Quote Originally Posted by AstralCB View Post
I mean he is trying to force his truth on others by saying we are evolved from primates and "that is a fact, like it or not".

There is a lot of good information in there, but near the beginning of the speech he resorts to absolutes by forcing his truth on those (many) who do not share that truth. Thus he is, for many, tainting the validity of the rest of his information.

If your view of evolution is that of Darwinian science too (that we are a chance result of billions of years of evolution from single-celled organisms to sea creatures to reptiles, birds, apes and then man), then you would obviously feel better about accepting the rest of the information presented. Most of it is good information.

What I'm simply trying to say is the good information may not be heard when those who have a different truth of evolution are trying to get past what was force-fed to them near the beginning of the video.

Maybe I'm unique in the fact (my fact) that proposing absolutes about evolution is quite a distraction.

Hopefully that is a bit easier to understand. It is only my view on it and I presented it as part of the thread as one possible view point.
I hear ya AstralCB, i think his understanding of evolution is probably academic and research based. Maybe he has years of research in the matter and is equating the theory of evolution as fact in the same way that anyone of us would equate other less controversial scientific theories as fact.

Like germ theory, there are a bunch of tested ideas that explain why we get sick that support germ theory.The theory of evolution also has a bunch of ideas supported by evidence that explains why we evolve. It's possible in his mind evolution theory is not very controversial because of his knowledge base on the evidence that supports evolution as a reasonable theory.

As our understanding of things grows theories naturally change and are updated all the time but in order for something to be considered a scientific theory any alternative explanation will be tested. If an explanation can't be tested it won't pass a theory.I also think maybe people who believe in evolution get frustrated with other explanations that are not testable. In their minds some of the untestable explanations are a bit silly which is where the feisty "THIS IS HOW IT IS" statements come from.