Those guys with that "think tank" give off the creepiest vibes.

Theories in science ≠ theories in everyday life. Scientific theories are not guesses or hypotheses, they are explanations that have have undergone rigorous testing, and have been repeatedly confirmed. The existence of atoms is a theory, plate tectonics is a theory, heck, even gravity is a theory.

I was homeschooled and taught "intelligent design" and that the environment always changes. I believe in evolution and fight to educate people about the reality of climate change.

6:38-6:52 Mother of God there is no hope for this country

It's amazing that teaching evolution is controversial. Sad really. "The earth is only 6000 years old." It's shocking to think that people believe that. Crazy stuff.

i had no idea this was such a big issue because in the uk the church accepts evolution and creationism isn't a thing over here

Almost exclusively in America - is anyone surprised? That nation is going downhill so fast it's tragic!

That biologist/creationist is curating a creationist museum that has mankind alongside dinosaurs.... she found the ONE job she was qualified for. Lol

The fact that we are the result of random biology is amazing, astounding, I feel grateful to be the human form of expression, the creativity of nature is mind boggling

That guy talking about digital code is talking out of his ass, since all the best code for artificial intelligence is now being generated through mutative, evolving, machine code.

"They both cannot be true" yeah yours, Evolution is supported by evidence while Creationism is supported by you mixing fact with your beliefs in order to not have your faith shattered by reality

This makes me feel good to be Canadian

I'm pretty sure this is what started the religion of the flying spaghetti monsters/ pastafarianism

The problem happens when people read the bible improperly. The book of Genesis was never meant to be a science book.

To that Christian scientist lady- ....we are in the animal kingdom...who do you think we are?????

I used to go to church but growing up in science class we got taught more about Evolution then the church. We did science labs on it with the skulls going through the line of apes that they found and how we grew over the years. I am working on becoming a scientist and it’s always been a struggle with science as science also can’t say that they are 100% correct because there is always a small amount of change/failure. Which makes people not understand it.

6:43-6:50 LIKE HUMANS. We’re still humans no matter where we came from.

8:54 This is exactly what happened in my highschool. In fact, it was much worse because the teacher asked a couple of students to talk about the genesis of their religions (I.e. Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity) instead of teaching the chapter on evolution. I was one of those students, unfortunately. Now I look back and regret my participation.

In the UK most schools are technically secular and run on standardised curriculums (with some localisation) so religious ideas are kept out of science class even in religious schools. I'm in 6th form and we are now only covering *intelligent design as a philosophical theory in Religious Studies.* In my opinion the right way

there’re saying it’s to teach “critical thinking” but they knew exactly what they were doing: trying to override the separation of church and state. like if HIGH SCHOOLERS are curious, they can do their own google search. there’s a reason church and state is separated. schooling isn’t here to comfort those who question why they’re here, schooling is here to teach facts. things we KNOW based on hundreds of years of research and assessment. if they’re looking for a reason as to why they’re alive then go to church...

This is wild, I live in Louisiana but was only 8 years old at the time of this debate. Everyone here knows Jindal didn't care about education, let alone anyone with his backwards views. The guy is an emigrant who's against emigration...Louisiana is still in shambled from his stupid actions. I live in Shreveport just a river across from Bossier. Belive me this is in nearly every class, not just sciences. For a fact this is a bill allowing more religion in schools, and that science is "bad and scary". There's a reason why Louisiana is behind nearly every state for education...

I go to a Catholic school in England and not even they're brain-dead enough to teach us intelligent design as fact. Hell we even did about the theory of evolution in RE! How you're all to teach to impressionable kids a theory which has just about enough basis in fact as the existence of dragons is beyond me.

I love your stuff, I can't wait to see more.

There was a good movie (and decent remake) about the Scopes Trial. Not entirely accurate of course, but well done. It’s called Inherit the Wind.

Let the South secede and sink back into the swamp if they want to. US Balkanization

I don't understand why they have to take the Bible literally. Our religion teacher (a Christian minister) told us that "this is just a metaphor, so there is no contradiction with Darwin's theory". Imposing a religious perspective in science makes you feel like the US people live in a theocratic state, like Iran...

The Higgs Boson was confirmed in 2012. It's a damned shame we're still hung up on this shit.

