The "Scince Guy" Nye has declared that parents shouldn't teach their children "creationism" and called those who espouse anti-evolutionary views "deniers".... "Nye, who hosted the educational show "Bill Nye the Science Guy," which aired on PBS (figures PBS) Kids from 1993 through 1998, made the statements in a clip posted online on Thursday, and has since been viewed over one million times. In the clip, Nye praises the United States for its contribution to technological innovation, but says that the denial of evolution is unique to the country (Not Really) .
"People still move to the United States. And that's largely because of the intellectual capital we have, the general understanding of science," (Actually most comehere for economic freedoms or standard of living--ask the millions who have illegally entered across our southern border & see if their reason for coming here has anything to do with his view of "science"...go on -ask them...) Nye said in the clip. "When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in that, it holds everybody back, really (How? Isaac Newton believed in God & Creation as well as a big proponent of Biblical prophecies of which he actually wrote more about than science or math--so how did not beleiving in evolution hold back the likes of Isaac Newton & others--just asking..).
"Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology (Since when?). It's like, it's very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You're just not going to get the right answer (Only if you have decided in advance what that "right answer" should be--which apparently Mr. Nye has..). Your whole world is just going to be a mystery instead of an exciting place," he added.
Nye made a three-stop tour through New Hampshire earlier this summer to tout President Obama's education policies while making a push for science and engineering programs. He has endorsed Obama's reelection bid.
In the clip, Nye said that one's "world just becomes fantastically complicated when you don't believe in evolution. (I could say the same for one who rejects God....your world is much more complicated and self-centered. If you want the evolutionary answer as to it all-your just gonna sleep one day in an eternal dust nap blanket-so what does the "answers" matter from an evolutionary view?)"
"Here are these ancient dinosaur bones (You mean the one's that have been discovered with blood cells recently which only are supposed to last roughly 5,000 years before they are completely gone?)or fossils, here is radioactivity, here are distant stars that are just like our star but they're at a different point in their lifecycle (How does different color & sized stars "prove" evolution? Because that is what Nye is talking about here). The idea of deep time, of this billions of years, explains so much of the world around us. If you try to ignore that, your world view just becomes crazy, just untenable, itself inconsistent," he said.
Nye then goes on to urge adults not to deny the teaching of evolution to young people.
"And I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution (Sounds like he has been reading Dawkins) and live in your world, in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them (Actually that is ARROGANT--this too sounds like a Richard Dawkins line of attack. -- NEWSFALSH for Mr. Nye-the "kids" belong to the parents-not you and the government). We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future (So stop teaching them the flat earth science of evolution). We need people that can - we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems. (Why does an engineer need to think we are related to monkeys? What does believing we share an ancestor with whales have to do with being an engineer and designing a local library building?---ABSOLUTELY NOTHING)." ABC News
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not:
Proverbs 14:6
And from Reuters News Service "The video, titled "Creationism Is Not Appropriate for Children," was posted on Thursday by the online knowledge forum Big Think to YouTube and had netted more than 1.3 million views as of Monday."
Allow me to say to Mr. Nye, the big science guy, that what is NOT appropriate for children is teaching them there is NO God, no higher moral power, and that their life is a meaningless speck on the space fabric of time-here today, gone tommorrow and serves no other purpose than that they popped up here for a moment on earth as an accident of chemicl reactions from the past-their life has NO meaning. So in summary--EVOLUTION is inappropriate to teach children.
