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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Honestly, trying to understand God and his ways ... as described above... with science developed by man...now that's crazy.
We don’t understand the universe.... sheesh. Why does science feel the need to colorize the pictures the Hubble telescope takes? Because we want to force science into something we can see and understand. Same as you want to do to God.
Did that.
Still doing it.
Can't say where it'll end up, except for one thing: I won't find the true God anywhere near the "God" of Abraham.
I didn't invoke any real science. All I did was summarize what the first two verses of your "complete" creation account have to say. And it's nothing but gobbledygook.
There's water. There's night. Along comes God, and creates light. The light is actually daylight, which He separates from night. Not even a fairly stupid child would call that a "complete" account of the creation of the world.
So I see you write code for a living, I do too. Nothing new though God did it first and way better with DNA. He also gave us one language and then languages. Ever study the creation vs evolution aspect of languages? One makes a lot more sense afterall why do we humans have a conscious and complex language that the other life forms simply do not share. Yet with DNA he has gifted many animals with skills we still struggle to emulate like sonar and navigation.
There ya go. That's the whole deal right there. As the song says, "As you lick the boots of death, born out of fear."
Not about faith. Not about science. Just about buttressing your fairy tale because you're so afraid to die.
I don’t think I want to see what your code looks like.
In the beginning God, not water or anything else mentioned just God and then what’s next created.
You pretzel logic is only tying you up in knots not he other way round...
I wouldn't try to use science to measure that if I were you.
Who said I’m afraid to die? All day long you continue to misquote and then pretend it somehow makes your view superior. self-deception...
Sure. That version makes sense.
Your admonition says it.
Keep the faith... whatever your faith is in :)
Later
Water can’t exist without light. So how was it created first? Do you literally believe there is water surrounding the universe? Because that’s what Genesis says.
Tally Ho! If you talk about science, try not to notice the other diners laughing into their napkins.
Yes your too clever by half - aren’t you!
Well I sure envy you evolutionists b/c your code just writes itself - right?
With man these things are impossible, but with God all things are possible.
You so limit God and don’t even realize it.
Atheists will believe anything. But then, so will Christians. This is due to human nature—we prefer to believe what we prefer to be true, as Sir Francis Bacon said.
Accordingly, Freud never got it. He never realized wish fulfillment works both ways.
Aldous Huxley put it this way:
“Science does not have the right to give to me my reason for being. But I am going to take science’s view because I want this world not to have meaning. A meaningless world frees me to pursue my own erotic and political desires.”
Do you think the Christian God would approve of you spreading wild conspiracy theories that you have no evidence of?
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