# Prof. Jiang vs Evolution

An episode of [Viced Rhino: The Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1536972599), 3 Apr 2026, 28 min.

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Professor Jiang Xueqin explains to us what he thinks is wrong with evolution. How much does he even know about the subject? Cards: Without The Image of God, Slavery Makes Sense?!?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1r0oS3Q4yI PhD in Biochemistry Doesn't Understand the BASICS of Biology?!?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsm-1UNuRnI Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/26obsmow Sources: Antisemitism in History: From the Early Church to 1400: https://tinyurl.com/y9kqx9x6 Infidel: https://tinyurl.com/2a6kbuqc Slavery in Medieval Europe: https://tinyurl.com/2799gsot On the Origin of Species: https://tinyurl.com/2au5luvk Sanhedrin: 108b: https://tinyurl.com/252cha4y Facing America's History of Racism Requires Facing the Origins of 'Race' as a Concept: https://tinyurl.com/yhyodgs9 Teleology: https://tinyurl.com/mkghrsx The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes: https://tinyurl.com/2ad49fs4 Genetic diversity in humans and non-human primates and its evolutionary consequences: https://tinyurl.com/294wdzcr Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left: https://tinyurl.com/yt3xzynn Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought: https://tinyurl.com/23fb2yzy All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com This content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/viced-rhino-the-podcast--4623273/support. All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com This content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org

## Transcript

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[0:27] Speaker 3: Here.
[0:27] Speaker 2: Today I'm looking at a video by Professor Jiang, and
[0:30] Speaker 2: full disclosure, I did find this video on an unofficial
[0:34] Speaker 2: re upload channel where the only thing they do is
[0:36] Speaker 2: upload videos from his actual channel, seemingly without permission. Given
[0:40] Speaker 2: that Professor Jang has over two million subscribers and the
[0:43] Speaker 2: re upload channel only has forty one, it took me
[0:45] Speaker 2: a while to find the original to link to because
[0:47] Speaker 2: of that, but I did find that this video is
[0:49] Speaker 2: a snippet from the beginning of one of his secret
[0:51] Speaker 2: history lectures. It's over an hour long, so I'm not
[0:54] Speaker 2: going to respond to the whole thing. I'll keep it
[0:55] Speaker 2: to this clip, but I am linking to the actual
[0:58] Speaker 2: lecture rather than the channel that's stealing it. Anyway, this
[1:01] Speaker 2: guy has been getting a lot of attention on social
[1:03] Speaker 2: media recently for his predictions about what's going to happen
[1:05] Speaker 2: regarding the war in Iran, predictions that are phrased in
[1:08] Speaker 2: a way that makes it ambiguous as to whether or
[1:10] Speaker 2: not he actually believes in the Biblical apocalyptic narrative, or
[1:13] Speaker 2: if he just thinks that the people in charge believe
[1:15] Speaker 2: in that narrative and so will make certain decisions with
[1:17] Speaker 2: those things in mind. This video has nothing to do
[1:19] Speaker 2: with that, but since it's him explaining why he thinks
[1:22] Speaker 2: evolution is wrong, it does give us a hint as
[1:24] Speaker 2: to his beliefs regarding the Biblical apocalypse. So let's take
[1:28] Speaker 2: a look.
[1:35] Speaker 3: This is Charles Darwin and arguably he is the most
[1:40] Speaker 3: influential thinker of the past twenty eight years.
[1:45] Speaker 2: Yes, arguably, whatever your opinion on his specific spot on
[1:49] Speaker 2: that hierarchy, he is definitely up there.
[1:51] Speaker 3: And the reason why is he wrote a book call
[1:54] Speaker 3: The Origo Species, and he presents to us the fear
[1:58] Speaker 3: of evolution. And you all know a fear of evolution
[2:03] Speaker 3: because they teached this to you in school and is
[2:06] Speaker 3: embedded in our everyday lives.
[2:09] Speaker 2: Well, it's embedded in our everyday lives in the sense
[2:12] Speaker 2: that a lot of our understanding of biology and by extension,
[2:14] Speaker 2: medicine is based on our understanding of evolution. But for
[2:17] Speaker 2: most people, aside from their interaction with modern medicine, evolution
[2:21] Speaker 2: isn't really relevant to their lives.
[2:25] Speaker 3: And there are three main ideas to the they of evolution.
[2:29] Speaker 3: The first is that it was all accidental.
[2:32] Speaker 2: Not accidental. The word accident implies that there was an
[2:35] Speaker 2: intention that went wrong. The intention was for X to happen,
[2:38] Speaker 2: But why happened by accident? He's got random written up
[2:42] Speaker 2: there as well, And while that one is closer, it
[2:44] Speaker 2: still requires a bit of nuance. But I'm getting ahead
[2:46] Speaker 2: of myself. Let's let him explain what he means.
