Posted on 08/27/2012 1:42:32 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In a clip posted to online knowledge forum Big Think via YouTube, former children’s show host Bill Nye spoke out against the denial of evolution, saying such views harm young people especially and hamper scientific progress.
Nye, who hosted the educational show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” which aired on PBS Kids from 1993 through 1998, made the statements in a clip posted online on Thursday, and has since been viewed over one million times. In the clip, Nye praises the United States for its contribution to technological innovation, but says that the denial of evolution is unique to the country.
“People still move to the United States. And that’s largely because of the intellectual capital we have, the general understanding of science,” Nye said in the clip. “When you have a portion of the population that doesn’t believe in that, it holds everybody back, really.
“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. It’s like, it’s very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You’re just not going to get the right answer. Your whole world is just going to be a mystery instead of an exciting place,” he added.
Nye made a three-stop tour through New Hampshire earlier this summer to tout President Obama’s education policies while making a push for science and engineering programs. He has endorsed Obama’s reelection bid.
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What a surprise. PBS hired and made famous a radical secularist. He also thinks that people who "deny" Global Warming are anti-science too. He'd make a great spokesman for Stalin's Ministry of Science, just like pretty much everyone else who works for PBS.
“Evolution” is a “carefully” protected State Religon.
Bill Nye
Wants me to die
Bill Nye is not a scientist.
No worries. Evolution-deniers, global warming-deniers, Obama policy-deniers, TSA-complainers, etc. will soon find a happy home in a local Homeland Security re-education camp.
“God is dead.”
- Bill Nye
“Bill Nye is dead.”
- God
My church teaches creation, but it doesn’t deny evolution.
Nye is pretending there is a fundamental incompatibility, when there isn’t.
Still I’d like to get him to acknowledge that the hear to “evolution” is natural selection, and that essentially means “survival of the fittest.
Then we’d learn that “fittest” is defined as “that which most readily survives.
Thus, evolution is a tautology, meaning it says essentially nothing (it’s conclusion merely restates its premise).
Has Mr. Nye defined the term “evolution” as he claims we deny it?
“Evolution does not explain Creation.” - Charles Darwin
Oh, so we should do what they do in other nations... Execute women and gays? So we're no longer unique?
I know very few evolution “deniers,” but I know a lot of folks unsatisfied with Darwin’s theory that the process is governed entirely by randomness.
The theory commonly known as “intelligent design” is actually a fairly profound and scientifically rigorous approach to answering the question, “Is evolution entirely random, and if not what is governing it.” Intelligent disign theorists welcome this debate, but, true to form, the left runs from intellectual debate and hides behind name calling and invective. Bill Nye’s defense of Darwinian theory by attacking others has more in common with religious devotion than does the theory of intelligent design.
“My church teaches creation, but it doesn’t deny evolution.”, YOU need to find a new church. If a “church” cannot get Genesis right then EVERYTHING else they “teach” is suspect.
I believe in micro-evolution. A genus of birds can live or die, based on their climate and the impact it makes on them. However, seeing a dinosaur “change” into a bird thoughout millions of years is just fantastically idiotic to me.
So, I’ll believe in the word of God of Bill Nye the “Science” Guy. Thanks.
Evolution as a process of nature is not a problem, it is Evolution as an idealology that is the issue.
It's actually the other way around. The false assumptions that have stemmed from the theory of evolution have held back science.
One example was thinking various human organs were vestigal when now we know that they all have function. Had they not made that false assumption based on evolution, they might have discovered the functions earlier and improved medical care as a result.
Another was the infamous "junk dna". We now know that junk dna has various functions including second and third higher level cell programming functions.
Evolution as a process of nature is not a problem, it is Evolution as an idealology that is the issue.
Again to preemptively clarify that Eolvition as a process is just a re-stating of Natural Selection and natural law.
Ths FULL name of Chuckie Darwin’s “work”: “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.”. He was NOTHING but a RACIST!
Nye has exposed himself as a leftist punk. Like OJ, the “nice guy” meme is merely a crafted image divorced from reality. Bob
How can I deny it?
Its still just an unproven theory, right?
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