My favourite bit is where he says the rhino has "one horn at the front" while showing a picture of a two horned variety of rhino.

Classic case of, "I'm the smartest person alive and so if I can't understand how something works then it's clearly a lie." I'm tired of these people.

i like how in the examples *he provides* of animals that all live in the "same environment", he shows them in wildly different environments

"Same area. Africa" That says all you need to know about this guy's understanding of the world beyond what he has personally experienced.

A nervous laugh, an incoherent babble, asking lots of repeated questions but won't bother to educate himself and thinks it's everybody else who's dumb. Classic.

Amazing to be both intelligent enough to use the internet but not understand anything on it.

"Why is these things existing differently ok?" Pure genius man.

This guy just further cements in my head the proverb of "Trust the one who seeks the truth, and beware of the one who claims to know it."

He gives the perfect example of evolution. The giraffe evolved to eat the high vegitation, the elephant the mid level and the rhino eats at ground level.

My favorite argument by creationist/intelligent design advocates is Paley's Watchmaker Argument. He says, "A watch implies a watchmaker." That is, a watch is so complex, it couldn't have come to be unless a watchmaker made it. Yet I see a watch as a brilliant example of mechanical evolution. No one sat down and designed a watch as we know it today without a long history of slow step by step development. No part of a watch was invented (created) with a watch in mind. Crude examples of wheels/axles, levers, springs, and metals were used eons before a mechanical time-measuring device was ever conceived. Watches created watchmakers, not the other way around. Thank you, Paley.

I’m amazed that he can look right at a picture of a rhino and declare that it has one horn.

You know he's right when he counted how many horns the rhino had and couldn't make it to two.

I think his level of education and intellectual capacity are pretty well demonstrated when he asked, "Why is these things existing differently?" and "Why are these things differently? Completely differently?" and "Why doesn't all animals have this trunk?" Sentences like this could reduce an English teacher to tears.

I love that you had a literal child flex that they understand more about evolution at 8 than that grown man does. Very funny, adorable & point-proving 😂

When people don't understand that there are multiple ways to do the same thing, I ask them to cook me an egg. No matter how they prepared it, I tell them they did it wrong.

"There's no evidence" "Well actually there's millions of pieces of evidence that you're wrong" "It's all fake and if you have any more evidence, that's all fake too" Reminds me of "The Bible says God's real and God wrote the Bible so it must be true" but in reverse

I've been teaching science for several years now. When I started, one of the things that surprised me most was how few kids believed in evolution - I always hear "yeah well its just a theory, right?" I get a few kids once in a while who had hyper-evangelical upbringings as well. Despite that, without fail, every student I've ever had seems to have an innate predisposition to understanding natural selection when the process is laid out for them. They have plenty enough common sense to understand adaptation (though usually their preconceptions are more Lamarckian). Its not a particularly complicated concept, and most kids will work out the process themselves without even being told it upfront, given that you arent directly confrontational and allow them to discuss it freely. People dont misunderstand evolution because its a difficult concept, they misunderstand it because they go out of their way to ignore everything about it and automatically dismiss any evidence in conflict with their preexisting worldviews.

I feel like the craziest part of this video is that Elephants had Rhinoceroses HAVE evolved similarly because they live in a similar environment. Elephants and rhinos are not closely related, but they both have large bodies, with thick skin, and defensive structures on their faces. This is because they are both herbivores that live in areas with many large predators. So those traits evolved independently in both groups.

He's like, "look at all this, look at this, I don't understand any of it, look at the neck, why!! I watched a documentary and still don't understand, look why is the trunk longer than a nose, i don't understand evolution or taxonomy at ALL". Lmao 🤣

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine

Evolution by natural selection is such a simple idea at its core. It's not that hard to understand at a beginner level.

So in the 1960's my dad was a mining surveyor for the coal industry, effectively working out where to dig and how much coal to extract. Part of the training was looking for certain types of fossil to indicate where the prehistoric grasses that became coal will be. Just because industry digs a big hole doesn't mean they ignore the rocks around them

My favourite line "these animals all grew up in the same environment, Africa". Not the slightest inkling of just how enormous Africa is!