[2:49] Speaker 3: So you have these geneic mutations, and the mutation that
[2:53] Speaker 3: is best fitted to survive in environment would win out. Okay,
[2:58] Speaker 3: so it's all a random, accidental process. That's the first thing.
[3:02] Speaker 2: The mutations themselves are mostly random, but which mutations win
[3:05] Speaker 2: out are determined by the environment in which they occur,
[3:09] Speaker 2: not randomly. But also, this is only one mechanism of evolution.
[3:13] Speaker 2: There are also things like sexual selection that play a role,
[3:16] Speaker 2: and sexual selection is decidedly non random.
[3:20] Speaker 3: Second thing is that it is materialistic, meaningfing that you
[3:25] Speaker 3: can see is all that exists.
[3:28] Speaker 2: Now, evolution is completely silent on whether or not supernatural
[3:32] Speaker 2: stuff exists. Now, we learn about evolution by utilizing methodological naturalism.
[3:37] Speaker 2: That is, scientists who work on it don't look for
[3:39] Speaker 2: supernatural causes, regardless of what they personally believe about the supernatural.
[3:43] Speaker 2: And this philosophy is what has thus far in human
[3:46] Speaker 2: history been the best at learning true things about reality.
[3:50] Speaker 3: The third thing is it is emergent, meaning that feel
[3:54] Speaker 3: things built on top of each other. It is a
[3:56] Speaker 3: bottom up process.
[3:58] Speaker 2: I would agree with that, but I know I know
[4:00] Speaker 2: that there are theistic evolutionists who believe that God guides
[4:03] Speaker 2: evolution and had humans in mind as one of its
[4:05] Speaker 2: end goals. Although I suppose using evolution would still be
[4:08] Speaker 2: a bottom up approach, but with some top down foresight
[4:10] Speaker 2: added into the mix.
[4:12] Speaker 3: Now, the fear of evolution marked a turning point in
[4:17] Speaker 3: human history because before European countries were Christian, and Christians
[4:23] Speaker 3: believed that there was a divine God who created us
[4:27] Speaker 3: and us such we were all equal before the eyes
[4:31] Speaker 3: of God.
[4:32] Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's entirely accurate, given the fact that
[4:35] Speaker 2: the Thirty Years War is a thing that happened, you know,
[4:38] Speaker 2: a war that was entirely between two different sects of
[4:40] Speaker 2: Christianity who thought that belonging to the other made a
[4:43] Speaker 2: person less than human, thus justifying their extermination. Or that
[4:46] Speaker 2: feudalism was a thing with the land owning nobility exploiting
[4:49] Speaker 2: the labor of the peasantry in order to increase their wealth,
[4:52] Speaker 2: with the nobility class being quite certain that they were
[4:54] Speaker 2: inherently better than the peasants. Or the slave trade, both
[4:57] Speaker 2: the Atlantic one and the regular old European slave trade
[5:00] Speaker 2: that was the precursor to the Atlantic one, which I
[5:02] Speaker 2: covered in more detail in another video that I'll link to.
[5:05] Speaker 2: Or the rampant anti Semitism throughout medieval Europe, where people
[5:08] Speaker 2: were often encouraged by those in power to blame Jewish
[5:10] Speaker 2: people for anything that went wrong, anything from crop failures
[5:14] Speaker 2: to disease resulting in prolonged persecution and sporadic programs, or
[5:18] Speaker 2: or point is society, even European Christian society, was not
[5:25] Speaker 2: some egalitarian utopia up until Darwin came along and ruined
[5:28] Speaker 2: it with evolution.
[5:30] Speaker 3: Therefore, you can I go in enslave other people, you
[5:32] Speaker 3: can I go and kill other people?
[5:35] Speaker 2: You might want to go back in time and let
[5:36] Speaker 2: the medieval Europeans know that, because their behavior definitely didn't
[5:40] Speaker 2: bear that out. Like I didn't even mention the Crusades,
[5:43] Speaker 2: where Christians invaded the Holy Land under the impression that
[5:45] Speaker 2: killing Muslims was a way to earn forgiveness for past sins.
[5:50] Speaker 3: As well. There were three main ideas to Christianity. Okay,
[5:55] Speaker 3: the first idea is one omniscient and omnipresent God.
[6:01] Speaker 2: Well, I counted three, the Father, the Son, and the
[6:04] Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. The idea of these three entities only being
[6:07] Speaker 2: one being while still being distinct individuals is rather nonsensical,
[6:11] Speaker 2: but also unrelated but fun fact that I recently learned
[6:14] Speaker 2: there was a series of poems written by early Christians
[6:17] Speaker 2: sometime between seventy and one to twenty five CE, the
[6:20] Speaker 2: Odes to Solomon. The nineteenth one has what is, as
[6:23] Speaker 2: far as I can tell, an excellent contender for the
[6:25] Speaker 2: first explicit reference to the doctrine of the Trinity in
[6:28] Speaker 2: early Christian literature. Let's read the first four verses just
[6:31] Speaker 2: for shits and giggles.
