"Bill! Nye! The Science Guy! SCIENCE RULES!"

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Shiftless2

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He walked into a room of 900 people who thought dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago—and calmly showed them evidence they didn't want to see, because he knew their children's future depended on it.

February 4, 2014. Petersburg, Kentucky. Inside the Creation Museum—where exhibits showed humans riding dinosaurs, where Noah's flood explained the Grand Canyon, where science ended and belief began.

Bill Nye walked onto the debate stage in his trademark bow tie, facing an audience that believed the Earth was only 6,000 years old. That evolution was a lie. That geology, biology, and physics were wrong.

Across from him stood Ken Ham, the museum's founder. The debate question was "Is creation a viable model of origins?" But really, it was about something deeper: whether evidence still mattered. Whether facts could compete with faith. Whether truth had a future.

The crowd had come to see their champion crush the "evolutionist."

Bill Nye came to teach.

For nearly three hours, he presented evidence with the calm precision of a man who'd spent his life getting things exactly right. Rock layers showing billions of years of geological time. Fossils in predictable strata. DNA revealing common ancestry. Ice cores with climate patterns stretching back hundreds of thousands of years.

The crowd jeered. They laughed. They'd already decided what was true.

Nye didn't raise his voice. Didn't get angry. Just kept asking questions: "How do you explain these ice layers? How do you account for starlight from galaxies billions of light-years away? How does your model predict anything?"

And then he said something that transcended the technical arguments:

"If we raise a generation of students who don't understand science, who don't understand evidence, who think they can ignore facts because they conflict with their beliefs—we're doomed. As a civilization, we're doomed."

He wasn't being dramatic. He was being literal.

Because Bill Nye understood something that night: this wasn't about the age of rocks. It was about ....

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Shiftless2 said:
"He walked into a room of 900 people who thought dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago—and calmly showed them evidence they didn't want to see, because he knew their children's future depended on it." #1
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from sear's notes:
According to author Simon Winchester:
Irish Bishop James Ussher claimed that the 6 Biblical days of creation began 9:AM Monday 23 October 4004 BC.
The inestimable Ussher derived this date by carefully following the Biblical timeline back to Genesis I.

And while this may be regarded by some as religious (Christian) doctrine, there is some contradictory evidence, including the fossil record. And because the fossil evidence refutes the 6 day creation idea, the doctrinal solution of "visplastica" (plastic force) was created. This divine plastic force supposedly inserted fossils into rock to remind us of the omniscience and omnipotence of god. The fossils therefore were not, according to visplastica, evidence of life in general or evolution [more gradual than 6 days] in particular. Instead they were claimed to simply be evidence of god’s presence in the universe.

Those seeking more persuasive evidence can visit the Grand Canyon.
With little if any more than a high school level understanding of geology one can observe the geological strata the canyon exposes.
Superficial study of these strata reveal the canyon to be orders of magnitude older than the Biblical 6 millennia premise suggests.
"The fact that somebody over-sells an idea doesn't make it a bad idea. It makes them a bad salesman." Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA ret)
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The billion year old Earth does not prove God does not exist.
The billion year old Earth indicates the Holy Bible is more useful as a theological record than it is geological gospel.
 
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