Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Can You Find These Mutations on Your Body?" video.

I know people like that too, I can use analogies like a pickle turning into a pickle, there isn't a specific point in time where it stops being a cucumber and starts being a pickle, and they agree. Or water dripping into a bucket, they'll agree that eventually the bucket will overflow, whether they watch the entire process or not. But you give it the naughty evolution label..... Suddenly they don't agree.
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@roshanlackhan110 but I think a lot of that 40%, if they were really pressed, would admit that evolution probably is true, but they still believe in God. And I don't care about that, people can believe what they want to believe. But it's just considered sort of taboo in Christian spheres to say that you believe in evolution.
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@Gahdinn that's not how probability works, just because you can't prove something with 100% certainty doesn't mean any other random explanation is just as likely.
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@jamesmccusker2260 nothing is "sudden" when talking about evolution, if you're trying to be taken seriously with your arguments, at least understand what you're arguing against.
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@jamesmcbridenyc730 well I didn't just stumble upon my beliefs by accident either, I don't make any affirmative statement that God doesn't exist, I just don't know. And I don't think any religion has it right either, I just can't accept the idea about some all knowing creator setting up a system where only people who believe a certain thing get some kind of eternal cosmic reward, that just doesn't compute with anything we know about life and existence. I see religion as an attempt to explain things that we can't explain, and if I can't explain something I'm comfortable with just saying I don't know.
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@Gahdinn except evolution is testable, and predictable, and has been demonstrated. It's proven as true to within what any reasonable person would consider as definitive proof, saying "it's not proven" is just a semantic argument, since nothing can be completely proven, not even existence itself. We could be living in a computer simulation, but since that's not provable, a reasonable person would assume that we are not in fact living in a simulation, and that even if we were, there would be no point in arguing about anything. Evolution is the same. Until you have an alternative theory that can be tested, and provided consistent results with the predictions, you have to just accept that evolution is true. If you're a reasonable person.
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@jamesmccusker2260 just because you can't comprehend it doesn't mean it's immeasurable.
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@supremealgo1 I've always seen it that way too, and I don't personally believe in God, or any particular religion. But I don't see where that conflicts with evolution, I mean, if there really is this all knowing, all powerful creator, it would make a lot of sense for him to create life with a built in mechanism for surviving and thriving. That way he can just kick back and play video games and let the universe do its thing. Seems like having to intervene and create everything would be exhausting, also not particularly "intelligent" design to make everything rigid and static.
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@jamesmcbridenyc730 it does, but it doesn't always work that way either, one species emerging doesn't necessarily make it's ancestor or ancestors obsolete, like the finches that are famously mentioned in Darwin's original work, the finches that live on the side of the island with nut bearing trees eventually evolved to have shorter, more dense beaks, to crack the nuts, and the finches on the other side of the island had longer, more narrow beaks, to get into small crevices and get insects. Neither species "evolved" in the sense of being superior to the other, they just adapted to different niches.
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Uh-oh, creationist "REEEEEEE"s incoming.
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@jamesmcbridenyc730 homosapiens are primates. And if I were believing in god just as an insurance policy, then I wouldn't really truly be believing in god, would I?
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@dorraj4685 it's not a direct comparison, just an illustration of the concept.
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@jamesmcbridenyc730 I'm not talking down on religion though. I used to be a Christian.
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You can test science though, that's the difference. And I understand that a lot of the complex stuff isn't as simple as making a volcano out of baking soda and vinegar, but given that you have the know how and raw materials, you can test scientific hypotheses yourself.
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@RevGary yikes.
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@donkeyballs3081 I was looking for a coccyx joke, but I didn't expect this. Well done sir. Let's go Brandon.
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@perceivedvelocity9914 so what happens if you drop an object?
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@perceivedvelocity9914 but anyone can test scientific hypotheses for themselves, they may just lack certain capabilities or materials. But if you really, really want to test a scientific hypothesis, you can save up some money and buy yourself a lab, read up on it and test it and see for yourself.
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Hey man, cheetahs invented Cheetos. If that's not a perfect species, I don't know what it.
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