[CHRISTIAN DIARIST]

No surprise that Nye has come out in support of Obama's reelection.

[conservative sympathizer]

The battle isn't between evolution and creation, IMO. It's between strict materialism, which denies a spiritual realm, and idealism which permits its existence.

I'm fine with the idea that evolution brought into existence conscious things. I'm not fine with the idea that we're just lumps of meat.

[UCANSEE2]

Just like Obama, Nye is good at reading from a teleprompter.

AND.... he's clean and articulate.

[Alter Kaker]

Interesting - plenty of ad hominem un-christian attacks on Bill Nye, but nothing to refute the uncomfortable truth he stated.

I couldn't care less about the man personally -- but he happens to be right here.

[Uncle Slayton]

“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.”

Nye has spent years corrupting our youth and turning them away from their Christian faith and filling their heads with science mumbo jumbo.

He is guilty of Contributing to the Spiritual Delinquency of Minors.

[cork]

Evolution is nothing more than a theory. One that I personally don’t subscribe to. Adaptation of a species to its environment isn’t a theory. Many confuse the two. Adaptation of a species to its environment is a trait endowed to it by its Creator. IMHO

[manc]

well OK lets go with that then.

That means homosexuals is not natural either as it takes a man and a woman to reproduce.

Either way one looks at the homosexuals it is not natural, not healthy , not what nature intended etc

[Heartlander]

On the Derivation of Ulysses from Don Quixote

I IMAGINE THIS story being told to me by Jorge Luis Borges one evening in a Buenos Aires cafe.

His voice dry and infinitely ironic, the aging, nearly blind literary master observes that "the Ulysses," mistakenly attributed to the Irishman James Joyce, is in fact derived from "the Quixote."

I raise my eyebrows.

Borges pauses to sip discreetly at the bitter coffee our waiter has placed in front of him, guiding his hands to the saucer.

"The details of the remarkable series of events in question may be found at the University of Leiden," he says. "They were conveyed to me by the Freemason Alejandro Ferri in Montevideo."

Borges wipes his thin lips with a linen handkerchief that he has withdrawn from his breast pocket.

"As you know," he continues, "the original handwritten text of the Quixote was given to an order of French Cistercians in the autumn of 1576."

I hold up my hand to signify to our waiter that no further service is needed.

"Curiously enough, for none of the brothers could read Spanish, the Order was charged by the Papal Nuncio, Hoyo dos Monterrey (a man of great refinement and implacable will), with the responsibility for copying the Quixote, the printing press having then gained no currency in the wilderness of what is now known as the department of Auvergne. Unable to speak or read Spanish, a language they not unreasonably detested, the brothers copied the Quixote over and over again, re-creating the text but, of course, compromising it as well, and so inadvertently discovering the true nature of authorship. Thus they created Fernando Lor's Los Hombres d'Estado in 1585 by means of a singular series of copying errors, and then in 1654 Juan Luis Samorza's remarkable epistolary novel Por Favor by the same means, and then in 1685, the errors having accumulated sufficiently to change Spanish into French, Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, their copying continuous and indefatigable, the work handed down from generation to generation as a sacred but secret trust, so that in time the brothers of the monastery, known only to members of the Bourbon house and, rumor has it, the Englishman and psychic Conan Doyle, copied into creation Stendhal's The Red and the Black and Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and then as a result of a particularly significant series of errors, in which French changed into Russian, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina. Late in the last decade of the 19th century there suddenly emerged, in English, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and then the brothers, their numbers reduced by an infectious disease of mysterious origin, finally copied the Ulysses into creation in 1902, the manuscript lying neglected for almost thirteen years and then mysteriously making its way to Paris in 1915, just months before the British attack on the Somme, a circumstance whose significance remains to be determined."

I sit there, amazed at what Borges has recounted. "Is it your understanding, then," I ask, "that every novel in the West was created in this way?"

"Of course," replies Borges imperturbably. Then he adds: "Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote."
- David Berlinski

[max americana]

I used to watch this idiot in Seattle’s ALMOST LIVE back in the 90’s when I was a kid, and that Seattle show came before SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. He was a hoot.

