recently Bill Nye had a debate with a
creationist by the name of Ken Ham
and it was bananas horror
0 Bill Nye
is an incredible sight is someone that I
really perspective someone that I grew
up watching as a kid
and he was nice enough to do a debate
with Ken Ham who the creationist
now I will say this: even though I
respect Bill Nye and of course I respect
science and I hold it to the highest
regard
I think it's a little ridiculous that
this debate had to take place in the
first place
I didn't like the idea of treating
someone who believes in creationism
as someone that should be taken
seriously however the debate happened
and I want to give you a few highlights
love what they talked about now first of
all I just want to note
that Ken Ham who likes to compare
supernatural beliefs to The Big Bang
Theory so he basically said that they
are on a level playing field right he
makes the argument
that hey you know what there's no
explanation or there's no evidence
indicating that God created the planet
in the universe
however the same goes for the Big Bang
Theory there's no real evidence behind
that
and of course that is something that I
found so unbelievably
untrue and thankfully Bill Nye was smart
enough
2.2 evidence that doesn't exist in that
indicate for the Big Bang Theory
isn't just something that scientists
made up because they couldn't explain
how the universe came to be about he
talked about
something known as the Doppler ship
something that I'm sure you guys already
know about
and Hubble's law hubbell noticed a very
very long ago
that it turned out that galaxies were
actually worth eating from the earth
right
which would imply got a big bang
happened now is that concrete evidence
evidence
know but the big bang theory does have
some evidence behind it
and it has much more of an explanation
then something as ridiculous
as some higher being created everything
that surround us
now the real issue that I want to talk
about when it comes to that debate
is the very clear political agenda that
Ham had right so in the opening
statements ham wanted to talk about how
problematic it is that in our public
school system
we refuse to teach about creationism and
instead
we hold evolution with higher regard
well the reason why that's the case is
because there's an actual
evidence behind something like evolution
whereas your Bible
is something that doesn't have any
evidence behind it whatsoever
it's your religious doctrine and you are
dumb enough to believe
and maybe that's a harsh word but it's
true dumb enough to believe that the
birth is only six thousand years old now
in all his answers it was very clear
that have had a political agenda
he talked about abortion he talked about
same-sex marriage and he talked about
all these issues that
the right wing in the united states have
a huge issue with right
his fear is that if we begin to believe
in evolution which we already have and
we accept evolution
and reject religious doctrine well the
morality that is dictated by religious
doctrine
will cease to exist for it'll be
irrelevant that is something that he
fears
the worst part about it was how ham kept
saying over and over again
that we need to teach creationism within
our schools
that's a scary thought however it's
already being practiced in many schools
throughout the country
louisiana Tennessee Texas the other
three states
that currently have public schools that
are teaching creationism
something that should not happen because
its all about religion it's not about
scientific backs
also it's important to keep in mind that
even though debate like this happen
and it's important to point out the
inconsistencies and inaccuracies up
creationists
it's not going to change the minds of
those that already believe in
creationism
I just don't want us to treat
creationists as if they're on a level
playing field
as actual scientist that believe in
evidence Ken Ham pointed to a number of
scientists that are currently working
today that believe in creationism
and he uses that as an example up how
creationism have some credibility but
the reality is
everyone has their faults just because
your scientists are you refer to
yourself as a scientist
doesn't mean that you might be wrong on
something as significant as creationism
Ken Ham has absolutely no evidence he
keeps referring to the Bible
and if you're referring to a book like
the Bible to make your scientific points
then you don't really have much
credibility to back you up
