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Who is Ken Ham?
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Kenneth Alfred Ham is an Australian young-Earth creationist who advocates a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the Creation Museum.
Education:
Ken Ham earned a Bachelor of Applied Science, with an emphasis in Environmental Biology, at Queensland Institute of Technology and a diploma in Education from the University of Queensland
Who is Bill Nye?
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William Sanford "Bill" Nye , popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, and scientist who began his career as a mechanical engineer at Boeing. He is best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator.
Education:
He studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University (where one of his professors was Carl Sagan)[and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1977.
ncse.com/blog/2014/02/getting-ready-nye-ham-debate-0015367
They’re debating in the auditorium at the AiG-run Creation “Museum,” in front of an audience of 900 people so rabidly enthusiastic that they snapped up every ticket in mere minutes. The Creation “Museum” is dedicated to the propositions that the Earth is about 6,000 years old, that the universe was created in six 24-hour days, that Eve was made from Adam’s rib and all humans descended from those two, that (non-avian) dinosaurs walked next to humans, that every animal on earth descends from pairs of species on Noah’s Ark, etc. It’s a view that tosses out everything we know about biology, geology, physics, archaeology, and astronomy in service of an idiosyncratic, ahistorical, and illiterate reading of the Bible.
inquisitr.com/1120084/watch-bill-nye-ken-ham-debate-streaming-video-live-online/
Ken Ham says the Creation Museum is hosting the debate because Mr. Nye is a “serious advocate for his beliefs” who is considering the creationist position in a non-mocking way. Ham says, “I hope to show Mr. Nye and our debate audience that observational science confirms the scientific accuracy of the Genesis account of origins, not evolution.” Nye, on the other hand, is concerned about creationism being taught in American schools and says he will “highlight the fact that so many young people are dismissing the Bible because of evolution, and even many young people who had grown up in the church decided to leave the church because they saw evolution as showing the Bible could not be trusted.”
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There is no way to win with these people other then to ignore them.
"The lord works in mysterious ways"
"You just have to have faith"
*clap clap clap clap clap*
Edit: that said, it's still hard to be optimistic.
I have to wonder what the composition of the audience will look like. It's entirely possible that Bill will have more support in the audience then Ham considering the speed with which the tickets went.
It may be a baseless assumption on my part, or just nerd stereotyping, but I don't imagine many bible thumpers to be riding the F5 key quite as hard as Nye fans to grab the tickets up.
I think this is exactly what Bill is going for. He's doing it for that one kid who sees this and has their world opened up
Seriously, the real reason for this debate could not be any more transparent.
Dammit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI
I look at it this way:
Ham already has all the money & support he could want. Padding a little extra cash on via streaming revenue isn't going to cause much damage, and I don't think it's a good idea to basically just abandon a bunch of kids to the fiefdom of Ken Ham without even giving them a chance to see / hear someone like Bill Nye.
Ham, are you going to talk about the super old penguins?
Please tell me you're going to talk about the super old penguins.
lol @ the 'molecules to man' qualifier so he can dodge stuff like vaccines.
1) Science is not exclusively devoted to applications. Even if it had zero applications, natural selection is still the pursuit of knowing how the world really works.
2) It has hundreds if not thousand of fucking applications, some of them in extremely far flung fields of engineering, like aerodynamics.
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Guess I'll watch for Bill.
i mean they're all words but they shouldn't be paired like this, like, ever
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For me both of these guys were.
It's kind of weird seeing them in the same place.