Okay ... so we're all making assumptions except: atheists understand confidence levels in assumption whereas theists don't understand the concept of confidence levels. ... or if they do: they present them disingenuously to mislead people. This is what I got from your videos which were informative - if not disparaging. Here's a simple question for you: How was the North Sea oil reserve created? When I use the word "created" in that question - I mean made by natural means. The reservoir of oil beneath the North Sea can only have been created by burying billions of animals suddenly - IMHO - during a catastrophic event. If you can explain how the reservoir was created gradually with the sea already there - I'd be happy to hear your take on it.

Sponges and other things that use silica always leads to the chert or chert nodules came from the sponges. But they use silica to make their skeletons so it begs the question that its most likely the chert almost like silica gel the silica came from the water which there is much washdown and sedimentation heavy in silica with no relationship to sponges. We have huge chert nodules that many call fossil sponges so it confuses everyone that chert means its a fossil of an animal which chert is very capable had there been zero life to form chert nodules by itself. I recently took pictures of limestone at the interface during the great dying where the sea levels rose from the heat melting all ice on earth. So those limestones are quite sterile yet the chert nodules were still there. The dissolved silica is complex but I think in the deep long term ooze could be like a colloidal solution in that the silica came together in a gel forming nodules. I will be uploading a video on chert and will throw in some nodules. also glass shelves--are long lived ocean bottom in which the water is so rich in silica that the items he mentioned make their skeletons out of it. So its which came first the chicken or the egg and I propose the silica was there first and the human mind then must apply fossils to it as the SOURCE of the silica its the other way around.

Ever since Kamala started running I've had the 3rd movement of String Quartet No. 15 by Beethoven in my head. That transition from despair to hope.

Hey nice video as always. I didn't know Mozart composed it on-the-fly like that but I can't say I'm too surprised. He would've had to allow time for somebody to write out the individual parts and for it to all get printed. That probably took longer than the time he spent composing it.

Hi David former student here, Danny, I played excerpts from this at the John Mack oboe camp way back in like 1988!! Do you remember?

Wow, thanks for putting in all this work! I love studying musical scores and listening to recordings over and over. I really appreciate your excellent analysis.

Wonderful! thanks. Now I can go past a mumbled, 'I just like it', to explaining what about it and why I like it.

Thank you so much for this video!!!! Does the video start with a part from "das Lied von der Erde"? It sounds so familiar but I can't place it, it sounds amazing!!

This is a great video, I love your analysis. The use of Charles Mackerras with the Prague Orchestra is an inspired choice. Seán

If you can find it go out and buy it TESTAMENT/BBC Mahler 10 Deryck Cook Mahler 10.

Fabulous analysis. Much more for me to study. I didn’t like most of the interpretation. Overall too fast (so not enough tempo contrast in the middle), and often playing straight through the biggest harmonic surprises as if they were ordinary. I have yet to hear a rendition of this piece that seems to really “understand” what he wrote. The notes and dynamics aren’t hard to play, but many, many relationships are missed.

Incredible job! Thank you so much!

Hope, or lack thereof, anticipates the future. Nostalgia dwells in the past. I’ve been learning to meditate. Mindfulness. Everything in the present. Like a deer hanging out in the woods. Just … existing. Those few seconds here and there when I pull it off have been soooooo unburdened. So-called “lower” life forms have it pretty good, in ways we’ve evolved to no longer understand or appreciate.

There is a lot of very good grief and despair music in the classical repertoire. But yeah this is amongst the best.

I heard a perfectly timed thunderclap outside just after the piece drifted away. Spooked me out a bit.

The last three measures … it seems as if the high strings sustain straight through. Yet I don’t see any ties in the score.

A must learn for all studens and listeners as well. Highly appreciated.

I wonder why all the concern for Carbon 14 dating, it only can date the young organic stuff, not the age of the earth. “The effective dating range of the carbon-14 method is between 100 and 50,000 years.” For the date of Creation, Uranium to Lead, Rubidium to Strontium, Potassium to Argon, or Samarium Neodymium cover the appropriate time range, not Carbon. So, he tries to refute Carbon dating, but only proves he doesn’t understand the radiometric dating applied to earth’s deep-time; geologists don’t use carbon dating, archeologists do.

@ Emma Thorne

Your giggling is adorable. I love when these beliefs cause people to break down.

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? 10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. 14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. 15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. 16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. 17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. 18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? 22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? Ecclesiastes 3

Ecclesiastes is my favorite book! The first intellectual skeptic!

