“We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future,” Nye adds. “We need people that can — we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.”
Nye told CBS he was not attacking religion by criticizing creationism.
“You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science is something else. My concern is you don’t want people growing up not believing in radioactivity, not believing in geology and deep time.
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How is attacking Creationism – the anti-biblical concept of the Hamites – considered attacking religion?
Here’s the deal – Hambone and others as Lying to you about Genesis have no actual clue about science or religion or creationism… If you want to know about science, turn to a scientist.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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False science (evolution) is never true no matter how many scientists you get to say it is. The thing that people need to remember is that GOD did not say to use science to figure out origins. Why waste the time, money and resources to do what He had already told us took place?
Just becaus eyou and all the secular scientists do not believe God’s word doesn’t mean everyone has to follow your lead.
False doctor (David Tee) is never true no matter how many posts he scrawls on other people’s blogs.
exactly. He loves attention, or he’s into s&m, which is why he keeps coming back here.
Dave, God never told us about the origins of the universe. Liar
Sigh–you love to throw that word around even when i am not lying and the accusation is false. God told us in Gen. 1:1 There was NO big bang, no evolutionary process, no alternatives to the fact that God did. Oh and He also told us in Job and other parts of the Bible as well.
Read this http://theologyarchaeology.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/what-about-god/
Oh? Genesis 1.1 is about the scientific/physical creation of the universe? Umm… The Hebrews didn’t see it that way. Neither need the ANE cultures. And yet, modern white guys do… I wonder… why is right…
I’m going to stick with the Hebrews on this.
Job includes a creation story resembling other ANE theomachy tales. Are you actually telling me God created the universe out of the decaying carcasses of sea monsters?
If you are too ignorant to read Scripture, I would you would at least stop pretending to even read the English.
The Bible also says nothing about how to make airplanes, computers, the flu vaccine, indoor plumbing, or iced tea.
For my own part, I’m glad that someone invested all of the time and resources into developing each of those things. Those were, by the way, pretty much scientists (not sure about the inventor of iced tea, but s/he should be retroactively given the Nobel Prize in Awesomeness, anyway).
Yet, God gave people the intelligence to think it through and created the natural resources. Science has done nothing and provided nothing.
I love the irony that you’re using a computer to deride science.
yeah… science… what has it provided… except medicine… food… technology…
While I agree with Bill Nye about evolution, does he think he’s actually going to convince any creationist parents to keep their beliefs to themselves? I’m not sure what he’s trying to accomplish here. As if creationist parents are just going to say “Well I’m not going to teach my kid creationism even though I think it’s true.”
No, i don’t think so. I hope what he is actually doing is preparing educators to think about these issues… especially in the next four years