program can work on myriad of different Excel spreadsheets.

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