My wife was raised by a Christian family she doesn't believe in evolution. she say "I am not descended from apes" I tried to explain to her that we are not descended from apes we just share the same common ancestry as it doesn't mean we are monkeys or Apes or baboon or any primate of any form but she wouldn't listen. also she doesn't believe in dinosaurs but that it's beside the point. Point being when religion go against common sense you have a problem as teaching something that is not logical or scientifically proven it is damaging especially if it's taught in school as fact. Case in point my wife she's not religious but because she was taught at such a young age as well as her father being a pastor she believed the literal interpretation of the Bible as she believes what her father taught her to be true. She's a grown woman in her thirties this is damaging, it is worrisome someone with that kind of mindset working a profession. such as doctor/nurse/judge/Soldier or government official or any form of profession that require logical thinking based on true understanding that are scientifically proven. and not based on religious texts that was written more than 2000 years ago. Mind you it was so bad the first Bible that they needed to rewrite it in the New Testament. the original and the New Testament take many stories from the Jewish Torah and the Jewish Torah take many stories from the Egyptian stories as well as Babylonian the proof is right there that this is fictional when it's come to the Abraham religion. By the way scientists manage to prove that the people that build the Pyramid was not Jewish slave but paid Egyptian people you can Google it for yourself. This just prove Judaism/Christianity/Islam are fictional when is come to the bible/Torah/Quran.

We're going backwards. Fuuuuuck what is the world coming to.....

why the spooky music?

The knowledge that we as a species are not special at all, but meerly a result of random events in the univers, is what helps humankind to make progres, because we don’t have to do anything for a god and everything for our our society.

Sceptical attitudes are great if it means asking "how do we know this?" and "how certain is this?" I get sick of seeing students whose idea of research is cutting and pasting from Wikipedia. Teaching that because we are allowed to question established theory means that we can believe in magic, not so much.

Paleontologists: We did proven, scientific tests and this dinosaur fossil is approximately 178.2 Million years old. Religious People: Umm no, it 5,800 years old because the Bible says so, which (in my opinion) is not a credible source AT ALL.

Evangelical Christians: STOP TRYING TO FORCE YOUR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ON THE REST OF US.

How can a Creationist call herself a scientist? Those things are mutually exclusive.

"what is science, why is it important?" BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING *SCIENCE* What kind of question even is that?! Fuck I'm glad I'm Canadian Jesus fuck

Let's just carve out those states and leave them be alone in their stupid ideas.

If life is so complex that it has to be designed by a super natural being then per extension of that logic the super natural being is so complex that something would have to have designed it. And when people say something can’t pop into existence from nothing by that same logic their God can also not just pop into existence. And if you argue that that God simply always existed the same argument could be maid for matter.

Shouldn't creationism be in Theology class and not science class?

Putting climate change aside for a moment, why is evolution so controversial in America? In Italy (and in Europe, I think) creationism is not even considered in the scientific debate and every student studies evolution in their biology class without controversy, and we have the Vatican here.

I am happy to be in Europe

Welp. This is scary.

Moving to Canada.

nothing is 100%, you can't prove a negative

0:22 that already happened a long time ago

The hot blonde behind DeVos @ 9:30 was having none of it.

That lady really bothers me. She just wants to believe that there's meaning and that we are special. Maybe we're not, we are literally in space rotating around a dying star. She needs to accept that.

the branch comes from the vine and not the vine from the branch!

Hmmm let's see what to believe .... A) A rigorously tested 'theory' that has *mountains* of physical evidence. That continues to grow each year to support it's claims. *OR* B) A book that has been translated (not always correctly) multiple times over a period of a thousand years. Based on the primitive belief system of a group of half starved wandering nomads. Ooooh wow I don't know it's a tough call. 🤣 (For anyone not bright enough to realise I'm being sarcastic here.)

You should show real scientist explain why these statements about "intelligent design" are just fallacies because there's people who won't don't much about evolution and human behavior and may think this "arguments" are true. For example, the fact that code is "close" to DNA is more likely to be due to humans taking their knowledge in some field (like math and biology) and using it in new technologies. Code comes from math and math comes from our understanding of the universe, so it's easy for the *definition* of how code works to be close to the *definition* of how DNA works. We base our knowledge in nature, so saying that technology is very close to it is just pointing the obvious.

I am very religious and very pro evolution. There is still a lot we don’t know about human evolution and we are making new discoveries every day. I think we should bring up criticisms to evolution up in the classroom. However those complaints shouldn’t come from religious teachings but from scientists as well. There are a lot of different opinions among biologists, paleontologists, and paleoanthropologists that should all be addressed.

"I'm a scientist, but I don't believe it" 🤦🏻‍♂️ By definition science is proven! and faith is not proven! Case closed!