[6:32] Speaker 3: Quote.
[6:33] Speaker 2: A cup of milk was offered to me, and I
[6:35] Speaker 2: drank it in the sweetness of the delight of the Lord.
[6:38] Speaker 2: The Son is the cup, and he who is milked
[6:40] Speaker 2: is the Father. And the Holy Spirit milked him because
[6:43] Speaker 2: his breasts were full, and it was necessary for him
[6:45] Speaker 2: that his milk should be sufficiently released. And the Holy
[6:48] Speaker 2: Spirit opened his bosom and mingled the milk from the
[6:51] Speaker 2: two breasts of the Father and gave the mixture to
[6:53] Speaker 2: the world without their knowing. So, according to this poem,
[6:57] Speaker 2: which was written around the same time as the Gospels,
[7:00] Speaker 2: God enjoyed milking himself into a cup made of himself
[7:03] Speaker 2: for people to drink Kinki.
[7:06] Speaker 3: The spirit, the Holy Spirit, is what infuses life. It's
[7:10] Speaker 3: what gives meaning of purpose to life.
[7:12] Speaker 2: And hey, wouldn't you know it. Whether or not that
[7:15] Speaker 2: is a thing that happens is a completely separate question
[7:17] Speaker 2: from whether or not evolution is a thing that happens.
[7:20] Speaker 3: And the world is a mystery. We have the hold
[7:23] Speaker 3: faith there are things that we cannot understand. God has
[7:26] Speaker 3: a plan, but it is a mysterious plan.
[7:29] Speaker 2: Okay, so apparently earlier when he said emergent, not only
[7:32] Speaker 2: did he mean bottom up, he also meant no mystery.
[7:36] Speaker 2: But if you think the natural world doesn't contain any
[7:39] Speaker 2: mystery without adding in a bunch of supernatural, then I
[7:42] Speaker 2: honestly feel kind of sorry for you. The world is
[7:45] Speaker 2: full of mystery, and a lot of it is stuff
[7:47] Speaker 2: that we as humans can work towards solving, and that's exciting.
[7:52] Speaker 2: But I guess it only counts as a mystery if
[7:54] Speaker 2: it's actually impossible to figure out, and honestly, that kind
[7:57] Speaker 2: of mystery is much less inspiring. Science is cool. Put
[8:00] Speaker 2: the effort in and you can learn all sorts of needs.
[8:03] Speaker 2: God is boring, no matter how much effort you put in.
[8:06] Speaker 2: The answer to the question of why an all powerful,
[8:08] Speaker 2: benevolent being allows evil will always be a variant of
[8:11] Speaker 2: mysterious ways. Why would we expect to be able to
[8:15] Speaker 2: learn the answer. We're just humans. God's ways are beyond
[8:18] Speaker 2: our ways. It really is, as Nietzsche said, a very
[8:21] Speaker 2: gross and indelicate answer to the question.
[8:24] Speaker 3: And so we must be humble and serve the purpose
[8:29] Speaker 3: of God.
[8:30] Speaker 2: You must do as I say without question, even if
[8:33] Speaker 2: what I say doesn't seem to make sense to you,
[8:35] Speaker 2: and you think that's better than accepting the fact that
[8:38] Speaker 2: evolution happens.
[8:39] Speaker 3: Okay, and the fear of evolution destroys conceptric universe introduce
[8:45] Speaker 3: a more materialistic one.
[8:46] Speaker 2: Honestly, if evolution destroys the idea that we all have
[8:50] Speaker 2: to do what God says without understanding why, then that's
[8:52] Speaker 2: a good thing, especially given the fact that God only
[8:55] Speaker 2: ever seems to speak through human representatives who inevitably tell
[8:58] Speaker 2: you that God wants you to give them money. Not
[9:01] Speaker 2: to mention all the times those tactics have turned into
[9:03] Speaker 2: sexual abuse.
[9:05] Speaker 3: So why did this happen? Well, it happened for three reasons.
[9:10] Speaker 3: The main reason is that we live in a nineteenth century.
[9:15] Speaker 3: When Darism came into being, Europeans were engaged in a
[9:19] Speaker 3: process of imperialism. They were going around the world and
[9:22] Speaker 3: conquering other people and colonizing other people and essentially committing genocide.
