A young woman made a short video criticizing Ken Ham’s Ark Park bullshit, and did it so well that Answers in Genesis felt compelled to rebut it. They did it in the laziest way possible, though, simply stealing her entire video and plastering text on it and making the ironic accusation that she was indoctrinating children. Oh boy, that just opened the door to her tearing their arguments apart more.
My favorite part was their response to her rejection of their pseudoscience with the simple claim that Jesus believed it
. Yeah, citation needed. Modern creationism is a hyper-specific derivative ideology that is mostly unbiblical and is built on contemporary culture war issues.
I’m of the opinion that is Jesus existed and came back, he’d be starting over from scratch from all the Christians drifting into fan theories. I can’t trust a modern Christian to accurately report what Jesus said or believed, especially with all the lies they tell me to my face about what I believe.
Kind of a weird daydream I have because of my upbringing as a Christian-turned-atheist: If I was a god, I’d be terrified of saying anything to religious mortals for fear of being maliciously misinterpreted. And when I try to solve it with liberal smiting, the survivors would still “interpret” it according to their selfish interests, potentially claiming those smote weren’t going hard enough.
*IF Jesus existed. Typo.
Spot on.
Awesome video. Interesting that the scales fell from her eyes from an event actually held at the Creation Museum itself, the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham.
Didn’t watch the whole thing, but: interesting that she grew up YEC, and left the fold. And that seems to a big part of Ham’s schtick these days: not converting outsiders, but keeping the flock from straying. “Jesus believed it” is only likely to impress Christians. Anyone else is going to shrug and say, So?
We don’t know what the “historical” Jesus thought or said about anything. Everything we know was written decades after he lived by people who already bought into his cult.
Search “”the line” taylor “jimmy snow”” if you want to see more of Taylor and some other very sharp women (and men) dissecting christians.
To qualify as a young skeptic these days, you should be mandated to read all of Pharyngula 2008-2012 and pass some kind of exam. Throw in some Skepchick questions for good measure.
And take a selfie with Truth Machine by the side of a random pool.