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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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"46% of Americans believed in creationism"
are you kidding me?
i believe in IDGAFism
DO NO HARM IS THE GOAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. ARE WE MAKING PROGRESS?
Eat, procreate and expand is the goal of all evolution.
Amen.
"In the Beginning, God created the Heavens.....( which took Him Aeons of time to do... ), "........and the Earth." ( which also took aeons of time for Him to do ). ( and THAT is what has been proven by True Science. ). Genisis 1:1
where do you buy your LSD?
Gee, I thunk it said "DAY" not "AEON"
Actually keep thunking. The original text is a more non specific term meaning "period" not day. Only weird Protestant sects common in USA need to read their English translation literally.
And in the fourth aeon, after previously creating the earth and covering it with the seas, God created the sun and the moon and stars.
Yep – bass ackwards.
I think your period key is stuck.
How come on the sixth day we have:
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27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
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And then after a rest, later we have:
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20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
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So, does God create woman on the 6th day, or later on from Adam's rib??
Sure. Make it say whatever you want it to. NOW that you KNOW it is wrong! DOLT! FOLLOWER! You have to keep changing your story. Making it up as you go along! IDIOT!
Not only that, but in Genesis 1 we have:
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11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening, and there was morning —the third day.
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Yet in Genesis 2 we have this:
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5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
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Doesn't this look like someone tried to synthesize two different stories together???
August 27, 2012 at 9:26 pm | Reposted
(I can't believe we moved on two pages!)
One look at this guy and you can see that he was created. Probably in Dr. Frankenstein's lab.
you've obviously never read Frankenstein. in the book, the Frankenstein monster was a genius.
I am laughing too hard right now! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
How can anyone deny evolution when the evidence is plain as the nose on your face to indicate common decent. Ask yourself how many creatures have 2 eyes, 2 ears, a nose, a mouth, 4 limbs...etc. Wouldn't it make more sense that if all were independently created that there would be much greater variation in body design. Does God only have one pattern to work off of.?
oops...typo...common descent.
Well, god may be omnipotent, but he also has OCD.
I guess your a monkey then. Do you eat your own crap? Hungry fella!
Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve
"Polls by Gallup and the Pew Research Center find that four out of 10 Americans believe humanity descend from Adam and Eve, but NPR reports that evangelical scientists are now saying publicly that they can no longer believe the Genesis account and that it is unlikely that we all descended from a single pair of humans. 'That would be against all the genomic evidence that we've assembled over the last 20 years so not likely at all,' says biologist Dennis Venema, a senior fellow at BioLogos Foundation, a Christian group that tries to reconcile faith and science. 'You would have to postulate that there's been this absolutely astronomical mutation rate that has produced all these new variants in an incredibly short period of time. Those types of mutation rates are just not possible. It would mutate us out of existence.' Venema is part of a growing cadre of Christian scholars who say they want their faith to come into the 21st century and say it's time to face facts: There was no historical Adam and Eve, no serpent, no apple, no fall that toppled man from a state of innocence."
You heretic! I'm sure you are already dead as God has struck you with a bolt of lightning.
For - ArthurP and Kent Bowen - Is this 'Dinner For Schmucks' ??
bill nye hits the nail on the head.
seriously, if you believe in creationism, you should have your head checked.
If your cnn username is Bootyfunk, you should have your head checked.
Until someone can completely validate how one can get "something from Nothing: as is lavishly attested to in the Big Bang Theory, there can be no argument... As great a mind as Mr Hawking is, I find the statement that the universe was created "from nothing" to be wistful at best. It is simple...we cannot begin to know what happened "before the beginning"...as a specie we aren't that smart yet...
We're coming close. Research M-theory.
rthoPA, so your solution is to make an even more massive leap to go "yup, there must be a wizard of Oz at the center of all this!"???
There can be no argument of what? That there is no god? Do you mean we have to prove that the god you daydream about doesn't exist?
Actually it has been demonstrated and repeated in the lab. The laws of quantum mechanics dictate that given enough time, particles do appear out of a vacuum due to very sIight temperature variations. Point, science!
until you fundies can validate how your god came to be, then there can't be an argument.
See, it works both ways when you delve into fairy tale land.
Hmm.... then what created God?
I do not think the word "wistful" means what you think it means.
We created god as a way to explain our natural world around 40,000 years ago
Nope. Science does NOT say that the universe "came from nothing." We don't know where the singularity came from. That's what smart people say when they don't know...."I don't know." Try it sometime.
Do not think of it as we came from nothing, but as we are a beginning of something newer, what form that takes or how, what why, when.... is what makes it all so exciting to be alive in this time of advancement in science and knowledge.
Well apparently god did it, so we do know....*sarcasm my second favorite asm*.
good lord enough with the "something from nothing" crap.
Atheists=The universe came from nothing
Christians=The universe was created magically by a dude who came from nothing.
What's the difference?!?
"ex nihilo nihil fit" – objects cannot spring forth without reasonable cause. Read the 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics – 1) matter can be neither created nor destroyed; 2) all matter moves toward a state of disorder. Logic dictates a Creator and Designer exists.
No, it does not. You are incorrect.
Ixney on the atline-There. I quoted something in Latin, now everything I say is true. In all seriousness, I do agree with Darren at the end of the day, only because, as I mentioned, I don't think the Universe came from nothing. However, that does not mean I beleive it was created in six days, particularly because the concept of "days" would not even exist.
Choose faith in God, or faith in a statisticallly ridiculous series of chance events. No one is trying to change anyone's mind – faith is derived from a core belief that is rarely turned. Peace!
