Well, for one thing Nye begs the question by insinuating that being scientifically literate is directly opposed to believing in creationism.
That’s not begging the question that’s fact. creationism does not stand up against Scientific method. Doesn’t even get past the first step. calling creationism Science is dangerous. So, yeah you can’t be a scientist AND believe in creationism. Thankfully believing in God doesn’t require believing in creationism.
I see you’re assumed begged question and call out your strawman! [;)]
You can’t believe in science and God at the same time?
Nobody said this, least of who Bill Nye. Belief in God does not hinge on believing in creationism. Most of the framers of the constitution were deists, believing in a God and education. If you want to take a hard biblical stance on God you could always argue that God made evolution possible. but what Ham is doing is akin to the church banishing Galileo in favor of ignorance. The earth being round and NOT the center solar system does not disprove God anymore than evolution would.
What about those people who built the pyramids, ancient Greece and Rome, etc? They believed in a whole slew of gods and look like what they accomplished.
I’m not sure this has anything to do with anything, simply because these gods were simply prayed to and were kept separate in their quest for knowledge. If anything the quest for truth in evolution would be done in their name and for their glory rather than squashed… That’s the difference, They still pursued knowledge and understanding while the modern christian seemingly is taught a disdain for knowledge and is not only content but almost ordered to be intellectually lazy.
There is more to life in believing in atoms, molecules, and amoebas. For many, hope and/or fear is what keeps them going and binds them together.
All true but as a responsible culture and being true to mankind it’s our duty to find out how Amoebas molecules and Atoms relate to and possibly control/shape that hope/fear. Understanding. with out it or the pursuit of it we may as well be children being dictated to by adults.
Just as Nye turns up his nose at creationism some people turn their noses up as gays and lesbians who are freaks of nature…
The two have nothing to do with each other. and they are not freaks of nature in that homosexuality is shown to exist all through out the animal kingdom. You want freak of Nature… how about marriage and monogamy? No other animals practice that. (Penguins monogamy… pretty much end the list.)
Nature screws up all the time and give people 2 sets of sex organs. You think that is God’s (that infallible being’s) creation? is it not possible that instead of being given two different sex organs that the wrong sex organ was assigned during development? seems much more plausible that this is the situation rather than God made Gays and Downs and every other deviated human existence for fun
their nature is certainly contrary to evolution since they would basically die off the population if they didn’t reproduce.
Their nature certainly is contrary to evolution but thankfully evolution accounts for standard deviation and it exists all through out nature which is why some of us are human and some of us are spiders. Lemmings jumping off of cliffs is also contrary to the stay alive data programmed into all of us. How come lemmings are still around? Comparing gays and lesbians to people who believe in creationism isn’t even close to a proper comparison. You’re comparing apples and left.
Should we attack gays and lesbians for acting/believing in something that isn’t scientifically ‘right’?
It is scientifically right based on standard deviation.
And seeing as how gays and lesbians don’t have a choice as to who they are that answer is no. Creationists do have a choice. Since, gays and Lesbians aren’t trying to keep progress stagnant that answer is no.
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