[9:28] Speaker 2: Did he forget the beginning of his presentation where he
[9:31] Speaker 2: claimed that European Christianity had convinced everyone that all people
[9:35] Speaker 2: are equal. Therefore you cannot go in enslave or kill
[9:38] Speaker 2: other people. I'll give you credit for acknowledging that European
[9:40] Speaker 2: colonialism was largely an exercise in genocide and attempt at genocide,
[9:45] Speaker 2: But I'm not sure how that squares with the discovery
[9:47] Speaker 2: of evolution being the turning point where suddenly we were
[9:49] Speaker 2: all like, yay, slavery is okay now, which I'd just
[9:53] Speaker 2: like to remind you of the timing there. Darwin's book
[9:56] Speaker 2: was published in eighteen fifty nine. That's just two years
[9:59] Speaker 2: before the America Civil War and just twenty six years
[10:02] Speaker 2: after the UK outlawed slavery. His book that supposedly gave
[10:05] Speaker 2: Europeans the excuse they were looking forward to engage in
[10:08] Speaker 2: slavery was published right in the middle of a time
[10:10] Speaker 2: when Europeans and their American cousins were in the process
[10:13] Speaker 2: of deciding that the slave trade they had already been
[10:16] Speaker 2: engaged in for literally thousands of years was no longer acceptable.
[10:20] Speaker 2: From a purely correlational perspective, you couldn't have any more backward.
[10:25] Speaker 3: So they needed a theory to explain why this is happening,
[10:28] Speaker 3: and Darwin's theory of surround the fit is was the
[10:31] Speaker 3: most appropriate theory. And the idea is that the world
[10:34] Speaker 3: is fed into racist and the white race is superior
[10:39] Speaker 3: to everyone else, and if for the white race has reason,
[10:43] Speaker 3: has legitimacy in colonizing other people.
[10:47] Speaker 2: Darwin absolutely did not invent the concept of race. In fact,
[10:51] Speaker 2: Origin of Species barely even touches on humans. The word
[10:55] Speaker 2: human only appears in the book five times. Once is
[10:57] Speaker 2: an offhanded mention of the shape of a mother's pelvis
[11:00] Speaker 2: influencing the shape of a baby's head, once in comparing
[11:02] Speaker 2: the eye to a telescope, and mentioning that the telescope
[11:04] Speaker 2: was invented by humans, Once in the introduction to chapter fourteen,
[11:07] Speaker 2: where he opens by acknowledging that it's hard to believe
[11:09] Speaker 2: that the complexity of life came about through processes that
[11:12] Speaker 2: are not equal or superior to human reason, And once
[11:15] Speaker 2: later on in chapter fourteen, where he points out that
[11:17] Speaker 2: the length of time the earth has been around for
[11:19] Speaker 2: is so large as to be inappreciable by the human intellect. Admittedly,
[11:23] Speaker 2: just searching for the word man yields sixty eight results
[11:26] Speaker 2: almost nice, but again, they aren't even about the evolution
[11:30] Speaker 2: of humans. It's mostly in the passages dealing with artificial selection,
[11:33] Speaker 2: where humans have bread plants and animals to have features
[11:35] Speaker 2: that are useful to us, even if they would be
[11:37] Speaker 2: detrimental to the plants and animals had they remained in
[11:40] Speaker 2: the wild. Meanwhile, the concept of race is a complicated
[11:43] Speaker 2: one that sociologists and anthropologists will tell you are as
[11:46] Speaker 2: old as civilization itself, though the concept has changed dramatically
[11:49] Speaker 2: in that time. I mean hell, It's even present in
[11:51] Speaker 2: the rabbinic literature. Sanhedron one oh eight b says that
[11:54] Speaker 2: Noah's sun Ham was punished with black skin for the
[11:57] Speaker 2: crime of having sex with his wife while on the arc.
[11:59] Speaker 2: But our modern conception of race as distinct categories of
[12:03] Speaker 2: people is largely based on ideas formulated in the sixteen
[12:06] Speaker 2: and seventeen hundreds, well before Darwin. In Europe specifically, the
[12:10] Speaker 2: idea was that white people were the original pure specimens
[12:13] Speaker 2: created by God, and all other skin colors were a
[12:16] Speaker 2: degradation of this initial perfection. Point is, white supremacy is
[12:20] Speaker 2: way older than Darwin, and our modern understanding of evolution
[12:23] Speaker 2: has actually led to the conclusion that race is a
[12:25] Speaker 2: social construct. It has no biological basis. Now this isn't
[12:29] Speaker 2: to say that race is not a real thing or
[12:32] Speaker 2: important or whatever. As I have to do every time
[12:35] Speaker 2: I bring up the concept of social constructs, I must
[12:37] Speaker 2: remind you that being socially constructed does not equate to
[12:40] Speaker 2: not being important or real. Other socially constructed things include money, citizenship,
[12:45] Speaker 2: and marriage. All of these things are things that are
[12:48] Speaker 2: important to our day to day lives, but they are
[12:50] Speaker 2: things that would not exist without a society that constructs them.
