A debate between "Bill Nye the Science Guy" and Creation Museum founder Ken Ham sells out in just two minutes.
Tickets for the event in which Ham and Nye will debate creationism versus evolution went on sale online Monday morning. The debate will take place the night of Tuesday, February 4th at the museum in Petersburg.
Last year in an online video that's drawn more than six million views, Nye said teaching creationism is bad for children.
Two minutes? Damn!
You know I asked myself who would be more likely to be in a rush to buy up these tickets, religious folks hoping to see the guy with the bow tie have to admit that the Bible is right, or science geeks hoping to see Nye embarrass Ken Ham about his lack of scientific knowledge?
My money is on the science geeks and non-religious.
By the way here is the video referenced in the article where Nye states that Creationism is not appropriate for children.
Yeah I think Ken Ham better bring his big boy pants. Because he is clearly outmatched.
I hope this debate will be available on video for those who were not lucky enough to get tickets to see first hand Bill Nye demolish, in the nicest way possible, this Ken Ham person.
ReplyDeleteO/T - Apparently Bristol has put up on her Facebook page a picture of her mother teaching Trig Yoga. Is there any way we could have the picture posted here?
Yoga?? Hmm, hasn't the resident troll here been trying to tell us she is doing yoga?
DeleteHmmm. Someone wants to prove something to us deniers...........
I wouldn't exactly call it yoga. Stretching before she goes training for her next marathon most likely? haha! At least little Trig is laughing and is happy about it.
DeleteWho will be in charge of the video? Editing? Uploading? If it isn't an independent party but one of the Hamites you know Bill will be edited to the point of idiocy.
DeleteThis will be like Sarah trying to debate..oh, anyone with a brain. Maybe this will be the end of Ham..I mean, he can't even afford to build his fake Ark at this point. We can hope!
ReplyDeleteI just want to know who's getting the money from all this.
ReplyDeleteSo if Ham believes that God created everything, how cannot he believe in the wonder of the brain and humans' curiousity and thirst for knowledge of how things work? Wouldn't that be inherent? How electricity was discovered. How we put a man on the moon. Climate change through usurping the earth's resources. Just to name a few.
ReplyDeleteBecause...god.
DeleteExcept the climate change thing, because that's just a myth, dontchaknow
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I like your scenario better but I'm inclined to think that the fundies bought out the tickets so they can shut out anyone who might possibly be influenced by Bill Nye and try to boo him off the stage.
ReplyDeleteThat is what I am afraid of also.
DeleteI like your scenario better but I'm inclined to think that the fundies bought out the tickets so they can shut out anyone who might possibly be influenced by Bill Nye and try to boo him off the stage.
ReplyDeleteIf Mr. Ham were to look in the mirror he might believe in evolution. He looks like he's not finished evolving.
ReplyDeleteWhew, two minutes! Even if the majority turn out to be creationist "plants", Hamm better load up on depends because Bill Nye really knows his stuff and will mop the floor with facts vs myth.
ReplyDeleteBill Nye I think was an engineer, maybe worked for Boeing for a while, and then did TV bits for kids about the fundamentals of science. So maybe he's well-matched for a debate with a fundamentalist Christian.
ReplyDeleteI love Bill Nye, but Hamm is an experienced debater and will wipe the floor with Bill. Unless he studies fundie debates and talks in depth, he will be overwhelmed by the lack of logic and lose his shit on stage.
ReplyDeletehttp://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/01/07/hes-not-really-filling-me-with-confidence/
I personally think doing a fund raiser for the creationists is pretty damned stupid.
Bill is discipline and will not lose it. He is, however, very polite. So Ham will probably just interrupt him constantly and never let him finish or make his point. Without some extremely strong moderation Ham will simply take over.
DeleteThis will illustrate why Sarah doesn't do free-for-all interviews and debates. It'd be like picking on a defenseless child that a mama grizzly would need to rear her head for. Her gutterll, unblinking, too large for her malnourished warrioresses body
ReplyDeleteI am afraid Bill will have a DWTS moment....and that it won't be pretty. The creationists are hosting the event?
ReplyDeleteEven if the geeks bought all the tickets, you know Ham held enough back to stock the audience with his thumpers.
ReplyDeleteReally we probably need to save at least 3/4 of the seats for Creationists. They're the ones that need to listen. And 1/4 would still give Nye a possibly much needed emotional support.
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