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Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' Squares Off In Debate Against Creationist Ken Ham
by Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ represented the theory of evolution in a well-mannered debate with Creation Museum founder Ken Ham.
Bill Nye Defends Theory Of Evolution
Accepting Ham’s invitation to discuss their opposing viewpoints on the Earth’s beginnings at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, Nye showed up in his signature bowtie and his signature enthusiasm for science, reported the New York Daily News. According to Nye and the theory of evolution, the Earth is billions of years old. Ham would disagree.
“The Bible is the word of God,” Ham said. “I admit that’s where I start from.” By using the Bible as his source for information on the creation of the planet, Ham stated that the Earth is roughly 6,000 years old.
“If we accept Mr. Ham’s point of view … that the Bible serves as a science text and he and his followers will interpret that for you, I want you to consider what that means,” Nye said. “It means that Mr. Ham’s word is to be more respected than what you can observe in nature, what you can find in your backyard in Kentucky.”
“I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion,” Nye added to the audience. “But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.”
Nye Draws Attention To Creation Museum
The 800 tickets set aside for the event sold out in minutes and multiple media outlets took the opportunity to cover the event. Ham believes that the interest in the event indicates that the public believes that the story of Earth is something that is still worthy of debate and conversation.
“I think it shows you that the majority of people out there,” he said before the debate began. “They’re interested in this topic, they want to know about this, they don’t want debate shut down.
By participating in the conversation, Nye, who recently appeared on Dancing With the Stars, certainly helped the event gain attention. This attention, according to some of Nye’s fellow scientists, could detract from his ultimate goal of getting the youth of the country to understand evolution, rather than believe in the Bible’s accounts of creation.
“Nye’s appearance will be giving money to organizations who try to subvert the mission Nye has had all his life,” wrote University of Chicago evolution professor Jerry Coyne on his blog. “Science education, particularly of kids.” The Creation Museum will also benefit from the debate in DVD sales, reported the News.
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Frankly if what evolutionary scientists say is true then the evolution / creation debate should have been settled 100,000 years ago.
God spoke into existence a universe with the appearance of age. It has to be this way. Everything created by man has an appearance of age especially when taking into account the sum and history of a product and its parts.
To me the most amazing thing is that around the globe "Recorded History" is recognized at about 4-6000 years BC. Isn't it fascinating that with the millions upon millions of years we have with humans evolving in complexity we only have recorded events and dialogue for the last 6-8000 years.
Shouldn't we have evidence of recorded history long before this or did humans not attain the necessary skill set until 6000 years ago? This would be millions of years after much of our cognitive and social skills were developed and reinforced throughout human culture and subcultures.
It does not make sense – at all. We should have a much longer documented and recorded history if evolution is true.
Do not rely upon "cave paintings and drawings" as examples – these cannot be dated. They will use material found in the vicinity of a "cave painting" date that material and then extrapolate the results to the painting or drawings. Hardly scientific.
If any recorded information could be found that was 20 – 100 thousand years ago then evolutionists would have a case, but they can't make a case without evidence. They have to admit that the oldest recorded history we have is under 10,000 years old. That admission up against millions of years of complex human evolution doesn't look good.
Doesn't it seem peculiar that humans have only recently figured out the intricacies of written/visual communication and the means to accomplish this "higher level of communication". These facts, against the backdrop of millions and millions of years of evolution seem to make the evolutionary model implausible. Evolutionists are not fighting creationists at this point they are trying to fight historical facts. We should be discussing existing documentation that goes back hundreds of thousands if not millions of years…but there is none.
It is too much to swallow that it took millions of years to get to an era when knowledge and the means for gaining knowledge just happened to explode over a 6000 year period.