Bill Nye and Ken Ham are going to (hopefully) have an intelligent and engaging “evolution vs. creationism” debate at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., tonight at 7 p.m. ET.
The beef started when Nye’s “Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children” video went viral. Basicly, Nye said, in so many words, that evolution naysayers need stop forcing their religious beliefs on their children because we need more scientists and engineers and less bible thumpers.That’s when Ham dissed Nye with his own Think Big video.
How can this end? Will Nye give up logic and reason and start saying his prayers? Or will Ham burn his bible and live a life of sin?
You can watch the whole debate on The Range (after the break):
This article appears in Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2014.
What is the point to sending this announcement the day AFTER the performance event?
I still feel compelled to comment although I have not taken the time to review the material covered in the debate. What I find incomprehensible is that the creationists have such a dim and limited view of the divine. They assume God is only capable of writing literal truths and is incapable of using metaphor to describe a complex and nuanced reality. They hold this view in spite of the fact that in the bible itself, Jesus uses parable and metaphor all the time to explain things to his disciples! So my critique of creationists is not that they are poor scientists, which is a given, but that their view and practice of Christianity is highly defective.
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Hey, Mike N. This was published before the debate aired. Thanks for reading.