The moment an evolution denier dismantled his own argument was captured in a painfully awkward clip.
The clip is now going viral on social media, and was included in a video by SciManDan on YouTube.
In the short video, the YouTuber explains: “Listen to the pure arrogance of this guy when he talks about dinosaurs.”
He then shows a snippet of a podcast where an evolution denier is asked whether he believes there were dinosaurs roaming the earth, to which he says no because fossils are supposedly not real.
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Instead, the naysayer argued that dinosaur skeletons on display in museums are fake and are actually made of resin.
Instead, the denier claimed that there were once giant humans.
The interviewer asked: “What makes you believe so much that there were giant humans?”
In response, he replied: “I’ve seen a giant skull in the Natural History Museum when I went up there.”
SciManDan jumps back into the clip to explain how the evolution denier had been caught out by his own so-called logic.
The YouTuber said: “Oh right, so the bones of the giant human skull are real in the Natural History Museum but all dinosaur bones in the Natural History Museum are fake.
“Right, makes perfect sense.”
Many people took to the YouTube comment section to share their own reactions to the video, with one user writing: “Here’s proof that sometimes evolution takes a step backwards.”
Another said: “when I was a child I turned over a river rock and found a really nice looking ammolite fossil that I still have displayed today.”
A third commented: “If elephants were extinct, he'd 100% believe their skulls are evidence of cyclops.”
And a fourth person added: “There are plenty of museums that have real dinosaur bones on display. They often create resin joints and bones for missing parts.”
In other dinosaur-related news, just last year a new species of dinosaur that roamed the Earth around 75 million years ago was uncovered in a huge finding.
Researchers discovered a new titanosaur, which is a sauropod dinosaur characterized by having long necks.
The species lived during the Cretaceous period and its skeleton was found in Cuenca, Spain, where archeologists unearthed cervical, dorsal, and caudal vertebrae, part of the pelvic girdles, and elements of the limbs.
The study was conducted by the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon and part of the newly found skeleton is already on display at the Museum of Paleontology of Castilla-La Mancha.