The Not-So-Intelligent Designer (with Dr. Abby Hafer)

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🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Biologist, professor and author Dr. Abby Hafer gives specific examples of "Intelligent Design" that isn't intelligent at all.

Dr. Hafer's Book, "The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not:" http://a.co/dUWs4ze

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:46.1	You know, that look you get when you're talking to,
0:48.9	I don't know, a creationist about the fact of evolution
0:52.4	or the problems with these ideas of intelligent design,
0:55.6	which we're going to get into today with Dr. Abbey Hafer.
0:58.2	You get that superior stare from someone who's completely
1:01.9	and obviously unaware of the fact that they are not as smart
1:05.1	or competent as they think they are.
1:06.8	Well, psychologists, of course, call this
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