@ambulocetus

> That's the one. If a creator wants to talk about their religious beliefs, great. But this video from Destin didn't do that. It was using really cool science to misinform about an antiscientific religious belief of his.

This simply doesnt track with the video... can we get specific here, what did he say (word for word example) that was factually incorrect (misinformation). I was careful when i listened and nothing he said seemed even remotely factually incorrect, so im not sure where you are getting this "misinformation" stuff from.

> Here's what happened. He read a book by a creationist on irreducible complexity of flagella evolution. And he went and talked to some scientists about really cool cutting edge science on how flagella motors work. I don't know if he read the book first or started reading it after he already planned to talk about it. He didn't say in the video.

I dont recall him saying he read a book on the matter (though that was the origin of the ensuing debate). He may just as well have just been privy to the debate itself. I am well aware of the molecular motor argument as a pro-creationist debate point, and have heard the argument many times over, but I never read the book making that claim. It is very possible dustin is int he same boat, he has witnessed the debates, and understood the point of view from the perspective of the debates, but he may have never read the book.

> Either way, the video starts by saying the complexity and the necessity of every component raises real philosophical debate about the origin of life. It, in fact, does not.

But it very much does. Not saying that scientists are assuming evolution might be in question, they very much assume evolution is still real we just dont have the answers (yet) to explain the intermediate steps leading to the molecular motor. So this is very much true, the evolutionary process leading to the molecular motor is not well known and even speculation is still developing and far from complete. While a scientist wouldnt use that to go "oh god made it", it is fair to say the specifics as to the how we went from nothing to a molecular motor is still highly debated with any scientist worth his salt admitting we cant really state the steps it took to evolve (partly due to the trouble in evidence you pointed out).

Long story short, what he said is entierly true, we do not have any good theories explaining the intermediary steps for the motor at the moment, and this leaves room for a lot of debate.

> Then, in the outro, he used more intelligent design buzz words, both sidesed the "debate" recommended a book by a creationist, and told people to look into it further.

I will watch again, but I did not hear him say anything about reading a creationist book, or even mention the book. He said not to plant your flag in one absolutism or the other and to approach this and other problems with a less tribalistic approach (defending a philosophical point).

> Anyone who doesn't already know this stuff who tries to look up papers using the buzz words he used, especially that author, will find creationist papers that appear, to a lay audience, to be scientific. But to anyone who knows the field, they are junk.

I havent read this papers so I cant speak to their quality. But again, he made no suggestion to anyone to read a book nor did he name any creationist books. He only refernced a debate some creationists have had and where it fits into known gaps in the scientific knowledge, and urged people to not be dogmatic on either side. Good advice I'd say.