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I agree that the video "Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven" is misleading and serves a religious agenda. The video accepts natural selection, and references real
by mech1234 7y ago
I agree that the video "Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven" is misleading and serves a religious agenda.
The video accepts natural selection, and references real research data, which is nice, but it asks too much of science. The implicit claim is "until all biological mechanisms underlying evolution are fully explained, you should remain skeptical of the theory of evolution."
An obvious likely audience interpretation of the video could be, "this calm, smart, and reasonable-sounding man is telling me that it is fine to be skeptical of evolution. I'll keep on believing in creationism."
However, this amount of misdirection is reasonable, is fairly typical among political organizations, and does not reflect an incendiary or particularly damaging viewpoint. If the corpus of PragerU videos can pass this bar, then there is no reason to de-rank them in YouTube.