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Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children
timeOday writes "BigThink has released a video missive by Bill Nye ('The Science Guy') in which he challenges the low level of acceptance of evolution, particularly in the United States. He does not mince words: 'I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need people that can — we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.'"
Why is this even moded up to a score of 2 already?
Because there's tons of Americans here on Slashdot, and most Americans believe in Creationism.
Bill is a clueless idiot. Evolution is not in conflict creationism; only the "young earth theory" idiots.
Young Earth creationists and Bill Nye represent the screwball ends of the spectrum.
Rants like Bill's only serve to strengthen my belief that Darwinists are in deep denial. The fact they can't face is that their ideas are speculative. Since they are speculative, intelligent, informed persons can disagree. In order to protect themselves from this uncomfortable fact, they erect elaborate sematic barriers.
There are two possible origins of the Earth. Either it is the product of mindless natural processes or it was terraformed. (The Bible says it was terraformed by someone called "God".) They both sound pretty unlikely, but there don't seem to be any other possibilities. One of them must be true and the other false. The problem is that neither side can produce evidence which makes sense outside of their world view.
In their frustration with this situation, evolutionists plow ahead with ineffective philisophical and semantic arguments. Mostly they just attach labels to things. Evolution is scientific. Belief in a creator is religious. Belief in evolution is rational. Each of these statements is true in a way. But, scientific does not mean true. Religious does not mean false. Rationalism is a philosophical system which in some ways resembles a religion, so the rationalism of Evolution is not a strong argument in its favour.
Their opponents remain unimpressed by these specious arguments, so now they are resorting to hand wringing. If we don't shape up and start believing in Evolution right quick scientific and technical progress will halt as our minds are sapped by the illogic. We'll all have to go live in caves. Believe or the end is nigh!
The hand-ringing evolutionists say that it is illogical to reject evolution (a product of the scientific method) and reject modern medicine (another of its products). Just for fun and because turn-about is fair play I propose that evolutionists reject the work of scientists who held ideas contrary to evolutionary theory.