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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 (14,640 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 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 Next » |
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This guy looks like Dr. Kevorkian. They all have the same gaun look of death on their faces. Faith is a gift from God, and the world lacks it. Do not gve in to this walking corpse. To say that creationsts cannot become scientists or engineers is inaccurate. As a matter of fact, those who believe in the creator are the most passionate creators. He should study artists across the ages, from David to Michael Angelo.
pretty judgmental coming from a Christian. What was that again? you shouldn't throw stones......
Wow. You are a fvcktard. Move to Iran or Afghanistan if you believe in ridiculous fairy tales. Zealot.
David is a statue.. it would be pretty impressive if he could create anything.. and I think you might have meant DaVinci..
Rick777,
I'd say that his facial features are more along the lines of Abe Lincoln.... but who cares?!
Laugh if you believe in religion and believe the Garden of Eden was in Missouri (Mormons) then vote Romney!
I won't laugh or honk.
Bill Nye, no one is asking you to believe in God so don't offend those who do. The world's best scientists behind the technology we enjoy today, historically, had strong holy convictions. Why is it that in the 21st century it's suddenly uncool to have faith? Just as we are annoyed by preachers in uplifted trousers rubbing it in our faces, we are repulsed by your offensive and intrusive statements.
If atheists make up less than 5% of the population, how exactly is faith "uncool?"
Actually, it should be the goal of every human to weed out ignorance in any form. Nye should be thanked for having the courage to shine the light of reason into the shadowy world of "faith" and fantasy.
Because in the 21 century we have facts and technology to see that god is unnecessary. The forefathers of science did not know what we now know but if they did, I would guarantee that not a single one would be a creationist. In their day you could be killed for question religion (unbelievably this still happens too often today) and there were no satisfying alternative options to explain the universe. We should not better nowadays.
So, it doesn't matter what is true, just what offends people, right?
Laugh, now the religious nutbags are claiming that anyone who believes in evolution is an atheist. How about you just learn about science and try to understand rather than covering your ears, shoving your head into the sand and screaming "NANANANANA! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! EVOLUTION IS A THEORY NOT A FACT LIKE THE BIBLE!" NANANANA!"
What in blazes is a nut bag? You're the second poser to mention it today.
Nutbag is a generic, derogatory term for anyone who disagrees with one's position, especially when that position is based purely on opinion. It is most often used when the user doesn't want to consider the merits of the opposing viewpoint, and decides that name-calling is a better form of argument.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
...Then you had to go and ruin it...
Nobody cares what you believe. Coming onto to some message board to claim your disbelief does nothing for anybody.
So if you believe that Adam and Eve really existed and they were the first two humans then...with whom did their offspring procreate.Eeeeewwwwww. But that would explain all the retards that believe in god.
You are certainly an "outsider" to critical thinking, that is for sure. You show your ignorance by claiming that anyone who believes in "God" is ignorant.
Many intellectuals far superior to you are "believers" – google it and keep your stupidity off of message boards.
"And Cain... went out into the land of Nod in the East of Eden. And Cain knew his wife."
A paraphrase, but apparently somebody pulled off a second creation over there in the land of Nod...
Further proof that religious people are ruining society.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Best concise comment of the day.
If you ever drop your keys in a river of molten lava – just let 'em go – 'cause man, they're gone....
Jack Handy at his best.
Religion has been a part of human psychology for hundreds of thousands of years. The question we the educated, the well informed must pose is not if their beliefs are factually accurate, that is a softball any of us can hit out of the park…….but why? Why do we as humans have this uncanny need for religion?
fear of death....fear of the unknown
I know who to ask: SCIENCE.
Man, I was gonna say that. That's a simple question. Ding Ding Ding! and "religion; a way to control the weak minded" gets a cookie! Congrats :). Yea, people just are afraid to not know "everything". There are a couple of more reasons though:
1. Children idoctrination.
2. Needing a "friend" to push you forward in hard times.
3. Peer pressure
There may be more explanations, but they probably fall under the other 2 categories explained.
a man at work the other day tried to convince me that jesus walked with dinosaurs. that people...and dinosaurs ..LIVED TOGETHER.
i asked him where he got this information from and he said HE WAS TAUGHT THIS IN HIS SCHOOL.
he also claims that the ice age didn't happen and that the earth is only a couple thousand years old.
how embarrassing.
Just look at the current curriculum in Louisiana and yes, they do teach that in some schools.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
What Creationist fail to realize is that in order for Creationism to function God has to preform each and every chemical reaction himself. Which means I can make God do my bidding simply by taking a glass of vinegar and adding some baking soda to it I can make God come and preform the reaction that produces the CO2 for me.
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There's another phrase that someone found, "wo-nderful us" (have no idea what sets that one off).
bottom line no fact to evolution help me understand where is it?
Where what is?
time to get an education
bottom line, creationists have sadly been brainwashed
If I say my invisible pink unicorn created the world it is just as valid.
Why don't the creationist types ever take on chemistry or physics? These 2 fields apply the same scientific methods as evolution to prove their theories.
Because in order to believe in Creationism you cannot accept the facts of chemistry and physics.
I'm asking why they don't bash those 2 fields with the vigor they do creationism.
They don't bash those sciences because it does not threaten their religion/cult/delusions. The fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun was a direct threat to Christianity at one time until they just couldn't deny it any longer and now they try and pretend Gallileo was never persecuted for it and even try to take claim for the discovery and pretend that they misinterpreted the bible for centuries. Pathetic.
I'm sure you would find many people who believe in a higher power in both of those fields...but I'm not doing your homework for you.
I believe! And I know that Falcao just made another point! That is 3 goles in this game! And we still have 35 mins to go! He is worth every million they pay him....now that is "god".
Goals.
If you believe in evolution, you must accept a portion of the population would believe in creationism. Whoever survive the last and their beliefs are the winners.
Or the end of the species if the morons win.
"God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
~Neil deGrasse Tyson – Astrophysicist
* Below are a couple of extra FORMER hard-core atheists in addition to Lee Strobel (www.LeeStrobel.com):
C. S. Lewis – Is an intellectual giant of the 20th century. “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “Mere Christianity” are two well known books among his numerous publications. http://www.cslewis.com
Josh McDowell – Is a Christian apologist, evangelist and writer. As a college student he was an agnostic who began to investigate the Christian faith to disprove it. He is author or co-author of 77 plus books. Josh McDowell’s “Evidence that Demands a Verdict” and many others can be purchased at book stores and online http://www.josh.org
* What is the BOTTOMLINE? ANSWER: It takes FAR MORE faith to be an atheist than to be a Christian ANY DAY OF THE WEEK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMEN !!!
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Did you just Amen yourself? Not talking about Atheism anyway, just the simple fact that evolution is true where the account that all life was created as is in its current form is false. Also the world is Billions of years old. That is true too.
Bob: " It takes FAR MORE faith to be an atheist than to be a Christian..."
Nope.
But even IF that WERE true, MORE faith is better, eh what?
you are wrong.
totally.
"AMEN!!"
Haha you just outed yourself as a troll
haha you forgot to change your username before replying to yourself
haha you're a f'ing imbecile haha