[12:53] Speaker 2: A Canada goose that is born in Canada will have
[12:56] Speaker 2: no problem ignoring our arbitrary borders when going on its
[12:59] Speaker 2: annual Migraine. They don't even get travel insurance to pay
[13:02] Speaker 2: the ridiculous American health care costs. That's because they are
[13:05] Speaker 2: not part of society and so don't have the social
[13:08] Speaker 2: construct of citizenship and borders thrust upon them based on
[13:11] Speaker 2: their place of birth. Hell, the existence of countries is
[13:14] Speaker 2: also a social construct. There is no fact about reality
[13:18] Speaker 2: that makes the land I'm sitting on now fundamentally different
[13:21] Speaker 2: from that which is a mere two kilometers east of me.
[13:23] Speaker 2: But if I want to go to that spot to
[13:25] Speaker 2: my east, I need to get the appropriate documents from
[13:27] Speaker 2: the government of Canada that essentially act as permission to
[13:29] Speaker 2: leave the country, and I have to go through a
[13:31] Speaker 2: checkpoint where agents of the American government determine whether or
[13:34] Speaker 2: not I have permission to enter their country. All of
[13:37] Speaker 2: that is socially constructed and also very real and important,
[13:41] Speaker 2: but the fact remains that there is more diversity in
[13:44] Speaker 2: African populations than anywhere else in the world, meaning that
[13:47] Speaker 2: from a biological perspective, the differences between skin colors aren't
[13:51] Speaker 2: any more significant than the differences between other features like
[13:54] Speaker 2: hair color. The reason African populations are so diverse is
[13:58] Speaker 2: understood to be because of evolution. Humanity originally developed in Africa,
[14:02] Speaker 2: so when a population left the continent, it became genetically
[14:05] Speaker 2: isolated from the rest of humanity, resulting in a loss
[14:08] Speaker 2: of genetic diversity, while the parent population kept chugging along,
[14:11] Speaker 2: increasing its diversity as it went. Thus, an actual understanding
[14:16] Speaker 2: of evolution would lead us to conclude that racism is
[14:19] Speaker 2: completely unjustified, while religion promotes in group and outgroup thinking
[14:23] Speaker 2: that lends itself quite nicely to racism.
[14:27] Speaker 3: And evolution would give rise to racism and eugenics.
[14:31] Speaker 2: Okay, racism already existed, which resulted in people who were
[14:35] Speaker 2: already racist using evolution as an excuse for their racism.
[14:38] Speaker 2: But just because bad people use their incomplete understanding of
[14:41] Speaker 2: evolution to support their bad ideas does not mean that
[14:44] Speaker 2: their bad ideas are inherently linked with evolution. As I
[14:48] Speaker 2: just explained. A proper modern understanding of evolution would have
[14:51] Speaker 2: us do away with racism entirely if we were actually
[14:54] Speaker 2: basing our ideas on rigorous science.
[14:57] Speaker 3: So before Thauridism, we didn't need to have a hearts
[15:00] Speaker 3: of off race because everyone was equal in the eyes
[15:04] Speaker 3: of God.
[15:05] Speaker 2: Come on, man, you literally just finish pointing out the
[15:08] Speaker 2: fact that Europeans were traveling the globe and committing genocides
[15:11] Speaker 2: everywhere they went because they saw those other people as
[15:14] Speaker 2: less than How does that square with the whole We
[15:17] Speaker 2: didn't have a concept of race because everyone was equal thing. Hell,
[15:21] Speaker 2: how does that square with the story of fina Haas
[15:22] Speaker 2: in number twenty five. That's the story where God's favorite
[15:25] Speaker 2: race of people were intermarrying with the dirty Midianites, so
[15:29] Speaker 2: God afflicted them with a plague. The thing that stopped
[15:32] Speaker 2: the plague was fina Haas heroically murdering an interracial couple
[15:36] Speaker 2: for the crime of being an interracial couple. The result
[15:39] Speaker 2: of this is that he was rewarded with a perpetual priesthood.
[15:42] Speaker 2: Now sure, from the modern concept of race based on
[15:46] Speaker 2: skin color, the Midianites were probably the same as the Hebrews,
[15:49] Speaker 2: But just because our modern concept of race is not
[15:52] Speaker 2: identical to historical concepts of race, does not mean that
[15:55] Speaker 2: the historical ones did not exist. It was still an
[15:58] Speaker 2: in group and an outgroup that was based mostly on
[16:00] Speaker 2: what culture you were born into.
[16:03] Speaker 3: And now with the rise of Darwinism, the world's about
[16:06] Speaker 3: it according to race as well. Because of evolution theory,
[16:14] Speaker 3: people start to believe in eugenics, which is the idea
[16:16] Speaker 3: that stupid people, people who are not white, they should
[16:20] Speaker 3: be sterilized because whe let them live, they would just
[16:25] Speaker 3: all they would do is dilute the genetic pool.
