poorly educated and easily impressed people from rural America.

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

Also his target audience is anyone poorly educated and easily impressed regardless of where they're from. 😅

This. I'd be super surprised because he's an intellectual who likes to understand the hows and whys of things. I really enjoy his content (especially his helicopter series). If he's maga then I'll definitely not watch another.

I noticed the same thing, and you could see it a bit in this (OP) video too.

I think this one is partly regional and partly traditional.

Destin probably always called his father sir, and he probably has the same expectation of his children.

C can you link to that reply?

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.

I'm curious to see the creationist stuff but I'll be honest, I don't want to listen to him for a half hour. Is there a time stamp I can skip to?

Thanks for sharing. He does sound like a devout Christian who does believe in a creator, but because of science is questioning his beliefs. It would've been nice for him to keep that opinion out of the video and just stick to the point: this thing is awesome.

As an atheist agnostic myself, I don't think anybody can claim to know that there was a creator or not. However, there is much more evidence for the lack of one than for it. Who knows, we might be wrong and we're just in some intricate simulation created by sentient beings, but that then forces the question if those sentient beings are in a simulation themselves and how far up does it go? The other option is that nothing was created and it just came to be.

Both options still raise the question of how either (creators or existence) came to be. To me, they might be unknowable.

What I do like about his presentation of the options is that he says wherever your flag is, learn more and always question your position. IMO that's actually sound advice. Nothing is for certain. Neither scientists nor believers can claim to know anything for certain. The difference between science and religion is that science is a process of learning with need to discard incorrect knowledge, while religion is the claim to know everything claiming there is no need to disregard facts as it is impossible for them to be wrong. Scientists can easily fall into the latter trap too.

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.

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"