Now he’s an idiot. Everyone of his science experiments were elementary-school grade stuff, but when it came to high school physics, my old classmate who is on the JPL staff told me years ago they used to laugh at Nye because he was teaching them the wrong fundamentals of science on his show.

[so_real]

Love the Science Guy ... still, it's not cool to present evolution as a singular concept where microevolution and macroevolution exist, and then claim the children must be brainwashed into accepting the whole enchilada as fact for the national "good". (If that were the way science and politics worked, we'd all be flat-earthers watching the Sun rotate around us.) Macroevolution remains a hypothesis unsuccessfully tested.

[Yashcheritsiy]

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.

Wait just a second! Given enough time, it's entirely possible that the probablistic forces of materialistic evolution could produce control rods made of cesium that would work. After all, given enough time, anything can happen!

[hsrazorback1]

Since Nye is using observation as his argumentative basis, he must not have a brain since we can’t observe it.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Just saw on Drudge that archealogists are now studying 230 million year old mites encased in amber. Other than the fact that these mites ate confiers (which most modern mites do not) the old and current are basically the same. There are multiple species of insects and animals (crocodiles for one) that are largely unchanged for millions of years. Are we to believe that evolution is selective as to which species are evolved, or that some species reached the height of a suposedly ever changing system? The “evolution” of dominant genes can explain why there are less redheads in the world today but as for turning monkeys into men, the theory has just too many holes to be put forth as certainty.

[Catholic Canadian]

Hey Bill Nye - Crocodile and Sharks buddy, Crocodiles and Sharks.

[2nd Amendment]

I can’t believe so many otherwise rational Freepers give any credence to either evolution or uniformitarianism. Bothe Lyle and Darwin’s expressed purpose was to “kill” God. For the past 150 years or so the left has fed you hook, line, and sinker the evolution mantra and so many erstwhile theologians and so-called scientists have bought it. 6000 years old created in the image of God.

[Fledermaus]

Poor Bill Nye, did his cushy taxpayer funded job go bye-bye?

What a moron. He’s no Mr. Wizard.

[OriginalIntent]

You sure this wasn’t Bill Maher?.

[chzmc]

I think denying evolution helps neither Christians nor conservatives. It’s been proven that change in species (including humans) happens; but that fact in no way negates belief in God, Jesus, limited government, The Second Amendment, the Constitution, etc. See Pope John Paul II, a devout Christian and enemy of communism who acknowledged evolution.

[publius911]

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.

Bill Nye is an idiot who has bought into his own PR. His choice to beat on a straw man is a good indicator of what lies beneath the surface, how paper thin his 'science' credentials are.

Attacking the religious fringe might get him lots of press but does nothing to validate his science credentials.
Real scientists, biologists, molecular biologists, Physicists, chemists and geneticists all agree that life is much more complex than random chance is capable of producing, even if we agree that earth evolution timeline is infinite, which it is not.

Aside from that, except for the koranimals worldwide, most educated, normal human beings worldwide do not believe that the earth is 6000 years old, whether deeply religious or not.

Like most secular ignoramuses, he picks on nits and ignores the big picture.

Global warming?
Sheesh!
That he has chosen to become a stooge of the most science ignorant administration in history is all that needs to be said. One illustrations should be sufficient...

There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr. C. (engineer, automotive experience of 40+ years, and Chairman of CAR). They were explaining to Mr. C. that the auto companies needed to make a car that was electric and liquid natural gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go 500 miles so we wouldn't "need" so many gas stations (a whole other topic). They were quoting BTUs of LNG and battery life that they had looked up on some website.
Mr. C. explained that to do this you would need a TRUNK FULL of batteries and a LNG tank as big as the car to make that happen, and that there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from...

The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here):
"These laws of physics? Whose rules are those? We need to change that."
(Some of the others wrote down the law so they could look it up later.)
"We have the congress and administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That's why we are here, to fix these sort of issues."

.......And these are the people who are going to fix healthcare.
And stop the rising oceans; and have all koranimals worldwide singing Kum-ba-ya, if only the 'Great Uniter had one more term... or three or four!

[Viennacon]

He’s just another scumbag.