[16:27] Speaker 2: Okay, there is a lot more to the story of
[16:30] Speaker 2: eugenics than that oversimplification, but yes, I can agree that
[16:34] Speaker 2: trying to force people to either procreate or not based
[16:36] Speaker 2: on characteristics that are seen as either desirable or undesirable
[16:40] Speaker 2: is a bad thing. Again, though, a modern understanding of
[16:43] Speaker 2: evolution in genetics would suggest that were we to implement
[16:46] Speaker 2: such a program, the best way to increase our robustness
[16:49] Speaker 2: as a species would be to make sure that people
[16:51] Speaker 2: only breed with people whose genomes are significantly different from
[16:54] Speaker 2: their own in order to increase genetic diversity. Because, ultimately,
[16:58] Speaker 2: from an evolutionary perspective, the more diversity of species has,
[17:01] Speaker 2: the less likely that species is to go extinct. But
[17:03] Speaker 2: once again, I would just like to make it explicit
[17:06] Speaker 2: that having programs that try to push people into these
[17:09] Speaker 2: sorts of reproductive decisions is a bad thing.
[17:12] Speaker 3: And even today, guys, there are still many people who
[17:15] Speaker 3: believe in racism and eugenics.
[17:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, there are. Guess which religion most of them belong to,
[17:22] Speaker 2: At least in North America, it's the Christians. And it's
[17:25] Speaker 2: the ones most likely to deny evolution that are most
[17:28] Speaker 2: comfortable being vocally racist, which I would suggest is actually
[17:32] Speaker 2: causally linked. The less educated you are, the more likely
[17:35] Speaker 2: you are to both deny evolution and cling to in
[17:37] Speaker 2: group and out group stereotypes.
[17:40] Speaker 3: The thing about evolution that's very important is that it's
[17:42] Speaker 3: a teology. Okay, what does that mean. It means that
[17:45] Speaker 3: it's a theory of human progress while God no.
[17:49] Speaker 2: Teleology is not a theory of human progress without God.
[17:53] Speaker 2: Teleology is the study of causality as a function of purpose.
[17:56] Speaker 2: The only sense in which evolution could be said to
[17:59] Speaker 2: be a teleology is with the view that God guided
[18:01] Speaker 2: the process with the goal of bringing about humanity. But
[18:04] Speaker 2: when evolution is understood as an unguided natural process. It
[18:07] Speaker 2: has no goal in mind, and thus it cannot be
[18:10] Speaker 2: a teleology.
[18:12] Speaker 3: So even though evolution thinks that geniputation is an accident,
[18:18] Speaker 3: the theology is that will the strong survive and that's
[18:21] Speaker 3: what's right. Okay, still might makes right?
[18:24] Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. That is a complete misunderstanding of the
[18:28] Speaker 2: concept of survival of the fittest. There is no moral
[18:31] Speaker 2: aspect to survival of the fittest. It's not that the
[18:34] Speaker 2: strongest surviving is good or desirable. It's just what happens.
[18:38] Speaker 2: But it's not even about strength per se. It's more
[18:40] Speaker 2: about an organism being the best fit for its ecological niche.
[18:44] Speaker 2: The one that fits the niche better will survive over
[18:47] Speaker 2: one that doesn't fit it quite so well. If it
[18:49] Speaker 2: were about strength and domination, then why do pray animals
[18:52] Speaker 2: survive as well as predators. Clearly the gazelle was weaker
[18:55] Speaker 2: than the lion, and yet pick any ecosystem on the
[18:59] Speaker 2: planet and you'll find that there are significantly more prey
[19:01] Speaker 2: animals than predators by population numbers. The week seem to
[19:05] Speaker 2: be winning by a lot, almost like the strongest survive
[19:09] Speaker 2: is an inaccurate oversimplification.
[19:11] Speaker 3: So in many ways, evolution is a rejection of Christianity.
[19:15] Speaker 2: Tell that to Francis Collins, the highly respected scientist who
[19:18] Speaker 2: headed the Human Genome Project and founded Biologos, an organization
[19:22] Speaker 2: dedicated almost entirely to explaining why evolution is not a
[19:25] Speaker 2: rejection of Christianity.
[19:27] Speaker 3: So you would think that Christians would oppose Darwinism and
[19:33] Speaker 3: evolutionary theory. Well, it was surprising is that when the
[19:37] Speaker 3: book came out in eighteen fifty nine, only twenty years,
[19:41] Speaker 3: the fear of evolution would come to dominate the entire
[19:44] Speaker 3: Western world.
[19:45] Speaker 2: Turns out, true things are true, even if they contradict
[19:48] Speaker 2: your religion, and if you can show a true thing
[19:50] Speaker 2: to be true, then people who want to believe true
[19:52] Speaker 2: things will come to believe it.
[19:55] Speaker 3: It became the dominant idea in schools, in diversities into sciences.
[20:00] Speaker 3: Do you mean today evolution is a dominant paradigm, meaning
[20:04] Speaker 3: that you cannot question evolution.
