"Since Aug 17, 2012"
Interesting posting history.
Posted on 08/28/2012 11:53:12 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Bill Nye used to be “The Science Guy” on PBS. Now he’s just a godless hater.
The former host of the “educational” TV show targeted to preteens, which aired from 1993 to 1998, said this week that those of us who believe that God created man and woman are idiots. And that we ought not pass along that belief to our children.
“I say to the grownups,” Nye condescended, “if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, your world that’s inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.”
Because, said Nye, who places his faith in Darwin, rather than God, “We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.”
As I considered Nye’s remarks, I wondered if he passed along his thoughts on evolution to Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, who presided over The Science Guy’s quicky marriage back in 2006 (which lasted a mere seven weeks before ending in a decidedly weird, decidedly ugly breakup).
What does it say about Nye’s integrity that he stood before a pastor who absolutely believes the creation story set forth in the Book of Genesis; that he exchanged marriage vows with his seven-week bride before a God in Whom he doesn’t believe?
Yet, he presumes to tell the rest of us what we should teach our children.
And while Nye may be scientifically “literate,” notwithstanding that he has no formal scientific education, he is not nearly as infallible as he makes himself out to be.
Just last year, in fact, The Science Guy demonstrated his scientific shortcomings when he appeared on CNN to discuss damage sustained by a Japanese nuclear plant in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Nye stated, incorrectly, that cesium is used to “slow and control” the nuclear reaction. But as any nuclear scientist would tell him, cesium is a nuclear fission product, not a control rod material.
Nye also stated, incorrectly, that the nuclear reactor involved in the Three Mile Island accident was still online.
And The Science Guy erred in telling CNN viewers that use of boron to slow the nuclear reaction is uncommon, when, in fact, boron-10 is commonly used in control rods and is circulated in the coolant of most, if not all, reactors in this country.
Now, the average CNN viewer could not be expected to know these things. But Nye, the so-called Science Guy, should have known better. Especially if he was going to discuss the subject on national TV.
It obviously doesn’t occur to Nye that, if he was dead wrong on nuclear energy, he could be just as wrong on evolution.
Otherwise the former Science Guy wouldn’t be so contemptuous of those of who are not scientific illiterates; who simply find less believable the science-fiction that ape transmogrified into man, than the Bible’s explanation that all-powerful God created man.
If Evolution is true, then who created Evolution?
“We are dealing with an exceptionally divergent lineage of extinct crocodile diversity,“ Montefeltro said. “There are many fossils that still need to be found to link this crocodile to those who came before and after.”More attempts at making the physical finds fit the claim rather than the other way around (the former is unscientific; the latter is scientific method). They find one fossil and build a mythology around it, in hopes of finding “many fossils” that will fit their eschatology. “Exceptionally divergent” is a bravo-sierraism for “It actually is nothing like a crocodile or any crocodilian, but we are going to say it is just to get headlines and, of course, more government funding”.
Bill Maher the Science Gaher . . . ?
Leftists cannot help but blow hot air and demagogue to their far left choir as they all pant for Obama to pass judgement on those awful Americans who still love their country, oppose the libertine filth and cling to the guns and Bibles.
It’s not.
Here is a problem with your thinking...you are stating the religious meme that evolution says we evolved from apes. Evolution precisely makes the point we DID NOT evolve from apes.
That we did not evolve from apes is the cornerstone of evolutionary theory but it keeps on being stated as fact by people who don't research what evolution is about.
Just where are you getting that from?
Current evolutionary theory indeed states that both humans and great apes developed from “hominids”, which were themselves primates and tailless.
Like I said, evolution may explain why traits that are variable within the same species (like tooth size) change gradually over time.
It does not however explain the quantum leaps of difference between supposed iterations of what evolutionists would have us believe is the same species. There are no fossils yet found with traits common to both homo sapiens and any another genus. If we are to believe that changing from one genus into another is a gradual process brought about by selective environmental pressures, would we not expect to find a being with traits of more than one genus?
Your dinosaur “crocodile” kind of proves my point. It contains no bone that is the same shape, proportion, or function as a modern crocodile. If it did the researchers would be crying it from the rooftops as final proof of evolution. As it stands, the creature has features that look similar to a crocodile so people who already believe evolution claim it to be an ancestor
On the contrary; one may believe in God without being a Christian or Jew.
I agree completely. BTW, here's a list of pseudosciences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_as_pseudoscience
Notably included are:
Fancy that...
Yeah, fancy Wikileftism doing that. I’m just totally shocked.
That’s kinda what led to the religious confusion that is prevalent even today.
Last I checked, evolution was a theory, and not one in very good evidentiary stead at the moment.
Adaptation is a fact, supported by a great deal of evidence. Evolution is something awaiting any proof whatsoever of any trans-species mutation. No fish ever became a bicycle, as it were. Apes never became men, as far as the scientific evidence would tell us.
Try as they might, they’ve also never created life out of electricity, earth atmosphere, and ‘primordial soup’.
In fact, the evolutionists have taken to claiming all life came from an infection placed here by some meteorite. That’s not a very long hop from claiming ‘ET came down and spawned us.’
Bill’s another Seattle whack-job who got lucky for a bit, and evolution is still a theory. Frankly, claiming God created all life on Earth and claiming a meteorite or ET did it is all the same - it requires belief, for the moment.
I tend to believe God did it. I’m pretty sure evolution is crap given the evidence I’ve seen. Way too much “And then a miracle happened” in the middle of what is supposedly science for me to buy it. Far less of a leap for me to just believe, “Yes, indeed, a miracle happened.”
Only by reference to certain unverifiable metaphysical assumptions.
"Uniformity of causes in a closed system" and all that.
Cheers!
On the contrary. It takes wisdom to know when rationality alone is sufficient, and when it is not.
Cheers!
Pics or it didn't happen: your statement is halfway between circular reasoning and the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
Cheers!
Interesting posting history.
Such a statement shows the ignorance (in its classical usage... not meant to be offensive) of history promulgated by our modern school systems. The Catholic Church HAS ALWAYS been the champion of scientific inquiry. It wouldn't take much research to test the veracity of this statement. This article takes a fairly balanced view of the subject. If you read more than just a couple of paragraphs, I think you will understand my purpose.
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