Love how he says elephants, giraffes and rhinos live in the same area and compete for the same food while simultaneously showing the respective specimens in vastly different biomes.

I love how even the environments in the three backgrounds are so different.

This is reminiscent of my early years as a father, when my curious 5-year old was sitting next to me with an animal picture book and asking me those same questions. Once he heard the basic explanations, he was off and running. Today he is a practicing astro-physicist. This guy sounds as if he might be around the same current age, and yet still trying to start out in life.

I was expecting you to harp on the “they tell us rhinos and triceratops are related.” While the answer is yes, they share ancestors from before the synapsids evolved into existence, he definitely means that rhinos come from triceratops🤔

It's almost like animals who live in the same place at the same time will find niches so that they aren't constantly competing against eachother for the exact same food sources.

He can't even form a full sentence but we are supposed to take his word over the decades of scientific discovery....

A common misconception among these people is that laughing at things makes them false.

What baffles me is that not only people like this exist but they have friends,and familes and they go around saying this ...things. Do people sometimes look at them and wonder "what is even happening right now?"

My dad said he was out at one of the rock quarries they used to get gravel and while he was there they uncovered was, quite obviously, a complete fossilized, what he described as a palm tree. He said they looked at it for less than a minute, then they dumped it in the rock crusher. and that this kind of thing happens all the time.... businesses don't care about fossils. If they called a paleontologist every time they found something interesting they would lose money and never get any work done.

The animals are so different... it's almost like they each evolved separately to fill a different niche within an environment they are sharing with other animals so they don't all have to fight over the same food.

"Why do these things exist in the same environment?" While showing three distinctly different environments in the photos. Classic.

The old "I don't understand something, so it must be fake" argument.

I love how they always speak with complete confidence, as if they were spitting out facts that only idiots could question (well, I guess that's the strategy)

When walking past a zoo my ex girlfriend said "so you think those monkeys are trying to turn into humans". I was totally lost for words, genuinely had no idea how to reply to this.

Personal incredulity knows no bounds.

I think his constant stammering and obvious struggles to speak at all should be evidence enough that evolution is indeed in action.

I like how he asks why are they different in the same environment and then clearly shows giraffes and rhinos in different environments (not a single tree around the rhino) and giraffes aren't on an empty plane w/ grass.

There is no evidence of coherent thought from this genius. Thanks Dan.

“…but they all live in ‘differently’ environments.” *proceeds to show pictures of all three in different environments *

I can't believe he missed how different that bird is looking by the elephant's leg. 😂 I mean we need to address the elephant in the room.😂

The specific term that would have been helpful to include is "niche" - every environment has plenty of distinct niches throughout the food web, and most animals are optimized for just one or a couple of those niches as consumers, because the requirements to be effective and competitive in those niches tend to be quite different. For instance, if an animal is optimized for the insect hunting niche, like a small bird or a bat (assuming free flying insects that don't live in static colonies), they will typically have to be small, fast, and agile, but that puts them completely outside of the large fauna hunting niche - while an animal optimized to hunt large fauna, like a lion or a wolf, will be largely incapable of hunting free flying insects (and even if they can catch an individual insect or two, they will never be able to properly sustain themselves on a diet of dragonflies and butterflies). Meanwhile, an animal optimized for just one type of plant (like koalas and their eucalyptus) will end up being poorly adapted to consume other types of plants - leaving that niche open for other herbivores that share the same environment / ecosystem.

4:30 - I love how he goes on and on about them being in the "same environment" while one picture shows a lush green forest in the background, one shows brown fields with scattered trees and one shows a dried, tan tundra...

We need to see more of this guy. He's so perfectly stupid

Unreal. I checked out the channel; staggering. I wasted five minutes leaving a comment on his video stating that "no one has ever seen Mercury or Venus". Pissed me off because Venus was particularly spectacular tonight in upstate NY, at after 10PM. Keep it up Dan!

