Constant purity testing, and invalidating everything someone says because you disagree on a couple issues 💀

And engineers who stood to make a lot of money

I think thats a kinda dumb purity test when they clearly did put a lot of effort into actually trying, and I don’t see why its better if they threw away the supply they already mistakenly bought.

lol ok

Well aren’t many religions inherently by their beliefs one of those things?

Yeah, but it seems like for a lot of people they either have to believe all of it or none of it

Yeah that’s a fair perspective I have. I just don’t like when people aren’t honest about their problem with it because they want to act like they’re okay with religion.

You’re thinking I’m saying something I’m not. And I think that was the case with your interpretation of the video too.

Nothing I’ve said here (or ever said in my life) is pro-intelligent design

He also repeats all of the bible thumper talking points around this subject, as if it’s a mystery nobody can explain and couldn’t have come to be without some kind of intelligent design at the helm.

He literally does not say that though, he says there’s a lot of research into it and encourages people to read it.

This whole flagella thing was an exercise of goal post moving in the first place. The ID people kept pointing out weird things and missing links. Then when science explained exactly how that thing came to be, without ID involved, they just pointed to the next thing at one point ending up at flagella.

Yeah I agree, but I also think that you can’t exactly blame someone else who was uninvolved with the initial argument for arguing a different thing at a different time. If one person criticizes a politician for not providing enough social services and another separate person complains about taxes that’s not moving goal posts, those are just two different people.

There is a whole Wikipedia page talking about how flagella evolved and how it came to be.

Yes, but, did you read it? Its not exactly too resoundingly confident in any one theory.

And keep in mind all of this was thoroughly debunked back 20 years ago.

All of what? It is true that the flagella isn’t unique if that’s what you mean.

I’m not even sure there is research still being done on this, the research was done decades before, there is no mystery.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mmi.14658

Here’s a relatively recent study that says basically what the wikipedia says:

Homing in on the T3SS, the exact evolutionary relation between injectisomes and flagella1 is debated. Phylogenetic analyses and functional arguments led to two models: (a) The evolution of modern flagella and injectisomes from a common ancestral protein export machinery (Gophna et al., 2003; Pallen and Gophna, 2007), or (b) The evolution of injectisomes from a flagellum-like ancestor (Abby and Rocha, 2012; Denise et al., 2020; Nguyen et al., 2000).

But it also says:

The T3SS is one of the most complex bacterial molecular machines, incorporating one to over a hundred copies of more than 15 different proteins into a multi-MDa transmembrane complex (Table 1). The system, especially the flagellum, has, therefore often been quoted as an example for “irreducible complexity,” based on the argument that the evolution of such a complex system with no beneficial intermediates would be exceedingly unlikely. However, it is now clear that, far from having evolved as independent entities, many secretion systems share components between each other and with other cellular machineries (Egelman, 2010; Pallen and Gophna, 2007).

I ofc am just a layman reading this, I agree it seems better understood that how I interpreted what he was saying, but it also doesn’t seem nearly as well understood as you’re saying.

I feel like to get a lot of young people into it, it doesn’t just need pay, but also some of the comforts of other jobs. As in: if I can work from home vs going into a workshop from 9-5 5 days a week, even if I’d be paid more I’d prefer to work from home. Other jobs can offer perks like that, but for a lot of manufacturing jobs that’s clearly not an option- so many reduced working hours/days would work. But I think when there’s already a shortage on employees, companies don’t want to also cut down on the hours they’re working.

Yep I agree. I don’t think he was saying that being pricier guarantees its better quality, just that something better quality may be worth it even if it is pricier.

I would consider repair and upgrade-ability to be a part of quality.

I pretty strongly disagree with that characterization, at least for the manufacturing videos I watched, that I do have experience in. I appreciate how deferential and humble he is to people in his videos even if they’re showing a job that is relatively unremarkable to most people.

I also think

poorly educated and easily impressed people from rural America.

is a pretty mean spirited and stereotype-based thing to say.

He literally says that there’s a lot of good research being done trying to find the evolutionary mechanism. Nowhere that I saw at least did he push creationism, other than mentioning that the concept exists, and that he believes in god.

Fundamentally isn’t any religious belief in an omnipotent/world creating god creationist? I think the evidence trying to “prove” intelligent design is pretty weak, but the thing about essentially all religious belief is that its not exactly falsifiable. The argument can basically be as simple as “yes that evolved but god created everything in the world so it would evolve that way” or “no it didn’t evolve, god created the world 5000 years ago, he just also made stuff that to any observer would appear older. he did that to intentionally obfuscate the truth so you must have faith”

When did he do that?

And, if someone has a sincerely held moral belief and they honestly believe other people’s lives would be made better if they heard it, then how is is not morally good from their perspective?

This is just being poor

With what you said 1. Someone doesn’t have to be a good person, or be right, to coexist. Sitting at the same table as Pol Pot or Hitler isn’t enabling them.