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August 27th, 2012
11:31 AM ET
Bill Nye slams creationismBy Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor (CNN)–Famed TV scientist Bill Nye is slamming creationism in a new online video for Big Think titled "Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children." "Denial of evolution is unique to the United States," Nye begins in a YouTube video posted on Thursday. The video quickly picked up steam over the weekend and as of Monday morning had been viewed more than 1,100,000 times. Nye – a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, "Bill Nye the Science Guy" – said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and "when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back." "Your world becomes fantastically complicated if you don't believe in evolution," Nye said in the Web video. Creationists are a vast and varied group in the United States. Most creationists believe in the account of the origins of the world as told in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories In the creation account, God creates Adam and Eve, the world, and everything in it in six days. For Christians who read the Genesis account literally, or authoritatively as they would say, the six days in the account are literal 24-hour periods and leave no room for evolution. Young Earth creationists use this construct and biblical genealogies to determine the age of the Earth, and typically come up with 6,000 to 10,000 years. Your Take: 5 reactions to Bill Nye's creationism critique The Gallup Poll has been tracking Americans' views on creation and evolution for the past 30 years. In June it released its latest findings, which showed 46% of Americans believed in creationism, 32% believed in evolution guided by God, and 15% believed in atheistic evolution. During the 30 years Gallup has conducted the survey, creationism has remained far and away the most popular answer, with 40% to 47% of Americans surveyed saying they believed that God created humans in their present form at one point within the past 10,000 years. Survey: Nearly half of Americans subscribe to creationist view of human origins "The idea of deep time of billions of years explains so much of the world around us. If you try to ignore that, your worldview becomes crazy, untenable, itself inconsistent," Nye said in the video. "I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, 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 engineers that can build stuff and solve problems," he said. Creationists' beliefs about the origins of the Earth are often a narrow focus, based in large part on religious beliefs, and while they reject evolution as "just one theory," they often embrace other fields of science and technology. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter In "The Genesis Flood," the 1961 book that in many ways help launch the Young Earth creationism movement in the United States, the authors write: “Our conclusions must unavoidably be colored by our Biblical presuppositions, and this we plainly acknowledge." Their goal for the book was to harmonize the scientific evidence with the accounts in Genesis of creation and the flood. The idea of creationism has been scorned by the mainstream scientific community since shortly after Darwin introduced "The Origin of Species" in 1859. By 1880, The American Naturalists, a science journal, reported nearly every major university in America was teaching evolution. "In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. So..." Nye ends his video. soundoff (14,613 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164Post a comment |
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Creationist are full of IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the only miracles are in the soup !
Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130404122234.htm
Where do morals come from?
By Kelly Murray, CNN
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/
Learning is fun with facts.......................... and facts work when teaching children.
Atheist Prof. Peter Higgs: Stop calling Higgs boson the ‘God particle’
Professor Peter Higgs said recently that there is no God and so people should stop referring to the theoretical partial that
bears his name as the “God particle.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/08/atheist-prof-peter-higgs-stop-calling-higgs-bosen-the-god-particle/
Pope praises science, but insists God created world updated Thur October 28, 2010
Stephen Hawking is wrong, Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday – God did create the universe. The pope didn't actually mention the world-famous scientist, who argues in a book published last month that the laws of physics show there is no need for a supreme... \
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/28/pope-praises-science-but-insists-god-created-world/
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Heaven is 'a fairy story,' scientist Stephen Hawking says updated Tue May 17, 2011
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor The concept of heaven or any kind of afterlife is a "fairy story," famed British scientist Stephen Hawking said in a newspaper interview this week. "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when...
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/17/heaven-is-a-fairy-story-scientist-stephen-hawking-says/
April 7th, 2012
08:32 PM ET
The Jesus debate: Man vs. myth
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/07/the-jesus-debate-man-vs-myth/comment-page-137/#comment-2281915
Are creationists smarter than a 5th grader ?
Listening to the Big Bang – In High Fidelity
Apr. 4, 2013 — A decade ago, spurred by a question for a fifth-grade science project, University of Washington physicist John Cramer devised an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130404170154.htm
It is an illusion ..................gods.