This guy laughing at his own ideas about not needing a big brain is just perfect. Sometimes a grain of truth just slips out at the right time! 😆

When human genome editing becomes a thing, the first DNA edit they should change is to fix the recurrent laryngeal nerve, that'll be such a meme, first step to perfection

I'm a programmer since I was a young kid and when I was 10 I wrote a simple "artificial life" program where the "animals" could have different characteristics, like procreation speed, aggressiveness and lifespan and ofcourse some random mutations. For some reason it appeared most times there wouldn't be a single species that would take over, and even when it did some mutation would make things interesting again. When an extremely simple example like this shows the power of diversity, you just cannot conceive that the complex ecosystem of the entire earth would be homogenous. If a 10 year old can prove this point, why can't they?

This is what happens when people think their imagination is the ultimate source of knowledge.

Fun fact: Giraffes are more closely related to cats than to elephants.

Sad story. I used to work out in the mines with a company called Mosaic. Florida, usa. Come to find out, when they are digging they often find dinosaur fossiles.they used to hand them to the local museums which are displayed here close by but they stopped because them having to stop for hours or days to call archeologists to come grab the bones....cost the company too much. So they just crush it all and continue on. So all those dig sites.....trust me when I say they DO find fossils....its just that fossils isn't going to be worth more than the amount they will make for the job.

Ugh I hate when people do that condescending laugh, thinking they’re all smart and then proceeds to spew the most dumbest things…

As a boy on an Eastern Montana ranch there was a lot of animals and two such were White tailed deer and Mule deer, unless there was an extreme season, both species of deer ate different food at the same time allowing both to survive easily.

"I wonder why all those plants look so different from each other. Shouldn't there be only one species, the most successful one?"

"Why don't we see animal bones and skeletons in mines?" Oh I don't know, because the building sized mining excavator machines aren't exactly gentle enough to go around them if they find any?

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. -Hitchhikers guide to galaxy

This is actually sad, that so many people wastes there lives to fight science.

Come on Dan. Of course Rhinos compete with Giraffe and Elephants when it comes to food. Didn't you know that Rhinos are extremely good climbers?! 😂🤣

Something I always find strange about people who are this anti evolution is that they seem to think the whole process is unrealistic when it’s something we see mirrored just about everywhere. Language evolves. Technology evolves. Everything evolves so why wouldn’t biology?

I love how he somehow has a hang up on the fact the rhino has no neck and the Giraffe has a long neck... I do hope he realizes that regardless of the length of a mammals neck, they all (bare a tiny number that dont) have the same number of neck vertebrae... ie 7. Bet he doesn't like to think why that is. Then talks about the elephant Trunk, ignoring the Giraffes HUGE trunk like tongue... lol

"Why are these things completely differently?" That's a good enough sentence to end any shred of credibility that this guy had even the most remote dream of having!!

I love how people like this go "I think" when explaining stuff and then imediately follow up by "there can be no other explaination" ... the logic is amazing.

I love when they think they're making a decent point, when really they're about as coherent as a 5 year old.

"if evolution, why different animals?" LMAO

Funny how he gave himself his answer: "Why do they look different if they compete for the same environment?"... Well because they compete for the same environment, so they evolved different to split the environment into parts.

funny thing is, the trunk serves the same purpose as the giraffes long neck, and the tusks serve the same purpose as the rhinos horns. since the elephant occupies the "between high brower and low browser" niche (the rhinos fulfilling the low browsing, giraffes the high browsing) it actually does kinda share similarities to both

If in a certain city, one person has become extremely successful as the CEO of a company, why doesn't everyone in that city just become a CEO?

Diverse species means that they don't all have to compete for the same niche.

I will never not be absolutely blown away by that Nodosaur fossil. Must have seen pictures a hundred times and it remains incredible to this day.

Ah yes, don't mind me, an atheist about to go plant millions of rocks that I've somehow perfectly made to look like a myriad variety and size of coiled shells. And by 'plant' I mean physically embed in literal rock, hoping that some storm will come around and losen the rock so that random beach goers can find them along the Jurassic Coast in England. All this to appease Lord Beelzebub, of course.