Really in 2019? Why is it now days technology is rapidly advancing and we seem to be going backwards🤔. Religion, in school? Earth is 6000 years old?🙄.. And I'm all about critical thinking and thinking outside the box. Hell, I have my own theories but not much fact, obviously I'm not a scientist. And it makes it more fun and interesting to try and see what you can gather on your free time to theorise on. Let them rebel against on their own if they want to.. I dunno, if their just speculations don't teach em. We're going to have a next generation of flat earth idiots.. Good bye humanity🦈..

Aron ra needs to take a trip to Louisiana.

the problem is that, evolution is pitched as a means through which life can begin.

Nope there is more than one truth, nothing is more scientific than questioning established science

The scariest part: 6:00 "but while 98 percent of American scientists accept the theory of evolution is true more than 1/3 of the American public does not"

I thought "alternative facts" were a recent invention of the trump era, but it looks like it's been a long time coming :(

What's funny is they teach evolution in Tennessee now..

Sorry, but evolution is a fact. It's not a matter of believing in it, it's a matter of being delusional or not.

This makes me sad.

What I heard from the discovery institute is that we are in the matrix. 🤨

Look I don't care what people believe but you cannot force your religious beliefs to be taught in school. Teach it at home to your kids, I don't care but schools should be secular since people from many religious backgrounds attend. If you want to have a separate class sure, but then you would have to teach all of them or at least the major beliefs. This would be a cool class that I would like to take but it has to be a choice and not mandated.

As a Southern Christian this shit is embarrassing. These people really think God just put fossils in the ground to prank us or something... This is the kind of nonsense that makes people leave the Church.

religion and education are opposite forces

Well I guess the campaign worked.

I believe in evolution but I don’t really see a problem with this law so long as evolution is being taught - our schools are there to help students understand the subject and then make their own decisions, not force a viewpoint on them. When we talk about Christopher Columbus, we talk about his achievements and his misdeeds and let the students decide if he was a great discoverer or an evil abuser - why would science be different?

But what about the anti-scientific "science" which now claims that biological women and men do not exist (even though the X & Y chromosome exists literally in our DNA!!!) and that being one or the other is just a societal construct!! It seems to me, that if we're going to teach science, we have to accept ALL science!!!

dear creationists if god created the world why are their no native animals in Australia that chew the cud and have cloven hooves

UGHHHH. America, get your shit together.

@6:38 this lady is completely missing the point XD Even if hypothetically speaking, believing in creationism makes one a more moral person (it does not lol), it still doesn't scientifically disprove evolution lol. For the record, I believe Kenneth Miller is a Catholic.

wow, that's fucked loool. "The bible is grounded in science" ahahahahaha

Smash

Cringed when I saw my old highschool also it's pronounced Bo-SH-ier not Bo-CC-ier

Evolution is just a theory

אבלושין איס בוגיס. העולם בן חמש אלפים ושבע מאות ושבעים ותשע.

Science: Question everything! People: How about you? Science: No, don’t question me.

I can't wait for the retro report on gender theory in public schools. "one of the most well-established principles of biology" "who wouldnt want to critique science? problem is, in many things there isn't both sides. There is the truth and not the truth."

Isn't a thing in Canada. Americans. Sigh.

This is why we have Republicans.

The dinosaurs were not on the ark

0:57 "There's the truth, and not the truth". Except if you understood science, you would know that there is no truth. Evolution is a theory.

As the grest "orator" Bill Maher once said, America is a stupid country 😆 I would say, at least 1/3rd of the country lol

Ken Miller, who was featured in this, is a great example of why we need to question Darwinian evolution. He was one of the scientists using “junk” DNA as proof of Darwinian evolution. Now we know that “junk” DNA is not junk. On a Nova special “What Darwin Never Knew,” they were using the fact the “junk” DNA is not junk - it has a purpose serving as switches - as proof of Darwinian evolution. Darwinists like Miller are the ones holding science back. There is a reason that they do not want their sacred cow questioned.

Learn to pronounce Bossier City correctly

So evolution is not a religious idea? I though it has not been fully validated yet.

Intelligent design isn’t creationism

Evolution=smart Creationism=dumb

I get that that lady "looked at the science," but the problem is that she's comically biased. Of course she found away to rarionalize whatever she "looked at" so that it backs up her religious beliefs. She should not be teaching science.

The anthropologist in me is cringing. So much cringe. CRINGE!!!!!!!