[20:08] Speaker 2: Quite the contrary. Questioning aspects of evolution is how scientific
[20:11] Speaker 2: progress is made. Questioning the theory as a whole, though,
[20:14] Speaker 2: shows you to either be ignorant or a liar.
[20:17] Speaker 3: If you question evolution, it means you're crazy. Okay, but
[20:22] Speaker 3: I'm crazy. So we're gonna question evolution today.
[20:25] Speaker 2: You said it, not me. I just said that you
[20:27] Speaker 2: are either ignorant or a liar. For this guy, my
[20:29] Speaker 2: money's on ignorant. Unlike the creationists who have PhDs in
[20:32] Speaker 2: relevant fields, he doesn't seem to have the required level
[20:34] Speaker 2: of understanding to be a liar.
[20:37] Speaker 3: All right, so you've said this in schoolall But evolution
[20:43] Speaker 3: means we came from monkeys, apes, and then there were
[20:47] Speaker 3: different species of humans, and eventually the best are species,
[20:51] Speaker 3: the Homo sapiens, won out.
[20:53] Speaker 2: I really hate it when people put value judgments on
[20:56] Speaker 2: species not going extinct. We aren't the best of the
[20:59] Speaker 2: species of humans. We just happen to be better at
[21:01] Speaker 2: occupying our ecological niche than the other species did, so
[21:04] Speaker 2: we're the ones that survived.
[21:06] Speaker 3: Okay, So what evolution says is that we are just
[21:11] Speaker 3: a monkey. Guys. Okay, we're just a monkey. And what
[21:15] Speaker 3: do monkeys do. Monkeys like to have sex, monkeys like
[21:17] Speaker 3: to eat, Monkeys like to fart. That's all we are.
[21:19] Speaker 3: We're just monkeys.
[21:21] Speaker 2: We're not just monkeys. It's weird how he keeps flipping
[21:25] Speaker 2: between using supremacist language that aligns with the idea that
[21:27] Speaker 2: we are superior and so are justified in wiping out
[21:30] Speaker 2: the inferior races, and then the dismissive language like this,
[21:34] Speaker 2: where if evolution is true, we're all just a bunch
[21:36] Speaker 2: of monkeys. In reality, evolution is value neutral. We just
[21:40] Speaker 2: are what we are. But as long as you're disparaging it,
[21:43] Speaker 2: could you at least be consistent instead of flipping back
[21:45] Speaker 2: and forth between mutually exclusive concepts.
[21:49] Speaker 3: But there are certain problems with this theory. Okay, the
[21:54] Speaker 3: first problem is if you look at evolutionary theory, what
[21:58] Speaker 3: you should have a diversity as this species develops.
[22:05] Speaker 2: There is well. Morphologically speaking, humans are morphologically very diverse,
[22:10] Speaker 2: as different populations adapted to different environments. Genetically speaking, though,
[22:14] Speaker 2: humans are on the low end of the diversity spectrum.
[22:17] Speaker 3: But so why is it that we only have one
[22:20] Speaker 3: human species? Weren't there many different.
[22:23] Speaker 2: Ones evolutionary luck of the draw, There were other human species,
[22:27] Speaker 2: but they went extinct. The reason is debated. Could have
[22:30] Speaker 2: been climate change. There could have been out competed for resources.
[22:34] Speaker 2: We could have even just bred them out of existence.
[22:36] Speaker 2: The Homo sapiens population was much larger than the other species,
[22:39] Speaker 2: of human so it is possible that we just kind
[22:41] Speaker 2: of assimilated their genetic material into our own as time
[22:44] Speaker 2: went on, like a non cyborg borg sort of thing.
[22:48] Speaker 3: Well, the argument is that there are there were many
[22:53] Speaker 3: different species before, but we won out.
[22:56] Speaker 2: Yes, for one reason or another, we became the last
[22:59] Speaker 2: one's standard.
[23:00] Speaker 3: Okay, okay, that's fine, But another problem is why are
[23:06] Speaker 3: we going around the world.
[23:08] Speaker 2: We weren't the only ones doing that. The locations where
[23:11] Speaker 2: we found the fossils of the other human species indicate
[23:13] Speaker 2: that the various species of humans were spread out all
[23:15] Speaker 2: over the place.
[23:17] Speaker 3: Okay, so all sies of human beings like to migrate,
[23:22] Speaker 3: but primates don't do that.
[23:25] Speaker 2: Primates do do that because we do that, and we
[23:28] Speaker 2: are primates. Why did the non human primates not do that?
[23:32] Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's far from the only example
[23:34] Speaker 2: of closely related species engaging in wildly different behavior. My
[23:37] Speaker 2: dog is very closely related to wild wolves, So why
[23:41] Speaker 2: don't wild wolves get excited every time they see a
[23:43] Speaker 2: human and start begging for pets? And if she ever
[23:46] Speaker 2: had to survive on her own hunting skills, she wouldn't
[23:48] Speaker 2: last long at all.
