Hi everyone. Patrick Marks here.
Thanks for watching.
Today’s Topic: Bill Nye’s lies on his
video:
"Can we stop telling women what to do with their bodies?”
Bill Nye is famous for his video program “Bill Nye the Science Guy”
Recently Bill Nye put out a four and a half
minute video on the YouTube channel “The Big Think"
So this is an open video to Bill Nye so that
I can respond directly to that video.
Hi Bill. I just want to say thank you so much for the videos that you’ve made on “Bill Nye the Science Guy"
Those are excellent videos.
I’ve used them many times when I was teaching junior high and high school science.
They were excellent. They were well made and I really, really appreciate it
and so did the kids.
But Bill, I’m sorry, I have to take issue
with you on this latest video.
Now you titled that video “Can we stop telling women what to do with their bodies?”
The first point that you made was since there are many more hundreds of eggs that are fertilized
than actually become humans
that it’s pointless to try to say that a
fertilized egg should have the same rights
as a full human being.
Then you go on to say, and I quote,
“Whom are you going to imprison? Every woman who has had a fertilized egg pass through her?
“It’s just a reflection of a deep scientific
lack of understanding.”
Well actually it seems to me that you don’t really know what biblical Christians believe
about this issue.
You see biblical Christians don’t accept
the idea that
just because there are hundreds and hundreds of fertilized eggs
that don’t go on to become a fully developed human being
that we shouldn’t protect unborn human beings.
That would be like saying, “Well since there’s hundreds of human beings that are going to die
there’s no point in having laws against
murder.”
Real scientific understanding tells us that
100% of the time
a fertilized human egg is not going to suddenly change and develop into an armadillo.
No, the human life cycle is guided by human DNA and our life cycle begins with dividing cells.
And my human cells are still dividing to this day.
So Mr. Nye, why are you considered a human being,
but a smaller human being that is in a different part of the human life cycle isn’t human yet?
At least from the point of view that you laid out in your video.
And that concerns me, because if we decide that a human in one part of the human life cycle is not fully human yet,
what’s to stop society from deciding that
humans in the late stages of the human life cycle are no longer human.
You see if humans are not human because of their DNA, then they’re only human because
of what society decides.
Now Mr. Nye, you also say that these laws against abortion are really based on ignorance.
Now I can understand how you wouldn’t want
laws to be passed based on ignorance.
Well that makes sense.
But you say, and I quote,
“Your interpretation of a book written 5,000 years ago, 50 centuries ago,
“makes you think that when a man and a woman have sexual intercourse they always have a baby.
“That’s wrong. And so to pass laws based
on that belief is inconsistent with nature.”
Well Mr. Nye, when you say that, you’re
committing a logical fallacy called “The Straw Man"
You see this 5,000 year old book that you
mention, the Bible, and biblical Christians,
do not believe that every time a man and a woman have sex there must be a baby.
I mean maybe you didn’t realize it but that’s a gross misrepresentation
of what biblical Christians actually believe
and teach.
The fact is that biblical Christians believe
that sometimes when men and women have sexual intercourse,
there might be a baby.
And that belief is confirmed by science, and experience.
Now Mr. Nye, you go on to say, and I quote,
“Nobody likes abortion. Okay? But you can’t tell somebody what to do.”
So why is it okay for you to say what we shouldn’t be doing?
And then contradict yourself and say that
you shouldn’t tell somebody what to do?
You see when you apply that kind of a double standard, it’s actually the logical fallacy of "Special Pleading".
Besides, if we really shouldn’t tell people
what to do then why do we have laws against, say, drunk driving?
I mean the truth is we tell people what to
do all the time in our culture.
And if we didn’t we would fall into anarchy.
But I’m curious. Where did you get your
idea that we shouldn’t do something.
I mean, you’re on record, because I’ve
seen so many of your videos, of being a committed evolutionist.
And of course if evolution is true then you
and me and everybody, we’re just walking chemical accidents.
The product of billions of years of genetic
mistakes.
If evolution is true then there is no plan,
there is no purpose, there is no direction,
and you and I are just a clump of cells that just happens to have some kind of self consciousness.
In an evolutionary universe, why would it
be wrong to kill any kind of lump of cells,
like say one that likes to wear bow ties?
Well the truth is biblical Christians actually reject that kind of thinking.
We believe that human beings are created in the image of God;
that makes human life sacred all the way from conception to natural death.
You know it’s interesting that the famous
evolutionist and atheist, Dr. Richard Dawkins,
he describes the evolutionary way of thinking like this, and I quote,
“In a universe of electrons and selfish
genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication,
“some people are going to get hurt, other
people are going to get lucky,
“and you won’t find any rhyme or reason
in it, nor any justice.
“The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect
“if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good. Nothing but pitiless indifference."
So Mr. Nye, if the universe is really just
pitiless indifference
how can you say, and again I quote,
“I mean she has rights over this, especially if she doesn’t like the guy who got her pregnant.
“Like she doesn’t want anything to do
with your genes. Get over it.
“Especially if she were raped and all of
this.”
But Bill, where do you get your idea of rights?
If we’re just the product of billions of
years of genetic mutations,
coming from no plan and no purpose, then there really are no real rights.
Just the rights that we decide we want at
any given time.
So saying that a woman has the right to kill another human being just because she can,
but not giving that other human being a right to live because it can if it’s simply left alone,
is just arbitrary.
It’s just grabbing the idea of rights out of
thin air.
But biblical Christians believe that we have rights, including the right to life,
because the Creator gave us those rights.
But if, as Dawkins put it, there is no design, no purpose, no justice, just pitiless indifference,
whatever rights you believe in are just arbitrary things that you just happen to like right now.
And finally, you say in your video, Mr. Nye,
and I quote you again,
“And I understand that you have deeply held beliefs,
“and it really is ultimately out of respect
for people, in this case your perception of unborn people.
“I understand that. But I really encourage
you to look at the facts.”
Okay Mr. Nye, I really appreciate the fact
that you want us to look at the facts so let’s
take a look at a few.
The fact is that a fertilized human egg is
a living organism with 100% human DNA.
There’s nothing to stop human beings from deciding at some other point in the human life cycle
that we can just kill the unwanted, the inconvenient or the broken down.
The fact is that abortion is really an emotional issue, not a scientific issue.
There are, in fact, many women who get into terribly frightening situations when they get pregnant.
But biblical Christians don’t think that
emotional reasons are good enough reasons to kill a child.
So let’s not come up with any of this patronizing nonsense that biblical Christians
are somehow Pro Life because they don’t
understand science.
Now Mr. Nye, I don’t expect you to actually watch this video.
After all, you’re really famous and I’ll
be lucky if I get 100 people to watch this video.
But for those of you that are listening in,
I invite you to subscribe to my channel.
So be good, don’t do anything evil,
and hopefully I’ll see you next time.
