What Nye, and other atheistic evolution pushers, seem to not grasp is that the greatest scientific progress was made in this country at a time BEFORE evolution was in the picture.
If it’s true that belief in creationism hinders scientific advance and progress, then any scientific progress should not have even been possible before Darwin proposed his theory.
The fact that it did gives lie to the claim they make that creationism harms scientific advance and will send us back into the Dark Ages.
Please see post 78.
If it’s true that belief in creationism hinders scientific advance and progress, then any scientific progress should not have even been possible before Darwin proposed his theory.
The fact that it did gives lie to the claim they make that creationism harms scientific advance and will send us back into the Dark Ages.
You know perfectly well that it is highly unlikely that I'm going to embrace any anti-science, no matter how strongly some people feel that to accept the scientific view is to reject Jesus and the promise of redemption. So why do you ping me to this?
As to the "greatest scientific progress" made in this country, I think that's a matter of opinion. Personally, I think the greatest advances have been in medicine, where people live longer, healthier lives than ever before. Women no longer commonly die from childbirth; people no longer have to have ten children in the hopes that a couple will live to adulthood. None of these medical advances would have been possible without the theoretical framework of evolution showing us how all life is related, so that we can do the research. Darwin, of course, did not invent evolution; he was, like many others, an observer of it. He didn't even formulate the first or only theory to try to explain evolution; his theory was the best one at the time, in that it allowed for scientists to make testable predictions that were borne out experimentally.
A person who believes that the stories in Genesis are literal accounts simply cannot be a scientist. The only way someone can maintain their belief that the earth is flat, the sun orbits the earth, the stars are fixed in some sort of solid shell, and that plants and animals sprang forth from the dirt fully formed is by closing their eyes and mind to anything that contradicts the Biblical description. That person is simply incapable of embracing science in any form. That does not mean that people who reject the literal interpretation of Genesis are all atheists; they are not. But they understand that the message of the Bible is metaphorical and, indeed, is meant to be understood as metaphorical.