Well, I chuckled at his humor at 1:22, and then quit while I was ahead.

I nearly stopped watching when he said he literally believes everything in the bible. I actually dropped out once he started defining evolution.

Here's something to help everyone regain their faith in humanity.

http://youtu.be/IFRnd-UugUg?t=1m6s

"When did I say I was a man of god?"

"You're not!?"

"No... no no no..." *chuckle*

I got to around the five minute mark. The stupidity was simply far too much to bear.

I don't think the guy paid enough attention to the science books he was reading (or otherwise he was reading kids' science books and did not have the pedigree to do a proper follow-up on them and understand it), but he's a fine orator.

He's fairly entertaining to watch even if he's sprouting complete BS.

I wish I had half of this guy's oration skills.

Unfortunately, unless you are dealing with extremely educated or smart crowd, your presentation will have at least as much bearing as your content.

I would not pride myself on creating instruments that can kill people.

I guess that because of our roots, we do have a tendency to adulate efficient killers as a species, but I find it very healthy to put that urge back into question.

I realize that sometimes, it is a necessity to become a good killer to defend yourself, but would you really use that as the prime metric to determine greatness?

Technically, your country pulled that trigger in Japan at the end of WWII and in the process got the dubious honor of being the first and (so far) only country to use them outside of testing situations.

Well actually, the person who was instrumental in doing that was German, which is, European. And he wasn't too happy about it. Just saying :-P

I can serve the Lord as a 'bad example'? I just found a new meaning to my life. ;D

Not as bad as ' Baby, baby, baby, ooooh, baby, baby, baby, ooo nooo'

I must be a masochist: I once downloaded out of curiosity a series of Kent Hoving video's and actually watched about 3 of them. It made me quite nauseous. Luckily I am past the phase were I feel the need to debated with scientifically ignorant people and just leave them to their delusions. I found out it's pointless debating about faith, you never convince anyone, everyone sticks to their own point of view. I'm much better off talking about games on GOG and social.bioware.com.

@ Magnitus

Those remarks were not made in seriousness and you know it. Give me a break.

As for what took place in Japan, it was the lesser of two evils which ultimately was their choice before it happened. Nobody in their right mind takes any pleasure or pride in what went on there.

I was responding to unfounded broad statements implying Americans are not too smart. We have no exclusive on foolishness in this world. We have plenty of company from all nations on this earth.

It is pretty ridiculous for example, to begin criticizing the American educational system after watching a You-Tube video of some fundamentalist Christian clown who as it turns out is a dishonest convicted criminal. On the basis of one individual's little oratory performance an entire nation is to be judged? Doing so says more about the person doing the judging than those being judged.

Just saying.