Exposing Discovery Institute And its Proponents

[Miles]

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In post #57 of the thread Why Do YOU Think People Believe in God? TRANSPONDER was good enough to share a YouTube expose of Catholic creationist Michael Behe, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Having watched the video I was impressed with the presentation by "Professor Dave" (Dave Farina*) and his bang up job of exposing Behe as a liar. Behe's deliberate misuse of facts, his fraudulent claims, and in particular the notion of irreproducible complexity. "Professor Dave" does an equally good job at ripping into Behe's three creationist compatriots here. I have to say, it's nice to listen to someone who actually knows what they're talking about.



Exposing Discovery Institute And its Proponents

Part 1: Exposing Casey Luskin (39.8 min)





Part 2: Exposing Stephen Meyer (1:15:54)





Part 3: Exposing Michael Behe (52:24)





Part 4: Günter Bechly (44:03)

So, is there anything that Professor Dave has said that's wrong?

Is there anything that Professor Dave has said that's unfair?




* "David James "Dave" Farina, more well known by his alias Professor Dave, is an American science educator and YouTuber. He received his Bachelors Degree in Chemistry from Carleton College in 2005. After this, he taught biology, physics, and chemistry (specializing in organic chemistry) at an accredited trade university. In 2011, he began to pursue his Masters studies in synthetic organic chemistry at Cal State Northridge, and completed most of his course on synthetic organic chemistry and finished on Science Communication to get the degree in 2018.

His main goal in Science Communication "is to provide the best resource for self-education in existence," which he is presently doing through YouTube videos. So far he has had 234,493,062 views."
source: Wikipedia and Farina's home page HERE


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[boatsnguitars]

It's important to remember a basic business principle: Market Share.

If you are looking to make money, pick a sector that has billions of dollars in play - therefore, even if you only represent 1% of the share of that sector, you are still making $10,000,000.

Christianity is a MASSIVE industry. Religion is estimated to move up to $4.8 Trillion dollars. Christians alone have 55% of the world's wealth. There is about $82.6 Trillion in the world.

As you can see, it makes perfect sense for anyone and everyone to get into the business of religion, especially Christianity. It's why you see new books written about the Bible, about Faith. Why you see new websites pop up, new videos, etc. Even if you capture 1 Billionth of the Christians wealth, you make $44,000. That means of the 1.4 billion Christians in the world, you only have to be a one in a billion person to make a modest annual income.

Distinguish yourself a little more, like Ray Comfort, or some other low level Apologist and you can make a few million.

The box office flop, "God is not Dead" cost 112 million and made 359 million.

And all you have to do is pretend you really believe. That kind of money has clearly attracted a lot of unscrupulous people, and always will.

In fact, it is well known that there are many atheists who pretend to be Christians, just because the money is too good.
https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/