[23:50] Speaker 3: Why is that humans like to migrate, and so the
[23:54] Speaker 3: explanation often is what bigs a climate change because of
[23:58] Speaker 3: war because humans are chasing game okay, bisons and food.
[24:05] Speaker 3: But then how to explain these people, Okay, these are
[24:09] Speaker 3: people who where to populate the Pacific islands Micronesia. That's
[24:14] Speaker 3: kind of weird.
[24:15] Speaker 2: So Micronesia are the islands that are closest to the mainland.
[24:18] Speaker 2: But he was gesturing at Polynesia. The first human migration
[24:21] Speaker 2: to Polynesia, the hardest islands to get to, was the
[24:24] Speaker 2: last great human migration to occur. Pretty sure you can
[24:27] Speaker 2: figure out why it was the last one. It's timing
[24:29] Speaker 2: coincides with a severe centuries long drought in the easier
[24:32] Speaker 2: to find Micronesia, Melanesia and on the mainland. There is
[24:36] Speaker 2: evidence that humans landed on the Polynesian islands well before
[24:39] Speaker 2: they settled there. Given the timing, this indicates that they
[24:41] Speaker 2: were likely searching for food and in the process we're
[24:43] Speaker 2: developing their maritime skills that later allowed them to settle
[24:46] Speaker 2: the islands.
[24:47] Speaker 3: First of all, it's really dangerous to go out to
[24:50] Speaker 3: the Pacific for months and months, right. Also, like, how
[24:55] Speaker 3: do they know that there'll be islands waiting for them
[24:57] Speaker 3: in the Pacific.
[24:58] Speaker 2: If the reason they went there were because of the drought,
[25:01] Speaker 2: they didn't. They were desperate to find other sources of
[25:03] Speaker 2: food to supplement their failing to supply at home.
[25:06] Speaker 3: So that's something that's very odd about human beings. In fact,
[25:10] Speaker 3: there are lots of things that are really odd about
[25:12] Speaker 3: us that other animals don't do.
[25:14] Speaker 2: And that is a true statement of literally every species.
[25:18] Speaker 2: Every single species has at least one feature or behavior
[25:22] Speaker 2: or something that makes it unique. If it were not unique,
[25:25] Speaker 2: it would not be its own species. It would be
[25:27] Speaker 2: part of another species, which would be unique in some way. Amusingly,
[25:31] Speaker 2: uniqueness is one of the least unique characteristics there is.
[25:35] Speaker 3: For example, we're very religious. Okay, okay, So the Neanthdols
[25:43] Speaker 3: are supposed to be before Homo sapiens. But as you
[25:47] Speaker 3: can see, what we discovered are these religious ritual sites,
[25:52] Speaker 3: the Neananthols, wherein the Anthos engage in religious ritual practice.
[25:57] Speaker 3: That's kind of weird.
[25:58] Speaker 2: Yeah, it is weird, but it demonstrates that our species
[26:01] Speaker 2: of human were not unique in their development of religion.
[26:04] Speaker 3: What does your religion have to do with survival? In fact,
[26:07] Speaker 3: you can argue that religion is the waste of time.
[26:10] Speaker 2: I do argue that, but it does help with survival
[26:13] Speaker 2: in a social species that relies largely on cooperation, like humans.
[26:17] Speaker 2: It's a way to signal that you're part of the
[26:18] Speaker 2: in group, so that you are someone who is trustworthy
[26:21] Speaker 2: and with whom it is okay to share resources.
[26:23] Speaker 3: Why aren't they hunting? Why are they using so much
[26:26] Speaker 3: resources and time in building these ritual.
[26:31] Speaker 2: Sites because they had finally gotten to a point in
[26:34] Speaker 2: their evolutionary development where they had time that didn't need
[26:37] Speaker 2: to be dedicated exclusively to survival. I'm going to stop here.
[26:40] Speaker 2: The video that I have went on a bit further
[26:42] Speaker 2: into the lecture, but he is essentially done with evolution
[26:45] Speaker 2: at this point. He pivots to talking about how humans
[26:47] Speaker 2: work together instinctually, and like Noe, we're a social species.
[26:51] Speaker 2: That's what we do. Today's common today comes to us
[26:54] Speaker 2: from Somerset case One, who says, calling loneliness a god
[26:57] Speaker 2: shaped hole is like calling hunger a chef shape. You're
[27:00] Speaker 2: not missing God, you're missing dinner and company. Geez man,
[27:05] Speaker 2: it's really harsh. Doing a better job than I did
[27:08] Speaker 2: at making the point I took a whole last video
[27:09] Speaker 2: to make in just a single sentence rude. Thanks for watching.
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