Bill Nye Says What We All Are Thinking

Bill Nye, who I admiringly refer to as Uncle Billy, pushed himself into the front lines in the war of Creationism vs. Science. In a video titled “Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children”he rails against the notion that classrooms should teach Creationism alongside Evolution.

In the video, he points out that while “46% of Americans believe in Creationism, that god created man within the last 10,00o years or so,” that “The earth is 4 1/2 billion years old, not 6 or 10 thousand years old.”

The best moment came when Bill said:

That guy running for president made reference to apple to ipods to the innovators in silicon valley. Those people are all engineers who understand science and the role of radioactivity in showing the age of the earth. This is quite an irony. If you wanna deny evolution and live in your world that is completely inconsistent with everything that we observe in the universe. That’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.

Bill Nye says with eloquence what most of us have been saying for years: You can not seriously contemplate the universe and your place in it if you hold a view that some old dude on a cloud lazily waved his hand around on a whim and created Life, The Universe, and Everything.

You can entertain certain theories and behaviors of the universe around us, but your horizons are always under the yoke of Creationism. And, since everything always comes back to, “Well God made it,” you are mentally incapable of exploring options that directly conflict with that worldview.

Not to be outdone by some guy in a bow tie, the Creation Museum launched a counterattack using two of their own “science guys.”

Creatively titled “Bill Nye, Creationism is Highly Appropriate for our Children,” Dr. David Menton first responds by mentioning that Creationism is taught all over the world.

“Evolution is believed to be false in the Muslim world.”

I’m presuming that he meant to point out that because fundamentalist Muslims believe Evolution to be false, that makes Creationism Okey Dokey. While I’m sure that some radical fundamentalist  Muslims like Osama Bin Laden would throw a Jihad at Evolution, there are many Muslims who believe in Evolution. In fact, The Mu’tazili scientist and philosopher al-Jahiz was one of the first biologists to develop an early theory of evolution.

Because od Dr. Davey Menton couldn’t handle the Bill Nye onslaught alone, they enlisted Dr. Georgia Purdom, who made it clear that she teaches her daughter about Creationism and Evolution:

Children should be exposed to both ideas concerning our past. Do we start with man’s idea about the past who wasn’t here during the supposed billions of years of earth’s history. Or do we start with the bible. The written revelation of the eye-witness account of the eternal god who created it all.

Introducing children to both Creationism and Evolution as equal possibilities of the origins of the universe is probably the stupidest thing human beings have ever come up with. Equivocating fiction with science in the mind of a child and then expecting them to come to their own understanding of the universe is the same as throwing them a Thomas the Choo-Choo Train toy and expecting them to extrapolate the inner workings of a Japanese Bullet Train. On top of that, Dr. Purdom says that the bible is an eye-witness account of the birth of the fucking world. Holy Shit! I know I’m going out on a limb here, but the last time I read Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy, I did not expect that the Great Green Arkleseizure would eventually wipe me away during the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief.

In the word’s of the great Homer Simpson, “God is my favorite fictional character.”