You stole Owen Morgan’s A symbol

Thank you for making these videos! I was unlucky enough to have abusive Christian parents who bought Kent Hovind's bs hook, line, and seeker. They joined the IFB cult (same denomination Kent is from), and mine and my siblings' lives became even more of a living hell than they already were. My dad is psychologically just like Kent, so he was all too happy to have a witty a**hole on his side, our whole family even met Kent twice and my parents took him out to dinner once. My dad even flew to Florida for a couple weeks to hang out and idk, support Kent and his family while his tax evasion trial was going on. I was raised on his seminars since I was 6 years old, and I wonder now what kind of psychological damage that does to a child's brain. I was also homeschooled my entire life, so I had no social life outside of church and family, and no education outside of Kent Hovind and the Accelerated Christian Education propaganda they call curriculum. People like Kent Hovind are so dangerous and need to be exposed. Idk how different life would've been without his influence as my parents (especially my dad) were still abusive, but I imagine it probably would've been better.

Sometimes living in delusion is happier… they would find ways to prove it and even if you have a million evidence for refutation they will still believe their delusion for their “happiness”…

Hi David, One point you missed when it comes to dating fossils using Carbon 14 is a point that Potholer54 addressed in a video to Kent Hovind some 14 years ago. When he said "Oy! Hovind, there's no fucking carbon in it!".

Very enjoyable debunk

We know the Flood story was forged from earlier flood myths so why bend so far over backwards to maintain the historicity of the Flood? It's because the biblical Jesus believed in Noah's flood. And apparently the rest of "scripture" as well. But it's clear now: the Flood, 10 Plagues, Exodus, Wanderings and Conquest stories are myths, as well as most of the characters in those tales dated to the bronze age. Yet scores of New Testament passages refer to these events and people as genuinely historical. In their zeal to maintain Jesus as an infallible being and the bible as an infallible book they must conjure the most outlandish and unscientific -theories- -hypotheses- notions.

Nice Hovind takedown David!

Mr Goza- just found your channel and first off, I want to say Thank You. About 40 years ago, I was a student at Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, Va when you came to lead the music education there. I was a member of the band/drum line and took your survey of music. That class opened my eyes and ears to classical music, a gift that I have been able to enjoy since then. I recall the Sonata form analysis, John Mack, Gunther Schuller, composing on your Mac, your passion for music …. but most of all, I remember my first exposure to Mahler, his 10th. The first movement of the 10th remains my favorite composition to this day. I have some catching up on your videos (which I look forward to doing), however, after all of these years, I wanted to say thank you, thank you for the wonderful gift of a lifetime of music!

Science teacher my ass 😂😂 I like your unapologetic honesty

I like this style better. On another note, would you consider analysing Shostakovich's fourth symphony at some point?

I wanted ice cream this evening but my girlfriend gave me frozen yogurt instead. It was good. But it wasn’t ice cream. This is what listening to wind music is like for me. I enjoy it. But there’s other stuff I enjoy even more. At the same time I recognize just how much texture and contrast winds add to a full orchestra. We desperately need them.

Yeah the written commentary is very clear now!

I think this is marvellous. It's slim enough (unlike the Gran Partita which is a monster feast you're expected to finish because there are people around the world starving for great tunes) to be an actual serenade, and that winsome theme that gets passed around is just Mozartean in its enthusiasm.

Masterly exposition of this marvellous work's features. Many thanks! I and 3 friends tackled the piece yesterday (including the 'entertaining ' section of movement 1, which needed quite a bit of preparatory practice on my part. ) Watching the video today makes one appreciate Beethoven's genius all the more.

Subbed! Thanks for the video! Not a king, a dictator.

A remarkable piece. At first I thought “this could work as a string quintet” but I really don’t think so. Five instruments is too sparse. Too difficult to pull off those broad singing lines. On the other hand this particular performance sounds a bit cavernous. I listened to a studio recording of Karajan / Berlin perform this also because Karajan does Tchaikovsky well and Berlin under Karajan has silky smooth strings.

Mr. Goza - I cannot thank you enough for the time and effort you have put into presenting Mahler’s music to the world in such an immersive way. Your window into Mahler’s symphonies has brought me much joy and completely changed the way that I listen to his music (and orchestral music in general). Thank you for your candor, insight, and humor. Keep up the great work, and be well!

Hent Kovid is a huckster and con artist who "prays" on the gullible, and spins his anti-science garbage to make it sound "pausible" to the uneducated.

I think Hovind is not a good man.

how come that we often know just one movement from a Serenade or other collection? (Assuming that most of us have recognized movement 2)