Bill Nye tours the Ark Encounter

[yuiyoshida]

[tenorly]

1. Elmer Gantry, but with an Australian accent and better manners.

Which of course only makes him more effective and therefore dangerous.

I suspect that as he waded through the throngs of Ham's true believers, Bill Nye, for the first time in his life, began harboring real doubts as to the theory of evolution.

Qué será.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I SERIOUSLY doubt that Bill Nye

began to harbor any doubts as to the theory of evolution. People like this ignoramus confronting Nye clearly hasn't a clue about science or how it works.

To believe that the world is only a few thousand years old requires a complete lack of understanding of so many basics of science, and how we date things and so on and so forth.

Geology actually got its start when men of faith went looking for proof of the Biblical Flood. Read The Rocks Don't Lie by David R. Montgomery. Excellent history of geology.

[Plucketeer]

3. I'm with you

To deny the science of carbon dating is just sticking your head someplace worse than in the sand.

[tenorly]

9. My apologies. It was a poor attempt at wry humor.

Of course, if anything could ever create any doubts in his mind as to evolution, it might be seeing those simians throw their money at a huckster like Ken Ham.

Either that, or watching them vote for Trump.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

16. I thought it was pretty clear what you meant.

[tenorly]

18. Thanks!

Judging from some of the replies one isn't always sure, you know.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

19. I know! I'm not trying to bust on anyone, though.

I think we're all on edge these days. And anxiety and fear seem to interfere with clear thinking! I know it does with me.

[tenorly]

20. And just wait until Betsy De Vil takes over at DoE.

Any textbook with a photo of a fossil or the name Darwin in it (unless it's to vilify him) will go straight to the bonfires.

Swastikas optional.

[Duppers]

7. Not sure about your statement.

You just said that Bill Nye, for the first time in his life, began harboring real doubts as to the theory of evolution?

Bill Nye doubts? Really. I hope I'm misunderstanding you or that your statement was totally tongue-in-cheek and I'm being tone deaf.

The clip bored me, so I stopped watching but I've heard so much from Mr. Nye, that I'll never believe he would doubt his long held scientific conclusions.

[tenorly]

8. I was being facetious.

I couldn't help but wonder what a scholar of Nye's caliber must have felt at seeing the knuckle-draggers around him - and the huckster relieving them of their money.

[Duppers]

10. Lovely. :)

Rather thought and was hoping so.
Just wanted confirmation. So, thanks!


Logic and science rule.

[tenorly]

11. Ah, you're welcome.

What's reason without a little irony, right?

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. these people scare the shit out of me.

[Phoenix61]

5. Me too

[yuiyoshida]

6. What's even more scary is with All these Republicans in power

Who is to say one of them might decide that Science is a Threat, and that Biblical Law requires that Science is "hearsay" and it should be condemned and destroyed, like the Roman Catholic Church did to Galileo.

[Feeling the Bern]

12. Bill, I love you, but listening to that asshole's condescending bullshit, I wanted to just thump his

skull.

You have the patience of a saint. Ken Hamm argues in non-sequitirs, logical fallacies, and then he just moves the goalposts if he is losing.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

17. Pretty sure that's what they learn in RW school.

On second thought, anyone who believes what this guy believes has to be a natural. No sense of logic or reason. It is the downfall of our nation that so many now "think" this way.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Nye has more patience than me. The other guy is trying the ol' BS that everything...

is based on opinion and belief.

If there was any justice in this world, people like Ken Ham would be on trial for a serious crime and all evidence that could prove his innocence would be ignored. "It's all opinions, right Ken? Each lawyer will be provided a few minutes of arguments and then a decision will be made. The jury has better things to do, like watching the Kardashians!"

[impeachtrumpquick]

15. Carl Sagan and the Heike Crabs

Neil Tyson on the Evolution of Dogs:

Yep ; I'm related to a banana; but I'm still smarter than one.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. The evolution of dogs from artificial selection might have been easy.

It didn't take very long for these foxes.

I just found that interesting. I'm NOT implying the world is only a few thousand years old or something!