Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism

Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism

This is a series made by AronRa on YouTube.

My series exposing the fraudulent claims on which the Creationism movement is based.

Parts 5, 6, 7 & 8 would not download properly, but you can watch them online from the links below.

Series Video Links & Scripts:

The 1st Falsehood of Creationism: Evolution=Atheism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnJX68ELbAY

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/1stFFoC.html

The 2nd Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Sriptures are the "Word of God"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFrkjEgUDZA

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/2ndFFoC.html

The 3rd Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Human Interpretation=Absolute Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnj7PlqmJ5o

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/3rdFFoC.html

The 4th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Belief=Knowledge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80nhqGfN6t8

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/4thFFoC.html

The 5th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Evolutionism Part 1 - Evolution=The Religion of Atheism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzmbnxtnMB4

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/5thFFoC.html

The 6th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Evolutionism Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3k0dDFxkhM

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/6thFFoC.html

The 7th Foundational Falsehood of Creationsim: Evolution is Random

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Q2Db17v5U

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/7thFFoC.html

The 8th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Mutations are Rare, Harmful Decreases in Genetic Information

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-7d06HJSs

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/8thFFoC.html

The 9th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: No Transitional Species Have Ever Been Found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfoje7jVJpU

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/9thFFoC.html

The Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: The Evolutionary "Tree of Life" is Nowhere Implied Either in the Fossil Record, Nor in any Aspect of Biology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MXTBGcyNuc

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/10thFFoC.html

The 11th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Macroevolution Has Never Been Observed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm277H3ot6Y

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/11thFFoC.html

The 12th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Creation Science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkY7HrJOhc

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/12thFFoC.html

The 13th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Evolution is a Fraud!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myfifz3C0mI

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/13thFFoC.html

The 14th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Creation is Evident Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYsnVMjG4lk

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/14thFFoCPt1.html

The 14th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Creation is Evident Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XHbRGiQccM

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/14thFFoCPt2.html

The 15th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Evolution Has Never Been Proved. It's Still Just a Theory, Not a Fact Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wv6kgjOEL0

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/15thFFoCPt1.html

The 15th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Evolution Has Never Been Proved. It's Still Just a Theory, Not a Fact Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGmLDKQp_Qc

http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/15thFFoCPt2.html

SUMMARY OF VIDEO

http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=294#more-294

YouTube user AronRa has made a wonderful video series called Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism. I must commend AronRa for making a well-produced series of brief videos that clearly expose the double standards, bad science, ignorance, and deceit inherent to all forms of Creationism. Great stuff.

But there are a few errors in it, and I'd like to clarify them.

The strange thing is that AronRa could fix or remove all these errors and it wouldn't affect his argument one bit. They are totally unnecessary errors.

Anyway, here are some errors that jumped out at me.

1. Video 2, at 5:03. "Christianity began with the Gnostic faith, and then the Docetics, and Ebionites, and their completely different perspectives of Jesus were eventually combined into a kind of compromise called Orthodoxy."

Response: No. The earliest evidence we have for Gnostic Christianity, Docetism, and the Ebionites comes from the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Paul's letters, which represent Orthodox Christianity, come from the mid-first century. And certainly, the later forms were not combined to create Orthodox Christianity. Such a combination would look nothing like Orthodox Christianity.

2. Video 2, at 5:46. "The rest of what became the New Testament was canonized in the 4th century in a series of committee decisions at a convention at Nicea."

Response: No councils decided the canon. Their main concern was to resolve issues of Christology. The New Testament canon was formed over hundreds of years. Many leaders proposed their own lists of books. Eventually, one proposed by Athanasius became accepted, especially after Augustine endorsed it.

3. Video 2, at 6:37. "[The Christians] opted to remove more than a dozen books from the Bible even though they were still referenced by other books they chose to include."

Response: There are at least 30 books referenced in the Bible that have since been lost. But that's not because Christians "removed" them from the Bible. They are simply lost. Indeed, some of the lost books are Christian books. Update: I misinterpreted AronRa's claim. Nevermind "error" #3.

4. Video 2, at 7:21. "We’re talking about people who believe snakes and donkeys can talk, who believe in incantations, blood sacrifice, ritual spells, enchanted artifacts, pyrotechnic potions, astrology, and the five elements of witchcraft."

Response: Look up many of the verses cited by AronRa and you'll find he's just wrong. Numbers 5:20-26 says nothing about "pyrotechnic potions." Genesis 1:14-15, Job 38:32, Isaiah 14:12-14, and Luke 21:25 mention seasons, stars, and planets, but they don't endorse astrology. Matthew 12:32 and 28:20 don't say anything related to astrology. Leviticus 14 is a strange set of rituals, but it doesn't illustrate the 5 elements of witchcraft. Etc.

5. Video 2, at 8:10. "As a moral guide, it utterly fails, because much of the original Hebrew scriptures were written by ignorant and bigoted savages who condoned and promoted animal cruelty, incest, slavery, abuse of slaves, spousal abuse, child abuse, child molestation, abortion, pillage, murder, cannibalism, genocide, and prejudice against race, nationality, religion, sex, and sexual orientation."

Response: Again, look up the verses. 1 Peter 3:17 doesn't mention spousal abuse. Proverbs 13:10 doesn't mention child abuse. Etc.

6. Video 3, at 5:43. "Throughout the Bible... Jesus always only ever described himself as separate from, and subordinate to [Yahweh]."

Jesus claims to be God in several places, mostly in the gospel of John. But even more verses testify to the idea that Jesus and God are separate and distinct persons, as AronRa points out.

And that's about it! Otherwise, AronRa's video series is great. Go watch it.

“When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Stephen Roberts