Bill Nye, 'Science Guy,' condemns creationist influence in classrooms

PostmodernProphet said:
no, there were two that were compatible with your belief choices......deal with it....
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I don't believe any god had anything to do with it. There is NO science supporting the idea that humans were created by God 10000 years ago. That is based on nothing but biblical fairy tales. Deal with it.
 
Professor Baxter said:
You are the one supplying the 22% figure. My guess, is it is just a name on the ledger and was based on simply asking people to identify their faith. They were not likely tested to prove what was "in their hearts."
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Very true....my point was that none of them were taught to defy science by the Church....not to claim that some don't have their own beliefs...really an irrelevant point.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
lol.....the opposite of your argument......significant........
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Wow, so even when dealing with numbers, something where you could easily give a hard answer on what defines significant, you are still too spineless. It seems obvious you now concede that I was absolutely right and another one of your idiotic gotcha attempts has blownup in your face.
 
Professor Baxter said:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/di...-wants-creationists-out-of-science-classrooms


"The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old," Nye said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs."


Millions of Americans do hold those beliefs, according to a June Gallup poll that found 46 percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.


Nye, 56, also decried efforts in recent years by lawmakers and school boards in some states to present Bible stories as an alternative to evolution in public schools. Tennessee passed a law earlier this year that protects teachers who let students criticize evolution and other scientific theories. That echoes a Louisiana law passed in 2008 that allows teachers to introduce supplemental teaching materials in science classes.


"If we raise a generation of students who don't believe in the process of science, who think everything that we've come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, you're not going to continue to innovate," Nye said in a wide-ranging telephone interview.

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In the video he tells adults they can dismiss evolution, "but don't make your kids do it. Because we need them." Posted by Big Think, an online knowledge forum, the clip went viral and has 4.6 million views on YouTube. It has garnered 182,000 comments from critics and supporters.


It drew the ire of the creationism group Answers in Genesis, which built a biblically based Creation Museum in Kentucky that teaches the stories of the Old Testament and has attracted headlines for its assertion that dinosaurs roamed alongside Adam and Eve.


The group produced a response video featuring two scientists who say the Bible has the true account of Earth's origins, and that "children should be exposed to both ideas concerning our past."


Nye, who is prone to inject dry humor into scientific discussions, said Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.




"What I find troubling, when you listen to these people ... once in a while I get the impression that they're not kidding," Nye said.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/di...-wants-creationists-out-of-science-classrooms
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Millions of Americans do hold those beliefs, according to a June Gallup poll that found 46 percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.

If this statement above is true, then that would explain why a lot of these nutcase politicians getting elected and re-elected?!! Are they teaching this shit in our schools nowadays??? I would not go out on the world stage, saying the earth is 10,000 years old?!!
 
Damocles said:
Didn't we already have a thread on this very topic? Like four months ago?
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when people refuse facts you have to keep going over everything to allow the facts to be heard.

please dump this crazy base so we don't have to reeducate them on the facts every ten minutes
 
Professor Baxter said:
That is what you are arguing. You think that any science that is tailored to the Bilbe or that counters biblical stories amounts to teaching atheism.
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no....it is NOT what I am arguing.....I am arguing that your belief choices are no more science than mine and there is no reason to teach yours in lieu of mine.......
 
Professor Baxter said:
Wow, so even when dealing with numbers, something where you could easily give a hard answer on what defines significant, you are still too spineless. It seems obvious you now concede that I was absolutely right and another one of your idiotic gotcha attempts has blownup in your face.
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why, just because I'm not stupid enough to play "gotcha" with an atheist?.....I don't play with silly little traps and false verifiers.....
 
PostmodernProphet said:
no....it is NOT what I am arguing.....I am arguing that your belief choices are no more science than mine and there is no reason to teach yours in lieu of mine.......
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There is no scientific evidence to support your beliefs. Only the Bible. There is overwhleming evidence to support the scientific theory of evolution.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
why, just because I'm not stupid enough to play "gotcha" with an atheist?.....I don't play with silly little traps and false verifiers.....
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Back to the point that has already been conceded in my favor. Not all Catholics can be counted as rejecting the idiotic notion that God created man 10000 years ago simply because their church leaders or the teachings of the church does.
 
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