Immediately after the debate, Nye and Ham retreated to the inside of the Creation Museum to be interviewed live on CNN—though the topic turned out to be mostly about climate change, not evolution/creation!
Posted on 02/06/2014 1:58:22 PM PST by celmak
On many mornings, I wake up and think, “You know what this country needs? More culture war.” As I scramble up a couple eggs, I find myself wishing—fervently wishing—that we could spend more time reducing substantive issues to mere spectacle. Later, as I scrub the pan, I’ll fantasize about how those very spectacles might even funnel money toward some of the country’s most politicized religious groups.
Fortunately, Bill “the Science Guy” Nye has heard my wish—which, really, is the wish of a nation. Why else would he have traveled to Kentucky this week in order to debate Ken Ham, the young-earth creationist founder of Answers in Genesis, about the origins of the world?
Actually, there are two other reasons that Nye might have done so, and I’ve given both possibilities a great deal of thought in the past few days. The first is that Nye, for all his bow-tied charm, is at heart a publicity-hungry cynic, eager to reestablish the national reputation he once had as the host of a PBS show. When his stint on Dancing With the Stars ended quickly, Nye turned to the only other channel that could launch him back to national attention: a sensationalized debate, replete with the media buzz that he craves.
Possibility number two is that Nye is clueless—that, for all his skill as a science communicator, Nye has less political acumen than your average wombat.
After watching the debate, I’m leaning toward that second possibility. Last night, it was easy to pick out the smarter man on the stage. Oddly, it was the same man who was arguing that the earth is 6,000 years old.
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The fact that this made Yahoo news, is news in and of it self.
Good old liberals.
Nye was on Stossel debating Global Warming (he’s a believer) the other night. He’s a poor debater.
Oddly, most creationists and intelligent design proponents who saw the debate thought Bill Nye had the upper hand in the end.
Ken Ham ( probably because of time limitations ) did not address many of the points brought up by Nye.
Nye attended Sidwell Friends in DC.
I’m sure Malaria and Sharia were cheering him on, LOL.
But doesn’t the Daily Beast lean liberal?
I beg to differ, he countered many. Not all, but many.
Image that.
The daily beast will soon promote “ancient aliens”.
In the same way, Bill Nye( probably because of time limitations ) did not address many of the points brought up by Ham.
Is there a video of this CNN interview?
Someone explain to me how an Atheist finds it weird that God would make man or woman in a day when they seek ways to clone man and woman.
No, Bill Nye is suffering from the historically proven syndrome of Adam and Eve: if we recreated a being, that same being would be saying: “screw you, you are not my creator, I do not have to acknowldge you”.
The myth of atheism that people are good through the propagation of misinterpretation of the Bible is an old disease. Islam is a perfect example of bad translation morphing as an arrogant imaginative attack cult against whoever dares to interprete and translate exactly what it means.
“The fact that this made Yahoo news....”
I’m really starting to like Yahoo news. I’ve seen several good articles from them here; let me put it this way, pieces that cover things outside the box of MSM liberal BS bias.
I realize this particular article might not be the very best example of this, but I don’t have time to read the whole thing right now.
I will say also that they’ve been quite well written. This piece here, judging from the excerpt, is quite amusingly snarky, even if I won’t agree with the author when I read it in full.
Bill Nye was probably selected way back then to impress the young with his science before coming out as a gay sort of atheist who is the sole translator and interpreter of both Bible and Science.
I heard he was a master....
Some of it is down right hilarious!
Meanwhile, the liberal websites are declaring victory.
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