Engineering 'Ghost' Objects: Breakthrough in Scattering Illusion
Feb. 19, 2013 — A team at the NUS Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering led by Dr Qiu Cheng-Wei has come out with an optical device to "engineer" ghosts.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130219090643.htm
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One of the most famous trials in history was the monkey trial pitting evolution against creationism. Well now I wonder if we should declare a mistrial because sciences own findings are falling way short of the claim, that we are decedents of monkeys. Only recently has this link become even more impossible with the new findings. This one court ruling was why we have evolution taught in schools today and it is based on the wrong conclusions by sciences own findings. while we waited for the proof that this statement was true we have found that it is a lie or a wrong conclusion. While science is absolutely important we must never forget science as the predictor of events falls far short because it is based on the ideas of man not the knowledge of God. Now we have structure and laws based on a lie that are hard to reverse but built on the myth of man.
God does not believe in atheist, therefore, they do not exist!
Diane does not even understand basic grammar. She is stupid.
diane always was a bit slow - and with that lisp, she can't pronounce "atheists". I did try to teach her proper plurals... *sigh*.
Diane, nice to see you're carrying on the tradition of religious stupidity. You're dumber than tits on a wheelbarrow.
Do you know how Diane knows what her god is thinking? She made him up.
God does not believe in atheist, therefore, they do not exist
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why do people confuse creationism with intelligent design? because they all follow the evolution religion!
It's not confusion. ID is creationism with a new cover. This was proven at the Dover School Board trial – the creationist text books were mass edited to replace "creationism" with "Intelligent Design". Even without that the ideas are the same just more pseudo-science.
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History proves the earth is young, that we descend from one man and woman, and that pagan gods were mortal men, deified by their descendants. Science may be fuzzy on the origin of man (it's not; we can act like it is), but history is clear. Mankind starts somewhere around the time of Hercules.
http://FromNoahtoHercules.com/
Not looking for an argument, but I don't think evolution and belief in a creator contradict each other.
(Also, don't use a Hasty Generalization fallacy, deeming all who believe in God as those who are simply ignorant).
As far as I am concerned, evolution is the adaptation to our environment for survival... It doesn't automatically mean we came from monkeys!
And even the bible says life started in the water.
Science agrees. But that doesn't mean we came from fish, either.
They call Christians bigots these days, which literally means "a person who has prejudice against those who hold different opinions."
I don't have a prejudice against atheists, agnostics, or just people who are unsure. The majority of the people commenting on here, however, clearly have prejudice against Christians. So, remind me, who are the bigots?
Science is beautiful! I love it! I'm studying it.
But, I love faith, too.
None of you here have experienced death. Therefore, no one, including me, has right to say "this world is all that exists," or, "there IS a heaven!" But admire others for their opinions. Here them out. Humbly disagree.
You do not have to believe in Christ, God, and so on.
But Just as science should be considered and appreciated, faith should be recognized as a beautiful thing too.
Bill Nye is a typical European Jew. It's part of their ideology and culture to attack Christians and by extension Europeans. They're the same Talmudic Jews that murdered Christ and set a murderer free. They're the same Jews that deny Ethopian Jews from access to Israel. They're the same Jews that Dostoyevsky warned about. Years later they created and ran the Bolshevik party that murdered tens of millions.
More Ukrainians were killed in the Holodomor, the winter of 1933, then Jews in the Holocaust but we can't know about this. Instead we have Bill Nye stirring up hatred of those "backwards", "Christian", "rednecks" just like the Bolsheviks.
You racist jerk.
We cant know about the Holocaust?! What?!
But, regardless, Bill Nye's ethnicity has nothing to do with his views.
This is attack is full of racism, false facts, and fallacies.
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that is a remarkably well spelled editorial from a fanatical lunatic and anti-Semite. The holocaust wasnt mind blowing because of its numbers, it was(the first) state sponcered INDUSTRIALIZED genocide. it took genocide into the modern era, all by a very "civilized" nation.
stop picking on the jews for no good reason its very cliche, almost as old as adam and eve.
this is really for the readers not the looney toon who wrote the original comment
-a jew who google "bill nye jewish?"
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