@gilberthamilton9312
"Where you have seen only one set of fossil footprints, my child, is when I carried you." - Raptor Jesus
@PowerPakGames
If you consider the mantrack carvings as art, this is the most winding and complicated application of Death of the Author in history.
@lilybunne
I won't lie, I breathed a sigh of relief when Roland Bird's story didn't end with "so desperate for approval he fakes footprints and there's a scandal!". Good on him for his big and legit find!
@raks0
I love the hyperbaric chamber idea so much as a counterproof to evolution... like "I'm gonna put a bunch of organisms in a new environment and observe the changes that happen over time and that'll show those crazy scientists that nothing ever changes"
@Avery_Beausoleil
Raptors using their claws to farm invasive sugar cane and bamboo is the deep lore I needed for this 5000 year old good Christian Minecraft server.
@findmeinthefuture.
5:00 "The human footprints were cartoonish, resembling the artist's guess at what a human footprint would look like. These dinosaur tracks were a different story. They were so good that the creator must have been working from a reference." I've already figured out the twist. Both carvings were done by a dinosaur. He had to guess what a human's foot looks like, but he could just use his own foot for reference for the dinosaur tracks.
@vvitchrozen3073
"the resulting work was so poor, so misleading, that it prompted an 11,000 word response" followed by Hbomberguy's voice was chef's kiss
@Nurpus
From this I learned one lesson to overcome misinformation: Every successful peer-review of a study should come with a free coupon for a songwriter to make a catchy tune about it
@Dragonslayer-be5ts
I love the logic of “we used to be big so that means we didn’t evolve” as if us shrinking couldn’t also be a form of evolution.
@JinStreams
Finally, Dan Olson talking about feet for a feature length video
@ilanag6096
"he would hold the chisel, she would swing the hammer" what a great couple bonding activity
@TimKoski
I would legit love to go to a museum that was just full of fraudsters, scams, and fake "artifacts" that explained the con, the history of how it came to be, and how to spot something was fake. It would be wildly informative but also entertaining learning about all the hucksters just like this video essay.
@dan9738
I love the parts that go "this book/film was generally poorly received, receiving much criticism for its distortion of facts and pseudoscientific arguments. It is commonly used for homeschooling in America."
@HobGungan
Me for the first 20 minutes: "Gosh, what a wholesome story about the discovery of some sauropod tracks. My lifelong dino-nerd side is beaming." Me at the same time as Dan: "Wait...what was that about Genesis?"
@Mxradio414
when i was young, my parents took my sister and i to the creation museum under the justification of its novelty. it was a tourist stop on the way in a larger road trip. none of us believe (or, indeed, believed then) in any of the creationism ideas, and so my sister and i were told very seriously to not make a scene in the museum, not to laugh or make fun to avoid offending the curators or anyone visiting taking the museum seriously. this was a difficult task for two preteens, but my sister and i managed, which made it all the funnier when my dad stumbled on a sign proclaiming that the reason there are similar species across continents is because during the flood these animals clung to driftwood to stay afloat, and the currents of the flood carried them to their new home, and my dad yelled, "what the fuck?"
@catied2944
I grew up homeschooled in Fort Worth, Texas always interested in science. My high school science textbooks were written by creationists, Ken Ham was featured at the local Homeschool Book Fair, and my chemistry professor in college was an old-earth creationist. Francis Collins, head of the NIH and Human Genome projects, wrote a book attempting to show believers how to hold their belief in God and non-crank science together. I read it, loved it, and vowed that one day I would meet Francis Collins not as a fan but as a scientist. Many years later, I moved across the country for a job and snuck into a symposium held by my local university's genetics department where Francis Collins would be in attendance. I met my hero, but I also met my now PhD advisor at that symposium. I'm no longer a Christian, but this video helped me understand the historical context of creationism in my hometown.
@BigJoel
the story of the poop that looks like a scared alligator is inspirational tho. imagine if it was your own poop
@LGR
Once you busted out the flannelgraph board and started talking flood geology, I knew I was in for some stuff… such surreal evangelical Southern Baptist homeschooled childhood memories I’d half forgotten, but there they are again.
@MenacingBanjo
"Sometimes facts alone can't convey how much a person meant to their community." This is a fantastic quote about why stories often become exaggerated.
@jeohist