Did this guy seriously try to say that someone said rhinos are evolved from triceratops?!? Also, that "tree of life" he had up is the least accurate one ive ever seen.

I like how much time he dedicates to pointing out the physical differences between elephants and giraffes. I think he actually believes he's made a discovery here that no one ever noticed which debunks evolution.

It is genuinely difficult for the majority of people to understand the mentality of these people when we can see that a minimum amount of investigation destroys their theories. Why can't they see this.... Its a mystery to me.

This is the first video of yours where i wasn't taken completely by surprise that it was about to be over. You should always have an obvious lead in to the end of your videos.

9:47 The fact that an evolution denier said “you don’t need a big brain to figure this out, just critical thinking” was just…chefs kiss

This is what you get when you perform a thought experiment based on absolutely no information. And he's so sure of himself!

It's the giggling with glee that gives away this one's motivations. He is feeling quite smug and superior because he can see through the web of lies that has ensnared 99.9% of the rest of us feeble-brained humans. It doesn't take a clinical psychologist to understand that this guy gets off on this sort of power trip. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't have the intellect or greed of someone like Santos who figured out a way to monetize his sociopathy

Young-, flat earth, anti-evolution, simulation.... that guys the whole package huh?

Darwin took many years; investigating, travelling the World, taking samples and detailed notes, continually questioning and comparing, to arrive, with amazing insight, at his explanation. An explanation that remains valid for all bacteria, animals large and small, and all the trees, flowers and crops. This guy, took an hour or two and never even left his room. He falls in the trap of one doesn't know, what one doesn't know.

He's loud, confident, and incredulous. He clearly knows what he's talking about. 😂

this was so much fun, thanks for making me laugh again Dan. great video as always

Clearly another graduate from Kent Hovens desert shed of knowledge.

In most cases, those who denies evolution misunderstood evolution. What they believe evolution is isn't what evolution actually is

Further proof that not understanding evolution is essentially the only way one cannot believe in evolution

As has been touched upon in previous comments, giraffe tongues can be almost half a meter long, and are prehensile, which is a fancy word for "can grab stuff". Kind of like an elephant's trunk. Giraffes just store them in their mouths instead of having them permanently hanging off their faces.

Why are these people so eager to share their ignorance with the world? Are they proud of how bad they are at understanding simple topics?

At the part with the mines, another great example of large animal bones found in a mine are the nearly 40 Iguanodons in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium.

So... people are digging into 'giant buildings' and not finding bones while digging into BUILDINGS is proof that dinosaurs didn't exist. This guy is a real winner!

Just a point in the video, the person says the animals are all competing for the same vegetation, but the Rhinos are clearly in an area where the vegetation is different to the other two.

Of course they should all be the same, just as all cars are the same, and we haven't developed different ones for driving off-road, or carrying large families, or going fast.

"If capitalism is real, why do all the stores in this shopping center sell different things? They're all in the same area, so shouldn't they all pick the one thing that everyone wants and needs and sell that?" That's what this guy sounds like when he can't comprehend different niches within a given environment being filled by different types of animals.

When the need to believe is stronger than the belief itself

I asked my 4 year old how giraffes eat and even she got it. 😂 (granted, her vocabulary isn’t as large but she nailed it.)

I wanted to shake the stupid out of that guy when he said that birds were the ancestors of dinosaurs. He seriously needs to learn the definition of the word ancestor

“They don’t discover any animal bones” literally one of the pass times in my town is to go fossil hunting in the river… and it happens because there’s a shitload of Pleistocene fossils in my town 💀

Your son is absolutely correct; "They have long legs." In fact they're so long that even with that neck, they have to spread them to reach the water. Evolution made some seriously long legs and we still only talk about the neck. Go SciManSon! :D

The really amusing things is he actually believes he is making a point. And he convinces himself people believe him. He uses the word "ancestor," when he means "descendent." You don't need an education if being an idiot pays so well.

I love that he has to explain step by step that giraffes are not elephants.