Thanks, but I can believe in God and be a man of science. It involves actually listening to scientists like Bill Nye
So it's better to deflect the concept of something from nothing with the notion that something (God) always existed? Brilliant!
Good deal – I'm an engineer that tries to create the sustainable cycles exhibited in nature, specifically in purifying water. Takes a lot of human effort compared to what nature handles effortlessly. Science and God can co-exist.
Bob – I am simply stating that we have an effect (an ordered world and universe) and basic scientific principals dictate an effect cannot be its own cause. Something or something causal had to be the determinative force of the effect. Fun to think about.
Hail imaginary Satan!!!
I've always liked Bill Nye.
Jesus is make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
...but the underpants gnomes are real.
Bill is right.
Bill Nye is an actor first and foremost. He is also a mechanical engineer. He is no more qualified to judge the validity of
"creationism" than he is to comment on the validity of evolution. In the end, there is no shred of evidence that human beings
"evolved" from some kind of sea creature. To the contrary the science reveals that the human race started as a separate species, a human "adam and eve" in africa..read this National Geographic work......https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
You are completely incorrect. There are mountains of evidence that back evolution as a theory. There aren't any that back creationism other than the bible.
There is so much evidence of evolution that I don't even know where to start with someone like you.
For 200 years scientists have attacked it and it has stood.
Each year we fit more pieces of the puzzle together.
I am so glad I don't have to live near fundies and people like you.
Please stay in your redneck corner of the country and howl at the moon with the rest of your fairy tale ilk.
sharkman, you are completely misunderstanding or intentionally twisting the purpose, mission, and intent of The Genographic Project. It has NOTHING to do with defining where life began, or even where humans evolved. What they ARE describing is how humans spread from Africa across the world based on their DNA. Gosh, even when you DO encounter science you can't get it right.
What makes the bible authorative? Your belief in it? Evolution is at least as well understood by those wishing to understand it as the physics behind what makes your computer a functional device, which, I presume, you do not deny.
Nye is not giving us his opinion, he is merely reporting on the overwhelming consensus of a century of science on this subject. If looking for what science can tell us, that is where we must look, not to any one person's opinion. That clearly shows that life on this planet evolved. There is simply no doubt that the earth is old, the universe older still, and that life evolved.
"We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems," he said.
Yeah. Cuz religious people are such dangerous architects and atheists have only ever worked for the good of man...
Or maybe we actually need people who can think for themselves.
Yes, religious people are dangerous.
In fact, I am never more scared then when I hear someone say they are deeply religious.
The Taliban just beheaded 17 people who went against their religion. You christians have done the same and worse.
You fundies are heavily armed, violent and can't be reasoned with. You have proven over and over that the only thing you understand is a clenched fist.
Please stay away from me and my family.
I think you (perhaps intentionally) misunderstand what he said. Many pressing issues of the day (population, climate change, energy, extinction, etc) require an understanding of the science involved to make a reasonable decision. If a voter rejects science then they are basing their decision on something else, which seem far less likely to produce a good outcome. Voters uneducated on such matters are also easy prey for propaganda.
Now I can sleep so much better since Bill Nye spoke. Not!!
Hitler was an evolutionist and look what good it did for Germany!! Our country is going down the tubes because people want to live and let live, instead of loving God and loving one another.
Hitler loved his dogs, too, so you should shoot yours.
If God wants me to worship him, then he's more than willing to ask me too. I'll even take a REAL Miracle (something that has a probability factor of 0% of occurring). Funny how those 'miracles' seemed to have dried up since the advent of recording devices.
Hitler was also a pronounced "christian". Read, research, read man ... forum spouts are irrational and disregarded if you speak out your.... if you show ignorance towards the topic.
when did hitler become evolutionist?.. was hitler computer virus writer too? lol
WOW! Thank you BILL NYE!! We really need more people like this in the world to stand up for whats right in the world!
Y`all really really really NEED to read this...it was written in 1899 and is so utterly fantastic that it cant be "made up" It will help you all understand God a little more.I cried when I understood a few basic truths.I dont cry easily.You will recognize the truth.
http://www.jhardaker.plus.com/pdf/Through%20the%20Mists.pdf
Just like any other "spiritual" text, it's full of glittering generalities and rehashed philosophy packaged in a cute wrapper.
Everybody, don't bother reading this tripe.
Sorry but no, I graduated college and am too smart to believe in Santa claus or 'God'. I prefer well thought out answers to blind faith.
Brace yourself: people with absolutely no knowledge of science are going to try and rebuke Bill Nye. I'd like to hear everyone here try and explain how every major science, including biology, paleontology, medicine, climateology, geology, psychology, anthropology is rendered completely moot by the notion of creationism, yet they rely on it every day.
http://www.answersingenesis.org
Aaron FVK: Sure...just say "goddidit" and you're done! Don't bother to ask any questions about how and why!
"By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the scriptural record. Of primary importance is the fact that evidence is always subject to interpretation by fallible people who do not possess all information."
(http://www.answersingenesis.org/about/faith)
I am sure there ARE answers in Genesis. In fact, religion's been around long enuf that it's heard almost all the questions likely to be thrown at it, and it's come up with answers for all of them. Yes, it's true. Religion DOES have all the ansewrs!
It's just that most of them are wrong.
Maybe you can actually answer the questions yourselves, instead of linking to a website for you? Why must evidence pertain to scripture? What makes scripture absolute? It was written thousands of years ago by people who have no evidence for their relation to God.